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shadowkat1.. Feminism - how people seem to view this word continues to bug me. So, I'm going to give you a definition that I agree with. Make of it what you will.
Feminism refers to political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights, legal protection for women and/or women's liberation. Feminism includes some of the sociological theories and philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that campaigns for women's rights and interests. Nancy Cott defines feminism as the belief in the importance of gender equality, invalidating the idea of gender hierarchy as a socially constructed concept. Feminists are persons of either sex who believe in feminism – and of course practice their beliefs. [From Wiki]
2. Read the preview page for Buffy issue 36 - out of curiousity - wanted to see what all the fuss on flist was about. Is it just me or does this plot thread feel a lot like the second season of Dollhouse? Possibly just me. Whedon seems a bit obsessed with the whole puppet thing, or doll thing - people using as dolls to entertain or satisfy someone else's fantasy or view of them. It's a theme I've seen done better elsewhere - notably the hilariously disturbing independent masterpiece "Being John Malkovich" - which is about celebrity and how we manipulate others to meet our fantasies. John Cusak plays a puppeteer who finds a way to enter John Malkovich's brain and literally pull his strings and do whatever he wishes through him, until he is finally forced to realize the nightmare himself, when he gets trapped inside the newborn child that ex-partner/girlfriend has with her new female lover. He can do nothing. He is just a bystander, his hands and body moved by someone else. There's also the quite splendid My Fair Lady and Pygamillion by George Bernard Shaw. And quite a few horror flicks that I've seen, including a B movie starring Vincent Price entitled House of Wax. Not to mention the superior and hilarious "Smile Time".
The idea of being used as a puppet or controlled by someone else is not new in science fiction or fantasy. Farscape plays around with it - regarding Crichton and Scorpius. It also has actual puppets, so part of playing around - is a direct commentary on the use of puppetry in the show itself. I adore puppetry - it is the one artform that seems beyond the grasp of technology. There's nothing more magical than watching a puppet show - you know there's a human behind the puppet, but if the puppeteer is good, the puppet becomes more real, a character outside of the human, to the point you forget the human exists. There's a rather good horror tale based I believe on a Twilight Zone episode - where the puppet becomes more real than the man. He begins to pull the man's strings. Another good horror tale - is about people being turned into dolls - you are safer this way, I can protect you.
In the Buffy comics and the series itself, along with Angel, Doctor Horrible, and Dollhouse - and yes, even Firefly, the concept of people as puppets or dolls comes up metaphorically repeatedly. Angel is literally a puppet of whomever he seeks approval from. And he in turn, seeks to turn everyone else into his puppets. He is always pulling people's strings. The mistake many characters, and fans, make is falling under the delusion that Angel and Angelus are separate, they aren't. They are similarily motivated. Both desire control. The character is fascinating in part due to this simple contradiction - he is both puppet and puppeteer - much like John Cusak's character in Being John Malkovich. He creates Drusilla and Spike and takes great pride in his creation. And he believes that he creates Buffy - he orders her to stay out of LA. He spies on her. He does the same things with Connor - the mindwipe. And everyone who is with him falls into this trap - Wes attempts to manipulate things to his liking. Fred is taken over by a demon who pulls her strings, or appears to, until Fred turns the tables, and her personality starts to pull Illyria's. Gunn allows WRH to pull his to be smart. And Lindsey pulls Angels and Spike's strings. In Buffy, Angel states in I think the Prom, that he fell for her the moment he saw her, that he wanted to take her heart, hold it, and protect it, lock it away from harm. It's romantic but creepy at the same time. His over-riding desire is to take over, to protect her, to do what he wants to do with Connor, to remove her from the fray, while he plays at being the hero. To put her in the ivory tower or glass case.
