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[overgeeked]

Spock's previously unknown human foster sister says "hello!"

That makes sense though. No way is Spock telling James T. "Hit On Anything That Moves" Kirk about his sister.

 

[MGibster]

When your DM starts their "evil NPC villain monologue" scene, let them finish.
They're saying goodbye to their character.

I've had PCs do this while engaged in dialogue with the big boss. While it's nice that they're eager to jump in and fight, it's a little disheartening that they don't care about why or what the villain's plan is. Though I did like one of the Doom games where someone starts giving exposition over why the demons from hell are on Mars and you just rip out the machinery because you don't care why.

You can take my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Oxford comma for life, yo!

 

[Nikosandros]

The longer a media property goes on, the less creative it tends to get, as a desire for canon and continuity mean it mostly turns in on itself, detailing what were once bold broad ideas, rather than new bold ideas being added to the mix. The "new stuff" eventually just becomes endless remixes of what came before, when the property was not constrained the way it is now.

Hear, hear! A pox on canon!

 

[overgeeked]

The longer a media property goes on, the less creative it tends to get, as a desire for canon and continuity mean it mostly turns in on itself, detailing what were once bold broad ideas, rather than new bold ideas being added to the mix. The "new stuff" eventually just becomes endless remixes of what came before, when the property was not constrained the way it is now.

Counterpoint: Doctor Who. It regularly gives canon and continuity the two-finger salute. I'd say it's wildly more creative now that it was in the old days, re: story and plot and characters. I'd argue it's less creative due to CGI etc vs having to make due with cardboard sets and painted trash bags as costumes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Counterpoint: Doctor Who. It regularly gives canon and continuity the two-finger salute. I'd say it's wildly more creative now that it was in the old days, re: story and plot and characters. I'd argue it's less creative due to CGI etc vs having to make due with cardboard sets and painted trash bags as costumes.

That's a good counterpoint, except that David Tennant is going to be the Doctor again, at least briefly, alongside Donna Noble. Even Who can't escape this trap, although it does its best.

 

[overgeeked]

That's a good counterpoint, except that David Tennant is going to be the Doctor again, at least briefly, alongside Donna Noble. Even Who can't escape this trap, although it does its best.

That's happening not due to a lack of creativity but rather a need to have the show continue. They didn't want to have a few years between Jodie Whitaker leaving and Ncuti Gatwa arriving...so they had to air something, so Russel T Davies brought back Tennant and Tate. Plus, RTD has a major flub to fix with those two, so it's welcome.

 

[Aldarc]

Anybody who judges another person based on their personal spelling, grammar, and/or pronunciation, is not to be trusted.

Unpopular opinion: I will judge people based on their pronunciation of "Appalachian," because our pronunciation is an act of political and cultural resistance against an imposed pronunciation from outsiders and people who claim that they know better.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That's happening not due to a lack of creativity but rather a need to have the show continue. They didn't want to have a few years between Jodie Whitaker leaving and Ncuti Gatwa arriving...so they had to air something, so Russel T Davies brought back Tennant and Tate. Plus, RTD has a major flub to fix with those two, so it's welcome.

The end result is the same.

But, on your side of the argument, whatever the problems of the Whittaker era, coming up with big new crazy ideas was not among them.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Unpopular opinion: I will judge people based on their pronunciation of "Appalachian," because our pronunciation is an act of political and cultural resistance against an imposed pronunciation from outsiders and people who claim that they know better.

Can we at least agree that the pronunciation of "Buena Vista" in Virginia (although I think it's not in the Appalachians, just in visual distance of them) is an abomination?

 

[Weiley31]

You can take my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

No one wants to take your Oxford comma.

Say, that's a nice Oxford comma you have there.