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Hitchhiker's Guide manages that rather well, but it needs relatively lengthy digressions. Frequently interrupting the action with brief comments wouldn't work.

Yes, that's right. Gendered pronouns are only used when talking about someone - but if you're talking to someone, it's quite likely that you'll also be talking about them at some point, and you need to know the correct pronouns then. And even if pronouns aren't used directly, they indicate the gender identity of the person you're talking to, which can be useful.

Indeed; I'd be perfectly happy with that quality on a blu-ray release. I suspect younger viewers would still consider it primitive compared to modern fare, though. It's a question of whether the extra cost of redoing models and textures would pay off in attracting new viewers. Even that is still a big improvement over the cropped and zoomed widescreen versions, though. Hopefully more files than currently known are still in existence and will be uncovered if a full scale remastering does go ahead. Not that long ago we didn't know any files still existed. Well it does help, it's just not sufficient. Fingers crossed the raw footage does still exist and they're willing to go to the expense of finding and scanning it!

Depends what the goal is. If you want everything to look as realistic as modern CGI, sure. But re-rendering the original CGI in HD to match the resolution of the live action film would also be a valid choice.

Sorry to hear that

Cool That's one of the more interesting public holidays I've heard of.

Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam! So what is Prešeren's? I really should visit galleries more often.

Upscaled from the 4:3 SD masters should still look significantly better than the cropped and zoomed 16:9 versions, though. Any word on a blu-ray release?

I'm glad my life doesn't get that interesting!

It might help to know the first season takes place over many years, and each of the main characters starts off at a different point in the timeline. The second season has certainly had difficulties with production (mostly due to covid) but seems unlikely that they'd write off all the work and money that's already gone into it.

Looking promising so far Nice weather, no hangover, and nothing out of the ordinary in the news. Fingers crossed the rest of the world makes it across the line without any new major disasters. Have fun this evening, all, to the extent practical given your local circumstances!

I was in my very late twenties for a while. I think I gave that up after my twenty-fifteenth birthday

Increasingly so over time; it starts off just a bit subtexty, but gets gradually more overt.

I just finished watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - highly recommended!

Can someone change the thread title? It's not a rejection, it's standard for every manuscript to get feedback from the editor no matter how experienced the author, and the length of the delay isn't necessarily indicative of the amount of editing required. It could theoretically be as minimal as "does this one sentence need an Oxford comma for clarity?", but if it takes him a year to decide, then you've got a year's delay. The actual edits are probably more substantial than that, though, and it could easily feel like rejection even if he knows logically that it's a normal part of the process, which wouldn't help with his mental health.

This might be of interest to some of you: https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/rurangi - "a fiercely contemporary new drama series written, produced by and starring transgender talent."

Nah, you're in the right place! It's great that you want to be supportive. It's a legitimate worry, though hopefully she'll pleasantly surprise you. It's hard to advise on living arrangements without being familiar with the family dynamic, but letting him know there's a place for him in your home if he needs it seems like a good plan. Let him know he's welcome, but don't pressure him. One who's explicitly LGBT-friendly, certainly.

There's a little bit more in "In the Beginning". He left it in the wrong person's bedroom

I inherited my grandmother's collection a while back. I mostly read SF/F, but I've been slowly working my way through the Christies. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a highlight so far.

Is there a show that you think does better at costuming a variety of future/alien cultures?

Did you watch the pilot with Takashima and Lyta Alexander and Dr Kyle ("The Gathering")? There's a brief discussion in that explaining that the first four were lost or destroyed. You will find out a bit more about what happened to B5's predecessors over the course of the series. If you haven't seen the pilot, you should watch it now; it's not as good as the main series, but parts of it are important. Don't watch "In the Beginning" yet - it's a prequel, but it's full of spoilers, and you really want to avoid spoilers.

At the time, it was incredible for what it was showing, including large numbers of ships and in particular a lot of movement that couldn't be achieved with physical models. Contemporary Star Trek: TNG model shots mostly consisted of the Enterprise just sitting there, or maybe a slow pan across the model, and relatively recently we'd had things like Battlestar Galactica (original) which had some impressive shots but reused the same footage over and over, and Doctor Who and Blakes 7 whose effects were... variable. It wasn't indistinguishable from reality like modern CGI, but we didn't expect that back then, and it served its purpose in telling the story. And the designs were great.

I'm not convinced the acting is the problem. Can you really imagine any actor pulling that scene off?