Spike is the opposite, he hates having his strings pulled. And rails at Angel for pulling them. OR trying to. Spike is actually more like Buffy in this respect, who equally rails against it. While it's simple for people to lable Spike as bad-boy, just as it is simple for people to lable Angel as Oedipus or is that Electra Complex? Both cliche tropes. I doubt seriously that anyone watching the show is turned on to the characters just for those reasons or restricted to them. For myself? I didn't find Spike all that interesting when he was evil or the bad boy. S2-S4 Spike didn't do much for me. I enjoyed him, he was entertaining and attractive, but...that was it. No, the character took off for me first in Becoming, then in Fool for Love - which sort of goes counter to the whole bad boy trope. In fact people who saw him as mainly a bad boy - or loved that aspect, tend to have troubles liking Season 5-7. And have more or less ignored everything after the first four seasons of the series. I found him interesting when he went against his nature. Becoming Part II - was when the character first took off for me. Trickster. You don't know what he will do. He goes against his nature, who he is, for love.
The idea of being motivated by love to become something else - fascinates me. To want to
go against your very nature, your programming, what you were conditioned to be. And Spike was conditioned to be Spike by his demon, by Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla. Over a long period of time. To go against that conditioning, if it is even possible - fascinates me. Can we change our conditioning? Can we go against what we are taught? Not, our genetic makeup per se, but traumatic conditioning. Can we choose who we are? Or does someone else choose it? Are we puppets? Spike's arc, in a way, much like Faith's (although Spike's was better done in part because we had male writers and they don't quite get how to write a Faith arc) - is about fighting against the puppet master pulling his strings, in his case it is Angelus, his mother, Drusilla, and the demon inside. In Faith's it was well - her father, the Mayor, and her watchers (not sure about a mother) - this also explains why I prefer Spike's - it was more complex. Faith's, sorry, was a bit simplestic and cliche - done in some respects far better with Illyria and Cordelia and Lilah.
The comics seem to be commenting on both Angel and Spike's take on puppetry and puppeteers. And women. Spike notably is against controlling people - and into free will/choice. Note - his name is like Angel, counter to who he is. And unlike Angel, Buffy knows his real name, his birth name, and uses it - when she wants to hit at the human inside. "William" or "WILL". And in each of the Spikecentric episodes - it is about free will and not being someone's bitch or puppet. Lies My Parents Told - is about breaking the trigger or the puppeteers strings. As is Hellbound in Angel.Angel in contrast is less willing and almost wants to give in to it, he never breaks those strings, he embraces the puppeteer instead - as we see in both Amends and to a degree in Smile Time, and Home. On the surface, he appears to get rid of the puppeteer, but the old man behind the curtain stays.
3. Farscape - finished watching the brilliant and hilarious Look at the Princess arc in Farscape, along with Won't Be Fooled Again, Beware of Dog, and The Locket.
There's a great line in Look at the Princess - A Kiss is But a Kiss.
"Do you know what they want to do to me? Turn me into a statute for 80 cycles. If I ever return to earth after that - everyone will be dead. Dad, DK, my family, my cousins, my friends, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz....Buffy The Vampire Slayer!"
I laughed my ass off. Yes, Farscape's writers watched Buffy.
They were also super-aware of their fandom. Ben Bowder keeps stating that he would just go read commentary or fanfic to figure stuff out that the writers didn't explain. The fans often did a better job.
I don't have a lot to say about the episodes, except that they do a great job of building the relationships between the characters, maintaining tension, conflict, and exploring the psychology of each one. Farscape unlike most sci-fi is a messy series - it goes into dark places, and plays with your head.
Funny story about censorship - according to the commentary, someone at the BBC got really offended by something in Won't Be Fooled Again and cut the episode to shreds, so that it was literally two minutes shorter. While the only thing Syfy worried about was when they blow up the Scarren's head, not to show too much gore on the wall. (Sigh, times have changed.) Another bit of commentary - Ben Bowder apologizes for parents of the under-12 set for saying the word "shit" on Farscape. Okaay. This brings up a question? Why would any parent care if Ben Bowder said shit on tv - after watching an episode in which he has shot someone, people have died horribly, and been blown up? I mean, why are letting your twelve year old watch Farscape to begin with? It's a violent tv series with adult themes, and not written for a 12 year old.
Shit should be the least of your worries. Honestly, people, you don't think your kid doesn't hear shit on the playground, at school, or at the store?
I find the continued censorship of foul language on tv mind-boggling. Also a tad hypocritical. Just as I find the continued censorship of nudity and sexual content. Apparently we have no problems showing a man or woman beat a woman or man, smack her or him, shoot her or him, suggest attempted rape, suggest rape or attempt to rape her/him - but nudity, a kinky sex scene, or the word fuck, shit, hell, or damn sends us running for the hills. Yes, we are an evolved species. Can't you tell?
