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Mar. 30th, 2003 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsDang, its cold out there! And it was so warm just a few days ago! I hate this fluctuation in temperature. You start dressing for warmer weather, then it gets all cold.
I had a feeling at the end of Alias that Dixon's wife was toast! Yeah, Sloane was just giving an eye for an eye, but Emily was an accident! You don't go after family! That's against the rules! Even the mafia wouldn't do that. Of course, does the that really give one the moral high ground? Not going after family? Or "No women, no children"? And who's to say women are inherently more innocent than men? I mean, who decides who's innocent? Also, if you think about it, its like justifying that its okay to kill certain people. That its more "civil" if you're adhering to a set of "universal" laws. Its like the whole, "Nothing personal, just business". It may not be personal to you, but its prolly pretty personal to that other person. In reality, its just some philosophical BS that someone came up with to feel better about themselves after doing something shitty. Its like just because they say "I ruined your life, but I didn't intend to hurt you, specifically", that makes it fine?
Dang, I was hoping Johnny would find out a way to save both the guy and his sister on The Dead Zone. But alas, I guess that was the whole point Reverand Purdy was getting to before Johnny interrupted him. The whole Abraham and Issac story, and did he really pass the test? I was thinking they were gonna do something like if Johnny let Ally Sheedy's character go, things would work out for the best. I guess technically they do, the guy changes his life around, the school bus of kids doesn't get hit, they don't take the heart away from that other chick. But I was hoping there would be a way to save the sister too. I guess that's the real test though, to really go through with the sacrifice. I mean its one thing to be asked a great deal, but at the last minute be rewarded for your sacrifice by not having to make the sacrifice at all. Knowing things will work out for you in the end, you might be more willing to accept a price that ends up never being collected. It does suck how abruptly it ended, Johnny being forced to pick a fight, sending her to her death, to not be able to tell her why this is being done.
What's that line from that one ep of B5, "You have things worth dying for, but do you have anything worth living for?" People can prolly easily think of people/causes they would die for. Or people they really care for and wouldn't want to live without. But what about the converse line of thinking? There's a really poignant part in one of the endings of that Kana game Sis got me. Its the one where she doesn't survive the kidney transplant, and you're at Kana's grave, listening to her last entries in her little recorder-diary thing. At one point in the recording, she totally breaks down, begging to someway, somehow live. It kinda reminded me of that line. Kana finally knew what exactly what she wanted from life, but by then she was at its twilight. She regains her composure afterwards, apologizing and accepting her fate, and says the little happiness she had found was enough for her. But was there really anything to apologize for? Is it selfish to want to live? There's nothing wrong with not wanting to die, to want to live happily ever after forevermore and all that jazz.
I think I come off as a pretty nice guy. But don't be fooled. I'm a total asshole.
I had a feeling at the end of Alias that Dixon's wife was toast! Yeah, Sloane was just giving an eye for an eye, but Emily was an accident! You don't go after family! That's against the rules! Even the mafia wouldn't do that. Of course, does the that really give one the moral high ground? Not going after family? Or "No women, no children"? And who's to say women are inherently more innocent than men? I mean, who decides who's innocent? Also, if you think about it, its like justifying that its okay to kill certain people. That its more "civil" if you're adhering to a set of "universal" laws. Its like the whole, "Nothing personal, just business". It may not be personal to you, but its prolly pretty personal to that other person. In reality, its just some philosophical BS that someone came up with to feel better about themselves after doing something shitty. Its like just because they say "I ruined your life, but I didn't intend to hurt you, specifically", that makes it fine?
Dang, I was hoping Johnny would find out a way to save both the guy and his sister on The Dead Zone. But alas, I guess that was the whole point Reverand Purdy was getting to before Johnny interrupted him. The whole Abraham and Issac story, and did he really pass the test? I was thinking they were gonna do something like if Johnny let Ally Sheedy's character go, things would work out for the best. I guess technically they do, the guy changes his life around, the school bus of kids doesn't get hit, they don't take the heart away from that other chick. But I was hoping there would be a way to save the sister too. I guess that's the real test though, to really go through with the sacrifice. I mean its one thing to be asked a great deal, but at the last minute be rewarded for your sacrifice by not having to make the sacrifice at all. Knowing things will work out for you in the end, you might be more willing to accept a price that ends up never being collected. It does suck how abruptly it ended, Johnny being forced to pick a fight, sending her to her death, to not be able to tell her why this is being done.
What's that line from that one ep of B5, "You have things worth dying for, but do you have anything worth living for?" People can prolly easily think of people/causes they would die for. Or people they really care for and wouldn't want to live without. But what about the converse line of thinking? There's a really poignant part in one of the endings of that Kana game Sis got me. Its the one where she doesn't survive the kidney transplant, and you're at Kana's grave, listening to her last entries in her little recorder-diary thing. At one point in the recording, she totally breaks down, begging to someway, somehow live. It kinda reminded me of that line. Kana finally knew what exactly what she wanted from life, but by then she was at its twilight. She regains her composure afterwards, apologizing and accepting her fate, and says the little happiness she had found was enough for her. But was there really anything to apologize for? Is it selfish to want to live? There's nothing wrong with not wanting to die, to want to live happily ever after forevermore and all that jazz.
I think I come off as a pretty nice guy. But don't be fooled. I'm a total asshole.
