I first heard about FX’s “Archer” in the ready room of VAQ-135, a navy squadron who were serving an interminable deployment aboard an aircraft carrier somewhere near Midway Island. (This sounds very much like a humblebrag that Sterling Archer would obnoxiously drop into conversation). It was 2010, and the pilots had lost...
I got a hotdropped hardrive with Archer on it while launching jets aboard a carrier in the gulf in that same timeframe. Every season that aired while I was on deployment was a great treat in the heat. A friend of mine had a background in flash animation, (blast from the past) and he wanted to create a show with me in the same vein as archer and Sealab 2021, but about Navy pilots on a carrier. So I wrote a few scripts and he began on some scenes. We never made anything of it, because we didn’t have the voice actors (neither of us were vocally inclined). Regardless Archers stellar writing and style got me through a long stretch of extensions in the middle east.
I very much wish that a movie would come along in the same vein as the original MI movie. It is drastically different in tone and execution than any of the following films. I think a proper Tom Clancy Splinter Cell movie could do it. Movies now unnecessarily revolve around a world ending threat. The NOC list in Mi1 was a great motivating force for the characters to be striving to protect or steal. Now Ethan Hunt is constantly trying to save the world. Stakes which should never be left up to one person.
The difficult thing is getting the state to take it to court. Courts are stacked from state to the federal level with religious sympathizers who disregard the rule of law. That is what happened with recent Colorado cases. We are seeing an erosion of the church and state separation.
Obviously this posting is for a position AT a church, which they are utilizing to stretch the definition covered. Churches are and should always be covered under federal employment contract laws. They have to adhear to the civil rights act, ADA, OSHA, etc. Milage may vary on their adherence to this because, like I said, there are a swath of religiouly sympathetic Judges making incorrect judgements about this topic.
Example: what if a church owned a hospital. they post this criteria for all of their staff. Would that be legal? Most people would say, No, or be cautious about their answer.
Well, I’m sorry to say this example is a real world fact. About 20% of American hospitals are religiously affiliated entities. If they serve an equal proportion of the US population that puts them at around 60ish million people served. It’s probably much more considering their locations and spheres of influence. All those people being served may not know their doctors are not allowed to provide them with religiously forbidden treatments. Abortion, contraceptives, right to die, etc. All of those services and more are kept from individuals who want those services, because the hospitals in their area simply don’t offer them. They are working from the bottom up by excluding people from businesses with religious criteria for employment and top down by stacking judges that will allow them to do it.
Every single time a case gives the church an exemption to the law, they utilize it to strip away rights from individuals. They do it more and more to set precedence for their goal of total religious control of individual autonomy.
The movie’s nonlinear story telling is the worst part of the film. Oppenheimer’s security clearance hearing was a good place to anchor the movie, but it did not even attempt to set up its antagonist until the last quarter of the movie. Why should it have been a ah-ha moment that Strauss was against Oppenheimer. A better editor would have more effectively placed all of the scenes into a coherent narrative.
The sex scene was just bad. “Christopher, how do intelligent people have sex?” “Well, they can only be aroused by reading ancient languages that foreshadow their grandiose future achievements.”
When Oppenheimer, allegedly poisoned Blackett’s apple, it should have been a scene about his mental health issues at the time. Rather than a completely fabricated suspense scene. People who were aware of the incident questioned if it ever really happened. It would have been more impactful to have a scene where Oppenheimer meets with his analyst from that period. The movie decides to simply say that it happened and for some reason interjected Bohr.
The portrayals of characters was a highlight of the film. Most of the acting was great. It was, however, overly stuffed with high profile actors, which turned the film into a distracting cameo bingo game.
The physical and psychological aftermath of the atomic booms dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not adequately portrayed. It did not show well enough the psychological toll it took on the scientists on the project or portray the horrific physical toll it inflicted on the Japanese people. The slide reel scene not showing a single image of the attack was a poor choice. It demonstrates that Hollywood is completely ok with an R rating for showing nudity, but not for confronting people with the horrors of human cruelty.
Respectfully, I find the Foundation TV series extremely disheartening. I envy those who can watch Lee Pace’s triumphant acting without being completely off put by the appalling writing choices in the show. The fundamental aspects of the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series books clashe so hard with the message being presented...
I’m glad you are able to disassociate the two. I could possibly do the same when the series wraps. I have a feeling it will continue to diverge and if they can at the very least come to a satisfying conclusion to the threads they have created it may have some redeeming qualities. With the writer/actor strike though, I am hesitant to believe this show will survive. Maybe it can become a cult classic like dune 1984. I was dismayed by the lack of reverence in that adaptation as well, but the campy acting was enough to make it comically worth watching. I am optimistic about the next dune movie and would be up for messiah and children if they chose to use the same director.
‘Archer’s’ Final Mission: Sterling and His Frenemies Sign Off After 142 Episodes of Awful Behavior. We Will Miss Them. (variety.com)
I first heard about FX’s “Archer” in the ready room of VAQ-135, a navy squadron who were serving an interminable deployment aboard an aircraft carrier somewhere near Midway Island. (This sounds very much like a humblebrag that Sterling Archer would obnoxiously drop into conversation). It was 2010, and the pilots had lost...
Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning? (variety.com)
Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
Oppenhimer review: 3 out of 5 starz. Go see it in theaters, but lower your expectations. (lemmy.world)
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Foundation Shattered
Respectfully, I find the Foundation TV series extremely disheartening. I envy those who can watch Lee Pace’s triumphant acting without being completely off put by the appalling writing choices in the show. The fundamental aspects of the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series books clashe so hard with the message being presented...