The corporations aren't interested in protectionism
That has to be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about corporations on/.
Protectionism is not a good thing. Protectionism is, for instance, what killed the UK car industry (whose last vestage is dying today) and is in the process of killing the US car industry (having a larger domestic market means it takes longer to kill an industry with protectionism). Protectionism is what turned Japan from the economy everyone wanted to emulate into a byword for stagnation.
To be more directly on-topic, protectionism is what India had back when we thought of them as a developing nation, not a competitor. The change that kicked India into it's current state was it's opening it's markets to the world. You can't expect to fight back against that by adopting the losing strategy which they have dropped.
within 2 episodes we already saw the doctor as "human"
In what way? If you mean he fucked up, he always has done, the structure of the show is that the doctor gets everyone into trouble by being arrogant and thinking he can make the world right, and the companions get everyone in trouble by being out of their depth (Romana, being a timelord and a companion did both).
The doctor only ever had one real moment of self doubt, and it's for that reason one of the most famous moments in the whole series (when he can't decide whether to destroy the Daleks).
Destroying Gallifray is just a minor tweak. He was getting too chummy with them anyway, there was always the question of when the time lords were going to step in and fix everything. You'll note he is going around trying to fix the resulting mess in the first episode, and I'll bet the big season finish is him deciding he's just the guy to retroactively win the war.
The environmental laws exist because it was determined they were necessary.
If they are necessary then, by definition, everyone will follow suit or die.
The US is perfectly within it's rights to insist on a certain amount of equity when trading with other countries.
You have equity. If you don't want shoes made by semi-slave labour in environmentally destructive factories, then don't buy them. Buy shoes from US factories at the price you'd be paying for the imported ones if the exporting country ran to the same rules. If the same majority who chose the labour and environmental laws choose to buy the goods at the resulting price, there will be no problem.
The problem comes when you want to imagine that you can have jobs at the higher lifestyle price, but buy goods at the lower lifestyle price.
Tarifs are just a way for the US (or wherever) reasonably well off to, in the short term, screw the US poor. Force the poor to pay high prices for low price goods to subsidise the choices of those who could actually afford to buy the expensive US shoes if they weren't such tightwads.
And, of course, the slave labour and the environmental damage still happens on the other side of the tarif barrier.
No. Watch the first season. Sinclair's girlfriend goes through the start of the story which is finished by Sheadon's wife. The transition was handled very well, but in the detail you can see that it was Sincalir who was slated to say `get the hell out of our galaxy' (and he'd have sounded much better doing it). Perhaps the biggest give-away is the way Sinclair just dissapears without us even seeing him being called off to his new job.
What I'd like to know is what was the original plot line for the Babylon 4 story arc was. Since we got the first part during season 1, there was clearly something planned which got dropped in favour of giving Sinclair his big destiny.
There is a reason why doing business in the west is more expensive.. Labour and Environmental laws just to name 2.
Isn't that like saying `I can't compete in the job market because I want to maintain a huge house, three cars and to bathe in champagne every day, and so those other bastards can take jobs for lower pay than I can'?
The labour and environmental laws are our choices. If we want to maintain that lifestyle we need to be able to come up with ways to pay for them.
IMHO tariffs should be place on any goods coming in from other countries that don't meet our same standards.
So, I have to pay higher prices for what I buy because you want to maintain your champagn baths?
So exactly how is the American worker's business plan flawed, do tell?
If you imagine you can live high off the hog just because people will pay you a great deal of money to do what can be done as well and cheaper by someone else, then you doomed, whether `you' are an individual worker or a corporation.
But as she learns more and stops holding his hand he'll listen a bit more...
I hope not. That would be messing with the mythos more than giving Daleks legs. (insert image of Leela rolling her eyes and sighing as the doctor strides off to do something stupid).
Hold her own as in try and get victorians to be sluts?:P
Hold her own as in trying to tell the doctor he was being manipulated into doing something really, really stupid. Of course, he didn't listen, the one constant character trait across all the doctors is that he's an arogant SOB.
most shows, whatever the length of their run, don't change character actors mid-series.
