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Everything but the Kitchen Sink..
Been flirting with television series.
1. Just finished Masters of the Universe : Relevations, which was written by Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame). Apparently, He-Man and Masters of the Universe has a fandom. Who knew? And they are all busy rebooting it in various forms. First She-Rah, now this.
This has the vocal talents of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Tessla), Chris Wood (Adam/He-Man), Mark Hamill (Skeletor), Lena Hedly (Evilynn), and Liam Cunningham (Master of Arms). I only recognized Gellar, who has a distinctive voice. Hamill can disguise his voice. Oh, also Kevin Conroy did Merman.
The plot surprised me. They kill off He-Man, aka Adam and Skeletor in the first episode. Tessla and Evilynn and company team up to save magic in Eterna. They reunite with Adam in paradise. He thinks he saved the world - uhm, no. Adam agrees to give up on paradise and return to the mortal coil (even if it means he may never return), and fights to save Eterna. While he succeeds in helping them return magic to the realm, and manages to get Tessla to forgive him for lying to her - Evillynn accidentally releases Skeletor, who manages to kill Adam (again), and unleashes the power of the sword, becoming Master of the Universe.
Why does my generation feel this need to subvert the stories of its youth so that the villains win?
Are we that cynical?
The animation was pretty good. There's only five episodes, and a second season on order.
2. I'm flirting with Voltron - which is based on or rather a reboot of a cartoon that I was a fan of way back in the 1980s - Battle of the Planets which eventually morphed into Voltron. It's on Netflix, and is a reboot of the original Voltron. I was a fan of the anime cartoons.
Another one is Sailor Moon - which has a two-part movie on Netflix. (I'm picky about animation.) So mixed feelings about that one.
Also finishing Mandalorian, and watching Tenet, Hacks, and White Lotus on HBO Max. There's so many television shows to watch and so little time and mind-space for them.
3.Was thinking about this today - I've had various actors, directors, and writers ruined for me over the years. I can't bring myself to watch or read or see their art any longer. I know it's kind of silly - because I know folks are more than one thing. Our actions shouldn't define us. People aren't simple creatures, we're complex ones.
But..I can't watch or read these folks without seeing their transgressions right now.
* Tom Hiddleston (my brother ruined him for me - when I visited him. Ugh. Although good news, he only ruined Loki and I didn't like Loki that much anyhow.)
* Bill Cosby
* JK Rowling
* Mel Gibson
* Woody Allen
* Roman Polanski
* Orson Scott Card
* Marion Zimmer Bradley
* James Franco
* Joss Whedon
[Do you have any that have been ruined for you?]
Note I did not say why for a reason - I don't want to foist my dislike onto you.
4. I'm wondering if we've gotten a bit too politically correct in our speech again - as a reaction to the last four years? I get annoyed when people go overboard with semantics.
On FB today, someone asked if the word "ghetto" was racist. I said I didn't think of it as racist - since I've seen it used "broadly". I have. The Warsaw ghettos come to mind. I think it has like many words been misappropriated to mean something else. The difficulty with the English language is the connotation or meaning of words can change over time, and often depend on how or why they are being used. Context is 90% of it.
Which is why I need to be careful not to accuse someone of being racist or calling someone names - until I can clarify the usage. Also calling people racist or outing them as racist on the internet is counter-productive. I am not changing their minds, I am not educating them, all I am doing is alienating people and I don't know what someone else is going through or how they will react. Also I have no way of knowing who this person is or what they are doing in their life. They may have more diversified friends than I do, heavily involved in social justice, working for a state agency, suffering from chronic pain, etc.
Last weekend I told sis-in-law that we've been told to change words in our contracts and at work to be gender neutral. New York State has passed gender neutral protective legislation. Sis-in-law asked what words I use instead of the he/she pronouns. I said - " they" and "police officer", "fire official", "individual" or "employee" or "applicant" or "vendor, contractor, or consultant". [Bro got comical and said I should use pig instead of police officer. I don't think that is a good idea. We need to learn how to be kinder to each other somehow, and tolerant. It is easy to be kind to nice people or those who are kind to me, what is hard is being kind to those who aren't or not like me. That's been the challenge the last two years.]
