Bryce Lynch
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I rewatched Season 1 over the weekend and there was a lot of foreshadowing of the asteroid attack in it. Most notably, Chrisjen and her grandson lying on the roof, looking up at shooting stars, and him talking about how they were usually harmless...except for the one that killed the dinosaurs.
I think Diogo's uncle's attack on the Martian patrol ship that harassed him was another example, and I believe somewhere there was a reference to men throwing rocks at each other.-
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On 12/27/2020 at 8:49 AM, tennisgurl said:
What an absolute mess, poor...pretty much everyone except for smug ass Marcos. Drummer might have tried to leave the fight, but the fight needs her again. Of course, one huge question that needs answers...what happened to Chrisjen’s wardrobe?! Did anyone think of the pantsuits?! What an amazing episode, brutal but absolutely riveting. This season is seriously hitting the ground hard.
Chrisjen will get revenge on Inaros by flinging all the enormous stones from her jewelry at the Belt.
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21 minutes ago, fishcakes said:
Well, ya know Peach, if you let the those people be 50% of reality TV shows, which according to God and arithmetic should be 60.00000001% white, then they might want other things, like fairness in housing, education, employment, access to health care, and a full and accurate Census count. If you let 9 of the those people on Survivor instead of ... uh ... 7 the those people, 10 legally-and-morally-entitled-to-appear-on-Survivor white people and one person who's mostly white but maybe has like a Filipino grandmother or something, then the next thing you know, the those people will be demanding not to be murdered by the police. Slippery slope, my friend, slippery slope.
So, you support intentional, systemic racial discrimination?
I think they should just choose the best contestants based upon rational criteria like their ability to play the game well, and how interesting they might be to audiences. If some seasons, that means,70%, 80% or 90% BIPOC (or more correctly PORC - "People of the Right Colors", wonderful! I enjoy seeing a diverse group of players.
But, racial quotas are despicable and IMO much more harmful and insulting to those they supposedly "benefit". Having such quotas is essentially saying, "There are enough non-whites who could be good Survivor contestants, so we need to make a rule to force the show to take more." That is a wicked and destructive lie.
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19 hours ago, Nashville said:
The stated “quotas” do not reflect general population representation with technical accuracy, true - but a couple of other factors to consider:
- During the many many seasons (of Survivor and other rTV shows) of minority underrepresentation I don’t recall a significant outburst from technical purists (other than myself on the odd post from time to time) decrying the inaccuracy and discussing appropriate population-representative values, so fussing about overrepresentation might be perceived as being a trifle disingenuous. Just consider it in the nature of a reparation overcorrection and move on.
- When it comes to a clash between technical accuracy vs. marketability, we already know on which side of THAT fence Production is going to land; TPTB are going to market to the young GenZ wokesters who make up the bulk of their broadcast market viewership share - and at that point, expecting a demand for technical statistical accuracy from a generation which was never taught how to reconcile a checkbook is kinda unrealistic. 😉
If underrepresentation happens due to quotas, it is wrong. If if happens due to a lower number of applications and well qualified applicants, from certain groups, there is nothing wrong with it, though I would support reasonable efforts to try to change it.
For example, I have zero problem with the fact that 74% of NBA players are black, and any effort to try to change this with quotas would be outrageous.
Do GenZ wokesters really make up the bulk of viewership? The NBA has seen its ratings collapse as a result of it going ultra-woke. I suspect the same could happen to Survivor. It seems like a lot of companies are making these woke choices rashly without really evaluating the impact on ratings or sales.
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7 hours ago, SVNBob said:
Not 50% black. 50% BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). That would include Native Americans (or First Nations, or whatever term(s) those individuals prefer).
The best way to think of this in Survivor terms is Cook Islands, but with 2 white tribes instead of 1 and without one of the other 3 tribes instead. That's the type of initial cast composition this measure is meant to ensure.
Cook Islands was a one time social experiment, within the social experiment of Survivor, and it was very controversial. IIRC, they reshuffled the tribes very early, which took a lot of the potentially more problematic, "Which race is best at Survivor?" element, and turned it into more about how people of different ethnic backgrounds would interact and how ethnicity might affect alliances, etc.
The new rules mandate discrimination against white applicants, as non-Hispanic whites are over 60% of the American population.
Also, depending upon how the classify other ethnicities, it could be even worse. About 9% of the population identifies as white Hispanic. Will they be considered "POC" in Survivor's new Apartheid scheme?
In addition, just this morning, I read an article reporting that a school district announced that Asian students are not considered "students of color", by "white". It appears they may have walked this back, in response to criticism. But, this brings up the possibility that Survivor might deem Asian-American applicants to be "white" or "non-BIPOC" and use quotas against them, as many universities have done to Asian-American students.
