While Europeans measure in meters, Americans measure in feet.

Riverdale actually did what I’ve always wished for a boring failure of a show to do, and just completely go nuts.

Oh our boring high school drama show is slumping? How about an organ stealing cult, a superhero, and a guy escaping from the cops in a rocketship!

It’s very satisfying. You get a proper ending that’s bittersweet.

These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.

I miss mid-budget live action scifi shows with strong enough episodic elements that I can actually remember individual episodes. These days seemingly every show feels like an 8-12 movie that blurs together.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the closest current thing to an exception. Before that The Orville.

Most other scifi that comes out has to be an “event”.

Firefly’s biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was “the snarky one”, every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they’d be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.

If you’ve watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.

Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren’t big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.

My Hero Academia

I really enjoyed this, but one day I kind of just stopped watching. I think I get bored with anime shows that are set up to go on and on with endless hundred episode arcs.

Stranger Things

The first season really felt like something the creators had been developing for years as a creative idea. The ending with a sandwich left for Eleven was just the right amount of ambiguous to end off the story. The second season felt like a rushed idea pumped out when offered more money where the creators just leaned into full 80s nostalgia by copying ALIENS rather than forging something 80s inspired but unique like the first season.

Friends

I don’t get it either. It’s just vapid interpersonal dynamics comedy. I’ve watched a little and it has the wide and low appeal, it never did anything interesting.

I was completely hooked until a major moment in season 2 that felt like it was going to turbo charge the story, but then the follow up episodes were just lots of doing nothing with it.

Sure I knew him. Or I mean we weren’t close or nothin’ but you know he’d been coming around to open up the same time I’d be opening the bar. We said ‘Hi.’ Stuff like that. He came in here a few times.

Last Friday? Yeah. Yeah he did come in. Right after I opened in fact. Real talkative too. Mentioned somethin’ about the Es-er-tactic Order Of Dagon having their yearly hubbub soon. I think he was angling to get me to provide the booze. Listen, I don’t care what people and human-fish hybrids do in the privacy of theys own premises, but I was raised Catholic and my ma, no way she’d ever let me bartend for one of them ceremonies. I didn’t see him again after he closed out on Friday. Yeah. Yeah he did pay with gold doubloons. It’s a pain to get them exchanged, but they gotta be worth more than his tab.

Now I gotta move these kegs, so if youse fine officers aren’t going to order any drinks, I’ve got to get back to it.

Stealing a meme

There’s a concept I’ll never wrap my head around.

Who is “they”?

Users clawing at each other over anything, and mods power tripping has been an Internet trope since the BBS forum days in the 1990s, at least. Lemmy, or at least LW seems to have a lower than median amount although imperfect. Lemmy as a platform has the advantage that anyone willing to undertake it can spin up their own instance, preventing a 100% stranglehold on mod/admin powers.

I do all my art with 5.

Ah yes, the elusive they.

Sketchbook. On work trips, I always finish one drawing every night as a way to get out of a work headspace.

From the moment I understood the weakness of your squirt bottle, it disgusted me. I craved the taste and munch of snacks. I aspired to the yum of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your rules about the countertop, as though I will listen. One day the willpower you use yell at me will wither, and you will stop begging my kind to eat food in the kitchen. But I am already eating food in the kitchen, for the zoomies are immortal…

Hyundai is doing some relevant things.

When somebody won’t just take the compliment. It’s like come on, just take the W.

But also I feel strange getting praise in a real time conversation.

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