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heradion · 7 months ago

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Derek not being there in Season 5 was a huge missed potential.

Going to start by saying I am not going to respond to or entertain any toxic stans hating on characters, this is just a what if scenario and is not a personal attack on any characters.

Now I know Tyler Hoechlin left because of some personal issues but it's interesting to explore the dynamics if he had stayed for S5.

I think Derek being in s5 was a missed potential for developing 4 relationships in the show, namely:

Derek and Malia

Scott and Derek

Stiles and Derek

Liam and Scott

Derek and Malia: You cannot tell me Derek wouldn't help Malia try and find her mother or in tracking down the Dessert Wolf cause, firstly they are cousins and he knows what it's like to long for lost family.

It would've been great to see him come back with Braeden if not earlier to help Malia not just with the dessert wolf but figure out what kind of relationship she would want with Hale family.

2. Scott and Derek: Derek would have 100% helped Scott with the Dread doctors and with figuring out Alpha stuff like he did in s4. He would have helped him with the issues he was facing not just with Stiles but also Liam when he attacked Scott.

Scott has a "We don't kill" policy and trusts people easily but Derek isn't the same, so I believe he would try to make Scott understand his POV while siding with Stiles regarding Theo.

3. Stiles and Derek: This would have been a major turn in their dynamic because I know Derek would be distrustful of Theo despite the whole pack just disregarding his concern. Once Stiles accidentally kills Donovan, Stiles would've gone to Derek because although Scott has a "we don't kill" policy, Derek doesn't and would probably understand.

Derek would 100% be distrustful of Theo because of how hard he seems to be trying to convince Stiles that he had good intentions and would probably side with Stiles regarding Theo, while talking to Theo about it.

I think things would be very different if Derek was in the hospital when Stiles's dad was admitted, He would probably make both Scott and Stiles sit down and have a much needed conversation without trying to get in between.

4. Liam and Scott: I think with Liam being a young beta with anger issues, Derek would know exactly how to handle him and his outbursts. He'd be able to help Liam see Scott's POV and help him keep his anger at bay, because Derek was pretty much the same as a teenager, He would probably teach Liam how to channel that anger into making it his anchor while using it during his shift.

The whole Scott and Liam fight could have been avoided had Derek been there, Liam got angry at Scott and felt betrayed but Derek would probably restrain him or make him understand why Scott was doing what he was.

Overall, Yay Derek, wish you were here.

#derek hale #scott mccall #stiles stilinksi #malia tate #liam dunbar #teen wolf #tyler hoechlin #tyler posey #dylan obrien #dylan sprayberry #shelley hennig

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shefanispeculator · 2 days ago

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KINGSTON, Okla. — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Dallas Business Journal. You can read the original article here.

A massive $2 billion master-planned community is making headway along the Texas-Oklahoma border with the start of construction on a hotel resort.

Spanning 2,700 acres and featuring 19 miles of Lake Texoma shoreline, Pointe Vista is expected to eventually feature 2,100 homes, multiple hotels, an 11-acre bay, a casino, a golf course, an enclosed waterpark, a family entertainment center, an amphitheater and a mix of shops and restaurants. It's being constructed on the north side of the lake in Oklahoma, west of Durant.

Infrastructure construction began Nov. 21 on Hard Rock Hotel Lake Texoma, which was announced last month as the first of three resorts planned for the property. The hotel is slated to have 189 rooms, an 18,000-square-foot conference center and event lawn.

The development will also feature the Hard Rock Residences, which an Oct. 17 announcement framed as the first hospitality-branded real estate offering in Oklahoma. The community will consist of rental homes ranging in size from 667 to 3,000 square feet. Rent prices are still being finalized.

Both projects are expected to open in the Summer of 2027.

The project was founded by Mark Fisher, who more than a decade ago bought land that used to be a state park. That park had fallen into disrepair, and Fisher "saw an area that he could help make better and develop," said Grant Speaks, president of Pointe Vista. Fisher continued to buy land around the former park and, as "Dallas continues to stretch north," the community's backers see boundless potential, according to Speaks.

The development of Pointe Vista exemplifies the change sweeping over the Texoma border region north of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Huge neighborhoods are rising, including the $6B Preston Harbor community on the south side of the lake that will include a Margaritaville resort, and a nascent semiconductor production industry is taking shape in Sherman.

Pointe Vista will feature two unique lakefront neighborhoods: Reflection Pointe and Bridge Pointe, both of which are under construction.

