JohnBrownNote

joined 2 years ago
[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it depends why you're critiquing the show. most of what TOS did right is stuff we take completely for granted now, and the semiotics of things like miniskirts have flipped over time. The flaws will be in nearly any production of the time because 60s tv all kinda blows outside of trek and some twilight zone episodes; but anything a modern looks at with disdain won't be why people loved it or why it was so culturally important.

kirk's womanizing is also rather exaggerated by the post-run fandom and old memes, but that doesn't excuse what is there.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the usual gripes are that it's not gay enough because berman was a coward, that voyager and prequel shitshow suffer from production team burnout after doing it for a decade plus, the TNG movies break character a ton, the capitalists keep hiring people who don't understand why trek was good to make it (abrams, kurtzman) so all the live-action stuff after whatever the last good episode of voyager is has been terrible.

we need optimistic scifi now more than ever and nobody will make it

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

cringe

baseball is more popular today in estados not unidos. The player Ben idolizes played for a london team, and i don't think they meant london ontario, and they got a Hawaiian actor.

lol watch the drumhead

kirk was well-behaved for the late 1960s

a bluffing game is great for the cast of characters they have at the table and teaching data lessons. the poker craze was pretty much all hold'em not the various games played on tng.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

lmao we teach meatheads who only passed highschool because they got lenient grading how to drive them

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

You can just go there. You know that you can do that, right? Just hop on a flight, go see China

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you can get a job by walking in and giving the manager a firm handshake biden-rember

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

I don't know that there's a simple answer for what you're looking for. We're talking about trying to undo a lifetime of propaganda.

AES schoolhouse rock when?

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this was reported on as the new "cuban family law" or something like that, and the absolute gigachads passed a fuckload of queer rights by referendum and against the objection of the shit-ass catholic bigots they tolerate for some reason.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

check out luna oi!'s videos for how the government/elections in viet nam work.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

imagine if you could download pockets

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago

lmao he could walk away at any time.

eat shit and die

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

nobody's relatives spend decades badgering them about when you're going to get a dog

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