Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Disparu" channel.

  1. "You shouldn't have to watch 700 hours of backstory to watch our show" No, but the writers should.
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  2. "I can't understand how people can hate something they once loved" Ah. George doesn't understand a concept called "betrayal", and how it's a bad thing. That explains so much about his books.
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  3. "They took 2 hours of content and spread it over 8 hours of TV show" "Thin and stretched, like butter spread over too much bread"
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  4.  @everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773  What we think of as "betrayal", he thinks of as "Tuesday". I don't think he thinks of any of it as "bad". The man is a completely amoral nihilist.
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  5. Do you know what you need to write Star Trek? A dozen Navy guys who liked to watch it when they were kids. For proper diversity, make sure to include a nuclear engineer, a doorkicker Marine, a medic, and at least one technician.
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  6.  @JakeBaldwin1  Um, did you miss the bit with Littlefinger and Ned?
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  7. The purpose of technobabble in Star Trek, is to evoke that sense of childlike wonder and curiosity that Trek fans felt when they were first learning science.
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  8. "She needs a fellowship" Um, is this going to be a billion-dollar TV version of someone's D&D campaign?
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  9.  @hesiyyn4880  GK Chesterton, wasn't it?
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  10. "Born in a mine" So Daphne's going to start singing "Diggy diggy hole"?
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  11. "It's made of stone! How is it burning?" It's an EZ-bake coven. =)
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  12.  @Lanninsterlion216  Martin wasted our time. Worse -- spent that time fillkng out heads with the foulest of nihilistic sewage. For those of us who were expecting something like Tolkien, it was a betrayal -- if not by Martin himself (although he presents himself as "RR"), then by anyone who presents his book in anything like a positive light.
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  13. "People from all walks of life do their best work when they leave their comfort zones and come together" Feanor and the Silmarils? Thingol working with the dwarves to make Nauglamir? "One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, in the land of Mordor where shadows lie"?
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  14. Shaming people into believing a lie, is what The Narrative(TM) does best! They've been slipping of late, but they'll still pull this nonsense as long as people keep believing their previous lies.
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  15. If Chapek wasn't prepared for this interview, it may have been because the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is considered very conservative by media standards. Answering questions about Leftism that aren't softball questions (or downright friendly to social conservatism) could have been a very big surprise.
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  16.  @aqdrobert  Somebody tried to make it a computer game first -- a lot of looks like basically stolen IP.
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  17. They killed Celeborn for this.
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  18. Any time people are allowed to "apply weighting" to their model, the results of the model are just someone making the numbers dance. This happens with computer models of all kinds, most notoriously, climate models.
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  19. Just call them "bossygirls", for honesty's sake.
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  20. Thrawn should not be kind. He should be polite and well-mannered, but giving the impression that he is concentrating on a plan, which he is fitting you into, in some way.
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  21. "Chance Tolkienian meetings" were supposed to be the work of (basically-capital-G-God) Eru, helping things unfold as they should. Not the work of Sauron.
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  22. Have you ever watched the movie "Hail, Caesar!"? One of the plots is about a bunch of writers who figure they're the ones who should be paid ALL the money because they provide ALL the value, despite the fact that the movie clearly shows masses of people in front of and behind the cameras, making these movies happen.
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  23. "The Hollywood writers want residuals to exist for content available on streaming, whether anyone watches it or not" Is this why Disney purged awful and unwatched shows from D+? They assumed the writers would get this demand met?
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  24. "Jedi stationed on her planet" Er, there were never enough Jedi to station a few on every planet. Otherwise, the Naboo Jedi or Tatooine Jedi would have taken care of the problems in The Phantom Menace.
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  25. Disney's best strategy is to abandon the Woke, and bring its company into line with global values -- which are a lot like the values Walt held back in the '50s. Losing the tiny fraction of the American market (who are mostly Twitter bots anyway) will not negatively affect Disney's bottom line. Bob, these Wokies can't afford $20/mo to keep their blue checks on Twitter. Why do you think they're your audience for Disney+?
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  26. "Shut your brain off" Isn't there some box art of Borderlands that involves someone kinetically shutting their brain off?
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  27. "This is the Tolkien you remember" Has anyone done any photoshopping of the professor, to turn him into a biker gang member or similar?
