At this point I'm convinced the Guillemot brothers are actively trying to kill their company

Damnit.... Now I have to buy the HZD Remastered

I did when it was shown the first time

Wish I could internalize this

And random recommendation before your AppleTV+ sub lapses: Murderbot

I was going to say that Severance isn't a show that caught on because of its aesthetics. It's a show that doesn't give viewers everything at once and that is intentional. It builds up, it was mindfully constructed to evoke very specific emotions at specific times. The aesthetics contribute to that.

Gilligan always wants to make something cool, to create, the consumption is a by-product not the priority

You learn core fundamentals mostly by doing (practicing). That's not the issue here. The issue is where the showrunners' priorities sit. Stranger Things between S4 and 5 went from "we're creating something cool" to "we're making something to be consumed"

As much as "management type" would love the following statement to be wrong: Money can't buy creativity

When the end-means becomes a consumable product instead of creating something cool

I'm kinda excited and curious of the difference when the Switch 2 update comes out in two weeks.

.... Wait, what!? Really!? 🤯

The roguelite mode is so fun

Just know that you're not alone in a similar learning and healing process

Everyone who uses AI for content gen tries to justify it with increasingly bizarre mitigations from "we're only using it to prototype", "we're only using it to iterate", "we're only using it to fill in some gaps", "we're barely even using it", "hey it still took us all night", "it's not even good"