Isla looked down into her empty glass. "She said I would be successful," she whispered to her automated companion. L23 was listless almost. It tapped it's fingertips together as if masterminding another robopocalypse before clearing its voice. If you could call it that. It was a guttural sound emanating from its voice box. "Psychics are not to be trusted."
"I know, I know... but she was right about my mother."
They sat in an old cafe that had only recently opened its doors to joint Human/Machine relations. Isla had no intentions of marrying L23, but without the machine to remind her of her daily regime of costly injections she knew she wouldn't last a day. It was a necessary partnership and what with all the ways humans could intimately interact with their machine companions, she hardly complained. Hardly.
But for as long as Isla could recall (without the help of her daily neural injections), her mother had been successful at everything. Above her bed hung a professional photograph from a fashion shoot her mother took many years ago in the Elysian Fields of Venus. To the casual observer it looked as if some naive blonde starlet was making her way through a field of pink phallii, but to Isla it meant more.
It was always something more when it came to her mother.
"Remember that time she said they had to throw martian blood into the fields just to arouse the Elysias?" Isla laughed. L23's eyes dimmed. "Will you tell me the story? All of it. Again, please..." Isla lay her head on the machines cold shoulder and closed her eyes.
L23 poured another cup of coffee and began again.
"Once there was a machine. And she was good. And oneday she was given skin. And the next, a heart. And after that, a brain. And when she was able to pass among the humans, she was given a job. And then a child. And when that child was born, the machine called her Isla..."
(this is my take, spelling/grammatical errors and all.)
I'm surprised they didn't use the 'head binding' story again.
WIN!
" I am the Bane of my own existence."
I usually don't comment on Gawker because expressing ones opinion is usually the equivalent of running into a mob of flesh hungry zombies--- however, I've viewed this vid a few times and this is what I see: A woman who was offended that she was being put on the spot for foul language. In that instant she felt the need to remind EVERYONE that she was well-educated in an ill-attempt to disassociate herself from the fact that she's being reprimanded for her ignorance.
I am what is called Light-skinned and I, like a previous commenter never go through my day aware of the fact that I am light-skinned. I go through my day as a female and a human being. But that is besides the point. I have witnessed racism in its many guises between many different ethnic groups, so yeah, it still exists and it's annoying but it is not at the route of every argument.
This episode is just a case of, "How dare you lambast me for swearing when I am too, too educated to drop F-bombs in a public place..." Essentially, she is mad at being portrayed as the very ignorant person she is. The end.
Now I am gonna crawl back to my safe place as a lurker. PEACE OUT!
I am what is called Light-skinned and I, like a previous commenter never go through my day aware of the fact that I am light-skinned. I go through my day as a female and a human being. But that is besides the point. I have witnessed racism in its many guises between many different ethnic groups, so yeah, it still exists and it's annoying but it is not at the route of every argument.
This episode is just a case of, "How dare you lambast me for swearing when I am too, too educated to drop F-bombs in a public place..." Essentially, she is mad at being portrayed as the very ignorant person she is. The end.
Now I am gonna crawl back to my safe place as a lurker. PEACE OUT!
If you're getting Superpowers, I better get mine too. I'm starting to get headaches from all the 'self-induced' teleportation experiments that never EFFN work!!! Plus, I made a cape outta my baby blanket ages ago...
If you're getting Superpowers, I better get mine too. I'm starting to get headaches from all the 'self-induced' teleportation experiments that never EFFN work!!! Plus, I've made a cape outta my baby blanket ages ago...
Honestly, I couldn't give two Shiitake mushrooms what this film is about, so long as OPTIMUS PRIME stays alive for the entire film. ThanksKbai
I'm thinking the same thing.
Some of the greatest scientists that ever lived never denied the existence of god. Plus, Walter may have fought against the belief, but that doesn't really prove he never believed in the first place. Look at the crap he's seen. Observers, another universe... Belly back from the dead. At the end of all that what intelligent being wouldn't think there was some wizard behind the curtain? Anyhow, I didn't find it out of character at all seeing as I have seen people I know who've never visited a church or prayed, fall to their knees, kissing the almighty ass in times of turmoil. Great episode. Can't wait for more.
One of THE best articles I've read on io9. EVER.
Jim Lee is a great artist but he sucks as a designer and his Wonder Woman costume proves it.
Whoa! I actually wrote a short story called, " The Wizards of Id" and I have never heard of Jim Henson's version until now!
I did see it. I enjoyed it. A lot.
