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Because I'm not going to get HBO Max to watch it? ... And what isn't convincing about not wanting to watch something if the trailer doesn't look good and you didn't like a similar work from the same creator?

Because the trailer looked awful and I didn't like that RUNAWAYS arc?

No. I'm pretty sure its Joss Whedon trying to have a second go at the "Victorian-era women with superpowers" ideas he had for his messy and unsatisfying arc in Marvel's RUNAWAYS comic.

GA in addition to their recent voter stuff also passed a finance reform that allows incumbents to raise unlimited money, while same party challengers and the opposing party candidates through the primaries are still required to cap at the old limits (and allegedly rules independent parties as legally non-entities if a local libertarian candidates is to be believed...)

As I recall, the DiC dubbing sessions were long, and the original VA Tracey Moore was contractually obligated to a production that was going to limit her availability for recording, so DiC went with a different VA, Terri Hawkes, who wouldn't have any scheduling conflicts. Moore had replaced Hawkes on a different show DiC did, so they may have thought they'd ended up sounding similar, but I think the VA director may have changed as well.

Marvel comics side was pushing Inhumans (to spite Fox over X-Men) and Perlmuter forced Marvel films to add Inhumans. When Feige got pulled from reporting to Perlmuter, they allegedly dropped Inhumans in favor of Eternals. Marvel TV, still under Perlmuter's control, then announced the Inhumans-IMAX deal, where the pilot for the TV show would be shot for IMAX and premire theatrically, since Perlmuter felt they'd promised an Inhumans movie (naturally, it bombed in all formats, and I say that as someone who likes the Inhumans, comic book version).

The comics are from the 70s, with additional runs in the 80s and then a few revivals (including one by Neil Gaiman) starting in the late 2000s. In the comics, Mentor (the father of Starfox and Thanos), is a second generation Eternal, and the Celestials (briefly seen in the Guardians of the Galaxy film) are tied to the Eternals (essentially, the Eternals are experiments of the Celestials in the same way the Inhumans were experiments of the Kree (and the Kree were also experiments of the Celestials). This teaser trailer, IMO, is pretty tepid, there's no character beats to grab onto, and so there is no real tease about things that the viewer might like, like an interesting character or story point. There seems to be an emphasis on possibly a romance, but even that is so under represented that I'm not 100% sure that's the case. It is just a teaser, so maybe a full trailer will make me feel more interested.

Re: education, I think the studies showing how much money graduates make over their lifetime makes some people think its a magic bullet and go to college not really sure what they plan to do there or how much it might cost or what their post education goals. Back when I was a College advisor, I regularly saw students whose goal (quick degree then job because they needed skills to earn more money to support their family) would have been better served by a tech/voc school. If they wanted a liberal arts degree, they could always come back later when they were better positioned financially. There's really no right path, and coming to a liberal arts program because you want to is always going to be better than because you feel you have to, or worse because someone is 'making' you.

TNG Man of the People More like Dorian Gray of the People, amirite? It was...okay, but the Enterprise crew are kinda...oblivious.

That's just what THEY want you to think!

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I thought signing up for pointless advertising grabs to activate games was what Gmail accounts were for...

TNG: Realm of Fear I remembered this one. Fun Barclay episode. Nice, solid, fun story.

I know too many amphibious people to forget it. ... ... I mean ambidextrous. Yes. Indeed.

I'm jealous of all the COVID long hair stories. Thanks to receding hairline genetics that has my forehead hairline and my back of the neck hairline rushing to meet one another at the back of my head, all I looked like when I couldn't get a haircut was someone trying to get by with a particularly unconvincing comb-over.

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I liked Newsradio in spite of Andy D.