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Apr. 11th, 2012 11:11 pm1. Well, good news on Trayvon Martin case - Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder. And there's a coalition of states standing up to repeal the "stand your ground" law.
Saw a similar case in Kansas way back in 1992. The case was a man who shot and killed someone who came on his property. The defense was filed "trespasser statute" that permitted him to defend himself against anyone who trespassed on his property. It would be considered "voluntary manslaughter" and "in self defense".
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2.Another piece of Good News...Rick Santorium pulled out of the Presidential Race. I really despised that man. Is it just me, or have we had the worse people on the planet run for US President in the past several years?
3. Smash - if you could only focus more on the Broadway Show bit and a lot less on the boring personal subplots, you'd be a great show. Glee and Smash have the same problem, they work best when they focus on "putting on the show" or "what it takes to put on a show" and are abysmal when they focus on romantic subplots or things that have nothing to do with putting on the show.
Ugh. going to bed. Natty day. Tired. And my allergies are driving me crazy.
4.) Mark Watches? Things worth commenting on or not as the case may be.
* I mean, who the hell is watching Angel without having seen a second of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Wait, I’m sure that’s actually a thing, so don’t answer that. God, that must be a strange experience. I always thought much the same thing. Granted there are tv spin-offs that you can ignore the original article completely. (Private Practice comes to mind, actually you can ignore the spin-off completely for that matter). But Angel wasn't one of them. Certain plot threads just make no sense if you don't watch both shows.
* I know Mark hasn't watched that much television, but he has a weirdly inflated perspective on Eliza Dusku's acting talents. Proof that such things are all in the eye of the beholder.
* Mark reminded me today how much I loved Yoko Factor and how marvelously Machiavellian and manipulative Spike is in that episode. Actually that episode does two things: 1) it makes it really hard for me to believe that the chip stops Spike from being evil and he's not choosing to do good on his own. Sorry writers, you sort of showed your own hand on that one - by giving us Yoko Factor - demonstrating perfectly how Spike could do horrible things without biting anyone. 2) Why in the hell did the Scoobies not stake him at the end of S4? This is one of those episodes...much like Innocence, where the writers came up with this great idea, but then had to write their way out of the corner they'd written themselves into. (They actually admit that they'd written themselves into a corner in the Primeval commentary and chose to blame Spike for it. Because they realized halfway through the plotting, that, wait they couldn't get Buffy into the Initiative without Willow, and couldn't do the cool plan. So they had to find a way to put the Scooby gang back together again. So...a little creative plotting.) So Yoko Factor? Amazing episode, much like Innocence, but screws up the entire story and plot. LOL!
Saw a similar case in Kansas way back in 1992. The case was a man who shot and killed someone who came on his property. The defense was filed "trespasser statute" that permitted him to defend himself against anyone who trespassed on his property. It would be considered "voluntary manslaughter" and "in self defense".
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2.Another piece of Good News...Rick Santorium pulled out of the Presidential Race. I really despised that man. Is it just me, or have we had the worse people on the planet run for US President in the past several years?
3. Smash - if you could only focus more on the Broadway Show bit and a lot less on the boring personal subplots, you'd be a great show. Glee and Smash have the same problem, they work best when they focus on "putting on the show" or "what it takes to put on a show" and are abysmal when they focus on romantic subplots or things that have nothing to do with putting on the show.
Ugh. going to bed. Natty day. Tired. And my allergies are driving me crazy.
4.) Mark Watches? Things worth commenting on or not as the case may be.
* I mean, who the hell is watching Angel without having seen a second of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Wait, I’m sure that’s actually a thing, so don’t answer that. God, that must be a strange experience. I always thought much the same thing. Granted there are tv spin-offs that you can ignore the original article completely. (Private Practice comes to mind, actually you can ignore the spin-off completely for that matter). But Angel wasn't one of them. Certain plot threads just make no sense if you don't watch both shows.
* I know Mark hasn't watched that much television, but he has a weirdly inflated perspective on Eliza Dusku's acting talents. Proof that such things are all in the eye of the beholder.
* Mark reminded me today how much I loved Yoko Factor and how marvelously Machiavellian and manipulative Spike is in that episode. Actually that episode does two things: 1) it makes it really hard for me to believe that the chip stops Spike from being evil and he's not choosing to do good on his own. Sorry writers, you sort of showed your own hand on that one - by giving us Yoko Factor - demonstrating perfectly how Spike could do horrible things without biting anyone. 2) Why in the hell did the Scoobies not stake him at the end of S4? This is one of those episodes...much like Innocence, where the writers came up with this great idea, but then had to write their way out of the corner they'd written themselves into. (They actually admit that they'd written themselves into a corner in the Primeval commentary and chose to blame Spike for it. Because they realized halfway through the plotting, that, wait they couldn't get Buffy into the Initiative without Willow, and couldn't do the cool plan. So they had to find a way to put the Scooby gang back together again. So...a little creative plotting.) So Yoko Factor? Amazing episode, much like Innocence, but screws up the entire story and plot. LOL!