Terminator Genisys (2015)
I’ve put my name on the line as saying none of the sequels are necessary and only the television show is consistently enjoyable. They are all pretty awful but with some nice bits. This was another one.
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I did notice that Missy seemed to slip something to the Doctor as they parted. The Master has hidden his essence in objects before. Either way you can’t keep a bad girl or boy down 😃
Does anyone wish to disagree with when I say that Capaldi was the “depressed doctor”?
I would say he is the latest in a short line of Curmudgeon Doctors. The First, The Sixth and The Twelfth could be distant, short tempered and have very alien values. But seeing 12 on top of a tank, playing the theme tune on an electric guitar wearing shades it’s hard to see him as ‘depressed’. There are lots of different modes of depression.
Moffat has with his version of Sherlock depicted some of his ideas of what people on the spectrum are like. The Doctor being an alien has sometimes an alien outlook. He isn’t necessarily mean he just doesn’t understand things in the same way we do. As Colin Baker once put it “stepping over a field of corpses to weep at the death of a butterfly”.
I think after the War the Doctor became increasing the focal point of the universe (or even the multiverse by the end of the 10th Doctor’s tenure). I think this manifested as a crisis of identity in the 12th. “Am I a good man?” can you wear that badge when the most blood drenched monsters of creation run away at your command? And then you have Missy. Basically him but lacking a few vital mental components like empathy. But sometimes the Doctor also lacks empathy (why he needs the very funny crises cue cards) so how are they different? This self reflection I think sums up the Twelfth the most.
He delivers a lot of soliloquy, Heaven Sent (arguably the best episode ever made) is almost all soliloquy and self reflection.
Interestingly at the beginning of the 50th Anniversary episode Clara is writing a quote from Marcus Aurelius (and this is the first time we see the attack eyebrows). “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” The Twelth Doctor spends most of his first year fathoming if he is a good man and what that means. Towards the end, facing highly probable death he delivers the final of many impassioned monologues (this time to the Master, his dark reflection) Spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaVJufPqUU
He acknowledges that the Master has changed for the better, albeit only somewhat and with her own motivation for doing so. This fuels his own weariness of continuing to change. If you keep changing the parts of the mop you still have a mop but if you change the head to a broom is it even remotely the same thing? Maybe the Doctor would be worse than the Master was (as seen with the Valeyard).
I don’t think the Imperial March belongs in the prequels (until the very end).
I would use the Imperial Attack motif for the clones though as they prefigure the Stormtroopers.
I would use the same theme in the later original trilogy movies where only troopers are in the scene.
There are some scenes in ESB and ROTJ where you have Troops without big ships, vehicles or figures like Vader.
“Good and evil has nothing to do with God. I collect church collapses. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? The facade fell on 65 grandmothers during a special mass. Was that evil? Was that God? If he’s up there, he just loves it. Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.”
I had a really weird dream it must have been Twin Peaks inspired. It had these agents who (in the style of Mission Impossible) could make masks out of the faces of dead people but they looked kind of marbled. Pale with dark veins in them.
One black woman volunteered to put on the mask of a white woman and her body completely changed to match the new face. And she went to make some meeting with what looked like a man wearing a similar mask and he detonated a vest bomb and they exploded leaving nothing but a puddle. The dream then shifted to a child pushing a tree branch that was very close to his bedroom and trading small statues of various gods. It was compelling stuff.
I’ve been having these regularly occurring feelings that I’m about to die. Sometimes it’s just a hunch and sometimes I actually feel like I’m physically and I’m not sure what to do about it.
It’s quite common and eventually of course will come true (hopefully not for a very very long time). If it genuinely worries you it’s worth mentioning it to a doctor. Hopefully he or she will give you a quick checkup and tell you everything is fine.
I appreciate it.
The shock has worn off now, but I don’t think the reality of it has fully sunk in yet. I’m on the other side of the country, so I guess i still feels sort of distant and not entirely real.
The nearest situation I can think of to what you are going through in my life was coming back from the summer holidays at college and finding out that a young lady I had known since I was twelve had suddenly died of Menengitus.
She too was a radiant human being with so much potential. She worked particularly hard on one subject which I had just waltzed through without revising, much to her annoyance. I was looking forward to seeing her return for the new year in a new set of courses. And she just wasn’t there anymore. The funeral had happened while we were away. Representatives of the college had gone to it. It just felt intensely strange and difficult to process. I had already experienced the passing of my elderly great grandparents at this point but this was someone my age (17 at that time so thirty years ago). I’ve experienced too many long goodbyes since. Mortality sucks. You have my sympathy.
