Oh shit, I remember the Musk namedrop in Discovery. Didn’t they name him alongside historical scientists and inventors? I seldom feel actual cringe but that was actually embarrassing.
Yeah they namedropped him and people tried to rationalize this as not being bad (after Musk was revealed to be a dipshit to people who were paying less attention) by saying ‘it was the evil mirror universe captain who said it’ but that didn’t seem that convincing to me. (esp as the rest of the crew didn’t react to it, which you can rationalize away with ‘well he is the captain, you don’t go argue with them about stuff like this’).
Granted, this was back when Musk’s public perception was at its most positive - it would take until the Thai cave diver incident in July 2018 before we saw the first hole being blown in Musk’s “IRL Tony Stark” image.
Somewhat fittingly, that incident played out on Twitter, whose acquisition by Musk has done plenty to showcase his true colours.
oh, certainly (re public perception), but that’s what’s even more damning for me about this decision: it was so extremely en vogue, dealing only with “the issue of the day”. it’s so incredibly short-sighted and I still can’t quite believe the writing crew went for it
have oft wondered whether it’s worth tracking them down to hear what they were thinking at the time, as well how they think it is right now (as well as how it’ll age)
Trying to imagine what would a mirror universe Musk gets up to. I think any level of notoriety for him inevitably ends in execution after some failed palace intrigue.
Oh shit, I remember the Musk namedrop in Discovery. Didn’t they name him alongside historical scientists and inventors? I seldom feel actual cringe but that was actually embarrassing.
Yeah they namedropped him and people tried to rationalize this as not being bad (after Musk was revealed to be a dipshit to people who were paying less attention) by saying ‘it was the evil mirror universe captain who said it’ but that didn’t seem that convincing to me. (esp as the rest of the crew didn’t react to it, which you can rationalize away with ‘well he is the captain, you don’t go argue with them about stuff like this’).
Granted, this was back when Musk’s public perception was at its most positive - it would take until the Thai cave diver incident in July 2018 before we saw the first hole being blown in Musk’s “IRL Tony Stark” image.
Somewhat fittingly, that incident played out on Twitter, whose acquisition by Musk has done plenty to showcase his true colours.
oh, certainly (re public perception), but that’s what’s even more damning for me about this decision: it was so extremely en vogue, dealing only with “the issue of the day”. it’s so incredibly short-sighted and I still can’t quite believe the writing crew went for it
have oft wondered whether it’s worth tracking them down to hear what they were thinking at the time, as well how they think it is right now (as well as how it’ll age)
Trying to imagine what would a mirror universe Musk gets up to. I think any level of notoriety for him inevitably ends in execution after some failed palace intrigue.
Intelligent, thoughtful, empathetic like cartman was kind.
yep, and iirc a highschool named after him. so cringe.