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1. If this is true, then it is really scary:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=27769
Pal Wales is volunteering with MoveOn.org to get people to vote. Giving her credit for this. But I don't share her belief that a change in party control will change the current direction our government is headed in. Sorry, but the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans. That said, I'll do what I can to try and effect change come November 7. As my father puts it: If you don't vote you get the government you deserve. I agree with him wholeheartedly.
2. Heads up New York Rent fans or rather fans of "Anthony Rapp". Rapp will be doing a Book reading and signing at Barnes and Noble, 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY. He will sign and read slections from his book that discusses how the sudden tragic death of Jonathan Larson affected the cast and crew. Refreshments will be served and representatives will be on hand to discuss the Marfan syndrom that killed Larson.
3. I enjoyed BSG tonight, more than I expected. From the previews, I wasn't sure I could watch it, but like the other episodes this season, it has surprised me. It dealt with an interesting issue - the need to exact revenge, not justice per se, but vengeance on those that hurt us. Starbuck has a great mini-monologue regarding vengeance - she's been psychologically tortured by Leoben and she tells her spouse: "The world looks different to me now, the light, the walls, all I see is red. I do not want you to look at me. And I can't look at you, because all I want to do when I look at you is yank your eyes out with my fingers. I want to hurt someone or something. So bad. And it might as well be you." It's a horrific speech. But I completely identified. That rage. Oh that rage. And the writers for being so honest about it.
The episode itself is more meaningful if you saw the websodes that proceeded the season. In the eleven websodes - we are introduced to two characters Jammer, and another character whose name I can't remember off-hand - but he's the one who did the suicide bombing in the first episode of the season. Jammer and this other character are friends. Jammer is trying to convince OC to join the Resistance. Then OC's wife dies in a bombing caused indirectly by the Resistance hiding weapons, against Jammer's advice, in a temple that OC's wife and other's visit. That incident convinces Jammer to join the cylon collaborators in order to prevent more people from being hurt because of terrorist activities - he lives to see his friend die in a suicide bombing. Because the incident convinces his friend to join the Resistance and give his life to it. Meanwhile, we learn there is someone with the cylons who is providing the Resistance with inside information - we think it may be Jammer, but in episode one or two of this season it is revealed as Gaeta.
Tonight's episode shows Jammer getting spaced for his difficult decision. A decision he is shown regretting when he attempts to save Callie, his other friend, in a prior episode. We also see Gaeta almost pay, Gaeta who unbeknowest to the others, has gone through his own hell.
Then there is Tighe and Kara, who want to hurt everyone around them. Their pain is visceral because it is all about loss. Tigh's about the loss of his wife, a woman he would have died for, a woman who would have died for him and a woman he had to kill, because she was a collaborator and it was demanded of him by Kara's husband and the others. Kara because of the loss of a little girl that a cylon convinced her was her own. A little girl she allowed herself to care for, and love. Who she saved. Only to hand the girl to another woman and learn yes, Leoben won in the end. He'd conned her.
She killed him over and over and over, only to have him get inside her head with the one thing that tears at her the most. She knows she can never have children - the cylons took that part of her away.
And until now she has never felt its loss quite so much.
I'm not sure it is something those with children can understand. The realization that you may never have one. That this may be an experience you will not have. Not necessarily by choice so much as by circumstance.
And finally Adama, Laura Roslyn, and Zarek - whose differing views on Justice are tabulated and held up like a mirror to the Cylons and in a way our own. It is easy, I think, as Zarek points out, for Roslyn and Adama to make these decisions. Not so easy for those in pain. But Roslyn is right to give everyone a clean slate, a pardon, even though her pardoning may eventually bite when and if Baltar returns - because after all shouldn't it apply to Baltar as well?
BattleStar Galatica continues to be the most relevant show about our times on, constantly making me ponder and revaluate my own views on these complicated issues.
4. Also watched Lost this week. Which frustrated, thrilled, annoyed, amused, and intrigued me all at the same time. It was an episode about fooling people. Sleights of hand. Cons. And it was quite brutal. And also oddly cliche at the same time. Did I like it? On the fence about it.
