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At least the most innovative. I think it was meant for kids, so the stories were fairly simple, but the way of using the visual medium to tell those stories was ingenious.

Yeah. I knew the character from the comics, but I didn’t know how they were going to tell that story in a TV medium. What they came up with was unexpected but great.

What I like is that there’s a reason for the surrealist vibe. Often surreal stuff is the way it is because that’s just how the director likes to make things.

In a sense, if he can speed that often and never be involved in an accident, he might be a very good driver.

My mom is a significantly worse driver. She never speeds, but sometimes she drives so slowly on the highway that she’s a danger to other drivers. In addition, many times, she has damaged her car trying to maneuver in an underground parking garage. AFAIK she has never been in an accident where someone was injured, so there are worse drivers out there.

Also Monk, Beef, Life, Taxi, and other 4-letter TV shows.

So good.

Only when those presidents are “deep state” types. Most of the time he’s killing and torturing all kinds of people, uncovering all these hidden plots. And he has to be the one man army righting all the wrongs because the establishment is either corrupt, or too slow to react, or whatever.

You’ll probably also be a fan of MASH, Dark, Rome and Silo.

Yeah, this is a good one, a hidden gem.

24 was highly influential, but the story just isn’t ever believable, and the amount of death and torture is absurd. I’m sure it’s a MAGA favourite, but for other people I think it’s mostly interesting as a cultural artifact.

One I haven’t seen listed here:

Samurai Jack

It’s a cartoon you need to sit down and pay attention to. There’s often action, and it can be goofy, but it also has a lot of really quiet, contemplative scenes.

All great picks.

Andor is so amazing, I don’t know how Lucasfilm / Disney allowed it to get made. It makes every other Star Wars show look like kids playing with action figures.

Legion is amazing. There’s really nothing else like it. It’s a bit Twin Peaksish I guess?

Yeah, it’s amazing. I’ll also recommend What We Do in the Shadows, similar humour with some of the same people involved.

Just as I was reading this, I noticed that as a result of my headphones, I had a hot ear. IYKYK.

I’m in the middle of a BSG rewatch right now, and I still love it.

I can see how someone would say that they weren’t sure what they were going to do when they hit season 3. But the first season felt very tight. The miniseries had the cliffhanger that one of the main cast was a cylon. It’s hard to argue that the first few episodes didn’t build on that cliffhanger.

If you’re saying that at the start of the series they didn’t know how they were going to end it, sure. There aren’t a lot of shows that have a multi-season arc all planned out in advance. Babylon 5 is one of the few I know of that did. The problem is that they never know when they’re going to be cancelled, so there’s no point in trying to make a huge story arc when they will probably have to end the story early.

As for movies being better, it’s true that they can tell a longer story than a TV series. But a 2 hour movie is basically only 3 episodes of a TV show (at 45 minutes + commercials each). Movies suffer because everything has to be introduced and resolved so quickly. The “creative bullshit happening for no reason” is often foreshadowing of something that will only be resolved many episodes later.

There was a reason they killed off Alex…

I’m pretty sure Google’s AI is fed by the same spider that goes out and finds every new or changed web page (or a variant of that).

As soon as someone writes an article about how AI gets something wrong and provides a solution, that solution is now in the AI’s training data.

OTOH, that means it’s probably also ingesting a lot of AI generated slop, which causes its own set of problems.

It’s not literally guessing, because guessing implies it understands there’s a question and is trying to answer that question. It’s not even doing that. It’s just generating words that you could expect to find nearby.