Almost everything JJ Abrams has touched.
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The Sci-Fi channel canceling Farscape.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion.
I think you are too late with that hope. If not directly Silmarillion, The Rings of Power does try to further exploit the story leading up to the age of LotR. And it is as bad as could be anticipated. I couldn't watch more than 3 episodes...
Crash of the Titans. Absolute travesty.
Media or entertainment? Kinda different animals.
Pretty much any book-to-movie adaptation. 90% are awful. It’s a rare case when they’re better or equal adaptations.
General media? The spinelessness of our news organizations across the board. A free press doesn’t exist, they bend a knee to their corporate billionaire overlords. They don’t tell the whole truth, they hold back, they don’t call a spade a spade. They should be part of the apparatus protecting the common person from the bullshit the rich and government try to sweep under the rug. At best, they’re complicit in their silence, at worst they’re active participants aiding the rich.
What I was going to say.
The "reputable" sources of information we were told to trust in school for our typical papers rate a solid F tier, with Wikipedia often providing both higher quality, accurate, and nuanced information despite being a tertiery source.
I can't name a single major news outlet in the USA worth watching or reading aside from maybe PBS.
Creating consent for the Gaza genocide
Anything star trek after ST:Enterprise
The movies were all dumbed down pew pew flare flare versions of previous star trek movies, the series were horrendously dumb and badly written, in a show that is about the stories, ethics, morale, etc.
It was awful and the only shining light was the series "The Orville" by Seth McFarlane who is a huge star trek fan and it shows.
People really need to start getting more brave with fresh new IPs. As much as I'd love to see old favourites rebooted/renewed you can tell when there's too many cooks in the kitchen and they ruin a good thing that's already reached a conclusion; good or not.
I like foundation, it gaves star trek vibes some episodes, more star wars lately
The foundation series is tough. It is simultaneously one of the absolutely least faithful and most disrespectful adaptations of science fiction literature of all time, and a really good show. I wish I could watch it without the lens of the books buuuut I can't.
Lower Decks was brilliant tho
The original plan was to make two Hobbit movies, but after the release of the first one they decided to expand it to three. I think two movies would have been alright, although the whole thing was way too intense and violent and digital.
Yeah I wandered in while my family was watching one of them, and there was a God of War bossfight on a frozen lake in the middle of the movie. Rotate left, watch the swing from above, dash in to get the strike...
My conclusion was that these films are more padded than a drag queen's ass.
I actually maybe wouldn't have minded two movies. Then again, I say it should've been one 3-hour long film and given the extended treatment the LOTR films got. It'd be one long, but eventful movie.
Check out the M4 Book edit. It reduces the trilogy into one 4 hour film and removes anything that wasn't in the book.
Or a short series, the story is very episodic.
Cable “news”. It is entirely responsible for the current state of things.
Propaganda, you mean. I don't think news actually exists anymore on US propaganda networks
I cannot forgive the fact that we had two times of writer strikes. They literally make your gold. What the fuck are yall doing
But they have to pay some of the gold to the people who actually make the gold! This is unacceptable, they need a system where they buy a computer that makes gold and then they just keep it all. That's why I can't fucking buy RAM so I can upgrade my PC to the current generation.
Doctor Who going to Disney. I haven't even watched it. Maybe it's ok, but classic British shows never really survive getting Americanised. I lost interest about halfway through the Jodie Whittaker era - specifically The Timeless Child nonsense.
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