Honestly, You’re Actually One Of The Most Interesting People I Know, And I’m Glad I Got To Know You.

In my mind, this is the main theme for the late-’90s modern-fantasy real-time strategy game that depicts Kuvira’s campaign to unify the Earth Kingdom.

Legend of Korra - Kuvira theme song | cover by ForTiorI

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Jeremy Zuckerman forwarded me this badass, modern metal cover of his Kuvira theme by ForTiorl. I’m confident a certain badass, modern metalbending militaristic dictator would dig it too.

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925)

Something to keep in mind when watching ENT is that Archer is a contemporary of all those starship captains from the late 22nd and early 23rd century that got their crews killed or committed horrendous Prime Directive violations that Kirk and Picard had to clean up a century or two later. Hell, Archer’s probably the one who gave the Iotians that gangster book.

Captain Archer’s smugness is so annoying. Especially because he is so wrong. They go down to the planet and all get high and paranoid off some chemicals in the air, and Trip tries to kill T’Pol.. You know, chemicals that they might have detected with a probe, but fuck caution you know

My guess would be the latter. Speaking as someone who has only seen the Villeneuve film, it feels like his version of the story preserves the basic beats and themes of the original novel, but pares down all the Herbertian weirdness that attracted Jodorowsky and Lynch to a bare vestigial minimum. FAUX EDIT: I just dug up an old article from last year discussing Jodo’s response to the first trailer from last September, and his reaction was about what you’d expect: technically very competent, but aesthetically very safe and predictable, the best you could hope for under the restrictions of industrial-corporate cinema.

I wonder how Jodorowsky feels right now. He said he’d been comforted by the previous Dune movie because if a director he admired as much as David Lynch failed, that meant it was okay that he had failed. Does he feel bad now, or like this version is different enough from his own that it’s not a comparison?

Fun fact: in the early stages of production for “The Pegasus”, the script initially called for the titular Pegasus to be a new ship design that was essentially a Ambassador-era take on the Miranda/Nebula-class hull profile. However, budget and time constraints led the TNG team to go with an Oberth instead. All that exists of this original Pegasus is an quick sketch Rick Sternbach did, and it’s neat to see it come to life in a roundabout fashion through this model.

Apollo-class for Star Trek Bridge Commmander

With 3 “a”s, even!

It’s Madiha Day!

Even more than Betterman? How is that possible?

It’s taken me 30 minutes to take down notes on like 2 minutes of this scene happening. I don’t know that an anime has affected me as much as this has.

I’m not going to say it again: #bertie wooster deserves to win first place.

I’m ashamed to admit that it was only after I finished watching the new Venture Brothers movie that I realized that Distributor Cap was a riff on the ‘66 version of Mr. Sparkplug.

Reading the wikipedia entries for minor Batman villains is like, “Mr. Sparkplug was introduced in 1969. He wore a rectangular costume that resembled a sparkplug, and had power to make electrical outlets stop working. After the Infinite Crisis event, he was reimagined as a serial killer with a fetish for electrostimulation. He had a cameo on Batman the Brave and the Bold where the Joker shoved him into a locker. In the New 52, the Riddler killed him and hung his costume over the mantlepiece as a trophy. He is now on the Suicide Squad.”

I’m a big boring nerd who likes uniforms, so I was always Templar. 'Course I do have a soft spot for both the Kingdom (mummy gangsters!) and the former Red Hand (communist magic!).

Time for the hard question: Templar, Lumie, or Dragon?

Illuminati, real meme hours.