Predicted? Oliver pretty much openly challenged Murray to sue him. It really was a sublime segment, and yes, while John Oliver is a comedian, and sprinkles his segments with a healthy dose of humor, at the core is well-researched investigative journalism. Well, in this case, Oliver is playing provocateur, but that can be news as well? Murrow went down the same path with McCarthy and Cronkite with Vietnam, because sometimes it's the guy that people watch on TV every night who has to be the one who tells it straight.
It's worse for Murray than that. While other networks' news organizations are mainly just interested in reporting a story, Oliver has absolutely no problem with multi-episode segments. His brutal (and much needed) attacks on FIFA were a good example of how he and his writers can happily air updates to previous stories, in the case of FIFA, each new segment more astounding than the last (and not really because of Oliver, but largely because FIFA is truly an evil and corrupt organization run by sociopaths and arch-criminals worthy of a Bond film).
So I'm sure Oliver's team was expecting, even looking forward to Murray's inevitable lawsuit. Indeed, Oliver pretty much openly challenged him to, and you can be sure that there will be followup segments until Murray's case is dismissed, as apparently they all have been.
Something like this doesn't end up on air without the network's lawyers and executives getting involved. Oliver and his writers came up with the segment, knew they were going to be doing something very damned provocative, obviously went to HBO with the segment and HBO, who let's be blunt here, makes a lot of money off of Oliver's show, said "go for it!" There's always risk with these sorts of pieces, whether it's a semi-serious/comedy news program or a more mainstream newsroom, but either way, so long as you've crossed your "t"s and dotted your "i"s, I don't see much likelihood in this case of a successful outcome for the complainant. Unless he can show Oliver and his team willfully misrepresented the facts, all that's going to happen is some lawyers make some money.
Which was really the whole point. Even down to the Sulu with his husband scene in the last film. It's just done very matter-of-factly. There's no attempt to editorialize it. This is just how people are in the 23rd century, apparently.
Enterprise's last real story arc was about a xenophobic lunatic who wanted to get rid of all the undesirables (in that case, non-humans), but it's pretty clear the intent here was very much to bring up anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and other Western countries after 9-11. I suspect some people on Slashdot right now would believe that the writers were deliberately forcing their SJW beliefs on poor long suffering people who just want to be able to shout "Tell the Mexicans to fuck off" and have no one disagree.
Whatever Roddenberry's flaws, he really was a social justice warrior of his time, and pretty much planned Star Trek from the get-go as a means of taking on controversial issues, but using science fiction as a means of getting it past the network skittishness for not wanting to freak out the advertisers or affiliates. He had every intention of poking certain people in the eye, whether they noticed it or not.
This is franchise that arguably gave at least the United States its first televised interracial kiss
The fact is that Roddenberry had no problem directly invoking controversial topics when he wanted to, so considering some still find gay people some horrifying and awful thing that should be kept off the TV, well, that's not so different as to how some people felt in even in the mid and late 1960s that any interracial sexual contact was horrifying and awful.
For chrissake, people were freaking out about the Sulu and his husband thing from the last ST film, and it was like a five second chunk of film of the most modest kind of affection. The way some people were freaking out, you think it was full on gay sex happening.
That's one of the worst parts of Enterprise. That bad Rod Stewart-imitation theme song was just terrible, and the "remix" somehow found a way to make it worse. They could have taken any of the action incidental music and patched together a better theme song.
I imagine laser communications would likely suffice, though 4ly means a lot of juice required. The technology probably exists, but just how much power is such a probe going to have to pack?
I know there was some criticism of both Breaking Bad and Mad Men splitting their last seasons, though as I recall, with BB, it was the writer's strike that forced that. Of course, I finished up watching both series via streaming, so seasons don't mean shit to me anymore.
The problem was that Enterprise was utterly botched. They had the whole pre-Federation story to tell, and wasted an entire season on the stupid Xindi thing, and had the idiotic Temporal War meta-arc throughout the first three seasons, actually right into the fourth. It wasn't until the fourth, with the series' already on the chopping block that they finally decided to show how the Federation was founded.
Enterprise actually had quite a few good episodes, and I actually thought Tucker, in particular, was an outstanding character who invoked the Montgomery Scott style of "Don't fuck with my ship!" attitude. But Enterprise squandered so many opportunities because Berman and Braga just couldn't get themselves out of the DS9-Voyager headspace, and littered what should have been a new start with the storytelling refuse of the two previous series.
A proper Enterprise would have avoided big multi-episode story arcs for the most part, modeling itself more on TOS and TNG. I get that you cannot reasonably have every episode about the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellerites, etc., but I finally abandoned the whole thing somewhere in the middle of Season 3 because it seemed to be suffering the same kind nonsensical storytelling that I found so grating in Voyager. But by that point Berman and Braga had developed their cookie-cutter approach to scripts and story arcs, and they were going to stick with it come hell or high water.
Considering one of the original concepts of Star Trek was to delve into controversial social issues, how would, for instance, episodes on LGBTQ rights be out of place. This is franchise that arguably gave at least the United States its first televised interracial kiss, and a franchise where tolerance for the "other", however that might be defined in any given episode, was considered one of the highest ideals of the Federation.