That's because they lack the mechanism to do so. So, we end up with Blake's 7 without Blake or Bablylon 5 desperately scrabbling to recreate the plot infrastructure built over a season around Sinclair for Sheradon.
The genius of the Dr Who solution is that rather than having someone else try to play the same character, they change the character, but retain the role. So, each doctor can be a separate character suted to the person playig him.
The other great serial role which works on the same basis (without explanation) is James Bond.
Lucas did not direct Jedi, which is what you seemed to be implying.
I didn't mean to. Jedi was still just about watchable because it had a director. But I believe Lucas had much more detailed involvement than his relatively hands-off aproach in ESB.
After all, it seems somehow "okay" to expose kids to violence in the states. Sex is a whole other thing...
Unfortunatly, if you base a culture on trying to hide sex and replace it with violence, you end up in a state where sex isn't a whole other thing, but mixed up with violence in far too many heads.
Way back when there used to be an observation that the difference between US en European TV was that in the US you couldn't show a breast being kissed, but you could show it being stabbed, and in Europe the oposite was true. Europe has got a bit less restrictive about violence, and the US has got rather more uptight about sex since then.
The original movie was great because it took advantage of new effects technology to bring space opera to a generation which had not seen it before, and because Lucas was bright enough to pinch his story ideas from Campbell and Kurosawa and lots of old serials.
ESB was good because Lucas had so little to do with it, and hired a real director.
Jedi was crap because Lucas tried to make a movie, something he has no talent at.
The prequels are just Lucas masturbating in public. Aparently he has no talent at thet either.
Fortunatly, no matter how weird you are, the odds are your kids will grow up more or less sane. If kids weren't amazingly resilaint in the face of insane parents we'd have been extinct before we got out of the great rift valley.
Note that the Sci Fi channel adaptation was about 5 hours long, meaning they could cover a lot more of the story than Lynch could in his version, which was only slightly over 2 hours long.
Given the size of the original pl;ot, the difference isn't really that great, both where extremely simplified.
The problem with Lynch's version was that it was just silly. Standard `this is sci-fi so we can treat it as a big joke' syndrome. People shouting at rocks and no characterisation.
In the sense of having better pictures, yes, but when it comes to the words, we know that they work when spoken because they were written to be spoken and worked when they were.
I suspect we are looking at the result of letting an American kids film writer loose on the project.
McGann was terminally contaminated by association with the american TV movie. If he'd been the doctor in the new series I probably wouldn't have watched it.
I have absolutely no clue as to what class status UK accents signify.
Hm. Translation.
Imagine Rose is speaking white trailer-trash, the Doctor some variety of black English.
Her accent nails her to a social and educational background (she wasn't going anywhere without losing that dialect), his is one which would have traditionally have had been associated with strong, mostly negative, steriotypes, but more recently has become sonewhat cool, especially with younger people.
Here's a theory. Given the translation effects of the tardis, perhaps we hear the doctor as his companions see him/need to see him. Hartnel is the slightly old fashoned schoolmaster two 60s teachers expected, Pertwee had to be the kind of expert who the brigadeer would listen to etc.
Rose, of course, meets a figure she has to instantly respect and listen to -- ``I'm the Doctor, run for your life!'' -- that can't be the kind of authority figure she has clearly rejected from school etc, nor the kind of people she lives amongst (consider that awful boyfriend), so she hears a slightly exotic, slightly cool dialect which is not `them', but distant enough from `us' to carry some weight.
Hartnel was great for what he was doing, but it was Traughton who defined the Doctor as we have known him since. By definition tham makes him the perfect doctor.
Also he did it so well he turned an attempt to keep a dying show going into a multi-decade jugganaught which was only stopped by a really heroic decade long campagn of idiocy within the BBC.
I'd just rather not think "fucking chav" every time she talks
The stories of the doctor's side kicks are often, perhaps usually, redemptive. To run a redemptive story arc you have to start with someone who makes you want to beat them around the head with the clue stick.
Rose is being played as someone who has stupidly wasted her opportunities and is being given a chance to try again. She's clearly supposed to be brighter than her initial situation would imply. She's being played as one of the comanions who can hold their own against the Doctor (Liz, Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana) arther than a screaming unit.
