“Is it Tuesday already?”
Star Trek: Voyager #9
Marvel/Paramount Comics (September, 1997)
“Dead Zone”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
PENCILER: Terry Pallot
INKER: Al Milgrom
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
Hey, you don’t have to hear my voice this morning!
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So basically NFTs are bullcrap and some idiots will waste money on anything. Kind of suspected.
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Remember when that was YouTube’s slogan, “Broadcast Yourself”? It seems that’s less and less the case. While I’ll happily use official show upload channels not only to ensure the rights holder gets the most of their rights but because I can then show you programs I couldn’t before that I really want to promote, it seems like the platform is being taken over by bigger studios, streaming services who want to draw people to their service without paying for ads, and celebrities who want a bigger presence in your life so they can get better gigs later on.
Meanwhile the “YouTube celebrity” is looked down upon by any TV show that isn’t The Masked Singer unless they can create a show around them. Nickelodeon seems to really be pushing for that last part, whether it’s about a crazy teen who needs to seriously calm down and stop freebasing helium or a kid who reviews toys in his age group. Old Media is trying to reclaim its dominance by turning YouTube into their playground, some feel at the expense of people who honestly want to use the platform. While this could be in response to all the illegal uploads of TV shows that was indeed a problem on the site, it seems now that it’s about taking over on a streaming service they don’t have to maintain…or to promote the ones they do but has the advantage of making them money. It’s free advertising and they can try to make ad revenue on top of it.
This is a problem for anyone who wants to make YouTube videos out of honest passion or creating something that wouldn’t work on regular TV without being stuck on cable/community access, which is really a dying platform because of sites like YouTube. In the following video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes he goes over the problem with YouTube, why it’s so hard to gain an audience without conforming to “what works”, and even points to the exact day YouTube creatively died. Then I have some thoughts as well from my own experience.
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Guys, shouldn’t you be focusing on the same target?
A-Next #1
Marvel Comics/MC2 (October, 1998)
“Second Coming!”
WRITER/PENCILERS: Tom Defalco & Ron Frenz
INKER: Brett Breeding
COLORIST: Bob Sharen
LETTERER: Jim Novak
EDITOR: Bob Harras
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And here’s the final result:
I’ll also be putting this into the original Reconstruction Zone article for Batman. Maybe I can finally get myself to do another Reconstruction Zone article and redesign now that this is out of my system.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Part 3: Talin chapter 7
Well, most of our heroes reunited last chapter. Kirk’s making his own way to Talin IV and Scotty is still there, so that just leaves Spock. He apparently has his own plan, and you’d think he would have consulted with Uhura given that they were still in contact through her ordeal. Today we may learn what the Vulcan has in mind.
What’s worrying me at this stage is that there’s only about a quarter of the book left and I was hoping there’d be more time solving the actual cause of what happened on Talin IV. Will there be enough room? I’ve been reviewing a few comics lately that didn’t have time to fully explore their story because they got cut off and it would be a shame to see the novels do that. So let’s see what Spock and Richter have planned and how their poor dupes are going to take it.
Secondary TARDIS Companions: Escaping The “Tin Dog”
Amy, you almost left him standing at the alter to fool around with the Doctor. He waited thousands of years while you healed in a huge box. YOU LOSE ANY RIGHT TO BE JEALOUS EVER!
Companions (with a captial C) have been part of Doctor Who since literally the first episode. While you can debate Susan’s place in that title given that she started traveling with her grandfather at the start and is probably more than just a Companion, you still have Ian and Barbara right at the first episode, unwilling as they were at the time. Companions come and go but thanks to regeneration only the Doctor and the TARDIS are constant, and there were a few times the Doctor unwillingly traveled without the TARDIS too.
In New Who not every Companion joins up immediately. They may be connected to the main Companion, usually romantically involved, though this being new Who it’s after the Companion tries to lock up with the Time Lord. I think Donna and Yaz are the only New Who women outside of comics, novels, and Big Finish not to try, and that’s because I’ve only caught old Who versions of the others outside of a few comics that kept the show’s Companions and the IDW run. The video below refers to these later travelers as “Secondary Companions”, but the episode “School Reunion” could slap another name on them: the Tin Dog, a reference to K-9. They only show up to help now and then, but two managed to become regular crew: Mickey Smith and Rory Williams. While Rory went on to be amazing on-screen, poor Mickey’s greatest adventures seems to happen off-screen.
In the following video by Harblo Wholmes we get an exploration of these two Secondary Companions and their path to rising above their status.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 1, 2021 in Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Doctor Who, K-9, Mickey Smith, Rory Williams.
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