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More or less gradual, continual bubble bursting since the start.
I become media aware in the late 80s and everything was looking up. We were getting over racism and sexism, getting better at including other, especially well established, long-present cultures in TV and movies and at the grocery store. We had thrown away the attitudes of the past and we were going to move forward as a better society, diverse but still uniquely proud of who we all were and the various places we all came from. The Internet was going to give us all access to the sum total of human knowledge to the benefit of all.
You can see how that’s turned out so far.
Neither do I, but it will put off a group of viewers. Obviously a legacy sequel show should be fan service, but S1/2 were so far off the mark it cones off as jarring in S3.
I thought S3 was pretty great, but admittedly because it gave me everything I was hoping it would. Not perfect. Certainly not something I can recommend to anyone who didn’t see the TNG movies when they were fresh. But to anyone who did suffer through that cast getting trotted out into a series of terrible, grim, geriatric action movies, S3 is fantastic.
Season 1 is awful. Season 2 is awful. Both have the occasional high point that is pretty much entirely unearned.
Season three is a clunky, but well meaning apology for the previous two seasons and all of the TNG movies. It’s fan service, yes, but compared to seasons 1 and 2 it is Shakespeare. Actors get to act. Some actual drama between characters that never got a real chance to have those scenes before. Like “All Good Things” it’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to be a satisfying ending.
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News@lemmy.world•Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
122·5 months agoNo, Money down!
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HistoryArtifacts@piefed.social•Bread (semi)-preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, 79 AD
11·5 months agoIs this a Captcha? Because three of these are just the same bread. Two of those three are the exact same picture.
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human VisitorsEnglish
14·5 months agoVanilla guess: WP = Winnie the Pooh.
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memes@lemmy.world•After watching 20 hours of ecology videos, I have formed a political opinion.
4·7 months agoHonestly their way is better.
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News@lemmy.world•Americans don't see Supreme Court as politically neutral, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
9·9 months agoIf you polled people on breathing you’d find 67 to 70% of people in favor of it and 30 to 33% claiming it isn’t American enough because too many foreigners are doing it.
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pics@lemmy.world•March 11, 2011 - train passengers walk across elevated tracks after an earthquake in Japan
21·9 months agoNot a lot of room for humor immediately after a horrible natural disaster. The mild amusements came when the whole nation couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of nothing but the same three AC Japan commercials playing for weeks, and the communal “ghost tremors” we all experienced long after the quake.
You would seriously feel your own heart beating and it would trigger a panic response.
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pics@lemmy.world•March 11, 2011 - train passengers walk across elevated tracks after an earthquake in Japan
14·9 months agoI was in Ibaraki for this earthquake. One of the only times in my life I was ready to accept that it was the end for me.
Thankfully we didn’t get the worst of it where I was, but it was a crazy time for everyone.
Po po po po~n.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Did I say 65? I meant 60..
13·10 months agoHonestly Dark Page recontextualizes the character in some pretty amazing ways. I don’t remember much of her DS9 presence, but as far as TNG goes the character is surprisingly brilliant.
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politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump threatens to stop Barbie dolls being sold in US
5·11 months agoI found it off-putting that the Barbie movie’s solution to its dilemma was voter suppression.
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politics @lemmy.world•Two-thirds of Americans now say they wouldn’t drive a Tesla — and most of them cite Elon Musk as the reason why, according to a new poll
1·1 year agoFeels like every survey in the last 12 years is 67% of people claim to be not crazy and 33% people are psychotic. Except for voting, apparently.







Very small pickaxe?