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creative director, editor, motion graphics, vfx | 35 | Turkish, South African | he/him

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I think it's true that TNG wore its aspirational elements on its sleeve in a way few scripted TV shows have since. When it goes wrong it's cloying, but when it's done right there's nothing like witnessing a story that has moral conviction.
trying to work out why Patrick Stewart's death has affected me more than celebrity deaths usually do, and i think part of the answer is about the way Star Trek: The Next Generation kind of functioned as a slightly more grown up version of Sesame Street??
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Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the gaps and contradictions in how the show depicted the politics and ethics of its setting, but a cast of characters who actually spend entire scenes debating questioning ethics (and not just interpersonal relationships) is still unusual.
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The nasty truth about Bond mass entertainment is that he's only a compelling protagonist when he seems just as capable of lashing out at a woman as he is of charming her.
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All of this is also why I'm uncertain about Jack Lowden's prospects as Bond. He has vulnerability, which is a prerequisite for any non-dinosaur takes on the character, but I'm not sure he embodies the tasteless cruel streak.
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Really the ideal Bond is someone who gives off prick vibes first and foremost but whose depth surprises you. As opposed to a golden retriever who turns out to be capable of murder.
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This is a dumb controversy. Tolkien was so famously conflicted about his treatment of Orcs that there's an entire Wikipedia article devoted to it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkie…
“Y mediante lentas artes de crueldad fueron corrompidos y esclavizados; y así engendró Melkor la odiosa raza de los Orcos, por envidia y en mofa de los Elfos”. — J. R. R. Tolkien
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If they tried the Iris Wildthyme bit in mainstream Doctor Who I think the fans would probably assassinate the showrunner
This should also extend to events we are shown onscreen. Halfway through the silly pirate episode, a writer should be able to undo David Tennant 2. Trenzalore was a bit. The show is about a trickster bullshit merchant, why HAS unreliable narrator never been done actually
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Half the "Doctor Who should do X" posts you see on here are not story ideas but people fantasizing about an opening which retcons every grievance they have with the previous era as a dream, simulation, gas leak, block transfer computation, etc.
Nothing worse than when you can tell a show REALLY regrets a prior writing choice and is trying to backtrack so hard
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If it's a genuine quote, it's kind of damning. Criticism of Hitler's warlike nature (bit rich coming from a man whose nationalist campaigning was a source of inspiration to Hitler), not a word on the social terror unleashed on minorities. Which of course the Turks were doing too.
Atatürk, Hitler tarafından kendisine yollanan bir filmi yanındakilerle birlikte sofraya oturmadan önce izlemiştir. Bu, Hitler ve Partisinin bir propaganda filmidir. Salon aydınlanınca Atatürk ve arkadaşları sofraya geçmişlerdir ve âdet olduğu üzere, “Nasıl buldunuz?” diye sormuştur. Etrafındakilerin yanıtlarını dinledikten sonra şunları söylemiştir: • “Efendim, bu adam, filmde gördüğünüz gibi rol icabı bir hamle ile işe başladı. (...) Bugün Almanya’nın bütün askerî gücü onun elinde. Yarın harbe girişecektir. O ve onun mukallidi Mussolini harbe hazırlıkla meşguller. Evet, yakın bir gelecekte harbe dalacaklardır.” • “Dalacaklardır, çünkü asker değillerdir, harp ne demek bilmezler… Harp bir felakettir ve hele bu iki müttefik için mutlaka ölümdür. Talih Almanya’ya öyle bir toprak vermiştir ki, o, daima iki ateş arasında kalmaya mahkûmdur.” • “Körü körüne hesapsız, kitapsız bir nefis itimadı, tamamen otomatik bir ordu sistemi, ilk hamlede korkunç bir kuvvet tesiri yapacak, fakat bir kere bir tarafı sakatlandı mı, tarumar olacak, o çalışkan millet yere serilecektir. Ortada ne Hitler, ne teşkilatı kalacaktır. Mussolini’den hiç bahse hacet yoktur, o, efendisinin ortadan kalktığı gün yok olacaktır…” Prof. Ali Canip Yöntem’in Yeni Türk Edebiyatı Üzerine Makaleleri, ss. 816 – 817.
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Doing the Mad Men "Jackie/Marilyn" on all the Doctors but for Hartnell/Troughton
heading back to my doctor who chronological watchthrough and patrick troughton really was the goat. crazy how much of the show's identity came from his portrayal of the character
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1: Hartnell 2: Troughton 3: Hartnell 4: Troughton 5: Hartnell 6: Hartnell 7: Troughton 8: Depends on the version 9: Hartnell 10: Troughton 11: Troughton 12: Hartnell 13: Troughton 14: Troughton 15: Troughton War: Hartnell Fugitive: Hartnell
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Wasn't this the point of hereditary aristocracy?
Remarkable fact: though Origin of Species was published 167 years ago, there are as yet no long-lived groups who embraced the idea of trying to purposely live so as to win at evolutionary competition. Winning groups are doing so by pursuing other goals.
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They're inventing whole new ways of driving cars into children
Turns out the future does have flying cars
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People like this are "post-literate". They view the acts of writing and reading only as a means to an end and not worthwhile experiences in and of themselves. Also they mostly read posts
as soon as AI is good enough to write blog posts in my voice as good as I would have written them, i intend to use AI to do so. I know what I want to say, and I could say so much more if I didn't need to manual labor the words out one by one
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I'd pay at least 2000 bucks for a perpetual motion machine
Incredible business developments going on on tik tok currently
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