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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 01:52:54 UTC Hallå Kitteh
   There is a fantastic forum post out there on the internets somewhere that rates 20th century history as if it were a TV series. "[The second season is ridiculous. Another world war? The USA is the deus ex machina again? And come on, that villain. Could he *be* more villain-y? His elite force has skulls and bones for symbol, REALLY? It's just not believable.]", and so on.
   
   Well, the latest season has a world leader doing things like this:
   
   > I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his
   
   The writers of this show need to study real politics for a while, or simply just the art of writing a character. This is a comic book character, and he's simply out of place in a serious alternate/future history work.
   
   You can't just take a character and throw him into your story and have him say whatever you like just because it would be funny or move your story in the direction you nees, you need to have believable motivation, plans and a realistic personality.
   
   https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992
   • Kaiser©®™ (dogjaw@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 02:04:42 UTC Kaiser©®™

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     @clacke
     >They must have run out of writing money because some of the /pol/ associated characters have the most stupid trite writing imaginable.
     >They're probably just there for the trailers
     >And what about that Ebola arc? That never went anywhere!
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 02:11:38 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Kaiser©®™
     @dogjaw I think the /pol/ stuff may be forth wall stuff, s commentary on the writing process itself. But if it's meant as meta, that's never signalled very clearly in the way the show presents itself. It's all very haphazard and just thrown together at this point.
     
     Maybe this is connected to that writer's strike in the beginning of the 21st? I hear that affected the quality of a lot of series.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 02:47:57 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Kaiser©®™
     @dogjaw But now NK man is calling SK and it all might fizzle out, just like that Ebola hype.
     
     So much hype, so little delivered.