Alright, I got curious, so for funsies I made a middle-of-the-road saber glow and tried a jillion combinations of blending mode (add, screen, linear dodge), working space (linear, logarithmic), and gamma setting (standard, 1.0) in After Effects.

Because it's a bunch of images, I'm not going to embed them here, I'll give ya the option to check it in another tab. You'll probably wanna do some browser-zooming.

http://www.friendsinyourhead.com/turnover/sabers

In the meantime, here's the "standard"-est combination — screen mode, in linear, at standard gamma.

*eyebrow*

I don't know Doc's opinion. I just know, increasingly, that Doc is actually an evil fuck.

I can do things. I'm confused, though — wouldn't this problem be significantly smaller if we didn't cut up the one-r in the first place?

Trey recommended this one, and it just popped up on Netflix. Dry, but very comprehensive. I liked it a lot.

Also, the narrator sounds exactly like a serial killer explaining his worldview. This is definitely a man with a manifesto prepared for the media. He's fucking intense. I could have sworn this movie would end with him putting it all together and concluding he must quicken the unrighteous to let the Earth be as new.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Plinkett is a parody of him, come to think of it. I think the guy from RedLetterMedia saw this documentary and a lightbulb went off. There are moments where it's uncanny.

Anyway. I enjoyed it on its merits, it's fascinating, but I kept cracking up at how much fucking contempt this guy has for, like, poor characters living in unreasonably expensive houses. Or whatever. He'll be goin' along just fine, and then all of a sudden a movie in the '70s had too many white people in it and it's like he's convincing himself to bring a rifle to a hospital.

I enjoy it, I'm up to speed on it. I'm a little puzzled by the whole world's reaction. Nothing about it strikes me as bold or new, it's just "the thing they do on public radio" being done competently. And... you know, longer.

But it is good, yeah. I like it as much as This American Life or any other show along the same lines. Maybe a little less, just because TAL tends to tell a story for exactly as long as it will be interesting, and Serial (necessarily) has to spend time building context for information that will be important later, but may not be particularly compelling now.

Atta Drew.

That's not the score, that's what Nolan wanted the sound mix to be doing. In a case like that, both the composer and the overall sound engineer did their jobs correctly, and were just working for a guy with weird taste in mixes.