You don't eliminate discrimination, with discrimination. You eliminate it by treating everyone fairly.
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4 hours ago, SVNBob said:
It's hateful, reprehensible, and racist to have a policy to have more BIPOC on the show than there has been historically? (With the exception of 3 seasons)
Or do you mean it's racist to have fewer white people?
Racial quotas are racist in general. But, this racial quota is especially reprehensible.
The non-Hispanic white population is over 60%. The white-Hispanic population is about 9%
So, depending upon whether they treat white-Hispanics as POC or not, they are capping the representation of about 60% or 70% of the population at 50%.
This would be like making a rule that no more than 10% of players in a season could be black, when black Americans are about 12% of the population.
If they capped non-Hispanic whites at about 60% it would still be wrong, but at least they would be trying to match the demographics of the American population. Under this policy, they are deliberately discriminating, based upon race, to achieve a mix that is far different than the demographics of the American population.
What makes it worse, is that the "problem" they are trying to address no longer exists. They has reached a white/non-white distribution that approximated that if the American population, in recent seasons.
I would have absolutely no problem with seasons with 50%, 60% or 80% "POC", as long as they got there by picking the best contestants. But, racial discrimination is ugly and even when it "favors" minorities, I believe it harms them more than it harms white people.
It declares that the most important thing about minorities is their race. This marginalizes them. There is also the evil implication that they must not good enough to make it on their own, so they need discrimination to help them.
BTW, I despise the racist, woke hypocrisy of the term "people of color". It is an absolute synonym to "colored people", which was deemed a slur about 50 years ago.
It is just an example of our modern, woke racial insanity. Just treat all people equally. That is the Only way to end what is left of racism. Instead, the woke mob has created an ugly revival of the racism that was nearly dead 10 or 15 years ago. This is a tragedy.
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On 11/9/2020 at 4:32 PM, blackwing said:
https://ew.com/tv/cbs-reality-series-casting-representation/
Survivor and Big Brother have pledged that future casts will have 50% "black, indigenous and people of colour" representation. The article then goes on to almost exclusively talk about the problem Survivor has had with portrayals of black contestants on the show.
I would assume that the "people of colour" would include Asians and Hispanics. Is "indigenous" the new term for Native Americans? If both of these answers are yes, then I think this is a good thing. Many say how awful the "race season" was, but I thought it was great in terms of representation.
I have mentioned more than a few times about how I think the Asian American male appears to be the most undesirable casting type on reality TV. Shows like Survivor in particular have perpetuated this, if they feel like casting an Asian contestant, it seems more likely that they will cast the "exotic" "alluring" and "mysterious" Asian female instead of an Asian male. I think back to the season where there were THREE Asian females and zero males. The last one left actually commented in her post-boot about how she was pleased to have been the "last one left". Of course, those three were three of the first four boots, so it wasn't a particularly notable accomplishment.
I'm especially curious as to how the casting department is going to define "person of colour". If the purpose is to get more minorities on the show, then I hope they will cast people who historically haven't been as represented on the show. For example, if the show puts somebody that looks like Jennifer Tilly or worse, Hailee Steinfeld, on the show and tries to claim that this person is Asian, then it's just lip service and they will prove that they are doing nothing but trying to fill a quota.
Every season always has its share of young white buff bohunks and young white (blonde) beach babes, so I am curious to see what this actually will look like in the future.
So, Survivor has chosen to embrace racism and racial discrimination and make it official policy.
I cannot condone this hateful, reprehensible action. I am done with Survivor, and IMO, anyone who continues to watch it is supporting racism.
Very sad.
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23 hours ago, blackwing said:
Was it? I didn't think so. Sarah was monologuing about "who is Sarah Lacina? People see me as smart. Or funny. And pretty." It sure didn't sound like a joke to me. Because if it was truly a joke then she would be saying that she is dumb, boring and ugly. There's no way Sarah really thinks that about herself. I do feel like she really believes she is smart, funny and pretty.
I don't agree. Of course her peanut butter cost her. Getting voted out definitely decreases your chances. Before, she had a 1 in 8 chance to win the game. Now, she has a 1 in 11 chance to be the EoE returnee... and that takes a lot of skill and luck as she has to outlast all of the other Edgers to get back in the game. Then when she comes back in, let's say there are 6 people left, then she has a 1 in 6 chance. There's a lot of variables of course but if you're looking at the probabilities and assume it that each person has an equal chance of returning / winning, she gave up a 1 in 8 shot (maybe 1 in 9 if you include the returnee) and in return now has a 1 in 66.
The "1 in 8 chance" cliche has always been BS. In every Final 8 there are contestants with a 0 in 8 chance and others with better than a 1 in 8 chance.
It is kind of like claiming the last 8 teams remaining in a sports leagues playoffs all have a 1 in 8 chance. They don't.
