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Animaniacs - IT'S BACK
Posted 8 years agohttps://io9.gizmodo.com/animaniacs-.....ulu-1821785648
"Yakko, Wakko, and Dot’s “pay-or-play contracts” have been renewed! The much-loved Warner Bros. animated series Animaniacs is being brought to Hulu with all-new seasons. And yes, executive producer Steven Spielberg is along for the ride."
This will either be amazing or horrifying.
Or both.
So far, so good 2018. Keep it up.
"Yakko, Wakko, and Dot’s “pay-or-play contracts” have been renewed! The much-loved Warner Bros. animated series Animaniacs is being brought to Hulu with all-new seasons. And yes, executive producer Steven Spielberg is along for the ride."
This will either be amazing or horrifying.
Or both.
So far, so good 2018. Keep it up.
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Posted 8 years agoMARVEL RUNAWAYS - first episode review
Posted 8 years agoStart of the episode: high hopes, because Marvel's other series have been pretty good.
1/4 thru the first episode: I have no idea what's going on. Who are these people? What is the point of any of this?
1/2 thru the first episode: These people are uninteresting and unlikable. Random scenes of nothing happening. God, I'm bored.
3/4 into the first episode: Screw this. I'm gonna go check out The Good Place instead.
Final Verdict: Watch The Good Place instead. It's awesome.
1/4 thru the first episode: I have no idea what's going on. Who are these people? What is the point of any of this?
1/2 thru the first episode: These people are uninteresting and unlikable. Random scenes of nothing happening. God, I'm bored.
3/4 into the first episode: Screw this. I'm gonna go check out The Good Place instead.
Final Verdict: Watch The Good Place instead. It's awesome.
Why does WACOM's customer service have to suck so much?
Posted 8 years agoJesus fucking christ.
Okay, as some of you may know, all my digital inking these days days is done using my trusty WACOM Graphire 3 tablet. I bought it new way back when, and it's become one of my most vital tools.
So, what's the problem? Nothing big... the pen tip is getting a bit worn. It needs replacing.
The problem: I can't find the right replacement for it. I've tried two different ones so far and neither fit. They were both too thin, and consequently slid right out again. These tips have a friction-fit, and with no friction... it just falls out the minute the tip is off the surface.
I am therefore continuing to grind down what's left of the tip it came with. But it's starting to get so short that getting it out with needle-nose pliers is becoming a challenge.
Getting desperate, I decided to go right to the source. WACOM itself. I hit their website, answered all the questions about make and model in their customer quiz and asked my question:
"Where do I get the exact same white plastic nibs that came with my wacom pen when I bought it?"
And there response was basically "Hey, thanks for buying our product - here's a list of EVERY FUCKING NIB WE MAKE. CHOOSE ONE." And of course, looking through the list they provided shows not a single nib that looked even remotely like the one I am trying to replace. They've got black nibs. They've got felt nibs. They've got springy-loaded nibs. They've got 'em in fat and skinny and rubber-tipped....
So, not only did they not answer my question, they wasted my time on top of it.
A poke around the web seems to suggest that what I need are the "standard white plastic nibs" - which appear to be available in every country on earth except this one.
I currently have an order in for "standard black plastic nibs" (model no. ack20001) in the hopes that the color doesn't mean anything. Because if I can't find a new nib that fits, I may wind up having to replace the entire tablet. Over a $2 piece of plastic. And that's insane.
Fucking WACOM.
Okay, as some of you may know, all my digital inking these days days is done using my trusty WACOM Graphire 3 tablet. I bought it new way back when, and it's become one of my most vital tools.
So, what's the problem? Nothing big... the pen tip is getting a bit worn. It needs replacing.
The problem: I can't find the right replacement for it. I've tried two different ones so far and neither fit. They were both too thin, and consequently slid right out again. These tips have a friction-fit, and with no friction... it just falls out the minute the tip is off the surface.
I am therefore continuing to grind down what's left of the tip it came with. But it's starting to get so short that getting it out with needle-nose pliers is becoming a challenge.
Getting desperate, I decided to go right to the source. WACOM itself. I hit their website, answered all the questions about make and model in their customer quiz and asked my question:
"Where do I get the exact same white plastic nibs that came with my wacom pen when I bought it?"
And there response was basically "Hey, thanks for buying our product - here's a list of EVERY FUCKING NIB WE MAKE. CHOOSE ONE." And of course, looking through the list they provided shows not a single nib that looked even remotely like the one I am trying to replace. They've got black nibs. They've got felt nibs. They've got springy-loaded nibs. They've got 'em in fat and skinny and rubber-tipped....
So, not only did they not answer my question, they wasted my time on top of it.
A poke around the web seems to suggest that what I need are the "standard white plastic nibs" - which appear to be available in every country on earth except this one.
I currently have an order in for "standard black plastic nibs" (model no. ack20001) in the hopes that the color doesn't mean anything. Because if I can't find a new nib that fits, I may wind up having to replace the entire tablet. Over a $2 piece of plastic. And that's insane.
Fucking WACOM.
Why Can't Anyone Get Superman Right?
Posted 8 years agoJustice League: The Movie is out, and the reviews are not kind to it.
A story in The Hollywood Reporter opines
Why Can't Anyone Get Superman Right?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h.....-right-1059792
The problem is deeper than just a basic misunderstanding of what makes Superman work. I don't think these guys even know what makes a movie work. It's not the FX budget, or the number of explosions... it's an investment in the characters. They have to be someone you don't mind spending a couple of hours living with.
At the moment, the Snyderverse has sucked all the fun out of DC's stable of heroes. They are, at best, boring, and at worst, a pain to endure. The only DC film that has even remotely worked has been Wonder Woman, and that was more in spite of Snyderfication, than because of it.
What was it that people said they liked about that film? It was bright, not gloomy. It was fun instead of grim. It had a heart.
So.... You want this done right?
I've got one word for you:
SUPERFRIENDS
They should not have made a Justice League movie, they should have made a SUPERFRIENDS movie.
Don't make it a mindless, boomy explosion-o-rama. Don't try to be gloomy and emo and "look at how real I'm being" - Kick aside all the baggage leftover from the Snyderverse. Keep whatever works (like Wonder Woman) and lose the heavy, pouty drama.
Give the story some heart. Let it be cheesy, and knowingly cheesy at that. Let it wear its cheesiness on its sleeve, and relish it. Work that nostalgia angle, and make it fun.
I know, "cheesy" tends to be a bad word in Hollywood. But cheesy is just another word for fun.
