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Horror Habitualist, Rex Stoutist. Lego Maniac. TBA.</a>The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.comBlogger2154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-86747266387708634122018-11-04T23:08:00.000-06:002018-11-22T22:02:49.925-06:00Doggie Adoption Day, 3rd Anniversary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It seems that Jules has been with me for three years. Now it seems like it must be far longer, but it has just been 3 years. He's just filled each year with more moments and fun than I ever expected.<br />
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Not the youngest when we met, he does love his long naps and needs a few minutes when he wakes to go through his yoga routine. But sometimes, even after an intense stretching session he'll plop right back down and nod off. He knows the secret, sleep is good.<br />
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But he also wants to be seen as the most vigorous of dog, and also bigger than any dog he meets. Or any wild turkeys and geese. I don't know if it's bluff on his part or 50-pounds of confidence in a 20-pound sack.<br />
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It doesn't matter to me, as when he isn't trying to be an adventurer, he loves his time being adored and pampered.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-77443733495808642722018-10-26T18:55:00.003-05:002018-10-26T18:59:00.904-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Daughter of Darkness (1990)Halloween has plenty of big-budget gore and terror going for it in the modern era of horror. But the smaller scale endeavors in horror are often just as rewarding to fans. And among the golden age of TV movies, you can find many odd films that can fit in nicely into a night's scares.<br />
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One I can across earlier this year was a small 1990 film for CBS. <i>Daughter of Darkness</i>.<br />
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Filmed entirely in Hungary, it was one of the film projects taking early advantage of the changing environment for trade and commerce in Eastern Europe. As the 90's proceded we would see many more film crews racing into the region. Many lower budget horror films to come would be eager to visit the region to take advantage to lower costs and striking vistas.<br />
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The story takes place in modern-day Romania. Filmed in September of 1989, 2 months before the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's rule, the movie takes place in his world of secret police. It played on CBS by the end of January 1990, so it was only a month since Ceausescu's execution. So while they were editing, Romania changed greatly, but it was a time of quite a bit of upheaval and political shifts. So the film stands as a time capsule of that moment in time.<br />
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The film script was written by Andrew Laskos, who had a career writing for TV series and TV movies, including on the 80's <i>Beauty and the Beast</i> series. He seemed to focus on dramas and thrillers.<br />
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The film was directed by, much to my surprise by Stuart Gordon, of the <i>Re-Animator</i> series, among other noted horror films. This movie takes place between working on <i>Robot Jox</i> and <i>Fortress</i>. (There is also a film called <i>The Pit and The Pendulum</i> made just after this one, but I've not seen that one yet.) This film does not seem much like his other film work. It is a horror story, and there are monsters, but it is built to fit the prime time movie feel.<br />
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Mia Sara is interesting as a lost soul, confused about what is driving her on. She plays up a fragile emotional state that is fortified by her determination to understand her family.<br />
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Since her mother's death, Katherine has been besieged by dreams that scare her. Crypts. Fire. Darkness. A robed man with no eyes or nose.<br />
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In Romania, she has trouble finding her father. She follows her visions and finds the place he once worked. But there she is told he died. Then at the hospital, she learns that there are no records from when he died. It is almost all omitted. It could be a totalitarian bureaucratic cock-up or...<br />
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Vampires don't have kids. It shouldn't be possible. But one has come into being. And this is dangerous for Katherine. Particularly in a land of vampires.<br />
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It is fun to see Perkins in this role. For once, people aren't trying to wedge mother issues into a role he's playing. Instead, he's a distant father, leading a troubled existence. Plus you get to see him pull out a Romanian accent for the film. It is quite different from what I'm used to seeing him play, making it all the more fun to watch.<br />
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Along the way, Katherine seeks help. First, from Max, a local cab driver eager to show up, give her a lift, and offer advice.<br />
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He is played affably by Dezsõ Garas. He was a long-standing actor in Hungary.<br />
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He's played by Jack Coleman. He would be most memorable to people as the Horned Rimmed Glasses Guy on <i>Heroes</i>. And it is odd to see him younger, with blonde hair, and some more meat on the bones.<br />
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Luckily, as busy as he is, he does try and help her out. Though it is mostly to try and get her to leave the country.<br />
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Even with help, Katherine is in over her head with the secret police looking for her and a community of vampires dying to meet her.<br />
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And I should add that they add a curious feature to these vampires. They have most of the bits you expect, with strength, sun aversion, pale skin, etc. But they don't have the fangs.<br />
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Now it's starting to feel like a Stuart Gordon film.<br />
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It is an odd addition. It is different, true. But it comes out of nowhere and remains unremarked on.<br />
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Still, vampire lore is full of many different forms of vampires. How they act. How they look. How they feed. How they are made. And how they are stopped. Outside Hollywood conventions, anything goes.<br />
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And what these vampires are going for is Katherine. They have plans. And she is central to them.<br />
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It starts with the original, <i><b>Halloween</b></i>. a grown-up Michael Myers comes back to his hometown bent on killing a group of teenagers. In the end, he is gunned down by his psychiatrist.<br />
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A simple and tense tale that works perfectly well on its own. And with this film, you have all you need to see before the new film comes out this month.<br />
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In the new film, Michael survives being shot and seems to have been locked away all the decades since that story. Laurie Strode has gone on to marry and have kids, but she has been left mentally marked by the events. She has tried to carefully plan for his inevitable return when she'll kill him.<br />
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First, the <b>Rob Zombie </b><i><b>Halloween</b> </i>films, <i>Halloween </i>and <i>Halloween 2</i>. They follow closely on the basic structure of the first film. But they add a look into the makings of young Michael Myers, who lives an abused life with a combative family.<br />
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The film introduces new characters at the hospital who enter the struggle to face and survive Michael's onslaught. But it is not quite at the level of the first film.<br />
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Then we get the big change that runs through the rest of the movies, Michael is related to Laurie Strode. She is his baby sister. Hence why she is the target he keeps coming after. He's drawn to her and seems to compelled to murder her.<br />
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Michael is shown to have survived the showdown, and been saved by a hermit, who has cared for him. When Michael finally awakens, he kills the hermit and heads off to kill his niece.<br />
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Jamie and Michael's psychic connection continues, and Loomis tries to use Jamie to lure Michael out to be stopped. But this keeps failing.<br />
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The film jumps 6 years ahead, and Jamie Loyd is being imprisoned by a cult that is using Michael Myers. She has also been impregnated by Michael. It's a lot to take in and not want to think about.<br />
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Jamie is able to escape with her baby and hide it, then Michael chases her and brutally murders her. RIP Jamie Loyd.<br />
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The baby is found by Tommy Doyle, the man who was once babysat by Laurie Strode in the original film. He takes the baby and meets Loomis, who is chasing Michael again.<br />
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They help Kara Strode, and her son Danny, who is living with her parents and brother in the old Strode home from the original film. They are being stalked now by Michael, who kills her whole extended family, except for Danny. But Danny is starting to hear voices telling him to kill.<br />
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It seems that the cult that controls Michael is trying to create a new killer.<br />
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But in the end, the plans are ruined by plotting and a Michael Myers that goes rogue. He disappears, dumping his mask. And in one version of the film, we hear Loomis scream in the distance. In another version, we see that he is cursed by the cult.<br />
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After filming his scenes, Donald Pleasance passed away so he would not be returning. And on the whole, the storyline seemed in tatters. It seemed like the end.<br />
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<b>Halloween H20: 20 Years Late</b>, was a return, and a bit of a do-over. The film seems to completely disregard film's 4, 5, and 6. Instead, we learn that sometime after <b>Halloween 2</b> Laurie Strode fled.<br />
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And, as the film opens, Michael has returned home, searching for information of Laurie. He attacks the nurse who assisted Loomis, and who took care of him in his final days. In Loomis's notes, he finds what he needs to track down Laurie.<br />
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Once more siblings meet on the grounds of her school. Most of the kids are on a trip so she, a few kids, and a few adults face Michael. And Laurie finally gets to beat him back, and even kill him.<br />
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It makes for a satisfying ending, for the Laurie and the films.<br />
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<b>Halloween: Resurrection</b> is a sequel...<br />
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Okay, after the last movie, we now learn that Michael switched places. So he's alive. Laurie, after everything, has a mental breakdown and is committed. Her son is forgotten. And then Michael murders Laurie. And that is how the movie opens.<br />
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So now Michael decides to go back to the Myers House. Meanwhile, some TV producers have set up the house as a spook house for a live TV event. A bunch of 20-somethings will wander the house with cameras strapped to their heads. Michael enters and starts killing them, and one of the producers knocks Michael into electrical wires. This electrocutes Michael. But, not to worry, he "resurrects" at the morgue before the end.<br />
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And with the new Halloween we get to see a different arc for this character, as she no longer has the clear link to Michael, but still feels that target on her back. Instead of running, she built roots and defenses that we will soon see be implemented.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-2922971449187096002018-10-02T23:30:00.000-05:002018-10-05T23:54:43.060-05:00The Horror Of...Universal Monsters, Dracula (1931)<i>Dracula</i>, when I was a kid still had a certain sway. Yes it was old, and a new era of slasher killers was coming into prominence, but those Universal Monsters couldn't be denied. The black and white, the misty streets and forest, the baying wolves, and the creatures walking out of the shadows seeking their prey.<br />
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They were also conveniently available for us to watch, or sneak a viewing of. I remember the first of my viewings of Dracula came late at night when I got up and turned on the old portable TV near my bedroom. It had a broken antenna on it, and the wiring to the back of the tv was not great, but if you fidgeted with it, you could break through the static and get some channels, and some UHF. (...I know most of you have no idea what I'm talking about. I clearly come from some dark age of entertainment.) And as I moved the lousy antenna a bit, the opening of Dracula came into focus. A carriage racing through mountains.<br />
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It was thanks to <b><a href="http://jadedskeptic.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-horror-ofuniversal-monsters-and.html">Shock Theater</a></b> that we all had these movies ingrained in us at a young age. Creatures of the night. Cinematic terrors, that by my <span style="background-color: #f6d5d9;">childhood </span>became more agreeable for the whole family to enjoy. How horrible!<br />
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Tod Browning had a good career as a director: <i>London After Midnight</i> (which was sadly mostly lost -- But I plan to cover down the road.), <i>Thirteenth Chair</i> (his first talking movie, and his first time working with Bela Lugosi), <i>Freaks</i>, <i>Mark of the Vampire</i> (with Bela Lugosi again), <i>The Unknown</i>, <i>The Unholy Three</i>, <i>The Blackbird</i>, <i>The Road to Mandalay</i>. Several of his movies were made working with Lon Chaney. They were good friends.<br />
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Chaney was one of the leading men they wanted to have in the film. In fact, it's one of the reasons that Carl Laemmle, Sr. greenlit the movie. He expected they could get Chaney onboard at Universal. But that didn't happen, as he stayed at MGM. And he ended up remaking Browning's <i>The Unholy Three</i> without Browning. Shortly after, Chaney died.<br />
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Not the happiest of times, and at the same time, he was also dealing with alcoholism. I don' like to bring it up, but speaks to the stories that go around about the making of the movie, with Browning just having moments where he'd tear parts out of the script that he didn't want to do. Also, stories of him walking offset, and leaving some directing to the cinematographer on the movie, Karl Freund.<br />
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I don't know how true these stories are. Just that they are well circulated over many years. Maybe this happened a lot, or maybe Browning had one bad day or afternoon. Or maybe it's a tall tale. It's just become part of the film's established lore.<br />
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But Browning was dealing with many production issues in making the movie. He wanted an off-screen Dracula. Universal said Browning's plan for the movie wasn't in the budget, and they needed to have a more normal structure to the film. At first, there was a dream of making the film a more grand spectacle, like the classics of the Silent Era, but the studio found it didn't have the resources it would need as production approached. It needed some moderation, and the studio was determined to have its way.<br />
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As it was the initial (pre-Browning) plan was for lavish sets, the producer envisioned, keeping close to the book. With tightening of studio wallets, the plan was scaled back, and the play became the more realistic structure for the film. And when Browning was brought on, he had to deal with these realities.<br />
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Though if you see the early set used for Dracula's castle, we see the sort of look they wanted the whole film to have. It's is such a large grand area.<br />
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Browning and the movie also had to deal with the changing technology and tools. It wasn't Browning's first talking movie, but it was still new to him. As he made the movie, you can still see many hallmarks of silent films, from the way shots were set to the way actors were asked to present themselves and move. It's a movie in transition.<br />
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This is also seen in it's approach to music. It was assumed at the time that adding music to movies was just a bad idea (These are the same people who thought supernatural thrillers would never be popular.). You see if music was playing with the movie, but it wasn't being made by something in the scene...How is that possible?! Is it witchcraft? So, music in this movie is kept at a minimum.<br />
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We get some of Tchaikovsky's <i>Swan Lake</i> at the start of the film and end. Then, we also have some background music during the scene at the theater (because music could be playing there). This sparse use of music is annoying for some. But the silence an also work to create moments of quiet unease.<br />
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The choice of music was made by the music supervisor, Heinz Roemheld, who preferred classical music in movies. Other were using more modern songs to enter films. The results create a lovely timeless quality to the movie. And <i>Swan Lake</i> has been sinister to me ever since.<br />
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The cast does a lovely job of bringing the Browning and studio's combined vision to life. Most of the cast is new to <i>Dracula</i>. Edward Van Sloan was brought over from the stage to recreate his role as Van Helsing. And we also have the legendary Bela Lugosi eager to advance after his stage success. Herbert Bunston also comes over to play Dr. Seward again.<br />
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Bela Lugosi was one of the main actors who had been playing Dracula on stage at the time, traveling with this show. And he wanted a big role like this, to establish himself in the talking movies. But he was not what anyone at the studio wanted.<br />
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They were looking at a number of actors that made executives excited, and even Browning was looking elsewhere (Though seeing as the studio was overriding him, maybe he wasn't going to push for someone he had made several movies with.). What helped Lugosi was that the studio was trying to be cheap, and their preferred choices all fell through.<br />
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Lugosi was pushing hard to get the role, and the fact his tour as Dracula had him in Los Angeles helped him make connections. He even tried to step in to help with securing the movie rights with Stoker's widow.<br />
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Eventually, they did hire Lugosi, after he'd agreed to take $500 a week as salary. This is was a rather small sum to pay a star of a movie. But Lugosi was eager for the opening to make bigger movies. Still, it feels like he was somewhat taken advantage of in the situation.<br />
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As for the rest of the cast, the main issue to consider is how the cast shifts from the book. It's clear for the list that Lucy's subplot from the book is largely out, like in the stage version. So Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are redundant.<br />
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But Quincey is so regularly omitted. Though in the original 1924 play there was a Quincey Morris. But she was a woman. (I'd love to see that brought into a modern retelling.)<br />
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At least on film we aren't compacting Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra into a single character. But Lucy's part is reduced from the book. And we see the continuation of the idea that Renfield is the one that travels to meet Dracula, expanding his role in the story.<br />
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One reversion from the plays is the removal of a plane that Dracula uses to get to England. I guess it was an easy offstage way to get Dracula into the country. In the movie, we return to the book's doomed ocean voyage aboard the <i>Demeter</i>. Though much of the shots of this are taken from the silent film <i>The Storm Breaker</i>,<br />
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And soon the monster hones in on the desired prey. A pair of women it will make brides.<br />
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But as it begins to hunt, and change it's chosen target, a new stranger enters. A foreigner as well, he can see the signs of something unnatural at work.<br />
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And he took seeks a prey. The monster itself.<br />
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Unfortunately for Van Helsing, he's stuck with all the dirty work,<br />
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The tale plays out with a level of charm and skill. Lugosi is engaging and alluring to moviegoers. Dwight Fry is unnerving as a madman driven by a dark master. And Van Sloan offers sagely, interesting, and proactive Van Helsing who helps add some tension to his meetings with Dracula.<br />
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Sadly, this is the only time during the Universal Golden Age of Horror we will see Lugosi play Dracula. He will appear in numerous other roles, but this is the end of his Dracula until horror turns to comedy.<br />
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For the times, it was necessary to limit some imagery in the film/ Beyond the issues of scenes being treated at times as either silent films or playhouse productions, the film was also left with the need to bypass the gore that wouldn't be appearing.<br />
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It's hard not to notice how toothless Dracula does appear whenever he is going in.<br />
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And Lucy's whole undead subplot is alluded to with one quick shot of her (and the wail of a child) and hospital workers reading about children being attacked in the area.<br />
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Her finally demise occurs offscreen entirely. Sure, we can't be shown Dracula having a bit of wood rammed through his chest. But Lucy's final rest is left wholly to be imagined.<br />
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And another part of the film ending up being cut, though not for gore. They filmed more of an ending that we do get with the version of the film we have today. Originally, after Van Helsing gets to work, we cut to him on a stage. He addresses the theater audience. He thanks them, but warns them that they should all be careful as there are such things as vampires.<br />
