For part three of our Revisit Month, the Meat Buddies chose for us to rewatch Battlefield Earth. The year was 2000 and to celebrate the new willenium, John Travolta made a vanity picture adaptation of the terrible science fiction novel by his friend L. Ron Howard. The movie wasn’t just a huge flop, it was also a huge financial fraud that caused the production company’s bankruptcy.
The rewatch really didn’t have a big change for us. We didn’t like it the first time, we still didn’t like it this time. Although sitting through it a second time allowed us to notice small things like how sad the horses must be because the #horsefuture doesn’t seem very bright.
Thanks to our newest Meat Buddy Julie Heilman!
Uhhh… Alex, the new website is gorgeous, but am I blind (always possible!) or are we down a download button? :///
On second look I’m actually going to add – even if there’s a download button in there that I’m not seeing, you may want to change the look of the… streaming interface thingmajig? I’m sad to say that because I love the way it looks, but looking at old episodes (Veggie Tales made it very clear) I can see that when the picture is lighter colors/very busy, it makes it much harder to read the font – probably impossible for any listeners with eyesight issues. I feel like I’m shitting on your awesome new thing, but hopefully this is a minor design issue and it can affect the listener’s experience a lot. Other than that I really do love the new look…
First, unless there’s a bug and it’s not showing up, there should be a blue triangular button in the bottom right-hand corner of the big image that says “mp3” and has an image. Is that showing up?
As for the fonts and stuff, I was worried about that but I think I’ve found a solution. I’ve faded the images a bit more on the episode pages to match the way they’re faded on the home page. What do you think? Better?
Oh, I just realized you might be on mobile. It must not show up there. I’ll figure something out.
Can I ask why you download the mp3s? I’m never quite sure how people listen so I like hearing about how people interact with the show.
Shows up fine for me in mobile.
Yes! I fixed it. I’m the best.