You think a movie about a talking raccoon from outer space, his best friend the tree, and featuring old 70's rock tunes, topped by Blue Swede's "hooked on a feeling" didn't sound like a crazy idea before it became a box office success?
Bear with me and try this pitch:
Marvin and Wendy are two average teens in an average school, but from different worlds. She's popular, he's a dork. They're thrown together to work on a science project, but in the process of working on it, they accidentally stumble onto signs of an already-in-progress alien invasion. It sounds crazy and nobody will believe them, not even when Marvin's dog gets zapped by weird alien energy and gains an ability to almost-talk.
With the world at stake, there's only one thing they can do - find a way to contact a superhero like the ones that have been on tv, in the news recently (cue the scenes from previous films as news footage) before it's too late. They manage to reach a couple of the big-name heroes, but always get the brush-off. The heroes have hero business to get on with. Who are these kids anyway. Crazy story. Sorry, kid.
But the kids don't give up, they keep investigating and they, (along with one of the heroes) eventually wind up in the right place at the right time, and this time their story has to be believed because the hero is seeing it with their own eyes. This is real. This is happening.
And now it's getting worse... With global weirdness on the rise, and all of the heroes starting to realize that those kids may have been onto something, they all start coming at the problem from their own direction, leading to them all arriving at the final showdown together. The Superfriends unite for the first time, and team up to save the world. Big shot of them all posed together. Cue the classic theme music.
At the end, having saved the world, and established the Superfriends group (with the Hall of Justice as their meeting place) Marvin, Wendy and the now-named Wonderdog are made honorary members.
Roll credits.
After credits scene: two mysterious, back-lit figures seen only in silhouette, and a small monkey-tailed creature arrive on earth in the wake of the invasion.
The two figures share a look, touch rings, and we end on the phrase "Wonder twin powers - activate."
Boom. Black screen.
That would have sold popcorn.
A story in The Hollywood Reporter opines
Why Can't Anyone Get Superman Right?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h.....-right-1059792
The problem is deeper than just a basic misunderstanding of what makes Superman work. I don't think these guys even know what makes a movie work. It's not the FX budget, or the number of explosions... it's an investment in the characters. They have to be someone you don't mind spending a couple of hours living with.
At the moment, the Snyderverse has sucked all the fun out of DC's stable of heroes. They are, at best, boring, and at worst, a pain to endure. The only DC film that has even remotely worked has been Wonder Woman, and that was more in spite of Snyderfication, than because of it.
What was it that people said they liked about that film? It was bright, not gloomy. It was fun instead of grim. It had a heart.
So.... You want this done right?
I've got one word for you:
SUPERFRIENDS
They should not have made a Justice League movie, they should have made a SUPERFRIENDS movie.
Don't make it a mindless, boomy explosion-o-rama. Don't try to be gloomy and emo and "look at how real I'm being" - Kick aside all the baggage leftover from the Snyderverse. Keep whatever works (like Wonder Woman) and lose the heavy, pouty drama.
Give the story some heart. Let it be cheesy, and knowingly cheesy at that. Let it wear its cheesiness on its sleeve, and relish it. Work that nostalgia angle, and make it fun.
I know, "cheesy" tends to be a bad word in Hollywood. But cheesy is just another word for fun.
You think a movie about a talking raccoon from outer space, his best friend the tree, and featuring old 70's rock tunes, topped by Blue Swede's "hooked on a feeling" didn't sound like a crazy idea before it became a box office success?
Bear with me and try this pitch:
Marvin and Wendy are two average teens in an average school, but from different worlds. She's popular, he's a dork. They're thrown together to work on a science project, but in the process of working on it, they accidentally stumble onto signs of an already-in-progress alien invasion. It sounds crazy and nobody will believe them, not even when Marvin's dog gets zapped by weird alien energy and gains an ability to almost-talk.
With the world at stake, there's only one thing they can do - find a way to contact a superhero like the ones that have been on tv, in the news recently (cue the scenes from previous films as news footage) before it's too late. They manage to reach a couple of the big-name heroes, but always get the brush-off. The heroes have hero business to get on with. Who are these kids anyway. Crazy story. Sorry, kid.
But the kids don't give up, they keep investigating and they, (along with one of the heroes) eventually wind up in the right place at the right time, and this time their story has to be believed because the hero is seeing it with their own eyes. This is real. This is happening.
And now it's getting worse... With global weirdness on the rise, and all of the heroes starting to realize that those kids may have been onto something, they all start coming at the problem from their own direction, leading to them all arriving at the final showdown together. The Superfriends unite for the first time, and team up to save the world. Big shot of them all posed together. Cue the classic theme music.
At the end, having saved the world, and established the Superfriends group (with the Hall of Justice as their meeting place) Marvin, Wendy and the now-named Wonderdog are made honorary members.
Roll credits.
After credits scene: two mysterious, back-lit figures seen only in silhouette, and a small monkey-tailed creature arrive on earth in the wake of the invasion.
The two figures share a look, touch rings, and we end on the phrase "Wonder twin powers - activate."
Boom. Black screen.
That would have sold popcorn.
Bubble House Full Of Awesome
Posted 8 years agoOh Mah Gawd...
I want one of these.
A whole bunch of these together around a central courtyard would make an awesome furry art community.
Wish I had the land and money to do that.
I want one of these.
A whole bunch of these together around a central courtyard would make an awesome furry art community.
Wish I had the land and money to do that.
Goodbye Firefox, it's been nice. Hope you find your paradise
Posted 8 years agoIt's finally happened. Firefox force-fed me their latest update, the much-dreaded "Firefox Quantum" - aka version 57. Their latest and greatest version of the Firefox web browser, which comes with only one minor flaw - it's entirely incompatible with FireFox.
It immediately broke every single add-on extension I had installed - and since I had come to rely rather heavily on the customized features those add-ons had provided, this rendered the update instantly unusable.
Since the only reason why I had kept dragging along using Firefox all these years as it lost marketshare to newer and sleeker browsers was for those add-ons, but I now no longer had any reason to stay. And so, like the majority of the internet, I have moved on. At the moment, I am on Chrome, as according to wikipedia it is the single most popular web browser on the internet. So I figured it must have something going for it.
I have to say, I'm finding a few things about it I don't like. I hate the lack of a menu bar, for one. The way it handles bookmarks is also annoying. I don't get those nice little colored icons next to the urls, which made picking out a particular address so much easier. I hate that you can't right click on the home button to open in a new window (and I hate that I had to go flip a setting to even make the home button visible). I also hate the tab bar, as I like having two browser windows open side by side on my dual monitors for certain tasks.