When I rewatched Enterprise (or rather rewatched the first two and a half seasons and the rest of season 3 and 4 that I had simply abandoned), I found, quite sadly, that there were some rather good episodes, and some of the best came in the last season after the production team and writers clearly knew the show was dead. But it's always about two things; does the crew jive with the audience, and is there enough good stories to outweigh the bad ones?
Obviously there are going to be rehashings, that's sort of inevitable consider the sheer volume of Trek episodes and movies out there, but if they can find a new angle then even a rehashed story can become interesting.
I'll say this about it. Star Trek Continues has demonstrated how good writing and a love for the source material can produce some outstanding SciFi, so if some fans working with fundraised cash can put together some pretty goddamned good science fiction episodes, surely a big studio can do the same if it wants to.
Well, this is a start. Phone locking has been outrageously abused by carriers, and I'm glad they're getting another kick in the balls from the CRTC. Next should be a review of wireless pricing.
Seriously? Are you a fucking retard? The absorption and emission properties of CO2 have been known for over a century. I have to assume you are indeed a complete fucking moron.
Sooner or later it's all going to get rammed down your throat. How much do you want to pay for house insurance? How much do you think your taxes will go up to pay for remediation or repair of damaged infrastructure? You're not immune from the costs of AGW, and actuaries are already pricing it into insurance.
There are things that nation states are supposed to do; things that private organizations or sub-national jurisdictions can't expect to do or could never afford to do. Your ideology is getting in the way of seeing the big picture. The physical laws of the universe don't give a flying fuck about your ideology. It is utterly meaningless. CO2 has the properties it has, and shouting "STATIST FUCKS" is simply the cry of stupidity and impotence.
If, by sabotage, you mean they report what he says and does, then I concede the point, but then again, that's their job, so if Trump doesn't want them sabotaging him, he should stop giving them so much fodder.
Translation: I've stuck my finger in my ear, refused to even understand what is alleged to have happened, and want anyone who challenges Trump to be sent to prison.
If members of Trump's team were coordinating with the Russians for timed releases of information against Clinton, then that's treason. Whether Trump was directly involved or not may not be known, but may not even be that important.
So how about you first eliminate that strawman you've created of the allegations to start with, because it just makes you look like either a complete idiot or a liar.
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Predicted? Oliver pretty much openly challenged Murray to sue him. It really was a sublime segment, and yes, while John Oliver is a comedian, and sprinkles his segments with a healthy dose of humor, at the core is well-researched investigative journalism. Well, in this case, Oliver is playing provocateur, but that can be news as well? Murrow went down the same path with McCarthy and Cronkite with Vietnam, because sometimes it's the guy that people watch on TV every night who has to be the one who tells it straight.
It's worse for Murray than that. While other networks' news organizations are mainly just interested in reporting a story, Oliver has absolutely no problem with multi-episode segments. His brutal (and much needed) attacks on FIFA were a good example of how he and his writers can happily air updates to previous stories, in the case of FIFA, each new segment more astounding than the last (and not really because of Oliver, but largely because FIFA is truly an evil and corrupt organization run by sociopaths and arch-criminals worthy of a Bond film).
So I'm sure Oliver's team was expecting, even looking forward to Murray's inevitable lawsuit. Indeed, Oliver pretty much openly challenged him to, and you can be sure that there will be followup segments until Murray's case is dismissed, as apparently they all have been.
Something like this doesn't end up on air without the network's lawyers and executives getting involved. Oliver and his writers came up with the segment, knew they were going to be doing something very damned provocative, obviously went to HBO with the segment and HBO, who let's be blunt here, makes a lot of money off of Oliver's show, said "go for it!" There's always risk with these sorts of pieces, whether it's a semi-serious/comedy news program or a more mainstream newsroom, but either way, so long as you've crossed your "t"s and dotted your "i"s, I don't see much likelihood in this case of a successful outcome for the complainant. Unless he can show Oliver and his team willfully misrepresented the facts, all that's going to happen is some lawyers make some money.
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Which was really the whole point. Even down to the Sulu with his husband scene in the last film. It's just done very matter-of-factly. There's no attempt to editorialize it. This is just how people are in the 23rd century, apparently.
Enterprise's last real story arc was about a xenophobic lunatic who wanted to get rid of all the undesirables (in that case, non-humans), but it's pretty clear the intent here was very much to bring up anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and other Western countries after 9-11. I suspect some people on Slashdot right now would believe that the writers were deliberately forcing their SJW beliefs on poor long suffering people who just want to be able to shout "Tell the Mexicans to fuck off" and have no one disagree.
Whatever Roddenberry's flaws, he really was a social justice warrior of his time, and pretty much planned Star Trek from the get-go as a means of taking on controversial issues, but using science fiction as a means of getting it past the network skittishness for not wanting to freak out the advertisers or affiliates. He had every intention of poking certain people in the eye, whether they noticed it or not.
I did say:
The fact is that Roddenberry had no problem directly invoking controversial topics when he wanted to, so considering some still find gay people some horrifying and awful thing that should be kept off the TV, well, that's not so different as to how some people felt in even in the mid and late 1960s that any interracial sexual contact was horrifying and awful.
