... hundred year existence: heatless chemical lamps, household aetheric tele-transcribers, harmonicvibration ovens (known cheekily by the hoi polloi as “whistle stoves”), and a veritable host of other modern contrivances without which the life of any Citizen of the Empire would feel profoundly separated from the ease of modern existence. One can imagine what astounding wonders we members of the “Sci...
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... concept of this episode had a lot of merit. Was it used to its best potential? Not even close. But I could see the idea through the fog of bad dialogue, and rushed plotting, and plot contrivances. I think some concepts though are just too big for 42m. This was one of them. Because of the time constraints, the immediate villification of Clark felt a bit over-the-top. My biggest issue with...
... don't want to shut up... TITLE : Stay a While AUTHOR : ends_of_time PAIRING : ZoroxSanji RATING : R NOTES : Not mine. Yet. SUMMARY : Zoro's got a policy against getting attached. To anything, and anyone. But living with these assholes, that might be a bit more difficult than usual. All things previous Chapter Thirteen: The Shitty Contrivances of Bottles and Beds, Redux
... feelings. It was my perception, specifically, that this content was not part of a larger attempt to convey an idea or propel a plot in a way that made sense; instead, the plots felt like mere contrivances and/or vehicles for you to write about coercive sexual acts between adults and children, framing them in such a way as to make it seem that the children are "enjoying" being coerced. I'll be ...
... such safe refuge is not required in film (see Bicycle Thieves or most classic European cinema), Haneke's approach comes off as pointlessly damaging. Combined with the filmmaker's overstated contrivances, the film overall provides nothing other than frustration. There is an authentic feeling of wasted time and empty manipulation felt at the conclusion of Funny Games , and that gut reaction is...
... little boysquealing over how much fun it'll be). Everything about him is natural. It reveals everything artificial by comparison. And by that, I mean my own identity. I am forced to awareness of my contrivances, my complications by comparison. And so I feel like a fallen angel. Evil as near as dammit. This isn't before the fall. This is after the climb back . But it was always there. He didn'...
... now with the rest of the town in the raging storm. She seeks out evidence of who it could be. He's not one for anonymous flings - he has too much at stake, too much to risk. The only contrivances she can think of are the pictures. Hundreds of pictures around the house, first his then theirs. There is the usual blend of her and hims. Of his pets. Of crew. Of friends. But the majority of them are ...
... now with the rest of the town in the raging storm. She seeks out evidence of who it could be. He's not one for anonymous flings - he has too much at stake, too much to risk. The only contrivances she can think of are the pictures. Hundreds of pictures around the house, first his then theirs. There is the usual blend of her and hims. Of his pets. Of crew. Of friends. But the majority of them are ...
... now with the rest of the town in the raging storm. She seeks out evidence of who it could be. He's not one for anonymous flings - he has too much at stake, too much to risk. The only contrivances she can think of are the pictures. Hundreds of pictures around the house, first his then theirs. There is the usual blend of her and hims. Of his pets. Of crew. Of friends. But the majority of them are ...