I'm also finding that many of the add-ons I used to enjoy don't exist for chrome. I've found a replaceent for NoScript, and of course AdBlock Plus is here. But it's likely to be a slow road of rebuilding to where I once was. Getting comfortable again. I feel like I'm lost in a foreign country, where all the signs are printed in the wrong color, and the cars are on the wrong side of the road.
If there are any add-ons you folks could recommend to make this transition easier, please feel free to suggest them.
It's a bright, scary new future out there.
Goodbye Firefox.
It immediately broke every single add-on extension I had installed - and since I had come to rely rather heavily on the customized features those add-ons had provided, this rendered the update instantly unusable.
Since the only reason why I had kept dragging along using Firefox all these years as it lost marketshare to newer and sleeker browsers was for those add-ons, but I now no longer had any reason to stay. And so, like the majority of the internet, I have moved on. At the moment, I am on Chrome, as according to wikipedia it is the single most popular web browser on the internet. So I figured it must have something going for it.
I have to say, I'm finding a few things about it I don't like. I hate the lack of a menu bar, for one. The way it handles bookmarks is also annoying. I don't get those nice little colored icons next to the urls, which made picking out a particular address so much easier. I hate that you can't right click on the home button to open in a new window (and I hate that I had to go flip a setting to even make the home button visible). I also hate the tab bar, as I like having two browser windows open side by side on my dual monitors for certain tasks.
I'm also finding that many of the add-ons I used to enjoy don't exist for chrome. I've found a replaceent for NoScript, and of course AdBlock Plus is here. But it's likely to be a slow road of rebuilding to where I once was. Getting comfortable again. I feel like I'm lost in a foreign country, where all the signs are printed in the wrong color, and the cars are on the wrong side of the road.
If there are any add-ons you folks could recommend to make this transition easier, please feel free to suggest them.
It's a bright, scary new future out there.
Goodbye Firefox.
SANSAR - Second Life 2.0?
Posted 8 years agoOkay, so... a little awhile ago I was clued that SANSAR, Linden Lab's latest offering, which some had been anticipating would be the replacement for the now rather aging SecondLife, has opened for public use... I've just created an account, logged in and tried it out, and my initial reaction is...
What the hell is the point of this thing?
It's basically a severely crippled version of SecondLife. All of the things that make SecondLife work are missing. Instead of a wide and raging world to explore, you have a bunch of boxes, and inside each box is a 3d scene that someone has built. You can visit a box and look at the scene. And that's pretty much it. Walking around is a chore, because oddly they decided that while you will still use the arrow keys to move, this will not make your character turn in place. Now you have to keep one finger jammed down on the mouse's right-click button in order to move the camera and thereby steer.
And as for the camera, that's all you seem to get in the way of camera movement. Spin in place by holding the right mouse button and moving the mouse. Whee.
After using Secondlife, where you can move around freely and easily, zoom, pan and move the camera around to your heart's content, SANSAR feels like being trapped in a full-body cast, and wheeling yourself around helplessly on a rollerskate.
They really have no idea what their customers want, do they?
Maybe it's got more of a wow factor with a 3d headset, but SANSAR looks like an utter waste of time and effort. It's still in "creator beta" but it would take a complete overhaul to make anything out of this. What I saw was just pointless and unusable. Calling it uncomfortable would be positively kind.
Even Blue Mars was better than this, and Blue Mars sucked.
What the hell is the point of this thing?
It's basically a severely crippled version of SecondLife. All of the things that make SecondLife work are missing. Instead of a wide and raging world to explore, you have a bunch of boxes, and inside each box is a 3d scene that someone has built. You can visit a box and look at the scene. And that's pretty much it. Walking around is a chore, because oddly they decided that while you will still use the arrow keys to move, this will not make your character turn in place. Now you have to keep one finger jammed down on the mouse's right-click button in order to move the camera and thereby steer.
And as for the camera, that's all you seem to get in the way of camera movement. Spin in place by holding the right mouse button and moving the mouse. Whee.
After using Secondlife, where you can move around freely and easily, zoom, pan and move the camera around to your heart's content, SANSAR feels like being trapped in a full-body cast, and wheeling yourself around helplessly on a rollerskate.
They really have no idea what their customers want, do they?
Maybe it's got more of a wow factor with a 3d headset, but SANSAR looks like an utter waste of time and effort. It's still in "creator beta" but it would take a complete overhaul to make anything out of this. What I saw was just pointless and unusable. Calling it uncomfortable would be positively kind.
Even Blue Mars was better than this, and Blue Mars sucked.
The clothes make the....uh...
Posted 8 years agoOkay.. the BBC have released the first official image of their new female Doctor Who in her new Doctor Who costume, and they've gone with....
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainme.....-arts-41928500
Mork From Ork as a bag lady.
Suddenly, Colin Baker's outfit doesn't look quite so bad. Does it?
This is me regretting my decision to abandon my lifelong obsession with this show less and less and less....
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainme.....-arts-41928500
Mork From Ork as a bag lady.
Suddenly, Colin Baker's outfit doesn't look quite so bad. Does it?
This is me regretting my decision to abandon my lifelong obsession with this show less and less and less....
The Starship Battle Is Over
Posted 8 years agoOkay.. I just finished the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery.
It's official.
The Orville is better Star Trek than Star Trek.
God, this is bland.
It's official.
The Orville is better Star Trek than Star Trek.
God, this is bland.
The YouTube of Furry Porn Is On The Air
Posted 8 years agoOk, so... here's a thing.
About a month ago, I posted this:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24499463/
...upon which, I made the comment: "Man, Furry Fandom needs a couple fewer Fur Affinity clones, and more effort put into setting up the fandom's own YouTube style video site."
Well, it appears that about two weeks later, someone actually got around to doing just that. (I'm guessing it was two weeks, because that's how old the oldest video (a test video) on there seems to be.)
https://www.yiff.tube/
Not a lot of content, and like YouTube, a good bit of it appears to have been uploaded by someone other than the original creator.
But, it's still a fairly new site, so it may just need some time to settle in, find an audience, and start getting some proper use made of it.
In the meantime, rejoice fellow animators... there's someplace you can post your stuff in better quality than FA is capable of.
Kinda gives me an excuse to start thinking bigger than the usual 1-2 second loops I've been doing.
