The Lockdown Diaries (8)
And so, as the novelty wears thin, and we once again daub our doors with lamb’s blood, let us share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with a woke prayer, some emotional scenes, and a reminder that size matters.
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It does help to keep this place here.
For those in need of further diversion, the Reheated series is there to be poked at.
“Gear up for a regeneration”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jodie-whittaker-leaving-dr-who-bbc-response-b672999.html
https://twitter.com/BrexitPartridge/status/1345981305738190850
“Gear up for a regeneration”
You do have to wonder if the woke-lings behind the series quite grasp the general effect of their own rather narrow, agenda-driven writing. I mean, if you make leftist identity politics a signature of the show, trumpeting a female Doctor, as if that in itself were a basis for applause and enough to keep people watching, while repeatedly depicting masculinity as something to scorn or correct – and the end results of that agenda are terrible episodes, a disenchanted fanbase, and a rapidly shrivelling audience – then this doesn’t exactly reflect well on the supposed beneficiaries of that agenda.
Lock down the media.
Make every journalist and reporter spend the next nine months in their homes/apartments, and shut off the transmitters/presses so that they can’t keep broadcasting.
When the people parroting the government’s propaganda start being affected by the lockdowns as much as regular people do, we might finally see some movement on the state’s abuse of the people who are supposedly the politicians’ masters.
“Gear up for a regeneration”
You know what would be genuinely interesting? Getting Tom Baker, Peter Davison, or Colin Baker back again. Since they’ve already broken canon with Whittaker, why the hell not have the Doctor regenerate into an older version of his previous self?
“Large boulder the size of a small boulder…”
Hmm. That expression may come in useful. For… er… things. Mind your own business.
Peter Davison, or Colin Baker
Bold choices there.
a woke prayer
It’s even crazier than noted in your link: Representative Cleaver also thinks that Hinduism is a monotheistic religion:
“…We ask it in the name of the monotheistic god, Brahma, and god known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and A-Woman.
It’s even crazier…
I think you misspelled, “plug ignorant, even for a democrat”, as “crazier”.
That right there is a lot of bull…
emotional scenes,
That’s me when my husband puts the toilet roll on THE WRONG WAY.
That’s me when my husband puts the toilet roll on THE WRONG WAY.
The way the inventor intended, anything else is wrong.
That’s me when my husband puts the toilet roll on THE WRONG WAY.
[ Fetches Joan a large brandy. ]
Should steady the nerves, madam.
The way the inventor intended, anything else is wrong.
Thank you.
[ Fetches Joan a large brandy. ]
Thank you too!
That’s me when my husband puts the toilet roll on THE WRONG WAY.
Men can be such beasts.
daub our doors with lamb’s blood
I’ve been making the Secular Passover Rite comparison since nearly the beginning of this.
Signs to be made to the Angel of Vid that one has the correct observances – strike down my neighbor, not me!
Those who shelter within, huddled together and ready to step quickly to whatever prophesy may come next.
Not that that makes me feel really clever, it’s just an obvious allusion that has largely gone begging, and I’d like to see it more popular.
I’ve been making the Secular Passover Rite comparison since nearly the beginning of this.
The Passover scene, while not the most spectacular in the film, is the one I recall being most enthralled by when I saw it as a child.
So now we know how it’s going to play out.
Lockdown for the ‘new variant’. Then the lockdown for the second wave of the ‘new variant’.
Rinse and repeat.
That’s me when my husband puts the toilet roll on THE WRONG WAY.
I suspect that you’ve never owned an indoor cat.
I also suspect that I should stop trying to post a comment by using my phone. >:-(
[ Quietly tidies up duplication shambles in comment above. ]
I suspect that you’ve never owned an indoor cat.
More than one, so did Mr. Wheeler.
People should be forced to watch Wonder Woman 1984 because I had to.
People should be forced to watch Wonder Woman 1984 because I had to.
I gather it’s not exactly the pinnacle of the cinematic arts.
People should be forced to watch Wonder Woman 1984 because I had to.
Not impressed? The Critical Drinker’s review could be pretty much summed up as “a sequel”, which seemed fair enough. I was not enthralled with the first one, which felt waaaaay too long and less of a superhero movie and more of what women who don’t watch superhero movies think a superhero movie is.
People should be forced to watch Wonder Woman 1984 because I had to.
Order of Hillary! award for your sacrifice to The Rodina.
Order of Hillary!
From the inimitable Peoples Cube.
I get acne tits whenever I see IMP ROPER KERNI NG!
