The Katy Perrys go to space!

TheVat said:
When I think of great US tv, Blue Bloods doesn't exactly spring to mind. Think more of premium content powerhouses like HBO or AMC.
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Blue Bloods is not a Dick Wolf (Law and Order, etc.) creation, but it is certainly Wolf-adjacent. Can't recall the exact quote, but he once declared that "suspects" are always guilty, or something to that effect. Pure cop-aganda.

Hannibal (again, the greatest continuation of a franchise ever) was, funnily enough, aired on NBC. If you're at all familiar with the show, you'll recognize just how incongruous that was. Extremely literary show, but catered most especially to William Blake fanatics.
 
(Q) said:
Hate to be the one to tell ya, that's an ultra-conservative program, meant to be propaganda for how the conservatives are supposed to be all about law and order and the men in blue.
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What!? Are you crazy? They have a black Mayor, Erin is DA and keeps Danny in check. Jammie is the peace maker and Dad and pops fighting over ethics, honour and family in the NYPD.
I love it.
 
(Q) said:
Hate to be the one to tell ya, that's an ultra-conservative program, meant to be propaganda for how the conservatives are supposed to be all about law and order and the men in blue.
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And they put bad guys away, we need to put bad guys away.
 
TheVat said:
When I think of great US tv, Blue Bloods doesn't exactly spring to mind. Think more of premium content powerhouses like HBO or AMC.
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This is all about what Katy Perry the famous feminist astronaut would watch.
Let's keep this on topic.

A word from the Guardian, that lefty Brit no so broad, broad sheet.

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So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent? | Zoe Williams

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut material, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Pinball1970 said:
Examples please. I liked House is that ok?
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I love bad film and bad tv, but very particular varieties--think grindhouse and exploitation cinema--I just don't have whatever it is that makes people enjoy, say, Michael Bay films or The Fast and the Furious. Two-Lane Blacktop is more my speed--very long shots (way more than 10 seconds) and lots of silence with absolutely nothing happening, mostly Dennis Wilson, James Taylor and Laurie Bird sittin around, doin nothin.
 
Pinball1970 said:
Examples please. I liked House is that ok?
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House? Yeah, it was great, probably the best show on that network.

HBO examples? Westworld, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Chernobyl, Succession, The Wire, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, CYE, Boardwalk Empire, etc. For AMC, I would cite Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and its Saul spinoff.

What would feminist space pioneer supercute Katy watch, from that list? It's hard to say, since all we have is this shallow sexy persona that she projects to the world. GoT? Or possibly Westworld, given her interest in having robotic legs (see her recent Woman's World video for further clarification)?
 
parmalee said:
Hannibal (again, the greatest continuation of a franchise ever) was, funnily enough, aired on NBC. If you're at all familiar with the show, you'll recognize just how incongruous that was. Extremely literary show, but catered most especially to William Blake fanatics.
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I might check it out, having read a couple of the Harris novels - there was a long period when we didn't have tv in any form (just watched dvds on the device), so may have missed the series. Harris seemed pretty interested in Blake's philosophy of good and evil, and his whole aesthetic, in the Lecter novels.
 
TheVat said:
House? Yeah, it was great, probably the best show on that network.

HBO examples? Westworld, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Chernobyl, Succession, The Wire, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, CYE, Boardwalk Empire, etc. For AMC, I would cite Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and its Saul spinoff.

What would feminist space pioneer supercute Katy watch, from that list? It's hard to say, since all we have is this shallow sexy persona that she projects to the world. GoT? Or possibly Westworld, given her interest in having robotic legs (see her recent Woman's World video for further clarification)?
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We are drifting a little bit now so this thread may get cancelled.

Chernobyl was fantastic. I was 19 in 1986, it was a very scary time so to watch that as an adult was a stark reminder.
 
TheVat said:
House? Yeah, it was great, probably the best show on that network.

HBO examples? Westworld, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Chernobyl, Succession, The Wire, Deadwood, Game of Thrones.
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I wanted to hate GOT. Just about everyone I knew was pushing me to watch it.
I watched it last year, binge. Absolutely epic.
 
TheVat said:
I might check it out, having read a couple of the Harris novels - there was a long period when we didn't have tv in any form (just watched dvds on the device), so may have missed the series. Harris seemed pretty interested in Blake's philosophy of good and evil, and his whole aesthetic, in the Lecter novels.
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Everything about the show was exceptional, but the visuals were truly extraordinary--every crime scene is a stunning tableau. And very Blakeian, you can tell the creators were very much immersed in his artwork, as well.
 
billvon said:
Firefly.
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There's a lot of surprisingly decent Firefly fan-fiction out there--and I'm talking about plain old novel-length stories, not slash stuff and all that. Well, I'm sure there's a lot of that too, but I've never really gotten the appeal of that stuff.
 
TheVat said:
House? Yeah, it was great, probably the best show on that network.

HBO examples? Westworld, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Chernobyl, Succession, The Wire, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, CYE, Boardwalk Empire, etc. For AMC, I would cite Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and its Saul spinoff.

What would feminist space pioneer supercute Katy watch, from that list? It's hard to say, since all we have is this shallow sexy persona that she projects to the world. GoT? Or possibly Westworld, given her interest in having robotic legs (see her recent Woman's World video for further clarification)?
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Breaking bad I watched as it came out then had a huge break because I split from my ex.
Jessie Pinkman is probably one of my favourite TV series characters. His awards, Aaron Paul speeches are just like Jessie, beautiful and humble.
 
Pinball1970 said:
What!? Are you crazy? They have a black Mayor, Erin is DA and keeps Danny in check. Jammie is the peace maker and Dad and pops fighting over ethics, honour and family in the NYPD.
I love it.
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Maybe the show is tugging at your latent conservative values. :wink:
 
(Q) said:
Maybe the show is tugging at your latent conservative values. :wink:
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What's wrong with that? Conserving precious things that are part of a culture?
Being a conservative does not mean you support the worst possible ethics and values.
It can be an ideology with some 1940s socialist initiatives thrown in.
I spent the last 30 years trying to support a viable Labour candidate in the UK.

Another thread I think. Having conservative learnings in the UK today, or some right wing views is not the same as MAGA today.
 
Pinball1970 said:
Mmm.I read that she was wanting to put the "ass" in astronaut.
Yeah that's what young girls need to hear and that's what's important about space exploration.

Stupid, unqualified, privileged woman goes into space for a bit. Why?

However, it's 2025 not 1969, the world has changed.
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There was even a piece in the FT supplement this weekend devoted to this story, by Robert Shrimsley. He gives them credit at least for a degree of bravery in getting into a space rocket at all, let alone putting their lives in the hands of Amazon Prime. I think that's a fair point.

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"The sight of six glammed up women heading into low orbit [wrong actually: brief suborbital trajectory. Exchem.] for about 240seconds has captured the headlines this week, among them the singer Katy Perry, who declared they would be "putting the ass into astronaut". To be fair she certainly achieved that goal * when she returned to Earth and declared she felt "superconnected to love" after an experience comparable to the Hoffman Process personal-growth fad. I don't know about personal growth but, as a marketing stunt for Jeff Bezos's Blue Orgin space tourism, ths was as good as it gets. Wall-to-wall coverage for a journey that took less time than an average trip to Tesco.
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So yeah, a great Bezos marketing stunt, at the expense of making these women look asses.
 
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