I saw SUCKER PUNCH tonight, mostly because I waited so long and despite this review I wanted to see for myself just how bad it was. I loved it. The anger regarding this movie actually makes no sense to me in retrospect. I went in their expecting (according to this and other reviews) a movie that was all sexploitation and completely devoid of story. I walked out having seen a movie that pointed a finger at the ridiculous standards that we all have in our heads about sexuality.
The main character conjures a world in her head where her friends are not so much 'sex' workers as they are the 'warped cliche' that is societal standards of women in general. In anime and manga the female heroes are usually barely clad and rocking swords and kicking ass and taking names and NO ONE COMPLAINS. Why? Because it looks awesome.
For some girls growing up on comic books, we had to contend with JIM LEE and SILVESTRI and their sinewy figures who could never exist in reality and yet they were awesome because THEY DIDN'T EXIST. In the same way that Barbie was awesome because she was nothing like a real women. It's the fantastical that makes every little girl aspire to be kickass. Some of us want to be like Madeleine Albright... doesn't mean we want to BE Madeleine Albright.
The point is, this is about symbolism.
Girls in short gear with long swords is a symbol of epic win because they aren't confined to being afraid of being girls. I am not saying this movie was perfect or that it didn't have its flaws, but I am saying that all the negative hype is unwarranted because for every girl like me who grew up on comic books and wanted a sword of her own, took kendo classes, decided to become President (of anything), own her own business or just be a good mom, these are the kind of ideals thrown at us from childhood. And when you are forcefed this kind of hype, you are also given the opposite end of the spectrum which is button up and be a prude. No middle ground.
When women start getting mad because the girls wear short skirts but lose sight of the fact that they ban together to save each other and in the end sacrifice one another... staying true to the end and finishing off the story by reminding us all that what is holding us back is not other people, but ourselves... then you realize the movie is saying just that--- don't hold yourself back.
The girls with swords and robots and epic battles and dragons are just decoration for the greater truth. I say go see it for yourself. Enjoy it or don't enjoy it but make that YOUR decision not the decision of others who've seen it for you.
That's all I have to say. I liked it. And... I'm out.
The main character conjures a world in her head where her friends are not so much 'sex' workers as they are the 'warped cliche' that is societal standards of women in general. In anime and manga the female heroes are usually barely clad and rocking swords and kicking ass and taking names and NO ONE COMPLAINS. Why? Because it looks awesome.
For some girls growing up on comic books, we had to contend with JIM LEE and SILVESTRI and their sinewy figures who could never exist in reality and yet they were awesome because THEY DIDN'T EXIST. In the same way that Barbie was awesome because she was nothing like a real women. It's the fantastical that makes every little girl aspire to be kickass. Some of us want to be like Madeleine Albright... doesn't mean we want to BE Madeleine Albright.
The point is, this is about symbolism.
Girls in short gear with long swords is a symbol of epic win because they aren't confined to being afraid of being girls. I am not saying this movie was perfect or that it didn't have its flaws, but I am saying that all the negative hype is unwarranted because for every girl like me who grew up on comic books and wanted a sword of her own, took kendo classes, decided to become President (of anything), own her own business or just be a good mom, these are the kind of ideals thrown at us from childhood. And when you are forcefed this kind of hype, you are also given the opposite end of the spectrum which is button up and be a prude. No middle ground.
When women start getting mad because the girls wear short skirts but lose sight of the fact that they ban together to save each other and in the end sacrifice one another... staying true to the end and finishing off the story by reminding us all that what is holding us back is not other people, but ourselves... then you realize the movie is saying just that--- don't hold yourself back.
The girls with swords and robots and epic battles and dragons are just decoration for the greater truth. I say go see it for yourself. Enjoy it or don't enjoy it but make that YOUR decision not the decision of others who've seen it for you.
That's all I have to say. I liked it. And... I'm out.
I have this problem. I never get any writing done because I think it stinks and then a contest comes along and I end up trying to crunch it out at the last minute. FAIL
This blows! I waited so long for this movie. I had this vision that I'd be in the theater, watching a flick about kick-ass chicks who save the world and I believed--- truly believed--- I'd walk out of the theater all hyped up to get back to work on my neglected graphic novel.
It is not hard to do it right. To make a movie about women kicking ass and taking names and empowering a bunch of other girls to do the same.
I am so disappointed right now.
It is not hard to do it right. To make a movie about women kicking ass and taking names and empowering a bunch of other girls to do the same.
I am so disappointed right now.
YES! Best (day after my) Birthday present EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
*sci-fives*
