He was actually introducing the format of the book, i.e. it started with Ulbricht being arrested for running Silk Road, then jumped back to the beginning of the story. Of course it’s a common structure especially for nonfiction, but I enjoyed the meta-ness of it.
Tangentially related: I recently read American Kingpin, a book about Ross Ulbricht. The author starts by saying something like, “My mother had an unusual way of reading books. She would read the end first, then go back and start from the beginning. She enjoyed piecing together how the story got from A to B.” I realized that spoilers have never bothered me, for the same reason.
Absolutely. On the Team Deakins podcast they (Roger and his wife James) said they try to be involved in post as much as possible, because when animators and DPs don’t communicate, the digital elements are lit differently and end up looking cartoonish.
CGI. When people say “there was too much CGI” they just mean “there was bad CGI” because the good stuff is imperceptible.
Watching MMA is one of my only hobbies, so I frequent the subreddit and minimize my involvement. To my knowledge there’s no lemmy community for MMA, and right now I’m not interested in modding one.