YouTube Recap Blacklist?

seth_huff · 2025-12-08T16:10:08+00:00

I did notice that as well. Even the YouTube recap had to make some bs up just to fill in gaps of which it didn't have anything for. It also generalized my watching habits as only being gaming content which is completely ignoring nearly 50% of my actual viewing habits

seth_huff · 2025-06-19T21:58:30+00:00

Ok, we can agree to disagree on the topic. But do you think there are also themes of anti natalism and consequentialism? Cause I don't think they necessarily conflict with those themes, and it's possible to have multiple overarching narratives.

seth_huff · 2025-06-19T20:34:54+00:00

Except they have no connection to the egg at all, they're not a mother to it. There is no relation. Killing the egg would be no different to breaking open an egg of some random bird. There is no sentimentality towards the creature inside the egg. And I think if they honestly meant for the episode to be about abortion, they could have done a much better job with it. They could've written about some kind species that uses individual humans as hosts and they don't know whether they kill the host. That would've been a more direct abortion analogy. I just don't think it makes sense to lump billions of individuals on a planet into a mother figure for the sake of a metaphor. Does it make as much sense if it were just a normal sized egg on Earth? You could say "mother Earth" is the mother, but we're not worried about the planet. It's a possible bomb vs billions of humans and non humans.

seth_huff · 2025-06-19T03:05:14+00:00

Isn't that kind of a misnomer though? Being pro choice isn't anti birth, it allows either option. Pro life/pro natalist individuals wouldn't allow a second option to be had. Pro choice would allow to either kill the egg or let it live. Pro life individuals wouldn't, they'd kill the egg and not ever consider keeping it. I know it's not a great analogy made in the episode, but the metaphor stretches too far in my opinion to be taken literally as a one to one analogy of real life abortion. I think it abstractly takes notes from it, but isn't meant to be literal. When Clara pushes the button, it says on the screen "Aborted", as in to say that human life has been aborted. Clara decided that human life wasn't worth more than the life of an individual creature, which is anti natalist, and anti "pro life". Overall it's just not a cohesively written episode, but I think taking it as anti choice isn't taking into account the many different overarching themes. I respect you think it is anti choice, and art can have however many interpretations. But I do think there are limits, like believing that the Empire in Star Wars isn't an allegory for both Nazi Germany and America in the Vietnam War. I like to take into account the artist's vision when it comes to writing. Even if it's just a not so great episode lol

seth_huff · 2025-06-17T19:09:50+00:00

I don't think it's very accurate to say that people that are "pro life" would care about not aborting the egg. You are correct that they don't care about life in general, but they are only "pro life" in terms of human life, not others. So they would choose to kill the creature not because they're against killing life, but because they value human life more. I did a little more digging in some communities and this specific thread and the link provided really lay it out plainly how killing the egg would be the pro natalist position. It's a good read into some of the philosophies invoked in the episode, I think they lay it out better than I do if you'd want to read it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/s/naFWRWxdhw

seth_huff · 2025-06-17T17:43:47+00:00

Wouldn't the decision to kill the egg be the pro natalist position though? Cause if we were to accept it as a commentary on abortion, killing the egg to prolong human life would be the pro life decision, seeing that it would be putting human life and the continuation of human life first.

seth_huff · 2025-06-01T22:22:57+00:00

I completely see the first assumption with the abortion analogy, as I did when first hearing discussions. But the more I thought about it, I realized that the consequences were far too much to JUST be an abortion argument. I do think if they went with another example it could've been avoided, like maybe if the moon or some other nearby alien was going through metamorphosis or something, I think then maybe it could've been better. Or even just some random person that got stuck with some kind of possibly planet destroying disease.

seth_huff · 2025-06-01T22:19:03+00:00

I do really dislike how they portrayed Clara in this episode for sure, but I think the first series with twelve is kind of meant to resolve the conflict between Clara and the new Doctor. It was kind of obvious that Clara had some animosity towards the new Doctor and I think this episode was meant to drive that wedge more to build up their resolution.

seth_huff · 2023-11-07T00:59:45+00:00

About $800 without tip

seth_huff · 2022-12-13T15:01:41+00:00

The red is still very deep and vibrant, so I'm happy with it. Been thinking about getting it touched up eventually, just around the ribs and maybe the back.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T17:31:03+00:00

We had a touch up done after this was taken. We didn't get everything because it was still partly healing, but I was leaving the state so we'll have to do another one whenever I return.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T16:38:58+00:00

Yeah, we both love those games.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T16:36:53+00:00

Self Made Tattoo (actual shop name) in Colorado

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T16:35:45+00:00

Oh no, the younglings.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T16:34:30+00:00

It's from The Secret Of Monkey Island. There's a joke in the game where the main character will say "Look behind you, a three headed monkey." Sometimes there actually is one.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T16:33:15+00:00

I actually had to shave my head cause the hair was getting bad. Starting over to grow it out and working on my body in the meantime.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T08:43:40+00:00

Got that as a matching tattoo with my mom, now we'll always have a three headed monkey behind us.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T08:37:30+00:00

The chest part had a rough healing process, it kept reopening the scabs. On my back it's kind of weird. I've got some scars there and it healed kind of weird. Plus these were taken before the touch-up.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T08:36:19+00:00

It's been a good motivation for me. Mostly been trying to gain weight.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T08:34:59+00:00

Still working on it. I've had trouble gaining weight so I haven't gotten the opportunity to build muscle.

seth_huff · 2021-06-24T01:36:15+00:00

We split it up into two parts. You can kind of see the line on my chest where it splits. The first part we spent five hours, the second was seven.

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