Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/22/21
It’s been an exciting week! And we’re here to discuss all of it — and maybe even review some movies — on Breakfast All Day. In news, Alonso, Matt and I talk about the end of the Trump presidency and the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, complete with the celebrity splendor and Bernie Sanders memes that brought some fun to this year’s unusual festivities. We also review “The Marksman,” “No Man’s Land” and “The White Tiger.” And over at our Patreon, we recap the third episodes of both “WandaVision” and “Bridgerton” and revisit John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), this month’s Off the Menu selection. Listen and enjoy, and thanks as always for hanging out with us.
I too am a fan of Babylon 5. And, if you are interested in the evolution of CGI, it is a great reference point.
Now, we are used to the spectacular visual effects they are able to pull off in what was originally a cable TV show like The Expanse. But it hasn’t always been like that.
In season 1 of B5 (1994) you get pixelated (and unrealistic) early video game quality CGI. But in every subsequent season the CGI gets noticeably better. In the last season (1998) the CGI is very lifelike. It came within shouting distance of what we would see only a year later in the first Matrix movie, a project that had a much bigger CGI budget to work with.
I find the fact that the technology changed so drastically in five short years fascinating.
This podcast was a depressing reminder that a lot of democrats are now advocating for Facebook and Twitter and other corporate overlords to decide for us what is and isn’t acceptable speech. Why do you want corporations to make that decision? We’ve already seen how this is used against leftist organizations like Democratic socialists, the BSD movement, the dirtbag left etc. Can boomer liberals please stop praising the FBI and the CIA? Can we please stop acting like Biden and Kamala don’t have abysmal records that are in direct conflict with everything BLM was marching for? Can we please put down the Pom Poms? The Democratic Party, even if you hold your nose and vote for them, has failed us in such an obvious and blatant way yet here we are pretending again. It’s classist and nauseating. What happened at the capitol was a security problem. Advocating for interment censorship in this way is such a slippery slope and it will be used against the populist left … it already is. It’s why Rashida Talib is speaking out against this impulse and unfortunately she’s quite alone right now. Liberals reveal how conservative their impulses are when it comes to the other side.