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Happy 2019! General discussion thread
Call Me Tom wrote:Is the guilt legitimately yours or was it given to you by someone else? Either way you can disown it.
I don't know how not to feel crippling guilt whenever I try to draw comics any more.
Do you need it? Is it doing any good for you or is it stopping you from growing as a person?
What would happen if you just bundled all.thf guilt up into a ball and threw it away? Would the guilt police come and imprison you?
Write out an essay "why I am guilty" put down everything that makes you guilty and bad and awful. Take it out and tip it to shreds and burn it and throw it away. Your guilt is now gone. It is no longer a part of you.
People do this every day and it works. There are self help books as well as health care professionals who will walk you through this.
It's not easy, but it can be done and you can go on to live the rest of your life to your full potential.
And there are some days when I just can't get out of bed and two weeks ago I didn't. But I so needed that. Just time for me and not the 8 hours of torture I call my job. But the rest of the time I can do it. One day at a time.
A reply to Skreem about the new Star Wars movies-
Film series are for whoever choses to whatch them, not for any particular group 😉
There's a popular misconception nowadays that the original films were for kids, but when the original series was released it was mainly young adults and teens that it was marketed to and who went to see it. Look at all the footage of the people who lined up for it.
I think the "for kids" thing comes from the fact that Lucas was trying to sell the toys to kids as a marketing tie in, but people tried to do that with all TV shows and movies that had any SciFi or fantasy elements, even David Lynch's Dune and V had toys 😁
Even Blake's Seven, and that was Darrrrk…
ozoneocean wrote:
I think the "for kids" thing comes from the fact that Lucas was trying to sell the toys to kids as a marketing tie in, but people tried to do that with all TV shows and movies that had any SciFi or fantasy elements, even David Lynch's Dune and V had toys 😁
Even Blake's Seven, and that was Darrrrk…
I got a UFO interceptor back in the early seventies. That show had plenty of tie in merch, but it definitely wasn't intended for kids. It seemed very dark to me at the time. Even the end theme (best end theme ever) was a little disorientating on a Sunday morning!
Ironscarf wrote:I was told by guys who worked in toy design that it wasn't so much the audience the show was intended for as it was what elements could be merchandised and what things from the show were the most "toyetic"ozoneocean wrote:
I think the "for kids" thing comes from the fact that Lucas was trying to sell the toys to kids as a marketing tie in, but people tried to do that with all TV shows and movies that had any SciFi or fantasy elements, even David Lynch's Dune and V had toys 😁
Even Blake's Seven, and that was Darrrrk…
I got a UFO interceptor back in the early seventies. That show had plenty of tie in merch, but it definitely wasn't intended for kids. It seemed very dark to me at the time. Even the end theme (best end theme ever) was a little disorientating on a Sunday morning!
Dinky had all the Gerry Anderson shows and made all the vehicles. They also did Blake's Seven for the ships.
Dune was merchandised because there were so many things in it that could be made into toys. The line failed.
Robotech was weird because it was sold to Matchbox who made a line of fashion dolls? A violent giant robot anime got fashion dolls? Huh?
Today a lot of toys are as much for collectors as they are for kids. Look at the whole Todd MacFarlane lineup.
The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies had large scale figures but the line was cut short – and there was so much clamor from collectors that the canceled items were released in a special collector series.
Star Trek The Original Series has gone through four or five different toy lines and the first wasn't until after it was cancelled and in syndication. The gift that keeps giving.
Ironscarf wrote:I would have killed for that, just so you know.
I got a UFO interceptor back in the early seventies. That show had plenty of tie in merch, but it definitely wasn't intended for kids. It seemed very dark to me at the time. Even the end theme (best end theme ever) was a little disorientating on a Sunday morning!
Forces TV (obscure satellite channel in the UK) ran UFO eps a few weeks back, I missed a few, hope they'll start them over again soon. Those I saw were great. You're not wrong about the end theme. I loved those shiny spinning UFOs.
It's so weird to pop in to the forum to see a UFO topic. I just woke up from a vivid dream about driving down the road and seeing this weird object up in the sky, looking kind of like a big, sleek kitchen appliance.
Then, right up ahead and hovering over me was this big rectangular object. My mind was racing, panicked at what was going to happen to me. I kept driving and saw multiple objects overhead, some of which were house-shaped (but made of a white, plastic looking material.