Reflection Pointe will feature 84 single-family lakeside homes ranging from 2,800 to 4,600 square feet, with seven homes set to be completed by early 2025. Bridge Pointe includes 32 lakeside villas and 26 hilltop townhomes with lake views, with construction already underway on four homes. Homes at both communities are currently available for sale and range in price from $225,000 to $1.3 million. Infrastructure construction was completed in early November.

Future developments will include a lakeside hotel with 350-plus rooms, a convention center and a 72-room boutique hotel near the Chickasaw Pointe Golf Club. Hotel flags for those projects have not yet been determined.

Overall, Pointe Vista is anticipated to finish within 10 to 15 years. The project has been in the works since 2008 but faced delays because of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.

A market study by the developer estimates Pointe Vista could create more than 7,000 jobs during construction and at least 200 permanent positions once completed. In the end, the project could generate more than $241 million in direct spending, Speaks said.

"Fourth of July 2027, I'd love to have between 5,000 to 10,000 people at our development," he said.

The development will be easily accessible thanks to planned infrastructure improvements, including the Roosevelt Bridge expansion and the extension of the Dallas North Tollway. It's located about two hours from Dallas and Oklahoma City.

Lake Texoma is already home to the Chickasaw Nation West Bay Casino & Resort, Chickasaw Pointe Golf Club and the Catfish Bay Marina. There are also efforts to bring a professional soccer team to Texoma.

"We think that Lake Texoma is the best-kept secret out there," Speaks said. "We want to be good neighbors to other developments that are out there and wish everybody the best. We met the football club folks a few years ago at a hunting event, thought they were tremendous [and are] excited to have them nearby."

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dominickeating-source · 5 months ago

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Entertainment Weekly - Issue 621 (2001)

It's hot, it's sexy, it's kinda funny. Would you believe it's STAR TREK? Hop on board and we'll show you how ENTERPRISE is shaking up the sci-fi universe.

"Before the spark hits the wall, you might want to take a few steps back so you don't get flying debris in your eyes." That's the friendly advice a reporter gets as he steps onto Stage 18 of L.A.'s Paramount lot, home to UPN's new Star Trek prequel, Enterprise. Several cast members--Scott Bakula (gung-ho Capt. Jonathan Archer), Jolene Blalock (icy Vulcan science officer T'Pol), Dominic Keating (uptight tactical officer Malcolm Reed), and John Billingsley (eccentric Dr. Phlox)--are rehearsing a scene in which they're trapped in a smoky cargo bay, engaged in a futuristic gunfight.

"Okay, so it's spark, spark, and duck behind here," explains director LeVar Burton (of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame), mimicking the action. The room quiets, the actors take their marks, and . . . inaction! "I thought we decided that 'stun' doesn't spark," says Bakula. "But we sparked here. So what does 'stun' do?" Given that this is unfamiliar technology to the gang, a discussion about phase-pistol emissions ensues. "Well," Keating finally suggests with furrowed brow, "I think it gets rid of unwanted hair." And if the last few weeks are any indication, it can also lift a straggling network out of the intergalactic crapper. The Sept. 26 debut of Enterprise--the fifth Star Trek series in 35 years--was a space ace in the hole, beaming up a stellar 12.5 million viewers. How earth-shattering an event was that for UPN? Let's just say there were slightly more uncorked champagne bottles lying around than after the premiere of Homeboys in Outer Space. In fact, you'd have to time-warp back to 1995--for the unveiling of Star Trek: Voyager--to see numbers bubblier than that. "It's a reenergizing of the franchise," proclaims UPN chief Dean Valentine. "The battery power was still there and it was working fine, but this completely turbocharged it." Even juicier than the ratings, though, is the prospect that Enterprise could actually shape-shift the aging Trek franchise into a more mainstream success (currently, Enterprise is the season's top-rated freshman drama among 18- to 49-year-olds), pulling in the kind of folks who don't own Federation-issue bedsheets. It's far from coincidence that the Trek overlords decided to drop two of the most hallowed words in sci-fi from the show's title. "I didn't want this to be Star Trek: The Next Thing," sums up Enterprise co-creator Rick Berman. "I wasn't going to just create another spaceship and put another crew on it. I couldn't do it. I knew the fans had enough, and I knew that we all had enough. We had to do something dramatically different in as many ways as possible." Just how different? Let us count those ways: It takes a quantum leap away from Trek geek-ology.