I would have announced a doctory male actor and a female actor so that everyone would assume she was the companion when the location photos started to leak and then do the switcheroo at Christmas and surprise everyone.
They’re running a business, right? I’m assuming the way they did will drive bigger ratings.
They are running a public service broadcaster by royal warrant, technically they aren’t supposed to think about running a profit but they do.
I think these leaks are more to try and turn the inevitable leaks by the tabloids into something positive but the power of surprise is tangible and if everyone found out on Christmas day the new Doctor was a woman you can bet your bottom dollar even people with very little interest in the show would tune in to watch the first episode just see what the fuss was all about.
Giving it a half a year to stew as they have some of that expectation would have worn off by the time the first episodes with the 13th Doctor start showing. BTW they should have done this when Tom Baker left as they had done the Doctor getting younger thing to the point of breaking. Maybe the Doctor should be female for the next 13 incarnations. Plenty of great actresses out there to keep her going.
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I would have announced a doctory male actor and a female actor so that everyone would assume she was the companion when the location photos started to leak and then do the switcheroo at Christmas and surprise everyone.
So much or the last series was ruined by premature reveals.
I also hope that Michelle Gomez is fibbing and we get a female Master and female Doctor face off a few times.
I will miss Capaldi though. He is a great actor and some of his episodes are the best the show has ever had and he is good in the not so good ones.
I don’t think I’d try getting into a long-term relationship with a polyamorous woman in real life.
Luke never thought he would return to Tatooine.
There is clearly something about this person that you respond to so figure out what it is.
Maybe it’s something you can learn to adopt into your own persona or help you identify realistically meetable people who you might develop a real bond with.
Most situations have a positive lesson to teach us about ourselves or others.
I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive but it kind of sounds like you might just need new friends or something.
Yeah, probably. I don’t like anyone else either though.
You haven’t met everyone yet.
I’ve met more than enough for my taste.
This is where you are going wrong. You are never going to have friendship of a long lasting nature if you eat who you meet 😃 Seriously though people tend to be nuanced. There is usually something salvageable from even the most wretched of us and most people never meet the most wretched of us… they are far too famous 😄
Well, I’m glad you like it, I have had several. I used to have an old grey model before this. Some people liked it.
Finally finished Alien Isolation. A very good game in many ways but those awful quick time events.
The ending is a bit of a let down too.
Looks like someone too a leaf our of the Prometheus book by not actually ending the story and leaving stuff for a sequel that may never happen.
I’m away for my summer break soon so as a palette cleanser I’ve fired up the Orange Box and started playing Portal 1. The difficulty gradient on that game is a bit abrupt. It’s a load of fun still though.Really hoping Creative Assembly makes more ALIEN series games. Already was a huge fan of their TOTAL WAR games and glad they did it right. Still don’t know if I’d want to play ALIENS: Colonial Marines.
I’ve got it but it might be too soon after battling one (…) unstobbable beast to enter into a badly received war with many squishable ones.
I want a Wampa hand… I want a Wampa hand.
Finally finished Alien Isolation. A very good game in many ways but those awful quick time events.
The ending is a bit of a let down too.
Looks like someone too a leaf our of the Prometheus book by not actually ending the story and leaving stuff for a sequel that may never happen.
I’m away for my summer break soon so as a palette cleanser I’ve fired up the Orange Box and started playing Portal 1. The difficulty gradient on that game is a bit abrupt. It’s a load of fun still though.
Bingowings said:
4. Keep in Touch. At the moment you don’t feel enthusiastic about anything but as an exercise contacting people who you have any kind of friendly relations or past with can have a genuinely positive effect.All of your points for Mike O are great, but I wanted to comment on this specifically because it’s something that is offered as advice in a lot of scenarios and people have told me this a lot and I just don’t get it. I think it’s probably a feeling somewhat unique to me, but people just disgust me. Being within twenty feet of anyone other than a few exceptions makes me want to scream. I’m not a sociopath at all, I’m actually extremely empathetic almost to a fault in that I obsess over how I can go about doing things without harming or inconveniencing anyone, plus I get furious whenever I hear about people getting mistreated. The really funny thing, though, is that I get quite lonely, but it only takes a single interaction with one of my so-called “friends” (which never fails to remind me of why they sicken me and why I never want to see them again) to realize that the only experience worse than overwhelming loneliness is talking to fucking people. Like I said, I’m generally alone in this opinion, but it’s something that I see all the time as a supposed ingredient for happiness and I can’t even imagine having a circle of people that I would enjoy meeting with regularly. Sorry to derail the thread.
