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1. There's two bits from LEGION that continue to haunt me, and you don't need to watch the entire series to understand and I found to be rather brilliant:
A. Plato's Cave
This may well be the best explanation of the modern narcissistic disorder that I've seen and how it comes about.
B. Delusion, Reality and Madness and how it occurs in LEGION
Which is highly philosophical and borrows heavily from various Zen and Greek philosophers.
If you are a frustrated philosophy/psychology major, you should check out LEGION and THE GOOD PLACE.
2. Suffering from increasingly painful IBS. I think I may be causing some of it with a tendency to over-eat the wrong things -- like tonight I had half a gluten free pizza, a smoothie, and a chocolate bar. My stomach hates me. Plus the anti-boitic from heck.
3. Soap fandom
Fan: Faison didn't make Peter put on a bullet proof vest, and manipulate Lulu and Nathan into revealing Nathan was Faison's son, so that Faison came out of the woodwork and killed Nathan in Peter's office, because Nathan followed Maxie there to save her from Faison who'd gone there to confront and kill Peter.
ME: eh. Peter wearing a bullet proof vest does not equal killing Nathan. Nor does manipulating Nathan and Lulu into revealing Nathan's parentage. Faison showed up to kill Peter, he had no idea Nathan would be there or Maxie. Neither did Peter. Peter had no way of foreseeing that. Granted his manipulations of Lulu and Nathan were horrid but they didn't clearly lead to Nathan's death. Peter put on the vest and worked to get his father to confront him, so he could use Jason to kill him. That's it.
Sigh.
This is why I'm opposed to jury trials now. People don't think logically or critically. They think with emotion. And emotion is seldom logical or even rational. In fact it usually is insane and makes no sense whatsoever.
Of course the word fan and logic hardly go hand in hand as it is. And before you say, oh, you are on a soap opera board, what do you expect? I was on the Buffy and Angel boards, also with Doctor Who and BSG fandoms -- they are crazy too. People, ignoring story-thread completely, had decided Angel was the nicer and better of all the vampires, the most redeemable, and obviously the most morally outstanding. Even though the story and all of it's themes ran directly counter to this view. (He's set up as the WORST VAMPIRE EVER, a pure Charles Manson of the Vampire Genre. The only reason the curse is so effective is how horrible he was. The series Angel was about whether a truly horrible person, the worst ever, could be redeemed, could change, and could become a better person and get past his flaws. IT wasn't about a so-so guy who had a bit of bad luck, wasn't so bad, trying to do good in the world. I watched intelligent fan after fan fail to get this simple point. I mean it's not like the writers didn't constantly comment on it, somewhat didatically, they did. But alas, the fans identified with the big doofus, and refused to see it. I found it hilarious. The story does not work, unless Angel is less redeemable than Spike, more horrible than Spike and Spike is basically the nicer guy. If it was the opposite the series would have been about Spike.) I've also been on comic fan boards and political boards and diet boards, etc...people don't think logically. Also I'm learning that what makes perfect sense in one's head doesn't always make perfect sense outside of it. See LEGION videos.
A. Plato's Cave
This may well be the best explanation of the modern narcissistic disorder that I've seen and how it comes about.
B. Delusion, Reality and Madness and how it occurs in LEGION
Which is highly philosophical and borrows heavily from various Zen and Greek philosophers.
If you are a frustrated philosophy/psychology major, you should check out LEGION and THE GOOD PLACE.
2. Suffering from increasingly painful IBS. I think I may be causing some of it with a tendency to over-eat the wrong things -- like tonight I had half a gluten free pizza, a smoothie, and a chocolate bar. My stomach hates me. Plus the anti-boitic from heck.
3. Soap fandom
Fan: Faison didn't make Peter put on a bullet proof vest, and manipulate Lulu and Nathan into revealing Nathan was Faison's son, so that Faison came out of the woodwork and killed Nathan in Peter's office, because Nathan followed Maxie there to save her from Faison who'd gone there to confront and kill Peter.
ME: eh. Peter wearing a bullet proof vest does not equal killing Nathan. Nor does manipulating Nathan and Lulu into revealing Nathan's parentage. Faison showed up to kill Peter, he had no idea Nathan would be there or Maxie. Neither did Peter. Peter had no way of foreseeing that. Granted his manipulations of Lulu and Nathan were horrid but they didn't clearly lead to Nathan's death. Peter put on the vest and worked to get his father to confront him, so he could use Jason to kill him. That's it.
Sigh.
This is why I'm opposed to jury trials now. People don't think logically or critically. They think with emotion. And emotion is seldom logical or even rational. In fact it usually is insane and makes no sense whatsoever.
Of course the word fan and logic hardly go hand in hand as it is. And before you say, oh, you are on a soap opera board, what do you expect? I was on the Buffy and Angel boards, also with Doctor Who and BSG fandoms -- they are crazy too. People, ignoring story-thread completely, had decided Angel was the nicer and better of all the vampires, the most redeemable, and obviously the most morally outstanding. Even though the story and all of it's themes ran directly counter to this view. (He's set up as the WORST VAMPIRE EVER, a pure Charles Manson of the Vampire Genre. The only reason the curse is so effective is how horrible he was. The series Angel was about whether a truly horrible person, the worst ever, could be redeemed, could change, and could become a better person and get past his flaws. IT wasn't about a so-so guy who had a bit of bad luck, wasn't so bad, trying to do good in the world. I watched intelligent fan after fan fail to get this simple point. I mean it's not like the writers didn't constantly comment on it, somewhat didatically, they did. But alas, the fans identified with the big doofus, and refused to see it. I found it hilarious. The story does not work, unless Angel is less redeemable than Spike, more horrible than Spike and Spike is basically the nicer guy. If it was the opposite the series would have been about Spike.) I've also been on comic fan boards and political boards and diet boards, etc...people don't think logically. Also I'm learning that what makes perfect sense in one's head doesn't always make perfect sense outside of it. See LEGION videos.