As to her accent, her English is no more non-`standard' and low-value than Eccleston's. His is the real departure, all the previous doctors have had high-status accents. Combined with his clearly being deeply fucked up over what has happened in the recent past, he's definitely an interesting doctor.
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That has to be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about corporations on /.
Protectionism is not a good thing. Protectionism is, for instance, what killed the UK car industry (whose last vestage is dying today) and is in the process of killing the US car industry (having a larger domestic market means it takes longer to kill an industry with protectionism). Protectionism is what turned Japan from the economy everyone wanted to emulate into a byword for stagnation.
To be more directly on-topic, protectionism is what India had back when we thought of them as a developing nation, not a competitor. The change that kicked India into it's current state was it's opening it's markets to the world. You can't expect to fight back against that by adopting the losing strategy which they have dropped.
In what way? If you mean he fucked up, he always has done, the structure of the show is that the doctor gets everyone into trouble by being arrogant and thinking he can make the world right, and the companions get everyone in trouble by being out of their depth (Romana, being a timelord and a companion did both).
The doctor only ever had one real moment of self doubt, and it's for that reason one of the most famous moments in the whole series (when he can't decide whether to destroy the Daleks).
Destroying Gallifray is just a minor tweak. He was getting too chummy with them anyway, there was always the question of when the time lords were going to step in and fix everything. You'll note he is going around trying to fix the resulting mess in the first episode, and I'll bet the big season finish is him deciding he's just the guy to retroactively win the war.
If they are necessary then, by definition, everyone will follow suit or die.
The US is perfectly within it's rights to insist on a certain amount of equity when trading with other countries.
You have equity. If you don't want shoes made by semi-slave labour in environmentally destructive factories, then don't buy them. Buy shoes from US factories at the price you'd be paying for the imported ones if the exporting country ran to the same rules. If the same majority who chose the labour and environmental laws choose to buy the goods at the resulting price, there will be no problem.
The problem comes when you want to imagine that you can have jobs at the higher lifestyle price, but buy goods at the lower lifestyle price.
Tarifs are just a way for the US (or wherever) reasonably well off to, in the short term, screw the US poor. Force the poor to pay high prices for low price goods to subsidise the choices of those who could actually afford to buy the expensive US shoes if they weren't such tightwads.
And, of course, the slave labour and the environmental damage still happens on the other side of the tarif barrier.
No. Watch the first season. Sinclair's girlfriend goes through the start of the story which is finished by Sheadon's wife. The transition was handled very well, but in the detail you can see that it was Sincalir who was slated to say `get the hell out of our galaxy' (and he'd have sounded much better doing it). Perhaps the biggest give-away is the way Sinclair just dissapears without us even seeing him being called off to his new job.
What I'd like to know is what was the original plot line for the Babylon 4 story arc was. Since we got the first part during season 1, there was clearly something planned which got dropped in favour of giving Sinclair his big destiny.
Isn't that like saying `I can't compete in the job market because I want to maintain a huge house, three cars and to bathe in champagne every day, and so those other bastards can take jobs for lower pay than I can'?
The labour and environmental laws are our choices. If we want to maintain that lifestyle we need to be able to come up with ways to pay for them.
IMHO tariffs should be place on any goods coming in from other countries that don't meet our same standards.
So, I have to pay higher prices for what I buy because you want to maintain your champagn baths?
If you imagine you can live high off the hog just because people will pay you a great deal of money to do what can be done as well and cheaper by someone else, then you doomed, whether `you' are an individual worker or a corporation.
I hope not. That would be messing with the mythos more than giving Daleks legs. (insert image of Leela rolling her eyes and sighing as the doctor strides off to do something stupid).
Hold her own as in trying to tell the doctor he was being manipulated into doing something really, really stupid. Of course, he didn't listen, the one constant character trait across all the doctors is that he's an arogant SOB.
That's because they lack the mechanism to do so. So, we end up with Blake's 7 without Blake or Bablylon 5 desperately scrabbling to recreate the plot infrastructure built over a season around Sinclair for Sheradon.