About a month ago, I posted this:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24499463/
...upon which, I made the comment: "Man, Furry Fandom needs a couple fewer Fur Affinity clones, and more effort put into setting up the fandom's own YouTube style video site."
Well, it appears that about two weeks later, someone actually got around to doing just that. (I'm guessing it was two weeks, because that's how old the oldest video (a test video) on there seems to be.)
https://www.yiff.tube/
Not a lot of content, and like YouTube, a good bit of it appears to have been uploaded by someone other than the original creator.
But, it's still a fairly new site, so it may just need some time to settle in, find an audience, and start getting some proper use made of it.
In the meantime, rejoice fellow animators... there's someplace you can post your stuff in better quality than FA is capable of.
Kinda gives me an excuse to start thinking bigger than the usual 1-2 second loops I've been doing.
Furry Porn To The Rescue!
Posted 8 years agohttps://twitter.com/BunLordPeachum/.....745924/photo/1
This probably more of an Inkbunny thing, but what the hell.
GREAT ADVICE GUYS.
This probably more of an Inkbunny thing, but what the hell.
GREAT ADVICE GUYS.
Batman And Harley Quinn - a review (spoilers)
Posted 8 years agoOh my god.
Where to begin on this complete and utter trainwreck of a film?
After the blowback over the sexist disaster that was The Killing Joke, DC really needed to get their act in gear. Having Adam West and Bruce Ward return for a cartoon adaptation of their Batman 66' roles was a move in the right direction, and from all external appearances, Batman And Harley Quinn was going to be another - in that it was supposed to be a return to the world of Batman: The Animated Series, the show that defined Batman for a generation, and gave birth to the DC Animated Universe.
But then, we got this instead. A dumb, overly sexualized insult to its memory.
Starting with a relatively Batman-ish opening scene of Poison Ivy and associate stealing secrets from a science lab, the film begins to slowly go off the rails, as we are treated to a bondage and rape scene, gay jokes, fart jokes, not one but two pointless musical numbers, flapping boobs, and an ending that doesn't so much crashland, as get bored with itself, grind to a halt and just fall apart where it's standing.
What the hell happened?
Mayhaps the rumors are true and Paul Dini really was the brains behind the bat. That Bruce Timm, while being an excellent artist, really has no storytelling chops at all. That would explain why nearly every character in this is acting out of character. Why none of the parts of this thing seem to fit together at all.
Watching this film play out leaves me wondering if the script wasn't the result of one night's drug-fueled madness. Take the drugs, start writing a Batman script, let the drugs take over, go insane, and as the haze starts to wear off and lethargy sets in, just slap on an ending, give up and wander off to get munchies.
As if the script wasn't bad enough, the musical score takes nothing from Batman TAS, and instead seems to be made of leftover wacky musical cues from the aforementioned Batman 66' project. They even throw a bunch of BIFF POW text over a fight scene, because yeah, that's the correct tone for this incarnation of the franchise. Sure.
It's good to see the old character designs back, and hear (some) of the old voices again, but anyone expecting the same level of quality storytelling, pacing, and atmosphere that Batman TAS was such a showcase for, forget it. There's none of that here. Just a tragic, slapdash pile of half-assed rambling which ultimately goes nowhere at all. A sequence of cringe-inducing moments that just keep coming until they stop.
What a waste of time and talent.
This is the type of epic fuckup that people should get fired over.
Where to begin on this complete and utter trainwreck of a film?
After the blowback over the sexist disaster that was The Killing Joke, DC really needed to get their act in gear. Having Adam West and Bruce Ward return for a cartoon adaptation of their Batman 66' roles was a move in the right direction, and from all external appearances, Batman And Harley Quinn was going to be another - in that it was supposed to be a return to the world of Batman: The Animated Series, the show that defined Batman for a generation, and gave birth to the DC Animated Universe.
But then, we got this instead. A dumb, overly sexualized insult to its memory.
Starting with a relatively Batman-ish opening scene of Poison Ivy and associate stealing secrets from a science lab, the film begins to slowly go off the rails, as we are treated to a bondage and rape scene, gay jokes, fart jokes, not one but two pointless musical numbers, flapping boobs, and an ending that doesn't so much crashland, as get bored with itself, grind to a halt and just fall apart where it's standing.
What the hell happened?
Mayhaps the rumors are true and Paul Dini really was the brains behind the bat. That Bruce Timm, while being an excellent artist, really has no storytelling chops at all. That would explain why nearly every character in this is acting out of character. Why none of the parts of this thing seem to fit together at all.
Watching this film play out leaves me wondering if the script wasn't the result of one night's drug-fueled madness. Take the drugs, start writing a Batman script, let the drugs take over, go insane, and as the haze starts to wear off and lethargy sets in, just slap on an ending, give up and wander off to get munchies.
As if the script wasn't bad enough, the musical score takes nothing from Batman TAS, and instead seems to be made of leftover wacky musical cues from the aforementioned Batman 66' project. They even throw a bunch of BIFF POW text over a fight scene, because yeah, that's the correct tone for this incarnation of the franchise. Sure.
It's good to see the old character designs back, and hear (some) of the old voices again, but anyone expecting the same level of quality storytelling, pacing, and atmosphere that Batman TAS was such a showcase for, forget it. There's none of that here. Just a tragic, slapdash pile of half-assed rambling which ultimately goes nowhere at all. A sequence of cringe-inducing moments that just keep coming until they stop.
What a waste of time and talent.
This is the type of epic fuckup that people should get fired over.
Saturday Night At The Movies: Grand Theft Auto!
Posted 8 years agoGRAND THEFT AUTO: not even remotely related to the popular videogame of the same name, this action comedy from 1977 is exactly the type of brilliant, low-budget comedy that they just don't make anymore.
The premise: Two teens want to get married, but her rich dad is standing in the way.
Their only hope? Steal the old man's Rolls, and elope to Vegas, followed by a flotilla of crazed drivers including the rich boy she dumped, and a mixed bag of fortune hunters eager to collect the massive reward promised for her safe capture and return. With a local radio personality egging the action along, what follows is one extended chase sequence full of crashes, smashes and car stunts.
Let the automotive chaos begin!:
The premise: Two teens want to get married, but her rich dad is standing in the way.
Their only hope? Steal the old man's Rolls, and elope to Vegas, followed by a flotilla of crazed drivers including the rich boy she dumped, and a mixed bag of fortune hunters eager to collect the massive reward promised for her safe capture and return. With a local radio personality egging the action along, what follows is one extended chase sequence full of crashes, smashes and car stunts.
