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/Film is more generous here to Godzilla (1998) than I could ever be.

The TLDR observation that the threat to the ecosystem and humanity of an egg-laying Kaiju on our Earth hasn’t been fully explored by the franchise is an interesting one though.

It was great to see Godzilla, and it was a high quality daylight scene. I was feeling Co-Cai’s pain as well and hoped that Godzilla would cut her some slack when he saw she was defending her young. So, that was a sad fight to witness.

Kentaro has been such a stalwart character so it’s been difficult to see him appear to go off the rails and get sucked in by Isabel. I was feeling Cate’s fury at him.

On the other hand, this isn’t the first time he’s followed his inner voice — his insistence that he’d seen something in Alaska saves them all. So, perhaps what he said to Cate about not falling for the Simmons but that he’s doing what needed to happen is correct. Would the egg have survived without AET?

Lots of action that serves mainly to unveil another layer of corporate skullduggery.

I’m intrigued that Hammond chose to use her window of opportunity to impart the message to May/Corah that her biggest error was not understanding what AET really. Clearly signaling where to dig further despite the recording status light on the surveillance camera in the corner of the room.

And then we see that Jason Trissop, who ran off with the computer with May’s code, is not just working with Isabel Simmons, he’s running her op to grab what they can on the beach in northeast Australia.

I’m feeling this episode is laying pipe for a potential third season alongside the Titan excitement.

That makes sense!

Definitely there was local control over availability. I recall shopping for gifts and seeing walls of SW toys but no Trek in Ottawa.

Even in Canada, I don’t recall that they had wide distribution. They were also marked up quite a bit from the US price (well beyond the exchange rate). I saw them mainly in specialty stores, not Toys R US and department stores.

That was a very time limited counter example, and were largely unavailable outside the US.

And it may be a really important factor in explaining the loyalty of millennial guys in the US to the franchise vs other demographics and countries.

Class sizes are up and supports are down.

Now attendance requirements for grades are being instituted.

It doesn’t occur to the government to enquire about why students are avoiding or refusing school attendance.

It looks like a 1970s toy. . . Which makes sense given who their target market is.

I would take it as another sign that the franchise has aged out were it not for the fact that it’s always had awful merchandising and licensing.

And this is why Starfleet Academy ranked 1st or 2nd on Amazon Channels but “didn’t find its audience” on Paramount+.

We’re dropping Paramount+ now. Neither the GenZs in our household nor my partner nor I can find anything to watch on that streamer other than Star Trek. No new Trek means it’s easy to align our values with our choice to spend our dollars elsewhere.

Godzilla Minus One was excellent.

I can appreciate point about fatigue with NYC disasters, but wonder why you wouldn’t expect this Toho film to maintain the quality.

Let’s be frank that it was a male-gaze titillation to sell the show much like the frequency of ripped tunics and visible muscles were intended for women viewers. Both were introduced after the ‘more cerebral’ pilot of ‘The Cage.’

In any case, mini skirts were a fashion trend that constrained women and girls as much as ‘liberated’ them — Especially, as garters and stockings rather than pantyhose were the norm at the time. Looking at TOS now, I wonder if the show had to order specially made pantyhose or ultra fine tights.

While it was good for women and girls to be out of the 1950s tight-waisted skirts with crinolines so profound that they had to increase the spacing between lab benches and cooking class units (as was explained to me when I hit junior high), mini skirts meant that women and girls were constantly monitoring their exposure.

It’s no surprise that ‘pantsuits’ became an acceptable fashion option by 1970 and pantyhose rapidly replaced stockings.

There are industrial/cargo transporter platforms as well as industrial fabricator/replicators.

Perhaps only the ones in humanoid transport pads are set with the highest level defaults?