Why NBC sucks

Today, NBC unveiled their midseason schedule, and Community is not on it. This is why NBC sucks.

1. Point one: Community is one of the funniest shows on TV in the past 10 years. Instead of actually supporting it, NBC decides to push a show like Whitney, which is not fucking funny. It’s lame. NBC sucks because instead of supporting quality shows, it supports dumb fucking shows that will inevitably be cancelled anyway.
2. Point two: They are removing Community to make room for 30 Rock to return. 30 Rock is funny, but it has been on a downslide since season 4 at the latest. Also, it has never, even at its peak, been funnier than Community. NBC sucks because it relies on shows that were once good, but have gotten their own heads so far up their own ass that they stop trying to be funny.
3. Point three: The business reasoning behind this is that Community is getting hammered in ratings by The Big Bang Theory. The answer should be to move it to a more friendly time slot. NBC sucks because they don’t give quality shows a fighting chance.
4. Point four: The Big Bang Theory was once amusing. Now it is bordering on annoying. And yet it’s getting three times the viewers of Community. Also, a show like Two and Half Men kills in ratings. This is not a problem with NBC. This is a problem with the viewing public. Stop watching generically unfunny shows at the expense of unique, meaningful comedy.

NBC fucking sucks.

News item: George Lucas to re-release Star Wars OT with Chewbacca digitally replaced by Jar Jar Binks

Not technically true, but eerily possible, no? I picture his explanation going something like this:

Well, of course Chewbacca is a widely loved character, but the truth is I actually always envisioned the character of Chewbacca to be more like Jar Jar Binks. At the time we made the original Star Wars, though, we didn’t have the technology to create such a great character, so I had to reimagine the concept of Wookiees to be more like giant bear/gorilla hybrids. Now that we have the ability, we can actually go back and improve the original film and make Chewbacca the character he was always meant to be. I got the idea from a 4 year old who asked me what Chewbacca was saying, and I thought to myself “A child shouldn’t have to use his imagination when watching a character. The character should be so loud and obvious that the child’s brain completely shuts down.” I really think most fans will enjoy Jar Jar’s participation in the original trilogy’s story now, especially the scene when he accidentally shoots a whole squad of storm troopers after fumbling with his bowcaster.

I thought about this after hearing people shout angrily about Vader’s “No… NOOOOOOOOO!” that was digitally inserted into the climax of Jedi for the Blu-ray release. While I fully agree that this modification is at best annoying, it is still only at worst eye-rollingly obnoxious. Let me put it plain: this insertion of monologue does not ruin an entire saga of movies, nor disqualify the media it appears on from purchase.

The rest of the six movies (or for you really picky folks, the rest of the OT) remains the same, ‘the same’ being everything including the changes made in the SE releases and DVD releases (in other words, Ghost Hayden). While these changes were met with disdain (disdain I agree with), I never heard people say “Well, that’s it, I’m not buying the DVD!”

Is the “No…NOOOOOO” stupid? Absolutely. It’s actually really fucking stupid. But it’s only stupid because it’s unnecessary. It doesn’t detract <em>much</em> from the scene itself, and honestly if it had appeared that way in the original theatrical release, people would be furious if they removed it for the Blu-ray.

What’s really upsetting is not the line itself, but what its insertion represents: the attitude that George Lucas seems to have that he can do whatever he wants to the movies for any arbitrary reason. If you really want to boycott this by denying yourself the glorious Blu-ray viewing of your beloved saga, I think you’re really the one losing out here.

not all, just some

Nothing is more offensive to me as a theist than the atheist who talks about how they wish they could believe in something and how good it must feel, but they just can’t because they haven’t been convinced.

Because what they’re really saying is “Oh, I wish I could be dumb enough to believe in God, but I’m just too weighted down by my logic and reason! Woe is me for being too smart to believe in God!”

You do believe in something, by the way. You believe that there is nothing.

Condescending asses.