They just showed the only later episode that sucks almost as much shit as the first episodes.
It wasn't a random decision. That episode touches on backstory stuff and it makes sense they thought it would work as replacement introduction actually.
Which isn't to agree that it does. It sucks.
Fans of the show will deny this, it being a point of faith that Fox ruined its shot at success by showing a later episode first. They did this, of course, because the first episodes suck shit and the show does get better.
This is bad for Firefly and the first three episodes absolutely suckshit.
(In a post-rewatch, I might update that number it might be only two that suck shit and the next couple are just kinda bad or it could be a full four that suck shit.)
This is a problem in parts of Buffy and Angel, where he decides to expand the concept, but their jumping off points were simple enough that it's not as much of an issue.
The first thing to be said is that Joss Whedon is terrible at world building.
Firefly discourse making me want to write stuff about my feelings. If I had an ongoing blog, that'd be easy. Seems weird to start blog on it without rewatch, which I do not feel like doing.
Look, this pitch does sound terrible, but did Paramount pass because it's too anti-fash?
again, we are entering a golden age of people pretending their octogenarian leaders with no clear successor are alive actually
I think "Luke" is too much like "Lucas" to need any other explanation.
On the other hand, that might not have been conscious. He could have come up with it another way and just felt comfortable because of that.
I feel like DEXTER was pretty poised to be in the OG Canon for a bit there.
Sad News 😞
Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell has passed away at the age of 64
Rest in Metal Phil 🖤
#RipPhilCampbell #motörhead
Y’all gotta stop blaming ketamine for the actions of rich asshole tech bros.
And still put that punctuation mark at dash height, so it isn't what they want it to be and isn't clear what it's supposed to be until you play out the options a number of times.
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
That's the finger trap design of trying to reframe progressivism.
"You know how you've been sending part of your income to the government to fund immoral wars and subsidize corporations that are too big to morally exist? We're going to use some of that for good stuff now."
I agree, but I think it's more difficult than any time in history to frame what those benefits are in a way that resonates for the average citizen.
Wait. Heinz 57 Sauce is the 51st Heinz product?
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
I think VHS. It came out just before I learned to sneak into R rated movies in theaters, and I know I spent a decent amount of time WANTING to see it.
I feel bad for them. They were just looking for a nice safe place to be racist.
As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences.
And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.
How come the only people who ever get paid to share "their" opinions are the people whose options anyone at any given grocery store or gas station least wants to hear
Found the paid protestors
Every time a politician leads with "13 dead Americans!" I wanna get sick. How many Iranians were killed or lost homes or had to deal with devastation in just the first day of this stupid war.
Fuck you guys. Get fucked.
I'm so sick of 10th-dimensional chess theories, they're STUPID. They shit on the whole idea of expertise & intellect. They're the sneering frat boy in the back of every classroom for whom learning anything is fuckin' gay. They're the kid who beat up your honor student. This isn't hard.
Yeah, this kind of local radio quirks is among the least of ways the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has ruined the world. Seriously, Bill Clinton's effect on the country is about as bad as any president and as good an example of how the team sport view of politics is bad for our culture.
I'm pretty sure this is the last example in
my world of local radio being a thing. This song played a LOT on KNDD in Seattle, but apparently no one outside the PNW heard it, or if they did, they knew it was a treasured little nugget and not a hit.
