Posted on 07/26/2012 8:09:38 PM PDT by InHisService
Too many of us so called “Christians” today buy into the perversion that is prevalent in entertainment, simply because it’s there, it’s being promoted and we read or hear good reviews. The popularity of such genre does not make it acceptable for us, as Christians, to take part in it. If anything, we should be speaking out against it.
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That cult thing built it to massive popularity, it’s just that you couldn’t see it until there was new stuff to watch. I’m really the odd man out in the world of SF fandom deep enough into it to regular attend conventions (and even work on one) that doesn’t like DW. And that was the situation in the early 90s before any word of a rebirth was on the wind. I’d say probably 90% of fen like DW enough to occasionally watch, probably a third are (and were in the early 90s) deep enough into it to watch regularly and have some widgets, and therefore to await each new one with excitement. It’s really the third major leg fen stand on, right there with Trek and Star Wars. They were just hidden when it was all about the reruns.
I’m odd in that I’ve always loved DW but if ST and SW were to drop off the face of the Earth I wouldn’t be bothered all that much. I suppose ST had its moments.
the public has voted with their dollars.
how many liberal agenda movies die before they even start. Even those who still go to movies, the trailers will kill off a movie.
(ie notice how ann hathaway never appears in the batman commercials before the opening date?)
Movies die fast in the era of social media. http://Themoviespoiler.com
and alternative sources.
young kids know how to see movies for free without needing to wait for dvd/blueray/box sets. Older people know to just wait two weeks and the dvd is out and three weeks for cable/sat release.
Jennifer Lopez is a homosexual?
I’m actually on a quest right now to watch all the Trek. I’ve always had a love hate relationship with it. Grew up loving the original series (TOS), watched the first couple of season of TNG largely because I was still living at home and my mom is hardcore, but once I moved out of the house the lack of quality in TNG (let’s face it that show didn’t really find its legs until season 5) caused me to be sporadic and I stayed that way through it all (again quality issues, DS9 wasn’t really solid until season 4, VGR stank all the way through, ENT is the only spinoff to start well then got weak). But once it hit the Netflix stream I decided there was a gap in my geek cred and decided to try to watch it all. I’m into season 7 of TNG now, then it’ll be onto DS9. I might abandon the quest when it’s time to hit Voyager.
Star Wars amazes me because I know most of it sucks. When push comes to shove only Empire is actually a GOOD movie, New Hope is fun but has a lot of issues, the rest basically suck. And yet when I see The Crawl, even if it’s a spoof Crawl or shows up in a documentary that’s discussing SW, a shot runs up my spine. SW excites the hell out of me. In much the same way I hate DW on a genetic level I love SW.
the troubling part of the dOctor who is the fact the writers slip in left wing agenda stuff that does not belong in what is supposed to be a children/family friendly show. (homo based marriage etc.)
Torchwood died fast when they made it the “gay” bbc show.
Who knows?
For some reason, the last couple of weeks I’ve gotten on a kick of visiting various “blind gossip” entertainment sites. If half the stuff they put out are true, nearly all actors that work in The Biz at the very least play for both teams.
No wonder Hollywood is so invested in gay rights.
The Homosexual agenda is pretty much gone from DW now that original show-runner Russell T. Davis is no longer in charge.
Hope you give some of the better of the DW stories another shot one of these days. Do you also dislike ‘Blake’s 7’ and other British SF stuff the same way? Anyway I sort of like the ST episode that Harlan Ellison wrote. I went on a big HE kick years ago and watched that along with reading much other stuff. I’ve met him and he’s a fun guy provided you don’t piss him off. He hates ST and SW and loves DW. :)
Flip side: you won't have any free time, and will wonder how you got anything done whilst blowing X hours a day staring at a box. (Retort: you didn't.)
50 Shades of Gray is directed at women
the same sort who like Romance novels and Vampires
What constitutes myopia is chewing someone out for not providing encyclopedic depth in a casual three-line chat-board post. WCF presumed you’d grasp the obvious sensible limits to his comments.
you can have horses if you wish to move pretty far out and compromise on the home...say a trailer or Jim Walter prefab
land depends on where you are but most states outside the coasts have land around 1000/acre withing 50 miles of a metro area...might be a mix of scrub or hill and some pasture
and horses...anywhere from free to sky is the limit
but a decent 15-16 hand ridable 5-15 year old gelding with some skills can be had for less than 1000 easy
food...depends on rain and ground cover...Mr Rogers joint looks like he has to buy hay but where I am you can go with just grass and a little feed in green months and stock up hay in winter...buy hay when it's low (like not now) and average horse eats maybe 2-3 bucks hay a day...if on only hay diet...but they won't eat tarnished hay like cows...gotta be dry...best to buy bales not rolls
it's all about choices..get yer ass outta the city
even backwoods trailer beats inner city nothingness
there is no doubt of that
you have to move to where life fits you...I have and will go even further out when I can but 10 acres 30 miles south of Nashville with decent schools will do for now
I actually love a lot of British SF, Blake’s 7, Red Dwarf. It’s really just the Doctor that bugs me.
Harlan’s a trip. I’m not actually convinced he hates anything, he’s such a professional curmudgeon. It’s one of the signs of just how awesome Tom Snyder was as an interviewer, he could actually get Harlan to say nice things. I miss Snyder.
Nobody is expecting encyclopedic depth. Just some consistency. There’s a big functional gap between “kill your TV, get a life” and “I’m watching a movie on my TV right now”. There’s actually plenty of folks on FR that throw around the “kill your TV” line that at least claim to not own one at all, not even for watching classic movies on DVD. So it’s not really an “obvious sensible limit” to think the guy that says “kill your TV” didn’t kill his.
Well then you would like ‘Blink’ in which the Doctor plays a minimal part. :) Look at the exorbitant IMDB rating...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000252/
Ellison likes a lot of stuff too. He just has high standards. Listen to this great bit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
To most, “kill your TV” means “drop the continuous-feed ad-driven content defined by others (akin to a magazine subscription)”, which is different from “watch what you want when you want without ads (akin to reading a book)”.
Sorry if you were unaware of the nuances of a common social code-phrase.
No it doesn’t. That would be “kill your cable”. “Kill your TV” logically means kill the TV.
There’s no nuances in this and it ain’t a code phrase. Next you’re going to be quibbling about what “is” means.
You’re forgetting about OTA.
OTA isn’t cable.
Both are what is generically termed “TV”: ad-driven content selected by others.
I don’t have either.
For the uses you’re whining about, what you’re calling a “TV” is more properly called a “monitor”.
I _do_ have what is being used as nothing more than a monitor.
Alas, all the terms involved are used loosely enough to induce strife when someone insists on precise usage thereof.
And yes, I can be just as pedantic as you.
http://whole9life.com/2011/04/kill-your-tv/
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
Notice how the TV is always unplugged from power or outright destroyed for these. Nobody's watching DVDs of old movies in these "kill your TV". It's not pedantic, it's simply expecting people to mean what they say. Like I said to him, if he'd said "watch less TV", or "watch better TV" there'd be no issue. But he said "kill your TV" which for everybody else in the world means watch NONE, including classic movies on DVD.
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