Five Years To Learn

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-ceo-michael-rousseau-retires-9.7146886

On a more serious note, Air Canada CEO Michael Rosseau has announced plans to retire at the end of the year.

I’m assuming you’ve heard about the tragedy in LaGardia Airport with the Air Canada plane that crashed into a fire truck and cost the lives to its two pilots. Air Canada is a Canadian company based out of Montreal, which is in the province of Quebec. Canada has two official languages; English and French. When the CEO came out to express his condolences, he did so in English only. One of the pilots was Quebecois. The French speaking community, naturally, threw a fit and asked for his head. He delivered a written apology. Not good enough. Off with his head… and so he plans to step down later this year.

Naturally, prayers and wishes to the families of Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther in this trying time.

I honestly wish that more effort was made in celebrating the lives of two pilots who went above and beyond the call of duty to keep their passengers safe… only to be overshadowed by what I feel are somewhat petty language issues. Every time I hear OLEF giving a notice to someone’s Instagram or a bad with Irish decorations, I roll my eyes and grimace. The morons running this government have no time to fix their potholes or fund their medical sectors to procure more top of the line equipment to deal with their sick, but they’ve no problems spending money on spies to see who’s speaking acceptable levels of French at their places of work.

With that said, Michael Rosseau had a previous language-related controversy back in 2021 that also involved him speaking no lick of French in his statement and people cried foul. He said he’d do better and stuck around, but now five years later and despite taking French immersion classes, he still couldn’t muster a few quick words in French… and he runs a major airline based out of a province whose only official language is French and anyone who doesn’t speak French deserves to die or something. Someone in that position, who’s getting paid loads of money to run that expansive business in Canada and can’t speak a lick of French… I’m sorry, but why is this guy allowed to be CEO?

It’s one thing if you’re a lowly worker down the food chain and you only speak a little of one or the other. It’s another thing when you’re the head of a national corporation and fluency in both official languages of Canada is not only required, but should be expected, especially if you have to issue a statement regarding prevailing circumstances. I’ve got nothing against the man personally; I’m sure he’s a swell guy, but him being piefaced over not speaking French five years ago and then doing so again despite claims to have taken courses… yeah, I can say that I’m more francophone that this guy is, and my French is just good enough to get by, but not enough for me to run Air Canada.

Moral of the story; if you’re gonna apply for a job and it requires fluency in both English and French, you’d better be fluent in both English and French.

I’ll post something happier later.

Whatever Happened To “The Secret Spider-Man Movie?”

This is a deep cut from way back when… but a long, long time ago, a bunch of comic book geeks who were disenchanted with the Spider-Man movies at the time, were seeking funding to create their own version of Spider-Man 3, which was upcoming. They had a trailer that featured comments from Richard Donner (he of Superman: The Movie and Lethal Weapon fame) as well as other comic book geeks talking about how Hollywood is a soulless machine that mines intellectual properties for the sake of money.

Riveting stuff. Meanwhile, the sky is blue and water is wet. Grr…

So this was a thing that existed for a few years and there was an active forum and all that. I’ve wrote about this thing on the old DTM Blog (of which you can read here and here if you want more timely comments on the matter) and even left a couple comments on the message board. After a few years, the website shut its doors; citing a need to keep the production and website off limits for the foreseeable future. A year or so later, the website would disappear and replaced with a generic service page. I mentioned that much on the old blog fifteen years ago.

Whatever happened to the folks behind the project? Did they drop everything and move on with their lives? Did they end up making their secret Spidey movie that’s so secret nobody knows of its existence? Who can say for sure? I do know one thing; Spider-Man 3 came and went without a hitch, the Studi-HOS (their words, not mine) made their money, and we got more Spider-Man movies of different types. Maybe these guys made one of those… who knows? But really, who cares? You probably didn’t even know this was a thing until I mentioned it just now.

However, I can tell you this much. At some point, a Japanese car service website assumed control of the domain name and used it to provide some information on car servicing. That site would cease updates in 2014, but would stay active until at most 2019, which is the last update that Wayback Machine has in archive. And if you try to access the site today… you get nothing… because the site is long dead.

Oh well… so much for that. I’m glad that I resolved that mystery that I clearly didn’t think about until fifteen minutes ago when I had a brain fart of a realization that I need to post something today since there are no videos this week save for the one on Wednesday. What fun.

Later.

DTM House Show – Artificial Idiocy (March 28th, 2026)

For those wonder, Chef Gordo will not be sampling tribble delights or wall meat dishes. Actually, Chef Gordo probably had a hand in the absolute shambolic mess of a stream that took place here where a dog couldn’t stop crying because of some neighbor’s noise and also the stream decides to fuck off and cut off because the world hates the world or something.

Anyway… this show is a mess and I recorded none of it, which makes it even worse.

 

Review #1300 – Star Wars (Master System)

Feeling a disturbance, alright…

Yes, we’ve shifted gears from our originally intended 1300th review (which will now be 1400th) to a Star Wars game on Master System that… is the only Star Wars on Master System and will hopefully be the thing that gets me to covering that Game Gear version of Star Wars that is much more interesting.

Just so we’re clear, the “faux THX” sounding sound is the Super Mario World keyhole sound effect stretched out to last longer than it actually does. So if anyone should CID’ing this thing, it’s da Mario, not the Mouse. The mouse can fly a kite up… well, you know.

