Posts by Keith Ng
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Keith, this isn't quite what you are looking for, but a friend just posted me a link about a new series of Transformer for Japan...
Hmmm... humanoid robot that requires the kiss of a girl to transform into a big red Dodge pickup truck. Where do you even begin to psychoanalyse this?
And that girl isn't wearing any pants, is she?
Elita One is the female Autobot commander on Cybertron trying to liberate the planet from the corrupt grip of the Decepticon guardian of Cybertron, Shockwave. Advised by Alpha Trion, she led a group of female Autobot resistance fighters including Chromia, Firestar, and Moonracer.
I stand corrected! And she doesn't even turn into a domestic appliance. I never realised that Cybertron was so liberal. I demand that they all turn into hybrid vehicles next, and generate energons from renewable sources.
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But as the years have gone by, I have come to the realisation that every man I know who is around my age is totally gay for Transformers.
Well, it's tough, when there are no girl Transformers.
The boat might have sailed for this one, but it must have occurred to someone during the 80s to expand their demographic reach with a series of girl Transformers who turned into household appliances that can clean and cook.
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Aww....
Embarassingly, Tony Blair provokes the same reaction in me.
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Yeah, and that was when you *could* buy coke. Imagine the mark-up if coke was flat out banned? You could go up to $1.80, $2, even!
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Thompson was fine - I think both he and Colin mistook my use of "punitive" to mean "vindictive", and Thompson was just saying that he hoped I can take it as well as I can dish it out, which was a fair call.
As for me being punitive, I think that was justified. Free press means freedom from government censorship, it doesn't mean freedom from consequence. I speak only for myself, but part of the reason I went after N&S and Coddington so hard was because I felt they needed to be held responsible for their work, since they won't take responsibility for it themselves.
If Coddington finds it hard to find journalistic work after this, if this remains an ugly blotch on Langwell's legacy, and if our efforts have contributed to this, then I make no apologies - these are fair, just and natural consequences of their actions.
(Must... stop... fighting talk...)
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Heh, this link just reminded me of another satisfying aspect of the episode - they stuck the boot into SUVs, twice.
SUVs - will blow up if parked on leaves *and* stop you from having sex.
SUVs - will crush your skull with your grandchildren onboard after you get shot.
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Geez Andrew, I bet you thought that guy was a hitman just because he's Italian. 8-)
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Or maybe the people coming in are just easter eggs for the diehard fans?
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Uh oh, spaghettios!
But it's not us, it's just restructuring... right? But that's what it says...
I mean, editors have such a redundant role (in some magazines), they're always the first ones to go.
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1/ Huge amounts of the series have homage to the classics of Mafia films; the shifty guy who goes to the toilet is emulating Michael Corleone's first kill.
2/ Tony's outfit and surroundings chop and change. Ghost? Dream?
3/ There were foreshading conversations with characters earlier in the series along the lines of "you never hear the one that gets you" - hence the abrupt end.
1 and 2 seem a bit inconsistent. (And did his outfit actually change?) If he's already dead, why would people try to kill him? 3 makes sense, though...
Still, I don't think we need to obsess over whether he actually died or not (as interesting a past-time as it is), and I think Paulie's sage advice is instuctive in this regard: "In the midst of death, we are in life. Or was it the other way around? Either way, you're halfway up the ass."