GeraltTargaryen

Erotic or not, I never liked vampire stories, and will probably never like them.

Ten minutes into the movie, I started drowsing, and fast-forwarded the rest within forty minutes. The music is terrible. The overall pace is excruciatingly slow. And even the parts that are supposed to be erotic aren't that erotic from a 2023 point-of-view.

Several weeks ago I came upon a paper that found that people stopped writing vampire stories after 2015 (if you're comfortable reading NLP literature, go Google "addressing documentation debt in machine learning research"). And now I'm really happy for that. Because vampires are just BORING.

People in the Star Wars universe have light speed space ships and laser blasters, and they also have holography. So I wonder why can't the Mandalorian just record his exploration of Mandalore? Is that a lost technology?

Another skill that seems to have been lost is STAYING ON THE TOPIC. Not being a particular fan of Star Wars, I don't know what's Coruscant, and I really don't remember who's the female officer. But it seems that the writers of this universe have forgotten how to stay on topic. The Book of Boba Fett (2021) had the same problem, but back then seeing the Mandalorian was a pleasant surprise. This episode is not.

I wasn't born in 1989 yet, but I do know ELIZA. It's a textbook artificial intelligence dialogue system that's built on RULES, which means it matches specific patterns in your input, and returns rigid, pre-defined answers with segments of your inputs in them so that it appears to be intelligent and interactive. Back propagation was just discovered. Deep learning was non-existent. LSTM would be born eight years later. Transformer and GPT were thirty years away.

And as a genius, it seems unlikely that Sheldon didn't know that. I don't really expect him to predict the future, but I do expect him to know how ELIZA works. I guess the writers just don't feel like bothering themselves.