Hands up all you who enjoy the TV show 'Lost'.
Yeah figures.
I starrrrrtttttted to watch it when it first came on.
The lost me right about the point that A a short haul passenger jet was being used to fly from Australia to the USA, B it crashed from cruising altitude INTO A MOUNTAIN and wasnt i, completely fucked up and ii, more than one person survived (being generous there I frankly think theyre ALL dead). So they basically lost me in the first what? 5 minutes of the show.
Ferchrissake the ENTIRE tail section of the aeroplane came off in flight! Ferrchrissake the cockpit was found INTACT about 5km from the rest of the aeroplane which (ferrchrissake) looks amazingly like it was delicated dropped on a beach by a crane. What? It was? yeah yeah I know. Ferrchrissake nearly (it seems) the entire passenger compliment SURVIVED. Yeah. It augured in from about 35,000 feet. It was in ATLEAST 2 pieces when it hit. Yeah it is still possible to find not only the cockpit BUT (BUT he says) find one of the PILOTS alive a day or so AFTER the crash.
Fuck me am I watching a remake of Fantasy Island 'boss bits of the plane the plane'.
Atleast Gilligans Island was believable in its' original premise.
Newsflash TVland. Everyone on that flight died. They were GONNA die anyway as the pissy aeroplanes' engines woulda flamed out somewhere over the pacific. Noone survives when aircraft smash into things. People survive buggered up takesoff and landings. People survive when shit goes wrong at VERY low altitude.
Ok
This new one
Surface.
right
Like... US nuclear subs arent protected against EMP. WTF you think happens when they fire a nuke tipped torpedo at something? huh??? Arnie said it best ... 'if it bleeds we can kill it'
They kept referring to the beasty as a new form of mammal. Then a new form of vertebrate. Then a fuck knows what it was but it sure looked like a bloody big LIZARD to me. Now obviously mammals are all vertebrates so fair enough. But it doesnt look or act like a mammal. It lays eggs like an amphibian (look i know monotremes lay eggs ok ima freakin Aussie we live with the freaky lil critters).
IE it is really reptilian in nature.Where is the fur and/or obvious fat layers n streamlining aquatic mammals exhibit?
Theyve also compleately ignored natures deal with apex predators.
This thing lays eggs like a prey species. Turtles fer example. They lay LOTS of eggs as that way atleast some will survive to maturity. Apex predators do NOT give birth to copious young. They have one or two offspring at a time. This thing lays thousands at a time. Other predators would feed like hell on the little ones so that very few would survive to maturity. So youd find one or two big ones.
You will never find a predatory species coming to dominate the food chain unless the area has been severely interfered with via outside agency. Then they kinda shall we say DIE OUT from lack of food. Predators never outnumber prey. Simple as that. Hell even crocodiles conform. There is never more than one really BIG bastard croc in any one particular stretch of water.
So I dont watch either show as I believe they are both fundimentally flawed.
Now I watch shows like Buffy n Angel etc. I suspect critical disbelief happily. Like the X-files they do not purport to be factual. It is all hocus pocus. Well n good.
When a show is supposed to be a serious drama my old theory 'it is just as easy to get it right and costs no more' is bloody pertinent. NOONE walks away from plane crashes from 35000 feet unless theyve got a bloody parachute ok??
Right
On to Empire. yeah that show about Big Julie getting stabbed in the rotunda (a very painful place so im told). Purporting to be based on true events. Yep.
What bugs me about it is they bandy about terms like 'youll NEVER be Caesar!!!' like 'caesar' is a title.
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caesar became a title under Diocletian in about 285AD (IDONT have a book to hand to get the date dead right but it was in his reign that the Tetrarchy was introduced.
In 43BC it was Julius' family NAME.
As G. Julius Caesar adopted his nephew Octavianus as his son then he too was A Caesar not THE Caesar. The Julio- Claudians were all (atleast nominally) born into or adopted in to the family.
Octavian didnt need to sneak about gathering support n whimpering like a snivelling coward at what the senate might do!! He had the entire army of Julius at his back slavering for revenge. Mark Antony only came out against him when the Egypto-Macedonian bitch Cleopatra sank her claws into him. Second triumvirate folks. Look it up look it up.
Oh yeah another coincidence. Watched the first episode of Empire. Mused over the gladiator Tyrannus. Went to the toilet. Sat reading Flavius Josephus The Jewish War (a little light reading heh). There on the page I flipped to casually (With Josephus I play 'lets pick a page') was mentioned the greek slave 'tyrannus'. Id not encountered the name b4 in my readings here n there.
The point of this episode is that the end of the Roman Republic is an exciting story in and of itself. The rise of Augustus and the consolidation of the Roman empire under the rule of one man, while preserving the outward forms of republicanism is an intrisically interesting tale.
SO WHY FUGGIN MAKE SHIT UP???
It isnt exciting enough? PFFT
There isnt enough intrigue?? PFFFT
boody hollywood just cant help 'making shit better'
I'd love to be marking some morons' ancient history papers after they watch this crap.
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Oh yeah I got tools n a toolbox fer Christmas YAY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Ive had tools b4. NEVER had a good toolbox to put them in. So they tended to get lost. Now I have a fair to middlin chance at fixing my car MYSELF. Hell I already did the ignition timing yesterday! I can now tighten stuff myself. heh
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