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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone involved was high on Cocaine.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 13 points 1 year ago

Or older entertainment traditionalists firmly stuck in the era of variety hours and then importance of "big music numbers to give the audience the ol' razzle-dazzle!" Hell, some of them probably never got out of a nostalgia for vaudeville.

Or both that decrepit mindset plus cocaine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This cannot be overstated. Just reading the summary would invoke serious head-shaking, the casting would result in an explosion. Which tells you the snow blew over everyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A white Christmas, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A long long time ago in a galaxy for away, somehow there was Jesus too...

That proves it. Jesus is The Doctor.

[–] NOT_RICK 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is making me think of the Ray Bradbury story where astronauts reach another planet with alien life and the aliens don’t give a shit about them because Jesus happens to have just arrived as well and the astronauts are boring compared to that. The aliens treat him excellently rather than crucifying him. I think about what Ray was saying about us with that story a lot.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't say I know this story, but I do have a comic somewhere where aliens meet a priest who asks if Jesus visited them and they reply Jesus still often does many times cause he was praised and welcomed by them. The priest then says: "Still visits often? We're still waiting for his first return", to which the Alien asks: "Why, what did you do to him?" 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Somewhere in the corner, Joseph Smith is scribbling furiously...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FinalRemix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's wine now?

[–] aodhsishaj 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you not mean, Doctor Who was Jesus.

Explains him coming back after 3 days (probably forgot the screwdriver in Jerusalem), and the floating up to heaven, and the money changers, and the wine...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no 'was' in timetravel. 😜😂

Anyway, ALONS-Y! 😁

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"The Star Wars Holiday Special" has been rightfully anointed with certified "so bad it’s good" status by forgiving fans

There's parts that are kinda good, like the Boba Fett animated part. But my god are parts of it just awful. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch my pirated copy, recorded on a primitive VCR complete with local commercials.

[–] ttmrichter 8 points 1 year ago

I think that entire documentary could be summarized as "Drugs. Lots of drugs. Lots of drugs in lots of varieties."

[–] DannyMac 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This is so aggravating, there are 5 comments in this thread and none of them are visible to me. 😫 Why?

Update: Thanks to /c/support, I now know that one must also have english selected, as well as, undetermined in your profile settings. I see everything now!

[–] kmartburrito 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What client are you using? I'm using boost on Android and I'm able to see all the comments

[–] DannyMac 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using the main web interface while using LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The odds of all top level commenters being on your blocklist is low since there are multiple top level commenters, it has happened to me when all replies were to a single top level commenter on my block list.

[–] Aliendelarge 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can see 6 of 11 currently on connect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you blocking any specific users? Or instances maybe?

[–] DannyMac 3 points 1 year ago

c/support helped me out. Turns out that I only had "undetermined" selected for my language in my profile settings when I should have also selected "english."