Based upon the only other EOE season, your best chance is to win the final EOE challenge as the EOE jurors are going to vote for that person, rather than for someone more deserving who made them jealous and bitter, by remaining in the game to the end, by playing well and not getting voted out.
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15 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
Hope that PB and cookies tasted like $2 million bucks, because unless Kim gets back in the game, that's what it cost her.
But, that's just it. It cost her nothing. Getting voted "out" does nothing to reduce one's chances of winning the $2 million. It probably increases them, as you get more chance to bond with the jurors and have to cut fewer throats.
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15 hours ago, Daisy said:
how the hell are we at season 40. SEASON FORTY and you step down for a pile of peanut butter and cookies and you know you're not safe and secure?
But, with the EOE abomination, EVERYONE is totally safe and secure. Getting voted off means absolutely nothing. In fact, based upon the other Fake Survivor season that used it, it is a huge advantage.
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4 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:
Can someone with a DVR tell me what is written on the box that Kim sits down when she steps into the courtroom to talk with Howard?
The first line (which was crossed out) reads "PPD RECORDS TO FILE"
The second line (also crossed out) reads "Misc Felonies 97 98 99"
The third line (highlighted in blue) reads "FOR TRANSFER 10/02"
The last line is illegible to me.
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2 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:
"I offered your husband a job and he threw bowling balls at my car, and asked hookers to embarrass me at a work lunch!"
Most People: "Thats extremely concerning and I think he needs therapy."
Kim: "Thats awesome and I think he needs to go even bigger!"
This sort of thing makes Kim's story arc so unbelievable to me. I get people making terrible decisions. But, in BB and in BCS, when it used to be good, people made terrible decisions for reasons that made sense.
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Does Kim really think Steph from S&C and the guy from HHM will want to leave their promising careers at prestigious firms to defend lowlifes at her $#i+hole firm.
Does she think everyone is as foolish and pretentious as she is?
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Meh. Two cliffhangers and I don't care how either of them turn out in 3 years, or whenever Season 6 comes out.
The writing of Lalo as a cartoon super villain is clownish. I love how he shot at least 50 rounds out of a 30 round magazine, in the tunnel.
Kim and Jimmy are both so unlikeable that I don't care what happens to them in Season 6.
Kim's hatred for Howard seems to have come out of nowhere. Her character has become tedious to me. The whole "ruin Howard to tank the Sandpiper care" plot seems idiotic.
This show has been in serious decline since the start of Season 4, and season 5 was very mediocre.
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4 hours ago, PeterPirate said:
My recollection is hazy, but isn't there a BB scene where we see a gun in Saul's desk?
We saw Walt and Jesse fumble around with guns before they were able to use them effectively. Even if Kim were to "get smart" and decide to arm herself, there would still need to be several scenes of her obtaining a weapon and then getting trained to use it. With any luck, we'll get to see that in Kim Wexler: Undercover DEA Agent.
Yes, in Episode 511 "Confessions", Jesse, enraged when he figures out that Walt poisoned Brock and that Saul had Huell lift the ricin cigarette (and later his weed) from him, storms past Huell, into Saul's office and starts beating him.
Saul crawls to his desk, opens a drawer and tries to get a small pistol from it, but Jesse grabs it first and threatens Saul and Huell with it.
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8 hours ago, scenario said:
The judge did specify 7 million in cash. So they brought 7 million in cash. I wouldn't be surprised but I could see a scene like this.
"Cash bail is set for $20,000."
"Do you accept credit cards?"
"Cash or cashiers check."
Guy gets on his phone. An hour later the lawyer shows up with $20,000 cash.
"I'm sorry we can't accept cash."
"The judge specifically told us cash."
"What the hell is a cash bail if they don't accept cash?"
What would probably happen is they'd call the Feds. Then delay for a while. Then they'd let him go and the Fed's would arrest him on something else like suspicion of tax evasion before he even left the building. They could hold him for 48 hours. Once they found out that the name was fake, they could find something else to hold him on.
I have no experience with bail, but I assume that most large bail payments are made by check, bank check, or wire transfer.
"Cash" doesn't mean paper money. It means that the defendant needs to actually put up the full $7 million, as opposed to paying a small percentage of it (often 10%) as a non-refundable fee to a bail bondsman for a bail bond.
The government would definitely investigate the origin of the cash, and if Mr. De Guzman couldn't provide an explanation, the government would probably seize it through a civil asset forfeiture
I assume, that the idea on the show is that by the time the government did this, and his bail was revoked, "Mr. De Guzman" would be long gone, and in Mexico, under a different Identity, out of reach of the NM authorities.
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7 hours ago, PeterPirate said:
Mike told Gus that fear was not a good motivator. I recall Gus saying the same thing sometime in BB, and I think it was to Mike.