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Sadly, it seems this bit of film exists, but is too damaged now to be reincorporated. Van Sloan does a similar piece at the start of <i>Frankenstein</i>, in case you want to get a sense of what they were doing.<br />
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The film we do have is still a wonder, even with its warts of age, time, and editing. It may not scare modern audiences in the way it took 1930's audiences, but it is a piece of horror history.<br />
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<li>The work that cemented vampire films.</li>
<li>The cornerstone of Universal Horror and horror films as a serious genre in the talkies age.</li>
<li>The portrayal that will be connected most to Dracula for most of the century, from the voice to the clothing. It was a shorthand for the character and for vampires in general.</li>
<li>The grand old dame of <i>Dracula </i>films. (Okay, of officially licensed ones.)</li>
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To this day new films and creators of moving horror in ever-changing directions. As we appreciate the present and the future of horror. Let us not disregard or forget it's past.<br />
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And next time we return to Universal Monsters...it'll be time for <i>Frankenstein </i>to live again.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-18857381268560309122018-10-01T23:30:00.000-05:002018-10-02T00:25:35.005-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween (1978), Halloween Night's Finest<br />
Is it Halloween time again?<br />
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Halloween 2018! The way I like to start Halloween is with the, to me, quintessential Halloween film. <i>Halloween</i>.<br />
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No, it isn't just because it has the right name. It isn't just because it is popular. It isn't because of the new sequel out this year. <i>Halloween </i>is the warm mug of something you love on a chilly Fall day. It is this fine blend of setting, mood, and style.<br />
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This film is referenced, looked back at, and adored by many. It's often seen as the progenitor of the slasher horror film, though it isn't the first of the genre. And it's a series, much like it's murderous antagonist, that will not die.<br />
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From the start, we get the simple image of a lit jack o'lantern. And then the soundtrack, composed by director John Carpenter starts. The notes on the piano instantly take a nostalgic image and add that needed level of ominous dread.<br />
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Throughout the film, the music even takes the slowest and quietest scenes and adds discord in their backgrounds.<br />
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The story makes the effort to keep itself simple and calm as long as possible. The world is normal, the world is sane, the world isn't out to get you. And then the world comes crashing down.<br />
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For some, particularly in this age, the film is seen as slow. But for me, the build-up to the massacre, the normalcy, the day slowly crawling into the night (as the music promises misfortune), gives a parallel to what is happening to the film's antagonist, Michael Myers. He is waiting, fomenting, eager for the night to arrive. And we dread the night's slow approach and the gruesome sights to come.<br />
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As a certain doctor once called. <i>"Antici...pation."</i><br />
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The beauty of the story is that it is all so simple. Once upon a time a young named Michael picked up a knife and stabbed his older sister to death. It was Halloween 1963. It was a horrific sight for his family and the town of Haddonfield.<br />
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The child was locked away, to be treated and understood. And slowly the doctor working with him realized that the child was beyond understanding or healing. He was a darkness, that only grew over the years.<br />
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From that point on he was obsessed with containing the child, soon enough a man.<br />
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But come October 31, 1978. He makes his escape. Halloween has come again for him.<br />
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And then we meet Laurie Strode.<br />
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The film never explains why, but she quickly becomes of interest to Michael Myers.<br />
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She is now his focus. The end goal for his Halloween plans.<br />
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But it is the afternoon. The night is hours away. He will have to wait, and we will have to fret.<br />
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But soon, Laurie will be in a struggle for her life.<br />
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<i>Halloween</i> is one of the season's great films. And with a new direct sequel coming this month, there are plenty of reasons to watch and share this film. Whether you see it Halloween night, or before.<br />
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<b>Oh, and Happy Halloween.</b><br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-65294933134255144492018-06-12T23:58:00.002-05:002018-06-12T23:58:13.793-05:00Semi-Heroic Reviews: Man of Steel<br />
It seems odd to think of and look at Superman as a figure of controversy. But in our exceedingly social age little does escape controversy. And when the subject has been around for over 75 years, everyone has an opinion about how to tell their story right.<br />
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So when Superman returned...again, and the decision was made to not emulate iconic 30 year films, conflict follows.<br />
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Now, 5 years on, the "Internet consensus" would be happy to close the book on this film, and dismiss it. <i>Man of Steel</i> was bad. It's didn't work. It was made wrong. The movie got Superman completely wrong. End of story. Close the book.<br />
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And that seeming consensus has a strong hove to it. After <i>Man of Steel'</i>s follow up, <i>Batman vs Superman</i>, came out, I found myself avoiding watching <i>Man of Steel</i>. I had enjoyed the film when I went to the theater. And when I rewatched it. And when I bought the DVD. The negative push that came after the release and over the intervening time had weeded it's way into my memory.<br />
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So let's keep that book open, and reexamine this film.<br />
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It wasn't until mid-2016, when I was rewatching <i>Man of Steel</i> that I was reminded how well this film worked for me. The re-imagining of Krypton. The lost and questing Clark Kent. Lois Lane sniffing out Superman before he even existed. Zod, and his unbending will, keeping Krypton's culture and ideology alive, no matter what it cost.<br />
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It was in many ways borrowing from the long history of Superman. And in other ways, it added new takes and ideas. A respect for lore, with a willingness to go beyond as needed. When it comes to beloved lore, it's exactly what is needed to help it live and grow.<br />
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The DC Comics movies (<b>DCEU</b>, or whatever name people choose) of the past 5 years face a range of reactions. Often second guessed, there have been an overall desire to strike a unique note with film-goers.. The effort to begin a new era of DC movies started up in the wake of the Christopher Nolan trilogy of Batman films.<br />
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At first the idea of interlocking movies was not so clearly set. Marvel was 5 years into it's new cinematic universe, <i>The Avengers</i> had come out, and the MCU was establishing expectations for Comic Book Movies. So, like many studios, a bigger vision was on the cusp. And <i>Man of Steel </i>would a least leave some hints.<br />
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The Nolan films were an attempt to tell the story of Batman is a more realistic setting. No fantastical elements. No superhumans, or metahumans, or aliens. The birth of a hero leading through his struggles against shifting and escalating villains. It reflected the view of superhero films that largely was in place since the 90's.<br />
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Nolan, choose to work again with David Goyer. He'd previously worked on Nolan's trilogy (As well, he worked on Dark City, the <i>Blade</i> movies, the <i>Constantine </i>series, and helped develop the <i>Krypton </i>series.) Together they began to develop the aspects of the tale they wanted to tell about Superman.<br />
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Soon, the story was developing and they needed to choose someone to helm the film. The choice they made was Zack Snyder. He'd had experience with comic book movies, and adaptation of stories with his work on <i>Watchmen</i> and <i>300</i>. And he'd successfully remade the horror classic, <i>Dawn of the Dead</i>. He is someone with a unique style and take. (Though that has been deemed more notorious by some over time.)<br />
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With him on board the film could move forward into pre-production.<br />
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The cast comes together nicely in the film. Three characters are key to the film. The film centers on Clark Kent/Kal El/Superman (played by Henry Cavill) and his quest to discover his origins and place in the world. But we also follow the adventures of Lois Lane (played by Amy Adams). And we come to see the events and actions that drive General Zod (played by Michael Shannon).<br />
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The film offers a chance to see Clark Kent/Superman's humanity. His struggle to figure out who he is, who he can be, and just who he wants to be.<br />
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In a world without superheroes it a hard question to deal with. He wants to belong, be a part of humanity. But being different leaves him uncertain, and afraid a whole world will reject him. But if he just keeps his head down...<br />
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It'd be safer, for his heart, but with all he can do, he can't just stand back. He has to act.<br />
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And when he learns of his birth parents and people, and is offered a chance to inspire the world, while doing good...It's time for Superman to arrive.<br />
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<i>The symbol of the House of El means hope. Embodied in that
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Lane enters the film at a running pace and never seems to stop, always chasing her lead. And when she meets a man with laser eyes, she doesn't stop until she has him worked out. And then, she shows her capacity to empathize, when she backs off that story to spare Clark Kent from the exposure.<br />
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From there she is drawn further into events, as the world is sent into a panic and she faces generals from Earth and Krypton. Lois needs to stand in the face of danger to help save humanity, and she won't back down.<br />
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And in the process she gains the deepest understanding of the strange visitor from another planet, cementing a bond.<br />
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And, in the end, his treason, his technology, his army, and his will couldn't save Krypton. And when Jor El enacts his plan to save something of Krypton, Zod only sees heresy and perversion. But he is always sincere in his desire to save his people.<br />
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But by the end there is nothing left for him to save. It is just him, Superman, and heavily damaged scout ship. Zod has had his life taken from him. Nothing is left, but vengeance and death.<br />
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Between Clark and Zod, you have two ends of a story. Clark is trying to learn about his people, and decide on the life he is just starting. Zod, is fighting entropy, trying to keep a dead world alive, which was lost due to it's own short sightedness and arrogance. Zod is the end of the last cycle. Clark/Superman is the beginning of the next cycle.<br />
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There is so much to discuss with this movie. But we will stop here for now. Next time we should discuss the big controversy of the movie. <b>Is this Superman?</b><br />
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Yes it is, but we will look at this anyway. <i>Superman and the Choice</i>.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-45665913221202038482017-11-13T19:01:00.001-06:002017-11-13T19:01:25.992-06:00Subspace Reviews: Star Trek: Discovery - Ep 7 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"Episode seven brings us to a return of an unexpected reoccurring character this season. Harry Mudd.<br />
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A return of Mudd, and an episode of this new series which feels surprising like a Classic Trek or Next Generation episode. A dangerous situation. A colorful foe. An internal conflict. The ship on the line. And Lorca gets to die.<br />
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His plan is to board the Discovery and enact his plot against Lorca. To do this he gets inside a near extinct gormagander (a giant space whale/panda) near the Discovery, knowing it will end up aboard the ship.<br />
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Why it is brought aboard I'll explain shortly. But how Mudd found one is unknown. How he got it into place is unknown. How he knew where the Discovery was is unknown.<br />
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Many questions. But that isn't a great shock. We have logic jumps in stories, and Mudd can be an annoyingly resourceful man.<br />
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But we also have many mysteries to this series. Another one, how did Mudd escape the Klingons?<br />
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Because it is still uncertain what state Mudd's relationship was with the Klingons holding him. He liked to think that he had worked the prison system to his favor. Alternatively, he could have been a paid informant of the Klingons.<br />
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Another option, is that he was being used. The Klingon's quietly placed the little creature in the cell for Mudd to use, and also spy on the cell. They may also have fed Mudd the information on Lorca's history to color his view of the captain and get him to butt heads with Lorca. He might have been L'Rell's puppet.<br />
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Or it could be a mix of options. But how did Mudd get out? Did L'Rell let him escape to chase Lorca and a possible bounty? Did she outright make a deal with him? Or, perhaps, Kol did.<br />
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If this plotting did happen it might explain how Mudd got the animal, as the Klingons may have had access. And with their intel he might have had been given a clue to where the ship would be.<br />
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It could answer many questions. Or not.<br />
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Once Mudd accesses the Discovery, he planned to make his presence known, shooting security and other crew. The ship security protocols would go on.<br />
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And an Andorian space helmet fits in to this...He probably was having a time finding one to fit his wide head.<br />
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...blowing up Discovery.<br />
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But not to worry. It is all part of the plan. Because then the time loop restarts. 30 minute run, and then you blow up the ship.<br />
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The idea is to allow Mudd to experiment, to learn the patterns of security, to break the computer security, to get control of the command functions.<br />
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...and snack in various hot spots.<br />
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He is very different since he's started being the key to the Spore Drive. He is looser, goofier, and happier. He's spacey.<br />
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He also shows off the devices that Culber has installed in his arms. They allow him to more easily interface with the technology with no ill effects. It explains how they've been able to jump in this and the last episode.<br />
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And that is when Mudd starts his ploy. Again and again. With no one aware of the loop it would be easy for Mudd to eventually crack the mystery.<br />
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But he has an unknown problem. Stamets. It seems his modified DNA now makes him aware of the time loop. Each time Mudd jumps back, he goes along with him. So he's rode each Discovery detonation back in time and he's not happy. Well, he's kind of happy as he is loopy.<br />
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But he can't fix this problem alone. He can disrupt Mudd a bit, but it's just slowing Mudd down. Mudd is slowly making progress, and sooner or later he'll figure out the Spore Drive. He needs allies. So he catches Burnham early in the loop to get her to listen to him.<br />
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When he finally wins her over, they try to work out what Mudd is doing. So they decide they need someone else. Tyler. He knew Mudd for months. He might know about the device he's using, or some secret of Mudd's.<br />
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(Stamets also gets Burnham to give him a secret he can use to clue her in each time that he's telling the truth. The secret is that she's never been in love.)<br />
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Stamets just quietly starts dancing with her, and gives her some romance advice. And he'll repeat it next loop, so Burnham can try over...for the first time.<br />
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She is more successful with some prodding from Stamets, and she gets Tyler dancing quickly (and Tilly is watching, very pleased), and they talk some, and kiss. She also learns some more about Mudd. And then she apprises him of the threat they are facing.<br />
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He even shows of his nifty new interfaces.<br />
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Mudd is quite pleased. He has the ship under control. He has the drive in his power. He has the Klingons arriving shortly to get the ship, and pay him nicely. (Mudd has a deal with the Klingons. Which bolsters the idea that this is largely a Klingon plot.)<br />
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The crew needs another go to try and save the day. But Mudd has no need of a do over. So Burnham plays on Mudd's greed.<br />
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She visits with Mudd and gets him talking about his coming reward, and then gets him to talk about his poor Stella. They are so tragically kept apart, but it's clear he'd forgotten about her in his plans. It's clear he just wants the money so he can run off again. He wants all he can get, and then more.<br />
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So she reveals to him that she is the one that killed T'Kuvma. A bane to the Klingon Empire. The person who started this war.<br />
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Too complacent in his control, Mudd misses the changes this time around, and is surprised to find everyone waiting for him on the bridge. Even Lorca welcomes him up.<br />
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When they are approaching, he takes Burnham and Stamets down to the transporter room. He gloats about his brilliance.<br />
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And we finally get to see the real Stella. As opposed to the one Mudd will someday conjure up as an android. She is the daughter of a powerful baron and weapon's manufacturer.<br />
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And she looks great. Her outfit has a great 60's vibe to it. Her and her father would have fit in great in Classic Trek.<br />
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And he seems mortified that she's there. You wonder, is he embarrassed by his deceit with her? Does he care for her in some way? Or does he hate having to take responsibility for his actions?<br />
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The baron says that he doesn't care for Mudd, but his daughter loves him. So he's paying off Mudd's debts. Tyler asks that he just make sure Mudd stays with Stella until the end of the war. Hopefully he'll stay out of their hair then.<br />
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And the arms merchant's ship heads off. And it's a beauty. It has all these nice touches. Like, do you see that lion statue on the front the ship. Classy.<br />
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It is different, but it really reminds me of the Antares type freighter, first shown in the animated series (they were later added to one remastered Classic Trek episode). Maybe it's just me. It has older and bigger nacelles in different positions. But all the ships on Discovery are still using older nacelle tech. And it looks like it was popular for some time to sling warp nacelles low, before the Constitution class started a trend of shifting them up higher, like they were on the NX class.<br />
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And we finally get to see Stella! We have seen her once before in Classic Trek. She was an android creation of Mudd's, created for him to be able to tell to shut up...And seeing her now, I wonder how accurate that version of her is. It may be that years of living with and knowing Mudd will wear down her pleasantness. But I wonder.<br />
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Mudd loves to spin reality to make himself more noble, more suave, more roguish, more a superstar. What if the version of Stella we saw in Classic Trek was the fiction that Mudd had built up in the years since he ran off on his wife? What if he's built a version of her in his mind that justified his abandonment. He made her the villain of the tale, not him. He was the victim.<br />
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Ir's something to think about the next time you watch that Classic Trek episode.<br />
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Stamets continues to be somewhat off in his personality. And now we find that he is seeing time differently. He can feel time getting meddled with. What else does he connect to?<br />
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Burnham is continuing to learn about herself. She had the dream of command and responsibility to fill her life once. But that was taken away, and she was left with her self-loathing. Now that she's climbed out of her sadness and sees the breadth of humanity, it is overwhelming. It's scary. She is stumbling now to try and catch up with everyone else. Hopefully, she'll find it fulfilling.<br />
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And then we return to Lt. Ash Tyler. Who is he?<br />
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The show continues to toy with us. Unlike last episode, this one only drops one reminder. He came out of his Klingon experience maintaining his positive demeanor. It is impressive.<br />
