Scott Frerichs 🏳️‍🌈

I'm *not* defending the shot.

I just wish people wouldn't act as if it's indicative of the final product and would critique it for what it is.

All that being said:

No, it doesn't look good. It's sterile and awkward, and subsequently looks cheap and goofy.

But we should critique/mock/joke about it *in the correct context.*

Oftentimes, this is because the promotional team doesn't have access to finished footage, often because post-production hasn't started/progressed that far.

So they just take some bog-standard pictures of the characters posing, maybe do a little post-processing/clean up, and that's that.

Fucking prove it???

This happens *all of the time.*

I don't think it's good or helpful in terms of promoting the show, but it doesn't reflect on the artistry of the actual production team, nor the final product, so I wouldn't say that's "worse."

It's just kind of annoying.

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A healthy film industry makes sleazy movies. Weird, borderline kink films are like coal mine canaries- they're offensive, often deeply personal, and a foil to the clean blandness of big budget propaganda. A lack of bizarre "not to everyone's taste" films is an indicator of a sickly studio ecosystem.

They're usually not taken by the production team, but by someone assigned by the parent company to get promotional shots.

They're just there to get the "gist" of it so they can give people an idea of what to expect re: costumes, casting, etc.

Most of the time, it's *not* the creative team putting these together. It's the parent company coming in and taking some promotional pictures.

This is a promotional shot. It's not a screenshot from the show itself.

It's a separate camera, without color grading, at a camera angle that isn't in the show. It's not indicative of the final product.

DUDE IT IS.

I FUCKING HATE IT.

I'm not even trying to defend the show. I don't *care* about it one way or the other.

But people clowning on this as if its representative of the final product is frustrating to see.

A lot of people are acting as if this is a screenshot from the episode proper, when it's obviously *not.*

It's a promotional shot, without proper color grading, likely taken by a completely different camera than what they're filming with, at an angle that won't be in the show.

And for that, you deserve a giant Toblerone.

I was so fucking depressing, being in the Bay Area, and *every. single. fucking. billboard.* was an ad for A.I.

Hey my girlfriend saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe

Well obviously!

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As of right now? I have no idea.

Finally home! Won't lie, traveling after surgery sucks. Luckily, an appendectomy isn't too invasive, and I'm not likely to ever have appendicitis again!

Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. - About Netflix

Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer.

Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount.

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Yep.

Yep. Cruelty with the intent of erasing that group.

Fucking disgusting and absolutely mortifying to watch happen.

genuinely so funny and depressing that everything from the right is fake and bots. stuff like this reinforces that the rights strategy hinges upon paid lying and misinformation networks

I think critiquing Dropout for being paid to be on The Rookie is valid, but folks acting like they're literally endorsing the LAPD for doing it is kinda wild.

You're not gonna fucking believe the post this is in reply to

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Fucking this. They're going to test the waters and keep testing the waters because it might make them money.

"We'll find other ways to bring users back" is all you need to know.

They'll do this again, or just be more silent about it in the future. We as a community need to find something else.

Ranni's!