Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • Not really a “fandom”, but Science Fiction. My two most controversial takes:

    1. In Alien 3, Hicks and Newt had to die in order to thematically be an Alien film. Alien (the original trilogy) was always Ripley’s story; a woman who has had everything taken away from her and ends up an outsider where the only real touchstone left to her is the very xenomorph that she battles. In Alien, she’s an outcast among the crew. In Aliens, she’s a civilian amongst a bunch of mega-macho mercenaries. In Alien 3, she’s a female among male prisoners. Thematically, Ripley simply can’t have an ensemble cast around her at the beginning or the end of each film. Fincher understood that.

    2. In Blade Runner (before future movies retconned it), not only is Deckard a replicant, he’s a very specific replicant. Gaff was the original Blade Runner on the case, and he got wounded in the leg during the escaped Replicant’s first attempt at getting into the Tyrell Corporation. Supposedly one of them got fried going through an electric fence, but in reality, that replicant was captured and reprogrammed with Gaff’s life; Gaff’s memories in order to continue the investigation. Meanwhile, Gaff himself is forced to babysit this “replacement” that everyone else thinks can do just a good a job as he can, and so he’s bitter about it through the whole film and taunts the replicant with cryptic hints about his memories.






  • Finances.

    I don’t want to be rich. I don’t care about money all that much.

    My definition of success has always been that if I can let a payday come and go without having to look at my bank accounts and shifting money around to make sure everything is taken care of, that’s all I want. I want to make enough that I don’t have to check my bank account before every bill comes out. I can be assured that the money that is needed will be there.

    Had that for a while. No longer do. And it really really sucks.




  • What we need to understand about O’Leary is that:

    a) He likely has an incredibly tiny penis.

    and b) He is absolutely desperate to be seen in the same circle as the likes of Musk, Zuck, Gates, Bezos, etc…

    The reality is that his wealth pales incomparison to those guys, at roughly 150 million. To them, he’s as much a pauper as you and i are. He’s a nobody. And that fucking grinds at him that he’s not a part of the cool kids club. It gnaws at his insides that, in reality, the people above him AND the people below him would literally not give a shit if he fucked off back to Canada and died in obscurity.

    For all of their evil, the group that O’Leary desperately wants to be seen as equal to will at least leave some sort of Legacy. They’ll at least be remembered in the history books, even if just a footnote about their shitty shenanigans.

    O’Leary will be forgotten as soon as he’s in the ground. Probably sooner.

    That’s why he’s suddenly forcing himself into every fucking news program, and awards shows, and trying to strike deals for massive data centers that no one wants. Because he’s a sad and pathetic old man afraid of being forgotten.

    also, did I mention he has an incredibly tiny penis?