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Post by Tiny on Nov 3, 2012 11:04:21 GMT -5
For the record I really dislike this show and have decided to stop watching it. I did watch parts of the first 30 minutes of the show you are asking about (between doing other things). I was subjected to the scenes of Stupid Girl (aka Charlie) disrobing - you see her pushing her top off her shoulder and then see her clothes hitting the floor and then from the back her slowly lowering herself into a hot tub of water - no butt seen - just from her lower back up (it's an old fashion high backed porcelain tub). Ok the tub is in the MIDDLE of a bed room and has no drain or water coming to it -- and you can see the richly appointed bed in the background. It's all moderately suggestively shot. (I hate the camera angles and direction on this show - just so you know).
I also got to see the scene where she leaves the tub (it's fuzzed or maybe the camera angle keeps the naughty bits out of view...) and froma long camera shot you get to see the Silhouette of her naked boob while she digs thru her back pack. Like I said I don't like this show - so I groaned thru this stuff thinking -- geez something for the 13 year old boys (and college boys).
I'd think you might have more trouble explaining the Poppy fields/heroin and brothel to your 8 yo... and maybe the what was to me the fact that Stupid Girl just jumps right in when asked to assassinate someone (atleast she kinda had a moral/conscience twinge when she assassinated the military guy with the fancy rifle)... and then the 'argument' that killing the milatary guy was NOT murder but killing the guy who leads the people who burned the poppy fields IS murder.... She basically needs to kill someone for someone else to save somone she likes - in this case Nora. How many times do we have to suffer thru this?
I turned it off when Stupid Girl asked Drug Lord Guy about her cover story for going over to the other 'camp' to do the kill... she's a whore who's run away and what did "being roughed up mean" when Drug Lord Guy hits her hard in the face. Like this is gonna convince guy in the other camp that Stupid Girls a whore/addict...
Maybe I'm too old for this show... I didn't finish the episode cause the stupidities were piling up fast and I was seething at the TV.
Hopefully I didn't toss out any spoilers.
Added since the human brain is kinda sorta electrical - I'm just assuming every one is so stupid/incompetant/one sided on this show because whatever made 'electricity' stop also effected all of their brains...
(Ninja Uncle can steal a horse and wagon from a group of soldiers with guns and horses -- but can't derail a train.... I'm assuming his synapsis aren't firing correctly due to the damping of electricity. same goes for Stupid Girl. )
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Post by Tiny on Nov 3, 2012 11:17:09 GMT -5
Sorry I'm so vehemant about this show.... I keep wanting it/thinking it could be soooo much better. I keep thinking it should be really interesting and exciting - but it's not. I was kinda toying with the idea of reading some of the 'end of the world as we know it books' - but then I start to worry it will be populated with people I don't like put in situations where they get to show off their stupidity - while the author obtrusively manipulates my emotions (big sad eyed dogs and scary clowns kinda thing = or think Hallmark Hall of Fame everything is perfect at the end). I'm not the target audience for this show.
It's on at 9:00pm -- I don't think this is suppose to be a show for the tweens and under...
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Post by Tiny on Nov 3, 2012 11:44:10 GMT -5
My son is really into survivalism right now. Have you read One Second After? No, I haven't. I'm kinda interested but I'm afriad I'll scream at the book... like I screamed at Twilight and some other pop culture book I can't remember the title of...(not 50 shades - I opted to just not read it. I'm old... I use to have a bumper sticker on my car back in the 80's that read: sticks and stones may break my bones - but whips and chains excite me. ) I'm gonna add One Second After to my list of books to check out.  |
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Post by servant_of_dog on Nov 3, 2012 20:48:00 GMT -5
it's funny; I want to like Revolution, but the premise is utterly stupid. Electricity isn't that difficult! Coal didn't disappear, wind didn't disappear, water didn't disappear, and the sun is still shining. They've not adequately explained the premise. I do think that Charlie is (while attractive as a woman) the prettiest man I've seen in awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2012 20:54:52 GMT -5
Did your son read One Second After ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2012 22:34:18 GMT -5
There was nothing in the show that an 8 year old couldn't watch. There was nothing sexual. There was a lot of neck snapping though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 8:37:17 GMT -5
I was wondering ... My kids liked listening to/reading Hunger Games, Divergent, Ender's Game, John Marsden's Tomorrow when the War Began (2nd book does have sex in it, 1st book was made into a movie), Last thing I Remember series a lot of their friends liked, but they never got into... not sure he's 'too young' for any of those? At that age though my kids loved The Golden Compass series and Inkheart... we listened to all of them. They didn't get all of the Golden Compass references.... i'd like to listen to that again sometime as they are older and have a good discussion, but they liked the action/adventure elements of the stories. Not really straight survivalist... Did he like Sign of the Beaver? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 8:58:34 GMT -5
The Golden Compass is almost like an atheist's Chronicles of Narnia, to over simplify... Just to make sure, some people don't realize and then are suprised in the later books where it comes out.