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And the more you look at Tyler the more he looks like the classic Starfleet officers. Brave. Daring. Thoughtful. Compassionate. Always thinking of others. Ready to listen. He's a classic Trek character.<br />
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Or is it all a lie? Or do they want us paranoid, and focused on him? So someone else can work in the background? We have to keep going back and forth like this until we have some sound evidence to follow.<br />
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The romance with Burnham complicates things. He continues, if he is Voq, manages to masterfully hide himself. Alternatively, again, he could be a sleeper agent, not aware of his identity.<br />
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But with the romance, what is the show's plan. A tragic love? A redemptive love? True love? Lost love? We have to wait and see, don't we?<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-6339088457194774252017-11-13T00:59:00.000-06:002017-11-13T00:59:12.150-06:00Subspace Reviews: Star Trek: Discovery - Ep 6 - "Lethe"Back into <i>Discovery</i> again, and this time we get to know a little more about a popular Vulcan among Trekkies. Sarek.<br />
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In fact, after seeing this episode I started to build an interesting timeline for the Sarek family between Spock's birth and his entrance to Starfleet Academy based on this episode. But that will have to wait until the midseason break next week. And the rest of these midseason reviews.<br />
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The episode finds Burnham and Tilly running through the ship's corridors. They are working out together, mostly to help Tilly sharpen her endurance and time. Burnham has started to try and help train Tilly to get on track to becoming a captain.<br />
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Burnham feels she needs to shave off over 6 seconds from her time. If she can do that, she gets a commendation. And with that, along with her other skills and achievements, she can get into command school. Along the way, she can get posted to one of the uber cool Constitution Class starships, like Enterprise. It will be straight sailing from there to her own first command.<br />
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When they've cleared the sim, it returns the room to normal.<br />
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Now some might think this is too advanced for the time, but it does seem limited. No holograms seemed to be able to touch them, so the room didn't seem to use the more advanced force field projections or massive perspective tricks later holodecks will use. It's a shooting gallery. You pick your hall, or clearing, or cliff edge, and then you shoot and dodge attacks.<br />
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And as it was, they had wanted to place holodeck on Classic Trek, but it couldn't be budgeted in to work. Though they do appear in the animated series. But that is usually not looked to for too many facts.<br />
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It is a bit trippy and all. But Vulcans and there special connections and abilities are well known. We've seen them employ different tricks, like reaching someone's mind through a wall (Spock). And in Classic Trek, when a Starfleet vessel crewed only by Vulcans was lost with all hands, Spock felt it across space. Vulcans do some odd and cool stuff.<br />
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It is her graduation day. She sees Sarek and Amanda (Sarek's wife) with her younger self.<br />
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They are arguing. It seems that Burnham had been rejected from joining the Vulcan Expeditionary Group. It had been Sarek's wish that she would join it as the first human member. But that plan has fallen through.<br />
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Amanda is pissed. Burnham had the best scores of the graduating students. She had jumped all the Vulcan hurdles. But now they are rejecting her?<br />
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It seems a Vulcan extremist group had planted the bomb that destroyed the school, in an attempt to kill her. We had seen this moment before, but it seemed likely connected to the Klingon attack that took her parents. So now we know she lost her parents, and then an attempt was made by Vulcan purist to expunge her from their culture. Rough life.<br />
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Sarek had just left Vulcan on a secret mission. He was keeping it secret from all but the highest levels of the Vulcan government and Starfleet Command.<br />
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He was being taken by a pilot. But the pilot was not what he appeared.<br />
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He is a member of that Vulcan radical group. They are very anti. They are anti-Human, anti-Starfleet, anti-Federation. They want peace and Vulcan purity, and they are ready to kill to accomplish it. They think it is all logical. Fanatics, right?<br />
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Sarek acts to limit the damage by raising a force field in the ship. It limits the damage. But the ship is wrecked, knocked out of warp in the Iridian Nebulae. And Sarek is severely injured, bleeding and unconscious.<br />
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Lorca contacts Starfleet to confirm the status of Ambassador Sarek. A Vulcan admiral confirms the plan to send Sarek. Two Klingon houses who were being marginalized by the new Klingon High Council, which is controlled by Kol, were looking to work with the Federation to end the war.<br />
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But the admiral warns Lorca off looking for Sarek. It is an odd decision. Lorca can be in the area quickly. And other ships look to be in the area.<br />
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What I am guessing is that the Vulcan admiral was coordinating with the Vulcan government. With the attack by Vulcan purist, they see it as a mar and an embarrassment. Sarek is adrift and dying in a nebulae, with little hope of being found in time. So they want it hushed up, and want to keep it all an internal matter of Vulcan. They will deal with the terrorist. And they will count Sarek as a regrettable loss. Logic, right?<br />
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Though I wonder how they are doing this. It seems to still be via Stamets. But he is handling it better now. I wonder what they've done to make it easier on him?<br />
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Lorca and Burnham go to Stamets for help in finding Sarek. It's a nebulae, so scanning it is out of the question. They need to pinpoint the ship, or they need to activate a beacon on the ship. The only chance they have is Burnham's mental connection to Sarek. And they need Stamet to work away to enhance her ability to reach and help Sarek.<br />
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Stamets is awed at the idea of Burnham's connection and at the chance to develop the new technology. He is far more chipper than he was before. Everything seems sunny to him.<br />
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With the technology ready, they head out. Burnham wants Tilly along to look after the device, and her. Lorca adds Tyler to the roster as they need a good pilot to get them around and home safe.<br />
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He then tells him not to come back if he can't do that. It surprises Tyler a little, but he understands his orders.<br />
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She is worried about Lorca, and what he is doing.<br />
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He's now added a recently released POW to his crew. He's still recovering from his own capture. And he's running an unauthorized rescue mission, which is pissing off the Vulcans.<br />
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He's pushing his luck hard with the admiralty. And she's worried there is something seriously wrong with him.<br />
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But they are very old friends, very intimate friends. So they decide to drink and talk. (It reminds me a little of Captain Pike and his ship's doctor in Classic Trek's first pilot.)<br />
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Again, he's reliving that day. And Burnham tries to talk to him about why he's doing this. And why he won't let her help him now.<br />
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Burnham is troubled. Sarek keeps fighting her. And he keeps thinking about one of the worst days of her life.<br />
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Tyler comes to give her some support and advice. She needs to think about why he's doing this. He's dying and when you are dying you sometimes think about your own personal regrets. Things you wish you could do differently.<br />
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With this in mind, she goes back in and cowes him. He finally relents. He will show her what he's hiding.<br />
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On that day, he was ready to see her embraced by Vulcan and achieve greatness as a Vulcan explorer. But society disagree.<br />
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The Exploratory Group made it clear. They will accept the changes coming. But only so much change. Sarek has 2 human-ish kids. Burnham and Spock. One of them can go into the Exploratory Group. But not both of them. And Sarek had to choose there and then.<br />
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He was troubled by this. It seemed unfair. Burnham was qualified. But it would mean his biological son would be denied the dream he had for all his kids. On the other hand, denying Burnham would crush the dream he had personally fostered in her. He pushed her all the way on this path.<br />
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Send Burnham and she would always be treated as an outsider. And then Spock would be locked out of the opportunity.<br />
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Send Spock, and he would face some of he same issues, but not as many as Burnham. But Burnham would be denied. Yet, as a human, she had other options. Places like Starfleet would readily accept and embrace her as an equal.<br />
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So he made the logical choice, of Spock. It pained him, but he had to make a choice.<br />
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But Spock ended up forgoing the Exploratory Group, and joined Starfleet, like his sister before him.<br />
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So the choice was made, and it came to nothing. He denied Michael Burnham the dream for nothing. He hurt her for nothing. And it's haunted him ever since.<br />
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And she is pissed. She blamed herself. She thought he had been utterly disappointed in her. She thought she was a failure. But it was a lie.<br />
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Finally understanding each other a little better. Sarek helps Burnham to meld with him again, and give him the strength to activate a beacon that Discovery can use to find him.<br />
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On the ship Lorca and Cornwell sleep together, like old times. She notices odd scars on his back, and Lorca reflexively jumps up and points a phaser at her head, set to kill.<br />
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He breaks down and begs her not to take the ship away. He needs it. He needs his mission.<br />
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They can send the admiral. She can be there quickly, and have authority to negotiate.<br />
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Burnham thanks Lorca for helping her, appreciating how far he's bent to give her a chance, and to reach Sarek in time. She tells him how much she respects him. She sees his integrity.<br />
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He then gives her a new assignment. Bridge duty. Science specialist.<br />
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It seems that Lorca is plotting. He wants to buy some time to think and maybe do something.<br />
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Sure it could be he wants to save the peace plan. But he mostly wants to push off losing his command as long as possible.<br />
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Burnham also takes time to talk with Tilly, and let her know that she doesn't have to follow the track that Burnham had shown her to reach her goals. Tilly understands and says that she is on her own path, and gets Burnham's concerns.<br />
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Burnham then opens up a little to Tyler. She thanks him, for the help and he gives her an opening to share and vent. She realized that she and Sarek can't be what the other wanted. And now she's struggling through a range of emotions that feel so contradictory. He tells her it's all normal for a human being.<br />
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And it is nice to get more looks at the Birds of Prey to continue to get a feel for the ships.<br />
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And then the Klingons kill the admiral's security and the Elders of Cancri. This has all been a trap.<br />
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Kol, made the 2 Klingon houses make overtures to the Federation, hoping they could grab a high level dignitary they could use.<br />
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But a Starfleet admiral? That is even better.<br />
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Saru later informs Lorca that Admiral Cornwell has been abducted. Lorca stays stone faced. He then tells Saru to contact Starfleet Command for orders.<br />
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This surprises Saru, as he expected the captain to leap into action.<br />
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And while it can be argued that is a pragmatic decision, it is obvious that Lorca is in conflict, save his friend or save his command. And he's punted that choice to Starfleet Command.<br />
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And he has to knows they'll want him to stay back.<br />
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He's made a dark choice.<br />
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And that is the crux of Lorca. He's a dedicated and focused leader.<br />
<br />As we see him now, barring the many unknown facts we have yet to learn, he is a man still reeling from the loss of his last ship and crew. It haunts him. Winning this war, being on the front lines, is his penance. He is trying to make their sacrifice mean something.<br />
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And in this quest, he's pushing right up to a line. Starfleet would want him to contact and coordinate with his superiors. There are rules. But Lorca's opinion of that was clearly lain out earlier in this episode.<br />
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With Burnham, we have her continued exploration of her own humanity. She works to apply and maintain her Vulcan stoicism. But she's in situations that challenge her day to day approach to life. Tilly and Tyler engage her in ways she had been avoiding since she left Vulcan.<br />
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But her view of the past is getting muddled, just as she is struggling to come to terms with her iffy future. But she is building friendships, even if she isn't trying to. And this is giving her a support base to explore her humanity now.<br />
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But being human can be so scary, can't it?<br />
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No. Really. Who is he?<br />
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Is he a spy? There is some logic to the idea he would be Voq. It fits since one exited the show as the other entered. Becoming realistically human is a trick Klingons have had. And aspects of his story are convenient, or suspicious (Like the lack of any living family who could know the real Ash. His ship being lost so those people who would know him are dead to.).<br />
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It's suspicious. Or, it's freaking impressive. You take away the paranoia about him, he's a model Starfleet officer. Brave, charming, smart, caring. He's a classic Trek character.<br />
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I could see him, Burnham, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, and Culber as the command crew of a ship in most any era. Lorca is the dark horse in the group.<br />
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But maybe it's all a brilliant cover. Maybe. Maybe he's a sleeper agent with a memory and personality overlaid, until the time is right. That seems more likely. Maybe he is even just Ash Tyler, and he's been brainwashed to turn on his crew if a certain command is given. Or, maybe he's totally cool.<br />
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The focus on Tyler makes it hard to look around at other threats. What's the deal with Lorca? Since last episode we know there are many unanswered questions about his last command. How was it lost? Why was it lost? What was he the only survivor?<br />
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Passed the human tragedy angles, what if Lorca didn't escape? What if he was captured and then released, to go back to Starfleet?<br />
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Then all the possible answers to the Ash Tyler question can be applied to Lorca as well. Was he switched out? How about the second time he was caught? Was he programmed? Did he leak his location then to be caught again to be updated on his orders/programming? If so, do his eye issues tie into this?<br />
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So many questions we can consider. Like what were those marks on Lorca's back. Were they new from his last round of torture? Are they a clue to what happen to him?<br />
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We have many questions left to consider. And both Lorca and Tyler could be leading us to ignore some other possible threat vectors.<br />
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One science ship leading the fight is risky. It could be lost. The technology could get taxed, and fail at a desperate moment. They need time to get more ships like the Discovery.<br />
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So Admiral Cornwell wants Lorca to back off for a while. They want the ship to have a lower profile in the war, until they know more ships are coming.<br />
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She also clearly has some history with Lorca. She chastises him for not just getting his eyes fixed, and he chides her back that he just hates doctors. (She is a Starfleet doctor who has risen to be an admiral.)<br />
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He is annoyed that it seems he was railroaded with his new orders. But she says he needs to show some restraint, as she is holding back.<br />
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Cornwell brings up Burnham. A lot of Starfleet is pissed that she isn't rotting on a penal colony. It feels, to some, she escaped justice for starting a war. Cornwell isn't as angry about that, but more that Lorca just quietly giving her a post on his ship, vital to the war effort.<br />
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Lorca is firm about the power he has been given by the higher higher ups at Starfleet. He gets to run the ship his way, no interference. And Starfleet already allows a wide latitude when it comes to captains who wish to assign new crew in a time of war.<br />
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Cornwell just points out that Lorca's history already puts strikes against him being in command. He doesn't need to start adding more of his own.<br />
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But mid trip, and in Federation space, a Klingon D-7 battlecruiser appears overhead. And, at first I though it looked a bit different but might be close to the classic Klingon ship design. But no. It has the big red circle area on it (Somewhere, still hard to read the shape of the ship.). But it looks like it's a sensor dish instead of the weapons platform. And it seems to be on the bottom of the ship, and not on the front side. There are some familiar bits to the ship, but it still quite different.<br />
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The shapes stay so mysterious on the viewer's end. And since it's Trek, I feel like I should just know these ships, so it gets a little frustrating to know I am largely clueless.<br />
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But that goes as well as you would expect. The pilot is bayoneted by the Klingons. (And that is a great addition to Klingon weapons. Why choose bat'leth or disruptor when fighting? Save the bat'leth for some good one on one combat.) And Lorca is disarmed and beaten.<br />
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The attacking Klingons look to be using T'Kuvma's house armor. At first I thought maybe other houses in the Empire were using something similar. But this seems to be clearly intended. In fact the ship's captain should be familiar.<br />
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When Lorca awakens, he finds a man searching his pockets. He grabs and throttles the guy. Good instincts.<br />
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Mudd presents himself as being rather amiable, and quick witted. He is annoyed with Starfleet, seeing their constant exploration and expansion as what provoked this war. And now he, poor Mudd, is stuck. He was just trying to do right by his beloved when he was felled.<br />
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Aboard Discovery, Burnham is troubled. She is having nightmares about the tardegrade. She is in it's place, and in agony. She knows that something is wrong.<br />
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So she goes to Dr. Culber for help. She explains her concerns and fear that they might be killing the creature.<br />
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The creature is getting slower and more sluggish. And it seems despondent.<br />
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This, and everything else, is making Burnham stressed and depressed.<br />
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But Tilly is around to pull Burnham out enough to at least discuss it, and not just repress it.<br />
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Burnham feels lost and unsure about herself. She has so little work she needs to do, so she can't lose herself in it. So she's stuck with her feelings. And that's something she's had years to work on avoiding.<br />
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Tilly tells her to just process them. For her, that's fun.<br />
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But Burnham is around. And that always unsettles him. She creates uncertainty for him.<br />
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With the uncertainty of the tardegrade's long term health, she wants them to reconsider it's use.<br />
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But Captain Saru disagrees. No evidence that the creatures powerful regenerative abilities are lessening. The Captain Lorca is in immediate danger. The ship's security is at risk. And the war plan is in peril.<br />
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He won't give up their one advantage for a What If scenario..<br />
