The General
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kingtycoonHopefully Episode 6 will be rad enough to distract me from caring about how much sex the winter is cheating me out of. Not that any kind of decent person would consider this kind o fthing while discussing their marathon drunken viewing of old-timey TV shows.
This Program is about 20 years older than I am - when I think of the shows that were around when I was 20 I find myself at a loss for a real analogue - something timeless & wonderfull. I hear they're remaking Twin Peaks - maybe that's a solid & vibrant reality, who knows!
Ugh. Okay this #2 is a retread - he laughs like he's getting paid minimum wage to laugh. This is the laughter of a preadolescent fry cook.
This is the Mr. Howell looking #2 - he's reedy with metal glasses which seem kind of contemporary, but which were probably kind of peculiar in the 60's.
#6 is all popeyed and the least interested in learning.
Nothin is impossible in this place. You'd like to learn the General's one minute history wouldn't you? Three year course in 3 minutes. I have a couple of history degrees even and I'm curious about what you'd learn in a 3 year program. That's really intense, y'know if it weren't a secrewt spy version of facts intended to brainwash you into submission.
Meantime #6 is about to give a punching to the stripe-shirted beardo who wants to boss him. I hope. I mean... Come on! Punch him up #6! If this chump makes it through unscathed I'll be harmed, in my psyche.
Fine, don't beat that guy up. I'll get over it while looking at the Professor. WHAT IN THE FUCK - you'd think you could imagine a person like the professor, you could put your thoughts together, a mental image could be cobbled together of a guy in a velvet dressing gown, the whitest, most caucasian blue-eyed infidel with a knowledge of Napoleon - and yet, you'd not be able to think of a man like the professor - who's appearance is so idiosyncratic & mystifying. I'm straight up mystified by the Professor's looks. Also, I cannot emphasize enough how encouraged I am by references to Cavour in television. Mid 19th century european realpolitik is discussed as mysterious spy trivia! What a hsow. I was right to enjoy it.
Meanwhile, he buried a radio on the beach that he found on the beach because it made a bunch of noise... At least beat up this Roddy McDowell Jr. for all of us #6. Beat up everyone.
Of course he's a dirtbag rat, of course he's a useless multiple of 6 and therefore sinsiter. I wonder what it would have been like to wait between episodes - waiting all week to see what would happen next. You know, compared to american TV it's pretty magical - compared to say Bewitched or whatever - shit seems to stick between episodes here. Not always of course- but #6's victories eem like real victories, like they accomplish something for hi.
You know how in film there are never mirrors? Except, y'know, when everything is about there being a mirror - but there aren't mirrors in #6's house - obviously it interferes with filmmaking - it's the trick in film that makes you inevitably concious of watching a film. I think of this because I'm having to run to the bathroom a lot while I watch this because of how I'm drunk now.
My preference is a bathroom where there is a mirror behind the toilet - some people have such a toilet & I have to straight up wonder. Wonder what is up with those people? I mean - it's neat to look at your dick while you hold it and pee - nobody thinks that's not neat. Nobody I want to talk to anyhow. But there it is - it seems pretty ostenatious as a conciet in your home though. In a place you visit, sure, but if that was your day to day? Fo rmy part - I have the medicine cabinet door - I don't really use the medicine cabinet mirror because it only really offers me a view of my stomach - but I like to grasp the door and hold it while I pee & in an angled way I can look at my dick while I pee - which is, after all, the dream of all creatures, since the advent of peeing.
Meantime - the General is some kind of replicant, there are busts, #2 is defensive, this inconsequential & mannish lady are all over the episode & the carving of #6 is haunting. I don't know - I like this episode a lot! But I got spoiled - #2 from early on was just so great - the current #2 doesn't offer a real menace. He seems like he's a competent administrator - but he's more of a boss than a challenge.
People go on about being the boss of this or that - but do you have a boss? Do you think about your boss - 'utmost competence' or do you think 'a person who was here before me.'?
