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I find it funny how Johnny Depp’s co-stars always have something good to say about him whenever they work with him, and how certain people seem desperate for that not to be true.

For 10 seasons and over 200 episodes, "Stargate: SG-1" was the gold standard for sci-fi television. Premise: a military dream team, Colonel Jack O'Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, and the alien warrior Teal'c must save the universe from the enslavement of the diabolical Goa'uld. The show deftly mixed Egyptian mythology, creative science, kickass action, and epic space travel — all while keeping a perfect balance of humor, camaraderie, and genuine wonder. And at its core was brilliant astrophysicist and soldier Major Samantha Carter: smarter than everyone in the universe, but NOT a girlboss. She followed orders, loved her team, respected her male counterparts, and never once had to belittle the men around her to feel strong. She earned her place through competence, not attitude. That’s why the show worked so well for so long. It spawned 2 fairly well-received spinoffs, "Stargate: Atlantis" and "Stargate Universe"... ...and 2 direct-to-video films, "Stargate: The Ark of Truth" and "Stargate: Continuum." But it also begat the disastrous 2018 GIRLBOSS REBOOT prequel web series, "Stargate Origins: Catherine." Released on MGM’s short-lived "Stargate Command" YouTube channel, it retconned the series into a story about a young Catherine Langford uncovering the Stargate in 1939 Egypt. Langford was brash, bullying towards men, and a thoroughly unlikeable precursor to all the "strong women" plaguing media today. The series BOMBED ENTIRELY, was cancelled after one short season, and is largely forgotten or dismissed today. Thanx to female empowerment, TV will never see male-centered shows as entertaining as "SG-1" again. But thankfully, we can rewatch these gems over and over again to remind us how good we once had it.

@janefkndoe @shalomninja Zhee Emmuh!

@Gryph911 Yep

Every man should have a group of friends like this. This was recorded while they were gaming together.

@fandompulse Source please

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit. I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more. The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined. That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ... This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others. Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them. The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why." Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?

@jondelarroz This

I have a solution for Star Trek that can tie in United and remove the Kurtzman universe entirely: Years into his presidency, Jonathan Archer and the nascent United Federation of Planets are rocked by escalating temporal anomalies that threaten the Romulan War peace and the young Federation itself. Starfleet traces the disturbances to the still-unresolved Temporal Cold War, and discovers that the shadowy “Future Guy” who once manipulated the Suliban Cabal was none other than Archer himself, projected from a devastated 28th-century future. In that broken timeline (the one containing the Burn, the Federation’s near-collapse, and all the Kurtzman-era cataclysms), a desperate Archer had volunteered to become a non-corporeal agent, trying to steer 22nd-century events toward a stronger Federation. Instead, his well-intentioned meddling fractured the prime timeline, birthing the divergent horrors he was attempting to prevent. Working with a time-displaced descendant and a preserved message from his own Enterprise crew, President Archer confronts his future self in a temporal nexus aboard the new flagship USS United. He convinces the older version to stand down, allowing the original, unaltered timeline to reassert itself. The Kurtzman-era disasters are retroactively erased, revealed as the “bad future” that no longer exists, restoring continuity and ushering in a stable golden age of exploration. The series then proceeds from this corrected prime timeline, with Archer’s presidency now free to focus on building the Federation we always wanted to see, setting up ongoing stories of unity, diplomacy, and discovery without the baggage of the last decade’s continuity snarls. What do you think?

🔥 First time ever — Sammy Hagar meets Eddie Van Halen on stage! Farm Aid 1985. Sammy steps in, Eddie lights up his guitar, and they absolutely crush Led Zeppelin’s “Rock And Roll” together. Raw energy, killer tone, and the exact moment the Van Hagar era was born 🤘 History in real time.

@UnleashedG23066 What hauntingly beautiful arrangement.

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

@drinkonsaturday Truth

Country boys are raised with manners baked in from birth. “Yes ma’am,” “No sir,” “Please” and “Thank you” ain’t optional—they’re second nature, part of how we talk and how we carry ourselves. We’re straightforward people. We don’t play games with words, and we’re often blind to “subtle” flirting. Those indirect little hints? They fly right over our hats. If you want our attention, come correct and say what you mean. Direct, honest, and clear. Beat around the bush and we’ll probably just tip our hat, say “ma’am,” and keep walking. Now you know.

@janefkndoe Gee Emm

@CallMeK1123 I’m a bit older so…

Guys used to make these for us to show how much they care, I miss it.

@CallMeK1123 Because he’s correct. And has eyes.

husband says right isn’t even worth looking at

guys, left or right.

@CallMeK1123 Left… every time, no hesitation. Left. Did I say left?

@CallMeK1123 Same

my rules are very simple, if you go after my friends i will go after you.

@BostonKid508 @KyleBrandt

@itsTJTalk @KyleBrandt Yup. 5 for me, 5 for my friend. 0 regrets.

Would leave high school during Lunch period. Zip over to Arby’s. Eat five (5) roast beef sandwiches for lunch, smothered in sauce. Seasoned curlies, too. Mr. Pibb. And be back at my desk for Calculus like it was no big deal. That was just Thursday.

@lljbreed1970 @KyleBrandt Haha… same!

@itsTJTalk @KyleBrandt taco bell was our spot since it was right across the street from school

@PatsKam Truly inspiring transformation

I stopped making excuses and started making changes. I have LOST 199 pounds.