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Re: Wonder Woman 84
Negative reviews seem to bring up the lack of action... I agree that WW84 was a bit more story/ character development and less action. But I don't think it was unreasonably so... I am not a movie snob when dealing with an action/ hero movies. The part of my brain that analyzes and looks for deep meaning... it can take a break. I watched it on HBO Max, which I already had, so it was like it was free. I watch thin on my new 4K TV and the cinematics and audio were GREAT.
Re: The Mandalorian
@BuddyJ said:
Welp yesterday's announcements seem to show that Disney+ is doubling-down on Star Wars and they're using this series to pilot future shows. I'm game for it.Today's episode was sooooo gooood.
Doubling down? More like quadrupling or quintupling down. Milking that Cash core as long as they can. And I'm in for all of it.
Re: The Mandalorian
@BuddyJ said:
I'm concerned about the direction they took in the most recent episode. There are now so many plot threads in play, I'm intrigued to see what gets wrapped up in the next two episodes to finish out this season and what will be left hanging for future seasons. Some of these recent developments are big things that I think would be hard to handle as a show runner; do you wrap it up in two episodes, or leave it hanging and drag it out well into next season. Either choice seems like it'd be very divisive among the audience at this point.
I think they are confident enough in their direction that they are going to spin off into a larger television universe. I'm thrilled that they may be able to tie up some glaring loose ends from the Disney trilogy which let's face it... was produced by people who had no cohesive plan... well now they have an out, they can play it cool and be like, Yo, we knew exactly what we were doing all along.
This episode though, forget the narrative direction for a moment, it was just cool, at least cool in the nine year old boy sense of the word. You see that episode and you immediately run and play with your action figures. It gave me that feeling. I wish I had some toys to start going pew pew pew on the floor immediately after viewing. It fired off my Star Wars endorphins. Honestly, after episode nine I thought, maybe I just have outgrown this thing? Maybe I loved Star Wars and I just don't anymore.... Like you doubt yourself and your own tastes. Maybe it's me? This episode totally erased that doubt for me. Star Wars is still a thrill in the hands of the right storyteller.
Re: Deepmind and what it means for the future of folding
When I first read that news my big take away was they figured out how to do correct computer modeling of the protein. If they can figure out how to translate that into a more standardized model everyone can run then no. Even doing the work in the lab is super hard. f@h resimulating proteins already done and giving confirmation to existing work would be huge since experimental sciences are very hard to reproduce. Real impact on our lives I do not believe f@h has an effective ROI but I still do it for now.