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But it all bothers Saru. He is not feeling as confident as he expected to be, or wanted to be, as captain. He is doubting himself.<br />
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So he comes up with a plan. He has the computer pull up the most respected and decorated captains in Starfleet history. And we get some shout outs. Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise. Christopher Pike, second captain of the Enterprise. Jonathan Archer, the captain of NX-01 Enterprise. Georgiou makes the list. And Matt Decker, who will appear in Classic Trek also makes it.<br />
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Sure, it would be nice to expand the universe with some unknown names we could ponder. Garth of Izar didn't make the list. But it's just a quick shout out list, to acknowledge Trek history, confirm <i>Enterprise </i>isn't being omitted, and canonizes Robert April as an official character (He had only officially appeared in the animated series which is generally ignored.).<br />
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Saru has the computer consider what were the key attributes of these captains. Then he has the computer start a program to rate him against those attributes as he goes through this mission. He wants to see how he stacks up. If he lacks some quality he would like to know.<br />
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Back with Lorca, some Klingon guards march into the cell. And you can instantly see they have very different armor from the troops we saw earlier. And I like this armor. It fits well between the leather and fur look of <i>Enterprise </i>era armor and the more metallic design we see in the movie era.<br />
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This is a look I can really get behind.<br />
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Lorca doesn't understand what they are doing there. But Mudd shows him. Mudd points to a crumpled and beaten Starfleet officer in the corner.<br />
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The Klingons grab him and beat him. It seems they then kill him, and drag him away.<br />
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It's a way to divide and coerce prisoners. Choose Your Pain. Who will suffer next? Everyone gets to choose. Point away from yourself at someone, and they suffer because of you. And they will likely hate and resent you. It makes it harder for prisoners to work together.<br />
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Lorca notices in another corner of the cell another Starfleet officer. Lieutenant Ash Tyler. He tells Lorca he was captured at the Battle of the Binary Stars.<br />
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He's been held ever since, tortured and then healed up.<br />
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Soon it's time for Lorca to be tortured. The captain of the ship, and his torturer, is someone we have seen before. L'Rell, from the previous episode and pilot. She is in charge of this ship and leads interrogations.<br />
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She is aware that Discovery is getting around surprisingly fast, and seems to just appear where needed. She'd like to know more about it.<br />
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Lorca tells her off, and they throw insults at each other.<br />
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Back in his cell, Lorca is pissed. He tells Mudd and Tyler that he knows that one of them is feeding the Klingons information he is sharing with them in the cell. He grabs Mudd's little friend and pulls a transmitter attached to it off.<br />
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Mudd then throws Lorca's history at him. How he lost his last command months back. The ship was lost with all hands. Except the captain, who fled in an escape pod.<br />
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Mudd implies that Lorca ran away and left everyone else to die.<br />
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Lorca challenges some of that. He says the ship was being overwhelmed by Klingons. He had a choice between his whole crew being taken and tortured, or giving them a quick death.<br />
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So when Cornwell described Lorca's negative marks, it is most likely his loss. And his survival is odd. Not that a captain needs to go down with a ship, but why was he the only one to come back? Picard's loss of the Stargazer got him in trouble, and he saved his crew.<br />
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So there are lingering questions.<br />
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But he is in Klingon custody, talking to someone he thinks was spying on him. Why would he be freely honest? He is omitting things. But what?<br />
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What happen in his fight? Was he carrying vital information that Starfleet needed, and someone had to escape and ensure Starfleet got it? Was it information from an operative in the Klingon Empire? Was it some early spore samples?<br />
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We just don't have enough information to know. But we could prejudge him now, if you need that. Because that is all we can do. And, as a species, we <b><i>love </i></b>to prejudge. We love to give into our prejudices and assumptions. It makes the Internet what it is.<br />
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So for many people this will be confirmation about Lorca is. Whatever that is.<br />
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Of course it gives some added depth to how Lorca acts. He lost a whole crew, so he is loath to get too close to another crew. He lost a whole crew to the Klingons, so he wants his next one more ready. He wasn't ready himself the first time, so he's studied hard to prepare himself. New layers.<br />
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He is cool to Culber's involvement, and wants him to leave. He is also annoyed, and wants to bicker some with Burnham about what's happening.<br />
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It is wondrous. And Tilly slips and calls it fucking cool.<br />
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And, apparently, on the Internet this is disturbing. You don't swear in Star Trek! Trek is a swear free zone! Everyone knows that! I mean, really! Where is my fainting coach?<br />
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And I loved the people who explained, "Well this is why I never even started to watch the show." Yeah. Sure. Haven't seen the show. Refused to watch. But you want to lecture the show. How Internet of you.<br />
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Saru finds them at work and is furious. They have deactivated the drive, and not told him. He wants to be able to leave soon.<br />
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He also is angry that Burnham is running these tests when he told her to wait. She's sneaking around behind his back. She is disregarding his authority. It feels like the past repeating itself to him.<br />
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Back with Lorca, the Klingons return for another around of Choose Your Pain. They make Lorca choose. And Tyler asks Lorca to pick him. Lorca reluctantly agrees, looking like he's trying to protect himself.<br />
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Mudd is eager and ready to go. But Lorca hits him, and seals him in the cell again. Mudd is pissed and swears revenge on Lorca.<br />
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With the captain back, and the Klingons aware of them. Saru orders the Spore Drive activated. And Stamets works it.<br />
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He feels like he's failed. He didn't find a simple happy result to make everything come together, while making it all look easy. (You know, the normal classic Trek, <i>TNG</i>, etc ending.) This was all messy. He fought with his crew. He lost his temper with her. And Stamets may have died doing something dangerous, and illegal (Screwing with your DNA has been very illegal since the days of Khan ruling much of the Earth.)<br />
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He admits to Burnham that he is upset with her and what she's done. But he also admits that it is mostly jealousy. He wanted to stand beside Georgiou, and learn. But it never happen, since the war took her. He feels incomplete. Unprepared.<br />
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Burnham challenges the idea that he failed as a captain. He got the Captain Lorca back. He got the ship home. He made hard choices. That is what a captain has to do.<br />
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Georgiou wanted Burnham to know how important it was to look after your crew. Sharing this with Saru was a way to enact this philosophy.<br />
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Another way is that she is allowed to help and release the tardegrade. She figures that if they free it, and give it some spore, it will find it's way to a happier place.<br />
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So she and Tilly release it into space, and it slowly awakens.<br />
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And now we learn much more about Stamets. He's in a relationship. And his partner is Dr. Culber. They've known each other for some time and share quarters.<br />
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Culber is a little ticked at Stamets. Messing with his DNA and entering the Spore Drive could have killed him. That isn't okay with the good doctor.<br />
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But Stamets is so pleased. He never thought he would ever connect to his spores like he has now. He's seen their universal view. He's seen the infinite. It was fucking cool.<br />
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But there may be some side effects, or consequences to what he's done. When he finishes brushing his teeth, he joins Culber, but it seems his mirror reflection is slow to agree to this. It lingers behind for several uncomfortable seconds. Then it follows his steps.<br />
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But what? People are eager to think it's Mirror Universe Stamets (as in Classic Trek "Mirror Mirror"). And that might be true. But Stamets has touched the infinite. It may just be a universe where he's a little more lost in though than our universe. One where he's more of a dreamer.<br />
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It looks like it's a different Stamets. But which one. We are all familiar with Evil Trek. But from places like <i>TNG </i>we've seen that many more timelines exist out there. The writers have many options.<br />
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So this week we got more ships from the Klingons. The raiders are interesting. It's another one with the pointy wing design. But the D-7 is stinging some show watchers. We've seen the D-7 before. We know the expected design.<br />
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And this is quite different. There are somethings there, like the red lit area. It also has the same kind of shape, in a sense.<br />
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I can see some slight ties. But it is overall quite different.<br />
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The show is free to try out new looks. I am okay with that. But it is just odd how familiar Starfleets ships are looking while Klingons ships are diverging more and more.<br />
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And we are seeing L'Rell again. I like to emphasize this as I completely missed that in the episode. I am not sure why.<br />
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I noted how her armor looked like L'Rell's, and she looked similar. But it didn't click until they spelled it out in <i>After Trek</i>.<br />
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The trouble was in part the changed lighting for this ship, the fact it's such heavy make up that the Klingons tend to blur a bit, for the first time she speaks English, and I was clearly not paying enough attention. It annoys me to miss something that obvious.<br />
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Because this is L'Rell. And until recently, she was serving T'Kuvma and then Voq. And now she's a captain of Klingon ship? This must be relatively new.<br />
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Welcome back to my Subspace Reviews. I do apologize for these starting up again so late. But it has been the glorious Halloween season, and for that time, if I'm not ahead of schedule, some things end up being delayed.<br />
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This episode continues with what seems to be the central story of this season of <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>. The Fall and Rise of Michael Burnham. She's reached her lowest point, disgraced and jailed. Now she's been offered a path to some form of redemption.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">It's just neither she nor us know where that path will be taking her.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">As well, she's not sure who she is anymore. When she discovers that Captain Georgiou has left her something personal in her will, it troubles her. It was something Georgiou decided on well before Burnham had mutinied and been courtmartialed. So it's a stark reminder of who she was, who Georgiou saw her as, just as she's trying to work out who she is now.</span><br />
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What she does know is that she's been given duty in the science division on Discovery. Temporary duty. And she wants to make the most of it.<br />
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And not everyone is pleased with this. Saru was not told about her transfer until now. It troubles him as it's another thing that the captain is doing and deciding without any conversation with him.<br />
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This early scenes also give us an interesting moment where it looks like were seeing a strange world. But it is actually the synthesizing process for building a uniform. It's interesting to see this process from the molecular view.<br />
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This is a simulation, but Captain Lorca is angrily trying to get the bridge crew to beef up their reaction times and accuracy.<br />
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But the results are dreadful. They take out one Klingon ship. But before they can handle another, they are hit and destroyed. Discovery is a science vessel, so it isn't built to dish out or take a lot of damage. So they need to take every advantage they can to win a fight.<br />
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It is nice now to also get a better look at the bridge crew. I hope we get to see and know more about them as the series continues. Though as this show is following a non-bridge officer, the show may never go there.<br />
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For now, Lorca has other issues to focus on. He takes Burnham with him. They gi down to his secure lab. This is the lab we saw at the end of the last episode, with the bones, weapons, and other creepy oddities.<br />
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A lot of us wondered if this was going to be some big dark secret of Lorca's. If this would be hidden and revealed later in the series. That it might hide some dark truth.<br />
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Next episode, he's showing it off to Burnham. So, no. It's not a dark secret. It's not proof that Lorca is secretly evil. He wants to understand and master war, so he can end this war. He wants to find some trick that will do the job.<br />
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It reminds me slightly of the command officers in WWII who would replicate the offices of Nazi leadership, to try and get in the mind of the enemy. Lorca is trying to become something he wasn't before.<br />
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Then he shows her the creature they found in the previous episode. She's shocked at this. But he tells her that he wants her to study it. It killed a squad of Klingons with no problems. It shrugs off phaser kill shots. And it can tear apart the hull of a starship.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And to help her, Security Chief Landry.</span><br />
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Elsewhere, we now return to the Klingon side of the story.<br />
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T'Kuvma's flagship is still adrift in the field where it was crippled by Georgiou in the show's second episode. It has not found it's way home.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">They've managed to make almost all the needed repairs finally. But they can't go to warp. And they have no food. That sucks.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I think it is a valid question as to why the ship has been left unattended for so long by the Klingons. It could be useful.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">It is clear the Empire knows that T'Kuvma is dead. And they are pissed about that. But they left his remaining ship and crew to fend for themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">For consideration, it may be that the Empire decided, once it had it's unifying war, they had no need for cloaking technology. They can beat the Federation with their own ship. They are Klingons!!!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Also, T'Kuvma's house was considered pathetic by most of the other Klingon houses. They may have decided to shun a crew that failed their messiah and was bested by a beaten Federation enemy. And, T'Kuzma was a rallying point. A martyred messiah without a group of disciples lecturing you on how to live and act is easier to make use of. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Granted, if the war proves to drag on...Maybe some forward thinking Klingon might reconsider.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">But the crew of this ship is in trouble. Voq has been leading them since the death of T'Kuvma. He was the Torchbearer, and now he's captain. Once he was an albino, a runt, and an outcast. Now he leads. But his time has been a mess. Without food, they have had to scavenge. Without warp they've had to search for Klingon ship debris for usable materials to make their ship functional.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">They even reached a point where they ate Captain Georgiou's remains, which sounds disgusting. And some have chosen to read this as Klingons being turned into cannibals (of sorts). But I read this as they are all starving, and have since reached that dark point of needing to eat <i>something</i> to survive. Like infamous stories from history where boat and plane crews have to make horrible choices to live. There is no real evidence yet that it was just normal.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">What is vexing is that they do have access to warp technology they could likely use. The Shenzhou is intact nearby. And they have not made use of it. And to me, this puts Voq is a bad light. He's stubbornly refusing to go and get the technology they need so they can get home at last.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">H yammers on about Klingon on purity. It's a close-minded, one-sided, and stupid view. It is a lousy lesson he took from T'Kuvma. Yeah, Voq, your purity gets you scavenging for dead bodies while waiting to die in a graveyard. How wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">He is being assisted by L'Rell, a smart and skilled officer who has grown very fond of Voq.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">She wants Voq to see the bigger picture. She uses the example of her parents' 2 houses. Her father was related to T'Kuvma. Her mother was of House Mokai, a house of spies. Her mother tried to make her choose between the 2 houses when she was young. But she chose instead to be a bridge between the 2, to serve both houses. Voq needs to see the larger issues they face.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;">Voq will need to move quick, as they soon have company, after over 6 months. Kol of House Kor has come. H was the one who dismissed T'Kuvma, and walked away from that first fight. But now he returns with praise for T'Kuvma.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Voq is happy to welcome him. Kol explains that Voq's ship has the one edge no one else has. The cloaking technology. Voq continues to repeat T'Kuvma's teachings and says the ship will be at the service of the Empire, once they finish the last repair.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Voq really doesn't recognize the danger he's in. He loves his teachings so dearly it doesn't occur to him that others may not adhere to them as closely.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And some have complained about Kol. Klingons are all about honor! Yeah, they are...until they aren't. Klingons are happy in the future to use cloaking devices to hide near damaged enemy ships so they can sneak attack rescuers. Klingons are happy to use subterfuge trickery, torture, poisoned grain, etc to win. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The simplified honor bound space vikings is a very simplified view of this species. They know honor. They know deceit. They know arrogance. They know humility. So, I like them not being one-dimensional.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Voq is a lot like Worf, with a simple view of Klingons. H will learn a lot about how much more complex they are.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">So Voq and "L'Rell head over to the Shenzhou to acquire the needed piece of technology. It's time for them to return to the war.</span><br />
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Kol belittles Voq now. He brought food over from his ship. With some friendly banter, good food, bloodwine, and the promise of glory, the whole of the crew has turned on Voq.<br />
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Kol is ready to kill Voq, as he knows he will just cause trouble. But L'Rell suggests she has a far more suitable end in mind for Voq...to become an angry and debated rumor for the rest of the season...BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!...No. We'll get to that shortly.<br />
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On Discovery, we get a mix of Burnham's scientific inquiry and Landry's bullheadedness.<br />
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Burnham determines that the creature is a tardigrade. Normally, they are microscopic and harmless. This isn't. It hates bright lights and phasers. It also seem to react to the Spore Drive, as when the spores were being released in a test, it seemed to react and call out.<br />
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It is almost silly seeing the creature treat Landry like a rag doll, before scuttling back into the safety of the dark. But it has seriously injured the security chief. In fact, much to my surprise at the time of the episode, it's killed her.<br />
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I wasn't expecting her to be exiting the show this early. (And she beat Tasha Yar's exit time.)<br />
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The captain is looking from results, now. It seems that one of the main mining colonies of dilithium (which every starship needs to run) for the Federation is under bombardment. The Starfleet ships in orbit have been destroyed, and the remaining Klingon ships are continuously hitting the colony shields. They have only hours left, and Starfleet can't get there in time to help (Nearest ships are days out.). But Discovery could get there, if it gets the Spore Drive working.<br />