Acne tits
Acne tits
Does . . . uh. . . something
Wonder Woman 1984 turns into Spider Man for a while, then Cats. Along the way WW and the spirit of Chris Pine steal a guy’s body and have sex with it. During the big battle scene at the end, touching exposed power station wiring is harmless, but letting the wiring touch the water you’re in kills you. Unless you’re Wonder Woman.
Latest at the Groan is possibly meat for an Agonies post – pun not conceived with malice aforethought, truly:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/13/ive-always-loved-fried-chicken-but-the-racism-surrounding-it-shamed-me
It’s very odd here in the US how much that stereotype ends up being somehow attributed to racist Southerners, having been coined as a very much Southern-based caricature of blacks by the racialist elements among the Yankee – indeed, much or most of the South would find nothing odd about eating fried chicken at all .
The problem with that Passover scene in the Ten Commandments is that the crescent moon. Passover starts on the evening of the 14th day of Nissan (Exodus 12:6), at which time there would be a full moon.
The problem with that Passover scene in the Ten Commandments is the crescent moon
As a child, I was more engaged by the fact that an Angel Of The Lord could be depicted as a sinister, luminous mist.
Unless you’re Wonder Woman.
As a long time watcher of genre film, what strikes me most about the current state of the field is how obvious it’s become that good writing matters when everything else will fit in even a modest budget. Go back to the 1990s or earlier and people seemed to be willing to accept just about any tripe in F/SF film and TV as long as the cardboard sets wobbled and actors spoke in breathy staccato. Now that 4K HDR SFX can be done with a modest home PC and decent actors no longer fear being stuck in the SF ghetto, it’s as if there’s nothing to distract us from “wait a minute, that made no bloody sense”.
I did find Kirsten Wiig’s character unintentionally revealing, much like the Anette Bening AI in Captain Marvel.
I did find Kirsten Wiig’s character unintentionally revealing, much like the Annette Bening AI in Captain Marvel.
I suppose that’s the inherent problem of using blockbuster films to advertise feminist psychology. I.e., everyone gets to see feminist psychology.
Along the way WW and the spirit of Chris Pine steal a guy’s body and have sex with it.
I… no. I’m not going to ask.
14th day of Nissan
Dat…sun?
*dat-soon*
All you lot over in Blighty – Are you a forward thinking, creative individual looking to achieve abitious outcomes ?
If so, the West Midlands Rozzers have a 74K imperial dollar
sinecurejob for you !“Large boulder the size of a small boulder…”
I’m reminded of an old* Nick Cave song:
Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
I split his head in half
* holy shit there’s no way Murder Ballads dates to 1996. Still a fun record, though!
If so, the West Midlands Rozzers
Oh Crikey!
*watching James May again…*
I did find Kirsten Wiig’s character unintentionally revealing…
Didn’t see the film but the reviews were fun. I’ve taken a fresh perspective to film- and show-makers in [current year] and, frighteningly, it makes sense. To wit:
If the auteur in question is a lefty male, they are competing on how to make the most subversive message possible while still earning glowing plaudits from the right-on progressive MSM. If the showrunner/filmaker is a lefty female, she is making a disguised “cry for help” message, again while keeping the seals clapping.
The Last Jedi remains the best example, and if viewed through the lens of a sneaky misogynist, actually sort of works (ie women run everything…and everything sucks). Ditto WW84, with the female writer/director (Jenkins) and actress (Wiig) teaming up to tell the world that women really DO need a man or will be consumed by aimless loneliness or petty jealousy. Unfortunately for them the clapping seals sort of noticed, so they don’t win the game.
Try this game the next time you see some agitprop crap or painfully mainstream crap or any other flavor of crap on offer these days.
if viewed through the lens of a sneaky misogynist, actually sort of works
This is by no means confined to film. One of the features of the science fiction video game Mass Effect: Andromeda was that the settlement ships meant to carry humans and alien races to another galaxy when it All Went Wrong A Bit, was that the chief leadership of the lot were nearly all women. In an effort to insert angst between various groups, one is left with female characters purposely at each others’ throats and/or escalating petty hen squabbles, emasculated males who have clearly failed at their purposes *due to said emasculation*, a faction who are arguably the most self-sufficient due to a strain of MGTOW, and all sort of waiting for the player character hero to save things.
Another character, clearly meant to be “quirky”, suffers endlessly in consequence of refusal to grow up.
Granted, the writing overall is simply not very good, and widespread technical problems and gameplay issues bog the game down, but the writing is entertaining in just how much it backfires in this way.