Let the automotive chaos begin!:
I believe that I have just confirmed that I am a TOON
Posted 8 years ago...or at least part TOON.
We're having a new roof put on the house today, and the workers who are hammering it into place have fallen into the rhythm of "shave and a haircut."
I am finding myself unable to refrain from knocking twice on my desk to complete the "two bits." part.
We're having a new roof put on the house today, and the workers who are hammering it into place have fallen into the rhythm of "shave and a haircut."
I am finding myself unable to refrain from knocking twice on my desk to complete the "two bits." part.
EVIL TWIN running late
Posted 8 years agoHowdy folks, as you've noticed, this week's Evil Twin is running late.
My brother and his family have stopped in this week for a visit, and as a result I've been called off to do a number of somewhat time-consuming family-related things.
I should, hopefully, have it finished and ready for posting tomorrow.
My brother and his family have stopped in this week for a visit, and as a result I've been called off to do a number of somewhat time-consuming family-related things.
I should, hopefully, have it finished and ready for posting tomorrow.
It is time to begin construction of THE DEVICE
Posted 8 years agoIf you've been paying attention, you'll have noticed that I posted a couple of small animations recently.
And if you read the text accompanying them you'd have learned the following:
That I currently have two computers: my work computer (which I am currently typing this on) and The Jukebox, a machine hooked up to a video projector for showing movies on. Neither machine is especially muscular, and the Jukebox is basically the bare-bones minimum I need to play videos, as it was built out of leftover parts I had upgraded away from.
However, I have been attempting to use both machines as a sort of small render farm. Thanks to Poser's Queue Manager, I can set up the render here, set it going in the queue, and then let both machines chew on it until it's done.
However, as neither machine is what you might call powerful, this tends to take one hell of a long time. And it just gets longer when I actually need to use this machine for something other than rendering (like work) or that machine (since the jukebox also serves dual function as a public computer for guests.)
So, I've decided that it's time to begin thinking about building a dedicated rendering machine. Something with a bit of oomph inside it.
Over the past weekend I sat down with a tech-head friend of mine and we worked out the specs for a nice little renderbox. Server-grade motherboard hosting twin CPU units, and an abundance of memory slots, in a rackmount case. Yes, this will be a proper server, with plans for a server rack, and room for upgrading with additional units. A renderfarm of mine own. It's going to be big, it's going to be powerful, and it's going to cost a lot of money. About $700 just to get things off the ground and rolling.
This is obviously not something that will be built overnight. I'm going to need to do it one piece at a time as I can afford it.
On the plus side, once it's up and running, I'll be able to dedicate more time to doing 3D animation since it means I'll be able to do more than squeeze out 5-second loops between the actual paying jobs.
If, by some chance, you would like to contribute to this project, you can throw money at it by way of either my Patreon, or my Ko-Fi account, both of which I will link below:
https://www.patreon.com/cobalt
https://ko-fi.com/A1112F18
The list of parts we drew up includes pieces purchased from amazon, newegg, and ebay, so the price is not exact since ebay auctions tend to come and go.
You can download a PDF of the current parts list, from where I have it stored on MEGA, here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9n9nt6s
So... that's the current plan and the current goal.
To build THE DEVICE.
It's time.
*insert maniacal laughter and thunder noises here*
And if you read the text accompanying them you'd have learned the following:
That I currently have two computers: my work computer (which I am currently typing this on) and The Jukebox, a machine hooked up to a video projector for showing movies on. Neither machine is especially muscular, and the Jukebox is basically the bare-bones minimum I need to play videos, as it was built out of leftover parts I had upgraded away from.
However, I have been attempting to use both machines as a sort of small render farm. Thanks to Poser's Queue Manager, I can set up the render here, set it going in the queue, and then let both machines chew on it until it's done.
However, as neither machine is what you might call powerful, this tends to take one hell of a long time. And it just gets longer when I actually need to use this machine for something other than rendering (like work) or that machine (since the jukebox also serves dual function as a public computer for guests.)
So, I've decided that it's time to begin thinking about building a dedicated rendering machine. Something with a bit of oomph inside it.
Over the past weekend I sat down with a tech-head friend of mine and we worked out the specs for a nice little renderbox. Server-grade motherboard hosting twin CPU units, and an abundance of memory slots, in a rackmount case. Yes, this will be a proper server, with plans for a server rack, and room for upgrading with additional units. A renderfarm of mine own. It's going to be big, it's going to be powerful, and it's going to cost a lot of money. About $700 just to get things off the ground and rolling.
This is obviously not something that will be built overnight. I'm going to need to do it one piece at a time as I can afford it.
On the plus side, once it's up and running, I'll be able to dedicate more time to doing 3D animation since it means I'll be able to do more than squeeze out 5-second loops between the actual paying jobs.
If, by some chance, you would like to contribute to this project, you can throw money at it by way of either my Patreon, or my Ko-Fi account, both of which I will link below:
https://www.patreon.com/cobalt
https://ko-fi.com/A1112F18
The list of parts we drew up includes pieces purchased from amazon, newegg, and ebay, so the price is not exact since ebay auctions tend to come and go.
You can download a PDF of the current parts list, from where I have it stored on MEGA, here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9n9nt6s
So... that's the current plan and the current goal.
To build THE DEVICE.
It's time.
*insert maniacal laughter and thunder noises here*
I think I've had enough.
Posted 8 years agoSPOILER ALERT: The following post contains spoilers about the casting of the next Doctor Who.
As a Doctor Who fan, I've put up with a lot that I probably shouldn't have. I've suffered along through some of the worst writing in television's history (moon egg, anyone?) in the hopes that the show might get back on track at some point. And although there have been bright spots, the majority of what I've been fed, as a fan, was garbage.
I hung on, the way a sports supporter does when they're following a losing team. Out of sheer bloody-mindedness and hope.
But my hopes have been dashed one final time. One time too many.
Is this about the revelation today that the next Doctor Who is a woman? Well, yes and no.
Let's start a bit earlier than today's revelation. Let's start with the real problem. One Steven Moffat. The man who took a thriving television series that was riding at the top of the ratings, and sank it. One of the bright spots, one of the things that I, as a fan, was clinging to in hope, was that someday he was going to leave. And when he went, all his bad ideas would go as well. The show had become so clogged up with bullshit during his tenure that the only thing that could save this show was an enema.
So, finally he's going. And who do they replace him with?