They didn't look to be actual houses - they were the right shape, but looked like models of houses. The bottoms were solid material; it didn't look like they'd been pulled out of the ground.
Things were scattered all over the sky. On the road, in the middle of the expressway were various other objects - some were alien looking, and some phone booths for some reason. Ah, dream logic.
Everything's over, I thought. What's going to happen to us?
It was one of those hyper-real dreams. Freaked me out.
Like I said, it's odd to see UFO talk here after waking up from that.
Do you guys know something???
Gerry Anderson special effects take flight. Was Skydiver in there Banes?
And the ladies with the tight silver suits and purple hair from Moonbase?
Interceptors immediate launch!
I have the UFO series on DVD. It's my favorite of the series. Never quite understood it as a kid. UFO or Space:1999 was on at 4 pm, Mission:Impossible at 5 and Star Trek at 6. Sundays in the 1970s.
I still have dreams about coming across a "lost" original series of Star Trek episode and then it shifts to doing a comic with the figures and I'm in the crew and then on a sound stage and back at the TV in typical dream logic.
And I wake up and shake my head and know I have to do another Tales of SIG story.
Which as I've said is tribute to another Gerry Anderson series that was a sequel of sorts to UFO though it preceded it. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Gerry Anderson fandom wove all the series into one future history with UFO in an alternate 1980s, Space:1999 following and believe it or not Thunderbirds and Stingray are happening in our present day. The Mars flight should be happening in a couple of years and the encounter with the Mysterons soon after.
Still time to join Spectrum boys and girls because Spectrum is Green and International Rescue is FAB.
And there's a new Thunderbirds Series too. In its third season already.
What's it called when you're in an emotional state where most things don't affect you too deeply, where you're sort of observing but not really able to feel the same things as others (or as deeply), so you have to try and take queues in order to catch on and work out the right responses and the right way to act?
I think that's where I am at the moment. It feels like Missing the first 2 episodes of a series so you have to catch up and trying and work out what's going on via context clues XD
ozoneocean wrote:"Cues" …it sounds like depression B-) I've learned a lot about depression in recent years, before realising I get it. Most people think depression is being incredibly sad, gut 'sad' is an emotion at least, so when I'm sad, I realise I'm no longer depressed. 'Proper' depression is more of a 'pit' of not giving a minus thousand fucks about anything.
What's it called when you're in an emotional state where most things don't affect you too deeply, where you're sort of observing but not really able to feel the same things as others (or as deeply), so you have to try and take queues in order to catch on and…
I know that's NOT what you're talking about though… it's more the "cultural enthusiasm" you don't feel for stuff . I get that a lot ! B-)
bravo1102 wrote:Well I was in my 20s, when UFO was on the idiot box. I used to love it. 1999 too. I'd forgotten about "tight silver suits and purple hair" B-)
Gerry Anderson special effects take flight.
And the ladies with the tight silver suits and purple hair from Moonbase?
Interceptors immediate launch!
I have the UFO series on DVD.
And there's a new Thunderbirds Series too. In its third season already.
ozoneocean wrote:
It's personal as well as cultural…
Maybe it is depression or ennui or something. I don't know.
I feel, but there's quite a delay, like hitting your thumb with a hammer and then yelping in pain an hour later XD
What, that isn't normal? Well, I hope your brain at least turned off the oven before it went on holiday.
Sensory overload. So much has come so fast that the brain needs time to rest and process everything.
So you can feel distracted or not in the moment because the brain is still off trying to make sense of last week.
Been a few comics and cartoons done about this feeling. Like one where the guy is still working away feeling detached and his brain is on a lounge chair with sun glasses drinking a Margarita with Jimmy Buffett.
bravo1102 wrote:Hahaha! Sounds about right BD
Like one where the guy is still working away feeling detached and his brain is on a lounge chair with sun glasses drinking a Margarita with Jimmy Buffett.
Genejoke wrote:Never a good idea :D
To be honest part of me wants to delete all my comics and start fresh.
Genejoke wrote:
I know, and so far I have resisted the urge. I'll get my head round it soon enough.
I know how you feel. But don't. They're a legacy and to be honest, I keep finding that new readers have discovered them as the likes go up on comics that I concluded years ago.
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