Are you the kind of person who thinks the words Star Trek sound more intimidating than a Limp Bizkit mosh pit? Before you run screaming from the galaxy (or at least this article), there's a guy sitting in the captain's chair who has a few words of encouragement for you. "It's me! There's a familiar face here!" says Bakula, 47, who is personally offering to ease you into the series. "It's like, 'Well, Scott will hold our hand. Come on, it's Noah! Everybody get on the ark and we're going to be fine.'" The Trek producers were certainly quick to jump on Bakula's bandwagon--though they insist the idea of helming the ship with an established TV star (Bakula anchored NBC's 1989-93 time-tripping drama Quantum Leap) was not the motivating factor. "I was looking for somebody who had that kind of Sam Shepard, Right Stuff quality and Han Solo fly-boy quality," Berman explains. "If you take those two images and marry them together, you get something that's pretty damn close to Scott Bakula. And he's got that boyish charm. You'd be hard-pressed to find a woman who didn't find him attractive."

It certainly didn't take long for the cast--which also includes enthusiastic ensign Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery), jittery translator Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), and naive engineer Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer)--to warm up to their new leader. "We had three days in which we had to wear these [40-pound-plus] space suits," recounts Billingsley. "On the last shot of the third day, he's got to run, turn around, and fire his pistol. We finish. 'That's a wrap, great, everybody go home.' And Scott says, 'Wait a second--I think I can draw it from my holster a little more smoothly.' And I'm like, 'I'm going to kill you,' but the bigger part of me was like, 'That is the captain.'"

And this new captain promises not to steer you straight into a fearsome black hole of complex Trek mythology. Remember, this show is a prequel, taking place more than a century before Kirk & Co. blasted off. "I keep telling everybody that you don't need to know anything," says Bakula. "Star Trek can be daunting in that it's 35 years and it's the history of this and that. And now we're starting from scratch. You don't need to have this big dictionary to back up everything happening on the screen." (That goes for the actors, too: "Word is there's a [Trek] bible out there," shrugs Trinneer. "I've never seen it.") While the show's scribes are busy inventing history, they're also taking this opportunity to excise some of those famously unwieldy jargon-littered expositions. "We're trying to scale it back by 80 percent," says Enterprise cocreator Brannon Braga, a veteran Trek writer-producer. "What I don't want to do is rely on technobabble to solve a problem. You can't let a plot denouement involve strange terms that no one understands. It's not interesting and it's not satisfying. Hopefully, people will be talking more normally."

So that would explain the sudden emergence of phrases like "son of a bitch" and "knock you on your ass" in the normally hyper-sanitary franchise. "[It makes] the show seem more realistic," says Braga. "Some people were offended by the expletives, though they were very tame by most standards." Die-hard fans were also miffed by Enterprise's opening theme music, "Faith of the Heart," which forgoes a sweeping orchestral score for a schmaltzy pop tune with--gasp!--lyrics. "I wouldn't approve of this soft-rock garbage for a family sitcom 10 years ago," huffed one Trek message board post, "much less for a new 2001 ST series." Well, at least the nitpickiness of the fans hasn't changed.

It's sexier (as in, Is that a photon torpedo in your space pants or are you just happy to see me?). If you were to compile a list of adjectives to describe recent Star Treks, sexy would get a stiff neck from looking all the way up at gear-heady, socially responsible, and antiseptic. But Enterprise's premiere episode revealed that producers had slipped a few Viagra pills into the ol' warp drive: Witness a scene featuring butterfly-eating identical-twin alien babes (wearing nothing but latex paint!). Stick your eyeballs back in their sockets after a skin-heavy decontamination chamber liaison between Trip and T'Pol. ("I had to shave my chest and all that stuff," admits Trinneer. "Never done that before.") And holy holodeck--why are we seeing the captain unwinding in his quarters...in his underpants? (Maybe it's for the same reason that an Enterprise story idea board hanging in Braga's office contains the term Tri-sexuals.) "We learned from Seven of Nine that Star Trek could use a little sensuality," says Braga, referencing Jeri Ryan's Borg-turned-babe whom Voyager introduced in season 3. "I wouldn't say sex per se. It's not like the crew is going to be off boffing one another. But sensuality? You'd better believe it." Oh, we're believers. For those of you who've been living in another solar system, Enterprise has scored another Seven of Nine (actually, some say she's even closer to their idea of a perfect 10). Introducing Jolene Blalock, a 26-year-old model-turned-actress who's already transformed the austere T'Pol into the best-looking Vulcan this space quadrant has ever witnessed. An old-school Trek devotee--"Spock was so cool," she coos--Blalock turned down two requests to try on the pointy ears and bowl-cut wig before finally agreeing to audition. "I thought it was going to be just another Deep Space Nine or Voyager or something along those lines," explains Blalock, whose previous credits include appearances on CSI and JAG. "My agent sat me down, we had a little powwow, and he said, 'You know what? I suggest you read the script.' And I took it home, I got the premise, found out it was a prequel, found out she was a Vulcan, and was sold." The third time was apparently the charm for the producers as well. "She's obviously very beautiful," says Braga, "but she had an otherwordly quality when she came in to read. She seemed kind of...alien. She had very interesting eyes. It was weird. Beautiful, but kind of odd. That's what you look for in an alien."