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They can avoid what caused their sister ship to be lost. But they still have their old issue, the further they jump the more uncertain where they'll actual arrive is. They can't guarantee where they may land.<br />
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It is awesome to see the ship finally do it's thing. The Spore Drive at work is beautiful. It's weird and different for Trek. We know this technology isn't going to be around a decade later, so that's not surprising.<br />
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But it's thing nearly kills everyone on board. They reappear from their jump just off a star's surface. They start to get pulled in, but they manage to escape the pull and get to safety. The drive isn't ready yet.<br />
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And it is odd that they have to drop their shields to jump. I would have thought the shields would help contain the effect range of the spores. But it seems to be the reverse of that.<br />
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Lorca isn't interested in this. He wants results. They loose that colony, the war will soon be over. And then Stamets can ask the Klingons about how best to test his technology.<br />
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It places added stress on Stamets, and the whole crew. (It's largely the reason that Landry went in so head strong to test out the tardigrade.) But Stamets is at a dead end. He doesn't know how to pass the technological hurdle he is at.<br />
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Playing the recording is a very harsh thing for Lorca to do. He is desperate. He has made promises, and sees the war on the verge of loss. This is a moment they need a result. So he plays cheap games, and it's had a cost of one life.<br />
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He has no reaction to the creatures presence. But the pretense and trick by Burnham hurts Saru. She used him to her ends. Just like the captain does. Means to an end.<br />
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You get a sense that Saru isn't as happy with his post as he might have hoped. The captain keeps secrets. Everyone is pushing boundaries. And all of their ethics are precarious. It is not the career Saru sought.<br />
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It than even sniffs and licks her. It acts like a cow who gets a little affectionate after you feed it. (You know, you give a cow an apple or some sugar cane and they assume your it's best friend.)<br />
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Now this strategy seems a little odd. Stand still, and get pounded. But Lorca likely wanted to try and take out all the Klingons fast, without an extended battle. In atmosphere against 4 Birds of Prey? It would be tricky. And the crew was already not impressive in simulation. And their shields clearly would not last long in a fight where the Klingons started dodging and weaving around. They needed the Klingons to be bold and cocky, so they'd slip up.<br />
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It is sluggish once they are done jumping. And it seems rather fearful of her once they let it go rest.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Georgious congratulates Burnham as she guesses that while she has died, Burnham is likely a captain. She wants Burnham to know how proud she is of her, and that her most important duty is to look after those under her command.</span><br />
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He wants to run off and just retake the ship. But that isn't happening. The crew rejected him. He has no support.<br />
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Her mother's house can help him do that.<br />
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And then maybe he can make history. (And we can start speculating on what he'll do.)<br />
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This has been a fun, intense, and interesting episode. Characters died. Lives have been upended. And people have found new chances and complications to deal with. It continues the forward movement of the series. We have much to learn about these characters.<br />
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But not without a serious question or two. Like, is it killing their animal pilot? Or is it torturing the creature?<br />
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The creature was a welcome find in the last episode, and the first half of this episode it's a monster.<br />
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It is always a sad sight in the days after Halloween to see the festivities out by the curb. It's almost as painful as the mid-October shift in stores to Christmas.<br />
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But this day is here, and we are can live it. Enjoy it. Be terrified by what we like, be it house, or kid at the door, or movie we enjoy.<br />
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The film is something of a labor of love by Bobby Roe and Zack Andrews. They were both interested in getting a horror film made on their own terms. They like the idea of a documentary/found footage look to the film, to help blur lines between real and fake. When they started work on this movie, found footage hadn't yet exploded to where it is now.<br />
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They wanted an insular quality to the film, with a group of friends crammed together, heading into a darkness they didn't really understand. The characters are eager for an extreme haunting experience. An experience beyond what others get to have. So they push to get a mysterious and hidden group to let them in on the ride.<br />
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A portion of this film follows them meeting and interviewing people who work and run haunted houses around South Central United States.<br />
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And some of it was planned.<br />
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That is an interesting aspect to this film. What are the real dark stories of the Haunt world? And what are ones made for the film? And how many of the real ones are more than tall tales?<br />
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The reality of the film is blurred.<br />
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More so, it is blurred as the cast of leads is mostly made of guys who know each other, and weren't all regular actors. So they at least had preexisting chemistry.<br />
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I don't entirely get it. A scare is nice. But put yourself at risk is just ridiculous.<br />
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It is summed nicely for me by one interview in the film. He is draped over his significant other. He jokes about she is fine with the Haunt they are at. But not him. Oh, no. He wants something where they get in your face and then shove.<br />
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It reminds me of the guys that tell you how they would handle a robbery, about all there moves. It is all talk. There is an unknown when you walk into a fly by night Haunt. But seeking people that will whip a bull machete near your head, is begging for someone to get seriously hurt. And for what? I am not clear.<br />
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As they go they will film it all, even in the RV they're sharing. And unlike some films where the camera seems like an outsider, it is shared among them. They all have agreed on what they want to do, and treat it as part of there fun in the haunted houses. As they move along it is mostly about them sharing this adventure.<br />
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They have fun, and some jumps. They interview. And they step on some toes, as they try to sneak around, and take video in places they are warned off from.<br />
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So this is, by and large, feeling like a documentary of people out enjoying their Halloween. But then things start to blur.<br />
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Strange events start to pop up , as they go. They are working to connect with a mysterious Haunt group called the Blue Skeleton.<br />
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Blue Skeleton is secretive, and just whispered and rumored about. They apparently run the most wild and extreme experience you can have. So one has to know where to go and who to talk to. And the crew is eager to try it out.<br />
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Maybe it's just that they are rubbing people the wrong way, and pissed Haunt workers are playing tricks on them. Maybe they happen to be crossing the occasionally unstable worker, who wants to mess with them. Maybe it's all chance.<br />
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If you like, you can give it a watch and find out. If you dare.<br />
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And, hopefully, come next Halloween I can give this film a full discussion. And, maybe, I can take a look at it's sequel.<br />
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Happy Halloween everyone.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-15254963991827908752017-10-31T00:39:00.004-05:002017-10-31T00:45:06.337-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Tales of Halloween (2016), In ShortHalloween is finally here! Let's party.<br />
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But maybe it's not time for that, or maybe you just need your horror fix to continue. So what will we watch. Something about Halloween, obviously. But what to pick?<br />
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<i>Tales of Halloween</i>.<br />
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<i>Tales of Halloween</i> is a film from a collection of directors and writers. All of the tales take place in the same town on the same Halloween night. It's an offering of a range of horror tales that often have twists and turns that are dark, and sometimes strange.<br />
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So we have ten stories over two hours. That is interesting to me. Usually when I see an anthology film it limits itself to four tales. So you can have up to half an hour for each tale. But with this breakdown, we are looking at shorter tales that are around ten minutes each, on average.<br />
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That calls for an economy of storytelling. Quick tales. Tight tales. Just like a good story you tell by the fire. (It also means that the stories are hopefully brief enough that you won't get bored in them if one doesn't work for you.)<br />
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But I do love having this wide range of tales, as it gives me a grab bag of options. It's like a bulging Halloween bucket, full of candy and promise. You can stick your hand in and see what you get. Enjoy the experience and adventure!<br />
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<b>So let's talk about what these tales are made of.</b><br />
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The film's wraparound is built to be a strange and visually striking popup book world. The city is largely flat. But places do pop up, and beings, vehicles, and weather move around overhead. It's quite dynamic and fun, offering a playful sense to these dark and macabre tales. I enjoy when these things mix well.<br />
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To tie these tales together, we have the local radio station, and a DJ on the air this Halloween.<br />
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The DJ is played by Adrienne Barbeau. She is more of an ethereal character, momentarily appearing at the film's start. She then is a voice that is threaded into the film at certain points. She sometimes will take you into one story, or out of another.<br />
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And being a Halloween film, you know there's a love and respect for John Carpenter's work. If you watch through all the tales, you can pull out numerous little shout outs to him.<br />
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It's never occured to me before...But...Can I trust these kids?<br />
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I just love that the film was able to mess with me a bit.<br />
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The supernatural type.<br />
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The <i>X-File</i>y type.<br />
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And some actual GMO monstrosities.<br />
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You can decide who you find the more unsettling.<br />
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And the range of conflicts take us from fights of families and couples...<br />
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Along the way there will be spots and characters that will pop up over and over again, helping to further tie together this world.<br />
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As well, we have Romero's <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>. You can see the film playing in homes throughout the tales, it helps to show far apart in time each of your Halloween terrors are separated.<br />
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Thinking of back on everything happening this night, this town is certainly going to look interesting come morning. But at least you can go to the credits, and move on to other chilling tales on your Halloween.<br />
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I hope <i>Tales of Halloween</i> finds a spot in your list of To Watch films this Halloween. How else will you learn to ready yourself when Sweet Tooth comes to your house?<br />
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And then you have films that take you to another world. Where gore is the beginning of an exploration. Where it acts as a portal for beings outside our understanding.<br />
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All you need to do to meet them is...solve the puzzle.<br />
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It's time to solve accept the challenge, welcome the suffering, and see if we can come out sane on the other side of...<br />
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<i>Hellraiser</i>.<br />
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The film is the creation of horror writing great Clive Barker, who wrote and directed this movie. It was his first major film.<br />
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It's an adaptation of <i>The Hellbound Heart</i>, which he also wrote. The move from book to film offers many changes. Some were ones he had pushed on the film by censors and studio, but others are his willing changes for the sake of adaptation.<br />
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The changes, in part, soften some of the stories edges a bit. That may annoy some viewers, but I don't mind having a little easier time starting with a clearer protagonist for the story. It helps give the character in the film, and in other appearances, more of an arc.<br />
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But this film is still filled with gory and gruesome images, moments, and scenes. It was a film that took me time to actually see through and appreciate. So it is definitely not for everyone, particularly with it's key facet of body horror.<br />
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But that is one of the things you go to Clive Barker for.<br />
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As the film opens we see a man meeting with merchant in some open air cafe. They are coming to a deal on an item. An odd little box.<br />
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This is Frank Cotton. He's a man who's happily hedonistic. His pleasure. His joy. His needs. These are the things that drive this man. No one will stand in his way.<br />
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As he works the box, it opens to him. The environment around him slowly changes.<br />
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And then he's done. And that experience finds him. Chained hooks fly out of the darkness, snagging and gouging him.<br />
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They have a strained and troubled marriage. Julia is Larry's second wife, and since their marriage they've had trouble. Much of this stems from Frank who had a torrid affair with Julia. It seems like a dark experience that has left a mark on Julia.<br />
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She still thinks of him. She's haunted by him.<br />
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Larry has a daughter from his first marriage. Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence). She loves her dad, but has chosen to not live with them in the house. But she's eager to stay in her dad's life.<br />
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While the couple moves into the house, Larry is accidentally gashed, spilling quite a bit of blood. The blood lands on the floor where Frank was when he was taken and torn asunder.<br />
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He soon finds Julia, and he begs her to help him. He needs something to become whole again. Blood. Lots of blood. Blood from a living person.<br />
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She is stunned at first by what she is doing. But she slowly embraces her role.<br />
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And Frank slowly returns to some semblance of himself.<br />
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He is almost back to normal, but lacks his skin, and little more life essence.<br />
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He explains that he sought the puzzle box to received the ultimate sensual experience. But it proved to be the most extreme sadistic experience.<br />
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Kristy stumbles in on them, and ends up stealing the puzzle box.<br />
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Inside she finds a large strange creature, that terrifies her.<br />
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She runs, with it following closely behind. She gets out and grabs the puzzle box, looking to close the doorway.<br />
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The Cenobites are the beings that engage humans via the puzzle box. They are explorers. They aren't demons. They aren't angels. They just seek carnal pleasure. And, for them pleasure and pain are the same.<br />
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Chatter.<br />
Butterball.<br />
Deepthroat.<br />
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Pinhead.<br />
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Now these aren't there actual names. They are descriptors that have been tied to the characters. Though Pinhead has ended up being more solidly tied to the name, due to his prominence. (Clive Barker does not care for that name.)<br />
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Chatter grabs and holds Kirsty.<br />
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They have come for her. She opened the box. She sent out the call. And now the deal is struck.<br />
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But Kirsty looks for a way out. And she proves to be quite clever and calculating. She's going from a teen struggling with her dad's troubled marriage to a someone that can work a dark deal with horrific beings of immense power.<br />
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She knows the box is tied to her uncle Frank. So he must be tied to them. But in his current state, something is wrong.<br />
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So she realizes that he must have fled them. So she offers him up to them. Free her, and she'll show them the way to Frank. So they can take him back and resume their work on him.<br />
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The others aren't so sure, or interested. But Pinhead is intrigued. So he agrees.<br />
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And this is part of the reason I like this movie above the rest in the series. I like Pinhead when he's more detached, mysterious, and amoral. He isn't hunting. He isn't conning. He isn't plotting. He's doing his job, and he loves that job.<br />
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He isn't trying to be evil. He is a passionate explorer of the extreme.<br />
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Kirsty runs home to find Frank, and check on her dad. When she finds her father, he tries to reassure her. But she soon realizes that her father isn't there anymore. Franks and Julia preyed on him. They killed him. They skinned him. And now Frank is wearing a Larry Suit.<br />
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There is now no compunction or doubt that Kirsty is going to go ahead with her deal with Pinhead. She pushes back from her uncle.<br />
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And that is all Pinhead was waiting for. He strikes, sending chained hooks at Frank, just as he did the first time they met. And he tears Frank to pieces.<br />
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Kirsty flees the room to take a breath and process what's happen. But she soon realizes that the Cenobites aren't happy with just Frank. They want her to. After all, she opened the box.<br />
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She runs to find the puzzle box to try and end this. It is with Julia, who is now placed on a bed, chained hooks all over her. (I guess this in Punhead's work, or a reflection of the world the puzzle box has opened access to.) She pulls the box away.<br />
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She proceeds to work the box and send the rest of the Cenobites home as well.<br />
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She is pissed, and done with all of this madness.<br />
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And then the creature she saw when she first opened the box attacks her. And they get into a slap fight over the box. But she finally gets it back.<br />
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Her friend arrives at the house to check on her and help her get out. He even, humorously, tries to get the box from Kirsty, to help her. But she screams and knocks him away. (Like he has any clue about the box or how to use it.)<br />
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She finally gets the box back to it's inert form, and sends the last threats home. But the house is in ruins and on fire.<br />
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As they watch, a homeless man walks up and into the fire, to pick the box up. In flames, he transforms into some demonic dragon, or something. It flies the box away.<br />
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And Kirsty looks on, bewildered. And why wouldn't you be?<br />
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Back at the cafe from the start of the movie. The same merchant is selling the box once again.<br />
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The cycle continues for the Cenobites.<br />
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Hellraiser is a fascinating movie. Body horror. Psychological horror. Horror from Beyond. Like a lot of Clive Barker's work it makes you at times uncomfortable. It pushes some boundaries.<br />
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But at the same time it is a tight small story of a disintegrating family, being brought into flaming ruins by the black sheep in the family. Leaving the youngest generation to pick up the pieces and move on.<br />
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Andrew Robinson as Larry makes for a wonderful sweet dad. He has his flaws, isn't to forward, but he wants to do right.<br />
