I'm an a-hole with a gun and a cool suit
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geebsHmm, I just noticed this will be my 2992nd post on this! 8 more til the big 3000. So I'd seen most of Fool's Gold already, but I only finally saw it all the way through the other day. Do you know what's weird, every time I see a movie with Malcolm Jamal Warner in it, I totally won't recognize him in it. Then I'll find out later, and be all, "Malcolm Jamal Warner was in this?" And its not like he looks different, because I'll see it the second time through and be all, oh, he is in it! Eh, he's apparently Fred Savage in disguise anyways. Anyhoo, the movie is cool because it has a couple of small chested, but tight-bodied cuties in it, Kate Hudson and Alexis Dziena. The former needs no introduction, but one may recognize the latter from that short lived Invasion show, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, or the ep of SVU where Stabler went all the way to Prague to find her, and got to beat information out of a perp with no consequences. Anyways, while she does look pretty hot in a bikini, her infamous nude scene in Bill Murray movie Broken Flowers (where she plays the aptly named Lolita) her breasts are kinda weird. I hear they actually had to film that scene late in production because they had to wait until she turned 18 before they could do it.
TV Commentary:
Kings- Hmm, I'm liking this show so far. Looks like secrets abound in this one. I mean, last week, they showed he had an illegitimate son (and was that the same kid the daughter showed when she was making her improved health care pitch?) But we find out Silas has an enemy dictator who the world thinks is dead secretly imprisoned somewhere, played by another Deadwood alum, Brian Cox. Anyhoo, he gets out of his brother in law pulling the money from the treasury by getting Brian Cox's Abbadon to reveal where he stashed away his country's money before Gilboa invaded and took it over. And why would he give it to Silas, because apparently he spared someone(s) important to him, and had been saving that reveal for an emergency like this one? Is it his family, and does the rest of the world think they're dead too, so they have new identities? It seems like that.
But anyways, David keeps on getting dreams where he keeps on getting the message "Don't Go", which he interprets to mean to not go to the peace talks. And there are plenty of reasons for him not too. First being that Silas is secretly trying to have him assassinated after seeing the butterfly crown thing. But he doesn't know that, the main reason he doesn't want to go was that he didn't want to somehow mess up the treaty his brother died for. It seems like he might have, and the Gathians are all ready to leave. But Silas realizes its not really David's fault, they weren't really interested in signing a treaty and were looking for any reason to break it, and if it hadn't been David, it would be something else. David, for his part, finally realizes the dream was telling him to tell the Gathians to not go. So he basically blocks their motorcade, and its a tense standoff, but it gives Silas the opportunity he needs to talk the the Gath leader away from his generals.
Apparently, they want the prosperity Shiloh has. Which is weird, given last week it seemed like Gilboa was the aggressors, particularly with the Goliaths just sitting on the border like that as if they were on the defense. So Silas decides to give them David's hometown of Prosperity Bay (called the Bay of Sorrow to the Gath) so they can build their own Shiloh. I was thinking David would be mad about this, but he and his mom seem totally fine with it.
So, the King thinks David might be useful after all, and tells his right hand military dude that fortune favors David. Its kinda like Rome, with Caesar keeping Vorenus and Pullo around because they seem to be blessed by fate. And he might be, because the assassin sent after David went radio silent, and they had no way of contacting him immediately to stop. But throughout the ep, the security guards have been trying to get rid of some pigeons that have taken residence in the king's palace, almost crapping in his morning coffee. So the chubbier one finally gets tired of it and tosses a grenade(!) to flush them out, which sends the birds flying and David ducking, so that the sniper misses him. And by that time they're finally able to find the sniper and tell him to stop.
While having it be a sniper so they could do the dead bird on the ground with its wings spread out looking all symbolic, I don't think they would've actually tried to kill him that way. See, at first, the king wanted him dead regardless of the treaty signing. Now, if the treaty was successful, and they sniped him, wouldn't there be an investigation and lots of people asking question why the big hero was shot? I mean, the one guy, they made it look like had a heart attack, so they try to be subtle. And you can't blame it on the Gath, because that would put the peace in jeopardy. And I can't see it as them sniping him, and then just having the media report that he died some other way, because if that was the case and they have total control of the media like that (I mean, it seems like they are able to quash a lot), why not just drag him into some back room and kill him then, if no one is going to say anything?
When it looks like the treaty was quashed, then I could see them going the shooting route. Because the reporters were there, they saw David grab the Gath leader guy and the altercation with that one general. So it could look like it was David's fault, and then they could kill him, and easily set up someone up as a patsy, saying they were distraught over David ruining the peace process so they killed him. Though I would think enough time passed that the sniper would hear that the peace process was un-derailed and him sniping David like that would raise too many questions.
Then again, I guess you can do this scenario, where you have a misguided soul who wanted to continue the war with the Gath be the "shooter", who died in the "shootout to capture him". Then Silas can speechify about how David was a martyr and use that to wax poetic about how they need to stay this peace course, for his sake, and the sake of all the others who died to bring about peace.
