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askye - Jul 05, 2013 12:48:43 am PDT #22808 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2013 12:51:54 am PDT #22809 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Certainly one of them, at any rate. Though "Trials and Tribble-ations"is still my sentimental favorite.
Theodosia - Jul 05, 2013 3:26:11 am PDT #22810 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
DS9 is above and beyond my favorite Trek.
Unrelatedly, I'm enjoying Under the Dome so far, which has changed enough from the book (which I quite liked) that I don't have to feel too spoiled. Especially because I like the way the mayor is being played -- in the book, he was just a scoundrel and here he's more of a... dare I say it... Walter White?
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2013 5:06:29 am PDT #22811 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What are the differentiating criteria between scoundrel and Walter White? Walter White is worse?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2013 8:00:18 am PDT #22812 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Bearing in mind that I skipped about 20,000 pages out of the middle because it got too rapey and politically anvil-heavy for me, Big Jim was such an obvious moustache-twilring crook/villain that I couldn't imagine him ever maintaining a respectable facade long enough to get elected to office.
Theodosia - Jul 05, 2013 8:18:28 am PDT #22813 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Well, partly the Walter White comparison is because of 'upstanding citizen turns meth cooker for what he thinks are good reasons' and because Dean Norris is playing Big Jim. But yes, as Matt says, the Book!Big Jim is such an overt villain. Especially in Maine small-town politics where Town Meeting gets the majority of citizens together and budgets are gone over with hundreds of eyes.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2013 8:56:50 am PDT #22814 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't imagine him ever maintaining a respectable facade long enough to get elected to office.
On the flip side, I wonder if anyone without a moustache they continually twirl can get into politics. It's hardly full of of by-the-book white hats and martyrs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2013 9:07:24 am PDT #22815 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
True, but they don't usually come off as raving lunatics or crime kingpins to the public. I actually think there's more room for crazies to get elected in statewide or national elections than local because they're drawing from a constituency that mostly doesn't personally know them. In a small town of a couple thousand people, everyone is in everyone's business and if a public figure has pulled the kind of stuff Big Jim characteristically did in the book it would be the talk of the town.
Typo Boy - Jul 05, 2013 12:37:51 pm PDT #22816 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I've known a fair number of good guys in local politics, including one mayor who I disagreed with on a number of issues whose personal integrity and fairness I had great respect for. A fair number with virtual mustaches or even goatees too, but plenty of decent men and women.
The worst of the villains was fairly colorful, and evil in a way that was very non-traditional, and unstereotyped. I will share if anyone is interested.
le nubian - Jul 05, 2013 1:05:35 pm PDT #22817 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Under the Dome is entertaining, but the writing is kinda bad. Also, the fire scene this week was one big eye-roll. I wish the teen serial-killer in training would die soon.