Question for anyone who has both read the Silo books (Wool, Shift & Dust) and watched the TV series:
I am in the middle of Wool and it seems like the TV season ended in the middle as well. Is this correct? Or, do the later chapters in Wool unfold the story in a different order? The TV series showed so much more. I'm trying to gauge where the book and TV series differ from a storytelling point of view. Thanks
I never meant for it to start so soon... But, since everyone in the world is pumped about spooky season (including my wife and I), I guess it's time to start slanderoid's Halloween Horror-Filled Spooksational Fear Fest 2024!
You can follow along with #slanderoidHalloween if you'd like. (Or block the hashtag so you don't see any of it.)
Anyway, happy pre-Halloween, everybody! 🎃🔪 Let's get this party started!
This one is a competitive pumpkin carving show with some really talented carvers. Not bad, but I think the time constraints might have been a little too tight for the challenges. And, the judges were pretty harsh on some of the creators. If that stuff stresses you out, you might want to miss this one. Still, I thought it was a fun watch and we plan to watch the following seasons this year!
🔴 📖 🇺🇸 Apprentice in Wonderland by Ramin Setoodeh review – how Donald Trump’s big break changed America
“The degradation began, as the entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh relates, when Donald Trump was catapulted into power by The Apprentice, a reality/talent/gameshow over which he presided on NBC from 2004 until 2017. Before this, Trump was best known as a loud-mouthed, laughable vulgarian, a fixture in tabloid gossip columns whose business career mostly consisted of bankruptcies.”
🔴 Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
“One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time.”
On this day in 1947, "The Roswell Incident" occurred. The local paper, the Roswell Daily Record published the headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in #Roswell Region". Retracted within a day, that event spurred countless conspiracy theories. The enduring popularity of these, led to pop-culture icons such as "The X Files" #TV show (& movie), depicted on this #MondayMedal
What should I watch tonight? I finished rewatching season 3 of Evil and don't want to start the final season until all episodes are available.
I need suggestions of what to watch while I'm waiting. Tell me something good! @horror I have Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Paramount and Shudder. #whattostream #tv#movies#tvseries#tellmesomethinggood
The #Netflix adaptation of #TheThreeBodyProblem (#三体) (2024) is simply a summary of #Tencent's adaptation released in 2023, set in the UK + with a disturbing E05.
Oh, less appealing special effects too, and less impactful scenes and dialogues.
Criminal couples in literature, TV, cinema and real life are a source of fascination to many. Novelist Joel H. Morris, whose book, "All Our Yesterdays" focuses on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, has some ideas about why that might be the case. "A single immoral mind we can make sense of," he writes for CrimeReads. "But an immoral romantic couple — Bonnie and Clyde, Aileen Wuornos and Tyria Moore, the 'Lonely Hearts' murderers — unites two corrupt sensibilities working in tandem."
Provoked by a dollop of hopeful shame, there are times I still wonder if I’m “on the spectrum”. Then something about human society wallops me right into “Yes. Yes, I really am so bloody autistic.” No matter how consummately I try to emulate, anticipate, script, conscript, or model it… neurotypical human social brouhaha is a game I can never ever really play at, never mind win.
I’m too old to really care to try anymore. So… cheers to us. 🥂
You mentioned, you've only watched the first episode? In Episode 3, IIRC, it was a case about another #Autistic, and she explained to her co-workers that #Autism is a spectrum.
If you judge it by its cover, you'll miss the objective of the show. They cannot possibly pack everything in a single episode just to appease the audience. 😉
Secondly. An autistic like her does exist. It is not exaggerated. You are just different from her. 🙂 Saying she's exaggerated is indirectly telling those like her as "you're exaggerating". Think about it.
Third. Many #ActuallyAutistics approved of that show far more than most other shows (#TV and #Movies) about autism.
Fourth. The show also exposed and brought to the surface, the many discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudice, the autistic community faces daily. Even in the realm of romance.
The thing about EAW is that, the audience reaction during its run compliments the show.
For example, when EAW touched on romance, there were audiences who showed their true colours with comments like "people with mental disability should not enter into a relationship nor have kids, they'll only spread their disease", etc.
That kind of people were the target of the show, and the show made them reveal their true colours.
Fifth. The show changed lives. Not everyone, obviously, but it did. Like mine.
I used to mask a lot. I used to hide that I am autistic. But because of EAW, it gave me courage to stand against discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices; as well as, to be #OpenlyAutistic. It was helpful for my mental health and identity.
I am NOT saying that those who chose to still mask are not doing anything to fight the prejudice. NO. It is a personal matter, and it depends on where you are and your culture. For me, the reason I was masking a lot was because I'm tired of the discrimination. I grew up thinking "something is wrong with me" and "this is the way to do things to be accepted by society".
So, me going open is a fight against the wrong things I personally experienced and the things wrong around me. It is deeply personal. I hope no one misinterprets me on this.
Conclusion: Was EAW perfect?
Of course it isn't. However, based on the number of productions I've seen "about autistics" and where "autistic characters were included just for the sake of including", EAW was the best so far.
The actress herself was a psychology graduate. She initially did not want to take on the role because she's fully aware how important it is to get it right, and it is impossible to appeal to autistics, after all, autism is a spectrum. There will always be "that's not how I am" or "that's not how my relative is".
They made her character a mix of various autistic characteristics. In the latter episodes, they even depicted a meltdown and shutdown, and she did a very good job. I highly applauded her for that scene.
You mentioned, you've only watched the first episode? In Episode 3, IIRC, it was a case about another #Autistic, and she explained to her co-workers that #Autism is a spectrum.
If you judge it by its cover, you'll miss the objective of the show. They cannot possibly pack everything in a single episode. 😉
Secondly. An autistic like her does exist. It is not exaggerated. You are just different from her. 🙂 Saying she's exaggerated is indirectly telling those like her as "you're exaggerating". Think about it.
Third. Many #ActuallyAutistics approved of that show far more than most other shows (#TV and #Movies) about autism.
Fourth. The show also exposed and brought to the surface, the many discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudice, the autistic community faces daily. Even in the realm of romance.
The thing about EAW is that, the audience reaction during its run compliments the show.
For example, when EAW touched on romance, there were audiences who showed their true colours with comments like "people with mental disability should not enter into a relationship nor have kids, they'll only spread their disease", etc.
That kind of people were the target of the show, and the show made them reveal their true colours.
Fifth. The show changed lives. Not everyone, obviously, but it did. Like mine.
I used to mask a lot. I used to hide that I am autistic. But because of EAW, it gave me courage to stand against discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices; as well as, to be #OpenlyAutistic. It was helpful for my mental health and identity.
I am NOT saying that those who chose to still mask are not doing anything to fight the prejudice. NO. It is a personal matter, and it depends on where you are and your culture. For me, the reason I was masking a lot was because I'm tired of the discrimination. I grew up thinking "something is wrong with me" and "this is the way to do things to be accepted by society".
So, me going open is a fight against the wrong things I personally experienced. It is deeply personal.
Conclusion: Was EAW perfect?
Of course it isn't. However, based on the number of productions I've seen "about autistics" and where "autistic characters were included just for the sake of including", EAW was the best so far.
The actress herself was a psychology graduate. She initially did not want to take on the role because she's fully aware how important it is to get it right, and it is impossible to appeal to autistics, after all, autism is a spectrum. There will always be "that's not how I am" or "that's not how my relative is".
They made her character a mix of various autistic characteristics. In the latter episodes, they even depicted a meltdown and shutdown, and she did a very good job. I highly applauded her for that scene.
54 years after the premiere of "Soul Train," Nylah Burton writes for Vox about its history and lasting cultural impact. "Entertainers like Bill Withers, Al Green, Bobby Womack, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye all furthered their careers by appearing on the show," she writes. "From 'Soul Train' dancer Jeffrey Daniel, Michael Jackson learned the robot and 'backslide,' which was renamed the moonwalk."
Scottish Pastoral: celebrating 300 years of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, seeking papers on pastoral(ism) & development, improvement, #colonialism, or #class in #Scotland across the long durée
But, were not Discovery's computers upgraded to Quantum computers? So, it should have a capability to communicate using quantum entanglement and not subspace?
Bill Randa dying on #SkullIsland (as shown in the film), was his “unknown” expedition and never came back, as mentioned by Lee Shaw.
Having them returned to the surface through Skull Island, together with Randa's wife, is a good closure of that storyline. They've finally come full circle.
50 years ago, Norman Lear brought the first nuclear Black family to prime-time television in 1974. It continues to garner appreciation for the way the show featured strong female characters, and gave Black women agency – on and off the set.
Came across this book browsing the NYPL ebook catalogue.
If you are a fan of Battlestar Galactica and a bit of a #science geek, you may like this. It was published in 2011, so some of the science (AI for example) is a bit out-of-date, but it is interesting nonetheless.