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"It was already clear going in that this was not going to be a year when the Oscars made the best picture be the Best Picture. "

Can this be translated to English?

StrangeDays said:

Xed said:

foregoneconclusion said:

Good scripts and good casting come first. FX shouldn’t be the reason for watching a show.

Not the reason, but sets are important. Imagine all the same writing and casting but all you see is a green screen and large cuts that just say what completely CG scene is being displayed between the dialogue. It would suck big monkey balls.

Sets aren’t that important. Star Trek TNG’s main sets - the bridge, the conference room, the bar. Story is what happens. Too many of the new shows (including New Trek) are spending obscene amounts for movie-quality sets, while under emphasizing story and character development. Foundation included. 

Was about to post similarly - if the $50M per episode is true, I would say, from an overall dramatic/entertainment assessment, not close to "worth it" IMO. The writing is often weak, with plot and decision points seemingly written just to move the narrative in a certain direction, but not necessarily based on legitimate character motivation or even reasonable internal logic.

Silo was disappointing to me as well - the series, (except for the first and last episodes which I thought were good), was mostly very slow paced and repetitive (the plot progression in those middle 8 episodes could have been covered in two or three...)

Separately, I'm hoping Dune 2 is better than Dune 1, which was rather emotionless, a bit turgid, and spent nearly no time establishing the deep rooted motivations of the characters, Houses, and Emperor needed to care about what was happening. Again, subpar writing. And I'm a big Villeneuve fan...

9secondkox2 said:

Netflix not jumping in both feet first on a hyped new platform means they’ve taken a gander and weren’t impressed. 

Kind of like everyone else not selling apps for it. 

The effort and engineering power going into the VP is astounding. Unfortunately, it’s just fundamentally flawed as a concept. 

Meh, who know the long game for this, but I'm sure its fairly trivial for a company the size of Netflix to do this regardless.

Their compression is often not the best so maybe not worth the full impact of a dedicated app!

lesterkrimbaugh said:

Why doesn't Apple just buy Masimo outright?
Their market capitalization is $6.25 billion, a fraction of the $61 billion Cash-on-Hand that Apple has in petty cash.
And Apple gets all Masimo's other medical tech which fits right in with Apple's business model.
Maybe Apple is trying to drive down Masimo's stock price before scooping them up.

As Apple was one vote away from a unanimous decision in their favor (6-1), and with, I believe, 15 of 17 Masimo patents already invalidated (and the remaining two under review), perhaps they are not as solid a company as one might think. Plus Masimo acquired a whole bunch of consumer audio products in 2022 (Denon, Marantz, Polk, B&W, and more) in their acquisition of Sound United. That's is a whole heap of legacy crap that I sincerely doubt Apple would be interested in paying for as part of the valuation... and makes me wonder exactly what their focus is.

What is not clear here: is Apple's software patch ti disable the sensor on new watches sold in the US sufficient to keep the product on sale while the appeals process plays out? I presume yes, and Apple was first looking to see if the stay would be enforced....