+1. I’ve spent my whole summer reevaluating my relations to the people I know and am considerably disappointed at how hollow it all is.
I would hope at the end of your evaluation process there were about three people you could call or write to if you couldn’t pop over to visit. The point of the exercise is to connect to people. Particularly people who at least try to make us feel better to some degree. The mind responds to visual cues of other people and positively to positive cues.
Sigh. I’ve had TWO WEEKS of vacation. Lots of people would die for that. I’ve TRIED to fight against my depression and OCD, but it’s so hard. I’ve gone out with friends twice, with family once (going to be twice, and hopefully three times), but I can barely enjoy ANYTHING. I have to go back to work on Monday, and can barely stand the the thought, but it’s not like I’m deriving any pleasure from my time off. I had a huge compulsion binge today. I’m beginning to think that I’m going to have to live with the fact that my faith is cracked, and just can’t deal with it, but that’s still no reason for this obsessive behavior and thoughts.
I completed a psychoanalytic evaluation. I’m depressed and obsessive, which I could’ve told them, but apparently I’m a therapist’s dream because I’m self-aware and full of potential. But I couldn’t even DO the ERP my last therapist assigned me. I didn’t listen, then I complain that I don’t feel better. I kind of wish I could apologize to him. I just…feel stuck. If I’m not willing to put in the effort, I waste a therapist’s time. They’ll be submitting my analysis data to my psychiatrist, and hopefully he’ll recommend someone. I see him again in a week or two. But my mysterious compulsion to do things multiple times isn’t getting better in the meantime even after I indulge the compulsions. I’m tired of this. I just want to sit down and watch some TV or read and relax. I want my brain back. What’s happening to me? Why is this happening to me? I was fine a year or so ago, and had REAL problems. This is so fucking stupid.
You aren’t wasting the time of the therapist. They are trained to expect certain behaviours from unwell people. Hopefully they will be taking a note of what you tell them and this will inform the future course of your therapy. Why it’s happening to you is an easy question to answer but the solution to it is the difficult part. This is happening to you because you are unwell. People get unwell in lots of different ways for lots of different reasons and mental illness and mental poor health are no different from any other kind of illness or poor health. From a general perspective there are activities that will raise your mental health.
2.Eat well and eat healthy food. Maintain three meals a day, drink plenty of water and limit your caffeine, salt and sugar. It has a very strong effect on the mind what you put in your body.
Drink Sensibly. Booze is a depressant it is a powerful medication and can bugger up other medications so use sparingly if at all during this time.
Keep in Touch. At the moment you don’t feel enthusiastic about anything but as an exercise contacting people who you have any kind of friendly relations or past with can have a genuinely positive effect.
Keep active. Physical activity of any kind releases chemicals into your body that raise your mood. Doing something physical has an effect on self esteem it also makes you more likely to get a healthy amount of sleep. It could be as simple as taking the stairs rather than the elevator or doing a bit of gardening or walking somewhere.
You are already doing but I put this here for anyone else. Ask for help. It’s good you got connected to a medical team but find out what your local helplines are and should you find your situation particularly desperate there is always your ER (or A&E if you are on the other side of the splashy salt watery thing).
You are having a bit of a problem with right now is take a break. That break doesn’t need to be a weekend with an itinerary of places to be, people to see etc. It can be any change of scene or routine. As Dale Cooper would say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkVgc6gIqk
Do something you know or at least you are told you are good at. Can you remember someone saying you did something well or made something good or when someone thanked you for a job well done? If you can do it something similar.
Accept who you are. At the moment you are someone with an illness and this may reduce the impact of some of the suggested activities on this list but if you rotate through them one or more will eventually have an effect. I can’t tell you which one so keep trying them all if you can. Despite the illness you are a complex personality you may not be good at somethings but you are certainly good at others. Be kind to yourself.
Care for others. Helping others has a measurable effect on mental health. It boosts your self esteem. It makes you feel connected to the world and able to effect it positively albeit in limited ways.
This is like telling someone with a broken leg to prepare for a marathon. I know that.