4. Doctor Who - Vicent and the Doctor (yes, I'm behind everyone online on this series, BBC America isn't airing the next episodes until the end of July, so will be even more behind, by the time I see them, your reviews will be impossible for me to find by mere scrolling. And no, I can't download episodes without killing my computer, so don't bother offering.)
Was a rather good stand-alone. Partly due to the casting of Bill Nighey as the Museum Curator and whomever they got to play Van Gough (is it Goff or Gou). I know quite a bit about Van Gough, because have one too many people in my family who studied art and I'm in love with the impressionists. Van Gough allegedly cut off his ear - because of Muenir's disease according to some, and was just crazy to others. Muenir's could drive you nuts - if untreated, it creates severe imbalance in the inner-ear, ringing in the right ear, and vertigo. I know - my Dad had it. Made him sick and miserable until he was able to get it treated. But some art guy I meet at a gallery meetup insisted that Van Gough was just nuts and didn't have Muenir's. Or so his biographer stated. So I don't know. Like James Joyce, Gough made no money. Most brilliant artists made nothing. Popularity and fame rarely has much to do with actual talent.
Can see why people loved the episode - it was about the poor starving frustrated artist who never gets appreciated until after he's dead. Who online can't identify with that? But outside of that, not much happened and not much characterwise was advanced, well except for the fact that Amy can't remember what she lost and has been forever changed by her journey with the doctor and not necessarily in a good way.
A story arc that I have mixed feelings about. I like the bit about how changing time for someone can have dire consequences. The Doctor - for all his blather about not spoiling history or interfering, does interfer and for selfish purposes - when he takes a companion on board. OR interacts with one. He took Amy away from her time line, her life, and in the process changed many other lives - causing a rift or crack.
IT's a problem that was touched on briefly under RTD's reign, but never to my satisfaction - and was sidestepped on Lost to my annoyance. It is also an issue that was dealt with rather well in an old Ray Bradbury story - The Sound of Thunder.
(SKip the movie - it was crap). What I have mixed feelings about is - the whole, Amy says she's not the marrying kind as it turns out, and isn't sure why she feels loss, and wants a guy with ginger hair. All I could think of is - Rory was not that compelling. And why is married life the best option for her? Why can't she want to be single and fancy free - why can't any of the women? It's annoying. Not, anti-feminist, just annoying.
So, while I enjoyed Vincent and The Doctor, it didn't blow me away like a few of the episodes in S4 or was that S3 did? Possibly both. It's no Blink, Human Condition,
Library, or Forests of Air (can't remember the name of it - the first River Song arc).
But it was enjoyable. A little sentimental and a tad cliche - the old we're going to meet a famous artist and change his life story - which they do every year it seems.
I admittedly liked this one better than the one about Shakespeare.
Feminism refers to political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights, legal protection for women and/or women's liberation. Feminism includes some of the sociological theories and philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that campaigns for women's rights and interests. Nancy Cott defines feminism as the belief in the importance of gender equality, invalidating the idea of gender hierarchy as a socially constructed concept. Feminists are persons of either sex who believe in feminism – and of course practice their beliefs. [From Wiki]
2. Read the preview page for Buffy issue 36 - out of curiousity - wanted to see what all the fuss on flist was about. Is it just me or does this plot thread feel a lot like the second season of Dollhouse? Possibly just me. Whedon seems a bit obsessed with the whole puppet thing, or doll thing - people using as dolls to entertain or satisfy someone else's fantasy or view of them. It's a theme I've seen done better elsewhere - notably the hilariously disturbing independent masterpiece "Being John Malkovich" - which is about celebrity and how we manipulate others to meet our fantasies. John Cusak plays a puppeteer who finds a way to enter John Malkovich's brain and literally pull his strings and do whatever he wishes through him, until he is finally forced to realize the nightmare himself, when he gets trapped inside the newborn child that ex-partner/girlfriend has with her new female lover. He can do nothing. He is just a bystander, his hands and body moved by someone else. There's also the quite splendid My Fair Lady and Pygamillion by George Bernard Shaw. And quite a few horror flicks that I've seen, including a B movie starring Vincent Price entitled House of Wax. Not to mention the superior and hilarious "Smile Time".
