OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
17hr ago
In development does not mean in production. He has approval from the rights holder (20th Century Fox/Disney) and the original show runner (Wheadon). He has the original cast and one of the show runners from Dollhouse on board. He has a script for at least the first episode of season 2. He has an animation studio that has declared interest.
It doesn't sound like he has money. Or as he puts it, "a home." But really it's the money needed to begin production which would be provided in the place where it will be distributed (these days a streaming service). Disney has first dibs, but would somewhere like Apple or Amazon pick it up? One thing that would encourage such a move would be to prove there are still fans out there, in sufficient quantities to make it worth it. Hence the hype campaign right now.
If the hype does not explode, this will go nowhere.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
18hr ago
That's why it's an animated series, I expect.
But like I said, I thought a podcast audio drama would be the best possibility.
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
19hr ago
I think there is value to knowing the words the author selected. Consequence is a word that shows it's not just "class" and that class is more than just how comfortable your life is. Consequence means that these character's lives are considered more significant through the means they get their bread. The word choice is an introduction and an education into a mindset that is unlike ours.
With about 40-80 hours of practice, you can accustom yourself to the vocabulary and grammar differences. The number of words you will need to look up will go down to maybe a dozen a book. This is very different from requiring everyone read all novels in their original language, because learning a whole language takes 1000s of hours.
Also modern people write like that sometimes. Pick up This is Happiness by Niall Williams for example.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
19hr ago
Nathan Fillion announced on Instagram that a second Firefly season is in development. It's a cult classic/niche hit. Has at least a million dedicated fans, which is an unfortunate amount. Disney Plus, which holds the rights at the moment, would probably need the number of fans to be in the 10s of millions to consider beginning production. It sounds like Disney was open to Fillion bringing the rights somewhere else so maybe he could manage a low budget thing on Crunchy roll but I don't feel like that's his goal.
I always felt that Firefly would make a good fan-funded high-quality podcast serialized story, like The Magnus Archives. This is a little ambitious but we will see how it goes. If you think Firefly has more than 1 million fans, prove it by liking the Instagram post. We will see how it shakes out.
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4d ago
I'm confused. How many people in the US would be actually surprised/outraged if we got into a hot war and someone bombed a military base, which also had a school on it? We'd be upset about getting bombed at all, but I don't think the fact that a school on the base also got hit would add to the upsetness. It seems like a legit strike would also harm people at the school.
Schools on military bases are probably really convenient and the risk is low right now because we are unlikely to have people attacking us on the continental US. But it is a risk that they probably had to assess and accept. If an attack on US soil seemed more likely, the schools would probably be moved.
There are copilots who should prevent this as much as possible, but realistically what would the average passenger do? A determined pilot could dive down faster than a passenger could react.
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