Firefly/Serenity is pretty good for world building and characters. But it's only one season and a movie. The Stargate series, specifically SG-1 and Atlantis, have pretty good lore, though they're very mid-2000s weekly shows so the world building doesn't get as much attention as the weekly shenanigans until the later seasons. I saw someone in the comments already recommend Star Trek: TNG, which I'll second wholeheartedly and add in Deep Space Nine for afterward.
If world building is your main criteria, I'd tentatively suggest one of the Game of Thrones series. GoT has an almost universally hated ending, and House of the Dragon seems to be falling apart faster that GoT did, but A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is excellent. It actually has protagonists and it's more optimistic and heroic than the more cynical and bleak GoT and HotD.
Jericho is a really good post-apocalyptic show from the early 2000s. It follows a small Kansas town after a nuclear bomb goes off in a nearby city. They don't know why it happened or how far the attack, if it was an attack, might have gone. The show is mostly about the town, specifically the Greene family, dealing with the fallout (literal and figurative) while holding onto their small town American values. It has one full season and a second, sort of epilogue season that ties up most of the loose ends before the show was canceled, but it's still really good. I rewatch it every few years.
The early 2000s Battlestar Galactica reboot show is also really good. So is Falling Skies, which is another post-apocalyptic show that follows a family as they try to fight back against the aliens that conquered Earth. It has a lot of good people trying to do the right thing and a kind of patriotic through line you don't see anymore. The main character, who's played by Noah Wyle, is a former history teacher who tries to keep the spirit of America alive as much as he can while fighting the aliens. But the world building is very much in the background compared to the fight against the aliens and the personal dramas between the characters.
I'd always recommend Lost. I know people think the ending is confusing but I didn't have any problem with it and I'm not always great at figuring out things in shows that aren't laid out clearly. The Stand mini-series from the 90s is pretty good too. Surprisingly strong Christian themes from something written by Stephen King. Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, and Molly Ringwald are in it. The newer series from a few years back is terrible though.
Iām gonna toss out some suggestions as well, although I tend to enjoy animated shows more frequently than live-action.
Avatar the Last Airbender has been praised for its worldbuilding for years now, and I definitely agree that itās worth watching. It is a kids show, and Season 1 especially feels like a Saturday morning cartoon, but its story and characters live up to all the hype. The show tackles plenty of heavy subject matter, but does so in ways that a lot of kids will be familiar with from their own lives. The world feels vast and real in a way many of its imitators have failed to live up to, and itās full of characters who are just as complex and well developed.
Delicious In Dungeon (or Dungeon Meshi if you prefer) only has one season so far, but a second has been announced. Even if youāre not all that into anime or Dungeons and Dragons, this showās approach to creature design is very inventive in ways that really add to the fantasy genre, as well as offering both exciting fights and hilarious comedy. Itās especially enjoyable to watch the main partyās wildly different personalities clash as they progress through the titular dungeon, and it only gets more entertaining when they bump into other people while on their quest.
Sym-Bionic Titan, much like Firefly, was tragically cancelled before it could really get into more than episodic adventures, but what we actually got is still incredible. Due to only having twenty episodes, weāre left with a lot more questions than answers, both about what the villains actually want and how the protagonists would defeat them, but the interactions among the main cast are still excellent. Itās a teen drama and a giant mech vs giant monster fight at the same time, and itās a lot of fun to watch.
I donāt remember Revolution as being an amazing show, but the worldbuilding was pretty interesting, and it was nice to see a post-apocalyptic story where only some people were total assholes, as opposed to the genre standard of everyone being assholes. I liked the familial bond between main characters Charlie and Miles, and the cause of the societal collapse was fairly unique and grounded for the genre. It very much felt like a CW show, which isnāt really surprising considering it was created by the same guy who made Supernatural, and I remember it falling off in Season 2, but I enjoyed it well enough.
My favorite thing right now are all these videos of Europeans coming to America - especially the South - for the World Cup and discovering an entirely different world from what theyāve been told. š My faves are the guy realizing he can get free refills at a restaurant and downing like 2 or 3 Cokes and looking like the happiest kid alive, and the sweetest little Norwegian kid doing his darnedest to order in English at McDonalds and absolutely nailing it.
And it seems like itās actually making some people here wake up and go āhey, maybe our country is pretty cool after all.ā
Too many people come here and only see NY or LA. There is so much more to America than a handful of failing coastal cities that more resemble third world shitholes than the other 99% of the greatest country on Earth. I love how many people are coming to the real America and finding so many things to love.