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Clare Higgins as Julia makes for an interesting woman who is disenchanted with the quiet life she has and haunted by what Frank did to her, and what it's done to her. And as she embraces the dark madness Frank brings back she slides into that world.<br />
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Ashley Laurence is a pleasure as Kirsty. Unsure at first. Scared after a time. But by the end she's punching freaky monsters and screaming at them. She comes into her own trying to understand the new reality forming around her, and then in driving it back out of our world.<br />
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And then we have the wonderful Doug Bradley. Pinhead. Lead Cenobite. The Priest. He goes through a lot to make this role work. Hours of makeup. Toned down acting, to make the character more austere. And he takes on most of the Cenobite lines (partly due to the face makeup on half the other Cenobites). He is the face of these beings, and these movies. This was an early role for him that he even wasn't sure he wanted, due to be hidden under the make up. But he owns it.<br />
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Like Robert Englund in the <i>A Nightmare on Elm Street</i> movies, it is hard to imagine moving past this actor in this role. It's a major hurdle.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-50014873661970466322017-10-29T17:00:00.000-05:002017-10-29T17:00:59.491-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Dracula: In The Company Of Monsters - An IntroductionIt's a cold and rainy day, and sometimes you need more than a good film or show to bolster your Halloween and macabre sensibility. Sometimes, you just want a good read. A tome not so much of forgotten lore, but of enjoyable horror.<br />
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And if you need an interesting read, as you enter this new week, try one of the many tales of Dracula tales made into a comic. A mix of dark words, dark deeds, and striking imagery.<br />
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Published by BOOM! Studios in 2011, this tale takes us into a strange twist in the unlife of Dracula. is he the most evil force to face? This story challenges that idea.<br />
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This ongoing tale was created by Kurt Busiek (<i>Astro City</i>, <i>Action Comics</i>, <i>Superman</i>, <i>Avengers</i>, <i>Conan</i>, ). It's co-written by Daryl Gregory. It's illustrated by Scott Godlewski. Colors were done by Stephen Downer. And lettering was done by Johnny Lowe.<br />
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It is a 12 issue series that spans an epic struggle between forces beyond most of our reaches. It has since been collected into 3 volumes.<br />
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For now, I want to introduce you to this world, and the forces that will soon be pitted against each other for power, and survival. When we come back, we'll go through Volume 1.<br />
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So for now, let's reveal a SPOILER from the book. It is largely about Dracula. I know!<br />
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We get to see many key moments, legendary moments, from his life (and more the life of the actual Vlad Tepes/Vlad III of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula).<br />
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Victories.<br />
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We also see the steps towards the Dracula we all know so well. And, as well, the type of man he was. He is one that will not bow to any man, god, or any power..<br />
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He will exist, and continue to do so only on his own terms.<br />
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In the present, we look to Barrington Industries. It is a powerful company, but an ailing one. Everyone is scared that it is on it's last legs. Many terrified they will be gone in the next round of layoffs.<br />
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But now his uncle has entrusted to him a strange mission, one he can't explain to others, and that he also doesn't really understand.<br />
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He has had to study and master a series of ancient languages, then he's studied one ancient text after another. Most of it has had to do with Vlad Tepes. But other bits have been strange rituals and incantations.<br />
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It is all fascinating to Evan, learning more and more about this historic, but largely forgotten figure. He is impressed by him, as a long dead figure from the distant past who he'll never have to meet.<br />
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But when they go down where his uncle has taken them. They find something Evan did not expect.<br />
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A skeleton encased in a strange honey concotion.<br />
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The remains of Vlad Tepes.<br />
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<b>Dracula.</b><br />
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And the main players ready to take the stage. An arrogant, gluttonous, and ancient vampire. An old lumbering corporation. And an arrogant, greedy, and aging man of wealth, power, and privilege. Who is the most vile? Who is the most twisted? Who is the most entrenched? Who will exploit who? And which of these, if any, will rule the day?<br />
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Plenty of issues left to reveal it all. A dark read for this Halloween.<br />
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So let's set a course, and go to warp. It's time for some <i>Star Trek</i>.<br />
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And let's take a look at the Star Trek franchise's only holiday episode. And it's a Halloween one.<br />
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The episode opens with the starship Enterprise in orbit of Pyris II. It is an uninhabited world. Scotty, Sulu, and Crewman Jackson have been sent down to survey.<br />
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Up on the ship Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle is in charge. And Chekov is...Chekov? What's the deal with that wig? Now that's this episodes real horror.<br />
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This was the first filmed episode with Chekov. But as it was shown later, his later work was shown earlier.<br />
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The world is as desolate and craggy as expected. But they also find that it is foggy. The environment of the planet should not make that possible.<br />
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And then they hear a howling and a wailing. Three spectral figures appear. They wail and rhyme, warning Kirk to stay away and flee.<br />
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They cackle and disappear when they are done. (They really make you think of the Three Witches.)<br />
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As they make there way, they spot a massive castle in the distance. And it looks great. That is a perfect creepy castle, shrouded in darkness.<br />
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They are taken to meet their captors. Korob and Sylvia. They are powerful being that have taken this world as there home. They evade questions about who they are and how their powers work.<br />
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Magic? Science? Eh?<br />
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The cat can also get a whole lot more annoying and interesting.<br />
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Strange almost all powerful beings on a spooky world? Creepy castle? Black cat? Witches? Ghosts? Seeming magic?<br />
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The beings are tying in to the things that scare us, as humans. Though as 23rd century people, you might think something more futuristic might be in there. But this is the 60's So it's about 60's creepiness.<br />
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This episode gives a nice look at the creepy Halloween imagery of the mid-60's. It might seem somewhat quaint to some these days, but it worked on me as a little kid in the 80's. Perhaps it will get the kid in you to twinge to.<br />
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Hopefully, you'll like to watch this Halloween and see just how Kirk and the crew are able to escape the grasp of wizards and witches. The tricks they are trying to evade will prove to be your treat.<br />
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So let's return yet again to the 80's with a gory comedic classic. One of the Brian Yunza and Stuart Gordon twisted jaunts. A bit of the old Jeffrey Combs that make carnivorous entrails smile.<br />
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This is the tale has partly told by H.P. Lovecraft. It deviates in many ways, but most all retelling of Lovecraft's work seems to take wide deviations from the original tales. It seems difficult to fully translate his work.<br />
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But we return to the Lovecraftian alma mater of Miskatonic University, in comfy old Arkham, Massachusetts.<br />
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A new third year med student has arrived from studies overseas. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs the Great). He has been studied death and the limits of life. And he's developed and expanded the field privately in his quest to master it.<br />
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And then we have his soon to be roommate and research assistant. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott of <i>The Last Starfighter</i>, <i>Bride of Re-Animator</i>, <i>Black Scorpion</i>, <i>The Prophecy 2</i>, etc.). He is a dedicated student, trying to master his field and be the best he can be.<br />
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Dan is dating Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton the Wonderful - Oh, so many great horror films to her name that I must cover down the road.). She's also the daughter of the dean of the medical school, so spends a good deal of time around the hospital they work in.<br />
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She seems to have generally positive view of the people around her. But Herbert West instantly creeps her out. Everything about him seems off. He can't be trusted, in Megan's eyes.<br />
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And then there's Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale of <i>Guyver</i>, <i>Bride of Re-Animator</i>, <i>Tales from the Darkside</i>, etc.). The esteemed and revered figure at the medical school. He shares common interest in field of study of Herbert West. He is a cold and arrogant man. He also lusts after Megan.<br />
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Both West and Hill have a lot in common. The difference I see is that Herbert West just wants to expand his understanding of death and life. Knowledge for knowledge. Carl Hill wants this knowledge to, but to make himself more revered, and more powerful. He wants knowledge for control.<br />
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And in there common quest they have a meeting of minds.<br />
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But things come to a head.<br />
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Then you've got that beautiful glowing serum of Herbert West's creation. The reanimating agent. An injection of it will bring a body, or a limb, to life. And, oddly, they never seem happy to be back.<br />
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But when you see it come out, you know things are about to get worse.<br />
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This is one of the early gory movies I came across and actually watched all the way through. And as I've mentioned before, early means somewhat later in life. The gore of this movie works so well because it is over the top. It is mad.<br />
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Strange walking cadavers. Snarling heads. Intestinal tentacles. It's ridiculous and amazing to watch.<br />
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But I can't forget to give some respect to the smartest character in this movie. The medical school security guard, Mace. He isn't afraid to pull out the gun when things are weird. And when things get super insane, he turns and gets out to call for help. That is how you survive this kind of story.<br />
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So if you want your Halloween to have gore, black comedy, and a bit of Jeffrey Combs. This is a great choice to add to your Halloween marathon.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-20976209891345419622017-10-27T00:01:00.000-05:002017-10-27T00:01:04.493-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Ghostwatch (1992)<b><i>Back before the now that doesn't seem real...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>A world of fake news, and utterly ridiculous presidents...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>We had, in some ways, a simpler time...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>That seeing was believing...</i></b><br />
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Today, we have Reality TV. Today, we have Reality TV presidents. The circle is complete. But let's go back to a Halloween when the veil between the naivety of the past and the madness of the future was breached for just one night...<br />
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<i>Ghostwatch</i>.<br />
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Oh, yes. <i>Ghostwatch</i>. The show they only showed once on the BBC. The show that brought in 10's of thousands of angry calls in the hour after it aired. The show that cruelly robbed a nation of their innate faith in...Ah, well. Let's take a look at this.<br />
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This show was originally proposed by Stephen Volk. He had an idea for an interesting new series the BBC could run. It would start with a season/series of a show following some paranormal investigators going to paranormal hot spots in a North London council estate (It isn't clear how real he wanted this show to look, but I would bet he wanted it to feel genuine.). The final episode would be a live show, where they investigate a "real" haunted house.<br />
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The idea was pared down to just that last episode. The live broadcast of the goings on of a paranormally besieged family. Live. Halloween night. 1992. A scary little play of a BBC investigation of the paranormal that goes horribly wrong.<br />
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But this teleplay would be played straight. BBC regulars and crew. No nods to it being fake as the show progresses. Everyone in the cast commits. And the results...we will talk about further down.<br />
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The cast is led by Michael Parkinson, a respected host in English television. He anchors the show from the studio, where he guides the audience, keeps orders, and converses with guests and the infield presenters.<br />
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He is a serious individual, known for being in general proper. No reason to believe he'd play a trick on the public, or play a part in something not completely above board.<br />
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Interviewing people outside the haunted house is Craig Charles, who is best known for his role on <i>Red Dwarf</i>. But he also was a frequent face on kid's TV in the 90's. So it wasn't too surprising to see him doing more special shows with the BBC.<br />
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He is there to add humorous notes, get information from locals, and add additional perspectives from near the home being investigated,<br />
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And then we have Sarah Greene. She's interviewing and investigating inside the home. She's talking with the mother and children in the home. She's drawing out information from them, and also giving them some support. At the time she also was doing a lot of work presenting on kid's shows (like <i>Blue Peter</i> and <i>Saturday Superstore</i>), so she also was not some red flag to see on this.<br />
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They and others all looked and felt the part. It would be just another documentary special.<br />
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The show was trying in many ways to emulated Orson Welle's radio broadcast of <i>The War of the Worlds</i>, which went out October 30th, 1938. It also was a teleplay that strived to play out realistically.<br />
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Volk's idea was that horror movies were becoming too predictable. People going to movies agree to be scared, and know what to expect. But TV was extra safe. Comfortable. He wanted to throw people's expectations out of the window. A level of reality that would blur the lines a bit. He didn't want there to be any clue that something unexpected might be coming the audiences way.<br />
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For Volk, it was to be something you could get lost in as you were drawn into the unfolding drama. Things could get tenser and tenser. Then the shocking end...And then there'd be an ad break before the next show.<br />
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Conceptually, I can appreciate this. But in reality it is a bit much to screw with audiences to that extent. Today we have a definite negative view to pulling stunts like this.<br />
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And the idea was audacious. An idea that you get one shot at. Once you try this the audiences are going to realize it can happen again. And in this age, it would be leaked on the Internet by the first day of filming.<br />
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Like Welles before, the show did leave signs this was fiction. Welles's radio play opens introducing the story. And the BBC Announcer made it clear a movie with these people was about to start. Then as the show starts we see credits for the main cast. And there's also a credit for the show's writer.<br />
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But, like with <i>The War of the Worlds</i>, and life in general, many people turned in late. So they all saw Parkinson hosting a strange live show.<br />
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The show borrows a good deal from famous stories of hauntings in England. In particular the Enfield story (It was later used as the basis of <i>The Conjuring 2</i>, among many other haunted house TV and movies).<br />
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The reality of known stories pulled in helped to create a more familiar narrative for the family to be enduring.<br />
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Another important piece was establishing a feel to the broadcast. The decision was made to make this on video, instead of film. Some wanted to use film, but that would have made it clear this wasn't a news program. And at the time many BBC shows were being made on video, so it made the show feel more uniform with the rest of the programming.<br />
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Other steps taking were in creating a proper studio feel, and on site feed. <i>Ghostwatch</i> feels like other existing shows where you have teams in different locations trying to pull together a show, fill time, and deal with technical hiccups.<br />
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So let's note some of these touches. The on scene camera and production team.<br />
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A phone line for calling, where people like you "were phoning" to share their experiences, and also noting weird events they saw breaking out around them. In reality the line could be used, so people could call in. But people were told that the show wasn't real, but they could still share stories that might get used.<br />
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Interviews with the family members where they could discuss the experience and express their concerns.<br />
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In studio experts. A skeptical host that finds the idea of it all ridiculous, but is doing his job.<br />
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Experts on site.<br />
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And technology to ooo and aah at. Cameras in every room. Devices to register strange occurrences...<br />
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and special thermal cameras.<br />
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Plus, older videos of the kids' experiences in the house...<br />
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...and with earlier investigations.<br />
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Sound evidence.<br />
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Photos of injuries.<br />
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Some physical evidence from the house.<br />
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Including one with an American skeptic who challenges the ideas being presented.<br />
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It is layers and layers that have a believable feel to them.<br />
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What's also interesting to see in watching this is how much of the structure and different aspects of this show were replicated a decade later when paranormal reality shows really started to take off.<br />
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This show is really quite similar to any <i>Most Haunted Live</i> show. But this show doesn't try to pretend the next day it was all real, and they do far less night vision work.<br />
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As well, they have one dramatic flourish near the start, when they are lighting up the outside of the house for the TV crew. It feels like a tell to demark where the ghost story actually starts.<br />
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<b><i>The show opens.</i></b><br />
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Parkinson sets the professional and serious mood, showing off the various stages the show will take place on: his seat, the phone bank, the house, the interviews outside the house.<br />
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He also introduces Dr. Lin Pascoe, a scientist who has been studying the troubled family for years. She is a true believer, eager to share what she's learned and show her findings. She will be sitting with Parkinson through the rest of the show, giving input.<br />
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Then we have Sarah Greene begin readying to go into the house with the family.<br />
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Craig Charles hovers around, joking and helping to keep the mood light. He thinks it's all a laugh.<br />
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Sarah talks to the family, the Early family, some. The mother says they've had trouble for some time. The kids have been jumped on by some force. A strange voice has come out of the kids' mouths. They've been scratched up. Things have been thrown around. Loud noises have shook the house. Even the strange mewlng of a cat arise from nowhere.<br />
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She hopes they can find some answers and peace.<br />
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Now it's time to go in and investigate.<br />
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At the beginning they are having some Halloween fun. Bobbing for apples. (And still, no one is telling me if this is still a thing kids like to do.)<br />
