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Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.164.193.85
| Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 12:13 am: | |
Best tv st in a very long time. Heck, best SF, full stop. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:26 pm: | |
No, not now. It went all fighty. Fighty is the end of everything. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 51.37.86.52
| Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 02:37 pm: | |
Hmm, it didn't attract me, I have to say. I heard it was "controversial", which today often just means it wiggles the reptile part of our brains (back to that Mike Hill talk on Youtube). Yeah, so many things end with punch-ups in American films. Conflict can be physicalized in other ways. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 08:23 pm: | |
Westworld was great till the last couple of episodes. But it focussed on the wrong things for me. But when it was good it was very good indeed. Shame there wasn't an edited version out there. Heck, wouldn't it be great if they made alternate versions of shows to suit different personality types? Did you ever see any Black Mirror? The choose your own adventure one, Bandersnatch, was great up to a point, then became a real drag, just like the books it was based on. I have to admit though that it was fantastic choosing what a character should do and have it happen immediately. I really liked it. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.147.124
| Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 09:35 pm: | |
Yeah, I watched that one with a friend. I Though good, BLACK MIRROR for me falls into the trap too many film-makers do today: being content to shove problems in our faces but shrugging and rolling the credits when we, quite reasonably, ask them to reward our investment of emotion with some (any!) insight or hope. I really dislike a lot of the work of Danny Boyle both Alex Garland for this reason. The work isn't as clever as it thinks it is. They confuse nastiness with intelligence. That said, I enjoyed Bandersnatch and have only seen a couple of BLACK MIRRORs. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:45 am: | |
To their credit, a lot of the Black Mirrors are very hopeful and even uplifting. Weird fact; the guy who writes it is catholic. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:45 am: | |
No, quaker. My favourite religion. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.147.123
| Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 12:41 pm: | |
Charlie Brooker? Wow. And the actor who plays the minister. And Judy Dench. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 05:40 am: | |
I know! Why do I fill with glee when I find out spikey characters have religion? Like that weird hotty woman off Alan Partridge. Sally Philips. I love spikey funny religious people. I got into reading about witchcraft the other year. It kind of changed my life. It was the most honest religion, very very in touch with nature. You know the best thing about them, the best answer they have to people who mock them? That they do not care if the thing they believe in is true or not. I got goosebumps hearing that. Finished my Heretics book. Did you know James Randi has said things like 'Make drugs free and legal. Let the stupid kill themselves.' And 'Let smokers smoke themselves to death and die.' The writer wondered if that was the ultimate desire of the rational. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 05:42 am: | |
Yes! Alex Garland leaves me curiously cold. He makes me feel like I've been cornered by a brainy but very rambling person who doesn't quite know when to stop. Like I don't. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.67.167
| Posted on Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 12:21 am: | |
I don't know what weird hotty woman from Alan Partridge you mean. I haven't seen the new series. You can't be talking about Lynn. Them not caring if what they believe is true or not means they know it's a practical use of their subconscious. Interesting. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 10:40 am: | |
They said they believed in it, they just didn't mind if it turned out not to be true. It's the perfect armour against the Randi's. The day I finished that heretics book my dogs sat and waited by the window five minutes before my wife got home. And earlier in the day I tried to take a photo on the bus and a woman started looking uneasy and turned round to look at me. Odd, isn't it? The hottie worked on reception in Partridge, he was always trying to chat her up. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 10:41 am: | |
I'm Alan Partridge, at that hotel. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.132.179
| Posted on Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 10:54 am: | |
Ah, yes, I knew that was Sally Phillips, I thought you meant someone other than her. Yeah, there are odd things out there, and that's great. There's a podcast I'm really enjoying called Mysteries Abound, which is just a man with a gentle New Zealand accent reading out articles of strange events from the news and history. It's just wonderful. So relaxing and reassuring. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 08:46 am: | |
I gave it a listen! It does sound and feel like a relaxation tape. My only quibble is I can't listen to things for long if there's music in the background, I keep focussing on the music. The more I read about left and right brains the more I think I must have left brain problems - I think in the abstract, visually, too much. (Strange chapter in the book; 'Why there are no women Beethovens'. Apparently women's brains are more unified and equal and they think everything through carefully, take no risky leaps in the dark so to speak. Women are basically the Health and Safety of ideas. This made me wince but felt weirdly right, I've seen and heard it. Mind, the book was written in 1979. I think the guy might have been lynched now. I think men and women are like the left and right brain, we work better when we try not to be like each other, use our characteristics. Neither is better than the other, I don't know how that came about.). |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 08:48 am: | |
'In the book' - I meant the book I've been dipping into, about the #right side of the brain. It's fascinating. It made me think a while back the key to AI was having TWO brains in a computer, that way it gets to converse with itself. We are conversations, it's how we develop. Has that been addressed in AI? |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 08:50 am: | |
I thought for a while that I had an absorbed twin. I have the double crown, and that's a sign. Have you heard of that? Such people have been found to have two DNA strands in their make up. But which are they? Can they be both? Sorry, rattling on again. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 09:48 am: | |
No no no....the weirdness of this. The sheer coincidence. Isn't it? The woman you mentioned (who does seem lovely) had had a stroke - I finally look her up after your comments and it looks like the two halves of her brain weren't working (the left does language and writing). The weirdness is it was the first story that came up when I looked her up. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3725480/Death-came-close-Parks-Rec -star-Aubrey-Plaza-reveals-suffered-stroke-20-years-old-left-temporarily-paralys ed.html Ever feel it's true, that we float in a vast cloud of living information? |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.150.120
| Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 11:32 pm: | |
That's odd, isn't it? Though I like them, I'm no longer surprised by strange things; I think that's how the world is, and I'm glad of it. (Funny, the first scene in ALIEN has two computers talking to each other.) |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.169.180.118
| Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 03:52 pm: | |
I sound so sexist in my posts above... It reads that way and that's not what I intended at all, and it pains me to see it there. All I can add is that I was basically saying that man and woman might be two parts of one thing, symbiotic, but walking about independently. Witches also say it takes a man and woman to make magic work, and that same sex magic doesn't have the right energy. They said that sounds homophobic (and I feel like I do now) but it's just how it is. Maybe, biologically, they are onto something? Maybe man and woman work like the two people with the keys to the nukes. But then, there are transgender people, who maybe have that energy going on in one body. Native Americans believe such people DID have power, and witches again say that dressing up as a woman enables a man to tap into female power... I'm doing it again. I hate it, you know. I used to see Stevie Walsh do it and cringe, and find it so frustrating, but here I am, too. God, stop me. |