Caron Nazario is a lieutenant in the U.S. Army medical corp, serving in Norfolk, Virginia. Lieutenant Nazario also happens to be Black and Hispanic. In December, Lt. Nazario purchased a new SUV and on December 5th, he was driving home from work in said SUV when he saw flashing lights behind him. Lt. Nazario drove […]
Dirty Racist Cops … Again — Filosofa’s Word
In the time between me first seeing this story and sharing it on this blog,
Hooray an Ash-centric episode! Well sort of. Oh man I felt so sorry for her at the end of this one. She must feel like she’s lost a sibling all over again. Also man this whole series really likes taking Fox out of action, when will he get something to do?!
This season is going by so faaaast. I’m worried about Quinn, I know Olan Rogers is too smart to kill her off but I still worry about her. Awww the moments between her and Gary in this episode were so sweet, but they’re also the very brief calm before the storm I suspect.
I still find Biskit annoying, sorry. I don’t even see any reason for him to be around right now. And Tribore, UGH. He doesn’t fit into this darker new season AT ALL and I’d much rather he wasn’t there. He’s just so incredibly annoying and also oh yeah he let a load of people die and will never face consequences for it cos it was supposed to be a Funny Moment I guess? Sigh. I love this show but post season one it was never really great at balancing the comedy with the seriousness. Sometimes it really just feels like two different shows squashed together.
I want to go back to the Avacato-Little Cato plot asap please! Oh it’s going to be so heartrending when LC finds out the truth.
Godzilla vs Kong was EXACTLY as dumb as I hoped, if not dumber. Here are all the thoughts in my head fresh after a (home) viewing. Take this as Kongfirmation that it’s worth seeing IF and ONLY IF you want to turn your brain off for a couple hours:
Lots of things have happened today, but I remembered just before it ended, today’s the first anniversary of The Promised Land.
It’s a movie which fills me with such insane joy every time I watch it. I’m not kidding when I say it actually helped quite a bit when it came to getting through 2020.
Sigh… I keep thinking about how interesting this show would be if Karli wasn’t a mass murderer and wasn’t going round making threats to children. Sam having to grapple with the actual, geniune good guys thinking he’s not one, that would’ve been so fascinating to explore. But instead… We didn’t get that. The show is still good but..I’m bummed on several levels because a) I like Erin Kellyman as an actress and wanted to like her character and b) “These people have sympathetic motives but are also a bunch of violent a-holes, thus preventing exploration of the points they’re making” is… Not a good trope.
That last shot of John Walker (and what a great shot it was) reminded me of Homelander and The Boys. And Zemo’s speech about how being a super-soldier is a form of supremacy also did, except it reminded me of how much I hate The Boy’s take that being a superhero is inherently fascist because… How many superheroes actually ask for their powers? In the Marvel world pretty much everyone around at the moment was either born with them (Wanda, Star-Lord), got them by accident (Spider-Man) or is an alien (Thor, most of the GOTG). And labelling someone a fascist for something they had no control over makes no sense.
On lighter notes: Daniel Brul is killing it as Zemo and Wyatt Russell is killing it as John Walker, I don’t know how he does it but he just has this dead, violent look in his eyes all the time. Also WHAT he’s Kurt Russell’s son! I didn’t know that! Wow playing MCU villains really runs in the family huh?
It was really good seeing Wakanda again, I hope we get to go back there before the series is over.
Oh, and also RIP Battlestar. Your death was inevitable but you seemed like a good dude.
Turned on the TV around noon and got-
I was like, what happened?! Was there a terrorist attack? Did someone get assassinated?! So I turned over and turned out Prince Philip had died. Of natural causes.
(Also, wait, does the BBC actually own the Dave channel? Who knew.)
ANYWAY yeah, I’m surprised he didn’t make it to 100 but there’s not that much to say about a guy who lived by all accounts a very full life and died at 99. And, you know, he wasn’t exactly a great ambassador for the UK at the best of times. I wish the TV (it’s showing very little else except Prince Philip right now) would stop describing his racist comments as “gaffes” since that implies he didn’t mean to say them while he very much did.
That’s… pretty much all I got. Please enjoy this very bad photograph I took in 2014 of a moving car that had Prince Philip in it.
The Lord of the Rings is a big topic of discussion these days. That’s mostly thanks to quarantine cast reunions and Amazon’s upcoming Middle-earth series. Of all the fantastical lands out there, J.R.R. Tolkien’s universe remains one of the most beloved and revered almost a century after The Hobbit‘s publication. It’s a world we’ll never…
Russian LORD OF THE RINGS Adaptation Makes Its Way Online — Nerdist
So this looks AMAZING?
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And here’s the end. This story didn’t get much attention really but I loved writing it. It was a chance to get out some thoughts on life, death and fairness.
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Over the course of an entire week I watched Zack Snyder’s Justice League and my gosh, it’s so much better than the original. No annoying quips coming at you every second, much better design for Steppenwolf, and oh yeah nobody falls in Wonder Woman’s breasts. Hooray!
It’s a real shame we won’t get any of the planned sequels. I even found Jared Leto’s Joker tolerable in that flashforward/vision bit at the end. Heck yeah I’d watch a Batman-Superman Post-Apocalypse and I bet loads of other people would too. And a Martian Manhunter movie! I always quite liked Martian Manhunter, despite his ridiculous name, and I had no idea he was in this so that was a nice surprise.
But anyway…
Knowing the backstory behind why Snyder had to leave the project originally… that just makes me really glad the film actually got released to critical acclaim, in a way that’s completely irrelevant to how good a movie it may or not be y’know? I heard a lot of fans donated to suicide prevention charities while the whole #SnyderCut social media thing was going on, too, so that’s good. It feels like a bittersweet ending to what must have been a really horrible chapter in Zack Snyder’s life.