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All of this keeps the events light and grounded. It all seems silly. Nothing is going to happen.<br />
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Before long it is time for the girls to start preparing for bed. It seems much that happens, happens after they go to bed. The little one tells them about Pipes. He comes and visits them. (It got this name because they thought the noises early on were caused by pipes in the walls.)<br />
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One kid has drawn something they've seen in their room. A really disgusting figure.<br />
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But when they rewind the tape, no one is present. False alarm.. (Ah. Back when most TV wasn't recorded, or streamed, or DVR'd. So you couldn't go back and check. And screencap.)<br />
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Dr. Pascoe says it was just the curtains. She is challenging the early evidence making the scares looking like their just in our imagination. Everything's cool.<br />
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At the house, the mother takes Sarah to see "the room". It's a glory hole, apparently. A little room under the stairs. The mother went in a while back, and she felt a force keep the door shut, trapping her there for some time.<br />
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Since then, she's sealed the door, so the girls don't go in.<br />
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The girls talk about there experiences some,and their fears. We also see a book of scribbling the girls don't remember making.<br />
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It's noted that a lot of what is happening is centered around the older daughter.<br />
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This also slowly builds up a bit of an undercurrent. We continue to get very quiet normalcy. But the mom is troubled and nervous. The kids are sad and uncomfortable. The investigators are doubtful. But it seems that something is wrong.<br />
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Outside, Craig ups the energy. He's running around talking to neighbors about what they've experienced. Some women from across the street talk to him about the strange stuff that has been seen, like gruesome dog deaths. But Craig seems unphased by it, clearly not buying in.<br />
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Suddenly it seems we have our answers. It is fake. The kids are playing around.<br />
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The girls are distraught, saying they are frustrated with everyone around them.<br />
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When Sarah goes to check on the older daughter, her face is all scratched up. And she lies in bed, still, unable to move, and in pain.<br />
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And as they leave the room, the camera pans. It almost seems a transparent figure is standing by the curtains again. When they pan back, there is nothing.<br />
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Behind the refrigerator, the little girl is hiding and afraid.<br />
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So they start to remove the barrier from the door. (And in the ranks of horror movie bad ideas...How close is this to reading the Necronomicon aloud?)<br />
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No one can see what is happening in the house any longer.<br />
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Outside, they lost sound minutes before, so they have no idea what is happening in the house or studio. Craig Charles is joking with a paranormal expert, unaware he's on air.<br />
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Back in studio they take more calls, not sure what to make of all of this. They learn a story of a woman who long before lived in the area. She took in children, and then drowned them.<br />
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Another call offers a large amount of new information on the house. Before, there was no sign of anything strange in the house's history. But now we learn a new facet from a few decades before.<br />
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One owner sublet a room to a nephew. He was a troubled man. He was hospitalized and prosecuted for a number of crimes, including child abuse, abductions, and molestation.<br />
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He had paranoid fantasies that someone was in his body, controlling him. Some woman. He felt he couldn't escape it.<br />
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While his family was away, he committed suicide in the room under the stairs. The family returned a 2 weeks later to find the body.<br />
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Parkinson is dubious. And that is his role, to say this is all ridiculous, it can't be real.<br />
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But Pascoe is more worried, even scared. It all seems to connect to and match with what they are learning about the house. And she wonders if the problem is even older, and an original evil preyed on the dead man, and now the family.<br />
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We then see footage from outside the house. The sound guy is being taken out to an ambulance.<br />
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Things in the studio get worse as the lights starts to blow out.<br />
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The story, in and off itself, is quite enjoyable. It starts out friendly, takes turns, let's you make logical leaps, and then turns things on it's head. The beats of the story work. And the scares work even if you are aware it is all fiction.<br />
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And, it seems, many did not know it was fiction. People were calling into the BBC to ask what happened, and to know if the people were okay. People were left unsure what happen.<br />
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Despite the fact that after the show fades to black, we see the shows writer.<br />
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And the BBC Announcer again noted that this was a story, it was over, and things at the BBC Center were fine.<br />
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I don't want to be mean, I am looking at this show decades on. And I think as a kid this would have thrown me. But parents? You need to step in here. Like when an episode of <i>Dr Who</i> ends, reassure the kids.<br />
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There were complaints about the show, but I am not sure how much confusion there actually was. After <i>The War of the Worlds</i> broadcast there were many stories about panics, but most proved to be exaggerated or tall tales. It was in part an effort by newspapers to pull down radio's growing prominence .<br />
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It is said some 30,000 called in. But tabloids were among the most eager to chase this show's notoriety, to weaken and destroy the BBC. So how many were just annoyed a horror story popped out of this show, and it wasn't what they expected? How many were actually disturbed to a serious extent? How much is puffery?<br />
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One young man's death was blamed on the show. He was dealing with some learning issues, and after the show it is said that he was terrified a ghost would possess him. So he committed suicide.<br />
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Some doctors, via the British Medical Journal, believed a handful of kids showed signed of PTSD's after watching the show. Doctors said some kids suffered sleep loss and panic attacks. But how different is this from these kid's experience if they'd caught <i>The Thing</i>, a <i>Friday the 13th</i> film, or <i>Poltergeist </i>on TV? The Journal noted that the impact on the kids was actually very short term, so calling it PTSD was unfounded.<br />
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And November 1st, Sarah Greene went on morning TV to show kids and some adults that she wasn't dead or stuck in a hellish void.<br />
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For the Broadcasting Standards Commission the BBC assurances weren't enough. They ruled against the BBC. They believed that too few warnings were given that the show was fictional. They didn't hold them responsible for the death, or most of the other complaints, but felt the show fictional nature wasn't made clear enough.<br />
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And that is a debate to be had. Where is that line? How much can a public station play games, or tricks, on an audience?<br />
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What is clear is that the show broke ground and rules. It punished you for assuming you couldn't be tricked. And it used all the trick TV had available (sound effects, visual effects, lighting tricks, and mixing taped and live events together) to take it's audience on an unexpected trip. It is an inspiration among it's cult of fans. It's gone on to inspire faux documentaries and filmmakers of the future.<br />
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Years on, we have confidence that this is all fiction, so we can avoid some of the stress. As such, this can be a fun watch. It's a creepy 90 minute chase that gives a historic view of 90's BBC, the era before Reality TV, and a CGI light experience (for those annoyed by it).<br />
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And I only noted a few appearances of Pipes in this review. Apparently, he appears around 13 times, including in crowd shots outside. Do you think you can spot all of his appearances? Can you see him in your screen's reflection now?<br />
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The show has never again been shown by the BBC, but <a href="https://www.shudder.com/watch/ghostwatch/3090117/1?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ghostwatch">Shudder</a> has it available, should you wish to delve into this historic show, and see if, even being fiction, it can get the hairs on the back of your neck to stick up with Halloween.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-24205639308185541732017-10-26T01:12:00.000-05:002017-10-26T01:14:21.212-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Ash Vs Evil Dead Season 1One way to enjoy your Halloween is to have traditions. Sometimes it's a place, or a food. Sometimes it's one or more movies. A good horror series also makes for a nice tradition, particularly if it's one you can binge on windy nights.<br />
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So the joker, who grew more goofy every movie is a survivor who's mind is doing what it can to stay intact.<br />
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So sex, booze, drugs, and groovy music.<br />
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But then his mind flashes back to a drunken drug filled night he spent with a young lady. To impress her, he showed her the book. In his addled state, he got her to read some passages from it.<br />
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Elsewhere in the state. State trooper is checking a disturbance with her partner. Amanda Fisher is trying to take it slow and easy as they check out the dark house out in the woods.<br />
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It attacks them, killing her partner. She manages to shoot it in the head. But then her partner pops up and starts to taunt and attack her.<br />
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And this leads to her being put on leave. Many of her fellow officers think she snapped and killed her partner.<br />
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But she meets up with Ruby, a mysterious woman who seems to know a lot about this stuff. She explains that it is a real. And it is all the fault of Ashley Williams.<br />
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Back in Ash's life, he's trying to skip town fast. He wants to figure out the book, turn it off again, and not have to fight the Deadites ever again.<br />
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At work, he has one ally. Pablo Simon Bolivar. He is an eager fan of Ash, believing he is special, somehow. He covers for Ash, bails him out, and gives him encouragement.<br />
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New to the store is Kelly Maxwell. She's a neighbor of Pablo who he helped get the job. She is completely unimpressed with Ash and his Ashiness.<br />
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But soon they will have to rely on each other as Deadite troubles arise and chase them down. When the chips are down, Ash the hero comes out, and Pablo has his faith proven and Kelly sees what he can actually accomplish.<br />
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Thankfully this is a cable series so we see terrible things, and the blood is everywhere.<br />
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And you need death. Death is pervasive in the series. Ash and the gang are trying to save the world (and themselves), but the cost is high. Damn high.<br />
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But if you want HOURS of new fresh Evil Dead fun and terror this Halloween, be sure to watch <i>Ash Vs Evil Dead Season 1</i>. You might even find time to check out Season 2.<br />
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At times like that you want the sharpest minds and eyes at work. Through the falling leaves, the rapid dusk, and along the forgotten paths, the sleuths will make things right.<br />
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So today let's enjoy the efforts of one such sleuth. Hercule Poirot. Drawn out in the wake of a Halloween tragedy in...<br />
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We open on a night so perfect for Halloween. Dark, windy, with lightning and rain in the air. Not perfect for going out to Trick or Treat, but fine for a children's party.<br />
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And the house is a buzz with kids running around, and enjoying the fun being put on by the adults, and have they are finding for themselves. The adults just try and catch their breaths, trying to supervise the rambunctious lot all.<br />
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She is being put to use aggressively by Ms. Rowena Drake, who owns the large home being used for the party. Ariadne is being assisted by Ms. Judith Butler, who is also hosting Ariadne while she is in the area.<br />
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Despite all of this,Ariadne is trying to keep herself going, as the night runs on. Even enjoying the apples brought in for a game of Bobbing for Apples later in the night. (Really, folks. Do kids today still get to do this? Did it continue passed my youth? I must know.)<br />
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Dead among the apples. Murdered.<br />
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Ariadne calls, and Poirot races to help.<br />
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That night Joyce openly bragged of a murder she had once seen, but never revealed before. And now she is dead. Are they connected? If so, who was murdered before? And who is the murderer? And if it is all unconnected, why would someone target and kill this little girl?<br />
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Generally, I don't think this is seen as one of Poirot's or Christie's best mysteries. But it does offer some October mystery and dread. Back to the small country parish. The local secrets and history. The old scores and troubles. Hidden agendas.<br />
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And that opening at the party is a great step back in time for us all to enjoy this Halloween.<br />
<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-53395869839570372312017-10-24T00:30:00.000-05:002017-10-24T00:30:00.376-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Vampire (1979), In ShortIt's time to delve back into TV movies for some more early 80's horror. And what better to mess with than more vampires.<br />
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But not to worry, when it was first shown in October of 1979 (Hey, what a great time for a movie like this!) it had an ad and opening that helped make it look like a torrid romance...Oh, ad people.<br />
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Later, the Rawlins are throwing a party. Their old friend Nicole DeCamp (Jessica Walker of...Wait, she voiced Fran on <i>Dinosaurs</i>? How am I just noticing that now...) comes by and raves about her new boyfriend, who is both mysterious and amazing. Anton Voytek (Richard Lynch again.).<br />
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She introduced Leslie to him, and he is alluring at first meet. He then talks about a rare sketch they own, and the history behind it. He is quite knowledgeable about the period in time.<br />
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Nicole later explains to the couple that, decades back, Anton's family bought the land the church is using now. They had shipped over a trove of art treasures, then had a vault built on the land to secure them. But WWII kept them from traveling over. So the trove has been lost for a generation. Anton just wants the trove back. Money is no object.<br />
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It takes time, but finally the spot to access the art is found. And they begin pulling it out to catalog. But Leslie and her friends begin noting a pattern. All these works were at some point stolen in history.<br />
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The couple doesn't know what to so, but the police step in. And they detain Anton. And Anton blames John Rawlins.<br />
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He's looked in a cell, and starts scaring his cellmates. Then he starts tearing the bars open, in a panic. But Nicole arrives to pay his bail.<br />
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He has no time to talk, with the sun rises. He runs across town to get home to his coffin.<br />
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Now Anton is pissed. Nicole insists to John that the trove is so amazing that the law and government are overreacting, and it will all be smoothed over. But Anton is pissed.<br />
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Soon Leslie is found dead, drained of all her blood. ...Anton is a vampire, if you haven't worked it out yet.<br />
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John Rawlins is distraught. He knows Anton targeted them, but he also has an alibi. So he tracks and tries to figure out Anton. His obsession only alienates him.<br />
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Finally, his actions get him sent to a hospital. And then Anton comes for him, full vampire.<br />
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He gloats to John, and readies to rip his throat out. But Harry, the retired cop, arrives just in time. He pulls a crucifix and Anton flees.<br />
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Back in 1946, a series of murders occurred. People drained of all their blood. He couldn't work it out. ut a priest and good friend was sure it was a vampire. He even moved to the area near where the new church is being built, sure it was living near there. Harry went off to war, and when he returned the priest was missing. He now believes, as evidence of the priest was found at the dig, that the priest went after Anton. He nearly killed him, and drove Anton into retreat. But the priest died, and the house came down around them. Anton was trapped. But work on the church has now awakened Anton.<br />
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Harry wants to end this finally. He believes now.<br />
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And the battle is on. The recently killed must be dealt with. Anton's new lair needs to be found. And those close to them, that are left, need to be protected.<br />
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Death to the vampire!<br />
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...And then we get an open ending.<br />
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With this being made by Steven Bochco and being a TV movie, I can't help thinking this was a failed pilot. <i>Vampire</i>. That's exactly the title this would have had as a show on 1980's TV.<br />
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But that doesn't matter to me.<br />
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This is a fun little film. You get some Jason Miller, shortly after <i>The Exorcist</i>. And we get some vintage Richard Lynch's creepy villainy.<br />
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This is a solid vampire hunting tale, that would be a good addition to any horror marathon.<br />
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I am one for enjoyable horror comedy. It is a subset that some seem to forget, and some seem to look down on it. But for the rest of us, it is a chance to laugh and be startled.<br />
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An enjoyable new series started last year on Halloween.<br />
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The show is the mad creation of comedian Dana Gould. He had a funny thought one day, thinking about horror movies. "What if my dad was the one who had to save the day?" Grump. Old. Cantankerous. And the concept was born.<br />
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The series is based around a comedic horror feel, spun out over half an hour. In some ways it's like a recent show of covered, Ghosted. It doesn't have the time to sit still, so the horror and humor come fast.<br />
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The series takes place in the small town of Willard's Mill, New Hampshire. Classic New England town. Classic small town businesses. Classic old timey witch hunts. Classic old death curses.<br />
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Back in the 17th century, the constable of the time burned 172 witches. As they died, the witches conjured a curse. Every constable that enters office shall die soon after.<br />
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And that was true for centuries, until Stanley Miller became sheriff. Stan (John C. McGinley) lasted for years in the job, breaking the odds. But he was finally forced to retire.<br />
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Now a new young sheriff has taken on his job. Evie Barret, an out-of-towner who has come with her young daughter to start a new life.<br />
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And with this changeover a lot will be happening in Willard's Mill. Evil is afoot.<br />
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Stan's trouble began at his wife's funeral, which wasn't a great day already. He was sitting in the cemetery beside his daughter, Denise (Deborah Baker, Jr.), lost in thought.<br />
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An old woman across the casket from him was making eyes at him and smirking.<br />
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She also found Stan there, half naked/ He had been staying there since the funeral, not wanting to go home. But he finally does.<br />
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He ends up startling his daughter when he gets there. She's annoyed that he disappeared for days. She also didn't make food for herself during this time.<br />
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This was not what he expected to see. It is a surreal room for him to be standing in.<br />
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On the wall is a collection of images of strange creatures. Included, the woman he fought with.<br />
