Todd Lehman

Tell us you love #TheOrville without telling us you love The Orville.

@neveils_david_c @lexx_aura "Computer: make Primer (2004) meets Feedback (2002) meets El Incidente (2014), but with the moral landscape of El Hoyo (2019)."

What amazes me aside from the technology that makes this possible in less time than the original hand drawn frame by frame animation, is the entertainment value of so many variations of creations not only from one but many people creating their story and the stories are just going to get better and better. I imagine one day I could come home and tell my computer monitor I would like to see entertainment involving time travel stories and it will provide a list of thousands, so many that they even be separated into subcategories. 🤯🤯🤯

A heartwarming tale of a little robot finding her light in the wasteland Short Ai animated movie Seedance 2.0

It’s a good thing @ScottGrimes and @SethMacFarlane are friends. Go behind the scenes of “Dungeons & Dealers” with @IGN.

My fave Chuck Norris joke: Chuck doesn't flush the toilet, he scares the shit out of it.

Your maturity ends the moment you start using this wallet 🤭🤣

Fun fact: Led by writer Chelsea Davison, The “Ted” writers’ room played a full game of D&D together prior to laying out the story, to ensure the episode’s authenticity. This is also known as “blowing off work to play D&D.”

@martinhadis @Rainmaker1973 1972 🙂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_…

@Rainmaker1973 Well, we should keep in mind that borrowing resources from other universes may not necessarily lead to happily-ever-after scenarios. Asimov warned us of possible pitfalls in such situations back in 1927 :)

Google’s new quantum chip is so powerful it might be tapping into parallel universes. Google's groundbreaking quantum processor, Willow, has achieved the seemingly impossible: solving an extraordinarily complex computational problem in under five minutes—a feat that would require the world's most advanced supercomputer approximately 10 septillion years to complete (10²⁵). This mind-boggling performance has revived one of the most provocative ideas in physics: could quantum computers like Willow be performing calculations across vast numbers of parallel universes? Hartmut Neven, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, believes the answer may be yes. He argues that Willow’s results align strikingly with the many-worlds (or multiverse) interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which every quantum measurement causes reality to branch into multiple, equally real parallel universes. In this view, a quantum computer doesn’t just calculate faster within our universe—it effectively distributes the workload across countless parallel realities simultaneously. The idea traces back to physicist David Deutsch, who, as early as the 1980s, suggested that the exponential power of quantum computation could only be fully explained if the machine is exploiting resources from many coexisting worlds. Yet the interpretation remains deeply divisive. Many physicists and quantum computing experts insist that no multiverse is required. Willow’s breakthrough, they argue, is fully explainable through standard quantum mechanics—leveraging superposition (qubits existing in multiple states at once), entanglement, and the mathematics of high-dimensional Hilbert spaces—all within a single universe. So what has Willow truly demonstrated? It has pushed quantum technology into a regime so extreme that it compels us to re-examine the deepest foundations of reality itself. Whether or not Willow is quietly borrowing power from alternate universes, one thing is clear: practical, large-scale quantum computing is no longer science fiction—and it is forcing us to confront profound questions about the nature of the cosmos, computation, and existence.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@danveloper At this rate, we're gonna see a 1T model at 100tps on an 48K Apple ][+ emulated in JavaScript running in a web page inside Safari on an original 2007 iPhone.

We’re gonna see someone running a 1T model at 100tok/s on a $2500 laptop by like a month from now. Long Apple, this is the best AI inference platform.

@fandompulse Fund and produce it independently, then license to multiple streamers simultaneously. No streaming ownership—just perpetual, non-exclusive rights. Platforms can optionally contribute funding as non-refundable, no-strings, no-guarantees donations, later offset against licensing.

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk say there is heavy interest from distributors for the Firefly animated series: Fillion said: "I don’t think we’re having any difficulty getting the appointment now. You know what I mean? Our foot in the door." Tudyk added: "Conversations are being had." Where do you want to watch it at?

"Your move, Friar Tuck." ign.com/articles/ted-s… #ScottGrimes #TedSeries #ted

Looks like you can also get all three seasons as a box set. Note: DON'T BUY THIS. It's a bootleg, and bootlegs aren't officially sanctioned copies. ebay.com/itm/3662852960…

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released Seasons 1 & 2 of #TheOrville on DVD but not on Blu-Ray. Season 3 isn't even out on DVD. Leave it to someone to sell a bootleg on eBay — eating Hulu's lunch. #TheInternetFindsAWay ebay.com/itm/3662852960…

@Trekkinlife70 @Dellos @hulu Looks like you can buy a Blu-Ray bootleg on eBay. To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm: "The Internet finds a way." ebay.com/itm/3662852960…

@Dellos Me too. I may have to rewatch again. Trouble is, I don’t have Hulu and they have very little choices for physical media. I’ll sign up for @hulu when I get a clear sense when this goes live

The reason I like The Orville is because they are not heroic people doing heroic acts, they are people like us who have flaws like us who occasionally do heroic things. As I write this on 03 18 2026 I miss all those characters very much.

@Trekkinlife70 @Dellos @hulu Hulu (or whoever made the decision not to release on DVD & Blu-Ray) must not even care that people are selling bootlegs. ebay.com/itm/3977136854…

@Trekkinlife70 @Dellos @hulu It really is a travesty that Season 3 isn't even available on DVD. Really not sure what the logic was on that cock-up.

@sushinateur @Dellos @Trekkinlife70 @hulu @EgotasticFT He was at the Vegas Sphere for the world premiere of the new simulator movie written and produced by Lt. Unk and his buddies, and it was so terrifying that he ran all the way the Canada.

The technology behind this is wild. In 2000, it cost Ridley Scott $3.2 million to digitally paste Oliver Reed's face onto a body double for two minutes of Gladiator. In 2026, an indie film just recreated Val Kilmer's entire on-screen performance from family photos and voice recordings. He never filmed a single frame. Kilmer was one of the first actors to get an AI voice clone. In 2021, he partnered with a startup called Sonantic to rebuild his voice after throat cancer destroyed it. They generated over 40 different versions of his voice before landing on one that worked. That voice showed up in Top Gun: Maverick. Top Gun was just voice, though. Kilmer was alive, on set, his face on camera. "As Deep as the Grave" is a completely different problem. The production built his visual performance from family photos and footage of his final years, then layered an AI version of his damaged voice on top. All on an indie budget. The cost drop is staggering. $1.6 million per minute in Gladiator. Rogue One spent 18 months of Industrial Light & Magic labor (the effects studio behind Star Wars) to resurrect Peter Cushing in 2016, inside a movie that cost over $200 million. Now, a small production company can pull off something comparable without that infrastructure. SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, negotiated rules in 2023 requiring consent for digital replicas of performers, and that consent still applies after a performer dies. The Kilmer team says they followed those guidelines and compensated the estate. But the legal side is barely keeping up. James Earl Jones proactively signed over his Darth Vader voice to a Ukrainian AI startup in 2022 because he wanted the character to outlive him. Last September, SAG-AFTRA publicly condemned an AI "actress" called Tilly Norwood, a computer-generated character trained on real performers' work without permission. The Kilmer situation had consent at every step. He signed on for this role while alive. His daughter collaborated on the production. His estate got paid. About as clean as digital resurrection gets. The tools that made it possible, though, don't care about any of that. They just need photos and audio.

@Variety I reckon this'll go over about as well as that George Carlin AI comedy special.

@Doctor_Omega Oops, I remembered the quote wrong! 🥴 imdb.com/title/tt010697…

@xeow I say make it unnatural colors all the time!!

Happy St. Pat's Day to any Ghostheads out there..