The idea of being used as a puppet or controlled by someone else is not new in science fiction or fantasy. Farscape plays around with it - regarding Crichton and Scorpius. It also has actual puppets, so part of playing around - is a direct commentary on the use of puppetry in the show itself. I adore puppetry - it is the one artform that seems beyond the grasp of technology. There's nothing more magical than watching a puppet show - you know there's a human behind the puppet, but if the puppeteer is good, the puppet becomes more real, a character outside of the human, to the point you forget the human exists. There's a rather good horror tale based I believe on a Twilight Zone episode - where the puppet becomes more real than the man. He begins to pull the man's strings. Another good horror tale - is about people being turned into dolls - you are safer this way, I can protect you.
In the Buffy comics and the series itself, along with Angel, Doctor Horrible, and Dollhouse - and yes, even Firefly, the concept of people as puppets or dolls comes up metaphorically repeatedly. Angel is literally a puppet of whomever he seeks approval from. And he in turn, seeks to turn everyone else into his puppets. He is always pulling people's strings. The mistake many characters, and fans, make is falling under the delusion that Angel and Angelus are separate, they aren't. They are similarily motivated. Both desire control. The character is fascinating in part due to this simple contradiction - he is both puppet and puppeteer - much like John Cusak's character in Being John Malkovich. He creates Drusilla and Spike and takes great pride in his creation. And he believes that he creates Buffy - he orders her to stay out of LA. He spies on her. He does the same things with Connor - the mindwipe. And everyone who is with him falls into this trap - Wes attempts to manipulate things to his liking. Fred is taken over by a demon who pulls her strings, or appears to, until Fred turns the tables, and her personality starts to pull Illyria's. Gunn allows WRH to pull his to be smart. And Lindsey pulls Angels and Spike's strings. In Buffy, Angel states in I think the Prom, that he fell for her the moment he saw her, that he wanted to take her heart, hold it, and protect it, lock it away from harm. It's romantic but creepy at the same time. His over-riding desire is to take over, to protect her, to do what he wants to do with Connor, to remove her from the fray, while he plays at being the hero. To put her in the ivory tower or glass case.
Spike is the opposite, he hates having his strings pulled. And rails at Angel for pulling them. OR trying to. Spike is actually more like Buffy in this respect, who equally rails against it. While it's simple for people to lable Spike as bad-boy, just as it is simple for people to lable Angel as Oedipus or is that Electra Complex? Both cliche tropes. I doubt seriously that anyone watching the show is turned on to the characters just for those reasons or restricted to them. For myself? I didn't find Spike all that interesting when he was evil or the bad boy. S2-S4 Spike didn't do much for me. I enjoyed him, he was entertaining and attractive, but...that was it. No, the character took off for me first in Becoming, then in Fool for Love - which sort of goes counter to the whole bad boy trope. In fact people who saw him as mainly a bad boy - or loved that aspect, tend to have troubles liking Season 5-7. And have more or less ignored everything after the first four seasons of the series. I found him interesting when he went against his nature. Becoming Part II - was when the character first took off for me. Trickster. You don't know what he will do. He goes against his nature, who he is, for love.
The idea of being motivated by love to become something else - fascinates me. To want to
go against your very nature, your programming, what you were conditioned to be. And Spike was conditioned to be Spike by his demon, by Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla. Over a long period of time. To go against that conditioning, if it is even possible - fascinates me. Can we change our conditioning? Can we go against what we are taught? Not, our genetic makeup per se, but traumatic conditioning. Can we choose who we are? Or does someone else choose it? Are we puppets? Spike's arc, in a way, much like Faith's (although Spike's was better done in part because we had male writers and they don't quite get how to write a Faith arc) - is about fighting against the puppet master pulling his strings, in his case it is Angelus, his mother, Drusilla, and the demon inside. In Faith's it was well - her father, the Mayor, and her watchers (not sure about a mother) - this also explains why I prefer Spike's - it was more complex. Faith's, sorry, was a bit simplestic and cliche - done in some respects far better with Illyria and Cordelia and Lilah.
