That CT scanner is like a D&D magic item that lets you conjure up to 2 hit-dice worth of medicated animals…

Salient points, all.

Yeah… Finally got around to reading Hamlet and “it’s just a bunch of cliches”

But my main reservation with this adaptation is not which artistic choices are being made or the direction they decide to take things or even the difficulties in adapting the story (actually argued the other side of all this in FAVOR of the latest Dune) - and more that the source material was (likely) chosen simply for being a rich vein of dork-culture ore, one intended to be quickly and easily processed into a homogenized block of monetized consumer content…

The end result, once stripped of all pedigree and drained of any residial artistic expression, left as little more than a thumbnail to be scrolled past and forgotten alongside other milquetoast sci-fi projects like Travelers, or Continuum, Solo, etc…

An adaptation with nothing to say; “art” as a meaningless multimedia content experience

Neuromancer without devolving into self-parody…

What was that bit about trying to read Hamlet and deciding it was just people sitting around in castles speaking in cliches?

I mean, if they can make a 3rd adaptation of Dune: The Consumable Content Experience then I’m sure someone can find a way to make a Neuromancer that would be me than just a generic block of media - greenlit while pointing to the mere existence of The Peripheral as financial onus.

Maybe next time then.

Looks like she’s walking out of an Apple store

Do the lenses. They, aside from the razor blade nails, were the defining characteristic.

Do them right.

Rather than set up a lazy shot-reverse-shot ala Attack of the Clones, every scene Molly is in gives us a background that can be flipped and displayed in the lenses in order to showcase what the character is feeling.

And then cast her with someone who can do a Carl Urban-as-Dredd performance without ever showing us her actual eyes.

Experimental? Edgy? Overly difficult? Artistically pretentious even?

Maybe.

But these stills are shot at day and without neon? So, much better than whatever paint-by-numbers checklist they are using to produce this abomination…

No… Hell no.

She had her tear ducts reversed so she spit out her tears.

Yeah this adaptation is fucked.

The Devil’s Eyebrow

They don’t seem overly concerned with public opinion or the possibility they might be removed from power by the vote.

likely, they are banking on us to revolt so they can deploy the military domestically.

If the whole thing seems like unchecked expectations - so did the dissolution of NATO prior to 2016.

There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…

This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.

The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.

Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.

Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.

Europe may rally and pull together.

Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.

I’m not even looking for windscreen washer fluid and I’ll buy European SUPERPISS

Can’t make an omelette without breaking the bank.

Generation Oregon Trail or Xennial, depending on your life choices.

“screw Future Me! That guy’s a dick.” - Past Me

Persist.

Keep at it; try again tomorrow.

Depression will rob you of joy, erode your appetite for life, and leave you blaming yourself for any/everything.

In those circumstances where you cannot defeat it, you can still outlast it.

Do what you can for yourself. When you can do no more, do what you can for the person you will be later, and, when you can do no more: forgive yourself.

Depression is a parasite and it’s been eating your strength far longer than you realize.