Imponderables: We're Them and They're Us
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UPDATED: Thursday, November 5, 2009 01:00
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Quote:O_O that's major creepy. yikes. Do you know what it's called?
Originally posted by MsA: Steamer found some scary site that will stalk someone for you. It claims to just be to keep tabs on significant others, but I still say it should be pulled immediately as that is creepy and profoundly dangerous. How do they know they aren't selling the info to someone who will use it to harm the person???
Zeek: I would hope so, but who knows.
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Nope no procedures no laws... a private eye or service can sell your address, credit report, phone numbers, friends you visit, where you shop, and what sites you frequent on the internet to anyone who walks in the door cash in hand no questions asked
It's how Rebecca Shaffer was killed. Cost Robert Bernardo $60 to get her unlisted address, show up and shoot her dead. 
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Wonderful profession.
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Yeah... there are some very moral decent detectives, but mostly it's a sleazy job that gains it's wages from the worst in humanity To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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So, what have you thought of HIMYM so far this season, MsA? I've enjoyed it. Though as always some jokes are hit or miss. I'm so ready for them to just reveal the mother already. It's almost like it's taken so far that nothing they do will live up to the hype. It could be someone new or old and I don't think I'd fine it all that great. Just do it and move on already.
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I do love the show, but I think for consistent laughs The Big Bang Theory is better To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Originally posted by Zeek:
So, what have you thought of HIMYM so far this season, MsA? I've enjoyed it. Though as always some jokes are hit or miss. I'm so ready for them to just reveal the mother already. It's almost like it's taken so far that nothing they do will live up to the hype. It could be someone new or old and I don't think I'd fine it all that great. Just do it and move on already.
Listening to the S1 commentaries, they said they had planned a 5 year arc. I wonder if they are still going to stick to that now that they are on year 5 and are still succesful?
I need to remember to watch S5 as I'm currently on S4 and loving it. I keep forgetting that I have a time limit on watching the S5 eps that i don't have on the others.
BTW, I adore Barney. My favorite character by far.
(Zeek and anyone else interested: on a side note - are you watching Dollhouse at all anymore? I know you don't like the show, but I'd be interested in your opinion of 'Belonging.' It made me sick to my stomach and I was close to tears. Topher broke my heart and Sierra...it was such a good ep.)
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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I have to say I hope they stick to the 5 year arc and not let the show get stale... they can keep it going with after and the bumpy new relationship ect/... To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
(Zeek and anyone else interested: on a side note - are you watching Dollhouse at all anymore? I know you don't like the show, but I'd be interested in your opinion of 'Belonging.' It made me sick to my stomach and I was close to tears. Topher broke my heart and Sierra...it was such a good ep.)
Yeah I'm still watching. The episode was better than the others this season, but I still didn't like the continuity of it. I mean the Sierra flash backs didn't even have her looking like she did when they first brought her to the dollhouse in season 1. At the very least her hair was colored differently.
Adelle and Topher were way too moral all of a sudden. I'm not even clear on what he was so upset about at the end. Nor do I understand how the dollhouse is getting away with ticking off so many clients these days. As some reviewers have said "for an organization that relies on word of mouth advertising, they sure don't keep their customers very happy." I also heard a funny one about them having a sign in the breakroom "2 engagements without a glitch".
I really feel like they started out with a really really long term plan and now they realize that the public isn't giving them that kind of time. So, instead they went the total opposite direction and are throwing major character changes at us that make no sense.
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Silly me...I just went to the dollhouse page and read the ep thread. Would've answered my question pretty quickly.
I didn't feel it was a big jump in morality for Adelle. She's always been protective. Moral ambiguity aside, even the Dollhouse, in fact, is set up to protect the dolls within each engagement by monitoring stress levels, etc. If the dolls are facing stress outside of the engagement parameters, the handlers intervene. Sure, a doll could be programmed to like rough sex, and while in the meta-sense it's rape, it's not within the confines of the engagement. At the point that it whatever is happening becomes non-consensual, stress levels rise and the handlers are there to step in.
It might have felt like a big jump for Topher without having seen 'Epitaph One', but having seen that...it wasn't. It's hard to not watch informed by that ep, which is what I should do to be fair. I honestly haven't paid much attention to Topher and now want to go back to see if there are any other tipping of the cards with him.
I can't really remember Sierra's entry into the house except for them wiping her. I did question that the mapping/wiping procedures/machines have gotten a serious tech upgrade since S1...no more wires, etc. Although maybe since she was mapped already it was wipe just like any other post-engagement one.
I think after this ep, I will actually buy S1 and 2...something I wasn't going to do.
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