So your curling team was on an upward trajectory after all! Go your curling team :D
Dad watched some "Timeless" apparently and judged it very hard in my face the first day I got there. After he got done judging "The Last Ship". He then moved on to judging "Cannibal". It's like judgeypants run in the family here, too, or something.
we sucked, we sucked less, we won! who knows what we'll do this sunday.
i am wholly unsurprised that you inherited the judgeypants. what did your dad judge about timeless? (since i don't quite picture a non-barber father judging the wildly ahistorical hair.)
He judged the premise, which is ancient, and that the show added no new spin to it. He then judged the pointless presence of the black guy, which was very ~sensitive but logistically dumb, seeing how he literally couldn't go anywhere or do anything or have any rights once he got into any era before like the 60s, so he just went along to be restricted. IDK, I didn't see the show for myself, but I see his point.
my guess is the black guy is there to point out the racism of previous decades. i don't mind it so far, tho. it's still relatively subtle. i mean, compare it to supergirl, which i really like, but which can do an entire very special and heavy-handed episode about tolerance and acceptance and living peacefully with people who don't look like you, with aliens standing in for muslims/queer people/poc/pick-your-oppressed-minority. timeless gets in a couple comments about how pretty much every decade is going to suck for the black guy, and then it goes on about its business. your dad's judge is not without merit, tho, because it does seem kind of stupid to take someone along on time travel missions who can't safely leave the pod, thanks to the racism of whatever era they've gone to.
:/ Hm, Supergirl, hm! It's like that refugee fic that renamed all real countries for no goddamn reason. A 12-year-old explaining current events to other 12-year-olds, with pictures, unicorns and really simple analogies.
I could object to the logic of that, or the use of the black guy to make a point rather than tell the story, but hey. My main objection is still the ancient premise and the lack of fresh spin on it.
Dad watched some "Timeless" apparently and judged it very hard in my face the first day I got there. After he got done judging "The Last Ship". He then moved on to judging "Cannibal". It's like judgeypants run in the family here, too, or something.
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i am wholly unsurprised that you inherited the judgeypants. what did your dad judge about timeless? (since i don't quite picture a non-barber father judging the wildly ahistorical hair.)
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He judged the premise, which is ancient, and that the show added no new spin to it. He then judged the pointless presence of the black guy, which was very ~sensitive but logistically dumb, seeing how he literally couldn't go anywhere or do anything or have any rights once he got into any era before like the 60s, so he just went along to be restricted. IDK, I didn't see the show for myself, but I see his point.
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I could object to the logic of that, or the use of the black guy to make a point rather than tell the story, but hey. My main objection is still the ancient premise and the lack of fresh spin on it.
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