A Moffatt assistant named Chris Chibnall, the man who has written what is quite possibly the worst excuse for a script that has ever been broadcast anywhere. CYBERWOMAN, the episode of Torchwood that convinced me that I didn't need to watch Torchwood anymore. It was horrible, dumb, and dare I say it, offensively sexist.
But again, clinging to hope... maybe once Moffat's backside hits the pavement outside, and Chibnall is allowed to put his own mark on this show, maybe once he's not being told what to do he will find his feet and make a proper job of it. Not fuck around with the concept, not try to out-clever himself to the point that you need a scorecard just to keep track of an episode.
Strip it down, clean it up and get the show running mean and lean again. A true return to Classic status. To do to Doctor Who what Bruce Timm and Paul Dini did for Batman.
So, that brings us to today's revelation. The Next Doctor is a woman.
And not just any woman: a generic, blonde "made for TV" woman. The kind that tends to show up on FOX as a newsreader.
As a look "blonde and generic" is basically TV speak for "placeholder." It's what you use when you have no ideas, and just need a body to fill a chair, so there isn't a noticeable gap onscreen.
Couldn't they have at least got someone interesting looking? Why not an older woman with wrinkles? A female William Hartnell type? A goofy clownish sort like Troughton? (Pinkie Pie crossed with the Doctor, now there's a concept) Someone whose appearance exudes more than "I am occupying part of your television screen."
And yes, I know that Peter Davison was basically "blonde and generic" but that's not really a mark of quality, since his best story is the one that he finally gets killed in.
So, It's not just that the new Doctor is a woman. It's that the executive decision which has been made, appears to stand as a marker, signaling that Chibnall is going to continue to Moffat the show up. The stink is not gone, and any hope for course correction is out the door.
...and I think I've just about had enough of this.
I'm done with the abuse. I'm just tired of it.
The typical run for a Doctor tends to be three years. I think I may just st the next three years out, and see if the show actually survives them. If it does, and unless Chibnall manages to throw off the stink of Moffatt, I may just wait until he's gone as well.
Hope has evacuated the program, and I'm going with it.
See you in three years, show.
BUY ME A COFFEE
Posted 8 years agoOkay, so.... I finally took the plunge.
I've signed up for a Ko-Fi account.
For those of you who are unfamilliar, Ko-Fi is similar to Patreon, except that it doesn't require you to create an account to tip someone.
So, for those of you who wrote saying that you didn't mind sending a tip, but didn't want to sign up for Patreon, here ya go.
Interestingly enough, it appears that Patreon's recent hamhanded website redesign was lifted wholesale from Ko-Fi. Same colors, same sidebar, same everything. Oy Vey.
Try it out for yerself:
I've signed up for a Ko-Fi account.
For those of you who are unfamilliar, Ko-Fi is similar to Patreon, except that it doesn't require you to create an account to tip someone.
So, for those of you who wrote saying that you didn't mind sending a tip, but didn't want to sign up for Patreon, here ya go.
Interestingly enough, it appears that Patreon's recent hamhanded website redesign was lifted wholesale from Ko-Fi. Same colors, same sidebar, same everything. Oy Vey.
Try it out for yerself:
MEGAFORCE: A smarter movie than it gets credit for
Posted 8 years agoSince I'm temporarily unable to sleep, and since the wheels in my brain have been spinning on the subject for at least an hour now, I'm going to talk a bit about the movie MEGAFORCE from 1982.
Yes... That cheesy action movie from the 80's that has been described as both pointless and aimless, and which many choose to think of as one of the worst movies ever made. But after much thought I think it's better than people give it credit for. In fact, the word I would use to describe it is subversive. In much the same way that Robocop and Starshiip Troopers later would, Megaforce only appears to be an aimless mess until you comprehend it. That flash of epiphany where suddenly the whole thing goes topsy turvy and there it is... you get it.
You see, there's a trick to it. A trick that younger me, when he first saw it, didn't notice.
Motorcycles that shoot rockets while popping wheelies! Dune buggies with lightning bolts all over them and lasers! Jumps and stunts and explosions. Cool! Twelve year old me was in pure adolescent heaven during that first viewing. And if you don't think about it too much, as I didn't at the time, you can come away convinced that you'd just watched the usual variety of action movie. Good guys. Bad guys. Heavy Weaponry. It was a formula we'd see again in GI Joe: The Toy Line, a bit later.
But whereas GI Joe was played fairly straight, Megaforce was playing with your head.
So what's the trick? What makes it all make sense?
This: MEGAFORCE ARE THE BAD GUYS.
Go back and watch the film again, with this thought in your head, and you will see the movie in a whole new way.
I can understand why so many people failed to see that, even when the movie practically rubs your nose in it. MEGAFORCE are presented as almost a cookie-cutter good guy action figure set. A "phantom army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the most powerful science can devise" populated by a melting pot of international scope. It was diversity that even Star Trek couldn't boast about at the time. Everything about them screamed "these are the good guys! Heroes one and all!" From the vehicles, to the costumes to the music that plays when they're onscreen. It's all very rah rah rah.
So, why aren't they?
Let's look at their opponent, one General Gurerra. We meet him in the very first scene of the film, where he and his men have just emptied what appears to be a power plant of some sort, and where his subordinate reads out a speech explaining what they are doing "We have removed you from the facility where your labors were being exploited, to help you in your valiant, never ending struggle against the villains of tyranny." And having made sure that nobody is going to be killed by it, he blows the place up. BOOM.
Next we are introduced to General Berne-White played by Knight Rider's Edward Mulhare. Gurerra's actions have ruffled his feathers, along with several other big important men, and He has come to the desert to find Megaforce, and set them on Gurerra. The plan is that Megaforce will trick Gurerra and his men into an illegal border crossing, whereupon Berne-White can set his military on them.
So, what happens? MEGAFORCE LOSES.
That's right. Gurerra, using what appears to be outdated scrap military hardware from World War II, manages to outflank and defeat the Super-Elite fighting force with the high tech whiz bang toys. Megaforce not only fail to trick him into making the border crossing into Berne-White's ambush, but he also blocks their retreat, and they are forced to abandon, and destroy all their flashy equipment and vehicles. Megaforce escape with their lives, and one motorcycle, and that's it. Their mission fails, and it's a complete rout.
This then, is the point of that scene where Ace appears atop Gurerra's tank and gives him that speech about "The good guys always win, even in the 80's."
