09.17.08
Long-Lost Love
Not working has introduced me to Lifetime television. Corny movies and re-runs. I’ve discovered an old love. I’d forgotten exactly how much I loved this show.
I love Will & Grace!!!
11.13.06
Sexual Consent Form
I love Law & Order. In watching an episode from last week (or the week before), I was just… confused. I really don’t know what I think about this topic, but I wanted to put it down somewhere in the hopes someone else might share his/her opinion. (This will be disjointed, brief, and nowhere near eloquent.)
Girl gets drunk
Girl takes off clothes for guy with camera and t.v. show (a la “Girls Gone Wild”)
Girl talks sexy to guy with camera and tells him if they were alone on a rocketship (?) she would be his freaky sex toy (or something)
Girl is a good-girl college student and after sobering up realizes she doesn’t want her parents to accidentally see her being a naughty freak on tape.
Girl tries to get tape back from t.v. show guy. He says NO… unless you have sex with me and pay me.
Girl says, “Okay.”
Girl signs sexual consent form. Basically, “Yeah, I’ll have sex with you. No, I won’t hold it against you.”
Later, after the sexual episode between the two (in which she says she told him NO because she changed her mind, so then he raped her), t.v. guy leaves naked used girl on bus for his buddy.
Buddy comes in and wants to have sex with girl.
Girl bashes buddy on the head with a champagne bottle and buddy dies.
(Oh, and when the sexual consent form comes out in trial, girl said she didn’t read what she signed - she thought it was something about turning the tape over)
In the end, t.v. guy goes to jail for rape AND 2nd degree murder of his buddy.
Okay, so… My big question is. If a girl signs a sexual consent form previous to having sex with a guy, should she be able to change her mind then call it rape? (Now, I know.. if the guy were worth a shit, and the girl said STOP, he would. But… he’s not, so.) I mean, you sign an agreement. Shouldn’t you abide by it?
But at the same time… when it’s something like sex, shouldn’t you have the right to change your mind?
Sometimes things just seem a little screwed up. Dunno.
10.27.04
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
[Spoilers] If you want to see the enclosed spoilers, please click here. [/Spoilers]
Edited on Oct 29th 2004, 14:13 by entipy
04.06.04
@#$@# DVR!!!
here) and had my DVR set up to record all day Sunday, too. Well, when I got up Sunday morning (late), lo and behold, the mother fucker didn’t record!! So, I had 10 hours’ worth of viewing from Saturday and nothing from Sunday.
I was so pissed. I deleted all of it. I’m convinced it had something to do with the time change.
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04.03.04
Taken
Sci-Fi is playing all the episodes of Steven Spielberg’s “Taken” today and tomorrow. I wanted to see this when it came out, but I missed it for some reason. Needless to say, my DVR is working overtime today and tomorrow!
I hope it’s good.
02.09.04
Firefly
Finally got the entire show on DVD. I almost hated to watch knowing that certain questions would never be answered, and I would never see new episodes with these wonderful characters again. *sigh*
I wonder what ever happened with the movie they had thought about doing. I went and checked on IMDB, and there is very little info on there. Does anyone know anything about that?
Firefly rules!
09.14.03
Clearly this guy needs a new hobby…
I was watching Fresh Gear on TechTV the other morning, and I saw a piece about a guy who had transformed his apartment into a total Trek experience.
Story can be found here.
Now, at the end of the show, one of the chicks hosting looked at the other and said, “Clearly this guy needs a new hobby.” I just sat there and stared at the screen with a huge grimace on my face.
Why? Why does he need a new hobby?
This TECH-TV host has just basically said the man is cuckoo because he spent time and money working on a hobby he enjoyed in order to ease his pain and stave off depression.
I come across this attitude very frequently. Why is it that any pasttime involving sci-fi is considered stupid and crazy. I’ve seen specials on other collectors (model trains for instance) who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their hobbies, and they are never treated with the same stigma. It’s ok for my father to be obsessed with watching every sports show he can find on TV, yet whenever I mention a show I like having to do with anything sci-fi, he scoffs.
*sigh*
This attitude irritates me. I suppose I just never expected to hear a Tech-TV host on Fresh Gear talking down to something sci-fi related.
I applaud this man. He worked his ass off and accomplished his goal rather than wallowing in his own depression. Not to mention, can you imagine how difficult it would be to get those panels right?
12.16.02
Law vs. Justice
I am a huge fan of “law” television shows. (Namely Law and Order and The Practice.) I simply cannot get enough! Ask my husband. Every chance I get, I’m catching a Law & Order re-run. It drives him mad sometimes, I think.
Now, I understand that these are merely television shows — drama for entertainment purposes — but in our day of making tv and movies ultra-realistic, I’d like to believe that some of the issues faced in these shows do happen within the actual realm of our judicial system.
Shows like tonight’s episode of The Practice really get under my skin. It’s always situations like this which remind me of why I could never be a lawyer.
A defense attorney is representing a man who committed a murder. He confessed to committing this murder. The defense attorney — in offering the best defense possible for this man, as is his right under our beloved Constitution, made a case so compelling concerning 4th amendment rights that the judge basically had to throw it out and free this murderer. (The police who searched the man’s trunk - thereby finding the dead body - did so without “probable cause.” Whatever.)
Now, this is bad enough, but consider the rest. While in desperation and thinking he needed to go ahead and make a plea bargain (this was before he was released, of course), this client tells his attorney that he actually committed this other murder some other schmuck is on trial for right now in hopes that if he does so (thereby helping the police and freeing this other gentleman), he will be able to go to hospital rather than prison.
Enter the Attorney / Client Privilege.
The attorney goes to a judge and asks her advice. The judge tells her that she just happens to live in the one state where privilege can be broken with no recourse if the information being shared could lead to an innocent man not being convicted. However, the judge also informs her that no attorney has ever invoked this privilege because of the consequences which would ensue. I.e. their career would pretty much be down the toilet. Who’s going to trust that lawyer again?
Oh, did I mention that her ex-firm is handling the poor innocent gentleman’s case? Oh, and he got convicted — on nothing but circumstantial evidence, mind you. Oh what a tangled web the writers weave!
Simply put: I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t live with the knowledge. I would have to tell someone somehow. I don’t see how I could abide watching an innocent man go to prison while the real murderer (who isn’t really in his right mind) walks free. I just could not do it!
But that’s the beauty of the legal system. Everyone has rights. Even the lowest criminals. The dead body was found in the asshole’s trunk and he ADMITTED it. But he gets set free???? There is ZERO justice in that.
It’s nice adherence to the LAW, sure… but wasn’t law created for the purpose of attaining justice? and order?
Is it right when the law is followed to the letter at the expense of justice?
I don’t think so.
I couldn’t do it.
Edited on Dec 16th 2002, 04:40 by entipy
07.27.02
Jul 27th 2002, 16:57 GMT
Can someone explain to me how Wonder Woman — on the new Justice League cartoon — can suddenly FLY on her own?
????
06.29.02
Jun 29th 2002, 23:04 GMT
Well, I was going to comment on Crash’s entry about P.I. going off the air, but I couldn’t comment… hmmm…
Anyway, I think it’s a sad sad thing. It’s so rare to find someone who just tells it like it is regardless of who he/she is talking to. Maher’s show was one of the last “true” arenas for people to openly say whatever the f*ck they wanted to say. Granted they were met with disagreement or what-have-you and were practically forced to either BACK UP what they said or shut up, but still….
*sigh* sad