For chrissake, people were freaking out about the Sulu and his husband thing from the last ST film, and it was like a five second chunk of film of the most modest kind of affection. The way some people were freaking out, you think it was full on gay sex happening.
Thanks for demonstrating my point that LGBTQ is controversial.
That's one of the worst parts of Enterprise. That bad Rod Stewart-imitation theme song was just terrible, and the "remix" somehow found a way to make it worse. They could have taken any of the action incidental music and patched together a better theme song.
In other words, LGBTQ issues are controversial.
If it isn't controversial, why do some posters here not want to hear anything about it?
I imagine laser communications would likely suffice, though 4ly means a lot of juice required. The technology probably exists, but just how much power is such a probe going to have to pack?
I know there was some criticism of both Breaking Bad and Mad Men splitting their last seasons, though as I recall, with BB, it was the writer's strike that forced that. Of course, I finished up watching both series via streaming, so seasons don't mean shit to me anymore.
The problem was that Enterprise was utterly botched. They had the whole pre-Federation story to tell, and wasted an entire season on the stupid Xindi thing, and had the idiotic Temporal War meta-arc throughout the first three seasons, actually right into the fourth. It wasn't until the fourth, with the series' already on the chopping block that they finally decided to show how the Federation was founded.
Enterprise actually had quite a few good episodes, and I actually thought Tucker, in particular, was an outstanding character who invoked the Montgomery Scott style of "Don't fuck with my ship!" attitude. But Enterprise squandered so many opportunities because Berman and Braga just couldn't get themselves out of the DS9-Voyager headspace, and littered what should have been a new start with the storytelling refuse of the two previous series.
A proper Enterprise would have avoided big multi-episode story arcs for the most part, modeling itself more on TOS and TNG. I get that you cannot reasonably have every episode about the Vulcans, Andorians, Tellerites, etc., but I finally abandoned the whole thing somewhere in the middle of Season 3 because it seemed to be suffering the same kind nonsensical storytelling that I found so grating in Voyager. But by that point Berman and Braga had developed their cookie-cutter approach to scripts and story arcs, and they were going to stick with it come hell or high water.
Considering one of the original concepts of Star Trek was to delve into controversial social issues, how would, for instance, episodes on LGBTQ rights be out of place. This is franchise that arguably gave at least the United States its first televised interracial kiss, and a franchise where tolerance for the "other", however that might be defined in any given episode, was considered one of the highest ideals of the Federation.
When I rewatched Enterprise (or rather rewatched the first two and a half seasons and the rest of season 3 and 4 that I had simply abandoned), I found, quite sadly, that there were some rather good episodes, and some of the best came in the last season after the production team and writers clearly knew the show was dead. But it's always about two things; does the crew jive with the audience, and is there enough good stories to outweigh the bad ones?
Obviously there are going to be rehashings, that's sort of inevitable consider the sheer volume of Trek episodes and movies out there, but if they can find a new angle then even a rehashed story can become interesting.
I'll say this about it. Star Trek Continues has demonstrated how good writing and a love for the source material can produce some outstanding SciFi, so if some fans working with fundraised cash can put together some pretty goddamned good science fiction episodes, surely a big studio can do the same if it wants to.
Nowadays that's going to mean more robots...
Well, this is a start. Phone locking has been outrageously abused by carriers, and I'm glad they're getting another kick in the balls from the CRTC. Next should be a review of wireless pricing.
Seriously? Are you a fucking retard? The absorption and emission properties of CO2 have been known for over a century. I have to assume you are indeed a complete fucking moron.
http://irina.eas.gatech.edu/EA...
So you think the "Right" isn't paying for climate change? Ever heard of the insurance industry?
Sooner or later it's all going to get rammed down your throat. How much do you want to pay for house insurance? How much do you think your taxes will go up to pay for remediation or repair of damaged infrastructure? You're not immune from the costs of AGW, and actuaries are already pricing it into insurance.
There are things that nation states are supposed to do; things that private organizations or sub-national jurisdictions can't expect to do or could never afford to do. Your ideology is getting in the way of seeing the big picture. The physical laws of the universe don't give a flying fuck about your ideology. It is utterly meaningless. CO2 has the properties it has, and shouting "STATIST FUCKS" is simply the cry of stupidity and impotence.
If, by sabotage, you mean they report what he says and does, then I concede the point, but then again, that's their job, so if Trump doesn't want them sabotaging him, he should stop giving them so much fodder.
Can you define "fine job" for me? He hasn't done much, and much of the little he's done is either trapped by the courts or by Congress.
Comey sat right in a Congressional committee meeting and said out loud "The Russians interfered with the election".
Translation: I've stuck my finger in my ear, refused to even understand what is alleged to have happened, and want anyone who challenges Trump to be sent to prison.
If members of Trump's team were coordinating with the Russians for timed releases of information against Clinton, then that's treason. Whether Trump was directly involved or not may not be known, but may not even be that important.
So how about you first eliminate that strawman you've created of the allegations to start with, because it just makes you look like either a complete idiot or a liar.