Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-23 (Tuesday)

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:21:26 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Still catching up on grading (getting there...)
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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Awful stuff. Who is surprised?
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ORBITAL REDUX (Freevee)
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From 2018 comes this mini series (eight episodes) of many episodes,
starring mini super cutie Yasmine Al-Bustami.
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Each installment begins with the statement:
THE EPISODE YOU ARE ABOUT TO WATCH WAS FILMED WITH A LIVE AUDIENCE IN A
SINGLE TAKE
NO RESETS
NO RESTARTS
NO DO-OVERS
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This is demonstrably not true, especially in the pilot given that there are
inserts of a CGI spaceship and shots of hands working controls and such
that I bet were shot separately and put in later. Also, there are post
edits where they removed language and such.
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Basically a two person Space series that takes place on one set (or
possibly two, but I think they just revamped the main set after the pilot)
with about the production values of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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The IMDb proudly proclaims, that people who liked this also like THE ARK,
which should tell you everything you need to know about the writing and the
science.
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Two people in an earth/moon shuttle, carrying helium three an improbably
short way into the future from now.
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Wackiness ensues.
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The secondary creative is named Lillian Diaz-Przybyl.  If you can trick her
into saying her name backwards, she’ll be sent home.
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The blurbs all say that the show was interactive, although I have no idea
how that would possibly be, and that the CGI effects were done live and I
don’t believe that either.
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Remember the Supergirl “writer“ who said that it didn’t matter if you wrote
a good script as long as you put in lots of woke messages? This is that
script.

 I thought that was a rarity. Then yesterday I was watching a Youtube
video about yet another person who cut by Disney who is suing the
company because she lost out on millions of dollars because they
cancelled the show she was supposed to run and cut some other projects
she was supposed to be involved with. She couldn't accept that the
Acolyte didn't have a good reaction with the fans and so Disney made
the decision to save money by cutting the project. They also cut back
on the other projects they had planned to have her involved in because
she wasn't seen as the money maker they thought she would be.
Partially because she was focused on DEI over story.
  Then we've got Mindy Kaling attacking fans who were upset with the
VELMA show because of the DEI agenda they followed where they changed
many of the original characters. She went on to attack the fans that
didn't support the changes they made. I don't understand why these
people can't see why people would prefer characters remain the same
over the years when there's no story reason for a change. It's like
the changes the BBC has been making to classic Shakespeare stories
with black actors being added to the productions even though they
clearly would not have been part of that world at that time.
 Any way, here are her words so you can judge for yourself.