I actually think that Mr. Bennet was probably the most similar to Lydia for all that as his favourite daughter Lizzy shared his penchant for books and witticisms about other people.
The thing about Mr. Bennet is he's chiefly concerned with his own amusement, his own interests, while Mrs. Bennet panics over the entailment and what they'll do when he's dead he brushes it off and takes no action, if pushed on it he gets passive-aggressive.
He's not interested in thinking about a world where he's dead or preparing for it, and while that's obviously irresponsible it's also not like that mindset's uncommon even today.
Mr. Bennet doesn't save money, Mr. Bennet reads and jokes around, taking nothing seriously.
Mr. Bennet is prepared to make fun of his young daughters "They are all silly and ignorant like other girls but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters" and tease his wife "You mistake me dear I have a high respect for your nerves, they are my old friends." and everyone else that he comes into contact with "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" "Mr. Bennetās expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped; and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, . . . and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure." He amuses himself with their antics without stepping in to teach the daughters he's responsible for better 'more respectable' ways to behave especially in regards to the scenes they make in public.
That's far less entertaining after all. And would require him to actually put work in rather than look down on them as an observer.
Lizzy mirrors his behaviour a lot at the start of the book in regards to making character judgements about the people around her, but her care in trying to make sure her younger sister doesn't drink too much at the ball for example is something he never would've bothered with and she learns over the course of the book to be less prideful about her 'discernment' and less liable to allow herself to be prejudiced against the people she meets based on hearsay or first impressions.
Lydia meanwhile is similarly entertaining as a member of the family early in the book and later on is revealed to be similarly selfish in what her indifference to the consequences of her choices will mean for the rest of the family, in the note explaining that she has run off with Wickham, Lydia writes āWhat a good joke it will be!ā
While her sense of humour is less cynical and sarcastic than her father's the fact she places priority on what's fun rather than the right thing to do makes her a very interesting parallel.
Of course this is also an indicator of her immaturity and her parents' failures to educate her properly but Lydia ends up being a foil for both her parents', the result of their enabling and neglectful parenting styles and a merging of their worst qualities/personality traits.
In fact her marriage echoes their own "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life." in how she marries thoughtlessly, for attraction rather than love. As ridiculous and inconsiderate as her mother; as passive, selfish and careless in regards to 'duty to the family' as her father and as conceited as both of them.
In the end, he jokes about how quickly his guilt for the situation will pass and he decides not to pay an allowance for her clothes or allow her to visit āI will not encourage the impudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn.ā but this is of course in line with his behaviour all throughout the book.
If it's not interesting to him he either makes fun of it or avoids it.
Having Lydia at Longbourne would mean facing his mistakes with her or even the similarities her marital situation shares with his own and that would be uncomfortable. Unlike Lizzy and Darcy he doesn't change himself at all despite the pressures of the situations he encounters over the course of the book, and sadly neither did Lydia. They didn't want to you see. So they didn't bother and thanks to the efforts of other people, it mostly all worked out for them. At least on the surface.
Mr and Mrs Bennet are both deeply flawed people who fail to properly prepare their daughters for adult life. Jane and Lizzy turned out alright because they were able to parent themselves decently well, which Kitty later benefits from.
Lydiaās fate is as much her parentsā fault as it is Wickhamās.
seems obvious to me that the problem is not the kid but rather that he was "her backup choice for over a decade." plenty of men do step up to raise children that aren't their own. sounds like he just he has more self-respect than to be the simp she kept on the back burner for ten fucking years.
I have a lot of respect for dudes who step up and raise another man's kids. As much as we clown on single moms it's really not the kids' fault and they do deserve a good father figure.
With that being said it's really hard to take a lot of single moms seriously because it's way more likely that they just want you as a resource rather than truly loving you and wanting to build a life with you.
My stepdad was decidedly NOT looking to get married again when he met my mom. He was newly divorced, three teenage kids, and just trying to keep his job and life together. Some friends set up a profile for him on a dating website, but he didnāt pay the subscription because he wasnāt looking to marry again.
He had a list of things a woman would have to be before heād even consider dating them, and he fully admits he made it because he was convinced no woman could match it. She had to be active in the church, divorced, have not been the reason for her divorce, and she had to be the sort of person who was always fifteen minutes early, to name just a few. He finally decided to pay for the subscription just to find people to talk to. He was convinced his list was foolproof.
