Silo? (Not solo?)

It’s gotta be next year, the show doesn’t have enough staying power to miss a beat. The last season was more environmental dangers than plot furtherance. (You’re not going to drown in the water Miss Starring Actress, and we all know it…)

Can someone (*honestly) remind me what the hook was of Hijack for there to be a season 2?

(Honest question, I remember there were unanswered questions but for the life of me I can’t remember what left dangling. It wasn’t 100% wrapped up but it was close.)

the stuff that made me happy as a kid.

Okay.

We need an “I got an N64 w/Goldeneye” day and an “I got the lego space-ship with light strips that actually light up” day.

I had the right not to be happy

I rather like that.

I work in 911 dispatch, we always get some really crazy/sad calls around this time of year. I deal with it just fine personally, but it doesn’t exactly put me in a holly jolly mood.

Fishbowl guy needs some love too, no? (sorry, from a previous post but lol, that stuck.)

Deep down I’m still an edgy militant atheist, and really want nothing to do with religious celebrations.

The older I get the more atheist I become rather than agnostic, and the more militant towards that I become despite trying not to be. But everything just screams it to me the more and more I understand the world on a fundamental level and experience life. Been a couple things in the past few years that have really clicked for me that didn’t before. And where I am right now (staying in a hostel) where I meet people who won’t turn on BlueTooth because it “messes with their brain” have…

…

…

Yeah. Them five whole G’s on a cellphone are going to break you, but you go ahead and have a loud conversation in a public space on your speaker-phone…

“Say cheese!”

“Why?”

“Because it makes you look like you’re smiling.”

“Oh…”

Watched it seasonally since S1 and enjoyed it but hit a wall at S6. Been meaning to finish it. Has some good high/epic-fantasy in there though. (Which I am a sucker for.)

Reminded me of Netflix’s Voltron series which I also quite enjoyed. Nothing too complex but it had something going for it.

Ditto, apparently. Save I’m dark-dark brown. (And grey…)

Always went with “Marcus from Babylon 5” though as an example.

so masking sets in which is very stressful.

Pretending to be happy sucks. (…the energy right out of me.)

For me it was the wargaming nerds looking down on the CCG nerds originally. Warhammer was fine, we were the cool nerds (lol). Magic The Gathering was not. Hell, even the anime nerds were better than the Magic nerds.

Then it was the “virtually anything else but…” nerds looking down on the Starcraft clan. No one liked them, even if we played Starcraft too. Forming a school clan was just, death to anything else.

In terms of identity? Eh. None.

I’m my own particular kind of screwed up. I’m a nerd that doesn’t fit in with nerds. I’m an artist that doesn’t fit in with artists. I love science but I’d never want to be a scientist.

Even characters I previously thought were pillars of my identity were darlings in need of killing. (Raistlin Majere in my mid-late teens as an example. He didn’t survive my early 20’s.)

Never met anyone quite like me and never read nor watched anyone quite like me. A favourite who’d be the closest answer to this question (who still is nothing like me, not even close) would be Drusas Achamian from Bakker’s Second Apocalypse.

To quote him,
He frowned at the lyrics of Protathis, finding them overwrought even though they had seemed to speak his soul’s own tongue twenty years earlier.

No one has spoken my soul’s own tongue, not really.

In a completely opposite answer, in terms of life experiences? Hell this’ll earn me some downvotes but it’s amusingly/sadly true.

I think Ryan Reynolds callbacks and 4th wall breaks have a weirdly good habit of landing with me. We’re fairly near enough in age that Deadpool and Free Guy gave me some chuckles. Him referencing Blade 2 was a deep cut lol.

I liked their take on Kirk. They didn’t do a 1-1 mimic, he’s his own thing.

I think if they’d tried to emulate Shatner it wouldn’t have landed, but this works.

Be curious to see the “new” guys’ approach.

Couldn’t get a straight answer from the reddit sub last time I tried. They just has to whinge and moan and bitch.

Do I watch it BEFORE or AFTER I rewatch Tron: Legacy? (A movie I personally enjoy.) Or is there an even better placement?

Never seen the show, got it on my hard drive for years now. Been on a backburner.

I liked the first couple seasons of SNW. Spock Amok had me in stitches and Pike is the captain we’ve needed for a while now.

Lower Decks is… frighteningly good as the seasons progress. Their ability to target and poke fun at Trek-tropes was better than any YT channel I’ve seen, yet they respected the source material and mimicked it with commensurately great ability. I was torn between laughing and crying while they did laps around DS9. (DS9 being my fav trek.) And I was genuinely surprised they got Jolene Blalock back given I thought she hated the franchise after her time in it. Even if the humour was more miss-than-hit for me early on in the series.

SGU was weird and originally felt like a BSG knockoff, but I loved their big sci-fi hook and wish we got to know what it was. (BIG spoiler for it below. It’s an old show but still. If you haven’t seen it don’t click.)

That said, most of SGU, aside from the early eps when critical offline systems were important, didn’t really land with me. High concept; poor execution.

Prodigy was the Voyager continuation we apparently all needed but didn’t know. (At least I didn’t.) Was glad to hear a lot of familiar voices in S2, reprised.

When I’m looking to buy something instead of looking for entertainment.

When I’m checking a local flyer or few to see the best deal on insert grocery item I’d love it if advertisers could just go, “well, we’re the cheapest this week on cans of green-beans so… walk over here and buy a few.”

Make it efficient instead of something I’m literally willing to spend my time finding an adblock for. I’m not even opposed to personalized ads. I think it’s a great idea in theory. But scummy corps screw the world over and this is just one weirdly specific aspect of it.

The problem is the taste makes me crave the texture.

I’m a bit abnormal in that I crave texture more than taste though. I love eating steak near raw (blue) with my bare hands so I can do that “nature channel wolf thing” where they rip their prey with a side-to-side wry head movement. It’s primal and glorious.

And if I get that flavour without the texture I am left, wanting.

Gollum had it right in the end. Give it to me raw and wriggling. (But preferably free of parasites…)

Bookface. It’s not even that clever it just stuck with me for some random ass reason.

Just as an aside, recommendations of good Japanese dubs (not a big fan of subs despite being a fast reader) are always welcome too.

Wagyu, purely for the texture in this case.

I don’t want “steak-butter”, I want to rip through a raw piece of meat.

I rather liked Prinze as Kanan in Rebels. (Also just enjoyed it in general.)

Clone Wars has an (IIRC official) episode guide I used the last time that was pretty good to get past most of the filler. Last few seasons were amazing for the most part.