Okay - I was WRONG. Now they're doing this whole tophat sunglasses morning jacket thing - they're Rocky Horroring the fuck out of things and I'm suddenly really intimidated by #2 et. al. THis is aweesome. The history transmission is a mind-control pilot program intended to test the principle of mind revision by teaching innocuous subjects. of course, #6 is spyish as fuck in infiltrating. Where'd he even get his own fitted jacket?
Maybe this is one of those priveleges that regular size people get to have. Meantime - is that a throne? There's a throne in this episode & a whole discussion of The General. The General is absolutely going to be some kind of machine or robot. I bet it's going to be a reel-to-reel tape drive.
Film really lost a lot when computers moved to the integrated circuit. There's something decidedly sinister about a reel-to-reel computer that a desktop PC can't recapture.
Fuck him up #6! Kill the projectionist!
The Village uses a proprietary recording media it would seem - a Nail? Some kind of a pin or nail? I guess it makes sense in the days preceding 3.5" disks and so on - you'd want some kind of potable media to represent information in your movie - but shit, a nail?
Then again there are spiralling nonsensical antennae & lights - there's no representation of technology that doesn't integrate extraneous moving parts in this whole episode, or any other.
Oh Snap! Micofilm! The most sinister of storage media.
I was right about the reel-to-reel computer though. Evil incarnate no? Also, a callback to how evil Napoleon was. I guess that in the 60's there were enough WWII vets around that you wouldn't just throw around Hitler references huh? Napoleon! My favorite of the Euro-AntiChrists.
What question will #6 pose to the evil computer eh? What with all it's sophisticated OCR & microfilm printing. Silly that they just let him do it. I'm guessing "what is love" or the like is #6's winning question.
Meanwhile he gets into a baton fight with some South Korean riot police. Why? Why? W.H.Y.?
You'd think the computer would just return some kind of invaid operator error, but no, it explodes. I wish computers exploded more often - it would make my job so much more exciting. I'm going to ask Livejournal Why? Why Livejournal?
Hopefully there will be an explosion in Russia now.
This Program is about 20 years older than I am - when I think of the shows that were around when I was 20 I find myself at a loss for a real analogue - something timeless & wonderfull. I hear they're remaking Twin Peaks - maybe that's a solid & vibrant reality, who knows!
Ugh. Okay this #2 is a retread - he laughs like he's getting paid minimum wage to laugh. This is the laughter of a preadolescent fry cook.
This is the Mr. Howell looking #2 - he's reedy with metal glasses which seem kind of contemporary, but which were probably kind of peculiar in the 60's.
#6 is all popeyed and the least interested in learning.
Nothin is impossible in this place. You'd like to learn the General's one minute history wouldn't you? Three year course in 3 minutes. I have a couple of history degrees even and I'm curious about what you'd learn in a 3 year program. That's really intense, y'know if it weren't a secrewt spy version of facts intended to brainwash you into submission.
Meantime #6 is about to give a punching to the stripe-shirted beardo who wants to boss him. I hope. I mean... Come on! Punch him up #6! If this chump makes it through unscathed I'll be harmed, in my psyche.
Fine, don't beat that guy up. I'll get over it while looking at the Professor. WHAT IN THE FUCK - you'd think you could imagine a person like the professor, you could put your thoughts together, a mental image could be cobbled together of a guy in a velvet dressing gown, the whitest, most caucasian blue-eyed infidel with a knowledge of Napoleon - and yet, you'd not be able to think of a man like the professor - who's appearance is so idiosyncratic & mystifying. I'm straight up mystified by the Professor's looks. Also, I cannot emphasize enough how encouraged I am by references to Cavour in television. Mid 19th century european realpolitik is discussed as mysterious spy trivia! What a hsow. I was right to enjoy it.
Meanwhile, he buried a radio on the beach that he found on the beach because it made a bunch of noise... At least beat up this Roddy McDowell Jr. for all of us #6. Beat up everyone.
