Friday Ephemera (765)
Inhaling scenes. || An unthrown stick. || Neighbourly drama with bonus fire. || I remain unconvinced. || Not a parent, you say. || Suspension test. || Pacemaker of note. || Hairpiece of note. || The progressive retail experience, parts 625, 626 and 627. || Pole dancer. || There’s something to be said for unclean glass. || New niche crisis detected. || Possible enhancement detected. || For those of you concerned for the safety of cyclists. || There’s someone at the door, Maureen. || Vertical mouse. || According to mood, I guess. || Ethereal and gorgeous. || At last, a fool-proof test of heterosexuality. Can confirm. || “Can I father a child with the appendage made out of my forearm that you’ve sewn onto my groin?” || On surface tension. || And some deep, sweet rumblings from a rest-stop bathroom.
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I’m just going to leave this here.
Pope hammer.
Band name.
[ Waits for someone to say whether season two of Andor is worth watching. ]
Don’t know, but it got a mention on Twitchy last night, and that can’t be good.
Oh. Can’t say the prospect of a rape scene is doing much for my interest levels.
After hearing the gushing praise for season one – “overlooked gem” and so forth – I belatedly watched it over the course of a week or so. It’s certainly more grown-up than other Star Wars offerings and there are no Jedi or lightsabres, which is a good thing. But the pacing is needlessly slow and clunky for most of the season, many of the rebel characters are dull and unengaging, and I didn’t find the overall narrative particularly compelling. It does pick up towards the end, but I was never eager to see what happened next.
Less a must-see than a mild diversion. A 7-out-of-10. I found Dedra’s storyline, and her feat of resting bitchface, more entertaining than the central character or most of the rebel shenanigans. I was finding it hard to root for our supposedly plucky heroes. Andor himself simply isn’t a charismatic or interesting character. Others, like Vel, are barely characters at all.
I suspect the high praise for season one is largely a result of almost everything else that Disney has churned out being so bad, often bewilderingly bad, that anything half-decent is, in comparison, a blessed relief.
“So, what can we look forward to in season two? Why should we tune in?”
“IT HAS A RAPE SCENE.”
“Er, okay. But is there a thrilling storyline and gripping plot twists?”
“IT HAS A RAPE SCENE.”
But it’s his love that’s conditional.
Is this related to Alex’s ‘extra junk at the end of the link’?
But only the reliable sort, those that validate their behaviour.
it got a mention on Twitchy last night, and that can’t be good
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/andor-star-wars-season-2-bix-rape-interview-1236191397/
This sounds quite problematic. Is Gilroy one of those right wing bros who spout genetic pseudoscience and debunked historical theories to paint an inflammatory picture of invading tribes killing all the men and raping all the women, whereas the respectable peer reviewed consensus is that population groups have migrated throughout history for many reasons, but mainly to swap pottery shards.
Normal service resumed.
It’s not something new. At one time women teachers were expected to be unmarried.
Should have kept the hammer. Dismissing tradition because it’s ‘outdated’ misses the point.
I can’t help thinking that it might be nice if our cultural output wasn’t quite so heavily determined by, and filtered through the assumptions of, eerily uniform and often delusional leftists.
I might even get to watch an occasional drama that doesn’t grate or repel.
Welcome drollery.
They call it phalloplasty? I thought it was an addadictomey,
That’s a phallacy.
The alleyway will be positively aglow with burning coats this evening.
Maxwell wanted it back.
BBQ time!
Being a woman, he likes to feel his penis rubbing against his sundress.
A$$hole never heard of a kilt, it seems, nor all the jokes about what a Scotsman wears under it. Nice of him to admit that trans is just something you can put on, like a dress, and get off on.
father a child with fake willy? i doubt u can even fuck with it
I see I’m going to need a second Nestlé Shreddie.
[ Rummages in bin liner. ]
i doubt u can even fuck with it
A) it depends on whether one get the deluxe model with either spring loaded or inflatable option.
B) it depends on your definition, it is not as if it comes (NPI) with the needed accessories to function as other than a squishy vibrator without the vibration.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
Shot, chaser.
Sob story of note.
Here’s another version of the screamy lady, reversed on the vertical axis.
Something’s desperately wrong here. Drugs? PTSD? Is she like this all the time or did she just lose a child?
I have a strong, quite negative reaction to that.
Harsh truths:
That, as they say.
Teamwork.
[ Notices that he also raised the price of the anti-nausea pills. ]
[ Replaces complimentary peanuts with small bowl of gravel, chipped teeth. ]
Wanye is very much worth following.
Thanks, but I’m full. [ Goes looking for link to SNL Quarry cereal ad. ]
As Jordan Peterson notes about excessively empathic people in the interview Dicentra linked to, not everything that cries is a baby; some things that cry are monsters.
For those of you concerned for the safety of cyclists.
As a cyclist, I decline to be “protected” by this device. If I get hit hard enough to fly over the bumper and grill, I’m already wrecked. Smashing through the windshield would be revenge.
The car doesn’t have to be going very fast for that to happen: I witnessed such an accident in which an inattentive cyclist who ran a red light at about 30mph was t-boned by a car which had just started rolling into the intersection when the light turned green and was going no more than 15mph.
Linked at Insty, Critical Drinker weighs in on Andor, Season 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWomLg1DK9w&t=446s
He’s not as down on it as Twitchy; nor did he mention the director’s asinine defense of The Scene.
“kids”
For example: The New York Times weeping over the deportation of a convicted drug dealer and kidnapper and illegal immigrant.
A fair question: Are the editors at the New York Times also monsters? Seems likely.
… in which an inattentive cyclist who ran a red light…
You misspelled “typical” as “inattentive”.
Wherein I get schooled by ESR et alii, but I deserved it.
[ Hides breakables. ]
Not unfair, I think, though I can only judge based on season one.
The main gripe for me is the pacing of the series. I bang on about pacing quite a bit, but it’s such a fundamental aspect of storytelling, I’m often surprised by how many shows struggle with it. Especially on streaming, when, as Daniel pointed out, the length of an episode can be pretty much whatever it needs to be. It should, in theory, be much easier to iron out any pacing bugs. Bad pacing can kick the legs out from under a show, even if other aspects of it are quite good.
Though when Dedra, a rock-faced imperial supervisor, is much more interesting, more watchable, than your hero, this is, I’d say, an issue, too.
Above: Dedra, exuding warmth.
Some elaboration can be found over at Ace of Spades.
Along with a reminder, should one be needed, that you aren’t despising the media anywhere near as much as you could be doing.
I wonder if it’s possible to add Rolling Coal to a hybrid SUV.
Influencers, you say? If so, this should be encouraged.
Meanwhile at The Vatican, “Let’s pay our respects to the Pope, babe.”
I don’t know if the claim is accurate, but I was seeing claims that “sharks aren’t that dangerous” long before online influencers were a thing.
I hate stories like this. Sends me into a logic spiral as to whether or not Timothy Treadwell died in vain.
Idiocy is more of a universal constant than the speed of light.