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You have to understand, the reason Stan is still alive is his wife. She walked the city at night. She fought the monsters and demons her whole life. She kept him and the town from going to Hell.<br />
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He goes to Dense to find out what she knows. She tells him about the special stone mom used to read the book. Also, mom used to go out every night to do stuff.<br />
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So now Stand is processing it all, and annoyed his ordered world is shaken.<br />
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Different terrors and torments await them. They will come for their minds, their hearts, their souls.<br />
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Because something is coming for them and the town.<br />
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The show is returning November 1st of this year for a second season. And I forgive it for waiting until after the season. It just means we all have time to check out season one now, here in the heart of our Halloween marathon.<br />
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By the way, it is available on Hulu right now.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-32564841382326727192017-10-22T00:01:00.000-05:002017-10-22T00:01:03.546-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Batman Unlimited: Monster MayhemSitting down for some early morning nourishment. Have to head out on a trip. Perfect time for some Halloween Captain Crunch. I need to fill up on my...green.<br />
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Yeah, I know Scotty...<br />
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...but it's my cereal.<br />
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Anyway, with this I need something else curious. A more recent superhero take. A chance to ride with Batman...and his robowolf...<br />
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<i>Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem</i>.<br />
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Batman Unlimited is a series of Direct to DVD animated movies following the adventures of Batman and his allies as they take on some odd capers from various members of his Rogues Gallery.<br />
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It derives from a line of toys that came out (Ah, the cartoon-toy industrial complex.). But I have to say I think it does hold up better than many half hour toy commercials of my youth. It makes for a fun crazy Halloween adventure that taxes the heroes skills.<br />
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You'll also notice these movies have an interesting Gotham City. Massive skyscrapers. High tech buildings everywhere. Clearly a futuristic world.<br />
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It's a new look that reminds me some of <i>Batman Beyond</i>.<br />
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It's Halloween is here! And it's time for the kids to get out and get their treats. Even from Arkham Asylum.<br />
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Solomon Grundy and Silver Banshee make a run for it.<br />
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Arriving in Gotham, Grundy is ecstatic. Halloween. Grundy love Halloween!<br />
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But some costumed partiers dressed as costumed heroes decide to pester them for being in the road.<br />
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Grundy doesn't care for that.<br />
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But at least the pair get a car to go joy riding in.<br />
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It doesn't take long for the police to notice and give chase. And you'll notice again so of the future tech. The cars race on the ground and then can also take off.<br />
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Nightwing is also in town and notices. Then Green Arrow pops up, saying he'd heard the pair had escaped from Arkham.<br />
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So the police gets knocked out, and then Nightwing and Green Arrow strike, almost catching the criminals. Then the two heroes get struck by some globs of goo.<br />
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It disorients the two of them, and they are taken out.<br />
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Scarecrow stands over them, and is pissed that Grundy and Banshee didn't follow the plan.<br />
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We also see that Cyborg is in town, working with a museum to find and present some ancient artifacts.<br />
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Then we see the offices of Gogo Shoto. He's a genius designer that works heavily in virtual reality, primarily games.<br />
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He's working late at night when he's attacked. Clayface has come looking for him. And after a chase, he catches him and then evades Batman.<br />
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The next day Commissoner Gordon comes to Cyborg for help. A robbery is stumping him, as nothing is clearly missing and security data is damaged. Silas Stone works out that a new super advanced AI had been completed there. And Victor/Cyborg fixes enough security information to reveal the thieves.<br />
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Scarecrow and Silver Banshee.<br />
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At a nearby Nuclear Reactor, Grundy is riding up in Pizza Delivery outfit.<br />
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He tries to fake it out, but the guards aren't buying it. So he goes with Plan B. Punch everyone.<br />
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Shortly, he's walking out with the needed tech.<br />
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Joker is waiting for him, annoyed that he's taking so long. But he still gives Grundy an ice cream.<br />
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But better yet. robowolf transforms!<br />
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But then Grundy pops up and accidentally headbutts robowolf.<br />
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Back at the Batcave Batman and Red Robin try to work out what is going on. A VR genius. An advanced AI. Nuclear tech. To what end.<br />
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Off at his hideout, Joker is getting ready to make Gogo do his bidding.<br />
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At the big museum gala, everyone is getting together. Bruce says hi to Victor, and then collaborates with Oliver Queen and Dick Grayson.<br />
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But Joker shows up to steal ancient stone that had been uncovered. (And I do love this design of the Joker. It feels like it is borrowing from several interpretations, but becomes it own thing. Nice.)<br />
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To cover his theft and escape, Clayface has been in the room the whole time pretending to be a statue of a dinosaur. He suddenly comes to life and proves to be quite distracting.<br />
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Even Batman's tech animal menagerie. But then robowolf shows life. It's...laughing?<br />
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And then Cyborg loses control. He flies erratically, then crashes, and laughs uncontrollably.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, my god. He's contracted the Teen Titans GO! virus!!! ...Boo Ya.</td></tr>
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He's systems are being overwritten.<br />
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Joker has control of the city. No tech will be available unless he gives permission. If you'd like to earn access, you can.<br />
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Also, Grundy is now the Sheriff of Gotham.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is why we try to warn people about voting machine security.</td></tr>
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Everybody is down, and Batman is trying to get the Batcave at least semi-functional. No tools or tech are available.<br />
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And, now, Joker is sitting back and counting down to his plan going global.<br />
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Batman is going to have to go old school for this one.<br />
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This is a fun light movie. You get a nice collection of villains going after Gotham, and you get a nice collection of heroes trying to unite against them.<br />
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If you need so light fun some morning this Halloween season, give this a try. The green Captain Crunch milk is optional.<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-13053928241651323112017-10-21T00:00:00.000-05:002017-10-21T00:04:51.086-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, Phineas and Ferb - "Night of the Living Pharmacist"On the one hand, I think we all need some more toons. But on the other hand, have we had enough zombies? I don't know. This Halloween needs some more more cartoons, but how can I work zombies in? In a fun way.<br />
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<i>Phineas and Ferb</i>.<br />
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"Night of the Living Pharmacists"<br />
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As you might notice in watching this episode we are seeing a different look to the opening for this story. It's a full break from the show's song, and a pivot into a fun 60's Alfred Hitchcock opening. It's a nice visual. And the music choice really sells it.<br />
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The episode is an October release from 2014. An extended special episode, where the city of Danville goes to the pharmacists.<br />
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Isabella shows up at Phineas and Ferb's house to chat with them. As a Fireside Girl, she is dedicated to earning her badges. For the latest one she needs to address emotional honesty. So she wants to talk to Phineas. (Ooo! Kissy kissy!)<br />
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But he is, yet again lost in his latest project, and oblivious. Then Baljeet and Buford arrive.<br />
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The new project is to make you skin elastic and pliable like a rubber ball. It sounds horrifying, But the plan is to allow them all to bounce around like rubber balls. For fun!<br />
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The Repulse-Inator. If hit by it, you become super repulsive. And it's just the thing to use on his super popular brother. And when his brother is ruined, Doof will soon be ruling the Tri-State. ...It'll work!<br />
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At Phineas and Ferb's place, they finish the device, and soon all the kids are bouncing off. And around town, and off tall buildings. ...Was anyone surprised when they ended up existing in the Marvel Universe?<br />
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Walled City of Danville will be A-OK! The world...You might want to call SHIELD.<br />
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Not every special has been as memorable as one would like today, with our long pop culture memories. But some specials do stand out. <i>Community</i>, in it's run on NBC, liked to play with it's sitcom and TV world rules. The paintball episodes liked to push their world to breaking points. But Halloween was always interesting. In particular their second season Halloween episode is quite memorable to this day.<br />
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The show follows a collection of people looking for second chances in their lives, so find themselves at the small and unimpressive Greendale Community College. Jeff the conman/lawyer, is looking for the easy way out. Britta is a self-styled rebel out to help, but struggling with herself. Shirley is a single mom that dreams of opening her own business as to restore normalcy to her life. Annie is a smart kid that struggled with an addiction that derailed her parent's plans, but freed her to find her own way. Abed is a somewhat disconnected young man who likes to see the world through the lens of TV and movies. Troy lost out on a football scholarship when he got hurt senior year, but it's meant he's been able to reexamine his life and find his other passions. And, then, we have Pierce who is a rich older man who enjoys being among the young people and college life. He also likes to push and provoke people to justify his negative opinions, like too many people on Twitter.<br />
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It's Halloween night at Greendale Community College. And, like every event, the dean is going all out with costume and decorations and food.<br />
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We also learn from Britta that the dean has plugged his iPod into the intercom to play the party's music. But it's a constant stream of ABBA, mixed with the dean's voice memos.<br />
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And ABBA is going to be our soundtrack for this little adventure. Amazingly, it works so well. It heightens the reality of the events to come, while amping the energy of scenes. It's comedic and good music in this setting.<br />
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The party has plenty of the awkward truths we learn and hopefully accept about Halloween.<br />
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We don't always know what a costume is. And you should just nicely ask.<br />
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(It is unfortunate that Annie mentions Miss Piggy before Shirley appears. Because that is a trick which sticks the name in your head. And then you have to get around it before you can get to a better one.)<br />
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Another lesson, you can make an amazing monster costume. But it doesn't mean you get in people's faces. It's a party, not a haunted house. Okay, Abed?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Yeah. Bio Hazard. Like a host pepper nacho cheese, or something?"</td></tr>
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He seals the building. He also apologizes, saying it is under control.<br />
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So they make a break for the study room, to use as a secure space. They fight through, bar the doors, and take a breath.<br />
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Chiquita MD explains that what is happening is something like rabies. It is leading to mindless aggression. It also causes a fever, which will start causing brain damage in 3 hours time.<br />
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Most of them are loath to act, wanting to stay safe.<br />
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He stumbles and fights the effects of the illness. He works the controls, but it isn't clear he finished the process before he collapses.<br />
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They are told that someone dosed the whole party. They all shrug and accept this. It is Greendale, that's how a party there would end.<br />
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So the night ends with Abed and Troy heading off to watch some light comedy.<br />
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This episode has a lot going for it. A ridiculous situation. A ridiculous soundtrack. Ridiculous characters. And zombies thrown into the mix.<br />
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Zombies being added to comedy should break a show. But they built the idea with limits and logic. It's contained, minimized, and then the government straightens things out covertly. No one needs to know. And the world can move on.<br />
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Sometimes I like when a zombie story can pull this off. It doesn't always have to be a real apocalypse. Not in comedy.<br />
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The episode has some darkly comic moments, but it works to balance it with genuine character beats.<br />
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This is a fun and creative piece of horror comedy that would make a great addition to anyone's viewing.<br />
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And, who knows, perhaps we can revisit some of <i>Community</i>'s other Halloween episodes down the road?<br />
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<br />The Jaded Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37256477.post-4961934233453072792017-10-19T00:02:00.000-05:002017-10-19T00:03:39.204-05:00The Horror Of...Halloween Night, The Comedy of Terrors (1963)Black comedy is always a pleasure, the macabre can do more than just make you scream. It offers many access to different emotions and different perspectives.<br />
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The 60's offered a number of black comedies from production companies like American International Pictures. So let's return to a follow up to <i><a href="http://jadedskeptic.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-horror-ofthe-raven-1963.html">The Raven</a></i>. An opportunity to unite Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone on screen.<br />
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<i>The Comedy of Terrors</i>.<br />
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It is a change with a reference to Shakespeare, instead of Edgar Allen Poe. But we have no twins or mistaken identities. So the name is a curious choice.<br />
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The film is another one written Richard Matheson, whose list of works is amazing. This isn't the heights of his work (like <i>I Am Legend</i>, <i>Hell House</i>, <i>The Twilight Zone</i>, <i>The Night Galley</i>), but this period of his work tended to run between dark and fun. And he enjoyed writing stories that pulled together these horror greats on screen together. A win for the writer and the audience.<br />
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Originally Rathbone was not going to be in this film, with Karloff in his antagonistic role. But Karloff's ailments were proving too taxing to make it feasible for him to do the role (His <i>Frankenstein </i>role took a severe toll on his body years back.). So Rathbone came in to to do the role, and Karloff slipped over to a less active role.<br />
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The film is something of a comedic take on the infamous Burke and Hare case. It was a historic duo who sold corpses to doctors for research. But to keep up supply, they began murdering. Sadly, it is historically not uncommon when their is a premium given for dead bodies.<br />
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The film follows Waldo Trumball (Vincent Price), who runs a struggling burial service. He's a drunkard who looks down on everyone around him, including family and coworker. He will do anything for money. Anything.<br />
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Waldo is assisted by Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre), a quiet and sad man. He is struggling with what Waldo plots, then makes him do, but keeps going since he is in love with Waldo's wife.<br />
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The wife, Amaryllis (Joyce Jameson), is a put upon lady constantly put down by her husband, and stuck in the role of caring for her ailing father. Her life is rough as Waldo makes it clear he married her to get control of the business, and not to be with her. Waldo even loves to taunt his wife with the idea that he'll slip her father some "medicine" someday, which is labeled poison. She dreams of being an operatic singer, and has a voice that shatters glass.<br />
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Her father is Amos Hinchley (Boris Karloff), the elderly and disabled partner of Waldo Trumball. He is not all there any longer. Mostly, he putters around.<br />
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Lastly we have a harsh John Black (Basil Rathbone). He is the landlord for Waldo, and he is angry about unpaid rent. He's threatening to kick them all out if the unpaid rent isn't handled.<br />
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As it is Waldo is cutting corners to a shameless extent, dumping bodies out of coffins, so he can resell them. Felix tries his best to build new coffins, but with no money and just scraps, his results are less than impressive.<br />
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So with debts coming do, Waldo plots a solution. And he has a devilish one. Kill up some business. So he starts targeting a wealthy elderly local. Felix is opposed, but Waldo knows all of his dirty secrets, like fact he's wanted for bank robbery.<br />
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Then, with in days, the widow races out of town, skipping out on all the debts, like the burial costs. He laments the lack of morality in the world.<br />
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They target him in his home. Felix is sent in via the roof. He finds him reciting <i>Macbeth</i> in a fury. (And note to self. See if Rathbone is any available movies or TV Shakespearean plays.)<br />
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In the midst of it, he finds Felix, and is shocked. Felix flees and they later hear he died (mid Shakespearean reenactment). But he seems to be cataleptic.<br />
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Amaryllis, his wife, tries once more to connect to him. But he spurns her and drives her away crying.<br />
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As well, Black has awoken again. He escapes his tomb, and makes his way to Waldo. He breaks in, and grabs an ax.<br />
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As he is about to kill Felix, Waldo shoots Black (Twice! And he won't stop his monologue.). And he seems to finally be dead.<br />
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So he turns on his home. Striking at Felix and his wife. In the end, thinks he's had his victory over both, and collapses.<br />
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While he is down, his old partner trods down beside him. He gives him the "medicine" that Waldo was trying to foist on him earlier. And he quickly realizes that he's dead.<br />
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At the same time, Felix and Amaryllis, wake up, and embrace. They decide to run off together.<br />
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Over at Black's body, the house cat sniffs him, and Black sneezes. Black lives on. Geez, what is this guy? The Highlander? (Oh my god! Is Basil Rathbone the Highlander? I would watch that movie.)<br />
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And that is the end of this black comedy. It has it's silly moments. It has it's dark moments. It has it's goofy ones to. But it all makes for some good tongue in cheek fun.<br />
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The music they used in movies like this was so set in the day, but it works fine in the background. Sadly, it really wouldn't work today, it'd stand out. But in it's time and place it's amusing to hear.<br />
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And the collective talent this movie has is quite fun. It's great to see the shift in characters everyone gets to play. Nice guys become sneering villains. Greedy crooks become besotted stooges. These films gave these actors a showcase, and a chance to play ranges. And you get Rhubarb the Cat!<br />
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Be sure to not miss the chance to incorporate some classic black comedy into your Halloween marathon.<br />
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