TV Commentary:
Kings- Hmm, I'm liking this show so far. Looks like secrets abound in this one. I mean, last week, they showed he had an illegitimate son (and was that the same kid the daughter showed when she was making her improved health care pitch?) But we find out Silas has an enemy dictator who the world thinks is dead secretly imprisoned somewhere, played by another Deadwood alum, Brian Cox. Anyhoo, he gets out of his brother in law pulling the money from the treasury by getting Brian Cox's Abbadon to reveal where he stashed away his country's money before Gilboa invaded and took it over. And why would he give it to Silas, because apparently he spared someone(s) important to him, and had been saving that reveal for an emergency like this one? Is it his family, and does the rest of the world think they're dead too, so they have new identities? It seems like that.
But anyways, David keeps on getting dreams where he keeps on getting the message "Don't Go", which he interprets to mean to not go to the peace talks. And there are plenty of reasons for him not too. First being that Silas is secretly trying to have him assassinated after seeing the butterfly crown thing. But he doesn't know that, the main reason he doesn't want to go was that he didn't want to somehow mess up the treaty his brother died for. It seems like he might have, and the Gathians are all ready to leave. But Silas realizes its not really David's fault, they weren't really interested in signing a treaty and were looking for any reason to break it, and if it hadn't been David, it would be something else. David, for his part, finally realizes the dream was telling him to tell the Gathians to not go. So he basically blocks their motorcade, and its a tense standoff, but it gives Silas the opportunity he needs to talk the the Gath leader away from his generals.
Apparently, they want the prosperity Shiloh has. Which is weird, given last week it seemed like Gilboa was the aggressors, particularly with the Goliaths just sitting on the border like that as if they were on the defense. So Silas decides to give them David's hometown of Prosperity Bay (called the Bay of Sorrow to the Gath) so they can build their own Shiloh. I was thinking David would be mad about this, but he and his mom seem totally fine with it.
So, the King thinks David might be useful after all, and tells his right hand military dude that fortune favors David. Its kinda like Rome, with Caesar keeping Vorenus and Pullo around because they seem to be blessed by fate. And he might be, because the assassin sent after David went radio silent, and they had no way of contacting him immediately to stop. But throughout the ep, the security guards have been trying to get rid of some pigeons that have taken residence in the king's palace, almost crapping in his morning coffee. So the chubbier one finally gets tired of it and tosses a grenade(!) to flush them out, which sends the birds flying and David ducking, so that the sniper misses him. And by that time they're finally able to find the sniper and tell him to stop.
While having it be a sniper so they could do the dead bird on the ground with its wings spread out looking all symbolic, I don't think they would've actually tried to kill him that way. See, at first, the king wanted him dead regardless of the treaty signing. Now, if the treaty was successful, and they sniped him, wouldn't there be an investigation and lots of people asking question why the big hero was shot? I mean, the one guy, they made it look like had a heart attack, so they try to be subtle. And you can't blame it on the Gath, because that would put the peace in jeopardy. And I can't see it as them sniping him, and then just having the media report that he died some other way, because if that was the case and they have total control of the media like that (I mean, it seems like they are able to quash a lot), why not just drag him into some back room and kill him then, if no one is going to say anything?
When it looks like the treaty was quashed, then I could see them going the shooting route. Because the reporters were there, they saw David grab the Gath leader guy and the altercation with that one general. So it could look like it was David's fault, and then they could kill him, and easily set up someone up as a patsy, saying they were distraught over David ruining the peace process so they killed him. Though I would think enough time passed that the sniper would hear that the peace process was un-derailed and him sniping David like that would raise too many questions.
Then again, I guess you can do this scenario, where you have a misguided soul who wanted to continue the war with the Gath be the "shooter", who died in the "shootout to capture him". Then Silas can speechify about how David was a martyr and use that to wax poetic about how they need to stay this peace course, for his sake, and the sake of all the others who died to bring about peace.
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Date: 2009-03-24 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-24 11:46 am (UTC)And... let's say you won some super extra crazy lottery for like a billion dollars, and you decided that you were going to start hanging out at soirees that require trendy dressing and whatnot, but that you wanted "the usual suspects" to be there as well. Would it be time for a musical montage as we all went out to buy fabulous clothes, or would you be all "hey, you're probably gonna need to dress different, try these stores, here's some money if you need it." The latter is the way men would do it. Though it would hardly be the first non-manly thing you'd do (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Date: 2009-03-24 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-24 11:16 am (UTC)But there's a lack of characters that the secret female relation (they didn't outright say it was a daughter, but it seems like a daughter, right?) could be. I think she might be the daughter, but I think the vow thing is something else entirely, because I'm a little skeptical she'd pretend to be Silas' daughter. If she was really Abbadon's daughter, she has to have no idea.
We don't know much about the religion in that world, but it seems pretty important, maybe it has to with that?