spectre [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • It’s fine on its own terms and I never really hated it as bad as others. I blame the producers for going on the record over and over and over saying that everything would be resolved and answered. Most of the main points wee fine, but there were a good handful of story threads that were dropped lazily before they even came close to a resolution. They were not particularly respectful of their audience, although it’s true that it’s influence on prestige TV was overall positive.



  • The issue in real time was years of the show runners promising over and over and over that “every mystery will be answered, and there will be no loose ends after the finale, and we already know what the end is going to be, just trust us”.

    People were extremely hyped because dozens and dozens of mysteries were generated over the seasons, so to tie them all up would be incredibly impressive.

    Unfortunately it was blatantly unrealistic for that to happen, and there are several examples of the writers not having a clear direction and just stringing the audience along by creating more mysteries than they could possibly solve to add “suspense”.

    Two decades later it’s sort of a different experience watching the show on its own terms.


  • (we need a macro or bot for the comrade Trump pasta):

    Folks, the bourgeois, they’re no good, more and more people are saying it. All these workers— the biggest, we have the biggest workers— very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they’re right. These bourgeois are very nasty people, very very rude, and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me every day and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me. The means of production, Obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I’m seizing them. Landlords? They’re done for folks. Everyone told me— they said, Comrade Trump you won’t be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess who’s laughing now?