Terra Nova: Movies Stink - 15 views
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shared by Brett Boessen on 06 Jan 12
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Brett Boessen on 06 Jan 12Castranova is not usually so passionate in his writing. Very interesting perspective, though.
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Bryan Alexander on 06 Jan 12Interesting to see him split games from stories.
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Bryan Alexander on 06 Jan 12I do chime in with his grumpiness about Hollywood, generally.
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Brett Boessen on 07 Jan 12Honestly, I'm starting to feel similarly. Though I am finding many of the long-form serial narratives of TV pretty engaging. Still, I appreciate the value in *doing* over watching/consuming. And yet what he's saying is essentially a version of the old "film/tv makes you passive" argument, which I've always recoiled against. So I'm torn.
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Bryan Alexander on 10 Jan 12I've been coming back to the tv=passive line, more and more each year. It's hard, because I know so many active fans engaged in all kinds of practices. But then I see the silent fans, the ones who just... soak. And I'm reminded of William Gibson's line about couch potatoes.
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Brett Boessen on 11 Jan 12I don't know that one...do tell. :)
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Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 12I think this is textually correct, more or less: "a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
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Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 12Or, more succinctly: couch potatoes, like taters, are kept in the dark, buried under manure.
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Brett Boessen on 12 Jan 12Wow. That's...very detailed. Doesn't leave a lot of room for empathy or understanding: pretty cut and dried. :)
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Bryan Alexander on 12 Jan 12Jeremaiad. One I sympathize with. I need to spend time with you happy media studies folks and regain my old empathy.
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Brett Boessen on 13 Jan 12THAT Camp - Games. Done and done. :)
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Bryan Alexander on 13 Jan 12That's right - when do you arrive?
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Brett Boessen on 13 Jan 12I'll actually be there Thursday evening, but I'm going to dinner with my parents and brother (who live in the area). I am staying through Monday morning, though. We should be able to find some time to catch it, I'd guess. What are your travel plans?
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Bryan Alexander on 14 Jan 12Coming in Thursday, leaving Sunday @3.
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Brett Boessen on 14 Jan 12Cool -- I'll see you Friday morning then. Let's try to grab a meal at some point. :)