I had completely blocked those out of my brain. You’re absolutely right.

Works really well for me too.

I like the season and still agree with you. At the least they need a lighter touch with the topical stuff so that it’s not so on the nose.

The problem with topical cartoons set a thousand years in the future is two fold. First, life moves fast but production times don’t. By the time an episode comes out either it’s no longer topical or at the least the talking points are a year old. South Park gets away with it because they have short production times (ok, they used to, I haven’t seen it in years so I don’t know if that’s still the case). Second, if it’s not dated, I promise the viewers are watching a funny space show to escape the constant bombardment and fatigue of it for 23ish minutes.

There are tropes that can be used from topical episodes that don’t have to be super on the nose. How people react to an epidemic is a super interesting thing to explore and we learned a whole lot in the last few years. But that can be explored while trusting your audience.

That’s the point of speculative fiction. Explore today’s problems in a way that forces you to think of tomorrow’s solutions.

It’s definitely a show of its time. I haven’t watched it in YEARS but I can’t imagine a lot of it aged well.

That said, I enjoyed it.

ADHD combination type and used to battle depression with anhedonia every single day. I wasn’t sad, I was uninterested and couldn’t feel pleasure. I haven’t beaten it but I’m in control these days.

It’s an exhausting feedback loop. The less I did because I just couldn’t get myself together enough to do anything the worse I felt. The worse I felt, the less I was able to do.

I see you, friend.

Giant NES themed A and B buttons that come with the keyboard. I want some because they look cool but I’m not in need of a keyboard.

The what if machine.

That thing isn’t worth the gold it’s made of. Stephen Hawking in a pizzeria…

Netflix handles everything terribly. They got someone in a top position that loves scripted reality TV and are going the route of the history channel and TLC.

I don’t know whether this will be controversial, but I enjoyed Disenchantment. I also enjoy the vast majority of Futurama.

I’m not sure they can recapture the lightening in a bottle of the early seasons, but I still think it’ll be good.