I got a hotdropped hardrive with Archer on it while launching jets aboard a carrier in the gulf in that same timeframe. Every season that aired while I was on deployment was a great treat in the heat. A friend of mine had a background in flash animation, (blast from the past) and he wanted to create a show with me in the same vein as archer and Sealab 2021, but about Navy pilots on a carrier. So I wrote a few scripts and he began on some scenes. We never made anything of it, because we didn’t have the voice actors (neither of us were vocally inclined). Regardless Archers stellar writing and style got me through a long stretch of extensions in the middle east.

Prior to what I do now, which is completely different, I worked electronics on a military ship.

I don’t know how many officers destroyed equipment trying to do the most asinine things. One officer tried to feedback look a generator to charge said generator. Nearly destroyed the ship. Wasn’t even their work area or under their purview.

Even on the Enterprise, where all the officers were supposed to be hyper intelligent top tier specialists, I have no difficulty believing they mess things up on the regular. It’s more surprising that it happened so little.

The movie’s nonlinear story telling is the worst part of the film. Oppenheimer’s security clearance hearing was a good place to anchor the movie, but it did not even attempt to set up its antagonist until the last quarter of the movie. Why should it have been a ah-ha moment that Strauss was against Oppenheimer. A better editor would have more effectively placed all of the scenes into a coherent narrative.

The sex scene was just bad. “Christopher, how do intelligent people have sex?” “Well, they can only be aroused by reading ancient languages that foreshadow their grandiose future achievements.”

When Oppenheimer, allegedly poisoned Blackett’s apple, it should have been a scene about his mental health issues at the time. Rather than a completely fabricated suspense scene. People who were aware of the incident questioned if it ever really happened. It would have been more impactful to have a scene where Oppenheimer meets with his analyst from that period. The movie decides to simply say that it happened and for some reason interjected Bohr.

The portrayals of characters was a highlight of the film. Most of the acting was great. It was, however, overly stuffed with high profile actors, which turned the film into a distracting cameo bingo game.

The physical and psychological aftermath of the atomic booms dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not adequately portrayed. It did not show well enough the psychological toll it took on the scientists on the project or portray the horrific physical toll it inflicted on the Japanese people. The slide reel scene not showing a single image of the attack was a poor choice. It demonstrates that Hollywood is completely ok with an R rating for showing nudity, but not for confronting people with the horrors of human cruelty.

I knew there was a television show, but hadn’t watched it. Its surprising that it was a continuation of the series.

I very much wish that a movie would come along in the same vein as the original MI movie. It is drastically different in tone and execution than any of the following films. I think a proper Tom Clancy Splinter Cell movie could do it. Movies now unnecessarily revolve around a world ending threat. The NOC list in Mi1 was a great motivating force for the characters to be striving to protect or steal. Now Ethan Hunt is constantly trying to save the world. Stakes which should never be left up to one person.

This issue here is business insiders baiting article.

I assume the MIT student knows the limitations of the technology and probably could have avoided the issue by inputting more criteria for their request to the image processor.

It is known that these image producing systems utilize aggregated data from skewed sources. We surely need to expand the variety of datasets these systems have access to, but we also need to more effectively teach people how to use them to get what they actually want from the system.

The article didn’t tell us the exact prompt that was given to the system. I’m sure it was extremely basically and that is why it yielded an image in line with its average image of “professional”. If the MIT student has added in the prompt “asian” it probably would have done what they wanted. Again I’m sure the student knows that and the article just picked this up to bait people for clicks.

Making a mystery box out of the vault, which was never meant to be a mystery, whilst outing Demerzel made no sense. It undercuts any surprise that the Mule could pose in the future considering how flimsily they portray psychohistory.

Agreed. Goyer read the Hero with a Thousand Faces and sidelined the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Personal stories are great for television, but Foundation is a story that could have been a perfect mix of both personal and grand. It seems to just do personal stories poorly, while shredding canon.

I agree. The come empire plotline is the strongest of the arcs in the show (aside from Demerzel) and I’d pay to watch just that arc if it was not attached to the rest of the series. Trantor and it’s downfall could have been a fun story in and of itself.

“Blood, sex, and CGI” is a perfect title for the show. I suppose if I turned the sound of completely it would be worth the watch to see the CGI. Trantor is a beautifully rendered megacity. It is a shame that the departments putting in the work to make the show beautiful couldn’t be married with a writer/director with reverence for making a true adaptation rather than a GoT clone.

As a reddit refugee, I have been pleasantly surprised by the community here. I appreciate not being put in the stocks for having voiced my opinion on this matter. The obvious lack of advertisment in instances is immediately apparent and astoundingly beautiful. This is the internet that I want to be a part of. I wonder if writers in California are migrating from Reddit as well. If they are, I hope they come accorss more honest and constructive dialogues like these about the projects they may be working on.

Your level headed approach to viewership of the show is appreciated. I don’t often get perturbed by these types of adaptations. For me the changes are just viscerally unsettling.

Fight Clubs change to the ending after almost faithfully adapting every scene to the letter was jarring, but I viewed it in much the same way that you are viewing Foundation right now.

Perhapse when the series wraps I’ll be able to view it more positively as a whole. I’ll either find some redeeming portions or an alternative to epicac.

That line of reasoning makes a lot of sense. The latest “adapters” have been “creative” type personalities. It does then track that their diversions from the source material are their attempts to realign their personal goals with the task they have been given. It is a sad state of affairs that that seems to be the case for this tremendously important story. I fear that it is only going to get worse over the next decade due to the write/actor strike. (Fully supportive of their fight) the repercussions of these strikes echo for a long time after they settle. The 2007 strike damaged/canned a myriad of projects.

Thank you very much for your kind praise. I too am thankful that an attempt was made. It means that people have a desire to adapt his works, which are timelessly relevant. Fingers crossed that it means a future adaptation tackles the series with more reverence for the source material.

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

-Thomas Paine

People uphold their own oppressors because of a need to uphold tradition. F**k the monarchy.

It would be a nice alternative to the other more probable negative outcomes I suppose. Lol. Metamorphosed by some alien viral contagion would be top worst scenario. At least if they bombard us from space we wouldn’t have to live in some Giger-esque nightmare.

Childhoodhoods End is a horror story for me. The loss of will and autonomy of all humanity. Zero control over its own trajectory to be fed into a system of evolution that the overlords didn’t actually fully understand. I hope we end up colonizing the galaxy and developing a way to persist consciously beyond our relatively short lives. As for aliens, the clearly exist in the universe, but before we meet them I hope we have the upper hand.