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what if a much of a which of a wombat?
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Not yet, but thanks for the rec!
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And tangentially, the Zeiss Sonnar 250mm f/5.6 for Hasselblad V-system, which was used for this shot, was and still is an absolutely amazing lens.
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Next episode, they're doing The Ascent, and they're going to *love* the bit about the little girl needing a box to stand on!
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And of course, if the dark-skinned humans are treated as real people, and it’s the tall blond Nordic character who’s a piece of dehumanized equipment… Thst has its own potential if handled properly.
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Agreed on that, given that most of the human characters are more or less explicitly of South or East Asian descent. I can’t recall a specific description of MB’s skin or hair color, though, but I understand AS not matching a lot of people’s mental image of it. (Didn’t match mine either.)
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I think he has great potential for the role -- his performance as Brad "Iceman" Colbert in Generation Kill has strong Murderbot vibes. Outwardly calm, unflappable, and hypercompetent, while very quietly freaking out at the utterly insane stupidity going on all around him.
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Yup, the purge seems to be underway.
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Less Operation Barbarossa than the Winter War, I suspect. If Simo Häyhä weren’t Finnish he’d probably be Canadian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%...