What he's saying is... "I get it now. You are the hero, I am the villain and you have defeated me. I may have lost, but the good guy still wins, because I'm not the good guy, you are."
And then, as a final Fuck You to Berne-White for turning them into villains, Megaforce blows up Berne-White's helicopter, which we had learned earlier, was the only thing he really cared about.
So back to that word I used earlier. Subversive. Megaforce presents itself as a standard action flick, uses the visual language of and tropes of a standard action flick, and then smoothly flips the entire concept on its head in such a way that you might not even notice it.
I suspect this is one of the reasons (again, like Starship Troopers) that some people scratch their heads and go "Well, that seemed kind of pointless." because they completely missed the flip. The moment that the film subverted it's concept.
The one little detail that would have made it all clear.
Megaforce are the bad guys. Gurerra is the film's hero. And we're all but left to figure that out for ourselves.
Go watch it again, and see.
Yes... That cheesy action movie from the 80's that has been described as both pointless and aimless, and which many choose to think of as one of the worst movies ever made. But after much thought I think it's better than people give it credit for. In fact, the word I would use to describe it is subversive. In much the same way that Robocop and Starshiip Troopers later would, Megaforce only appears to be an aimless mess until you comprehend it. That flash of epiphany where suddenly the whole thing goes topsy turvy and there it is... you get it.
You see, there's a trick to it. A trick that younger me, when he first saw it, didn't notice.
Motorcycles that shoot rockets while popping wheelies! Dune buggies with lightning bolts all over them and lasers! Jumps and stunts and explosions. Cool! Twelve year old me was in pure adolescent heaven during that first viewing. And if you don't think about it too much, as I didn't at the time, you can come away convinced that you'd just watched the usual variety of action movie. Good guys. Bad guys. Heavy Weaponry. It was a formula we'd see again in GI Joe: The Toy Line, a bit later.
But whereas GI Joe was played fairly straight, Megaforce was playing with your head.
So what's the trick? What makes it all make sense?
This: MEGAFORCE ARE THE BAD GUYS.
Go back and watch the film again, with this thought in your head, and you will see the movie in a whole new way.
I can understand why so many people failed to see that, even when the movie practically rubs your nose in it. MEGAFORCE are presented as almost a cookie-cutter good guy action figure set. A "phantom army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the most powerful science can devise" populated by a melting pot of international scope. It was diversity that even Star Trek couldn't boast about at the time. Everything about them screamed "these are the good guys! Heroes one and all!" From the vehicles, to the costumes to the music that plays when they're onscreen. It's all very rah rah rah.
So, why aren't they?
Let's look at their opponent, one General Gurerra. We meet him in the very first scene of the film, where he and his men have just emptied what appears to be a power plant of some sort, and where his subordinate reads out a speech explaining what they are doing "We have removed you from the facility where your labors were being exploited, to help you in your valiant, never ending struggle against the villains of tyranny." And having made sure that nobody is going to be killed by it, he blows the place up. BOOM.
Next we are introduced to General Berne-White played by Knight Rider's Edward Mulhare. Gurerra's actions have ruffled his feathers, along with several other big important men, and He has come to the desert to find Megaforce, and set them on Gurerra. The plan is that Megaforce will trick Gurerra and his men into an illegal border crossing, whereupon Berne-White can set his military on them.
So, what happens? MEGAFORCE LOSES.
That's right. Gurerra, using what appears to be outdated scrap military hardware from World War II, manages to outflank and defeat the Super-Elite fighting force with the high tech whiz bang toys. Megaforce not only fail to trick him into making the border crossing into Berne-White's ambush, but he also blocks their retreat, and they are forced to abandon, and destroy all their flashy equipment and vehicles. Megaforce escape with their lives, and one motorcycle, and that's it. Their mission fails, and it's a complete rout.
This then, is the point of that scene where Ace appears atop Gurerra's tank and gives him that speech about "The good guys always win, even in the 80's."
What he's saying is... "I get it now. You are the hero, I am the villain and you have defeated me. I may have lost, but the good guy still wins, because I'm not the good guy, you are."
And then, as a final Fuck You to Berne-White for turning them into villains, Megaforce blows up Berne-White's helicopter, which we had learned earlier, was the only thing he really cared about.
So back to that word I used earlier. Subversive. Megaforce presents itself as a standard action flick, uses the visual language of and tropes of a standard action flick, and then smoothly flips the entire concept on its head in such a way that you might not even notice it.
I suspect this is one of the reasons (again, like Starship Troopers) that some people scratch their heads and go "Well, that seemed kind of pointless." because they completely missed the flip. The moment that the film subverted it's concept.
The one little detail that would have made it all clear.
Megaforce are the bad guys. Gurerra is the film's hero. And we're all but left to figure that out for ourselves.
Go watch it again, and see.
Can anyone identify this song?
Posted 8 years agoLet's see if the power of the internet can solve this one.
The following clip is from the June 19, 1976 "Seaside Special" which kicked off the summer holidays, live from Blackpool, UK.
Tom Baker makes a brief guest appearance dressed as Doctor Who, after which they go to footage of a parade, with a pop song playing over it.
That song, which I'm only guessing to be called "Summertime Sunday" is the one in question.
I've been Googling like mad, and while I can find several other songs with that name, I have been completely unable to identify either the song or the group singing it. A lyrics search turns up nothing.
I'd like to get a copy, but that's a bit difficult when you don't know anything about it, except that it exists.
So... anybody recognize it?
This week, on Doctor WHO... (no spoilers)
Posted 8 years agoNow THAT is why I still watch this show.
This may actually be the first episode of the new series that rated an Airpunch Of Triumph.
Empress Of Mars: Job well done.
This may actually be the first episode of the new series that rated an Airpunch Of Triumph.
Empress Of Mars: Job well done.
And now, some Star Trek News you can drink...
Posted 8 years agoMy birthday was back on April 16, and for that birthday I was gifted with a $50 gift card from Amazon.
I used it to pick up a little something that I've been wanting for some time. My own replicator Raktajino mug:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/80001b6.....225o1_1280.jpg
here's the amazon listing:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BME1G6A
There were several varieties of mug used on Deep Space Nine. The type most often seen throughout the earlier episodes is no longer in production, but this, one of the variants used later in the series, is still available. I've had my eye on it for some time, and so I finally snapped it up along with a massive hot cocoa sampler box to drink out of it. Good stuff.
It's a nice big mug, with a good heft to it, comes with a lid that can be screwed into place (as it was originally designed as a no-spill travel mug) and it has a very nice padded rubber base that is dishwasher safe.
