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[jedidia]

Finally got myself a treat and went to watch Alita: Battle Angel today. It was kind of a weird experience, because this and "the neverending story" are just about the only properties I have any nostalgic investment in, and the neverending story movie was already out before I even read the book as a kid (and was a pretty darn good adaptation - the first one. It's the only one that exists, no matter what you might have heard), so that one doesn't really count. In other words, this was just about the first time ever that I went into a movie with a sense of "this might be reeeeeally disapointing".

It wasn't. Oh, the movie has some huge problems... as a standalone movie. As an adaptation, it might just be one of the most brilliant things I ever saw. It takes some liberties with the plot, but almost none with the characters, and recreates the awesome scenes from the manga that I always wanted to see on the screen practically beat by beat. I love it!
There's only one big inconsistency in the film... In the end we see somebody's body parts neatly arranged in a way that is either a callback to or (hopefully) foreshadowing of the fate of Zapan in the source material, but... Who's brain is in that jar??

 

[jedidia]

The second season of star trek discovery has some of *the* worst writing I've ever witnessed. I can't even ask "what were they smoking", because I feel if they had been smoking anything it would at least be a fun kind of terrible.

 

[steph]

The second season of star trek discovery has some of *the* worst writing I've ever witnessed. I can't even ask "what were they smoking", because I feel if they had been smoking anything it would at least be a fun kind of terrible.

Dad loves it , apparently. I only saw fragments, but what I saw reminds me of Stargate episodes, not to mention overdone sci-fi cliches. and not the good ones. I grew up with Picard and Deep Space Nine. And Seven Days, some low-key time travel series. Tv sci-fi was weird in the 90s in eastern europe :lol:

I won't watch Alita anytime soon. For some reason, it just seems too cheesy. Now, if he really does his sequel to Terminator 2, that might be another thing entirely...

Edit: not the I don't like Stargate, quite the contrary. But it had some really 'cardboard' stuff sometimes

 

[jedidia]

But it had some really 'cardboard' stuff sometimes

Yeah, some of the sets in early seasons were terrible when they were not shooting on "canadian forrest planet" :lol:
But the show overall had good characters, generally decent plots and a lot of heart. The characters in discovery aren't too bad but fall into the trap of being either too serious or too whiny (it reminds me a lot of various anime in that regard), but some of the plots are near-incomprehensible and just downright stupid. It's ok enough when they're doing the political stuff, but every time they try to be star trek things go absurdly wrong.
And it turns out that technobabble isn't the worst thing ever. The worst thing ever, I came to realise, is to use actually existing terminology in sentences where it makes no bloody sense at all...

 

[Linguofreak]

And it turns out that technobabble isn't the worst thing ever. The worst thing ever, I came to realise, is to use actually existing terminology in sentences where it makes no bloody sense at all...

The latter is a subset of technobabble, and most technobabble includes some degree of it.

 

[Urwumpe]

#throwbackthursday

About one year ago, my car was damaged at the front bumper in the companies garage. Today, it was damaged by another parking lot accident EXACTLY at the same location of the car as before.

I should really armor the port front bumper.

 

[Donamy]

Or don't park there ever again.

 

[Urwumpe]

Or don't park there ever again.

Actually, I didn't park there anymore. I wanted to leave after a short stop at my banks ATM to get this strange little German oddity called "Bargeld". Not sure if any of the youngers outside Germany have ever seen it.

The other car was two meters ahead of me and reversed suddenly (Likely to give way to another car planning to leave), with the driver overseeing me because I was half a car offset to starboard and our ultrasonic sensors had been operating on the same frequency.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

That is why I NEVER trust the automated systems that are being added to cars. One, they make for terrible drivers who rely on those systems to be safe, and two, they make people reliant upon them for situational awareness, instead of using your own senses to do so.

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:rofl:

 

[jedidia]

:rofl:

Ahhh, getting closer and closer to launch. It's been so long since they were in space last time!

 

[MaverickSawyer]

It's been, what, nearly a decade, our time?

That AI revolution was a huge time sink.

 

[jangofett287]

http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01012.htm
2004 according to the archive.

 

[Linguofreak]

Antimatter is produced copiously in orchards...

...through pear production.

 

[GLS]

As we don't have a "general spaceflight photo thread", I'm posting this here:
[ame="https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1107759545084862464"]https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1107759545084862464[/ame]

 

[Frilock]

Disney now owns Fox...

 

[Zandy12]

 

[tl8]

Well, it is now under a month until I am in Germany for a conference. I better get cracking on the talk, and what I want to visit while I am there.

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, it is now under a month until I am in Germany for a conference. I better get cracking on the talk, and what I want to visit while I am there.

Well, where are you residing there? North or South Germany?

 

[tl8]

Well, where are you residing there? North or South Germany?

Berlin, Hamberg, Cologne. A week in Berlin and a couple days each in the rest.

 

[Urwumpe]

Berlin, Hamberg, Cologne. A week in Berlin and a couple days each in the rest.

OK, so once you leave Berlin, you can see some beautiful cities. :lol: