Sarah Silverman (via nonduality) (via dustindeckard
)
I understand the sentiment, but I have to point out that a better analogy is not joining a country club but saying that playing golf at all is racist. Comedians aren’t built for logic.
(via awkwardscott)
Um, I don’t consider Sarah Silverman a comedian. Just saying.
(via joshdutcher)
Oh, right, sorry, it’s comedienne.
Just ordered my Alienware M11x!
- Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz
- 4GB 800MHz DDR3 RAM
- 11.6” 1366x768 LCD display
- nVidia GT335M 1GB Graphics Card
- 160GB Hard Drive
I’m incredibly excited, but kind of upset that it won’t ship until March 1. ONE MONTH!
Last night was the series finale for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. There are spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t seen it and plan to, you might want to skip past this.
I have really mixed feelings about Epitaph Two. I thought that it was a good episode with a lot of closure, but as Joss Whedon shows tend to do, there were as many new questions as there are answers. (This is a problem, since the show is cancelled.)
My biggest problem is the deus ex machina with Topher’s unwipe-bomb. To me, the series was leading up to Echo being the cure in one way or another, the savior to humankind, “the one”. I figured she would be the sacrificial lamb. Instead, they pointlessly redirect to a rather silly idea of Topher’s that, while it buys him his much needed penance, comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with Echo.
I’ll buy the idea that the unwipe-bomb can reverse the effects of those changed by the remote-wipe tech. But the dolls that have been wiped and imprinted by the chair? If tere was a way to restore them without a backup, I think Topher would have figured it out long ago. Instead, he has insisted dozens of times over the course of the series that the chair wipes them clean. (Of course some things stay, like Priya and Tony’s love for each other, but I think the show’s point there was that some things are deeper than memory engrams.)
The question is, then, why is Echo important? They established in the last episode that Echo could ask as some sort of a vaccine, so where did that go? Seems to me replicating that would have been priority one. They basically made her character completely unnecessary.
I really liked Alpha actually being a relatively normal person, rather than the Joker knock-off he was beginning to become earlier in the season. He even had one of the funniest lines in the episode: “This speaks to the schizophrenic in me. Both of them.” The question stands of why he wasn’t psychotic and homicidal now, 10 years in the future. My guess is that his brain, given time, was able to sort things out and stabilize, but who knows? Maybe the imprint of Ballard he downloaded gave him a sense of order he didn’t have before. Or, maybe Echo and Ballard pinned him down in the chair at some point and reprogrammed him. Either way, I have a sneaking suspicion it will be addressed in a comic book at some point.
Speaking of Ballard, I’ve seen a lot of people complain about his seemingly-random death. But, y’know what? In firefights, some people get hit by bullets, and it’s not always the bad guys. I don’t mind, actually, I didn’t really like him anyway. It’s not good for Echo, but as I said earlier, she’s not exactly important at this point anyway.
Dollhouse really became good after it became more of an ensemble show and less of an Eliza Dushku vehicle. Eliza’s okay, but she is far from the best actor on that show. Enver Gjokaj, specifically, is an amazing part of the cast, and I’ll be watching for anything he does in the future. (Enver’s impression of Topher was almost better than Topher!) Fran Kranz, too, is fantastic, and he played some of the more convincing character development on the show.
And this speaks more to the previous two episodes, but I really hate what they did to Boyd. I have a hard time believing that the writers planned for him to be the head of Rossum all along. It seems so very…out of character for him. His turn seems like the most contrived plot twist in the entire series. It’s really too bad for Harry Lennix, who did a fantastic job the whole series through.
The biggest question is that, even with Rossum taken down in the second-to-last episode, how does the Epitaph One apocalypse still take place? Who gets the tech and expands upon it? Again, all things I’m sure we’ll see in a Season 3 comic book series. (Not something I’m opposed to, but I’d surely rather it be a TV show.)
If you use TurboTax to automatically brag about filing your taxes on FACEBOOK, I’m unfriending you immediately.
Just saying.
Information is ever-so-slowly leaking out about the Alienware M11x. Confirmed: it will start at $800. Knowing Alienware, the cheapest desirable configuration will be $1000. Still…it’s going to be mine.
