Letters to the Editor
Matty D.
Published Letters: 108 Editor's Choice: 3
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Not very sharp
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was at best so-so, and I've really liked the show in the past, but briefly:
There were about four stories being told in Razor, and at least two of them had NO need to be told because they were already told in dialogue prior to this. We KNEW what happened to the Pegasus, how it survived the initial attack, how Cain shot her original XO, how they pillaged and conscripted off of some civilian ships, et cetera.
Retelling this visually was mildly cool but added absolutely nothing to the mythos or really to the movie itself, nor did it make Cain seem more sympathetic in retrospect. At one point I was expecting some good BSG style commentary on torture in the way they've commented on the current administration and Iraq, but they just left that dangling. WEAK.
IMO you could have completely dropped the "Kendra Shaw" AND the "Pegasus origin" stories in favor of some expansion to the "Young Adama" and the "Hybrid" stories, and you'd have been left with a much better piece overall.
Also, as previously noted by HH, the concept of broadcasting supplemental material over the web and then expecting the viewers of the TV show to have it in mind is lame.
I managed to catch a couple of the "Razor Flashbacks" at scifi.com; if I hadn't done that the Young Adama scenes would have made no sense at all--and they didn't make much anyway. Apparently they'll be included on the "uncut" DVD next week.
Call me old fashioned, but I think media should be self-contained in most respects. I shouldn't have to read a prequel book to grasp a movie story, or watch webisodes for a TV show to make sense, et cetera. In some cases the "multimedia" concept is legit, but in most, if the thing doesn't stand alone, it's weak.
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Yes.
[Read the article: Bad stenographers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're just now coming around to that?
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Not that it was necessary?
[Read the article: Time tries again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I'd just like some kind of permalink to this here collection of entries so that the next time some idiot troll comes by with that tired line about how the blogosphere commentary doesn't actually accomplish anything ever...
Good work, Glenn.
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I'll take two.
[Read the article: "Love and Sex With Robots"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ship them both to brightstar65.
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My fantasy
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, other than the ones involving multiple participants and bathtubs of lime Jell-o and the like, would be to see that L-word writ large as a headline sometime. "GOP Operative Spreads Lies", "Candidate for President Lies", "Joe Politician Lies".
LIES. Embrace it, because that's what it is. Say it.
Some other eedjit (h/t Arne) pointed out that gosh, poor reporters might get denied access to somebody for just calling it like they see it. Well boo fucking hoo. On the other hand, maybe that might enable some other media mavens to find their own sack and say the same thing, and gosh, when the subject starts cutting off his own media channels, HE LOSES. As he should, no?
Alas, ideals. Reality. Shall the twain ever meet in my lifetime?
Tell you what, though. This garbage makes a difference to people. I have kind of a weird family (yeah, who doesn't, I know) that lives in the Midwest although I never have. I get spam e-mail all the time on "political" topics that have all the substance of these lies about Obama, filled with every kind of invalid and sometimes untrue argument, to say nothing of just the stupid jokes.
This is the kind of thing that yes, real people who really vote really do make up what passes for their mind over. It may not be pleasant to understand, but it is so. Decisions get made against someone who's the butt of jokes and innuendo. These same people turn around and proceed to vote for someone else who will, literally, kill them.
That's why this BLOG makes a difference, to me. So armed and informed, I can go out and fight this shit on an individual level on my own. It doesn't take big headlines like the number Glenn did on Joe Klein for me to evaluate it as having a real impact. It is having a real impact. Never stop believing it, friends. It is so.
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Uh-huh.
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have no idea, what do you think?
The more I think about it, the more I realize that just about every post of yours could be condensed to the above. Recommend you lead with it in the future.
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@Zeku
[Read the article: Wait! Don't buy an iPhone for the holidays!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that's just speculation as well. I just did this very dance several weeks ago with AT&T, who was already my provider when my last phone busted. They'll let you do anything you want IF you pay full price for a phone.
To get a reduced cost on the phone, THEN you have to go in for a new contract. As there was like a year left on my previous, they wouldn't even offer me that option. However, because of the promos they were offering for iPhones, it turned out that actually getting a freaking iPhone was a lower-cost option both on sticker price and monthly, so I did.
So I don't think that statement was quite accurate about getting locked in when you buy a phone. You're not, but they won't give you a price break for your upgrade, either.
And on-topic to the article, so what. If you want an iPhone you want an iPhone. I just spent a getaway weekend in another city where I was having to hand it over to my GF every five minutes (while she swore up and down that she would never actually want to OWN one, now hand it over so I can use the Map thingy, honey).
Some people reallllly don't care about the 3G; yeah, that'd be a big improvement for those in the know, but for others, it's like any other tech thing. Next year's are always better.