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It might not necessarily be unpopular, but I'm rewatching 30 Rock and it might be on the Simpsons-Seinfeld-Larry Sanders Show level. There is just so much cleverness in every scene.

 

I put it on that level easily. I also think the way it's aged is pretty fascinating.

 

I would put it on that level, and honestly I think IASIP is on the level now too.

 

I need to try it again. I started it earlier this year and watched 4 or 5 episodes and was not enjoying it.

 

They get Tracy Jordan just right. He is so close to being annoying or a caricature but they keep finding ways to subvert those expectations.

 

I was in the same boat during my first watch, and it took me a few more episodes for it to click. I think there’s one with Will Forte later in the first season, I remember being fully onboard by that point.

 

Jurassic Park is the only major franchise that I think could actually benefit from a straight up reboot.

A big part of the magic and charm of the first Jurassic Park was the absolute awe of character's realizing that dinosaurs have come back existence. All the installments since exist in a world where the fact that Dinosaurs are alive again is just normal. It doesn't hit as hard.

 

I think this creative decision seriously undermined this new trilogy in a big way. it's a bold move to look at one of the most powerful aspects of the first Jurassic Park movie and to purposefully do away with that in your movies.

 

Honestly the only way you can really bring that magic and feeling of wonder back without doing a reboot is to do a new one where they bring like Mastodons, and Sabertooth Tigers, and Giant Sloths back.

 

At the end of the film, the sloths evolve into their final form.



IYKYK

 

Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs are the heroes against the evil colonialists, but seriously imagine like We're Back for adults

 

Man I loved We're Back

 

A Christmas card without money or a gift card is worse than no card at all.

 

You Can Tell by the Way they Use their Walk (Nov 20, 6:42 Metro to Sydenham)
I take a seat next to Party boy 1 who at this stage from my perspective is just a regular boy. Party boy 2 enters the train, P boy 1 complements his nice shirt. My shirt is nicer but nobody has complimented it yet today though it must be nice for P boy 2 to start his day with a nice compliment. The P boys discuss their plans for the weekend. It's time to party. P boy 1 helps P boy 2 compose a msg on his thin phone to one of his contacts. “Is it ok if I stay with you?”
That's it bro don't over complicate it
Anniversary is tomorrow, should be fine If I called her tomorrow
I got her a keyboard but.
Are you on the pen?
How'd you get on the pen
You're terrible bro

Not sure what the pen is and before I can deduce whether it's some kind of animal enclosure or a vape the conversation moves to financials. Careful boys let's not ruin a perfectly fine commute. P boy 1 talks big game about equity and GDP(?) but he's not a B boy, he's a P boy and the conversation quickly devolves into how smart Afterpay is as he opens his normal phone to show P boy 2 all the fun things he's bought on eBay with it. P boy 2 glazes over confused about the concept and agrees that how Afterpay works is one of life's great mysteries but it makes sense to pay for things slowly. P boy 1 gets off at Barangaroo, they part ways and agree to meet up for cheeky beers at The New Zealand airport. I hope they mean the same one.

 

Unless it's taped to a larger gift

 

I like when my friends send me cards with pictures of their families in the mail but please dont hand me a stock card in person.

 

That's kind of a shitty attitude, honestly.

 

This is incorrect, in that ignores the category of Christmas card that’s personalized and between people who actually care about each other.

I’ve given and received genuinely thoughtful cards on more than one occasion and, in those cases, have never once tonight, “where’s the gift???”

(Generic cards without gifts from, like, family that you aren’t close to, or work or whatever, are fairly worthless to me, though.)

 

Unless it's hand drawn or has a special message inside from the person who gave it, a card is kind of a lame, meaningless tradition. I don't really care about some inspirational quote or joke written by the Hallmark corporation

 

Someone gave me a card with pictures of their ugly family and someone else gave me a Chili's card. One is objectively better.

 

Okay, but have you never received a card from a family member with a heartfelt message inside?

 

Yeah the one that doesn't end at Chilis

 

I come from Catholics.

 

The cards from my family members are always "love you! Xoxo" with a check inside