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.
Doug Jones is like Gary Oldman, a guy you've seen a million times without noticing it was the same person but once you recognize him, you see him everywhere. Gary Oldman has just his acting to hide himself, Doug Jones is freakishly recognizable through all his makeup.
I misread the thumbnail and thought that was Fred Armisen.
Which makes me wonder if humans have a normative look about them on the show; if actors with exaggerated features get shunted into alien roles to make the most of what they have and also not to confuse the audience ("is he supposed to be human or do those ears indicate an alien species and a low budget?") Who is the freakiest looking human actor in Star Trek?
Yes, I'm trying to bait the hook as deliciously as possible, but i admit if someone can't deal with any kind of technical friction and hate learning anything, this probably is not the hobby for them.
I mostly know him as an interest of Patty & Selma Bouvier, but have extremely vague memories of watching the show.
How would the similarly tech-positioned A-Team fare in your analysis?