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Anytime someone brings up Battlestar I realize I’m still pissed about what they did to Boomer.
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The house voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Good. It’s the right thing to do. Also especially now f*** Turkey.
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It wasn’t bad isn’t the same as “it was good”
I think the source material not being really fertile ground will work in their favor, though.
I think the dynamic duo made pristine adaptation choices throughout GoT’s run. It was a show about geopolitical and social dynamics and the hard choices we face when personal ambition conflicts (or horrifically aligns) with ambition for what a person in power believes is the greater good.
It was after they ran out of material and only had vague plot points that they made it ever so clear that adapting and creating content are two different skills, and being good at one doesn’t guarantee you don’t suck at the other.
Now for this new show, I have some high hopes. The content is basic but suggestively rich enough for someone who excels at content creation to dominate.
Look at the pedigree:
Sapochnick:
-storyboarding artist for Trainspotting. This is silly, but unseen connections sometimes turn into something unexpected, and I cannot fully describe my glee if we somehow got an episode directed by Danny Boyle
-directorial debut was REPO MEN, a fun sci-fi romp that was concept-driven but had great character moments
-directed some of the only good later-season episodes of GoT, eg The Gift, Hardhome, Battle of the Bastards
Ryan Condal
-writer/producer for Colony
-screenwriter for Rampage, and I swear if you give it a shot you’ll go oh lol the writing is good, shocking
Vince Gerardis
-packaged GoT in the first place
-owns an extensive IP library
-executive producer on Jumper (2008), a movie I will defend until my dying breath. And it got a sequel TV series no one knows about on YouTube that is 100% worth your time
-EP on FlashForward. I was not a fan of this show, but that doesn’t mean it was bad
-collaborator with Matt Kennedy, the director of Predestination, a sick sick sick time travel movie with my boi Ethan Hawke
My guess based on Vince’s involvement is that they wanted a creative team who will excel at creating compelling but non-essential connections to the original series. I don’t know that for sure, I’m just basing it off my insight into what unifies Vince’s creative decisions. He thinks about those weird kinds of connections, like in his love for great time travel stories.
That will help bridge the gap between GoT fans (and haters) and newcomers to House of the Dragon. It’s not enough to have a series that makes you think wow, this is so much better than GoT. HBO wants to to drive new and prolonged subscriptions by engaging customers with original content that moves you into their now-vast library of an already-completed GoT series.
Daily reminder not to use Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, that vr thingy and whatever else.
I would really like my disclaimer to become a toolbar button so I can just click it.
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Ilhan Omar voted “present”. Her awful explanation is below:
Are there any content aggregator platforms you like? Imgur? Reddit? Unstuck?
Facebook really learned from other total shitbag companies that the secret to staying successful is spreading yourself out so people think they’re boycotting you but you’re actually just using a different one of their platforms. Buying Instagram and WhatsApp for $20 billion looked dumb as hell when it happened but it’s paying off when all these silly billies declare they’re quitting Facebook for one of them.
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So stupid and that statement is dumb. It doesn’t justify not voting for this.
I don’t really have a fundamental issue with anyone else. Facebook has had 2-5 issues surface almost every month for years now. It is ridiculous. It is absolutely anti user and they continue to blatantly abuse any and all trust with their users.
They are absolutely one of the worst tech companies in existence. Other companies do unsavory stuff, everything Facebook does should be considered unsavory.
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I quit FB over a year ago. If people want FB to change, they need to change their behavior. FB does what it does b/c anytime anything bad happens, the worst that happens is people bitch for a day and go right back to doing what they were doing in the first place. FB isn’t held accountable b/c its users don’t hold it accountable.
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I watched one and a half episodes then lost interest. But I’m a weirdo who likes almost no scripted TV.
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Leaving FB for me would be about like leaving the United States to protest Trump (which I’m probably going to do anyway).
I have too many essential connections and resources on it. I hate Zuck and FB, but I’m not just using it for entertainment.
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Thanks to whoever insisted Watchmen is good. I enjoyed the premiere.
I read the reviews anyway so am a little ahead of what I’ve seen so far. My prediction:
This is all a pocket universe created by Dr. Manhattan. This is what he created at the end of the graphic novel when he said he was going to create some life of his own.
People keep trying to guess where Manhattan is, if he’s secretly a human hiding in plain sight, but I think the answer is far more obvious and comprehensive. He’s not just been in the show the whole time. He is the show.
The other problem with how GOT ended is that it cheapened some of the best scenes from the seasons that didnt suck retroactively.
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Two episodes in I think it’s very good. Your theory would piss me off if true, although it might make sense specifically for the weirdo Veidt storyline `
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Just remembered that Hardhome was also not in the books, at least not the battle
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This is the main reason I don’t get into scripted TV. It almost always ends badly. It’s painful to watch characters you care about doing dumb stuff because the writers are out of ideas (see Silicon Valley, Entourage, NewsRadio - although Phil Hartman dying was the big reason for that).