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@pre@boing.world
2026-08-18 09:46:04

Watched "Mythic Quest" which is four series of ten episodes of a sit com about a fictional video game studio on Apple TV.
I have previously said Apple are great at Sci Fi but have nothing remotely funny, but Mythic Quest is all right*. I laughed one or two times an episode at least.
Used to work in the game biz and it does show the character of that work surprisingly well.
"Always Sunny In Philadelphia"'s Charlie Day is involved in production and Rob McElhenney from that show one of the two main stars.
Does feel a bit like that show, the way the dialog from the actors is so often teasing verging on spiteful.
*, yeah okay Ted Lasso is alright as well. New womens-game series of that, after a long absence, is going okay too.
#watching #tv

@pre@boing.world
2026-07-29 12:32:11
Content warning: Plur1bus S1

Finally got around to watching Plur1bus and yes it is indeed as great as everyone says, and yes it does indeed seem to a allegory about AI as much as about an alien hive-mind virus.
In order to really know if you're for or against this kind of world peace, you gotta question it about the progress of the arts and sciences. About what it's civilizational mission is, what it is trying to do other than just grab more minds for the hive.
The culinary arts are all dead presumably. Everyone just drinking Hive Human Protein Huel.
Is there a Theater where plays are being performed by the hive for the hive? Presumably not. Likewise film-making: can't really do a surprise ending for a film at least. Would anyone want to watch a film when they were the entire company making it?
No rock and roll any more? They do some singing at one point but that seems to be mostly for an unjoined ceremony. No point in all the communicative arts if everyone's mind is one.
Science does seem to be progressing a little, in that they are discovering things about their own hive-mind. Researchers still doing research.
Has there been progress in maths, or in painting, or what new art has been made other than for the unjoined?
These are crucial questions nobody seems to want to ask in the show.
There's also questions about how the telepathy works. Looks like radio-signals somehow. Does locking an individual in a faraday cage cut them off? What's the range? Does the signal spread at the speed of light? What determined the character of the hive, it it just the average of all humans? Or was it determined in the code originally sent though space? Is the hive researching all this?
#watching #tv #plur1bus

@pre@boing.world
2026-06-02 09:59:46

Been watching Genndy Tartakovsky's "Primal", which is three seasons of an Adult Swim cartoon, each twenty minutes long, about a caveman and his dinosaur friend who meet in tragedy in Episode one.
No dialogue really, all just incredible animal roars and screams and shrieks and hollering. So all the story is visual, told in the expressions and the movement and the reaction shots, and very beautifully drawn and animated to boot.
Dinosaur is not a pet, she is an equal. Occasionally ridden, but that's the parts I like least. Seems out of character.
No aiming for realism here. One of my favorite early ones they spent most of the time running from a zombie stegosaurus.
Most interesting new TV I've seen in a while. All three seasons are great, though they are in order first was best and each subsequently not quite as good.
#primal #genndyTartakovsky #tv #watching #telly