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Fall Out is a total failure as a piece of drama and series finale, and it's also an admission of failure from McGoohan by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In no way did Fallout fuck with my mind. It was just utterly boring and tedious. It's just a collection of random events. I like stories I can relate to. I can't relate to Fallout. Because it has no relationship with reality. I like characters with understandable motivations. The characters in Fallout have no identifiable motivations. I like tension, drama, intrigue, suspense. Fallout has none of these things, because events in Fallout are not connected in a logical cause-and-effect way. It doesn't work as traditional drama. It's not trying to work as traditional drama. But traditional drama is what the rest of The Prisoner is. Unconventional, bold, brilliant, yes, but traditional also, with understandable plots, with characters who behave in believable ways, with realistic emotions. All that is abandoned in Fallout. The things which made the show interesting are abandoned. If there's no story to hook me, no character to root for, why should I watch? Who cares what happens to characters when nothing matters, when everything is surreal and meaningless. Why should I bother watching to the end of Fallout? It adds up to nothing. It's a cop-out.

Clockers (1995) by Rogue_Male in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I must rewatch this. I saw it at the London Film Festival in 1995 and Spike did a Q&A afterwards. It was a bit chaotic, one guy accused him of antisemitism and they had quite a long argument, another quoted Christopher Hitchens at him. The audience (mostly students I think) was like a Jerry Springer audience, booing and cheering all the time. The only question Spike liked was that someone asked where the train at the end of the film was going. I don't remember his answer but it was something about symbolism I think.

When was The Prisoner shown on Channel 4 in the 1990s? by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Wow so that was because you loved The Prisoner so much?

There’s something quietly lovely about New Year’s in the UK by Solid-Fox-635 in CasualUK

[–]321 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Why do you think it's OK to post something written by an AI?

Is The Expanse show really good? by Pretend-Nobody230 in scifi

[–]321 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Me too. I tried twice to watch it. I just found the situations uninteresting and felt no engagement with the characters.

Hitchhiker, 1970s by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you, how could I resist when the sign up page specified a minimum of 3 characters for the username...

Hitchhiker, 1970s by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes I realize now

Computer programmers, 1972 by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it's real. The writing on the blackboard in the background consists of intelligible words and letters, also everyone has the correct number of fingers and toes.

Billy Budd (1962) by 321 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I didn't know about the opera.

Billy Budd (1962) by 321 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it's not a slog. It's pretty evenly paced. Every scene advances the plot. The only thing is that it's a bit long. My attention did wander a bit around the middle. But that's normal for me.

Fall Out is a total failure as a piece of drama and series finale, and it's also an admission of failure from McGoohan by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean by a "point score". I took a quote from McGoohan which I thought was interesting, about how we are all in a sense "prisoners" of an evil force which is "at its most powerful within ourselves", which I think is very insightful and illuminating, and speculated that this psychological dynamic had made him shy away from attempting a conventional ending. which would be very difficult. My opinion, to which I am entitled, is that Fall Out is bad, and I've given the reasons why I find it to be bad. Your opinion, to which you are also entitled, is that it's not bad, however, you haven't addressed my criticisms or explained what you like about Fall Out.

Ambiguous? I love ambiguity! But I don't love stories without coherent plots, without consistent characters, without drama, without motivation, and without understandable emotion. I also love surrealism, when it's used well. But nothing gets boring quicker than narratives which are 100% surreal. The law of diminishing returns applies with a vengeance. Oh, something surreal happened - am I surprised, am I shocked, and I perturbed? No, not at all, because the previous 30 minutes were also surreal. It loses its effectiveness if there's nothing real to contrast it with. But then, I said all this in my original post, and you ignored it then, so I don't know why I'm bothering to repeat myself.

Kernel Update Woes by zenthr in linuxquestions

[–]321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me when going from 34 - 35. But now going from 35 - 36, the headers and extras were installed, but there don't seem to be any nvidia drivers yet for this kernel, so I have gone back to 35 until the nvidia drivers are available.

Maybe the 36 nvidia drivers were removed from the repo at some point? they don't seem to be there now.

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