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Jericho, in its resurrected second season, did some excellent USA-as-Iraq allegory which addressed resistance against a questionably legitimate occupying force.
Yeah. Babylon 5 too was all about the allegory, and I've been in therapy trying to forget having watched it ever since. It might be the thing that keeps me from watching BSG, although I'm sure I'll eventually get round to it.
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Hotties! <ducks>
Dude, ask yourself why chicks watch Grey's Anatomy .
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Babylon 5 too was all about the allegory, and I've been in therapy trying to forget having watched it ever since.
See, you've just given me another reason to watch this show; allegory is my happy place. I think that's why I like alternate history as a genre so much.
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But then the national psyche on cycling sucks already. People would rather drop their kids off at school in an SUV than dare to let them develop a little independence.
Actually, outside of the main centres, the new bus service contracts will be forcing people back into private transport more than parents fear of letting kids out on their own. The new system is a travesty and another nail in the coffin for public transport.
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This article seems appropriate for the thread:
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You should, however, immediately rush out to JB Hi-Fi on Queen St and buy the entire series. DO IT NOW!
How can I sneer at other people and their fantasy/sci fi obsessions if I'm buying the DVDs too? Don't you see my dilemma?
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The cyclepath is a positive step toward a greater reality as foreseen by Norman Tebbit who, in his finite wisdom, realised that you could get people to work for minimum wages if you gave them the means to cycle to work.
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Babylon 5 too was all about the allegory, and I've been in therapy trying to forget having watched it ever since. It might be the thing that keeps me from watching BSG, although I'm sure I'll eventually get round to it
Babylon 5 bad. BSG good.
Rinse. Repeat.
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Oh, and I for one have a plan.
A plan to eat pre-baked and rewarmed foodstuffs smeared with high fat dairy products.
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Babylon 5 bad. BSG good.
Rinse. Repeat.
I don't doubt it at all, it's just that when one is stung by the genre it takes a little while to recover.
('The Emperor of the Republic'. Seriously, who wrote that stuff?)
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J. Michael Straczynski - it was in the credits...
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Straczynski! <shakes fist>
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Yep - they're the ones who think Frank Miller is a good writer, Rorschach is some kind of role model, and the Dark Knight was really about George Bush being right.
See, I haven't heard of any of these, (OK, except that George Bush bloke)
So let's borrow 40 billion! Cycleways for all, or should that be for all the children to pay back :(
We're borrowing $40 billion, cycleways or no. Had Labour been re-elected, they would have had to do much the same. The alternative being massive cuts in govt spending and/or reversing tax cuts/working for families.
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We're borrowing $40 billion, cycleways or no. Had Labour been re-elected, they would have had to do much the same. The alternative being massive cuts in govt spending and/or reversing tax cuts/working for families.
Quite -- and that seems to be a fair summary of the IMF's view: "it's a bit of a bugger to have to borrow that much, but you guys are sweet compared to some other countries, so rock on with your bad selves" (I paraphrase).
But the previous government's nous on job creation is hard to knock -- especially considering the half-baked plans on offer from the new one.
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"it's a bit of a bugger to have to borrow that much, but you guys are sweet compared to some other countries, so rock on with your bad selves" (I paraphrase).
I think I'd be much more likely to read IMF reports if they were always couched in such language.
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We're borrowing $40 billion, cycleways or no. Had Labour been re-elected, they would have had to do much the same. The alternative being massive cuts in govt spending and/or reversing tax cuts/working for families.
Quite -- and that seems to be a fair summary of the IMF's view: "it's a bit of a bugger to have to borrow that much, but you guys are sweet compared to some other countries, so rock on with your bad selves" (I paraphrase).
I was just reading up on that looking for an alternative take on the IMF, so I have asked the Labour party to respond to this view.
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Firstly, as has been pointed out before, PAS is something of an oasis of intelligent debate. If you have to put up with a few Star Trek references to get to the gold, then that's the price you're going to have to pay.
I agree about the oasis and I am prepared to tolerate people going on and on and on about their fantasy fetishes. I just wish they would not hijack discussions about more important matters, as has happened here.
Secondly, the two things aren't mutually exclusive. I can enjoy BSG and be fairly clued up on the state of global politics. Or am I never allowed to relax from my eternally vigilent status as gatekeeper of freedom?
At ease, soldier. What bothers me is folk who think their preferred allegory is so important and so true that no further action is required: the truth as revealed by this season's space opera is so self-evident that the Government surely will fall. The neo-cons did not do allegory (or satire, for that matter). They just lied and made people believe them. What was needed to make them fall was concerted political action, not leisure activities.
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What was needed to make them fall was concerted political action, not leisure activities.
Yeah, but comrade... you've gotta switch off sometime. And while you're taking a break from concerted political action, you might as well watch something decent.
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Hey, it's all sweet again.
Wall Street hearts the Obama bank plan, markets around the world shoot up.
And US home sales rise at their fastest pace in six years.
Whatever were we worried about? ;-)
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I was just reading up on that looking for an alternative take on the IMF, so I have asked the Labour party to respond to this view.
Given they have criticised the government for having too timid a stimulus package, I shall be very interested to see what that is.
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Given they have criticised the government for having too timid a stimulus package, I shall be very interested to see what that is.
If I hear back, I'll let ya know.
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Yeah, but comrade... you've gotta switch off sometime. And while you're taking a break from concerted political action, you might as well watch something decent.
Actually, if while you're switched off you happen to watch something that is halfway switched on, that's even better.
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Wall Street hearts the Obama bank plan
And thankfully Obama has seen some sense and suggested he will oppose this godawful retrospective 90% tax on contractually agreed retention bonuses.
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You know what? Fuck BSG*: if I want to watch 'Rock of Love II' and talk about Daisy the stripper's desperation for Bret Michaels as a political allegory for the financial crisis, that's my call. And whoever doesn't like it: up their nose with a rubber hose.
*I actually have no opinion on BSG one way or the other, as I haven't seen it yet. But it's on my ever-lengthening list.
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Some correctives to the Vanity Fair piece.
But so entertaining - even the corrections. Ministry of Elves! That man should write the new Icelandic saga. And a 70 degree shower - are we talking Fahrenheit or Centigrade?
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