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I will say, having watched the first 3 episodes of Picard, I don't like the title sequence. I liked Discovery and Strange New Worlds okay (I haven't seen SNW the show, but did watch the title sequence).

True confession time: I've never watched the Ghost in the Shell anime, because I thought the manga was terrible. After reading Ghost in the Shell, I was basically left with the general impression that I wished Shirow had worked on Part V of Appleseed instead. YMMV. Also the anime was recommended highly by the same people who highly recommended The Wings of Honnêamise, so that tended to be a high dis-recommendation in my book.

Production companies have traditionally wanted to get shows to at least 100 episodes for syndication purposes (this is less necessary in this day and age, though). Most shows hit this mark in their 5th year. After the 5th year, not-coincidentally, most featured regular cast members have to renew their contract, making shows much more expensive to produce after season 5 and the reason why season 5 is the last season for many multi-season shows unless the show is doing astoundingly great ratings (NCIS, Simpsons - although Simpsons also has great merchandising). This is probably partially the rationale for cancelling the MacGyver reboot that was Magnum's lead-in after it had it's season 5 (even though they only had 94 episodes, which is still good enough for syndication, since its now in syndication) although I've also heard rumors of some production conflicts regarding the last season there as well (been awhile since I read it, so I don't recall the details).

Magnum season finale was terrible. The final scene was clumsily handled.

He'd been sick for awhile, so at least any pain/suffering is over. R.I.P.

Had to guess at BA so assumed Business Analysist. "Perform quality control on data files to ensure that we operate with the highest level of data confidence prior to distribution to appropriate parties for analysis" Or if you want buzzwords "Do a value added deep dive for quality control on data files to ensure best in class data is available to our analysts for use in their action plan to bring to the table customer centric counsel." Sorry, I got no clue what you actually do.

I think they made money off of Tomb Raider. I think the real problem is that Square Enix sees their core business is the Square and Enix IPs and anything else is a dalliance. I think they had just as much of an idea of what they wanted to do with Eidos/Crystal Dynamics when they bought them as they currently do with NFTs.

So what you're saying is...your memory of Vegas stayed in Vegas? ... ... ... I'll get me coat.

Cast and Crew of Original ‘Star Trek’ Pilot Reunite for Virtual Set Recreation by Otoy

Sorry, the statement triggered my minutiae response circuits...

I'm not sure that they're gone entirely - Trump's Post Master General certainly seemed to be operating under orders to (once again) attempt to destroy the Post Office. And the whole Charter School movement has seemed to be an attempt to meld companies and education in a different way than private schools. But you are right, a lot of the religious right hate public schools because they're not teaching about God to the kids, so they must be teaching Satanism or, worse, Atheism.

Not familiar with it - its not the cover for the Kickstartered Florida Man comic from Mike Baron that is going to be distributed by American Mythology, so I'm guessing its either a parody or a different book entirely.

There's been, for years, a libertarian part of the Republican party that seem to want to demonize any federal or state government agency (Post office, schools), presumably in the hope that they can completely privatize these functions so that they are done by magical loving corporations who will lovingly provide loving services to all people regardless of financial bottom lines and costs out of the kindness of their heart and everything will be flowers and love.

Discounting shore leave situations or visiting starbases or federation planets (like Archer-T'Pol-Tucker's visit to a Vulcan monastary in Enterprise), I can't think of one where it was intentional to have all three command crew on an away team, even if a situation arises. For TOS, I can't think of any story that didn't have either Spock or Scott left on the bridge if the other joined Kirk. I'm making an exception of the movies as Star Trek III and Star Trek IV makes the entire bridge crew an away team by circumstance, so shouldn't really count. For TNG, all three (Picard-Riker-Data) end up on an off-ship mission in at least Time's Arrow (although originally Picard isn't on the away team, but beams down and gets caught in the temporal disturbance, so this isn't intentional). For Voyager, Chakotay (1st off) and Tuvok (I think he's 2nd Off) are both on an away mission searching for Janeway according to the internet in "Time and Again". Since Kes, Torres and Kim are also on this mission according to the internet, and Janeway and Paris are lost, I have no clue who was running the ship (Neelix? The Doctor? The Maquis who wanted to kill Janeway and take over? Its been too long since I've seen Voyager to remember the details). I know this is an early episode, so one could argue the command structure wasn't finalized, so this may be considered an exception to the rule. I'm not sure Discovery ever had a clear 2nd officer after Landry got killed in the first season (so Lorca-Landry-Saru prior to her death, who knows after that?). IWe're privy to much less of the ship life in Discover compared to earlier Treks as it focuses so heavily on non-Command crew in the first two seasons. I'd consider the way the Defiant is used to be an exception, generally, since IIRC it was an off-the-books kind of thing. But like Voyager, I haven't seen DS9 since it was first run (and I missed most of it because they kept changing its air-time locally).