The comics seem to be commenting on both Angel and Spike's take on puppetry and puppeteers. And women. Spike notably is against controlling people - and into free will/choice. Note - his name is like Angel, counter to who he is. And unlike Angel, Buffy knows his real name, his birth name, and uses it - when she wants to hit at the human inside. "William" or "WILL". And in each of the Spikecentric episodes - it is about free will and not being someone's bitch or puppet. Lies My Parents Told - is about breaking the trigger or the puppeteers strings. As is Hellbound in Angel.Angel in contrast is less willing and almost wants to give in to it, he never breaks those strings, he embraces the puppeteer instead - as we see in both Amends and to a degree in Smile Time, and Home. On the surface, he appears to get rid of the puppeteer, but the old man behind the curtain stays.
3. Farscape - finished watching the brilliant and hilarious Look at the Princess arc in Farscape, along with Won't Be Fooled Again, Beware of Dog, and The Locket.
There's a great line in Look at the Princess - A Kiss is But a Kiss.
"Do you know what they want to do to me? Turn me into a statute for 80 cycles. If I ever return to earth after that - everyone will be dead. Dad, DK, my family, my cousins, my friends, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz....Buffy The Vampire Slayer!"
I laughed my ass off. Yes, Farscape's writers watched Buffy.
They were also super-aware of their fandom. Ben Bowder keeps stating that he would just go read commentary or fanfic to figure stuff out that the writers didn't explain. The fans often did a better job.
I don't have a lot to say about the episodes, except that they do a great job of building the relationships between the characters, maintaining tension, conflict, and exploring the psychology of each one. Farscape unlike most sci-fi is a messy series - it goes into dark places, and plays with your head.
Funny story about censorship - according to the commentary, someone at the BBC got really offended by something in Won't Be Fooled Again and cut the episode to shreds, so that it was literally two minutes shorter. While the only thing Syfy worried about was when they blow up the Scarren's head, not to show too much gore on the wall. (Sigh, times have changed.) Another bit of commentary - Ben Bowder apologizes for parents of the under-12 set for saying the word "shit" on Farscape. Okaay. This brings up a question? Why would any parent care if Ben Bowder said shit on tv - after watching an episode in which he has shot someone, people have died horribly, and been blown up? I mean, why are letting your twelve year old watch Farscape to begin with? It's a violent tv series with adult themes, and not written for a 12 year old.
Shit should be the least of your worries. Honestly, people, you don't think your kid doesn't hear shit on the playground, at school, or at the store?
I find the continued censorship of foul language on tv mind-boggling. Also a tad hypocritical. Just as I find the continued censorship of nudity and sexual content. Apparently we have no problems showing a man or woman beat a woman or man, smack her or him, shoot her or him, suggest attempted rape, suggest rape or attempt to rape her/him - but nudity, a kinky sex scene, or the word fuck, shit, hell, or damn sends us running for the hills. Yes, we are an evolved species. Can't you tell?
4. Doctor Who - Vicent and the Doctor (yes, I'm behind everyone online on this series, BBC America isn't airing the next episodes until the end of July, so will be even more behind, by the time I see them, your reviews will be impossible for me to find by mere scrolling. And no, I can't download episodes without killing my computer, so don't bother offering.)
Was a rather good stand-alone. Partly due to the casting of Bill Nighey as the Museum Curator and whomever they got to play Van Gough (is it Goff or Gou). I know quite a bit about Van Gough, because have one too many people in my family who studied art and I'm in love with the impressionists. Van Gough allegedly cut off his ear - because of Muenir's disease according to some, and was just crazy to others. Muenir's could drive you nuts - if untreated, it creates severe imbalance in the inner-ear, ringing in the right ear, and vertigo. I know - my Dad had it. Made him sick and miserable until he was able to get it treated. But some art guy I meet at a gallery meetup insisted that Van Gough was just nuts and didn't have Muenir's. Or so his biographer stated. So I don't know. Like James Joyce, Gough made no money. Most brilliant artists made nothing. Popularity and fame rarely has much to do with actual talent.
