• 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    The image used for the eclipse in this reminded me of the show Heroes

    Such a great show that fell off a cliff after the first season

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Wasn’t it supposed to be an anthology series, where each season was a new cast? But then they were like “hey everyone loves these characters! Quick make up some stuff so they all have to stick around.” Then we got weird shit like that character who has a bunch of twins or something, and psycho serial killer Syler joins the team.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Oh really? I didn’t realise that was the case!

        I think the biggest thing I remember killing it was that there was a writers strike halfway through the 2nd season and instead of waiting until the end of the strike, the show runners slapped together a shit ending for the season and then it never really recovered

        • quicksand@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          It moved from more a spooky sci-fi to a drama that killed the interesting new character every episode. That’s gotta be one of the most disappointing series after the expectations set from the first season.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Hollywood must really suck at business if they can’t keep their essential workers from going on strike every decade or two and taking down a bunch of good shows when they do. Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to just, you know, pay them.

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    Why did nobody give a fuck about the 2023 eclipse?

    • joshthewaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      The annular one over north America? Because it was annular. While a cool event it is really a specific kind of partial eclipse. Totality is incomparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. I heard it described as the difference between mostly dead VS dead and recently I’ve seen the xkcd comic that does a decent job conveying the difference too.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      2017 had a total solar eclipse in the US in the southeast. People did care about it, but it wasn’t as big of a deal as this one I don’t think. I think part of the reason is people were made aware of how awesome (literal meaning) the event is in 2017 and this was almost perfectly centered across the US so accessible to almost everyone if they really want to.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      And you have many more if you’re willing to travel. This one was “once in a lifetime” because it was right through the middle of the US, so accessible to a ton of people, and also there was a comet that may have been visible at the same time. There was another eclipse just a few years ago in the SE US. Clearly not “once in a lifetime” though it is fairly uncommon and very special.

  • Pohl@lemmy.world
    English
    3·
    3 months ago

    I spent the week leading up to the eclipse looking at weather forecasts trying to give us the best shot of clear skies. When we got in the car Monday we still had to drive around a bit to get out from under the clouds. Ended up on some dirt road in NW OH in the middle of nowhere under a small patch of blue sky