The Spectres

The show had been around long enough that most of the original writers had moved on and the tone of the show and its humor had changed. They would ruin long established elements and characters just for a cheap laugh. It was less satirical and more zany. They were drowning in Emmys for their clever writing in previous seasons and now they tell the kind of jokes you’d hear in two broke girls.

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Fun fact:

In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode. “oe” makes the “oo” sound.

I am a Canadian living on disability assistance. I’m in a dilapidated house full of cocaine addicts who party several times a week. I feel lucky to have found a place I can afford, many other disabled Canadians are less fortunate. The Liberal government promised to end poverty with new legislation. It ended up being a fifth of what’s required to actually let us live at the poverty line and will reach only half of those who need it. Typical Liberal checkbox politics.

Yeah! I liked that one too!

Officials in Prague, too.

The best thing I ever did TV wise was ignoring fan opinions about shows I want to watch before watching it. Hive minds plant seeds and set expectations, you can’t even passively read it. You gotta shut it out and avoid it. I really liked Kenobi, I think more people would have too if they didn’t see the angry reddit nerds picking it apart, coloring their first watch.

The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.

Marriage is the intention of having a lifelong partnership. Romance is not necessary to love and support a partner, it’s just what’s most common. A fairy wedding sounds delightful.

Are you saying you and she would be legally married with witnesses and papers or you just want the ceremony and celebration without the paperwork? If the latter, be aware there might be grounds to make you common-law partners without your consent, I’d check those laws out.

Besides that, if you want her to be your beastie-partner-faux-wife, I’d still do a trial run of living together. Maybe even talk to a relationship counselor for tips to keep this sustainable. Any relationship that close, even platonic ones, take work and have conflict from time to time. You need all the same interpersonal strategies as any other spousal or life partnership arrangement. Living with someone and supporting eachother is still quite an intimate, complex affair, even without the sex and romance.

22 minutes and air farce in the late 90s was a level of satire I fear we’ll never see again. Truly a golden age of Canadian political satire.

… did it work?

If you wanna see the fault area up close, including the Endeavour thermal vents, the Nautilus team is currently there, livestreaming their deep sea ROV advertures: https://nautiluslive.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour_Hydrothermal_Vents

I worked in home insurance. Because of the big one, we were trying to dump our south island customers by raising premiums to non competitive levels. But it turns out so was everyone else. So you have to pay through the nose to insure a house in greater Victoria, but up island is more earthquake resilient- the insurance rates are way more reasonable.

Kurn is a really fun character that Tony Todd did a perfect job with. But it was nice to see he has such great acting chops beyond the scope of Kurns rather one note personality. I cry at the drop of a hat when watching TV, this episode makes me ugly sob every time.

That said, there are some diamonds in the rough. The reason Fallout was so good is because it was a project of love from the Nolan bros. Filmmakers making shows is how you make great shows. Marketers making shows is how you temporarily increase stock value for shareholders.

The early 2000s was where the Golden Age of Television began with HBO knocking it out of the park with shows like Sopranos, The Wire, Rome, Six Feet Under- Television was being made by film makers and story tellers with high production value previously reserved for movies. This was a gamble and it was paying off in spades. Instead of 2 hours of quality film at a time, we had multiple seasons worth of top notch filmic storytelling. You could really dig deep and develop characters slowly in ways we hadn’t really seen before with this kind of fidelity.

But like all good things under capitalism, the financial success that accompanied this shift was analyzed by marketers and distilled into formulae. Now, those high production value shows are written by algorithms and directed by focus groups. Film makers and storytellers aren’t the leaders anymore, they are forced to work on projects and within the boundaries the marketing department set up. Hearing my favourite writers lament for the TV culture of 20 years ago is heartbreaking.

Lust month would be wild.

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They could do it in the shuttle bay, they wouldn’tneed much more space than a finished shuttle takes up. We know they have shipboard replimats for larger things, I figure replicating and building standard shuttle models on long voyages has standardized procedures and steps like Lego instructions. You only need to replicate one piece at a time saving on space. Gotta replace your shuttles somehow on those 5 years missions and the nearest Starbase is months away.