5. The outdoor dining establishment around the corner from where I live was destroyed in a car crash today, apparently. Angelica's Outdoor Dining Destroyed in Kensington
The comments to the FB announcement of it?
J: This is awful, but sometimes bikes ride on sidewalks.
T: A bike didn’t do this.
J: that’s the point I am making….
D: what is the point you are trying to make?
J: people on this group constantly complain about bikes being dangerous but cars are what’s killing people and causing damage like this
J: this is why bikes and scooters ride on the sidewalk.
T:couldn’t agree with you more
Me: while from a pedestrian perspective, if there were no such thing as bikes, scooters or cars - life would be good. Take the frigging subway and trains folks - those are safe and you don't kill innocent people.
Also, COVID is killing the wrong people.
6. Gender Neutral Bathroom at the new Penn Station aka Monyhian Station.
1. Just finished Masters of the Universe : Relevations, which was written by Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame). Apparently, He-Man and Masters of the Universe has a fandom. Who knew? And they are all busy rebooting it in various forms. First She-Rah, now this.
This has the vocal talents of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Tessla), Chris Wood (Adam/He-Man), Mark Hamill (Skeletor), Lena Hedly (Evilynn), and Liam Cunningham (Master of Arms). I only recognized Gellar, who has a distinctive voice. Hamill can disguise his voice. Oh, also Kevin Conroy did Merman.
The plot surprised me. They kill off He-Man, aka Adam and Skeletor in the first episode. Tessla and Evilynn and company team up to save magic in Eterna. They reunite with Adam in paradise. He thinks he saved the world - uhm, no. Adam agrees to give up on paradise and return to the mortal coil (even if it means he may never return), and fights to save Eterna. While he succeeds in helping them return magic to the realm, and manages to get Tessla to forgive him for lying to her - Evillynn accidentally releases Skeletor, who manages to kill Adam (again), and unleashes the power of the sword, becoming Master of the Universe.
Why does my generation feel this need to subvert the stories of its youth so that the villains win?
Are we that cynical?
The animation was pretty good. There's only five episodes, and a second season on order.
2. I'm flirting with Voltron - which is based on or rather a reboot of a cartoon that I was a fan of way back in the 1980s - Battle of the Planets which eventually morphed into Voltron. It's on Netflix, and is a reboot of the original Voltron. I was a fan of the anime cartoons.
Another one is Sailor Moon - which has a two-part movie on Netflix. (I'm picky about animation.) So mixed feelings about that one.
Also finishing Mandalorian, and watching Tenet, Hacks, and White Lotus on HBO Max. There's so many television shows to watch and so little time and mind-space for them.
3.Was thinking about this today - I've had various actors, directors, and writers ruined for me over the years. I can't bring myself to watch or read or see their art any longer. I know it's kind of silly - because I know folks are more than one thing. Our actions shouldn't define us. People aren't simple creatures, we're complex ones.
But..I can't watch or read these folks without seeing their transgressions right now.
* Tom Hiddleston (my brother ruined him for me - when I visited him. Ugh. Although good news, he only ruined Loki and I didn't like Loki that much anyhow.)
* Bill Cosby
* JK Rowling
* Mel Gibson
* Woody Allen
* Roman Polanski
* Orson Scott Card
* Marion Zimmer Bradley
* James Franco
* Joss Whedon
[Do you have any that have been ruined for you?]
Note I did not say why for a reason - I don't want to foist my dislike onto you.
4. I'm wondering if we've gotten a bit too politically correct in our speech again - as a reaction to the last four years? I get annoyed when people go overboard with semantics.
On FB today, someone asked if the word "ghetto" was racist. I said I didn't think of it as racist - since I've seen it used "broadly". I have. The Warsaw ghettos come to mind. I think it has like many words been misappropriated to mean something else. The difficulty with the English language is the connotation or meaning of words can change over time, and often depend on how or why they are being used. Context is 90% of it.
