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Diversify. Not everyone is a fan of Marvel. But I would happily watch a new episode of Silicon Valley or Friends level show every day. I wish Mike Judge made a

Diversify. Not everyone is a fan of Marvel. But I would happily watch a new episode of Silicon Valley or Friends level show every day. I wish Mike Judge made a show about FTX and crypto. :) that would be hilarious.

hnthrowaway1099 4y ago
Wow brilliant idea, Silicon Valley needs a reboot.
- karp773 4y ago
  Yeah, the script wrote itself. You simply can't make this stuff up.
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  Nah, I am glad it ended. Some characters were well written, others were pretty much a excuse for racism.
  - TaylorAlexander 4y ago
    For sure. I remember really liking Gilfoyle as a character for his deadpan no bullshit and high skill personality. But then I watched a supercut of his "best moments" (at least according to one youtuber) and it was chock full of insults against Dinesh's masculinity, which is both gross from a racism point of view (I have been told that foreign men are often considered less masculine as a kind of racism) and gross from a healthy masculinity point of view (It's okay for men to cry, and have diverse interests, etc). Of course they could update the characters, but they could also just leave that story to rest. All the things we grew up loving were once original stories, and I would love to see more new original content rather than this machine that "efficiently" churns out smoothed over copies of the same hits from last year.
    - 29athrowaway 4y ago
      Jian Yang's character is a pretty offensive depiction of Chinese people. Gilfoyle being a grumpy sysadmin is probably an accurate depiction of a sysadmin. They're all grumpy.
      - TaylorAlexander 4y ago
        The grumpyness is what I love about him. But in the supercut I watched, he is constantly specifically attacking other men's masculinity in a way which felt super toxic. There's plenty of healthy ways to present a grumpy character but Gilfoyle's behavior with regard to masculinity just sucks.
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    - sincerely 4y ago
      Why would you expect a character in a comedy show to be a good role model? All of the characters have pretty obvious flaws and the show is better for it.
      - TaylorAlexander 4y ago
        It's not just his behavior, but how the writing and presentation of the show frame those behaviors. You can have a sexist character, but how the show treats that behavior reveals what the people creating the show want the audience to take away. The show can present bad behavior as leading to negative consequences. But Gilfoyle's sexism is presented uncritically as comedy, with no negative consequences. It is the framing of this behavior that I take issue with.
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    - happymellon 4y ago
      > I have been told that foreign men are often considered less masculine as a kind of racism Not defending him, but Gilfoyle was foreign as well? I've known plenty of people like that, and they are just pricks.
  - karp773 4y ago
    It's a good opportunity to right the wrongs and double down on the good stuff. In case of FTX, there are SBF, misters Wong and Singh. Imagine a second coming of Erlich Bachman as a crypto bro. Who would not wanna watch this? For the feminists out there, there's emancipated miss Ellison.
- kyriakos 4y ago
  Recent twitter story would make great comedy someday.
  - akho 4y ago
    Someday?
fnordpiglet 4y ago
Final season of the expanse.
- avaldez_ 4y ago
  Oh my God. With Disney money we could have all three last books on streaming. Disney could pick up the show ten years from now and the aged actors wouldn't even matter. What a dream.
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    You would think with Bezos money we would too. I don’t understand why he bought the series then didn’t bring it to conclusion. I’ve read they didn’t want to deal with aging the actors, but that’s kind of absurd given the state of the art.
colordrops 4y ago
Check out Andor. It's under the Disney Star Wars umbrella, but it's nothing like the rest of star wars. Made by the same people that worked on House of Cards, Game of Thrones, the Bourne series, Nightcrawler, and others. It's smart and subtle and insanely entertaining, though it is a slow burn that focuses on character development rather than action. But it has action too... But no light sabers or Jedi. Yet...
- poisonarena 4y ago
  > It's smart and subtle and insanely entertaining I disagree, I feel like its the same as all the rest but the writers in the board meetings are like.. We need to make Star Wars for 25-40 year old men to feel like adults watching it. > slow burn planned that way not because it is a slow burn high pay off scenario. But because it is planned to drag on so you just keep watching it consistently. Most of these garbage shows in the last 5 years or so have embraced this 'pseudo-slowburn' style to make baby men feel more sophisticated while hooking them into consistently watching. I feel like the writers and decision makers saw all the funko pop marvel watching 30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with 'slowburn' to remind them that consuming childrens movies are actually sophisticated and adult
  - bookaway 4y ago
    >30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with No one said anything about blowing minds. >But because it is planned to drag on Unfortunately all shows are infected with this garbage. You end up grading this stuff relatively on a spectrum (“don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” etc) . This the “ads” of the streaming era. It is so ubiquitous people either build a tolerance, tune-out during the interval, or stop watching tv all together in protest. >to make baby men feel more sophisticated while hooking them into consistently watching A more sophisticated show with better writing and actors would indeed make people feel more sophisticated…yes. If, to take another example, somebody pitched me “Better Call Saul, but in space,” I’d probably watch that as well. Frankly, Dune is more a children’s movie than Andor, so you might as well say that 25-40 year olds have no business amusing themselves with science fantasy or sci-fi at all. The litmus test for this seems to be: Make the exact same scifi show (space etc) but without the Star Wars branding. Will it be considered a children’s move? My answer in this case, no. Will it still be decent? Yes it would. Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan are all magnitudes more juvenile than this attempt. A quasi-spoiler perhaps, but I personally find it hilarious that a subplot involves a workers revolt in what could be a Tesla gigafactory 20 years from now…in a tv show produced by Disney.