I don't think i'd ever read/listen to Bad Kitty, my sympathies, lol... that would be a ... you can read it to yourself, or listen to it yourself kind of book... around here.
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Post by Angel! on Nov 4, 2012 9:07:54 GMT -5
it's funny; I want to like Revolution, but the premise is utterly stupid. Electricity isn't that difficult! Coal didn't disappear, wind didn't disappear, water didn't disappear, and the sun is still shining. They've not adequately explained the premise. I do think that Charlie is (while attractive as a woman) the prettiest man I've seen in awhile. Yes, so much this. I like the show & watch it, but already know any explanation regarding the electricity is going to be stupid. Although at least they know it, the Google guy keeps talking about now the laws of physics somehow changed & that isn't possible. I don't expect the show to last though. I bet it doesn't get a second season & they don't bother to wrap it up. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 11:22:48 GMT -5
it's funny; I want to like Revolution, but the premise is utterly stupid. Electricity isn't that difficult! Coal didn't disappear, wind didn't disappear, water didn't disappear, and the sun is still shining. They've not adequately explained the premise. I do think that Charlie is (while attractive as a woman) the prettiest man I've seen in awhile. Yes, so much this. I like the show & watch it, but already know any explanation regarding the electricity is going to be stupid. Although at least they know it, the Google guy keeps talking about now the laws of physics somehow changed & that isn't possible. I don't expect the show to last though. I bet it doesn't get a second season & they don't bother to wrap it up. Like Fox did with TerraNova  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 11:39:44 GMT -5
Audible has Bad Kitty and Bad Kitty Christmas.... around 4.30 for both...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 11:46:00 GMT -5
Oh my! ... They can listen on the computer, and you can burn them on cd, and bad kitty would fit on a cd i'm guessing. I think that's what we did back before ipods ... We listen to lots and lots of books in the car, and on our own now. |
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Post by Tiny on Nov 4, 2012 14:22:39 GMT -5
It's the electricity that's gone... you can still use steam, heated gas, a river (with a waterwheel), wind (to turn a crank and pump water), etc to get pistons and gears to turn or move. Think industrial revolution (1750 thru 1850) and then a bit into the Victorian (1850 to 1900 or so). Use of electricity as more than an amusing mysterious thing didn't really start happening until after 1850? or so... maybe my history is off. I do know that many of the Victorian houses just down the block from me that were built around 1885-1895 had gas lights... as electrical service wasn't yet available in the area - even though the houses were built for the wealthy commuters taking the Train downtown to work. I was talking about this with a friend and I said - if the electricty vanished - I'd probably make an effort to contact hang around with the groups of friends who had science-y hobbies or were in the SCA. My friends/aquantances in those circles while not survivalists have alot of old timey basic skills (carpentry, food preservation, etc) that they do for fun and entertainment. I'm thinking with a little ingenuity and their basic skills they'd be the ones most likely to survive long term. I may be idealistic (too much Doctor Who) but I think that people would pull together into cohesive groups - and that once things stabilized (people had reliable food and water sources) that the science-y/experimenter/curious type people (especially anyone who was a hobby-iest before the electricity went away) would be working on making machinery that made life easier - without electricity. What I want to know is since some guy in the midwest figured out how to grow poppies and make heroin (and dealt with the drug dealers/cartels from Mexico) then how come we haven't seen more "steam punk" kind of technology?? Someone making bullets - Someones forging all those knives and swords people are wielding, someones making cloth and well tailored clothing - even for the very poor (it seems). I would think that that kind of stuff might be slightly more 'knowledge' floating around in the general public - than how to get and grow the right kind of poppies for heroin and then how to manufacture it. OK, maybe for prime time TV they had to use something obscure - versus the hemp... I would think there'd be a HUGE market and lots of fields of marijuana growing to supply hashish and such if this kind of a disaster happened. I suspect this kind of info (and seeds) are indeed floating around the general population. Also there seem to be a lot of 'farms' being run by a couple of people without any other neighbors or towns around. I'm pretty sure that's a recipe for disaster - especially if there are roving troops of 'militia' taking their lively hood (the farm produce) and their lives (citizens can't have guns). I'm old.... did I mention I really dislike the show. |
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Post by mollyc on Nov 4, 2012 18:27:54 GMT -5
I probably only remember enough physics to be a danger to myself and others but I'm pretty sure that if you changed the laws of physics, our bodies wouldn't work properly. I've been going under the assumption that either the earth's polarity flipped or a man-made or natural event fried all the electronics in the world. Since so much of our manufacturing and mining for precursor materials uses electricity, planet-wide damage would be difficult to recover from.
I haven't been able to watch more than a few minutes at a time because of the "yeah buts" that pop into my head. And my cynicism keeps thinking that the show exists less because it had a good synopsis than because it contained elements of other popular shows. Swords, bows and horses like Game of Thrones. Societal collapse like Walking Dead. Even my 11yr old DD noticed. After seeing commercials for this and Walking Dead's new season, she pointed out that everyone was adding a Katniss to their show.
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