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  28. I wonder, is the lack of traditional Shakespeare productions hurting English-speaking drama?
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  29. "Something to keep Twitter happy" That, my friends, will mean something very different from this day forward. =)
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  30. "My job is to balance the various constituencies" Bob, you can tell the rainbow constituency to b*gger off, and you really won't lose any customers. In fact, you'll gain not only customers, but social approval as well.
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  31. "I can't wait to see a Pythagoras Death Ray" No, you're thinking Archimedes. Seriously, look it up.
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  32. "These men, who were riding to their probable end against masses of Orcs" Except, the charge of the Rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields was based primarily on the Winged Hussar's 1683 relief of Vienna.
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  33. The real tragedy here, is that this story needs to be discovered. Not with Galadriel and Sauron, (sweet merciful G*d, no) but between modern celebrated (Mary Sue) Woman, and demonized modern Man. It is not an exaggeration to say that the current path of our civilization depends on it. If the proper avatars of these two cultural archetypes don't pair off by the end in a way that's satisfying to both the men and the women in the audience, then those archetypes are dead ends. They will be replaced - probably with the rebirth of an older version of the story. (Beren and Luthien again, perhaps. Remember, that story produced Christopher, Michael, Priscilla, and John.) I'd be curious to see what these two showrunners could do, given their own characters to work with. Keep them away from Tolkien's, though.
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  34. To be "true to the source material" The Addams Family needs to be darkly funny. They should just take Dave Landau, shave his head, and make him ad lib Uncle Fester.
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  35. What our entertainment media needs most, is to get all its writers from somewhere other than Hollywood, film schools, or universities.
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  36. "These are turbolasers, they're so fast!" "Turbo" refers to motion (spinning, like a turbine) and it never really made all that much sense when they used it in Star Wars.
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  37. Just because I'm a contrarian, I have to throw this in -- when Peter Jackson called for basically any rider in New Zealand who could bring their own horse, most of the people who showed up were the "horse girl" type. The costume department duly glued beards to their faces, and sent them to the set. I'm waiting for some clever video editor to take the visuals from Theoden's "Ride to ruin, and world's ending!" speech, and replace the soundtrack with the Life of Brian stoning scene -- the bit where John Cleese says, "Are there any women here today?"
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  38. Every writer on Rohirrim should know how to ride a horse. Most should have been on a trek of no less than 100 miles, with horses to ride and pack supplies, relying on forage for at least a portion of the trip. Half of them should have military experience, and at least a few should have seen combat of some kind.
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  39. "I can use my privilege to help others" Yeah, this is known as noblesse oblige and it's the way things are supposed to work. Some people are more talented than others at various things, and the best world is made when everyone does what they do best, in a way that accomplishes the most of what we all need.
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  40. "After they put their kids to bed, they're going to want something for them" Pr0n? (Bob, have some common sense, and make sure it's straight.)
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  41. Americans use "South Asian" to refer to people from India, to distinguish them from American Indians, as well as East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, etc.)
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  42. "Tolkien never explained the origin of mithril." Er, he didn't explain the origin of rocks either. Presumably they all just appeared during the Song of the Valar. Who even asked "I wonder where mithril originated"?
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  43. I feel a great deal of pity for the actress playing Galadriel, if that's what she always looks like when she tries to smile. The only worse thing in this life would be to have such serious lower GI problems that you could never laugh without soiling yourself.
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  44. "Most people hear voice in their heads" It's really the people obsessed with the voices in their pants, that are the problem these days.
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  45.  @OsellaSquadraCorse  Or hasn't followed mainstream media in the last 5 years, I guess. So WSJ isn't Conservative anymore?
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  46.  @edistoorbust  Apparently you can put WSJ in the same sentence as "very conservative", but only if you put the phrase "used to be" in between. No wonder most of us are turning to alternative news sources.
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  47. Dude, that makeup in the show makes that woman look 12 years old.
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  48. Thrawn needs to stand up straighter.
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  49. "New kinds of families" That aren't actually families. If Disney doesn't cherish people who will actually have children (as opposed to those who will never stop being children), Disney will self-destruct.
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  50. Our ability to make movies expensive, has far outstripped our ability to make them valuable.
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