Of course he's a dirtbag rat, of course he's a useless multiple of 6 and therefore sinsiter. I wonder what it would have been like to wait between episodes - waiting all week to see what would happen next. You know, compared to american TV it's pretty magical - compared to say Bewitched or whatever - shit seems to stick between episodes here. Not always of course- but #6's victories eem like real victories, like they accomplish something for hi.
You know how in film there are never mirrors? Except, y'know, when everything is about there being a mirror - but there aren't mirrors in #6's house - obviously it interferes with filmmaking - it's the trick in film that makes you inevitably concious of watching a film. I think of this because I'm having to run to the bathroom a lot while I watch this because of how I'm drunk now.
My preference is a bathroom where there is a mirror behind the toilet - some people have such a toilet & I have to straight up wonder. Wonder what is up with those people? I mean - it's neat to look at your dick while you hold it and pee - nobody thinks that's not neat. Nobody I want to talk to anyhow. But there it is - it seems pretty ostenatious as a conciet in your home though. In a place you visit, sure, but if that was your day to day? Fo rmy part - I have the medicine cabinet door - I don't really use the medicine cabinet mirror because it only really offers me a view of my stomach - but I like to grasp the door and hold it while I pee & in an angled way I can look at my dick while I pee - which is, after all, the dream of all creatures, since the advent of peeing.
Meantime - the General is some kind of replicant, there are busts, #2 is defensive, this inconsequential & mannish lady are all over the episode & the carving of #6 is haunting. I don't know - I like this episode a lot! But I got spoiled - #2 from early on was just so great - the current #2 doesn't offer a real menace. He seems like he's a competent administrator - but he's more of a boss than a challenge.
People go on about being the boss of this or that - but do you have a boss? Do you think about your boss - 'utmost competence' or do you think 'a person who was here before me.'?
Okay - I was WRONG. Now they're doing this whole tophat sunglasses morning jacket thing - they're Rocky Horroring the fuck out of things and I'm suddenly really intimidated by #2 et. al. THis is aweesome. The history transmission is a mind-control pilot program intended to test the principle of mind revision by teaching innocuous subjects. of course, #6 is spyish as fuck in infiltrating. Where'd he even get his own fitted jacket?
Maybe this is one of those priveleges that regular size people get to have. Meantime - is that a throne? There's a throne in this episode & a whole discussion of The General. The General is absolutely going to be some kind of machine or robot. I bet it's going to be a reel-to-reel tape drive.
Film really lost a lot when computers moved to the integrated circuit. There's something decidedly sinister about a reel-to-reel computer that a desktop PC can't recapture.
Fuck him up #6! Kill the projectionist!
The Village uses a proprietary recording media it would seem - a Nail? Some kind of a pin or nail? I guess it makes sense in the days preceding 3.5" disks and so on - you'd want some kind of potable media to represent information in your movie - but shit, a nail?
Then again there are spiralling nonsensical antennae & lights - there's no representation of technology that doesn't integrate extraneous moving parts in this whole episode, or any other.
Oh Snap! Micofilm! The most sinister of storage media.
I was right about the reel-to-reel computer though. Evil incarnate no? Also, a callback to how evil Napoleon was. I guess that in the 60's there were enough WWII vets around that you wouldn't just throw around Hitler references huh? Napoleon! My favorite of the Euro-AntiChrists.
What question will #6 pose to the evil computer eh? What with all it's sophisticated OCR & microfilm printing. Silly that they just let him do it. I'm guessing "what is love" or the like is #6's winning question.
Meanwhile he gets into a baton fight with some South Korean riot police. Why? Why? W.H.Y.?
You'd think the computer would just return some kind of invaid operator error, but no, it explodes. I wish computers exploded more often - it would make my job so much more exciting. I'm going to ask Livejournal Why? Why Livejournal?
Hopefully there will be an explosion in Russia now.
