Greetings, and welcome to the last LinkSwarm of 2022! Short this time because of a whirlwind of pre-New Year’s Eve cleaning.
Sure, there was a very bad storm. But any frequent flyer knows that airlines love to trot out the liability-shielding word “weather” when a more honest reason for a delay is a chronic staff shortage, as was clearly the case in Denver for Southwest; no backup plans; or, in this instance, problems with an archaic, off-the-shelf phone and crew-scheduling system that buckled under pressure even as every other airline quickly got back to normal.
Evidence mounted that Southwest, apparently still stuck in the 1990s, had ignored numerous calls to upgrade its technological support system even after it knew the danger of a meltdown. Rather, it focused on restoring its stock dividend and, reportedly, installing a pickleball court at its headquarters.
As with many businesses in crises, Southwest and its top executives were slow to heed the scale of the problem coming over the net this week: Airline delays on this scale aren’t just about missing family gatherings, although that is bad enough, or sitting on the floor for hours. They can be matters of life and death.
I also read somewhere that the top people at Southwest have finance backgrounds, not airline operations backgrounds.
Henry Cavill is like many leading men. He’s handsome and talented, and anything he appears in automatically attracts viewers. However, unlike most leading men, his fanbase consists of both typical and atypical elements for someone like him. While he does have the love of moviegoers, women, and the respect of many a man, he also has a massive following in the nerd and geek communities.
This is because Cavill is, himself, a rabid geek and an unabashed one at that.
It’s this geeky quality that led Cavill to pursue various roles that should have made studios a lot of money. All they had to do was listen to Cavill. However, that’s not what they did. They ignored him, and now things are crumbling around them.
Netflix’s “The Witcher,” in particular, is one lesson that studios could learn a hard lesson from because it represents studios ignoring the geeks on a singular level. Cavill is a man who pushed for Netflix to take on “The Witcher” and he even succeeded in landing the role as the series protagonist “Geralt of Rivia.”
The Witcher is a well-known property. It started as a successful book series that was adapted to successful games. Cavill was a no-brainer for the role of Geralt, not just because he looked and acted the part flawlessly, but because he was a massive fan of both the games and the source material.
Cavill was more excited than anyone that this series was being made and said he’d stick it out with the show for seasons on end and would only depart if they didn’t respect the source material and change the show for their own purposes.
And true to form, Netflix hired showrunners that did exactly what Cavill warned again. Believable rumors began circulating that Cavill was unhappy with the show. It later came out that Cavill was oftentimes fighting to maintain various elements of the story. It was also revealed that the showrunners would laugh at, or show disdain for, the source material that Cavill loved so much. Soon enough, he announced he was exiting the role as Geralt and handing it to Liam Hemsworth. I can only imagine the heartbreak Cavill suffered over this, but it was the right move…according to both his fans and fans of “The Witcher.”
Cavill is one of the few actors who he and his fans can say truly understand each other. He’s one of them and it shows.
(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
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Most, if not all of the modern American entertainment industry has zero idea how to do their jobs. They’re so used to forcing crap down people’s throats, they think they can keep right on doing it forever.
I think this grew out of their success normalizing gay behavior in the public commons, which was the wedge issue because they managed to convince most Americans that gays weren’t all that bad, really. The reality that it was merely an opening wedge driven into the collective skull of American public life is something that a lot of people are only now starting to get, and once the denial wears off, I’m thinking you’re going to see a similar reaction to the whole LGBTWTFBBQ mess that you had in the transition between Weimar and Nazi Germany. The gays don’t know it, but they sowed the seeds of their own destruction with pushing all that entirely unnatural shift in social values.
I know two families who experienced gay/lesbian grooming of their kids. Where they used to be relatively tolerant, they’re now uniformly and vehemently against the whole thing, to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some killings involved.
I think it’s becoming increasingly clear to a lot of people that none of this BS has a natural limit, and I further suspect that once a tipping point is reached, there’s going to be a preference cascade that’ll make what happened to Ceaucescu in Romania look like a Girl Scout meeting.
You can be weird and a social outlier, but when you start presenting a threat to people’s kids? Results are unlikely to be pretty, at all.
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