Okay. "No radar coverage" in big chunks of the Atlantic, so they don't know where it went down. Understandable, but...
...the plane has GPS. IT knows where it is during the flight, as does the pilot, one would hope. Why wouldn't you have planes constantly transmit that info to control? That way if it loses contact, you know exactly where it was when that happened?
Anyone know a good place to get an aftermarket stereo installed? Apparently my '08 Cobalt is a pain in the ass to upgrade, and requires a special harness etc. So I want to make sure I take it somewhere good (ie not Best Buy). I'll probably just get my old Pioneer put in, as the harness and installation are going to cost enough as it is :(
After what they did to BSG, I just can't make myself watch Caprica. It seems like a weak idea for a prequel, too. And if it is good, you know they'll totally blow it in the end anyway.
I think I'm just going to pretend that BSG ended at the half-way point of season 4. That's before it totally went off the rails and they had to fabricate a bunch of garbage to drag all the senseless plot threads and mystical bullshit together.
A deus ex machina (IPA: [ˈdeɪʌs ɛks ˈmakʰɪna], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative.[1] Neoclassical literary criticism, from Corneille and John Dennis on, took it as a given that one mark of a bad play was the sudden invocation of extraordinary circumstance. Thus, the term "deus ex machina" has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative.
Then again, BSG didn't do a good job of explaining or solving *anything*, so maybe saying they used that plot device is giving them too much credit. Sorry, I don't watch scifi to see everything explained with a bunch of god bullshit.
I started getting a bad vibe midway through season 3, and at the beginning of season 4 I started losing interest in the show. Good intuition, I guess, because the finale was freaking *awful* :(
It's a bit uneven and slow in places, but I really liked it (and so did my mom lol). Just a warning for the squeamish- it really earns the R rating. There's a lot of graphic violence and gore, plus sex and nudity. And blue penis lol. Ultimately, though, it is really just a 2 1/2 hour long advertisement for the graphic novel. So if you like the movie, you *must* read the original novel.
Also, seeing the movie got me thinking more about the graphic novel. There's a lot of symbolism wrapped up in the clock/watch image- even the term "Watchmen" comes to have a double meaning. The idea of inevitability is wrapped up in it, as is Dr. Manhattan's ability to see and understand everything- even the future. And the blood on the smiley face button? If you think of it as the face of a clock, the streak of blood is in the five-till position of the doomsday clock. Of course, that all competes with Rorschach's view of the world a an empty, blank, meaningless void. It's sort of like physics versus philosophy. Take either to its extreme- total predictability, or total nihilism, and you end up in the same place- meaninglessness. But it's somewhere in between that humans make our lives, and make them matter.
It also cracks me up how much everyone loves Rorschach.
...that I ordered with my m@d Masquerade cash. Not quite my usual fair, I think I'm a bit burnt out on straight electro/ebm:
Dreamside - Spin Moon Magic Collide - Two Headed Monster Ego Likeness - The Order Of The Reptile Alice In Videoland - She's A Machine The Faint - Blank-Wave Arcade The Presets - Apocalypso Ladytron - Witching Hour
I've been listening to omg actual retail CDs lately. It's madness, I know. But if I'm going to buy them, it's sort of dumb to listen to lower quality mp3s of them.
disappointed
allergic x_X