they added the 1 at the end at network request
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Iām disappointed in everyone but victor, this is basic twin peaks network interference trivia. also frostās secret history book had a line about the āinfamous typoā on the sign and I think the 90s access guide listed the population as 5,120.1
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I havenāt read Secret History yet. Sadly Final Dosier did not mention it.
idc
iām just used to california populations where towns of little or no repute, which feel pretty rural and sub-suburban, are often somewhere between the 50 - 100 k zone
the city i grew up in, which you definitely havenāt heard of unless you live in or have spent time in california (or are weirdly well informed about high profile california murder cases), has a higher population than the capitals of 30 states
Sunnydale seemed about the same population and size as the shitty small eastern Washington town I grew up in. At one point they had a decent sized mall that did good business in the era Buffy was set in, and a few mid-size colleges about the same size as the university in sunnydale.
Sunnydale apparently has a population of 38,000, and my home town had 32,000. Totally plausible.
Now the bit where nobody ever mentions the college is kinda wild. But thatās about the only part of it that seems implausible to me.
Yeah, that is more the thing. In a town that size, nobody would have never even mentioned it existed?
Same thing with the mall in Stranger Things, though the town is depicted there as being much smaller than Sunnyvale. For comparison, my wife is from a town of 20,000 in Ohio (ST being set in āIndiannaā though it is so obviously near Atlanta a lot of the time), and the town in ST seems much much smaller than her hometown, and her hometown could barely support a much smaller mall.
the Rolling Thunder Revue movie is real good
also the Dave Attell/Jeff Ross thing was fun too
so while everyone is wailing and tearing their hair out about how Disney controls all the worldās media
they also just announced and released a trailer for a Disney+ show that is just Jeff Goldblum going around talking to people and like asking them if they believe in Ghosts
it just seems like someone decided that Goldblum has Anthony Bourdain Energy so why not just make him a tv personality on a show that no longer needs to have even the lightest veneer of food travel show
What Iām saying is I would definitely watch every episode of this in like 2 days, but also I fucking hate it
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Sorry to come back to this like months later, but I just found out why the Buffy college seems like it couldnāt exist in Sunnydale, and itās that the whole thing was shot at UCLA for external stuff. UCLA has over 44,000 students. So yeah, a college with a population bigger than the town it is set in that nobody ever mentions is hilarious. As a dude who went to Ohio State (a similarly giant fucking college), the whole thing felt off for reasons that now I understanda lot better.
a micheal schur punky brewster reboot and a sam esmail battlestar galactica are both things i would want to watch and some real dartboard shit
anyway lemme just carve out a little more budget after netflix, amazon, hulu, vrv, cbs all access, hbo, youtube red, disney+, quibi, apple tv, facebook watch premium and
wait
aaaaahhh
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why canāt these companies be throwing bones at small game studios
finished the third season of The Dragon Prince
still amazed that more people arenāt talking about this show, or maybe iām just looking in the wrong places. It is dumb and corny in some parts but good in others, and I am very charmed by the variety of characters and the earnestness of the plot. The third season in particular is weird to watch as a real actual war is probably about to begin because a lot of the heavier aspects of it deal with how people are horrible and war is inevitable.
Apparently one of the guys who makes it is a bad asshole. I respect that it is probably a pretty serious deal but everything Iāve read about it just devolves immediately into like very specific office politics and stuff that feel weird to know about.
Itās definitely not as good as Avatar TLA but I think it might be better than the Korra seasons
My kids watched like the first two episodes and I was like āHmmm!ā but then they were like BORED and that was the last time I watched the Dragon Prince.
that first season is absurdly awful in terms of animation, art direction, characterization, etc and I think most folks dropped off at that point though I have heard s2 and 3 improve on that
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sorry didnāt realize the thing i liked was bad, nevermind iguess
oh I was just talking about why its not more talked about, I do believe folks who say the show improved after that first season, I just havenāt had the energy to keep watching it
yea the animation is a lot better. tonally things are more or less the same but i do think the plot becomes more engaging in season 2. it does seem like one of those things thatās meant to be a healthy and progressive show for kids but is probably less entertaining for children than it is for like teens i guess
i donāt read a lot of YA fiction but i feel like it is very much on the same wavelength of a lot of YA fantasy these days from what i understand
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Oh I hope you donāt think I was shitting on the show. I was intrigued! I was talking more about the petty vagaries of parenthood than about the cartoon show
If you pretend itās cutscenes from a video game everything about it becomes better
Because the bar is so low