It's filled with the same old "We need our legacy heroes to be badass! We can't have them change, mature or grow more complex! Give us the same as what we got before!!"
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"Also if show bad it's Disney's fault! If show good Filoni and Favreau are saving Star Wars even though BoBF is literally by the same team who did Mando!!!"
I always say the popular reddit narrative on Star Wars is just a mess but goddamn does this almost prove it wholesale...
Could be a spoiler I suppose, though this season is nearly 20 years old. This is one of only three seasons that I haven't watched fully.
Anyway, Rob and Amber have a love story this season that actually rivals some of the best rom-coms of all time. Knowing what we know now about Rob and Amber, married with 4 kids, this season ends up highlighting these two superstars and it nearly overtakes the game entirely.
Anyway, I'm getting chills watching some of their scenes together. Truly beautiful. The best relationship blossom in television history...
They’re both ATV
##Background
Ruby Rose is a gender-fluid model who first gained prominence as an actor with a role in Orange is the New Black. Rose was also cast as the title character in the recent CW TV adaptation of DC Comics' Batwoman. Rose left the role and the show amidst a cloud of vague controversy last year, but has now made allegations of unsafe and tyrannical working conditions on set.
The CW Network is a TV network run jointly by CBS and Warner Bros, I guess. It is likely best-known for a slate of pulpy, serialized action-romance-comedy-dramas based on DC superhero comics, with prominent recent examples including Arrow (based on the archer vigilante Green Arrow), Superman & Lois (based on Superman and his longtime colleague/lover/spouse Lois Lane), and The Flash (a bold reimagining of the obscure 1940s Capstone Comics character Speedsy McCool). The shows have a devoted and often gleefully critical fan base, and are noted for their tendency to drop off in quality significantly from season to season. They are also, it turns out, quite grueling to produce.
/r/Television is a DARPA-funded experiment to test whether the combined weight of threads about people watching Squid Game and threads about Dave Chapelle doing anything can lead to some kind of singularity. During periods in which the collider is recalibrating the sub is sometimes forced to discuss other subjects.
##The Thread
After a long silence and speculation over Rose's departure being due to her "difficult" nature, Rose has presented a series of claims about unsafe and exhausting working conditions on the set of Batwoman. These allegations come amidst a wider and dawning public awareness of the strain that television and film production places on the workers behind the camera. In the spirit of offering fair warning, some of the injuries described in the linked thread and in her original posts are quite disturbing.
While most of the thread's now 1500+ comments express dismay at the incidents alleged, there has been plenty of room for side characters to spin off arguments of their own.
**Is it possible to dislike Rose's acting without being accused of homophobia? Multiple
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>"Gee, golly, gosh, gloriosky," thought Mary Sue as she stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise. "Here I am, the youngest lieutenant in the fleet - only fifteen and a half years old." Captain Kirk came up to her.
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>"Oh, Lieutenant, I love you madly. Will you come to bed with me?"
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>"Captain! I am not that kind of girl!"
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>"You're right, and I respect you for it. Here, take over the ship for a minute while I go get some coffee for us."
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>Mr. Spock came onto the bridge. "What are you doing in the command seat, Lieutenant?"
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>"The Captain told me to."
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>"Flawlessly logical. I admire your mind."
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>Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Scott beamed down with Lt. Mary Sue to Rigel XXXVII. They were attacked by green androids and thrown into prison. In a moment of weakness Lt. Mary Sue revealed to Mr. Spock that she too was half Vulcan. Recovering quickly, she sprung the lock with her hairpin and they all got away back to the ship.
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>But back on board, Dr. McCoy and Lt. Mary Sue found out that the men who had beamed down were seriously stricken by the jumping cold robbies, Mary Sue less so. While the four officers languished in Sick Bay, Lt. Mary Sue ran the ship, and ran it so well she received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Vulcan Order of Gallantry and the Tralfamadorian Order of Good Guyhood.
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>However the disease finally got to her and she fell fatally ill. In the Sick Bay as she breathed her last, she was surrounded by Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Mr. Scott, all weeping unashamedly at the loss of her beautiful youth and youthful beauty, intelligence, capability and all around niceness. Even to this day her birthday is a national holiday of the Enterprise.
“I see in the [r/antiwork] the strongest and smartest people who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
In this episode from the 5th season, nearly 30 years ago, the USS Enterprise crew assist an androgynous, genderless humanoid species on a rescue mission. This species, the J'naii, evolved away from binary genders to reach a point without any male or female distinctions. Their way of life is described with full respect and seems to be fully embraced by the Enterprise crew, without any sense of prejudice or discomfort (except for Lieutenant Worf, who grows more open-minded by the end of the episode).
On this mission Commander Riker becomes emotionally and physically intimate with Soren, a member of the J'naii who identifies as female. This is frowned upon by her species, who view binary sex as "primitive," and so she has had to live a life of secrecy to avoid cultural shaming, punishment, and psychotectic therapy (a kind of conversion "therapy" that would make someone no longer identify as male or female).
When her society learns of her affair with Riker, they bring charges against her for violating their way of life. Riker attempts to defend her by saying that he was the only one who made advances, but Soren stands up for herself in the court and says she is a woman and no longer wants to live a life of shame and secrecy. She says explicitly that she and others like her deserve respect---not a "cure" for their "sickness."
The overarching plotline shows compassion for both a nonbinary life as well as a person's journey of transitioning across the gender (or genderless) spectrum.
If there was another mainstream tv show that dealt with these issues prior to 1992, then it should be easy to change my view!!
Edit: Nobody has mentioned this yet, but I found a Jeffersons's episode, "Once a Friend," in 1977 that also seems to engage the issue of gender transitioning.
Spoilers for multiple seasons of Survivor, primarily Season 34: Game Changers
39 Days
16 People
Throughout all the posts I have made discussing drama surrounding Survivor in its over twenty years on air, I have yet to talk about one of the game’s biggest icons and fan favorites. Having played four games across ten years, Cirie Fields is considered by many to be the best contestant in Survivor history who has never won and beloved by most of the fanbase. This legacy has only been further set in stone with her most recent appearance on the show, where her most infamous elimination has raised greater questions about the overall future of the show.
What Is Survivor?
Feel free to skip if you’ve read any of my previous write ups, I recommend my first Game Changers thread if you’re interested in a bigger controversy surrounding this season, or watch the show.
Survivor is a reality television competition where contestants are stranded on a deserted location and compete for a million dollars while living with the bare essentials. Upon arrival, contestants are split up into teams, called tribes, and compete for rewards to improve their living conditions as well as immunity from Tribal Council. The losing contestants must make the trek to Tribal Council to vote someone off their tribe: whoever has the most votes will be eliminated from the game. When about half the cast has been eliminated, the tribes are merged into one and contestants must then compete individually to win immunity. Finally, when only a handful of castaways remain, the contestants who have made it to the merge but were voted off form a jury that chooses which remaining contestant will earn the title of Sole Survivor, winner of the million dollar grand prize.
Each season varies in structure, and there are numerous twists and changes incorporated to switch things up, but Survivor at its core is truly a social game. The winner is usually not the one who wins the most challenges or does the most work at camp (though both of those traits can certainly help), but someone who can form strong bonds with others or at the very least have a story and strategy that the jury is willing to vote for.
An Actual Game Changer
As I mentioned in my first [Game Changers](https://en.wikipedia
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I've seen a debate about these four guys about getting a spot as a guard in the All star game. I would just like you hear the opinions from you guys. From the post on Twitter, it seems very closer.
