I agree Mr. T is better than Andrew Tate, but they both share the same problem of needing to perform masculinity. The whole gender binary is a trap and it makes me sad that we have to sell kindness as a brand of manliness to make people take it seriously. I wish we could throw the whole thing in the trash and just value traits independently of hormonal associations, but likely that is an impossible utopian vision.
Portuguese conjugations are fun, they are so close to Spanish, and knowing the ão approaches an "m" sound helps a lot because the n in "they" conjugations becomes "m" in portuguese (hacen --> fazem, estan --> estão).
The premise is they're a team of crack commandos convicted of a crime they did not commit. They are constantly harrassed by the military and they take on missions that amount to public service; in most episodes, there's a montage where they build a bunch of shit out junk.
It also has Dirk Benedict, who is dreamy.
They also have a "crazy" person on the team, which is good for representation but a little questionable otherwise.
It's also got Mr. T who became famous for... being Mr. T.
As a society, we are driving ourselves into a decade-long global depression in a desperate attempt to throw every worker into unemployment and replace them with AI. It's never been more obvious that workers are fully expendable.
Greebles, also called greeblies (singular: greebly)[1] or nurnies, are small relief details used to give visual complexity to a model. The act of decorating a model with greebles is known as greebling. While greebling originated as a technique in filmmaking, it is commonly used in model-making, toy design, and kitbashing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble
I think the Expanse almost finds the perfect balance.
I love star wars, but don't know even if it's even nominally SF, which, hard or soft, should be exploring some ideas. Soft SF can explore psychology or sociology or religion in a futuristic setting. Dune, for instance, has plenty of thematic exploration of politics and economics and religion.
Star Wars, however, is just glorified set design. The elements of society and technology don't interact in any meaningful way. Things are just sort of there because they look cool without any thought to the impact they would have. The ur-example of this is droids--which are just exist, though their social, religious, and economic ramifications would be enormous.
Oh, no, what happened to contributing the discussion?