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| yass | Dec 30 2013, 09:00 AM Post #6 |
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I thought this was interesting. If you've ever watched a series that suddenly got canceled and left you hanging and wanting for more it looks like Netflix has a stipulation for proper true conclusions because they're simply worth more than those that don't.
Read more http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2013/11/18/the-final-season-of-nikita-isnt-about-fan-service-its-about-netflix/ |
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| Guest | Dec 30 2013, 07:35 PM Post #7 |
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2 things. Reminds me of the remake of the series V left open ended and Dark Angel. Sad times. Also, I had never heard of Nikita so I watched a trailer for season 1 then season 3. In the season 3 trailer for that show there's a woman president who shoots herself.. hmm? Anybody remember the coin you could get that had JFK, Abe Lincoln, and Obama on it? What do the first 2 have in common? super weird. Betting on a woman president next anywho. |
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| yass | Dec 30 2013, 09:49 PM Post #8 |
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I'm in the third season of Nikita now, watching it on Netflix. I haven't got to an episode where the female pres. shoots herself yet. There was a male potus last season (2). I liked him better. You don't see him go out of office, you just get introduced to the idea there is now a female in office at the beginning of season 3 when someone is commenting about the pres. and refers to a 'her' or 'she' (hmm, I think she was the vice president in season 2. Maybe something happened to him and I missed it though I don't recall missing anything). Their character appearances are somewhat minimal and I'm not real crazy about the female pres.' character not that she's evil per se, more at ignorant and willing to massacre hundreds of people and their families so that word of their existence doesn't ruin her political career (office of president, namely). So, where I am along the story, she's basically saying that if even one thing happens again that may make the public aware of their existence she's ready to send in the teams to wipe them out as if they never existed but as a viewer you know the value of these human beings and what the (Nikita's) objective is. Yeah, I thought about the significance of a woman potus featured in the show. I shudder to think of a woman potus. What are our prospects? Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, next gen: Chelsea Clinton, Liz Cheney... Edited by yass, Dec 30 2013, 10:02 PM.
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| yass | Jan 1 2014, 01:20 AM Post #9 |
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I didn't realize this until someone pointed it out to me:
I didn't realize it was a so-called "normal" film. April Jones' mother, Coral, and Tia Sharp's mum want indecent images (porn/children) removed from the net (from anywhere probably) because they both lost a loved daughter to a man who they later found they were viewing and had indecent pictures of children and abuse downloaded on their pc's which it appears was fostering and cultivating predatory sexual desires and fantasies towards innocent children. April was 5, and Tia was 12 years old when they went missing. April's body was never found and (now convicted) Mark Bridger said he'd accidentally struck April with his vehicle (the evening she disappeared), scooped her up, and put her in his vehicle to get her medical help, but has no memory beyond that due to being very intoxicated. (A little girl who was with April said April willingly got into someone's vehicle and when she warned April not to go with strangers, April replied "It's okay. I know them" and the vehicle left with April in it.) Tia Sharp's body was found in an attic a week after she went missing and the autopsy would not reveal exactly what the cause of death was. It's sordid, but (now convicted) Stuart Hazel, her stepfather, fully appears to have been responsible. (Both cases there are a lot of details to read through. I've read the details extensively). It was a terrible betrayal of trust to the children and families who couldn't have dreamt what lie under the surface of these men, in the hidden world of the mind. Things Mark Bridger and Stuart Hazel had in common were indecent pictures of children on their computers and images of the abuse of children. They are in the same prison, and Ian Watkins has joined them at the same prison. Simulacra (Please understand this very important concept!) Advertising Simulacrum ![]() This Bacardi Limon ad (2002) presents layered worlds reflected in its miror - the fantasy of the bar scene and the fantasy of the dream girl who exists almost outside of the bar - it's as though one fantastical world is framed by another. The viewer is invited to participate merely by stepping into the 'pleasures' of the glass. Is this not a copy of a relationship that has no original? I was reading Baudrillard's piece in Lemert's social theory reader that discusses Disney (524-529) where he says, "It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle." This commentary works very much along the same lines of this ad and others we have seen. We become so lost in the fantasy vertigo of these images - in interpreting them to suit our desires and thus falling into their worlds, that they become part of our constructed 'reality.' Baudrillard also talks about the "successive phases of the image" - and the way that our realities are "perverted," "masked," and then made "absent" until there is "no relation to any reality whatever; it is its own pure simulacrum" (527). written by Kristin Juelson http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/baudrillard.bacardi.html Though that movie wasn't what I thought it was it is 100% as dangerous and one clue is the nonce Ian Watkins. Every copy needs to be rounded up and destroyed and buyers/viewers need to be profiled and even investigated, and the makers/producers need to be held accountable. At one of those links (the wiki I think) I read there was an investigation concerning the film and on the Imbd page, it said "People who viewed this movie also viewed these" followed by a display of sordid erotic film titles. What does a film like that do to someone whose lust and arousal feed on these ideas, the fantasy. |
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| yass | Jan 6 2014, 09:34 PM Post #10 |
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Hawaii sinkhole swallows truck — with driver in it![]() Velma Deluz's pickup truck sits in a sinkhole-like crater Monday after a road collapsed near Paauilo on the big island of Hawaii. A Hawaii woman was thankful to be alive Tuesday after an enormous sinkhole opened up and swallowed her pickup truck — with her still inside. Velma Deluz of Paauilo was driving to work on the Big Island after a weekend of major rainstorms when Pohakea Mauka Road shifted and gave way Monday morning, the state's civil defense office said. "When I made the turn, the road just sucked me right in, and then I just fell in," Deluz told NBC station KHNL of Honolulu. "I tried to climb out through the window because it fell on its side." Read more http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/31/22125262-hawaii-sinkhole-swallows-truck-with-driver-in-it?lite |
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