The genius of the Dr Who solution is that rather than having someone else try to play the same character, they change the character, but retain the role. So, each doctor can be a separate character suted to the person playig him.
The other great serial role which works on the same basis (without explanation) is James Bond.
I didn't mean to. Jedi was still just about watchable because it had a director. But I believe Lucas had much more detailed involvement than his relatively hands-off aproach in ESB.
They can't send him to prison, that would be cruel and unusual punishment for the other inmates.
Unfortunatly, if you base a culture on trying to hide sex and replace it with violence, you end up in a state where sex isn't a whole other thing, but mixed up with violence in far too many heads.
Way back when there used to be an observation that the difference between US en European TV was that in the US you couldn't show a breast being kissed, but you could show it being stabbed, and in Europe the oposite was true. Europe has got a bit less restrictive about violence, and the US has got rather more uptight about sex since then.
ESB was good because Lucas had so little to do with it, and hired a real director.
Jedi was crap because Lucas tried to make a movie, something he has no talent at.
The prequels are just Lucas masturbating in public. Aparently he has no talent at thet either.
Fortunatly, no matter how weird you are, the odds are your kids will grow up more or less sane. If kids weren't amazingly resilaint in the face of insane parents we'd have been extinct before we got out of the great rift valley.
When we can apreciate it for what it is as we do with Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Er, the average is around 4 years. That's longer than most TV series last.
I'm hoping the BBFC bans it totally as a known cause of brain rot.
Gives a whole new meaning to ``don't think, feel''.
Given the size of the original pl;ot, the difference isn't really that great, both where extremely simplified.
The problem with Lynch's version was that it was just silly. Standard `this is sci-fi so we can treat it as a big joke' syndrome. People shouting at rocks and no characterisation.
In the sense of having better pictures, yes, but when it comes to the words, we know that they work when spoken because they were written to be spoken and worked when they were.
I suspect we are looking at the result of letting an American kids film writer loose on the project.
McGann was terminally contaminated by association with the american TV movie. If he'd been the doctor in the new series I probably wouldn't have watched it.
Hm. Translation.
Imagine Rose is speaking white trailer-trash, the Doctor some variety of black English.
Her accent nails her to a social and educational background (she wasn't going anywhere without losing that dialect), his is one which would have traditionally have had been associated with strong, mostly negative, steriotypes, but more recently has become sonewhat cool, especially with younger people.
Here's a theory. Given the translation effects of the tardis, perhaps we hear the doctor as his companions see him/need to see him. Hartnel is the slightly old fashoned schoolmaster two 60s teachers expected, Pertwee had to be the kind of expert who the brigadeer would listen to etc.
Rose, of course, meets a figure she has to instantly respect and listen to -- ``I'm the Doctor, run for your life!'' -- that can't be the kind of authority figure she has clearly rejected from school etc, nor the kind of people she lives amongst (consider that awful boyfriend), so she hears a slightly exotic, slightly cool dialect which is not `them', but distant enough from `us' to carry some weight.
Traughton.
Hartnel was great for what he was doing, but it was Traughton who defined the Doctor as we have known him since. By definition tham makes him the perfect doctor.
Also he did it so well he turned an attempt to keep a dying show going into a multi-decade jugganaught which was only stopped by a really heroic decade long campagn of idiocy within the BBC.
The stories of the doctor's side kicks are often, perhaps usually, redemptive. To run a redemptive story arc you have to start with someone who makes you want to beat them around the head with the clue stick.
Rose is being played as someone who has stupidly wasted her opportunities and is being given a chance to try again. She's clearly supposed to be brighter than her initial situation would imply. She's being played as one of the comanions who can hold their own against the Doctor (Liz, Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana) arther than a screaming unit.
As to her accent, her English is no more non-`standard' and low-value than Eccleston's. His is the real departure, all the previous doctors have had high-status accents. Combined with his clearly being deeply fucked up over what has happened in the recent past, he's definitely an interesting doctor.
Well, that makes lots of sense. An actor who most people probably associate with movie work doing a TV series to get out of TV.