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  • She gets paid millions in residuals and gets to perform in front of an audience. She could do nothing ever and get residuals checks from that one single song playing incessantly every year that are more than most working people will see in their lifetimes. She's not a poor woman by any stretch. It's like that fucking Elvis movie that made me feel bad for that sloppy drug-addled fuck because he felt like he had no freedom in his life.

    Like, I'm sorry, you're richer than God, stop being greedy and make better choices if you're so unhappy.

  • This flailing continues to miss the point. Consumers don't give a crap whether the antisemitic shit was next to ads or not. They care that it was said at all - and then promoted by the company's owner and figurehead.

    Their claim that the views of said content were manipulated is like being caught in public using the n-word and crying that only two people heard it, so it doesn't count.

  • That could have been an incredible story, if the whole story was about that. But it felt like an afterthought, like they needed to create some motivation for the character that the Nexus could exploit. Apparently it was Patrick Stewart himself who suggested that plot point. On top of that you have Kirk and his horse, which seemingly has nothing to do thematically with Picard's troubles.

    The Nexus concept is good, but they didn't push hard enough on it. Here's this psycho-temporal rift in space that functions like a literal heaven. It's basically the manifestation of everything the Traveler talked about: thought transcending time and space. So Picard wants to cosplay a Victorian family Christmas, and Kirk wants to be alone on a ranch? Like, what? Maybe if Kirk was there with Carol and the son he barely got a chance to know, it might have created a parallelism that Picard could relate to. There's just way too much going on, and it doesn't cohere very well.

  • In universe, that works. The sad reality is that the goatee-and-shaved-head look (which Avery Brooks sported both in his previous TV roles and in real life) was considered by studio heads at the time to be "too urban" (ie, "too black"). It wasn't until the show had established its roots that Brooks had enough leverage to change Sisko's look to what it should have been from the start.

    They touch on this in What We Left Behind.