Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialtoMovies and TV Shows@lemm.ee•Supergirl Found: Milly Alcock to Play Heroine in James Gunn’s DC Movies
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    9 months ago

    I wonder what the value proposition is for actors taking on these movies anymore.

    A decent pay cheque I imagine. Also, if you’ve ever dreamed of being able to fly or punch a bad guy through a wall or what have you, you’ll be able to live our those fantasies (and getting paid for it). In other words, it might just be a fun experience. Not everything has to be a calculated career move.

    Surely she has the pull to land something better right now?

    I dunno. House of the Dragon was her big break, no doubt, but she was only in a handful of episodes. She didn’t break out in the way that, say, Emilia Clarke did on Game of Thrones.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPtoStar Trek@startrek.website•Skydance Makes Offer For Paramount Global; Star Trek Franchise Could Be Under New Ownership, Again
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    9 months ago

    Lots of negativity in this thread, but that seems to be par for the course for any fandom. Personally I’m cautiously optimistic.

    Skydance produced/co-produced (often partnering with Paramount) on a number of franchise movies, including Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Jack Reacher, Top Gun, GI Joe, Terminator, The Old Guard and Spy Kids. Some of their productions have been well-received (eg Mission Impossible, Top Gun Maverick) and others less so (Terminator Genysis and Dark Fate, although personally I quite liked Dark Fate). They’ve also produced smaller, critically acclaimed movies like True Grit, Annihilation and Air; as well as their share of dreck of course, like Geostorm.

    What I think is clear though is that Skydance is primarily interested in big franchises, so if they were to acquire Paramount, I think more Star Trek movies would very likely be in the works which, as a fan, I’d be happy about. I know there’s an argument that Trek is best suited to TV, but some of the best Star Trek has been big screen Star Trek. And studios are more willing these days to have franchises run across both TV and film concurrently (MCU, DC, Star Wars), granted with mixed success.

    Re Larry Ellison’s involvement - my guess is that he’d be a silent partner, putting some of his personal fortune - rather than Oracle’s funds - to help out his son. I believe he did the same thing for his daughter, Megan Ellison, whose company Annapurna Pictures he helped fun and which went on to produce films like Her, Zero Dark Thirty, Phantom Thread and Books Smart (and the stage musical A Strange Loop). I doubt Larry Ellison will take a hands-on role in the management of Skydance/Paramount.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialtoMovies and TV Shows@lemm.ee•[Discussion] Do you have franchise fatigue? Or is there still a franchise that you enjoy seeing?
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    10 months ago

    Franchises have always struggled to reconcile the need to reinvent themselves on the one hand, and the need to retain those elements that attract fans to the franchise on the other. As a long-time Star Trek fan I also want the franchise to push forward and try new things (and in some ways recent shows have done so - eg Lower Decks being Trek’s first sitcom), but at the same time many fans just want to see the characters that they know and love, hence the obsession with bringing back - or tying new characters to - legacy characters (ala Strange New Worlds or Picard’s third season). I wish they’d kept Kirk to the very last episode of Strange New World, and was even a bit disappointed to see the TOS Enterprise appear at the end of the first season of Discovery.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    10 months ago

    Ernest hasn’t posted since last week, so hopefully he’s okay. He’s alluded to having a fever and having to figure out kbin’s finances (and a bit before that, mentioned that he had to take on another job to cover the bills), so I’m guessing life has gotten in the way of kbin. It’s worth bearing in mind that all the threadiverse projects are basically someone’s hobby at the moment.

    Some of us _aspire _ to dwelling in a basement!

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    10 months ago

    Magazine moderators have the ability to delete posts in their community (also pin/unpin them) and ban users from their community. I don’t think it would take a huge amount of time as a rule - it’s just a matter of checking in regularly (I suppose ideally several times a day) to see if there are any moderator actions that need to be taken.

    Beyond that, moderators typically play a role in curating content and setting/monitoring community guidelines. But we’ve been talking about people being appointed solely to carry out the more technical/administrative functions in certain magazines to prevent the recent flood of spam. Ie, people have said they’d be happy to ban spam accounts without necessarily taking on the curation of the magazine in question.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    10 months ago

    Agree, but it’s not a question of him appointing moderators. It’s a question of people stepping up and volunteering to be moderators. There are literally thousands of kbin magazines which are currently abandoned, ie where the moderator of the magazine hasn’t been active on kbin.social. Anyone can volunteer to take over ownership of these magazines by clicking a button, but there isn’t enough interest in the userbase at the moment.

    However, you are correct in that spammers are targeting the bigger magazines like m/fediverse, and because Ernest is owner of these magazines but is active on the site, these magazines don’t appear in the abandoned magazines list. I agree that in order to ease the administrative burden on him, Ernest should call for additional moderators for these most active magazines, and even step down as the owner of these when one or more replacements have been found.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPtoMusical Theatre@kbin.social•Conductor Karl Jurman Has Worked on The Lion King for 26 Years
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    10 months ago

    The first time I saw The Lion King many years ago I had no idea what to expect. I’d seen the movie of course, but knew very little about the stage show. So the parade of animals during “The Circle of Life” at the beginning of the show took me by total surprise. It was one of the most breathtaking, magical things I’d seen in the theatre and I actually started crying. Which was a bit embarrassing, but I discovered over the years (and as this interview indicates) I was far from the only one to have this reaction. This is actually one of the problems with the show in my opinion - The Lion King never gets better than its opening number. Although given “The Circle of Life” is arguably the greatest opening in musical theatre, that’s not a bad problem to have.