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advocateofchaos:

havefuncarolina:

sophisticationforgot:

poolwatcher:

havefuncarolina:

sophisticationforgot:

Just one of these things: Thinking about AI Fragments

poolwatcher:

Just getting these thoughts out. You know, while I’m still gushing over them.

Freelancer/AI fragments we know of:

• Wash/Epsilon
• North/Theta
• Maine/Sigma
• Tex/Omega
• …

Agreeing about the Alpha thing. Especially since, in Season 9, before they plan the heist, the Director is talking to Alpha and calling it “Alpha”, well before they start fragmenting it.

I’d forgotten about Carolina. Was that mentioned in Out of Mind? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

I’m fairly sure it was in Out of Mind. There was also an episode in Revelation (I think? I could be really, really off.) where Church actually asks Tex about her, but it’s very brief. I know that Tex and York mention that York’s “interior decorator” is “dead” and that was also confirmed in the exchange with Church. That explains Epsilon’s surprise when he sees Carolina, who is supposedly dead, and it’s pretty clear that she’s gone insane by the way she walks and acts. I’ll look up the transcripts to see where it says she has two AIs, though, because I’ve forgotten the exact quote.

*thumbs up*

Thanks guys, I had a feeling you both would have an answer for me about Alpha.

And that’s one more RvB conspiracy put to rest for me.

Delta mentions Carolina having two AI in Reconstruction. I want to say it’s episode fourteen? It’s when Church is inquiring about Wash’s attitude towards AI and when Delta’s explaining the sibling experiment with the Dakotas.

And ok, since it’s out there, I seriously need to know this. Like. I’ve always wondered it and I don’t get it.

York never names Carolina as his interior decorator. He just says ‘Thanks. She’s dead.’ (I will—slightly shamefully—admit that I always thought he just kind of… took over the flat from some dead person)

Where did the ‘the interior decorator was Carolina’ thing start? I never understood that.

I have always wondered that as well. I mean, I always took it that York was just deflecting Tex’s remark about the state of his apartment (which was probably pretty bare. Or maybe messy I don’t know)

Unless “interior decorator” was some sort of code name for Carolina?  I suppose anything could happen with season 10.

RT Podcast -- My Comments...

allec-with-anxiety:

Click on the link to listen to the podcast I’m talking about.

Here are the issues and what I have to say, and I’m mentioning it because, well, yeah.

1. No Original Ideas Anywhere

First off, let’s step away from the idea that an original story exists. That’s simply not true anymore. The same basic plot of “boy meets girl” or “man vs. universe” etc will always be. There are formulas now for creating plot. However, what makes something original is how it’s told.

Secondly, this goes back to pirating. I was reading an article a while ago (I would link it but I’m being lazy right now. Look it up on Cracked.com) about how Pirating won’t hurt Michael Bay or any of the people regurgitating the same story over and over again: but the independent film makers. I came across a movie about a Native American Lacrosse team facing a Prep School team—which sounds like a pretty fucking awesome movie—but it is independent with little hope for being mass produced. Why? It isn’t the same o’ same o’. It isn’t safe. Producers will continue to produce comic book movies, sequels, prequels, and references to other tried-and-true stories because that is what will definitely make money in the theatres which is where the profit has to come from because of pirating.

Makes me fucking angry.

2. “3D movies”

I don’t have a problem with the RT guys, but everytime I hear people talk about 3D and wanting to see something in 3D…You know what? There is wonderful 3D movies out right now. They’re called plays. And for as low as $15, you can go see one at a local community theatre. No glasses required!

-fumes-

Two points:

1. To be honest, I find it bizarre that you would compare movies and live theater like that. They are very difference experiences, and it’s hard to compare them. You get something very different from live theater than you do for a movie. At least, that’s been my experience and I love going to both.

2. 3D is the way of the future and people just need to accept that. This isn’t new. 3D has been around for a while. And it is honestly the latest in a series of gimmicks to get people to come to the theater. Sound, Colour, Widescreen, these things we have come to take for granted in films were all once gimmicks to do the exact same thing 3D does: To create an immersive experience and draw people to the theater (especially with the fact that movie theater audiences are declining) And as 3D technology evolves, people are going to figure out how to use it properly and we are going to get great looking films. Sure not every film needs 3D but if you want it to be big and mindblowing and you want the audience to feel like it’s there why not make it 3D?