Just asking -- who are the bullies?
Yes it does -- from the carriers who designed the text message system for *their own company use*. It's not a violation of privacy for a company with which you have an ongoing relationship to tell you, well, that Something Happened.
If the carriers signed off on warrantless wiretapping, they can sure as hell use their power for good, once in a blue moon.
If the carriers signed off on warrantless wiretapping, they can sure as hell use their power for good, once in a blue moon.
Oh, and we should mention the entire Star Trek franchise. You heard me.
What are Klingons? Sinister, warlike. The Kazon? Nappy-headed, tribal, a bit stupid. Romulans? Devious, untrustworthy. Cardassians? Nazis with neckbones.
Humans? Well, some of us are good, bad, striving, complex.... and we get to have those shadings of conduct as a race, while all them other races can be judged on the first get-go, and we'll probably be proven right, in the long-run. Yeah, yeah, lazy storytelling, but it's made worse when the characters of those other races that we get to know in a complex way have a human-based excuse for being complex -- Worf, raised by Russian parents, his Klingon line disgraced. Gul Dukat fell in love with his Bajoran comfort woman, and has a half-Bajoran daughter. And let's not even get into Alt-U Yar's daughter....
If the franchise ever boots up again episodically, it'd be nice to never hear again the phrase, "Not every ____________ is _________", unless it's used thus: "Not every human considers his or her civilization to be the center of the universe." It could happen.
What are Klingons? Sinister, warlike. The Kazon? Nappy-headed, tribal, a bit stupid. Romulans? Devious, untrustworthy. Cardassians? Nazis with neckbones.
Humans? Well, some of us are good, bad, striving, complex.... and we get to have those shadings of conduct as a race, while all them other races can be judged on the first get-go, and we'll probably be proven right, in the long-run. Yeah, yeah, lazy storytelling, but it's made worse when the characters of those other races that we get to know in a complex way have a human-based excuse for being complex -- Worf, raised by Russian parents, his Klingon line disgraced. Gul Dukat fell in love with his Bajoran comfort woman, and has a half-Bajoran daughter. And let's not even get into Alt-U Yar's daughter....
If the franchise ever boots up again episodically, it'd be nice to never hear again the phrase, "Not every ____________ is _________", unless it's used thus: "Not every human considers his or her civilization to be the center of the universe." It could happen.
Praise "BOB" we live in an age where furriner director visionaries can stereotype screaming, shiftless spooks *and* fairies at one go --
No. Ruby Rhod can still be offensive as a black man *and* as a homosexual, no matter how many boring, compensatory (public) servants of color stand in the background. Tucker was the most prominent black actor in the film, and he made Jar-Jar Binks look restrained. Even though the standard Hollywood formula is to practice diversity at the extra and supporting cast level, they are as noise to the leads' signal.
No. Ruby Rhod can still be offensive as a black man *and* as a homosexual, no matter how many boring, compensatory (public) servants of color stand in the background. Tucker was the most prominent black actor in the film, and he made Jar-Jar Binks look restrained. Even though the standard Hollywood formula is to practice diversity at the extra and supporting cast level, they are as noise to the leads' signal.
io9, thanks for resposting.
I won't be seeing this movie for one simple reason:
Why would any civilization able to incur the energy cost of shipping troops over waste those troops in combat, when a few non-nuclear firestorms could clear the cities and leave only stragglers to pick off? A few MOAB-strength bombs, methodically dropped worldwide, would do the job with far less cost to their troops.
Why would a civilization willing to commit genocide do it the hard way, as if they're following the same rules of combat we are? The oceans would still be there, after the firestorms, which is what they want, right?
This is just one way Hollywood has chosen to make a war movie people will actually watch -- but with an adversary this wasteful and stupid, it's just proving the point that sci-fi movies are for folks on the short bus of entertainment.
Why would any civilization able to incur the energy cost of shipping troops over waste those troops in combat, when a few non-nuclear firestorms could clear the cities and leave only stragglers to pick off? A few MOAB-strength bombs, methodically dropped worldwide, would do the job with far less cost to their troops.
Why would a civilization willing to commit genocide do it the hard way, as if they're following the same rules of combat we are? The oceans would still be there, after the firestorms, which is what they want, right?
This is just one way Hollywood has chosen to make a war movie people will actually watch -- but with an adversary this wasteful and stupid, it's just proving the point that sci-fi movies are for folks on the short bus of entertainment.
So they can't even carry True Lemon? It's powdered, suitable for their sugar packet slots, and they'd probably kill for the product placement. #winning
When a Newcomer husband and wife love each other very, very much, they consult their religious advisor (whose participation in sex is necessary for reproduction), then the fetus gestates in the mother for a bit. Then, in a touching ceremony, the fetus moves into the father's gestating pouch, and latches on tentacly onto the gentleman's nipples until birth.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
I could go into the semiotics of him referring to MAD MEN, when the next step for Hamm has been suggested that he do a comic book movie... but I'll just stick to SQUEE!!! over his Crooked book. Could be as good as Coover's The Public Burning....
ROCK ON, sweetie. And let the hijab be *magickal*
Just when I forgot the Haitian Sensation... really, I did....
