I remember I really started to get into writing around the time BSG was on the air, and Moore very quickly became one of my favourite writers because he didn’t romanticise the process and was willing to say “this episode I wrote didn’t work, and here’s the reason why”

On the other-other hand: if you’re interested in writing, Ron Moore and Brannon Braga’s commentary track on the dvd is fantastic.

They take the opportunity to perform a thorough post-mortem on the film and go through why things didn’t work out in the final product.

To that point, I do feel Zack Snyder’s a great example of a guy who is a genuinely good filmmaker when he has somebody above him telling him”no” or “you can have one or the other, you can’t have both”

For every tale of a master auteur director sticking to his guns no matter what and delivering one masterpiece after another, there are probably dozens of stories where a studio note or restriction ended up benefitting or even saving the film.

He was also the judge in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige

*Starts googling “how to do procedural generation”*
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*Googles “how to do procedural generation for dummies”*

Because it adds an interesting dimension to the character without undermining him or contradicting prior information?

And no, go back and watch the episode again, the condition they are describing is clearly dyslexia (and I’m speaking as somebody who works in special education).

Here’s the thing though; does anything fundamentally change about the character of Spock when you learn he has dyslexia? I’d respectfully argue that it doesn’t.

I mean, I’d understand the sentiment if they revealed he’s been a Romulan all this time, or that he could shoot lasers out of his eyes.

Yeah, while I didn’t love Legacy, I still *really* liked it and thought it was a solid foundation to build something interesting off of.

(And that Daft Punk soundtrack is fantastic!)

It’s just sad they decided to jettison it all for a project that was dead on arrival the moment it was announced.

And the telling part is that they’d always get super angry and instantly revert to childish name-calling whenever I’d ask them to explain how or why it was disrespectful.

I remember hearing this a lot when it was revealed in Discovery that Spock had dyslexia.

As somebody who works in special education, I thought it was a nice little beat, but for some reason the chuds started shouting that that addition was “disrespectful” and “destroys his character”

(tbh, I’m going to have another stab at the Thunderbirds piece to the left at some point in the coming weeks. So… I dunno… watch this space, I guess)

The UK for the last 15 years has basically been:

“Hey, remember that bonkers Lord Cuthbert of Dingleberry who thought penguins are made of cream cheese and that oregano is a cure for smallpox? He was hilarious on Have I Got News For You, wasn’t he? Anyway, he’s our health secretary now…”