@majesticI think your post was where I got mine from, but I couldn't remember what was in the zip file any more. I was thinking 1 was missing but I don't remember what one (and my memory may be lying).

I'll look, but I don't think I do.

Iirc, Oswalt was in Blade: Trinity, the one where Snipes felt writer/director Goyer has ruined the movie bringing in the other characters like Hannibal King. Allegedly this led to blows on the set.

Unfortunately there's a big belief in some areas of the country that teaching sex ed (including condom distribution) is going to make kids have sex the first time or have more sex (as opposed to making the sex they're already having safer). We not only had to have our parents consent, it was actually done as a field trip (sex ed was explained at a local science center rather than in the class; I guess so no one who hadn't had a parent sign off could come and sneak a peak). Pardon me while I steal this response from KP...

Reminds me of Andro from Tekkaman: The Space Knight (Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman)

My understanding was that homework was originally supposed to be a guide for what the student needed to study and then for the instructor* to see if the students were actually understanding what was being presented to them. I imagine the idea of grading homework came as a way to disincentivize not doing the homework and thus not giving the instructor a chance to correct or redirect lessons before tests. I was never a fan of required homework, but would often do some homework until I felt I understood the material. I still remember an instructor who not only wanted us to do homework but also required us to outline chapters the way she described and to hand-in the outlines. I can't learn from outlining the chapters, never have been able to, so I refused to do it as it would take me longer to complete for no benefit. She sat me outside of her class so I wouldn't receive instruction since I 'couldn't follow instructions' stating that I would fail her class as I was not getting her instruction. Then she got mad at me when I aced her tests every time. She got her revenge later though... *remember that in small schools for many years, multiple classes could be in one room, and older students would assist the younger if not directly involved in the teacher's lesson.

Hahah, yeah. Not sure if it was the upload to Youtube or what, but I couldn't get a shot of Cobra from this sequence where Cobra and Lady didn't look really awkward. So I was torn between using that one or this one (where it looks like he's wearing the ball as a hat): Lady isn't animated for much of the sequence with Cobra goofing around with the Soccer ball. There's a slight head turn, maybe 2-3 frames when Cobra finally kicks the ball, but otherwise looks like a static cell.

I've moved the Batwoman discussion here from the funny thread since it was getting increasingly long in a thread it was off-topic to. The show pitch was an adaption of the comics Batwoman character, about Kate Kane an ex-soldier who, pulling herself from the wreckage she'd made of her life, decided to don a costume like her cousin Bruce. She is a lesbian in the comics, and this was transferred to the show. After the first season, the original star left the show. And so they brought in a new actress, who happened to be black, to take up the mantle of Batwoman as a new character (not a recasting of Kate). I don't see how that is 'progressive' signaling, unless you think swapping a white lesbian character and actress for a black lesbian character and actress is somehow a giant progressive move? YMMV, I guess. CW shows are hard to quantify for 'financial' reasons, as unlike the major networks they don't make most of their money back through their overnight ratings. For example, this season there were 7 shows that, in the 18-49 demo, had lower ratings than Batwoman - and they're all fellow CW shows. It was tied in this demo with 2 other CW shows. In overall ratings, it had better ratings than 8 other shows, all CW shows. It still was cancelled though, when some of those lower rated shows were not. If you mean the pending sale of the CW, that's because CBS and WB are divesting themselves of majority shares in the company (the report on the proposal with Nexstar indicates both will remain minority owners of CW if Nexstar buys The CW and its owned & operated local stations). Both have been re-organized recently, and WB in particular is cutting productions - like cancelling all of their TBS shows. Both are turning their focusing on their bigger streaming plans (Paramount+, HBO Max); continuing to operate the CW doesn't make sense anymore to either partner. I don't see this situation as a sudden change to CW's operation caused by funneling money into producing Batwoman, and CBS and WB wanting to keep a finger in the pie (presumably to reap back money for shows produced for The CW), indicates it wasn't the financial black hole that its critics have claimed it to be. The CW was always operated by different metrics for what kept their shows rolling - it wasn't profitable before the Arrowverse started, much less before Batwoman started. They usually made their money in other markets or venues. Dynasty, for example, was sold internationally to so many places that it was profitable before it ever aired an episode on the CW (and it has worse rating than Batwoman). Riverdale - which has been renewed - had less overall ratings than Dynasty (but better 18-49 demo ratings). You can't judge the success of CW shows the same way you can for ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX shows. If you want to argue that the quality of the show (writing, direction, acting, editing, production design, whatever) was poor, I'll not argue with you. I never watched Batwoman and the trailers made it seem less interesting than the other Arrowverse shows - and I'm not a huge fan of the Arrowverse anyhow. So I can't comment on Batwoman's artistic merits. But the Arrowverse has its fans, and running 3 seasons means that CW was getting something from it regardless of the actual artistic qualities of the show. I'm sure that's less interesting of a story than 'get woke, go broke', but its probably closer to the truth, IMO. If you feel otherwise, we'll just have to agree to disagree.