Class Dismissed – Starfleet Academy Cancelled

Source: https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/23/breaking-starfleet-academy-to-end-with-season-2-but-paramount-confirms-commitment-to-star-trek/

Starfleet Academy – featuring WWE Superstar Becky Lynch – has been cancelled. People will blame various things; I blame Becky. She’s the Baby Flair of Star Trek – everything that goes wrong is her fault.

Back in my day, you cancelled a series after its first season failed and it didn’t get a second. Nowadays, you cancel a series after its first season failed, but still air the second season because it’s already in the can and you need to recoup some of those funds… cue the snide grin of Kevin Nash on WCW Thunder commentary duties clearly not giving a fuck, which is what I’d imagine Paramount management must feel like at the moment, for better or worse.

Look, I haven’t seen the show, so I’m largely ambivalent in regards to its cancellation. I do know that it hasn’t garnered the viewership numbers and sometimes, yeah, it takes a while for a series to find its footing with an audience. More often than not, a series gets a season at most before higher ups decide to close up shop. It’s the sad reality of things. And I know that fans will see this as a victory for the grifters who were ragging on this thing for a lot of what I perceive to be “bad faith” reasons and wanted this off the air. Well, yeah, that could be the case… but those folks are never going to get what they want, which is a show that appeals to them because whatever they think Star Trek actually is, it is certainly not what they want, which is… I don’t know what they want.

As for me… like I said, haven’t seen the show. Had no real interest in the show due to its YA setting. Clips certainly didn’t inspire much confidence and was not enough of a push to say “Yes, I will subscribe to Paramount Plus and watch this series that doesn’t interest me despite the Star Trek brand.” Because I am one of those folks who does not slavishly consume all Star Trek. You’ll have those folks around who will watch everything and like everything because of their blind devotion to a brand and will support whatever hapless endeavor no matter what, which is every bit as toxic as raging hate boners of sitting through something you clearly do not like and feel the need to let the world know you hate this thing on a regular basis.

Really, you should be more like me; in that on the 31st day of every month, you let the world know that you haven’t watch the hit Section 31 streaming movie starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh because it amuses you, puts a smile on your face, and lets the world know that you HAVEN’T wasted your time with something you know you’re going to hate. More people need to NOT watch stuff in order to send the right message. People hate-watching stuff in droves? Pfft, who gives a shit? They’re still watching, they’re still giving you viewership. What do it matter if they’re calling this show the drizzling shits? I’ve seen worse show get extended for multiple years and when I sit down to watch some of these things, I often wonder why because this is just awful.

So while I’m neither thrilled nor saddened by Academy’s cancellation, there is a part of me that can’t help but feel a pan of disappointment whenever a Star Trek thing gets binned regardless of whether I like it or not. I’m also a bit concerned as to where this franchise is headed once all the remaining SNW and SFA episodes have aired – Strange New Worlds has one full ten-episode season as well as an abbreviated fifth season. There are different pitches that have been proposed; a Year One follow-up on Kirk and company, a sequel series to Enterprise (which would actually kinda, sorta intrigue me), and of course, an adaptation of the hit Xbox 360 game, Star Trek Legacy… oh wait.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind it if Star Trek went on hibernation for a few years while the people in charge figure out where they want to go with it. Something about absence making the heart grow fonder or some sentimental crap like that. Truth be told, there’s a lot of legacy franchises that could be best served going into extended hibernation for the foreseeable future. Maybe fill the void with something else, some original IP that did what came before, but with a new spin that makes it unique.

We talk about these things taking big swings and yet none is able to take the biggest swing of all; creating something truly new and unique that speaks to the current generation and not just feeding off the rotting corpses of what came before. That’s the only real “big swing” I want to see Hollywood take. Otherwise, you may as well just give up and let AI do the scriptwriting for you. Considering the output that I’ve seen as of late, it might actually be a step up.

In any event, that’s the state of Star Trek as it is now. They’ve got stuff to put on the air, which fans should be grateful that they are when they could easily can everything and take a tax writeoff; similar to that Batgirl movie that was made and promptly shitcanned. Where it goes from here… who knows? I guess we’ll have to see what’s out there. Engage… or something.

Lap.

Review #1299 – Tetris X (PSX)

Oh lookie… it’s another Tetris game from Japan on Playstation… and that’s about all I’ve got on that front unless I can somehow get that Cardcaptor Sakura variant that costs a billion dollars or something.

On the bright side, Review #1300 is on Friday and it won’t cover a Tetris game.

WCW Monday Nitro (March 25th, 1996) – A Giant Cluster-MEH

Tonight, WCW World Champion Ric Flair (with Arn Anderson) defends his title against THE GIANT (with Kevin Sullivan)… but don’t get too excited, kids. This one ends in a schmozz where Arn Anderson hits Giant with a chair and Giant thinks Sullivan did it and he gets the guzzle. Giant would eventually win the title a month later, but in the meantime… well…

I’ll be honest; this Nitro didn’t do much for me. Macho Man got a win over Fit Finlay, Konnan retained his US title over the masked man known only as Mister JL, and Sting and Luger retained their tag titles over the AMERICAN MALES, but the matches were just kinda, sorta “meh.” Honestly, the Saturday Night show that they were hyping up – featuring a Finley/Bobby Eaton match – sounds more exciting than the Nitro show that was put up against RAW, which featured *checks notes* Shawn Michaels defeating Leif Cassidy, Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeating Aldo Montoya, and the main event of Ahmed Johnson and Owen Hart going to a double DQ finish.

Fucking riveting television.

Next.