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shadowkat1. Stumptown latest episode surprised me. And in a weirdly good noirish way. It didn't go at all the way I expected or predicted. Actually, I didn't see this twist coming at all. (Still not convinced it works...although maybe it does?) Nor did we end up with well...let's just say they weren't wrong when they said it was a twist that will change everything.
So..Dex had sex with Liz after a great girls night out playing craps, and winning big at the craps table.
Whoa. I so did not see that coming. I guess I thought Liz was straight...and I'm trying to remember if she mentioned anything about the prior relationship? Also, what I expected was that Dex would sleep with Grey, and then Grey would find out that she researched Liz from Hoffman. Or that she'd tell Grey she had asked Hoffman to research Liz and Grey would stop talking to her.
But not that Dex would ask Liz to play craps with her and they'd end up in bed together.
The other surprise is I'm right -- Dex holds herself responsible for Benjy's death.
The reason she hasn't gotten past it is that she was responsible for his death in a big way and wants forgiveness. Something happened in Kobol. It wasn't just that he followed her over there -- but that she may have been the one who either killed him or got him killed accidentally. He may have gotten in the way or something. Dex was military intelligence -- so that makes sense. Also, it's typical noir.
Both twists are typical noir.
But the first twist was rather clever -- and I have to say, Dex does have better chemistry with Liz than either Liz or Dex have with Grey. That also sort of breaks up all of the romantic relationships?
Talk about plot twists that you don't see coming.
Does it work? I don't know. I didn't see it coming, so not sure it tracks or not.
Dex is bi-sexual. But it seems odd that Liz would go there?
2. Grandparents have a 350 square feet Harry Potter Playhouse Built in their Backyard
Uhm...okay.
3. Read the Articles of Impeachment Against the Doofus,
[Go ahead, you know you want to. Personally, I do not. I don't trust the Republican Party to do the right thing -- since I'm no longer certain they know or can see the difference between right and wrong any longer.]
Wow... Constitution Expert on Fox News Urges the Nation to Impeach Trump
4. Forget New Zealand...I want to move to Finland Finland forms government of all Five Parties Led by Women
5. Sigh, my soap got preempted by yet another mass shooting
Jersey City Shooting - 6 Killed including an officer
There Have Been More Mass Shootings in 2019 Than Days
List of Mass Shootings in the US in 2019 -- and somebody is keeping this one up to date, they added the one that just happened today.
I know its depressing.
6. How Brexit Could Tear Apart the United Kingdom -- assuming it hasn't done so already, depending on which Brit you talk to online. Hugh Grant of all people is heavily campagning against Boris Johnson and Brexit (no that's not in this article, it was in another one I skimmed.). Honestly I think the US and UK are treading water at the moment...or we all are.
O'Toole is a columnist with the Irish Times and author of The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
In July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave himself an additional title no predecessor had assumed: Minister for the Union. The union in question is not the European one which Johnson is determined to leave. It is simply his own country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The title betrays a deep anxiety.
For in breaking one union with Europe, Brexit is endangering another: the centuries-old union of England with Wales, Scotland and (part of) Ireland. Assuming, as the polls predict, that Johnson’s Conservative Party wins the U.K. general election on Dec. 12, he will have to grapple with that contradiction.
Five years ago, it was clear where the danger to the Union was coming from–mainly Scottish and Irish nationalism. Although Scotland voted to remain part of the U.K. in its 2014 plebiscite, the 45% who backed independence made it clear that the cause was now a mainstream proposition. And then there was, as always, the Irish Question. The 1998 peace deal that brought an end to the long civil conflict known as the Troubles acknowledged that the six northeastern counties that make up Northern Ireland can leave the U.K. whenever a majority of its population wishes to do so.
Yes, definitely thinking of retiring to Finland. Get away from the Brits and the Americans. Of course I'd have to learn Finnish and I suck at learning languages.
So, maybe not.
So..Dex had sex with Liz after a great girls night out playing craps, and winning big at the craps table.
Whoa. I so did not see that coming. I guess I thought Liz was straight...and I'm trying to remember if she mentioned anything about the prior relationship? Also, what I expected was that Dex would sleep with Grey, and then Grey would find out that she researched Liz from Hoffman. Or that she'd tell Grey she had asked Hoffman to research Liz and Grey would stop talking to her.
But not that Dex would ask Liz to play craps with her and they'd end up in bed together.
The other surprise is I'm right -- Dex holds herself responsible for Benjy's death.
The reason she hasn't gotten past it is that she was responsible for his death in a big way and wants forgiveness. Something happened in Kobol. It wasn't just that he followed her over there -- but that she may have been the one who either killed him or got him killed accidentally. He may have gotten in the way or something. Dex was military intelligence -- so that makes sense. Also, it's typical noir.
Both twists are typical noir.
But the first twist was rather clever -- and I have to say, Dex does have better chemistry with Liz than either Liz or Dex have with Grey. That also sort of breaks up all of the romantic relationships?
Talk about plot twists that you don't see coming.
Does it work? I don't know. I didn't see it coming, so not sure it tracks or not.
Dex is bi-sexual. But it seems odd that Liz would go there?
2. Grandparents have a 350 square feet Harry Potter Playhouse Built in their Backyard
Uhm...okay.
3. Read the Articles of Impeachment Against the Doofus,
[Go ahead, you know you want to. Personally, I do not. I don't trust the Republican Party to do the right thing -- since I'm no longer certain they know or can see the difference between right and wrong any longer.]
Wow... Constitution Expert on Fox News Urges the Nation to Impeach Trump
4. Forget New Zealand...I want to move to Finland Finland forms government of all Five Parties Led by Women
5. Sigh, my soap got preempted by yet another mass shooting
Jersey City Shooting - 6 Killed including an officer
There Have Been More Mass Shootings in 2019 Than Days
List of Mass Shootings in the US in 2019 -- and somebody is keeping this one up to date, they added the one that just happened today.
I know its depressing.
6. How Brexit Could Tear Apart the United Kingdom -- assuming it hasn't done so already, depending on which Brit you talk to online. Hugh Grant of all people is heavily campagning against Boris Johnson and Brexit (no that's not in this article, it was in another one I skimmed.). Honestly I think the US and UK are treading water at the moment...or we all are.
O'Toole is a columnist with the Irish Times and author of The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
In July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave himself an additional title no predecessor had assumed: Minister for the Union. The union in question is not the European one which Johnson is determined to leave. It is simply his own country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The title betrays a deep anxiety.
For in breaking one union with Europe, Brexit is endangering another: the centuries-old union of England with Wales, Scotland and (part of) Ireland. Assuming, as the polls predict, that Johnson’s Conservative Party wins the U.K. general election on Dec. 12, he will have to grapple with that contradiction.
Five years ago, it was clear where the danger to the Union was coming from–mainly Scottish and Irish nationalism. Although Scotland voted to remain part of the U.K. in its 2014 plebiscite, the 45% who backed independence made it clear that the cause was now a mainstream proposition. And then there was, as always, the Irish Question. The 1998 peace deal that brought an end to the long civil conflict known as the Troubles acknowledged that the six northeastern counties that make up Northern Ireland can leave the U.K. whenever a majority of its population wishes to do so.
Yes, definitely thinking of retiring to Finland. Get away from the Brits and the Americans. Of course I'd have to learn Finnish and I suck at learning languages.
So, maybe not.
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