I also worked out a recipe for Raktajino, using the research on this webpage:
https://siderite.blogspot.com/2011/.....raktajino.html
...and working with the contents of the family spice cabinet:
1 K-cup hot cocoa mix (tear off foil top, pour powder directly into mug)
1 K-cup (not decaf) coffee (run through Keurig machine on medium size setting, into mug)
Mix in 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix in 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Fill with milk to top of mug
This all goes into that nice replicator mug, which holds a bit more than your usual coffee mug. So if you were going to try this, you'd probably want to find a bigger mug or cut the sizing back a tad.
But... It's hot, spicy and exotic, and the next best thing to licking a nine-volt battery, energy-wise.
Additionally... While looking around at various things, I also stumbled over a little something which might be of benefit to you hard-drinking, party-type Klingons out there.
If you are in desperate need of a mug from which to drink your Bloodwine, they can be had for four dollars a pop, from this kitchen supply warehouse:
http://www.kirbysupply.com/Kitchen_.....ps/AMEA-05.htm
The 1-pint size should effectively be the same as a pint mug.
(can also be used for drinking prune juice)
Cheers!
I used it to pick up a little something that I've been wanting for some time. My own replicator Raktajino mug:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/80001b6.....225o1_1280.jpg
here's the amazon listing:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BME1G6A
There were several varieties of mug used on Deep Space Nine. The type most often seen throughout the earlier episodes is no longer in production, but this, one of the variants used later in the series, is still available. I've had my eye on it for some time, and so I finally snapped it up along with a massive hot cocoa sampler box to drink out of it. Good stuff.
It's a nice big mug, with a good heft to it, comes with a lid that can be screwed into place (as it was originally designed as a no-spill travel mug) and it has a very nice padded rubber base that is dishwasher safe.
I also worked out a recipe for Raktajino, using the research on this webpage:
https://siderite.blogspot.com/2011/.....raktajino.html
...and working with the contents of the family spice cabinet:
1 K-cup hot cocoa mix (tear off foil top, pour powder directly into mug)
1 K-cup (not decaf) coffee (run through Keurig machine on medium size setting, into mug)
Mix in 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix in 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Fill with milk to top of mug
This all goes into that nice replicator mug, which holds a bit more than your usual coffee mug. So if you were going to try this, you'd probably want to find a bigger mug or cut the sizing back a tad.
But... It's hot, spicy and exotic, and the next best thing to licking a nine-volt battery, energy-wise.
Additionally... While looking around at various things, I also stumbled over a little something which might be of benefit to you hard-drinking, party-type Klingons out there.
If you are in desperate need of a mug from which to drink your Bloodwine, they can be had for four dollars a pop, from this kitchen supply warehouse:
http://www.kirbysupply.com/Kitchen_.....ps/AMEA-05.htm
The 1-pint size should effectively be the same as a pint mug.
(can also be used for drinking prune juice)
Cheers!
And now, the other Star Trek trailer...
Posted 8 years agoThe other day I posted the trailer for a new, upcoming Star Trek parody series called The Orville. I think it looks good. I'm hoping for good things, there.
Let's talk about the other Trek trailer now.
The official one. The "Real" Star trek:
Oh Christ, I don't even know where to begin here. Not learning from the mistake that ENTERPRISE was, CBS has given us another helping of More Of The Same, now with a sheen of Star Wars Rip-Off painted overtop, along with a design aesthetic more attuned to the reboot films than the original series....despite all the promotional announcements making sure to mention that this is the original series timeline, not that of the reboot films.
Way to nail down the look and feel, guys. That was sarcasm.
And why the hell are they wearing Enterprise insignia? That emblem shouldn't even exist yet. You'd think CBS of all places would have somebody on staff who actually knew enough about Star Trek to point that error out.
It was this kind of lazy, who-cares-whatever mindset that put me off ENTERPRISE. If you're going to play in this section of established history, get it right or don't bother. Do the work. Put in the time. Comprehend why it is important to do this. Don't just pull leftovers off the rack and throw them onscreen with as little effort as possible. If you're not going to work with your concept, then why bother having the concept to begin with?
They would have been better off giving us something further along in the timeline. Set it a decade after DS9 ended. Something that might have made all the lazy hackwork at least seem more acceptable because, hey... we're in whole new territory now. It's the future of the future. Maybe this is how it happens. Maybe this is how it looks. Go with it...
But no, it's another historical, with no attention paid to history.
Of the two Star Trek parodies, this is the one I will probably not bother with. Especially since they expect their audience to willingly go out of their way to sign up for a service and pay extra for it.
Yeah, good luck with that.
That was also sarcasm.
Let's talk about the other Trek trailer now.
The official one. The "Real" Star trek:
Oh Christ, I don't even know where to begin here. Not learning from the mistake that ENTERPRISE was, CBS has given us another helping of More Of The Same, now with a sheen of Star Wars Rip-Off painted overtop, along with a design aesthetic more attuned to the reboot films than the original series....despite all the promotional announcements making sure to mention that this is the original series timeline, not that of the reboot films.
Way to nail down the look and feel, guys. That was sarcasm.
And why the hell are they wearing Enterprise insignia? That emblem shouldn't even exist yet. You'd think CBS of all places would have somebody on staff who actually knew enough about Star Trek to point that error out.
It was this kind of lazy, who-cares-whatever mindset that put me off ENTERPRISE. If you're going to play in this section of established history, get it right or don't bother. Do the work. Put in the time. Comprehend why it is important to do this. Don't just pull leftovers off the rack and throw them onscreen with as little effort as possible. If you're not going to work with your concept, then why bother having the concept to begin with?
They would have been better off giving us something further along in the timeline. Set it a decade after DS9 ended. Something that might have made all the lazy hackwork at least seem more acceptable because, hey... we're in whole new territory now. It's the future of the future. Maybe this is how it happens. Maybe this is how it looks. Go with it...
But no, it's another historical, with no attention paid to history.
Of the two Star Trek parodies, this is the one I will probably not bother with. Especially since they expect their audience to willingly go out of their way to sign up for a service and pay extra for it.
Yeah, good luck with that.
That was also sarcasm.
Galaxy Quest gets another season
Posted 8 years agoOkay, so.. it's not really Galaxy Quest, but it might as well be.
Say hello to "not star trek" - the sitcom.
I think I will be watching this.
Say hello to "not star trek" - the sitcom.
I think I will be watching this.
