This is pretty cool, and bigger, it's relatively close by. However, before you get too excited, this planet is in the right size and location range, and stable, but no one knows what sort of environment it has yet.
Quote:Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It’s really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness. That’s why it evades Zuckerberg’s background timidity and the mess that the Internet has made of cultural discourse. In interviews, Sorkin brags about the multiple narrative and Fincher has even invoked Citizen Kane—both are grandstanding excuses for Zuckerberg’s repeated masturbatory request for friendship—a mawkish George Clooney ending. Here’s the truth: Kane was not about a brat’s betrayal, but about a sensitive braggart’s psychological and philosophical shift inward. The Social Network is more like Hollywood’s classic film industry selfromance The Bad and the Beautiful. Yet that Kane-lite film never excused its bad-boy protagonist’s sins and ended magnanimously by converging his three injured parties’ points of view into one beautifully clarifying narrative. It admitted our cultural compromises; this is TV-trite. In The Social Network, creepiness is heroized.
Should be interesting though, the rumors about when the 3DS will launch have been all over the place, and the system of course is getting a huge amount of hype...
I know I'm looking forward to it, Ken Burns' Baseball was outstanding, as are all of his documentaries, and this one picks up from where the original '90s series ended... it'll be about the steroid era, I imagine. I wonder how critical it'll be... Ken Burns usually likes to be positive.
