Ryan's Edits on youtube does a great series called Star Trek INtakes that edits those outtakes back into the original scenes.
So you'll have stuff like Data rolling his eyes in mock horror during an otherwise serious scene. It's honestly one of my favorite things on the internet.
I always mess around with available fonts and try out the publisher font of available, but somehow I almost always land back on Bookerly, which is Kindle's proprietary typeface. It's just pleasant to look at and easy to read.
The adult who dragged a kid along was trying to create her own system, which undeniably isolated him, subjected him to suffering, and killed him, so yeah I'm angry at that on his behalf.
The article said the poor kid was homeschooled, which is often a hallmark of religious fundamentalism. Not trusting the world and thinking it's out to get you is also a hallmark of fundamentalism - but also of mental illness.
It's not like it's a big investment. Six 30-minute episodes? This should have been a two- or three-part Marvel Special Presentation, released all in one go and done with. Either that or give it full episode lengths and some writers who can actually grapple with a compelling espionage narrative. Instead it got a weird middle ground that just felt crippled from the start.
The bones of it were good. It was just so, so underbaked and half-assed. Like everything else, that big fight could have been great with just a few adjustments. Imagine if G'iah found him in the facility and secretly freed him, and he calls in the suit to even the odds just as Gravik looks about to win? Instead it's a quick battle with no well-defined stakes, that nobody sees.
The reveal that Ritson is a genocidal douche canoe could have been dropped earlier, giving Fury some conflict in whether he actually wants to save him or help him.
The confrontation between Gravik and Fury was really compelling, but again, it happened far too late to make any difference. Almost everything in this episode should have happened in episode 1, and then we could be playing out the consequences of it. Instead it's five episodes of buildup to a nothingburger, with the implications of major consequences we don't get to see until - when? The Marvels? Unlikely. Brave New World? Maybe, but then why bother with this series at all? Just for a prologue to a big movie? What's the actual story here?
G'iah's greatest superpower is her ability to regenerate that amazing leather jacket after she's shredded the sleeves with her Hulk/Drax/Corvus/Groot arms.
In a nuclear shooting war, the outcome literally comes down to percentages. If you can make the survival rate 20% instead of 15%, that could mean millions of lives spread across the population. When you are at a mass casualty scale, every possible life saved is vitally important. That's why you do disaster drills on a wide scale even when the likelihood is small that any single individual will be helped by them.
We often fail to teach our children WHY and hope that teaching them WHAT is enough. For some kids this might be the right approach, but I believe this is selling most of them short, and depriving them of the vital context that would allow them to adapt in a real situation.
We keep them in the dark so as not to terrify them, but kids are smart, they know why they do shelter in place drills, and if they have gotten that far, they will be rightly terrified anyway. If we're going to go through the motions, we might as well empower them with the added information that might actually save their life someday.
The studios ought to be worried about this kind of thing. If all the out of work actors are getting support like this, they are less incentivised to compromise to end the strike, and will be more likely to push harder for stronger concessions from the studios. You have a lot of people out there who suddenly find themselves with a steady and reliable source of income, which for an actor is a precious thing. Settle this quickly or you might have a lot of strikers who don't want to work for you at all under the old conditions.
And there are plenty of other potential contributors to the fund who have a lot of money to spread around.
I use Voyager for Lemmy, so I don't even see any of that stuff.