I was trying to temper my expectations, but mobile games are a bit of a letdown, to say the least.
I feel insufficiently teased!
It's hard to characterize mergers of this type as good news, but if Skydance is actually going to be "creative-first", it might be the least-bad of the potential outcomes that have been in play over the last year or so.
Firstly, I should point out that it's completely possible to sing the praises of one show without crapping on another.
With that out of the way, I agree it's a damn shame Paramount+ cancelled Prodigy. I think it was probably the "right" decision on paper - the Hagemans themselves have said they were shown the numbers, and they weren't great - but that probably speaks to the inadequacies of their platform. It doesn't seem to be a good place for children's programming.
Regardless of whether we get more Prodigy, I hope it was well-loved by its target audience, and I hope that it helped to create a new generation of Trek who can carry on with "Starfleet Academy" and the other series as they grow up.
In fact, if anyone has kids who have been watching it, I'd love to hear what they thought of it.
I think it's a fine idea that requires a certain degree of community and camaraderie that I'm not sure exists in the Lemmyverse yet.
As a group, we're good at sharing articles - often stuff that makes us mad (and there's plenty of that to go around) - but less good at just...hanging out and shooting the shit.
I don't know what the solution is aside from, "be the change you want to see."
Oh, they're absolutely outliers.
But I'm one of them, so it's in my mind. And there are still plenty of people in rural settings for whom it'll be a concern.
To be honest, if he was, by his own admittance, standing on a public sidewalk for 30 minutes with his gear, then he earned that loitering fine.
According to this very article, with emphasis added,
Quebec City's municipal bylaw says that is "prohibited for a person, without a reasonable motive … to loiter, wander or sleep in a street or a public space."
[Criminal defence lawyer Florence Boucher Cossette] said Morris likely has a good shot at winning his case, as people accused of loitering when they were sunbathing or drinking coffee on a bench were acquitted in previous cases.
Perhaps the headline should have reflected the actual topic more accurately.
The party's in trouble, there's no question about that - I'm not convinced that this will be the turning point, but I also don't think that's really the point of this story, y'know?
I really hope part of the plan is to find a way to depoliticize the whole process so this clown show doesn't happen again.
It's not a zero-sum game, and one entry doesn't have to die for another to live.
From estimates I've seen, the viewership of "Lower Decks" is relatively low, second only to "Prodigy." It may be very popular with people like us, but it doesn't seem to generate as many viewers as you might expect.