mike-craney.com
Writer/Director, AuDHD, Columbia College Chicago alumi, Wisconsin born and raised
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BTW if you haven't seen it, the Wall Street Journal interview, you mention, also dropped today. Just like Jason said, they gave you a paragraph and quoted one sentence from your interview.
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I grew up in Madison in the 90s and 2000s and to me the city's band was Garbage. It helped that Butch Vig ran a studio in town at the time. But I haven't lived in Madison in 10 years, so maybe Garbage isn't a source of town pride anymore.
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(for Madison WI btw)
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“This is what America has been in the past, and shamefully what it continues to be in some ways in the present, but we were founded on these lofty ideals that we can and should appeal to in order to make this place better” can’t get shortened to “America sucks and has always sucked lol”
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This is more broadly the disaster of populism: It promises that actually all our social and political problems are easy. If only Joe Barstool could get in there with a healthy heap of good ol' common sense, instead of these corrupt politicos, everything would be straightened out right quick.
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what if regular people understand the stakes better than middle class executive directors who've spent their whole lives studying the intricate dance of optics and discourse to advocate for moderate reforms through a democratic system and the rule of law, because we're on the sharp end of that rule
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If you wonder why we are so jokey, why we seem so feral, it's because for years we were calm, reasonable, trying to talk to people, and we got ignored and shouted down and each time we were proven right they then said "why didn't you say anything?" We've been gaslit our whole lives and we know it
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And after we are dead? After Gaza is a crater and half the disabled population died way too early for no reason, after trans people are slaughtered, and you still have your fucking jobs?
You and the corporate media will reset the narrative to "no one knew," as always.
Fuck you. We see it clearly.
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The real question is will they get a distribution deal to actually make it.
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Oh wait one more though: #justiceforrouge
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along with their crimes like human trafficking etc. But it's definitely an issue I have some cognitive dissonance about. It is such a fun team to watch, even with Mbappe gone this year.
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I also appreciate Clive (for us Americans) bringing up Qatar's sports washing. I fell in love with this team 3 years ago after falling in love with Mbappe (spending a month in Paris didn't hurt either). But it sucks that the team's owners would not accept my identity in their country...
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Anyway those are my thoughts. I'm gonna watch favorite football team PSG win the Champions League now. What a super historic European day this American is having! #Icic’estParis
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So I ended up only liking, no appreciating, a show I wanted to love. Ncuti was an amazing Doctor who was perfect for the story RTD tried to tell. Unfortunately they and the whole crew were shortchanged by the production realities.
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If we're being honest Disney basically is doing what Fox did to the 8th doctor in the 90s. Yes Fox wanted to Americanize it, and Disney has "kept" it British. But they both wanted something that is glossy and polished. But that's not Doctor Who and it's why people love it.
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Yes I'm sure there are measures that could have been made that could have helped. Less CGI would have gotten a couple more episodes, but not 5 a season. And Disney expected a show that looked "high budget". RTD could have simplified the story, but then he would have had to sacrifice his themes.
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The issue is the Disney deal crammed it all into 8 episodes a season vs. the 10-13 BBC had given them (minus Jodie's last Covid season). And the storytelling suffered. No story beat could breathe. Every reveal had to be followed by exposition that had two more reveals.