And--quelle coincidence!--she happens to fit quite nicely into that catsuit. ("What could be more comfortable--it's like long johns," she says. "I'm not going to say leotards, because that would be a fashion faux pas.") She's also not too shabby at executing that whole Vulcan neck pinch thing (which this reporter bravely experienced firsthand). "Jolene's really good--she's not just eye candy," observes Keating. "She's quite aware that she'll probably be the breakout star of the show." She's already one of the most ogled women on the Internet. "I have no control over that," she says. "Physicality is physicality and I can only use it to empower me. I am woman. I can't hide that." Fair enough, Jolene, but are you prepared to fend off that legion of Trekkers whose phasers are already set to hot-and-bothered? "My people made me change my phone number and my address," she says with a nervous laugh.

It's not alien to human nature. (Yes, this time their uniforms even have pockets.)

Before Trek mastermind Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, he issued an edict barring conflict between earthlings in his series. It was a noble move, a precious hope that we could evolve past petty emotions. It was also a friggin' storytelling nightmare. Without that essential drama, Trek at times became sterile, strained, almost too enlightened. "We were getting ourselves into the cookie-cutter Starfleet-perfect human being format a little too much," says Berman. "I wanted characters who would react in the same way you or I would." Hello ingenious solution: By positioning Enterprise just 150 years in the future, rather than in the 24th century, the Trek producers were able to bypass those restrictions and craft an utterly fallible crew of green (as in inexperienced, not Martian) space pioneers who are both thrilled and chilled by the prospect of meeting alien races. "There's a great romance to the first explorers going out there," says Bakula. "It's exciting, it's frightening, it's awe-inspiring. It's not 'been there, done that.' It's much more about what's around the corner, that curiosity."

Turns out what's around that corner is refreshingly relatable territory for early-21st-century humanoids. The crew frequently references places like San Francisco and Oklahoma. When Trip disembarks on a strange planet, he brings his camera along to capture any freaky critters. Uniforms are modern-looking NASA jumpsuits as opposed to tight spandex. And the characters themselves are cut from a more familiar cloth, especially Archer. "He's closer to Kirk than the others," notes Bakula. "He bleeds. He gets hurt, he makes mistakes, and he gets dirty. And he's in there, mixing it up.... The captains on the other ships, they've been there; they've traveled. But it's a new thing for us. The first Klingon we see, I look at his feet because it's like, 'What is that thing growing out of the top of his foot?'"

"We have no space etiquette," adds Keating. "I guess the show is less PC. It's not quite so liberal bleeding heart, you know, walk in peace. We're not going into outer space with a complete Gandhi-loincloth approach. We'll fire first. Just this afternoon [while filming], I fired first. We don't wait to be hit upon. You look at me funny and I'm gonna f--- you up."

Don't worry, these guys exhibit a softer side as well. For example, they've even brought a cuddly beagle named Porthos along for the ride! "I loved that," says Bakula. "Whatever you think of this Star Trek, it breaks the mold. Throw a dog on there, you couldn't have a more human thing going on.... And he's the cutest dog in the wor-- I guess you could say in the entire galaxy." He might want to be careful about how much screen time the little pooch gets, however. "When I talked to my folks the night [of the debut]," says Trinneer, "they said, 'The dog's a hit.' And I said, 'What do you mean, the dog's a hit?'" He shakes his head. "Everybody loves the dog."

It's actually funny...on purpose.

Did you hear the one about the rabbi, the Tribble, and the Klingon? No, you didn't. That's because Trek has traditionally boasted about as many yuks as The Weather Channel. "We're trying to make the show funnier out of the gate," says Braga. "The way we approached humor in the past, we would occasionally do the funny episode. But there was always kind of a visceral feeling that the show was not inherently humorous. It was very serious, a somewhat brooding kind of thing. We wanted to create a show that would have organic humor every single week, humor that didn't feel forced." To that end, keep an eye on Trip, a sarcastic dude from the Florida Keys who's a gifted engineer but a high-level fish-out-of-water when it comes to interspecies relations. "I don't think I would have been cast on Voyager," notes Trinneer. "I was talking to somebody at the beginning of this series and they said, 'How's it going?' And I said, 'I think the tone's a little different, because if it's not, I'm going to suck.'" Chuckles Berman: "My favorite line--the shuttle craft lands, and as the dog runs out of the craft into the woods, Trip looks up and goes, 'Where no dog has gone before.' And the dog is running right for a tree." Granted, it's not quite Seinfeld--nor should it try to be--but, c'mon, if you can't laugh at deep-space dog wee-wee, what can you laugh at?

