'Harm's Way'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I have this on my wall at work: [link]
That's why I don't get the disconnect. Sports is just narrative. Mostly guy-narrative. It's a big soap opera. It's passion plays and morality stories.
You get to know the characters and they play out their roles, or fail or succeed. And sports (like life) can be more outrageous and less likely than fiction.
The Red Sox 2004 World Series run was the most overwritten, anvilicious, symbol-laden story ever. Curt Schilling's Red Fucking Sock! C'mon!
That's pretty brilliant, aurelia. It's true too. Gave me a pang to think--can you really not buy the original version of the films anymore?
I don't think so, Burrell. I shall cling to my VHS sets. One set is the original and the other is the digitally re-mastered THX. Although!... My DVDs are each 2 disc sets with the 2nd disc being the original theatrical release. I don't know if those are still available.
Bummer.
You can't get the originals in an unedited form any longer. I cling to the copy I have in widescreen on laserdisc.
My DVDs are each 2 disc sets with the 2nd disc being the original theatrical release. I don't know if those are still available.
These are the ones I have. Unfortunately the original theatric release are actually letterboxed in a 4x3 frame, which means to get them to play properly in a widescreen TV you need to zoom in which makes them look even shittier than they already do. So it's a choice between crappy storytelling that looks pretty, or the original storytelling but blurry.
Sports is just narrative. Mostly guy-narrative. It's a big soap opera. It's passion plays and morality stories.
Except to someone who doesn't get sports, watching that narrative is like the Farside cartoon "how dogs hear." Blah blah blah blah A GUY THREW A BALL blah blah blah blah SOME OTHER GUY CAUGHT IT.
Blah blah blah blah A GUY THREW A BALL blah blah blah blah SOME OTHER GUY CAUGHT IT.
He caught it?! WOOOOOOOO CATCHER GUY!!!
Here it is! Taxidermied bullfrog playing bass.
That is incredible.
Sports is just narrative.
From the outside, it really doesn't seem like narrative. I get that it is, but you have to actually follow it to experience the narrative. Even within a single game.
I have to say that I think all of the gymnasts who wear their hair in their super tight ponytails look uncomfortable. . . and the 5 million pins and clips etc that they add so that not a single hair goes astray only adds to the uncomfortable look.
But I still think that the bikini rule for beach volleyball is the most stupid.