Which is why I need to be careful not to accuse someone of being racist or calling someone names - until I can clarify the usage. Also calling people racist or outing them as racist on the internet is counter-productive. I am not changing their minds, I am not educating them, all I am doing is alienating people and I don't know what someone else is going through or how they will react. Also I have no way of knowing who this person is or what they are doing in their life. They may have more diversified friends than I do, heavily involved in social justice, working for a state agency, suffering from chronic pain, etc.
Last weekend I told sis-in-law that we've been told to change words in our contracts and at work to be gender neutral. New York State has passed gender neutral protective legislation. Sis-in-law asked what words I use instead of the he/she pronouns. I said - " they" and "police officer", "fire official", "individual" or "employee" or "applicant" or "vendor, contractor, or consultant". [Bro got comical and said I should use pig instead of police officer. I don't think that is a good idea. We need to learn how to be kinder to each other somehow, and tolerant. It is easy to be kind to nice people or those who are kind to me, what is hard is being kind to those who aren't or not like me. That's been the challenge the last two years.]
5. The outdoor dining establishment around the corner from where I live was destroyed in a car crash today, apparently. Angelica's Outdoor Dining Destroyed in Kensington
The comments to the FB announcement of it?
J: This is awful, but sometimes bikes ride on sidewalks.
T: A bike didn’t do this.
J: that’s the point I am making….
D: what is the point you are trying to make?
J: people on this group constantly complain about bikes being dangerous but cars are what’s killing people and causing damage like this
J: this is why bikes and scooters ride on the sidewalk.
T:couldn’t agree with you more
Me: while from a pedestrian perspective, if there were no such thing as bikes, scooters or cars - life would be good. Take the frigging subway and trains folks - those are safe and you don't kill innocent people.
Also, COVID is killing the wrong people.
6. Gender Neutral Bathroom at the new Penn Station aka Monyhian Station.
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No shows ruined for me, I do like things like Ender's Game and Firefly. It does help that I'm not pumping further money into them though and society is now such that it hardly takes any financial impact from me to make such people feel consequences.
Words and context, absolutely, however, as I saw somebody observe elsewhere recently,
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"Whataboutism" annoys me. And they do it all the time now. It's a distraction tactic. I'm starting to think the best approach is to ignore the "whatabout" and stay on target, the individual is trying to hijack the thread. So not responding to them, is the best approach online. I've made the mistake of engaging and getting nowhere, I just end up going in a circle and feeling an overwhelming desire to smack them.
It's interesting, I can continue watch certain things but not others. Although, I didn't exactly feel the need to re-watch Firefly or Buffy again prior to learning about Whedon. Mainly because I've seen both one too many times. And it did not stop me from watching and enjoying The Nevers, for the most part. The difficulties I had with the Nevers weren't Whedon related.
Actors are harder, I think. Although - what Michael Jackson did - doesn't stop me from enjoying his music - possibly because he's been dead for a long time now, and it doesn't matter one way or another. Dead artists - it doesn't matter as much with.
Scott Card - I didn't like to begin with, same with Marion Zimmer Bradley - those are two writers that everyone else loved, and the appeal is completely lost on me. So in a way having them ruined was a relief? I no longer had to bother with either.
So really, it's just the film directors and actors.
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I probably have an audiocassette with some of Cosby's routines somewhere around here, too. Same thing: the end result is the same as if I'd made some official pronouncement of never consuming his works again.
Polanski, on the other hand, was "official" for me: I chose a long time ago not to watch anything by him. Which is probably made easier by not finding any of the films appealing from their descriptions. So... not much of a sacrifice, really.
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Mel Gibson? There's pre-Brave Heart films, which I could watch and enjoyed, and post-Braveheart, which I could not. Actually I am not sure I can watch any of them - without cringing. Mother and I were discussing Gibson and have similar issues - what came out about him turned us both off in a major way, not helped by the films he did after Braveheart.