![]() This is how I know important things, such as how production was momentarily disrupted when the set designers attempted to create a path of floating apples for the characters to follow in the flooded fortress of Isengard, only for the apples to refuse to float. My favorite blockbuster and favorite art movie: I’m one of those people who not only watched the extended edition of each Lord of the Rings film-on the aforementioned portable DVD player-but also watched them multiple times with all of the cast and crew commentaries. I’ve been revisiting the show because it’s delightful, but also because Straczynski is set to release a new installment of the story next month, in the form of an original animated movie. Babylon 5 is the opposite, constantly foreshadowing events-sometimes entire seasons in advance-and leading its characters along believable journeys of growth, discovery, and tragedy. Lost is a classic example of this, but there are many others. Their plots tend to fail to pay off, because writers are making things up as they go. As I’ve written for The Atlantic, most serialized TV shows today disappoint me. He basically wrote an entire novel and then dramatized it for the screen. Michael Straczynski, planned out its entire five-year storyline in advance. What makes the show unique is that its creator, J. Something I recently rewatched, reread, or otherwise revisited: One of my favorite TV shows is an eccentric ’90s sci-fi saga called Babylon 5. But no amount of processing power or pixel resolution can replace the magic of being the one weird kid on the bus who could watch a movie on demand. Today, the portable player is a museum item, long replaced by massively more capable smartphones that play higher-quality video. It took a lot to persuade my parents to help me get the thing, and I used to take it everywhere. Having one meant that I could watch The Lord of the Rings on cross-country school trips, or disappear into my room to binge a TV show from Netflix (back when they used to send you DVDs). This was exactly what it sounds like: a flip-top device with a screen that could play movies off discs. The song that first captured Sinéad O’Connor’s powerĪ cultural product that I loved as a teenager: In high school, one of my prized possessions was a portable DVD player.“I saw the movie ‘they’ don’t want you to see.”.Yair is currently making his way through a unique anthology of science-fiction short stories, rooting for the Yankees despite the great pain it causes, and reminiscing about a magical piece of tech that no longer exists.įirst, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: He’s recently shed light on the collapse of social trust in Israel, offered a road map for building better social-media platforms, testified in Congress about anti-Semitism, and chatted with the actor Ben Platt about the role Judaism plays in the performer’s work on Broadway. Yair writes about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion, and is the author of our Deep Shtetl newsletter. Today’s special guest is Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg. ![]() ![]() Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. ![]()
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