Sounds like he’s made peace with its living on in forks as well. Nice to see he’s doing okay.

DON’T GET SASSY WITH YOUR TECHNOBABBLE WITH ME, FRED BUCKLE! I’M THE MAYOR!

You know, the unabashed moral superiority Klingons would have when treating average Londoners would flow very nicely with how the real show starts to feel after a while.

YAY! This new doctor is from the working class!

OH NO! This is the one educated professional who’s addicted to opiates!

YAY! Racism is bad!

OH NO! Nobody realized until a cosplay nun told them so in RP!

Yes, I’ve seen every episode. The hate-watch is fully armed and operational!

Holy Greenscreen, Batman!

This is one of the more tonally faithful re-visits, but the writing is kind of weird. It’s like each episode is 90% cozy nostalgia-bait, and then in the last three minutes they remember they had a conflict to resolve. You can also totally tell when Johnny Hardwick isn’t doing Dale; it’s unsettling.

For Sheridan, yeah, it’s compelling industry news, but it’s only indirectly relevant to any show I might conceivably want to watch.

And for Star Trek, I tend to agree, but the question is, what does Baby Ellison think Star Trek should be and who does he find to make that for him? I’m not at all confident it would be an improvement, though he’s more about being patted on the head for spending Larry’s money well than any coherent ideology, so he might fall backwards into a decent pick.

Larry Ellison’s son already pissing off the talent.

Ahh, but when the “talent” is Taylor Sheridan and his one-man show of Grok scripts and real estate kickbacks, it’s more interesting than sad. The only thing I’m mildly concerned about is Star Trek.

Pardon me, but that is clearly the forest moon of Endor, not to be confused with the weird lakeshore moon of Endor. Be careful of tempting deer-butts hanging from trees, OP.

I saw Master and Commnder at 10fps on a 2" screen because I managed to get video working on the iRiver H320 I got because even 5(?) years later I was still part of the generation of nerds who thought iPods were just “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

Even then… pretty good movie.

Been watching Helluva Boss on Amazon. I watched Hazbin Hotel season 1 a little while ago. I swear the elevator pitch and absolutely over the top sex and violence are there just to hide that Vivienne Medrano is a big softie. I also think there’s an interesting critique of modern culture inherent in making life in Hell less like an existential horror and more like the “Gilded Age + the 1950s,” but cloaked in the aesthetics of Beetlejuice (and similarly in making Heaven how it is).

It’s unlikely she’ll be returning to school before the end of the year. So I think the only thing we can do now is…

Pray for her?

No, what use will that do?

It’s the utter bafflement that sells it. The nun not only disbelieves in the power of prayer, but can’t even comprehend why someone would believe.

Unexpected Derry Girls. Well played.

This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It’s fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It’s still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you’ll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I’ve used it in a pinch when I didn’t have cable ties. I dunno. It’s just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.

There are biting midges, and I presume they’re very annoying, but most don’t bite and they’re all different from mosquitoes.

Peacemaker

Slow Horses

Call the Midwife, though it’s pretty much straight hate-watch at this point.

Just watched the first episode of S3 of Loot

I’m a week or two behind, but I’m enjoying Peacemaker as well. Gunn’s style and preferred themes could eventually wear thin, but he knows how to combine gross and camp and likeable. PM feels a lot like a much swearier GOTG.

I wonder if this has to do with actual growth of the faith, or consolidating in light of shrinking temple attendance, which is different from and more exclusive than church attendance . Western Europe in particular can’t be fertile proselytizing ground these days.

Oh, and my personal experience is a couple of decades out of date by now, but ExMo here. Happy to field questions. I’m no fan of the church, but I try to be somewhat even handed when discussing with folks.

In my estimation, its biggest fans, often (but not always) folks who are also Discovery’s loudest detractors, overpraise it. It was made by a TNG superfan to let him be a TNG captain acting out TNG scripts with TNG production values and TNG acting, and – for good or ill – with his particular sensibilities about what makes doing so fun. It definitely gets much better than the first couple of episodes, once they’d successfully tricked Fox into thinking it was a full-on Galaxy Quest spoof, and overall I enjoy it, but it has its issues.

Dear Jordan Catalano, Angela is not as into you as she thought.

Also, for Tron Ares specifically, I know that I am instantly turned off the moment a franchise that mostly exists in another world/dimension/etc. decides it’s going to do something in “the real world.” I know Tron isn’t as bright-line as other IPs, but the appeal is still largely in seeing how the inside of computers and networks is anthropomorphized and analogized into an alternate universe that comments on contemporary anxieties about technology. Nobody was asking to see light cycles and recognizers in LA.

I think we looked into this one a week or two ago.

1. Franchised private Kindergarden is not doing well.
2. Management is replaced.
3. Management brainstorms; there are no bad ideas.
4. Someone throws out the idea of a $2200 bound book consisting of the artwork.
5. Management clumsily begs the parents to buy a copy/give permission for inclusion.
6. Story goes viral
7. Antipodean cringe humour ensues:

“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.