I… no. I’m not going to ask.
Diana makes a wish on a magic wishing item to have Steve Trevor back. The monkey paw aspect of the fulfilment sticks him/his spirit in the body of another man, which body then has sex done to it without that man’s permission. Not quite an idealized Dalai Lama circumstance, as there was, after all, another man preexisting in the body. As remarked, some very unsettling implications, particularly to whatever extent the chap was aware of his body’s actions.
Make every journalist and reporter spend the next nine months in their homes/apartments, and shut off the transmitters/presses so that they can’t keep broadcasting.
I think I’d be just fine with turning the transmitters back on after the jokers miss their 2nd or 3rd paycheckque. I suspect they might start singing from a different hymnal after that.
As remarked, some very unsettling implications
That is, a bit like Ghost in a roundabout way, with some different unsettling implications than proxy lesbianism via Whoopi Goldberg.
Another obvious example is Black Panther, which serves as the biggest mainstream endorsement of ethno-nationalism (and monarchism to boot!) I can possibly imagine.
The game is to subvert the Narrative while getting right-on praise. Remember that guy who got progressive protestors to clap for Hitler quotes? Like that but with gazillion-dollar budgets, and the more blatant the better.
I imagine being surrounded by vapid, despicable idiots who nevertheless keep you in a plush lifestyle would drive me to do something similar.
Another obvious example is Black Panther
Also an extremely on-the-nose review of the dangers of having an absent father, an endorsement of fatherly love and example, and a Mordred-type cautionary tale of the risks of familial ostracization and concealment of wrongs. In fact, nearly exactly the Mordred tale.
Can’t say I expected the MCU to come over all Arthurian, in Black Panther least of all.
Pity you weren’t there at the pitch meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Tm0SxIp6w
Can’t say I expected the MCU to come over all Arthurian, in Black Panther least of all.
Did it escape your notice that Black Panther is just Hamlet without the incest?
If the showrunner/filmaker is a lefty female, she is making a disguised “cry for help” message, again while keeping the seals clapping.
I see you’ve been watching Buffy re-runs.
Also, I have long suspected that Gail Simone is engaged in a decades-long troll job of the entire comics industry.
“Bold choices there.”
Yeah, maybe. But you can’t say it wouldn’t be interesting. Baker actually makes a lot of sense: he’s said himself that one reason his tenure didn’t really work was that he and the writers thought they had five or six years to develop the character, and were cut short.
People should be forced to watch Wonder Woman 1984 because I had to.
I gather it’s not exactly the pinnacle of the cinematic arts.
People watching it on HBO were getting up and walking out of their living rooms.
I see you’ve been watching Buffy re-runs.
I did have Whedon’s smug mug in mind when writing that, yes. My pretending these a-holes are secret subversive geniuses is clearly just coping for the slow death of my favorite media properties, but damn if it doesn’t explain a lot.
West Midland Rozzers
encouraging the integration of initiatives in the force
What WMR need is a lot fewer creative initiatives in their policing.
Yeah, maybe. But you can’t say it wouldn’t be interesting.
I’d lost interest in Doctor Who long before their runs, so I could only guess. As I’ve said before, the idea of the series, its premise, is more engaging than what generally materialises on screen. Also, the age of the character, or the actor, relative to both the companions and the viewer – the intergenerational aspect – seems quite important and has been lost in recent years. Having a young(ish) actor playing the part never quite convinced me. I don’t think the character should be someone the audience could conceivably fancy. Using younger actors also dovetails with the shrinking of the Doctor’s worldview to conform with current political fashion.
I thought Peter Capaldi could’ve made a good Doctor, but the writing during his run was often piss-poor. And the weakness of the writing tends to make the politically correct assumptions, which have grown denser and more self-satisfied, all the more grating. Not least because the lefty smugness often coincides with truly perverse ‘moral’ choices, such that in one Cybermen story, our hero decides to needlessly abandon and doom his companions, the people he’s supposed to care for, while lecturing everyone, including those he’s consigning to mutilation and oblivion, about the imperative to be compassionate.
What that says about the psyche of the leftist writers, albeit inadvertently, I leave to the reader.
In other news, I’ve been watching The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. A slightly whimsical yarn about odd siblings, time travel and attempts to avert the apocalypse. Or rather, the apocalypses. It’s not flawless by any means, but there’s enough in the mix to keep me entertained.
Regarding woke Doctor Who, The Critical Drinker has some thoughts.