And then he met my mom.
To hear my dad tell it, he met my mom for the first time and said to himself āCrap. Now I need to get married.ā They dated for about four months before he proposed, and this fall theyāll have been together thirteen years. He went from having three children to having eleven, and heās loved all us kids the same; but the person he loves best is Mom.
Heād been the backup before; the breadwinner, the stabilizing force. What he hadnāt been, to his ex, was the partner. The true love. The best friend.
And then he met my mom.
My mom had been through her own heartbreaks, her own disappointments, and through a lifetime of struggle, what sheād never had was an equal. A security blanket. A partner.
And then she met my dad.
The two of them restored my belief in love. I donāt doubt they love me, but I especially donāt doubt they love each other. While I have yet to meet a man Iād call husband, I know in my bones that I want the same kind of love my parents have for each other.
Ah, let me count the ways in which fandom interpretation of Sirius Black infuriates me. One day, Iāll write an essay, but as I donāt currently have the time to pen a thousand-page epic -
This is literally the moment that possibly defines Sirius the most, and itās the one that everyone forgets.
Everyone knows the story - Sirius arrived at Godricās Hollow, saw the Pottersā bodies, and tore after Peter Pettigrew in a blind, thoughtless, reckless rage.
Um, except he didnāt.
He tried to take care of Harry. He tried to get Hagrid to give Harry to him, and when Hagrid refused, he tried to argue.
What, you think he was planning to tear after Peter with Harry tucked under one arm? Of fucking course not. It didnāt change that he wanted to kill Peter, that he probably would be happy to find and kill him later - but he wasnāt planning to murder anyone, to throw his life away, to even sit in a dark corner and drink himself to death while holding a goddamn baby.
This is Siriusās godson, the person he promised his dead best friend heād protect, and whom he now loved more than anyone alive. Heās asking for the kid so he can take the kid, and that means devoting himself to a lifetime of raising, nurturing, being patient, being parently, changing nappies and nursing fevers and a million other VERY. RESPONSIBLE. THINGS.
Do we know how good Sirius would have been at doing that? Hell no.
But what we do know is the most important thing - that he was willing to try.
Hagrid cites Dumbledoreās orders and wonāt give Harry up.
So itās really only once everything is really gone - that Siriusās responsibilities and attachments are nearly all truly severed - that he decides thereās nothing else to do but go after Peter.
And ties back in with DUMBLEDORE BEING A BIT OF A JACKASS HERE. THEREāS -literally- no reason for him to NOT tell Sirius the reason Harry HAS GOT to live with the Dursleys.
But go Fig, he doesnāt
Oh btw Sirius, sorry you were wrongfully imprisoned in a horrible soul-sucking depressing Wizard prison for YEARS. I assure you it was all necessary.
Everyone always assumes Dumbledore left Sirius to rot, but I think everyoneās forgetting a very important possibility: Dumbledore might not have been there when the Fidelius Charm was cast.
Lots of people assume it was Dumbledore who cast it, but James, Lily, and Sirius were all described as skilled and powerful by those who knew them. Any one of them could have been the one to cast the Fidelius, and Dumbledoreās presence wouldnāt have been necessary at all. If they were really worried about a spy within the Order of the Phoenix, keeping the list of people who know whoās the secret keeper as small as possible would make sense.
Dumbledore is a brilliant wizard, and he knew far more than he let on, but he wasnāt omniscient. Itās entirely possible he, along with everyone else (even Remus), genuinely believed Sirius was the traitor.
Utah lawmakers and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed frustration Saturday after the U.S. Department of Wa
So, in case youāve missed it, the Department of War/Defense has updated its list of religious affiliations for military service members, and the Church of Jesus Christ was explicitly not listed as a denomination of Christianity.
Iām aware that many people, especially in other Christian denominations, donāt view us as ārealā Christians. Some even view us as a cult, while others throw around phrases like āWhite Islamā. I can safely say, as someone whoās been a member of the church my whole life, and has attended other denominationsā church services several times over the years for my fatherās work as a chaplain, that these claims are untrue.
I would like to correct some of my fellow members, who easily discard the label of Christian, or do not see the problem with us not being accepted by others as Christians.