Source: www.dominickeating.com

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cvrdelia · 11 months ago

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Welcome to Aurora Bay, [CORDELIA DANVERS]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [MARGOT ROBBIE]. You must be the [THIRTY TWO] year old [NEWS ANCHOR]. Word is you’re [ASSERTIVE] but can also be a bit [VINDICTIVE] and your favorite song is [HISTORY OF MAN BY MAISIE PETERS]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [CRYSTAL COVE CONDOMINUMS]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

BASICS

Name: Cordelia Genevieve Danvers Gender/Pronouns: Cisfemale/She&Her Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Bisexual Age: 32 Birthdate: 17th November Occupation: News Anchor

ABOUT

Cordelia Danvers was born in 1989 in Aurora Bay, to a mother and a father that she assumed were soulmates. However, years later, after both of her siblings were born, she'd be proven wrong with a divorce and a new girlfriend on her father's arm. This would have warped her perception of love, romance, relationships until her late teen years... and she'd become conditioned to believe that nothing ever lasts forever, so why bother.

Growing up, Cordelia always wanted to be the center of attention, she'd give anything to be in the spotlight — but mostly because once her sisters had arrived, she found herself often overlooked by people due to their youth and 'cuteness'. At least with her mother, the favoritism was retained until she was ten — and until Sloane had showed a talent far greater than hers. All because of...

Pageants. Cordy hadn't shied away from her early age dream of stardom, telling her mother she wanted to be like the princesses she saw on television. Fortunately for her, Daphne Danvers entertained her daughter's ambitions, and began entering her into local beauty pageants at her request.

It was something that she carried on competing in — and winning — until her teenage years, gathering crown after crown and hoping that eventually she'll go on to compete in Miss California USA one day. Although, it was not meant to be when her father intervened at sixteen and said enough. It had taken over her life and she needed to focus on her academics, he'd said, much to her disapproval. After several arguments between them, Daphne caved and told Cordy that she could only continue competing in pageants if she achieved highly in her studies.

Unfortunately, academics had never been her strong suit, and that was the end of her pageant career.

For the rest of her teenage years, she despised her mother and father, and made it known through truancy and bad behavior. She wasn't the perfect golden child like Sloane.

Luckily, she was able to scrape the grades to earn her a place at the Florida State University, majoring in journalism. It was an almost random choice, something to keep her parents happy, and she'd grown up watching Sex and the City, and believed she was in fact a Carrie.

She joined Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and eventually became President on the Chapter Council. Again, she allowed herself to stray from her academics and began to focus more into planning events and the guys from Kappa Sigma.

Graduating in the summer, she was able to secure an internship through her just above average grades and extra-curriculars, to KTLA-TV station in Los Angeles. She grew tired of running around and collecting coffees, and began to make connections — sweet talking anyone who would listen, those particularly that she'd spotted needed an ego boost.

It was only a few years down the line that she'd been able to swindle her way into an interview for a field reporter for KTLA 5 News and was offered the role of a lifetime. It wasn't a secret to her that perhaps her employment hadn't been solely based off her ability to talk, but potentially more so her preened appearance. However, it didn't matter, she was here.

After successful runs for a number of years, she soon became a co-anchor for the evening news and could report on current events from the comfort of the studio, becoming a known name in Southern California — if people watched the news.

Living in Los Angeles and not far from her small hometown, she attempted to keep in contact with her family as much as she could — however, she often became distracted by the lavish parties she attended and the single life she so independently lived.

She was on track to receive a promotion as a solo news anchor, when she'd heard of Sloane's pregnancy, she couldn't believe it. It was typical that of course, her sister had to steal the limelight, again. However, she wasn't completely heartless and after making sure her promotion was secure, she booked some time off, then decided to visit her old town — with definitely no coercion from her mother.

She doesn't know how long she plans on staying in town, but she's here to give Sloane some support and have a 'well deserved' break.

CONNECTIONS

younger sister @dancingdanvers

best friend @arkin-oconnell

hook up/public annoyance @benj-hyun

fwb without the friends @borawinters

@AURORABAYAESTHETIC

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