Nope, sparky -- it was LA FEMME NIKITA, back when Canadadians did it.
oh, honey -- drugs aren't the answer to a series cancellation....
That casting? EVEN BETTER.
I'D BUY *THAT* FOR A DOLLAR!!!!
I'm so old skool I thought you meant *this* PROBE:
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But the thing? You don't waste Elliot Gould.
This show has had major guest stars in minor roles, and in almost every case, you could see how in future episodes they'd have arcs. *His* arc I wanted to see -- a frakked-up Dr. Yoda, who knew Peter from when he was "a very small child" -- and he's seen all the evil. I was shouting out at the screen, "a RAISING CAIN doublehalftwist? Nah. But if so... AWESOME."
How do you build a Nixon, without all the political fuss? Start with arms dealing, gain political power behind the scenes, buy out a government, expand. Peter's not the only point of interest; the men who've invested in him, and support that Doctor, would be the way to expand the story, if it continues on the page. Vince couldn't be foolish enough to assume that if he brought Peter down, he'd bring the entire organization down, but then again, he's very gullible....
This show has had major guest stars in minor roles, and in almost every case, you could see how in future episodes they'd have arcs. *His* arc I wanted to see -- a frakked-up Dr. Yoda, who knew Peter from when he was "a very small child" -- and he's seen all the evil. I was shouting out at the screen, "a RAISING CAIN doublehalftwist? Nah. But if so... AWESOME."
How do you build a Nixon, without all the political fuss? Start with arms dealing, gain political power behind the scenes, buy out a government, expand. Peter's not the only point of interest; the men who've invested in him, and support that Doctor, would be the way to expand the story, if it continues on the page. Vince couldn't be foolish enough to assume that if he brought Peter down, he'd bring the entire organization down, but then again, he's very gullible....
I thought we had that, but they canceled THE UNIT.... THE SHIELD... we gotta wait a year for BREAKING BAD....
Our villains are our anti-heroes; our hillbillys are Mountain Williams, now....
Our villains are our anti-heroes; our hillbillys are Mountain Williams, now....
That makes as much sense as any plotline this show has pursued. If that scientist could build Dice from childhood up, why not this?
I'm gonna miss it. You wanna know why? 'Cause it was the only ding-dang show to even hint as the massive clusterfrak our kleptocracy is.
As BSG, at its best, captured what it felt like after 9/11, THE CAPE captured our vida loca during the Meltdown. Villains always get away with the cash; heroes are in the shadows; D.A.s try to pursue justice, but are too nice to actually succeed; and if justice should occur, the scum get shipped without lawyer or trial to Owl Island (and only in a fantasy action-adventure show, kids, is a prison warden *less* corrupt than his local government).
Like last week's end to the Lich storyline -- Lich's dad was "the Oppenheimer of chemical weapons". The hell? So even the founders were so industrially foul that even a shut-in scion could access Daddy's leftover chemicals? Stuff lying around, whose use has been banned since WWI? And Peter's worried about what the PLA's thinking of him? He should seize Chandler's stash, put on his Chess lenses and get to steppin' -- he'd get that contract in a minute.
Yes, I can quibble about any one episode's logic (a crazy man owns the port, and no lawyer will forge the papers to be his guardian, to get control? In a town filled with corrupt doctors and lawyers? Hmmm....) But the humor and the relevance of THE CAPE wasn't in the goofy costumes; it was that this world of filth, fists and chaos was always comically relieved by business concerns. Beyond his mooning over his entirely unexceptional son, beyond hanging with thieves and lost princesses and fanboy wardens, Vince captured part of now in his quest to be the best, mission-creepin' crimefightin' dad evah. Let's hope they get money to produce commentary on the box set, and that the cast's given plenty of recreational chemicals during the taping....
As BSG, at its best, captured what it felt like after 9/11, THE CAPE captured our vida loca during the Meltdown. Villains always get away with the cash; heroes are in the shadows; D.A.s try to pursue justice, but are too nice to actually succeed; and if justice should occur, the scum get shipped without lawyer or trial to Owl Island (and only in a fantasy action-adventure show, kids, is a prison warden *less* corrupt than his local government).
Like last week's end to the Lich storyline -- Lich's dad was "the Oppenheimer of chemical weapons". The hell? So even the founders were so industrially foul that even a shut-in scion could access Daddy's leftover chemicals? Stuff lying around, whose use has been banned since WWI? And Peter's worried about what the PLA's thinking of him? He should seize Chandler's stash, put on his Chess lenses and get to steppin' -- he'd get that contract in a minute.
Yes, I can quibble about any one episode's logic (a crazy man owns the port, and no lawyer will forge the papers to be his guardian, to get control? In a town filled with corrupt doctors and lawyers? Hmmm....) But the humor and the relevance of THE CAPE wasn't in the goofy costumes; it was that this world of filth, fists and chaos was always comically relieved by business concerns. Beyond his mooning over his entirely unexceptional son, beyond hanging with thieves and lost princesses and fanboy wardens, Vince captured part of now in his quest to be the best, mission-creepin' crimefightin' dad evah. Let's hope they get money to produce commentary on the box set, and that the cast's given plenty of recreational chemicals during the taping....