The episode started with Sawyer trying to escape from his cage, he'd come up with a rather simple and clever plan. A con of sorts. But the islanders had been listening in and watching him without his knowledge. (This bugged me, why didn't Kate and Sawyer figure out they were being watched? I mean, hello? Wouldn't that make sense? I would have. Why else keep people in animal cages - there has to be survelliance somewhere. Maybe they just aren't as paranoid as I am?) Anyhow, he gets found out, they con him, and manage to get him to do what they want by threatening Kate, learning in the process what his achilees heel is. The question is - what is Kate's?
According to one of the online spoiler gossips, there's supposed to be a death in the November 8th episode or next week's, not sure which. A big death. Like Boone's. Main character. Unbelievable.
So unbelievable, the gossip doesn't believe it until he sees it. Okay. I'm hoping it's Jack, Kate or Ben. (Although we have a shortage of female characters at the moment and really don't need to lose another one.) But with my luck it will probably be Ecko, Sayid or Lock. I know it's not Sawyer - according to the gossip. If it's Lock or Sayhid? I'm out of here. Then again they could just be playing with us.
Liked the fact that the con man was conned. The Other's comment amused me: "We knew the only way to get the respect and attention of a con man was to out-con him. You're good Sawyer. But we're better."
Of course you are - you are a bunch of overly educated, bored, social psychology majors with nothing to do and now, god has dropped a plane full of lab rats into your laps to play mind games with. Much fun! It's not like you have to worry about survival or anything. And hey calling the outside world and getting the lab-rats off the island would just be boring. Much more fun to play with them. And they say cats are cruel.
At the moment, can't decide who is more despicable, the plane full of potential killers a la Lord of the Flies or the island full of sadistic psychologists who don't think of themselves as killers, but hey like to torture people for kicks.
Scheduling alert for Lost enthusiasts - the show is going on hiatus until Feburary after the November 8th episode, I think. It's place will be taken by the new Taye Diggs show, about the day that will never end.
1. If this is true, then it is really scary:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=27769
Pal Wales is volunteering with MoveOn.org to get people to vote. Giving her credit for this. But I don't share her belief that a change in party control will change the current direction our government is headed in. Sorry, but the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans. That said, I'll do what I can to try and effect change come November 7. As my father puts it: If you don't vote you get the government you deserve. I agree with him wholeheartedly.
2. Heads up New York Rent fans or rather fans of "Anthony Rapp". Rapp will be doing a Book reading and signing at Barnes and Noble, 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY. He will sign and read slections from his book that discusses how the sudden tragic death of Jonathan Larson affected the cast and crew. Refreshments will be served and representatives will be on hand to discuss the Marfan syndrom that killed Larson.
3. I enjoyed BSG tonight, more than I expected. From the previews, I wasn't sure I could watch it, but like the other episodes this season, it has surprised me. It dealt with an interesting issue - the need to exact revenge, not justice per se, but vengeance on those that hurt us. Starbuck has a great mini-monologue regarding vengeance - she's been psychologically tortured by Leoben and she tells her spouse: "The world looks different to me now, the light, the walls, all I see is red. I do not want you to look at me. And I can't look at you, because all I want to do when I look at you is yank your eyes out with my fingers. I want to hurt someone or something. So bad. And it might as well be you." It's a horrific speech. But I completely identified. That rage. Oh that rage. And the writers for being so honest about it.
The episode itself is more meaningful if you saw the websodes that proceeded the season. In the eleven websodes - we are introduced to two characters Jammer, and another character whose name I can't remember off-hand - but he's the one who did the suicide bombing in the first episode of the season. Jammer and this other character are friends. Jammer is trying to convince OC to join the Resistance. Then OC's wife dies in a bombing caused indirectly by the Resistance hiding weapons, against Jammer's advice, in a temple that OC's wife and other's visit. That incident convinces Jammer to join the cylon collaborators in order to prevent more people from being hurt because of terrorist activities - he lives to see his friend die in a suicide bombing. Because the incident convinces his friend to join the Resistance and give his life to it. Meanwhile, we learn there is someone with the cylons who is providing the Resistance with inside information - we think it may be Jammer, but in episode one or two of this season it is revealed as Gaeta.
