He took the midnight train going anywhere
Mar. 19th, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsJust hit the mall and got Samurai Warriors 2:XL and used the gift card I got from Auntie this past Christmas to buy some new dress pants and socks, since I'd been using the same pair of pants for every special occasion the last five years.
Tuesday TV commentary:
Okay, I finally finished last night's Jericho ep. So John Smith is a crazy JR guy who wants to destroy JR, so he implemented the plan so that JR would consolidate power and thus there would be a centralized target for him to strike at with the bomb. Of course, the problem with that is, how would he know, when implementing the plan, that there would be someone like Hawkins who'd not carry out an attack and save the bomb for later as evidence? I'm sure that's not in the "how to take over the country" plan.
Owel, back to the whole Beck vs Jake thing, I see what they're trying to do. They're trying to unite the Hawkins storyline with the main storyline by painting Beck as a guy stuck in the middle, and Jake will have to convince him he's fighting for the wrong side. The problem is, the whole Goetz murder thing is a poor way to do it. As I said previously, yeah, maybe Beck was a little heavy handed when he took Jake into custody. But the country had just been practically wiped out! He's been dealing with insurgents, and in a mind set to find the terrorists responsible for the attack, since that's his main job, so he's bound to forget certain civil liberties while doing his job.
But as I said, Jake and the Rangers aren't in the right. They should've let Stanley turn himself in- he's feeling guilty as hell already, and they should've focused on trying to get him leniency or something, rather than being all, "We won't give you Stanley, because he was a nice guy killing a bad guy!" That's still vigilantism! And then they took the convoy hostage!! And somehow, Jake's turning it into this whole, Beck is a pawn for JR thing! For trying to enforce a law, a real one, and not a J&R implemented one?! Now, if JR/Ravenwood was doing something hincky, and Beck was being forced to enforce it, and that's why Jake was taken into custody, that would be fine. But the Big Lebowski calling for revolution, because the military, who've been spending the last half year quelling unrest and trying to find the people responsible for the largest terrorist attack in US History, most of whom prolly had families who are now dead or they haven't seen in a long time, played it a little too hard when trying to arrest a vigilante and his crew who've done insurgent things? That's not right! Owel, I guess this show is almost dunzo. I found it interesting, and I only hope if it doesn't return, there'll be something resembling a conclusion next week. No cliffhangers please, given the likelihood of this show returning is about zero to nil.
Tuesday TV commentary:
Okay, I finally finished last night's Jericho ep. So John Smith is a crazy JR guy who wants to destroy JR, so he implemented the plan so that JR would consolidate power and thus there would be a centralized target for him to strike at with the bomb. Of course, the problem with that is, how would he know, when implementing the plan, that there would be someone like Hawkins who'd not carry out an attack and save the bomb for later as evidence? I'm sure that's not in the "how to take over the country" plan.
Owel, back to the whole Beck vs Jake thing, I see what they're trying to do. They're trying to unite the Hawkins storyline with the main storyline by painting Beck as a guy stuck in the middle, and Jake will have to convince him he's fighting for the wrong side. The problem is, the whole Goetz murder thing is a poor way to do it. As I said previously, yeah, maybe Beck was a little heavy handed when he took Jake into custody. But the country had just been practically wiped out! He's been dealing with insurgents, and in a mind set to find the terrorists responsible for the attack, since that's his main job, so he's bound to forget certain civil liberties while doing his job.
But as I said, Jake and the Rangers aren't in the right. They should've let Stanley turn himself in- he's feeling guilty as hell already, and they should've focused on trying to get him leniency or something, rather than being all, "We won't give you Stanley, because he was a nice guy killing a bad guy!" That's still vigilantism! And then they took the convoy hostage!! And somehow, Jake's turning it into this whole, Beck is a pawn for JR thing! For trying to enforce a law, a real one, and not a J&R implemented one?! Now, if JR/Ravenwood was doing something hincky, and Beck was being forced to enforce it, and that's why Jake was taken into custody, that would be fine. But the Big Lebowski calling for revolution, because the military, who've been spending the last half year quelling unrest and trying to find the people responsible for the largest terrorist attack in US History, most of whom prolly had families who are now dead or they haven't seen in a long time, played it a little too hard when trying to arrest a vigilante and his crew who've done insurgent things? That's not right! Owel, I guess this show is almost dunzo. I found it interesting, and I only hope if it doesn't return, there'll be something resembling a conclusion next week. No cliffhangers please, given the likelihood of this show returning is about zero to nil.
