Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Dude, who could fail to see the mirth in the Melon King?Yeah, but it's all the jokes about rape and dead babies that I think might get me in trouble.
You know, he does have a birthday coming up...Can I assume he has a region-free player? I bet my UK source would get him a copy.
...slinking back to Minearverse now...
Every decade or so there's a case where a crazy woman decides, instead of hanging around a hospital and kidnapping a newborn, to off a pregnant woman and perform an emergency Caesarean instead. It's much more common to take a baby, but now hospitals have really tightened up the security so that just anybody can't walk into the newborn ward.
To me, the theme song represents the entire show.
It tells you what it's about. It's quirky. Not everybody is going to like it. It's going to put a lot of people off.
Like, er, Firefly.
The one where they put the Amber alert out for the fetus of unknown status (who turned up alive and well for all that she'd been ripped from her mother a month early by a fucking psycho) happened while I was pregnant, and gave me nightmares until I remembered that I didn't leave the house or open the door that often. The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.
It's much more common to take a baby, but now hospitals have really tightened up the security so that just anybody can't walk into the newborn ward.
In most hospitals, even if you make it in, it's next to impossible to escape with a kidlet.
The kidlets are security tagged, the parents have matching tags, and no one can take the kidlet past a certain point without the matching tag. If one attempts it, an alarm will sound, and I'm pretty certain in our hospital, things were designed to go into auto lockdown. (I'm still fuzzy on the details, on account of having just had a baby when they were explained.)
Of course, hospitals (including ours) are increasingly moving away from the nursery model and towards rooming in.
I was going to pretend to have a way to tie this back into topic, but the nearest I can is by suggesting they should have had a similar system for River.
Our hospital was the same way. We all had tags and Em was Lo-Jacked. Hosp went into auto-shut down if the "barrier" was passed. All doors and everything just locked. Like, Pentagon shut down.
every decade or so
Google tells me there were 2 cases last year. There was one in Nov in Columbia (the mother survived!) and the one in Dec in Missouri.
The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.
Yes and thank god. Though, in one of the cases I was reading about, the woman's attacker was her "pregnant" friend. Which is super freaky. Like, do you need to be carrying around an ultrasound machine to verify the pregnancies of those around you?
I remember the Kansas one. I went to her first hearing. She was incredibly pathetic.
So the trial was in Kansas? I know she was caught there but it seems odd when the murder happened in Missouri.
When I was REALLY pregnant, I refused to go outside after dark by myself. I was terrified.