Tonight's episode shows Jammer getting spaced for his difficult decision. A decision he is shown regretting when he attempts to save Callie, his other friend, in a prior episode. We also see Gaeta almost pay, Gaeta who unbeknowest to the others, has gone through his own hell.
Then there is Tighe and Kara, who want to hurt everyone around them. Their pain is visceral because it is all about loss. Tigh's about the loss of his wife, a woman he would have died for, a woman who would have died for him and a woman he had to kill, because she was a collaborator and it was demanded of him by Kara's husband and the others. Kara because of the loss of a little girl that a cylon convinced her was her own. A little girl she allowed herself to care for, and love. Who she saved. Only to hand the girl to another woman and learn yes, Leoben won in the end. He'd conned her.
She killed him over and over and over, only to have him get inside her head with the one thing that tears at her the most. She knows she can never have children - the cylons took that part of her away.
And until now she has never felt its loss quite so much.
I'm not sure it is something those with children can understand. The realization that you may never have one. That this may be an experience you will not have. Not necessarily by choice so much as by circumstance.
And finally Adama, Laura Roslyn, and Zarek - whose differing views on Justice are tabulated and held up like a mirror to the Cylons and in a way our own. It is easy, I think, as Zarek points out, for Roslyn and Adama to make these decisions. Not so easy for those in pain. But Roslyn is right to give everyone a clean slate, a pardon, even though her pardoning may eventually bite when and if Baltar returns - because after all shouldn't it apply to Baltar as well?
BattleStar Galatica continues to be the most relevant show about our times on, constantly making me ponder and revaluate my own views on these complicated issues.
4. Also watched Lost this week. Which frustrated, thrilled, annoyed, amused, and intrigued me all at the same time. It was an episode about fooling people. Sleights of hand. Cons. And it was quite brutal. And also oddly cliche at the same time. Did I like it? On the fence about it.
The episode started with Sawyer trying to escape from his cage, he'd come up with a rather simple and clever plan. A con of sorts. But the islanders had been listening in and watching him without his knowledge. (This bugged me, why didn't Kate and Sawyer figure out they were being watched? I mean, hello? Wouldn't that make sense? I would have. Why else keep people in animal cages - there has to be survelliance somewhere. Maybe they just aren't as paranoid as I am?) Anyhow, he gets found out, they con him, and manage to get him to do what they want by threatening Kate, learning in the process what his achilees heel is. The question is - what is Kate's?
According to one of the online spoiler gossips, there's supposed to be a death in the November 8th episode or next week's, not sure which. A big death. Like Boone's. Main character. Unbelievable.
So unbelievable, the gossip doesn't believe it until he sees it. Okay. I'm hoping it's Jack, Kate or Ben. (Although we have a shortage of female characters at the moment and really don't need to lose another one.) But with my luck it will probably be Ecko, Sayid or Lock. I know it's not Sawyer - according to the gossip. If it's Lock or Sayhid? I'm out of here. Then again they could just be playing with us.
Liked the fact that the con man was conned. The Other's comment amused me: "We knew the only way to get the respect and attention of a con man was to out-con him. You're good Sawyer. But we're better."
Of course you are - you are a bunch of overly educated, bored, social psychology majors with nothing to do and now, god has dropped a plane full of lab rats into your laps to play mind games with. Much fun! It's not like you have to worry about survival or anything. And hey calling the outside world and getting the lab-rats off the island would just be boring. Much more fun to play with them. And they say cats are cruel.
At the moment, can't decide who is more despicable, the plane full of potential killers a la Lord of the Flies or the island full of sadistic psychologists who don't think of themselves as killers, but hey like to torture people for kicks.
Scheduling alert for Lost enthusiasts - the show is going on hiatus until Feburary after the November 8th episode, I think. It's place will be taken by the new Taye Diggs show, about the day that will never end.
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Date: 2006-10-28 04:06 pm (UTC)This stuff has been preying on my mind for years. My only hope is that the government, which has been encouraging fear of and disdain for the government and judges for years and also encouraging a lack of gun laws, will think twice about taking on the American public. Stupid, angry and armed is not what they want to face.