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Been a lot of talk about UFOs around the Internet thanks to articles like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html

What are your thoughts? Are UFOs real and are they best explained by aliens? What do you think about all this military stuff?

there have been too many of them for me to pick one.

Give me your gateway songs!

The Golden Compass. God, I was so excited by the previews, and honestly, it... did a lot right? The casting was SPOT. ON. The visuals were incredible and immersive. Even the acting itself was really really good! It's just... god, they botched the story so badly it was unforgivable. I couldn't believe it. I knew going into it that they were probably going to go easy on the religious allegory, but I didn't think they'd kill it entirely. And everything else they fucked up and rearranged, ugh. And putting the ending there. AHH I'm still mad about it.

Also the score absolutely fucking sucked? So that didn't help, lmao.

I'm tentatively excited for the BBC miniseries coming up, but ugh, I don't want to get my hopes up. Also I'm admittedly going to be low-key upset that Ms. Coulter isn't still being played by Nicole Kidman, because dear god she was perfect.

The Hannibal novel.

I'd gone to a midnight release, started reading in the car on the way home using the flashlight in the glove compartment. Read all night.

... and then around chapter 90 threw the book across the room in utter disgust.

The Cursed Child. That thing was exactly why I never wanted a continuation of Harry Potter in the first place. I remember after the last book, everyone was all "oh no, I want a book eight." I knew it would be something like that.

Actually, that's not true. I couldn't have possibly envisioned anything quite as crackalicious. But I had serious reservations, apparently with good reason.

The irony is that I do think TCC would've been fine as a crack fanfic or something. But not as something we're apparently supposed to consider canon.

"Scarecrow" by Montgomery Gentry got me into rockabilly. Soooo much fun.

Mad Men, though I actually like the finale now. I think I just wanted something very different from what it ended up delivering, and it took me a while to come to terms with it.

I figured they had a low budget to stick to.

You're right, the budget was 30 Mil - less than half of what FTF's budget was ten years earlier.

It was mainly the characterization that really broke my heart, though. The plot wasn't very good, and it was pretty weak that the whole colonization threat was just swept under the rug, but I could've lived with that, if Mulder and Scully had felt like the characters I fell in love with. But IMO they were pale and lifeless compared to the characters they once were.

I mean, I fully acknowledge that with how intensely fannish I was at the time, it's likely that nothing the canon did could've fully satisfied me. That said, it could very easily have been a whole lot better than it was, that's for sure. :/

are there sightings of flying things that the observers have been unable to identify due to conditions or lack of expertise? sure

are they aliens? no

ftr articles like that are nothing more than glorified clickbait, I was even unimpressed when I first saw it on IFLS a month ago and it was titled to get people all hype while the actual text of the article and the thing it reports upon is boring as shit. that is, the military is making it easier for pilots who spot lights, drones, atmospheric phenomenon, etc which they aren't sure about or would like investigated for potential dangers to planes - and let's be real drones and poor weather are a much larger danger to planes and pilots than aliens - to report them to a body that will handle the investigation. that's it. it's boring. it's not about aliens or flying saucers.

but the long and the short of it is, science. if there are other life forms on other planets they're too far away to travel here, and if somehow they could, they sure as fuck wouldn't be so secretive about it that the only people who ever see them are Joe Sixpack on his farm in Montana and not, you know, millions of people in a large city. It's always something perfectly terrestrial that people just don't know how to identify because they don't understand weather, astronomy, atmospheric conditions, or technology. if trained military pilots can still be fooled into thinking a particularly bright Venus in the evening sky is a bogey, what chance do average laymen have?

I think the reason MCU fans have trouble doing that is related to waiting years b/w "episodes" and bc a lot of old time trek fans are monofans. It's the only game in town!

Blind Guardian's entire Nightfall in Middle-Earth album was what got me into metal music.

This secret is really gross, honestly.

East Hastings by Godspeed You Black Emperor, got me into Instrumental Post-Rock.

The Samurai Jack finale still irritates me. It could have been epic but instead it was rushed and many opportunities were wasted. Also the Game of Thrones finale for the same reasons.

I love looking at people's self-submitted "nailed it" pictures, but I couldn't make it through a single episode of the show. I was just so annoyed by the idea that they would take a bunch of complete amateurs, give them highly challenging things to make, give them a time limit that would be unworkable for all but the most skilled bakers, and then judge their results at the end. Like, why bother judging? It's orchestrated to make utter failure an all-but certainty.

Nope. Aliens exist out there in the universe, but UFOs are never aliens.

I watched it last night. It's brilliant!

Excellent post.

I understand mourning a pet's death. I think we all have experienced such loss. But when people say they think animals are better than humans, don't mourn humans as much as animals etc I think that's pretty sociopathic. Unless you live in isolation, you have to live in society with other humans. So that means these people haven't formed any loving attachments to other humans whatsoever, to the extent it would be horrible if they died? And yes, you can form an attachment to a celeb, even if you don't know them. It's called a 'parasocial relationship' and thus will mourn them when they die.

I really wish they'd kept Collin Farrell for the sequels :(. (I'm not alone at least in this thinking).

Where did this conclusion come from? In my own fandom people are still telling each other their best Niki Lauda stories. This almost seems like a variation on the old "why are you upset about Celebrity X, you didn't k ow them, why should you mind that death?" (A) Fuck off, I miss Niki Lauda,and and also (B) how Bout we stop policing people's honest emotional reactions?

Legend of Korra. I loved ATLA, and there were parts of LOK that I didn't hate, and I do understand it's a very different story set in a different time, etc. I just hoped that it would still have some of the same charm as the original series, and for me it didn't.

You clearly weren't in my country when Gord Downie died. Although I don't know how you missed the reaction to Alan Rickman's passing

UFOs are real in that they are things no one can properly explain or identify. doesn't mean it's aliens but it also doesn't mean it's just a flying bug or the moon. for the cases described in that article i'd say the objects are military devices that are being kept secret because they don't want the technology to be stolen by adversaries to the u.s. like russia or china. that or the objects actually are being operated by adversaries of the u.s. in which case it'd be pretty stupid to ignore.

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