TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

There were those back in time as a maybe crazy black writer episodes. But I always skipped those cause they were boring.

[LaCroix]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

[Valmy]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

Oh FFS

[LaCroix]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

Oh FFS

? I wasn't saying no black person likes baseball, which of course isn't true

[Syt]

There were those back in time as a maybe crazy black writer episodes. But I always skipped those cause they were boring.

It was an homage to early sci-fi writings and the struggles for non-white or non-male writers at the time. Not entirely irrelevant to Star Trek itself. It took Dorothy Fontana changing her pen name to DC Fontana to make headway as a scriptwriter.

[Eddie Teach]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

Oh FFS

? I wasn't saying no black person likes baseball, which of course isn't true

They are proportionally represented.

[LaCroix]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

Oh FFS

? I wasn't saying no black person likes baseball, which of course isn't true

They are proportionally represented.

an atlantic article shows 9%, two percent higher than golf. compared to like 45% for basketball. if baseball is a black person sport, then so is golf. this convo began with tyr thinking baseball was a stereotypical interest for black people. that's very clearly not true, and I was telling tyr that he got that one wrong

[Josquius]

No. I know baseball isn't so popular with black people these days.
It seems pretty important for black history in the us though.

[viper37]

There were those back in time as a maybe crazy black writer episodes. But I always skipped those cause they were boring.

That was one episode.  And another one about the holosuit character set in 1962 Vegas, where he mentions he hates the program because it wasn't a welcoming place for black people then.

Aside that, he could have been white.  Just like Picard could have been British.  A French captain who doesn't like wine, drinks tea and loves shakespeare?  C'mon.

[Barrister]

Aside that, he could have been white.  Just like Picard could have been British.  A French captain who doesn't like wine, drinks tea and loves shakespeare?  C'mon.

That bugs me to this day.  I know Roddenberry initially wanted his captain to be French, but as soon as he cast Patrick Stewart in the part he should have immediately changed the character's background.

[Valmy]

I thought Mass Effect goofed on this when they made Captain Anderson, voiced by Keith David, from London.

[The Brain]

There's a surprisingly decent show beyond all the T&A in Spartacus.

[Eddie Teach]

tyr, black people don't like baseball. it's a white people interest

Oh FFS

? I wasn't saying no black person likes baseball, which of course isn't true

They are proportionally represented.

an atlantic article shows 9%, two percent higher than golf. compared to like 45% for basketball. if baseball is a black person sport, then so is golf. this convo began with tyr thinking baseball was a stereotypical interest for black people. that's very clearly not true, and I was telling tyr that he got that one wrong

9% for what? Attendance? That's not so bad for 13% of the population with less average income. Players? Number would be affected by all the foreigners in the majors.

At any rate the difference between 7 and 9 amounts to a 28% difference which is fairly significant.

[HVC]

Aside that, he could have been white.  Just like Picard could have been British.  A French captain who doesn't like wine, drinks tea and loves shakespeare?  C'mon.

That bugs me to this day.  I know Roddenberry initially wanted his captain to be French, but as soon as he cast Patrick Stewart in the part he should have immediately changed the character's background.

The future just realized what the Hundred Years' War tried to teach us, that the best French man is an English man

But yeah, I found that odd too.  Especially when they introduced his brother who was more French.

[The Brain]

They have androids and warp travel, but you think a Frenchman who showers too unrealistic?