Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[bdub76]

I'd say it's still good, I've enjoyed pretty much all the current sci-fi shows I've been watching lately.

It's more downbeat compared to stuff before the BSG reboot. The best of the downbeat is probably the Expanse. But I really miss my Eureka like shows. Sci-fi was on a roll other than the wrestling stuff in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

We even had shows like Psyche and White Collar that were generally more upbeat than the average show today. Shows were generally more positive in nature.

I'm mostly binging stuff doing that era. Finished up original 4400 and White Collar during lockdown as well.

I find most of the new Trek shows pretty downbeat as well.

 

[auntiehill]

People are more jerky since the pandemic.

No, the pandemic has nothing to do with it. I think assholes have always been assholes, and will continue to be assholes regardless of the circumstances, until someone forces them to stop being assholes.

 

[fireproof78]

Target gave me a $5 credit if I used the app to make a "drive up" order. The employee was already out delivering orders and had to go back in to get mine. I felt really lazy just sitting there waiting for her to bring it back to me when I could've just as easily walked inside and picked it up myself.

Yeah, I don't do online pick up. I fucking can't stand sitting in my car waiting. Fuck that. Hate it when my wife uses it.

No, the pandemic has nothing to do with it. I think assholes have always been assholes, and will continue to be assholes regardless of the circumstances, until someone forces them to stop being assholes.

I think people got used to having no consequences. So they continue to be assholes. I find myself just ignoring them because engaging with them has proven fruitless.

I'd say it's still good, I've enjoyed pretty much all the current sci-fi shows I've been watching lately.

I don't watch many shows, but the newer productions I do watch I find very enjoyable. I laugh, I cry, and it entertains me. I don't have the longing anymore for the "good old days" of media. I had to get over that because all it does is depress me. If a show is good, I don't give a crap as to when it was made. If it was bad then I am not going to enjoy it just because it was older. Case in point, I was watching the "Tom and Jerry" movie from 1993 yesterday with my kids and their friends. To say the movie made no sense is being generous. It had tonal shifts that would give the audience whiplash.

 

[JD]

Yeah, along with all the new stuff I watch a lot of old shows on channels like MeTV, Cozi, and Antenna TV. The style has changed a lot, but there are a lot of great in all eras of TV.

 

[bdub76]

Yeah, along with all the new stuff I watch a lot of old shows on channels like MeTV, Cozi, and Antenna TV. The style has changed a lot, but there are a lot of great in all eras of TV.

Binged some Welcome Back, Kotter last year. It was good for the first few seasons then went off a cliff.

 

[Commander Troi]

Remember when sci-fi was good. Watching Haven again. I binged again both Eureka and Warehouse 13 during the pandemic lockdown. What happened?

Great shows, but there's still good stuff.

It's more downbeat compared to stuff before the BSG reboot. The best of the downbeat is probably the Expanse. But I really miss my Eureka like shows. Sci-fi was on a roll other than the wrestling stuff in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

We even had shows like Psyche and White Collar that were generally more upbeat than the average show today. Shows were generally more positive in nature.

I'm mostly binging stuff doing that era. Finished up original 4400 and White Collar during lockdown as well.

I find most of the new Trek shows pretty downbeat as well.

Ah! Thanks for clarifying! That sort of thing is cyclical. (I'm not sure Haven counts as "upbeat"!) Did you by any chance catch Reginald the Vampire? How about What We Do In The Shadows? Both are comedies, but definitely more on the upbeat side.

 

[bdub76]

Great shows, but there's still good stuff.


Ah! Thanks for clarifying! That sort of thing is cyclical. (I'm not sure Haven counts as "upbeat"!) Did you by any chance catch Reginald the Vampire? How about What We Do In The Shadows? Both are comedies, but definitely more on the upbeat side.

But those are both intentional comedies. For some reason shows right before and right after the Great Financial Crisis were more upbeat. I’d throw Burn Notice in there too.

I don’t get why TV went dark again like it was for a good portion of the 90s.

 

[Commander Troi]

Like I said, it tends to be cyclical.

 

[fireproof78]

Like I said, it tends to be cyclical.

Yes, human culture is very reaction and cyclical. Right now these are very uncertain times, with stressors upon stressors, and people are feeling less hopeful than before. And it reflects in our art. Same with what happened post 9/11 in the US. Very dark, more cynical take on the world. And that will rotate again.

Heck, my wife and I started watching "Animal Control" on the recommendations of my parents (who are exceedingly picky at times) and it's just a silly fun and kind of optimistic sitcom. It's painfully simple but funny all at the same time.

Stuff's out there; just have to look for it.

 

[Aragorn]

A rat has joined the birds and squirrels in eating the bird seed in the back yard. Do rats have better hearing than birds? Even walking around on the other side of the sliding glass door has the rat running for cover, while pots and pans can be banged and the birds still go about their business.

 

[auntiehill]

A rat has joined the birds and squirrels in eating the bird seed in the back yard. Do rats have better hearing than birds? Even walking around on the other side of the sliding glass door has the rat running for cover, while pots and pans can be banged and the birds still go about their business.

Rats have excellent survival skills. Birds not so much.

Birds can also fly away in a second if there's danger. Rats don't have that option.

 

[fireproof78]

A rat has joined the birds and squirrels in eating the bird seed in the back yard. Do rats have better hearing than birds? Even walking around on the other side of the sliding glass door has the rat running for cover, while pots and pans can be banged and the birds still go about their business.

It depends greatly on the bird. I was at a local lake yesterday and some birds were quite flitty but still willing to be closer to people, then fly off and come back.

Don't know about rats as I do not encourage their coming around.

 

[JD]

Rats have excellent survival skills. Birds not so much.

Birds can also fly away in a second if there's danger. Rats don't have that option.

Yeah, I think with that kind of thing, it's a matter of the birds not caring rather than not hearing.

 

[bdub76]

Cost of bacon down more than 10 percent.

 

[Commander Troi]

I booked my hubby and I an Alaska cruise for the first week in September. I'm so excited!

 

[auntiehill]

That sounds LOVELY!!

 

[bdub76]

Grabbed Lost Boys 4K for $11 at Amazon. Saw it in the theatre. The 4K remaster is fantastic.

 

[JD]

I found out something I thought was kind of interesting a few days ago that I had never heard before. With domestic birds, or at least parrots, you never want to touch them anywhere other than the head, because anywhere else it's sexual and can cause them to develop behavioral issues.

 

[fireproof78]

That's...strange.

Wonder if that includes chickens?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

This popped up in my youtube recommendations. I have no bloody idea why they'd think I'd be interested but well shrug this is a thing I guess.

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