I suppose Jimmy was upset that Kim was leaving Mesa Verde after all he did to get them as her client. Their conversation was interrupted by Lalo's appearance, so I wonder if that topic will come up again in the future.
Yes, in BB episode 304, Mike suggested that Gus convince Walt to run the superlab by telling Walt that Gus was the only thing keeping the Salamanca cousins from killing him.
Gus told Mike that he didn't find fear to be a good motivator.
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12 hours ago, ShadowFacts said:
Did Mike take the license plate off the Esteem? What was the point, there is still a VIN number.
If he was in Vietnam he is closer to 70 than in his 50s. Which is what he looks like and moves like.
The episode takes place in 2004, according to the Fandom timeline. The Vietnam War ended on 1975. So, theoretically, Mike could be as young as 47 in this episode, if he served in Vietnam in 1975 at age 18.
When he bought the M40 from Lawson, he alluded to using one with a wooden stock that warped in the jungle humidity. They started replacing the wooden stocks with fiberglass in the early 70s, so that probably moves Mike's service back at a least a few years.
But, it is still totally realistic that Mike could be in his early to mid 50s in this episode, though not that Jonathan Banks could be.
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7 hours ago, icemiser69 said:
Yeah, it seemed like the driver was going to run Jimmy down, but that would have been a really dumb idea. Those bags containing the money could have been torn to shreds in the process, or Jimmy could have bled all over the bags of money.
But, it Jimmy put his hands up the driver probably would have stopped the car and gotten out to shoot him. Why risk damaging his vehicle and getting stranded or tearing open the the money bags and having the $7 million blow all over the.desert?
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Mike shooting the driver was my plan all along. But, why didn't he wait for him to stop the car? Then, Mike and Saul would have had a functioning vehicle to drive home in. Also a shot at a stationary target would be much easier.
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There was a fun callback to BB in the Madrigal conference room scene. The restaurant names and logos on the nameplates were the same as those hanging on the wall of Madrigal headquarters in Germany, when they took down the LPH logo, in "Madrigal".
One of them was the unfortunately named, "Luftwaffle". On the BB insider podcast, Vince Gilligan mentioned that you could only see part of the Luftwaffle logo in "Madrigal" and he sounded disappointed by that. In "JMM" you can see it clearly.
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1 hour ago, Clanstarling said:
Well, she seems to truly love him, and that's less a balls thing than a brain thing. People make all kinds of messed up choices when it comes to marriage.
I was reliving our courthouse wedding too - at least our judge took us into his chambers. Unfortunately he had just had some kind of dental procedure, and was a mush mouth. It was less moving than hilarious. But that's okay.
I always believed it too, for the same reasons.
As I recall, it was the squat cobbler incident was when Chuck got Jimmy out of jail and took him back to New Mexico.
No, Chuck got Jimmy out of jail in Chicago when he was facing charges for a Chicago Sunroof.
Squat Cobbler was what Jimmy used to explain Pryce's hidey hole to the police.
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18 minutes ago, ShadowFacts said:
I can't give her much credit for that. That was damage control of the damage she caused. She was acting totally against her client in being part of Jimmy's Mr. X doing what amounted to a break-in of Kevin, then using the information gained against Kevin. Beyond unethical. Malpractice that cost him millions he would not otherwise have been on the hook for. She has no business continuing to represent MV. Kevin is foolish to trust her, it makes no sense given what her boyfriend/now husband did.
I now have more interest in Gus than I did, owing partly to the fact that I am done with Jimmy and Kim. They are hinting heavily at something beyond revenge for Max, maybe it won't be any different than the rest of the cartel, but the Chilean part could lead to something.
I thought Kim criticizing Kevin for not following her advice was well played, though totally unethical. Kevin has no idea Kim was conspiring against him all along. So, from his perspective, he was wrong not to follow Kim's advice.
That said, I'm not sure I buy that Kevin and Paige would be so easily fooled by Kim. Would they really buy that the guy she used to share an office with and now shares a bed with was really going against her?
Also, once they saw how sleazy Saul is, I would think that they might start to believe Chuck's claim that Jimmy altered the MV documents to sabotage Chuck and give the work to Kim.
They might not be totally convinced Kim was working for Acker, but I think prudent people would be suspicious enough that they would stop doing business with her and her firm.
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So, what was with the depiction of Herr Schuler, in this episode?
Was it just me, or did he come across as possibly gay and sort of doddering fool, being manipulated by Gus and Lydia?
We saw very little of him in BB, but I presumed he was a strong businessman and more of an equal partner with Gus in the drug operation.
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S05.E04: Gaugamela
in The Expanse
I was thinking they could solve all the economic problems of the UNN, the MCR and the Belt by simply putting a swear jar in Chrisjen's office.