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 Before streaming happened, there was a sharp dividing line between mainstream entertainment and lower quality products of the sort that would be dumped directly on to video or be shown on telly as TV movie of the week. The former would feature A list actors and would be made by big name directors, while the latter would be made by the likes of Albert Pyun and Uwe Boll and star a cast of unknowns. Post-streaming, that dividing line has disappeared and now we're getting films and shows based on huge and lucrative IPs - Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and Star Wars to name a few - but made by and starring the kind of talent who, in a bygone era, would have graced the lower shelves in one's local video store. Lord of the Rings has become Rings of Power, which is, essentially, Tommy Wiseau's Lord of the Rings.

 The other reason I don't post on Facebook is because of lack of response, aside from the characters mentioned in my previous post. For a while I got in a huff every time I posted a comment or a picture and got blowing tumbleweeds as a result. However, then I questioned how much I was responding to other people's posts and realised that I wasn't; nothing in my news feed on Facebook or Instagram was stirring me to "like", comment, or any other reaction to what anyone else was saying. This made me feel like a hypocrite for moaning about my lack of reaction from others.

Disney don't ruin the IPs that they inherit from other companies. Most of what they buy has been ruined already: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Predator, Alien Covenant, X-Men Dark Phoenix and the Star Wars prequels were all low points for their respective series. What Disney did was follow all of these up with additions that were no better. Disney's crime is that, given the opportunity to reinvigorate all of those IPs with fresh creative teams and visions, they instead carried on making them to the previous low standard.

On its way back to Earth after a mining trip, the starship Nostromo picks up a distress call from a nearby planetoid emitted by a spaceship created by a race of giant, bald albino humanoids who visited Earth in prehistory to create life on our planet by means of a black mutagenic pathogen which transformed the humanoids' DNA, giving rise to myriad life forms before leaving behind murals and cave paintings inviting humans to come and visit their creators on their home planet, prompting an expedition from Earth thousands of years later that takes the crew of  the starship Prometheus to the aliens' home world, which isn't the aliens' home world but a munitions factory for creating bioweapons in the form of a second black mutagenic pathogen which gives rise to hostile and parisitic life forms resulting in catastrophic loss of life for  the humans exposed to it and eventually producing a creature resembling a crucified figure on a mural created by the space giants thousands ...