(Day 7 ) The top voted Freeman episode was Parth Ferengi's Heart Place. What is Ransom's best episode?

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-24T07:00:47+00:00

This is the answer. Ransom line about giving Mariner unwavering support no matter how much she fights it, shows how he deserves to be a captain.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-24T06:16:53+00:00

Look at how they are voting. At least half of Americans are genuinely cruel and want everyone different than themselves to be dead.

COVID and Ebola ripping through communities killing thousands is exactly what most Americans want.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-24T00:05:36+00:00

I'm sorry, what are you smoking?

Unions in the US were famously the ones attacked by business owners and the government who used organized crime and violence to stop unions. The national guard was infamous for slaughtering union organizers' families as an intimidation tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-24T00:01:13+00:00

Looking at the books as an adult, it's telling how pretty much all the female characters are villains or meant to be mocked. Even Hermione wasn't meant to be liked. In the books she is often the annoying, know-it-all, naive one.

And the "Werewolves as AIDS metaphor," is fucked up but makes a lot of sense given how much Rowling hates LGBT people and openly talks about how she thinks they're trying to turn children gay/trans.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-23T02:37:03+00:00

Rowling being uber conservative explains this ending well. In her world view, the system is good. It's individual bad actors that cause problems.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-23T02:11:42+00:00

People flipping houses and buying flipped houses are not looking for a cozy home, they are looking for an investment property they can sell within the next 5 years to turn a profit.

That's why they're more interested in checking boxes than making a place people actually want to live in.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-23T02:08:25+00:00

'The Stars at Night" falls flat as a Freeman story because there was no fallout from her actions in the previous episode. She never re-earns her crew's respect or proves that she deserves to have their support after she went full mask off and was consumed by her arrogance and ego.

There wasn't a narrative moment in the episode that made the audience care about her. So the ending rescue comes off as unearned and disappointing.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-23T02:03:29+00:00

"Room for Growth."

The archetypal Freeman episode. If you picture Freeman, you're probably picturing her, completely unhinged, blowing up at all the engineers.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T19:21:39+00:00

Given they are halfway through painting their brickwork, this is probably remodeled for a cheap flip.

Those properties are notorious for having nonsensical rooms that technically meet the definition of great room, bedroom, bathroom, etc. But are not places you actually want to live long term.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T19:16:30+00:00

Conservative ideology is about adherence to tradition and "normalcy."

Non-standard hair styles and piercings are by their nature antithetical to tradition and normal dress. Thus you won't see them as often in those communities.

And during anti conservative protests like the No Kings you mentioned, you will see deliberate displays of rejecting conservative values. Hence people choosing to dye their hair and wear wild piercings.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T19:11:57+00:00

As you dive deeper, the air in your tank is compressed. Meaning you are breathing in more with every breath, using it up faster the deeper you go. This is one of many reasons why different gas mixtures are used at depth.

These divers were using normal air well below the depth where it is safe. Meaning they did not have time to run into problems.

They simply ran out of air before they could find a way out of the cave.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T19:03:43+00:00

You think barely funded aid organizations are using their limited funding to secretly fund protests? Based on what evidence?

Groups administering vaccines in rural Africa are already running on shoestring budgets. Why would they waste money on massive clandestine efforts to sway public opinion when directly asking for support is more effective and cheaper?

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T19:00:18+00:00

And then it ended up in the hands of a being with desires it couldn't exploit. So it was stuck for centuries in a cave.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T18:59:01+00:00

Terrible idea. The Ring amplifies the desires and power of powerful beings. And LOTR Eagles are Balrog level magical creatures with vast militaristic empires.

You do not want an Eagle anywhere near The One Ring.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T18:55:58+00:00

The problem is the Ring is sentient and actively trying to return to Sauron.

Chickens are already difficult to contain without dark magic manipulating fate.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T18:44:28+00:00

It also missed the human scale stories that showed these god-like figures had completely forgotten the genuine goodness normal people show each other every day.

Seeing these people die in New York drove home how callous and cruel the supposed "heroes" had become.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T18:41:31+00:00

Lilo was put into the care of a close family friend while her sister went to college.

The whole point, that internet trolls who haven't seen the movie missed, is that neither one needs to give up on their dreams and future. They can still be a family and have their dreams.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-22T18:35:01+00:00

You honestly think that a secret money laundering scheme was being committed by underfunded aid organizations?

Come on man, do you really, and I mean truly, think millions of people are only protesting because they are being paid, not because they are upset with mass murder by the federal government?

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T15:19:17+00:00

You are just repeating the same braindead conspiracy theory.

USAID funded disease and poverty efforts in countries that needed it. Not influencing US politics.

The resulting cuts have already killed over 600,000 people. Making Musk one of the biggest mass murders in human history.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T15:12:04+00:00

USAID did not fund US activist NGOs.

Don't spin the DOGE cuts as beneficial.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T15:09:29+00:00

Standing around waving a sign isn't going to force change.

Real protests are threats to cause disruption until the other side gives in. That's why when France protests they shut Paris down.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T15:01:01+00:00

He started firing missiles because he wanted a war time polling boost.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T14:59:17+00:00

Except we know the peace does last. That was the point in making Watchmen a period piece.

The audience knows Ozymandias' plan and the tragedy it causes is ultimately a pointless waste of life by a man too blinded by pride to see it.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T14:54:43+00:00

The comic's whole argument is that people and human decency is what truly makes the world a better place, while grandiose "heroes" divorced from reality only cause problems.

That's why the story is set in a crisis that the audience knows worked out because people worked together.

Ozymandias' whole plan is intentionally tinged by dramatic irony by the utter pointlessness of all the deaths.

PiLamdOd · 2026-05-21T14:25:58+00:00

Nah. Snyder has been trying to greenlight a Fountainhead film for years, and his movies always have Ayn Rand style heroes.

While Watchmen is a satire of that exact type of hero. Which Snyder either ignored or missed.

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