Can see why people loved the episode - it was about the poor starving frustrated artist who never gets appreciated until after he's dead. Who online can't identify with that? But outside of that, not much happened and not much characterwise was advanced, well except for the fact that Amy can't remember what she lost and has been forever changed by her journey with the doctor and not necessarily in a good way.
A story arc that I have mixed feelings about. I like the bit about how changing time for someone can have dire consequences. The Doctor - for all his blather about not spoiling history or interfering, does interfer and for selfish purposes - when he takes a companion on board. OR interacts with one. He took Amy away from her time line, her life, and in the process changed many other lives - causing a rift or crack.
IT's a problem that was touched on briefly under RTD's reign, but never to my satisfaction - and was sidestepped on Lost to my annoyance. It is also an issue that was dealt with rather well in an old Ray Bradbury story - The Sound of Thunder.
(SKip the movie - it was crap). What I have mixed feelings about is - the whole, Amy says she's not the marrying kind as it turns out, and isn't sure why she feels loss, and wants a guy with ginger hair. All I could think of is - Rory was not that compelling. And why is married life the best option for her? Why can't she want to be single and fancy free - why can't any of the women? It's annoying. Not, anti-feminist, just annoying.
So, while I enjoyed Vincent and The Doctor, it didn't blow me away like a few of the episodes in S4 or was that S3 did? Possibly both. It's no Blink, Human Condition,
Library, or Forests of Air (can't remember the name of it - the first River Song arc).
But it was enjoyable. A little sentimental and a tad cliche - the old we're going to meet a famous artist and change his life story - which they do every year it seems.
I admittedly liked this one better than the one about Shakespeare.
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Date: 2010-06-28 05:00 pm (UTC)And a propos puppeteers, a recent rewatch of several episodes of season 3 made it very appearent how it is a running theme there too with love in the role of the puppeteer. There's the dialogue in Beauty and the Beast between Buffy and the school shrink Mr Platt stating how love can become your master and reduce you to become its dog. It's followed up by several episodes building a parallel between Buffy dangerously attracted to Angel again and Xander and Willow feeling the same towards each other in spite of their boyfriend/girlfriend, theme that culminates in Lovers' Walk with revelation of the cheating and of the denial and of course with Spike introducing himself as love's bitch. It's also in one of these episodes that some characteristics of Angel are laid bare for the viewer: in the Zeppo, as he is quarelling with Buffy he tells "then let me decide for you". I don't think they could have been clearer than that. :)
As for "bad boy" Spike word to all you've said. The character caught my attention fromSchool hard on: it was the humour, the wit, the contrast between the demon and the man but had he stayed like that, I wouldn't have become this interested in him. And as an aside I'm getting more than tired of the sexist (the whole women love bad boys mantra) and the simplistic view the comic writers in IDW have on the character. They all repeat the same things: you really have to wonder if there's a memo they have to use when interviewed.
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Date: 2010-06-28 05:03 pm (UTC)I really loved the Vincent VanGogh episode, I loved how they made up settings to fit his paintings, they did a lovely job IMO... and the actor who played VanGogh was wonderful (and it is always a blast to see Bill Nighey!).
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Date: 2010-06-28 10:49 pm (UTC)Re: Angel and Spike. You're absolutely right; I forget sometimes exactly how much Angel plays the puppetmaster, because I've largely been rewatching early!AtS and he generally avoids this kind of behaviour there, though he indulges in it very heavily in mid-season two. That Angel is constantly manipulated, by Darla, by Wolfram & Hart, the Powers that Be, Jasmine, is one of the interesting threads running through the show. In some ways the season eight preview page seems to be Whedon distilling this aspect of Angel down so far that the rest of his character doesn't remain--Angel exists to be manipulated, and to manipulate people under him. Which indicates I guess that this is the part of Angel that Whedon finds most interesting.
Whedon also plays with this in Astonishing X-Men, in the (often brilliant) Torn arc, with Emma Frost as puppeteer controlled by Cassandra Nova. Note that Emma also, in trying to control the X-Men, helps each one of them "cut" their own strings--which happens most dramatically in Scott's case. In Hank's case, there is even string referenced, in that a ball of string is what sets him free from Emma's manipulations.
I've never watched Farscape. I get the impression, I suppose, that it's good?
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