But you will eventually regain some of previous capacity to feel happiness and contentment you may even surpass your previous levels over time. Impatience while you are in discomfort is also reasonable. Expect it but work with it. Getting unwell people well is the thing that therapists and doctors are paid for so you aren’t wasting their time. Be honest with them and yourself and you will make steps to recovery which will aggregate towards forward momentum. No matter how many steps back you may take getting there.
Good Luck.
4/7/2017 …?
that was months ago 😃
I still think it makes no narrative sense that Anakin and Owen start the story on Tatooine.
I thought he was a newly married spice trucker who bumps into Obi-Wan during one of his twice Knightly adventures and ends up being drawn away from his family by the lure of the Force.
His wife (who isn’t the queen of Space Venice) is already pregnant and when the Jedi are forced to scatter Owen takes his family to the crappiest place imaginable for protection from Darth Vader. Skywalker would be a common name like Jones or Felkunstoniasnitz.
The prequels are hard work to fix. I applaud people for trying so hard.
I think I will name a fish after it.
Hurray for Lesbian Puddle Love
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)
I’m pretty jaded about these sorts of story resolutions but I did not see the puddle love card being played.
So will 12 be convinced by 1 being convinced by 12 being convinced by 1?
Will the Master wear Bill’s old bras?
What do Cybermen do with all those discarded arses?
Does Missy really not remember as much as she says or has she got a secret girl plan?
Will Nardol and the children of Mondas escape the black hole and find a life without living crucified scarecrows?
Tune in next time… Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, do doo doo doo do doo doo do doo, do doo, doo doo, doo dooo doo doo.
My biggest complaint about Capaldi’s shows, is that even when there is one or two good stories, there are always three or four completely incoherent messes to bury them. I’m with Tobar. Can’t wait for Moffat to leave.
The character has been around since 1963 in television, audio, cinema, comic book and novel form and in every iteration over those many decades when it is bad it’s dull. When it’s good it’s astounding. It’s nothing to do with any particular show runner, though a fresh injection of creativity tends to spark the greater stories. For every Robots of Death there is a Horns of Nimon. For every Midnight there is a Fear Her. For every Heaven Sent there is a Sleep No More. Roll with it.
Of course it has something to do with the show runner, they set the tone for the show. Moffat is pretty much the new show’s JNT, he should have left years ago. For every Heaven Sent there is a Hell Bent. There are good ideas in the shows now, but too often they’re muddled with a bunch of other messes that the overall effectiveness is diminished. I think Capaldi is a great Doctor, but I can count the number of his stories I’d want to rewatch on one hand.
- Mummy on the Orient Express
- Flatline
- The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
- Heaven Sent
I still have yet to complete Series 10, so I’m withholding any episodes there. However, from what I can tell, they’re getting away from nonsense stories and have more coherent plots. I think we’ve had some of the best episodes of the new series with Capaldi, but also some of the absolute worst. That’s not saying RTD was a genius, either, but the show is definitely in a rough spot creatively, and it shows in the ratings, the year hiatus, the soon-to-be cancellation of Class, and other such things.
The same is true of every age of Doctor Who.
I love “The Empty Child” “Dalek” and “The Unquiet Dead” but most of the Ninth Doctor is forgettable.
But Eccles had one year.Exactly, three great re-watchable episodes in one year for the new show is quite something. I think Eccleston’s year is pretty underrated, farting aliens notwithstanding.
Tennant has “The Girl in the Fireplace” “Human Nature”, “Blink”, “Midnight”, "Turn Left"
and so much awful crap that I only watch out of devotion to the show.While it’s true Tennant had some awful stuff (Rose romance, “I don’t wanna go” especially), I don’t recall the worst stuff being as bad as, say, “Kill the Moon”, “Robot of Sherwood”, or that viking episode that had an evil lion show up in the last 20 minutes and derail a character study. Clara was especially mishandled, she was given a few good farewells but kept coming back only to leave with a whimper.
The same is true of Tom Baker. I love watching all the actors who play the character but is “The Nightmare of Eden” essential viewing?
That era is not exactly my favorite from the classic show either, but that was a producer combating tons of other issues rather than a showrunner hanging on past his prime.
Kill the moon is a good story.
I suppose we just don’t enjoy the same things. I recall it being the worst of all of Capaldi’s standalone stories
Forest of the Night or Sleep No More are much more urksome and he’s still great in both of them.