Firstly, the Book of Mormon clearly states in 3 Nephi 27:4-9 āAnd the Lord said unto them: Verily, verily, I say unto you, why is it that the people should murmur and dispute because of this thing? Have they not read the scriptures, which say ye must take upon you the name of Christ, which is my name? For by this name shall ye be called at the last day; And whoso taketh upon him my name, and endureth to the end, the same shall be saved at the last day. Therefore, whatsoever ye shall do, ye shall do it in my name; therefore ye shall call the church in my name; and ye shall call upon the Father in my name that he will bless the church for my sake. And how be it my church save it be called in my name? For if a church be called in Mosesā name then it be Mosesā church; or if it be called in the name of a man then it be the church of a man; but if it be called in my name then it is my church, if it so be that they are built upon my gospel. Verily I say unto you, that ye are built upon my gospel; therefore ye shall call whatsoever things ye do call, in my name; therefore if ye call upon the Father, for the church, if it be in my name the Father will hear you;ā
Jesus commands that the Church be called in His nameāHis mission and atoning sacrifice constitute His gospelāMen are commanded to repent and
Our church leaders have also reinforced our Christianity. In the October general conference of 2007, Elder Jeffrey R Holland said āNow, to anyone within the sound of my voice who has wondered regarding our Christianity, I bear this witness. I testify that Jesus Christ is the literal, living Son of our literal, living God. This Jesus is our Savior and Redeemer who, under the guidance of the Father, was the Creator of heaven and earth and all things that in them are. I bear witness that He was born of a virgin mother, that in His lifetime He performed mighty miracles observed by legions of His disciples and by His enemies as well. I testify that He had power over death because He was divine but that He willingly subjected Himself to death for our sake because for a period of time He was also mortal. I declare that in His willing submission to death He took upon Himself the sins of the world, paying an infinite price for every sorrow and sickness, every heartache and unhappiness from Adam to the end of the world. In doing so He conquered both the grave physically and hell spiritually and set the human family free. I bear witness that He was literally resurrected from the tomb and, after ascending to His Father to complete the process of that Resurrection, He appeared, repeatedly, to hundreds of disciples in the Old World and in the New. I know He is the Holy One of Israel, the Messiah who will one day come again in final glory, to reign on earth as Lord of lords and King of kings. I know that there is no other name given under heaven whereby a man can be saved and that only by relying wholly upon His merits, mercy, and everlasting grace19 can we gain eternal life.ā
We declare it is self-evident from the scriptures that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are separate persons, three divine beings.
During the April general conference of that same year, Elder Gary J. Coleman said āCortnee asked, āMom, are we Christians?ā As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you are a Christian, and I am too. I am a devout Christian who is exceedingly fortunate to have greater knowledge of the true ādoctrine of Christā since my conversion to the restored Church. These truths define this Church as having the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Like other members of the Church, I now understand the true nature of the Godhead, I have access to additional scripture and revelation, and I can partake of the blessings of priesthood authority. Yes, Cortnee, we are Christians, and I testify of these truths in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.ā
I am a devout Christian who is exceedingly fortunate to have greater knowledge of the true ādoctrine of Christā since my conversion to the r
We are commanded by our Lord and Savior to take His name upon ourselves. That includes the name of Christian.
To my fellow members, it does matter that we are called so. To those of other faiths who question or deny our seat at the table, I suggest you reread Mark 9:37-40 āWhosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is on our part.ā
so far, I have quotes from the russos on how they think Cap is old fashioned and needed to go, how black widow was damaged and needed toĀ ācomplete herselfā how tonyĀ āneeds to go.ā they clearly donāt care for thor or ant man, thinking them idiots. They donāt seem to respect Falcon or War machine (I wonder why) so who DO they like?
Why were they given control over a movie franchise where they hate all the characters?
This really freaking annoys me. If youāre in charge of a movie franchise then it is your job to embrace every character, to help them grow and overcome their differences. But no, NO! These asshats kill off every single character that they hate and are acting like complete babies just because they donāt like them. If you donāt like them so much then fuck off! Go and work on something else! Just stop ruining the MCU!!!