hnthrowaway1099 4y ago

Wow brilliant idea, Silicon Valley needs a reboot.

karp773 4y ago
Yeah, the script wrote itself. You simply can't make this stuff up.
29athrowaway 4y ago
Nah, I am glad it ended. Some characters were well written, others were pretty much a excuse for racism.
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  For sure. I remember really liking Gilfoyle as a character for his deadpan no bullshit and high skill personality. But then I watched a supercut of his "best moments" (at least according to one youtuber) and it was chock full of insults against Dinesh's masculinity, which is both gross from a racism point of view (I have been told that foreign men are often considered less masculine as a kind of racism) and gross from a healthy masculinity point of view (It's okay for men to cry, and have diverse interests, etc). Of course they could update the characters, but they could also just leave that story to rest. All the things we grew up loving were once original stories, and I would love to see more new original content rather than this machine that "efficiently" churns out smoothed over copies of the same hits from last year.
  - 29athrowaway 4y ago
    Jian Yang's character is a pretty offensive depiction of Chinese people. Gilfoyle being a grumpy sysadmin is probably an accurate depiction of a sysadmin. They're all grumpy.
    - TaylorAlexander 4y ago
      The grumpyness is what I love about him. But in the supercut I watched, he is constantly specifically attacking other men's masculinity in a way which felt super toxic. There's plenty of healthy ways to present a grumpy character but Gilfoyle's behavior with regard to masculinity just sucks.
    - deleted 4y ago
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  - sincerely 4y ago
    Why would you expect a character in a comedy show to be a good role model? All of the characters have pretty obvious flaws and the show is better for it.
    - TaylorAlexander 4y ago
      It's not just his behavior, but how the writing and presentation of the show frame those behaviors. You can have a sexist character, but how the show treats that behavior reveals what the people creating the show want the audience to take away. The show can present bad behavior as leading to negative consequences. But Gilfoyle's sexism is presented uncritically as comedy, with no negative consequences. It is the framing of this behavior that I take issue with.
      - deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
  - happymellon 4y ago
    > I have been told that foreign men are often considered less masculine as a kind of racism Not defending him, but Gilfoyle was foreign as well? I've known plenty of people like that, and they are just pricks.
- karp773 4y ago
  It's a good opportunity to right the wrongs and double down on the good stuff. In case of FTX, there are SBF, misters Wong and Singh. Imagine a second coming of Erlich Bachman as a crypto bro. Who would not wanna watch this? For the feminists out there, there's emancipated miss Ellison.
kyriakos 4y ago
Recent twitter story would make great comedy someday.
- akho 4y ago
  Someday?

fnordpiglet 4y ago

Final season of the expanse.

avaldez_ 4y ago
Oh my God. With Disney money we could have all three last books on streaming. Disney could pick up the show ten years from now and the aged actors wouldn't even matter. What a dream.
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  You would think with Bezos money we would too. I don’t understand why he bought the series then didn’t bring it to conclusion. I’ve read they didn’t want to deal with aging the actors, but that’s kind of absurd given the state of the art.

colordrops 4y ago

Check out Andor. It's under the Disney Star Wars umbrella, but it's nothing like the rest of star wars. Made by the same people that worked on House of Cards, Game of Thrones, the Bourne series, Nightcrawler, and others. It's smart and subtle and insanely entertaining, though it is a slow burn that focuses on character development rather than action. But it has action too... But no light sabers or Jedi. Yet...

poisonarena 4y ago
> It's smart and subtle and insanely entertaining I disagree, I feel like its the same as all the rest but the writers in the board meetings are like.. We need to make Star Wars for 25-40 year old men to feel like adults watching it. > slow burn planned that way not because it is a slow burn high pay off scenario. But because it is planned to drag on so you just keep watching it consistently. Most of these garbage shows in the last 5 years or so have embraced this 'pseudo-slowburn' style to make baby men feel more sophisticated while hooking them into consistently watching. I feel like the writers and decision makers saw all the funko pop marvel watching 30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with 'slowburn' to remind them that consuming childrens movies are actually sophisticated and adult
- bookaway 4y ago
  >30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with No one said anything about blowing minds. >But because it is planned to drag on Unfortunately all shows are infected with this garbage. You end up grading this stuff relatively on a spectrum (“don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” etc) . This the “ads” of the streaming era. It is so ubiquitous people either build a tolerance, tune-out during the interval, or stop watching tv all together in protest. >to make baby men feel more sophisticated while hooking them into consistently watching A more sophisticated show with better writing and actors would indeed make people feel more sophisticated…yes. If, to take another example, somebody pitched me “Better Call Saul, but in space,” I’d probably watch that as well. Frankly, Dune is more a children’s movie than Andor, so you might as well say that 25-40 year olds have no business amusing themselves with science fantasy or sci-fi at all. The litmus test for this seems to be: Make the exact same scifi show (space etc) but without the Star Wars branding. Will it be considered a children’s move? My answer in this case, no. Will it still be decent? Yes it would. Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan are all magnitudes more juvenile than this attempt. A quasi-spoiler perhaps, but I personally find it hilarious that a subplot involves a workers revolt in what could be a Tesla gigafactory 20 years from now…in a tv show produced by Disney.