On the bright side, knowing the directors actively hated half the characters they were working with leaves me feeling 0% hesitant to ignore every single bullshit character move they made! š
Look, I have my differences with the LOTR movies, but you can see in every frame the sheer overwhelming love for the story that went into those movies. On genuinely every level. Every person involved with the production of those movies loved what they were doing and were working passionately, and it shows.Ā
The disregard that leaks through parts of the MCU, two of the new Star Trek movies, and the new Star Wars trilogy really is baffling to me. So many people love these franchises and would have lovinglyĀ poured their heart and soul into them. And filmmakers who just didnāt care were handed these films?? Imagine what we could have gotten if actual fans had been allowed to make these movies.Ā
Oh wait, I donāt have to imagine. People who love these franchises and these characters put their tiny amounts of free time and overwhelming effort into producing fanfiction and fanart for these characters every day. I could go on AO3 right now and in half a dozen clicks get sweeping, beautiful, poeticĀ treatises on the human condition written through these āVerses. Vast arrays of adventures starring these characters, and the characters themselves would be lovingly adored by their writers. I could enjoy content made by people who care.Ā
These directors and producers donāt deserve to be handed these franchises and they donāt deserve the paychecks they receive for half-assing their way through them. Not when fans produce outstanding content every day for free, just out of passion alone. This is ridiculous, can Hollywood please start putting people who actually care about the characters in charge of the movies? Please? I promise Iāll go back to buying movie tickets if I think the characters will be treated fairly by their narratives.Ā
And this is what happens in almost all film adaptations these days. Theyāre handed off to people who donāt like or care about the source material, want to āfixā it, and/or want to āput their own stampā on someone elseās work. And when you do accidentally get someone who cares about the thing theyāre adapting, it gets canceled for ānot having broad appeal beyond fans of the source materialā like the new Stargate show Amazon just axed in the womb.
So often, I have to explain to people that yes, I am a fan of X/Y/Z franchise, and no I will not watch whatever new thing is coming out. That doesnāt make me a āfake fanā or āposerā, it makes me someone who can tell when the creators of a new project in said franchise actively despises the universe theyāre telling a story in.
It should go without saying that if a filmmaker/television producer doesnāt like a particular franchise, they should not make a movie or tv show in said franchise, but apparently some people havenāt gotten the message.
āIf thou wilt do good, yea, and hold out faithful to the end, thou shalt be saved in the kingdom of God, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God; for there is no gift greater than the gift of salvation.ā
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it genuinely melts my brain watching people take sith monologues at face value like theyāre TED talks instead ofā¦ you knowā¦ villain speeches.
like. these are not neutral historians. these are not unbiased narrators. these are men who wake up every morning and choose manipulation as a lifestyle.
and yet people hear palpatine whispering into anakinās ear like āthe jedi are hiding things from youā¦ they donāt trust youā¦ā and go. wow. compelling. source: dude in a hood who has never told the truth once in his life.
HELLO???
of course heās going to say that. what else is he supposed to do. sit anakin down and go āhi yes i am actively trying to emotionally isolate you from your support system so i can turn you into my apprentice and ruin your lifeā like be serious š
same with maul going āyouāve been indoctrinated by the jediā as if HE wasnāt raised in a sith pipeline since childhood. sir. that is not a revelation.
and dooku. walking around like a philosophy professor going āthe republic is corruptā yeah okay, we know, and your solution isā¦ fascism with extra lightning???
like yes. the jedi made mistakes. but, theyāre an institution, not a divine being. but the leap from āthe jedi arenāt perfectā to āthe sith are telling the truth actuallyā is INSANE to me.
A lot of people have become really enamored with the idea that villains should āhave a pointā, and while for specific stories that can work, Star Wars is about as simple as it gets.
The Jedi are the good guys. We know this because Lukeās entire heroās journey is about him becoming a Jedi. The Sith build weapons of mass destruction and rule through fear, while the Jedi do their best to stop them.
Some Sith can be tragic victims, but the doctrine of the Sith is fundamentally evil, and the Jedi are right to call it so.
Thank you for the tag @nerdy-catfish! Hmm, this should be interesting. Itās taking me so long to narrow it down from 30 though XD
ā¦I canāt get it below eight, so Iāll leave all of them ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero's take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise's already dedicated fanbase.
This is utterly insane. "We canceled it because it appealed to its dedicated fanbase" is just....I don't even have a word. It wasn't even that long ago when executives would have killed to have an IP that came with its own built in dedicated fanbase. That was a large part of why Disney even bought Lucasfilm, ffs. But no, modern executives can't help believing in the mythical "modern audience" that never shows up for any of the woke slop they churn out.
This makes me fear for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40k show.
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