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transpidergwen · 1 year

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When will I learn to stop getting invested in expendable side characters? Never! The more important question is when will narratives stop introducing girlbosses only to kill them off bc they're too powerful and threaten the fragility of the narrative!

They!

Deserved!

Better!

#at least Kendra went out on her own terms #and she and Cain both went out like ballers #but Natalie just got got merced by Athena in a hallway after surviving a civil war!?#justice for Natalie #battlestar galactica 2003 #battlestar galactica #bsg #bsg 2003 #helena cain #kendra shaw #natalie faust

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wandererverse-legacy · 9 months

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The sequel to "Armour of the Eliminator" set in the Wandererverse.

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gayspock · 1 year

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going into a tag only to see it barren.... infested by nothing but sex bots & losers with generic fandom posts that add every unrelated tag they can think of.... gripping the kithen sink

#Egg.txt #NO KENDRA SHAW CONTENT? DIE EVERYBODY

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dustedmagazine · 1 year

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The Dream Syndicate — History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days of Wine and Roses 40th Anniversary Edition (Fire Records)

The Days of Wine and Roses (Expanded Edition) by The Dream Syndicate

A 40th anniversary is sort of an odd date to celebrate with pomp and fanfare, which makes this overstuffed edition of the Dream Syndicate’s The Days of Wine and Roses exude at least a whiff of opportunism. And to be sure, History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned is overstuffed: four compact discs, 260 total minutes of music, five different versions of “Definitely Clean” and seven (yep) of “That’s What You Always Say” (from the original record; the Down There EP version; a 1981 recording by the 15 Minutes, a band Steve Wynn formed with members of Alternative Learning; a rehearsal rendition and several live recordings—it’s a good song, but that’s a bit much, by any measure). Dream Syndicate completists and musicologists with big historical investments in the Paisley Underground will rejoice. What about the rest of us?

At the very least, we have occasion to remember a great rock record, one of a select few released from the California underground in the early 1980s that still feel absolutely necessary, song for song and note for note. If we stick specifically with punk and punk-adjacent LA, we might mention Black Flag’s Damaged, X’s Under the Big Black Sun, Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime and Gun Club’s Fire of Love. That’s some fierce company. The Dream Syndicate shared a label with the Gun Club, and likely shared a stage or two with at least a couple of those bands. But they were outliers in LA in those crucial years: not hair-trigger punks like Fear or Circle Jerks, not rootsy like Green on Red or the Blasters, not self-consciously arty like Screamers or Bpeople. Musically the Dream Syndicate was more aligned with New York bands, like Television or the Voidoids — and the Dream Syndicate confessed as much by name-checking La Monte Young’s famous NYC drone ensemble in their band’s moniker.

Mostly the Dream Syndicate was a guitar band, Wynn and Karl Precoda playing tangled and brash lines and working the space between dissonance and rock dramatics. You can hear that impulse, toward volume and catharsis, on a great-sounding live set included on Disc 4 of the edition, captured at the Country Club in Reseda, CA, sometime in 1982. “Then She Remembers” sounds like early Sonic Youth until Wynn drags the song back toward the textures of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their most ragged and feral. In between songs, Wynn quips, “This is San Francisco psychedelia, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Blue Cheer...” He’s goofing on Cali punk’s north-south rivalries, but it’s not a bad set of references for the kinds of guitar antics the band gets into. That Reseda set is one of the real treats among all the accompanying recordings included in History Kinda Pales…, along with a recording of “Open Hour” from a 1982 live performance on KPFK, in which the guitarists channel Verlaine and Lloyd’s sense of interplay. Also check out the cover of “Folsom Prison Blues,” recorded in Tucson that same year; the band sounds like Rank and File on an especially whiskey-soaked night.

Amid all those extras, the most substantive music on the four discs can still be heard in the studio recordings that appeared as The Days of Wine and Roses in late October, 1982. Kendra Smith was still in the band, and her moody presence plays up the record’s Paisley Underground affiliations, as do the psych-rock acrobatics of “When You Smile.” But a lot of the story is told in the record’s first five seconds: those glorious, crashing notes that form the signature riff of “Tell Me When It’s Over.” It’s a great song, one of a few palpably heartbroken, sort-of-love songs from the decade (along with the Replacements’ “Unsatisfied” and Leaving Trains’ “Light Rain”) that laid some formative groundwork for the 1990s’ indie rock. The Days of Wine and Roses reaches its highest peaks on its several sort-of love songs: those just mentioned, “Halloween,” “Then She Remembers.” Those last two address desires that simmer with threat or explode into violence, and the music follows the same logic. If you haven’t for some time, listen to the ecstatic, free-falling guitar break that takes up the second half of “Then She Remembers.” It’s breathless, propulsive and razor sharp. Sort of like the passage of history.

Jonathan Shaw

#the dream syndicate #history kinda pales when it and you are aligned #days of wine and roses #40th anniversary edition #fire #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #paisley underground #steve wynn #kendra smith

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jadelotusflower · 8 months

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Stargate rewatch: 1x09 Thor’s Hammer

"We don’t think the Goa’uld built the Stargate system” - episode 9 of season 1 and we’re already tapping into a huge part of the mythology - the show really hit the ground running with its lore.

But who is “we”? It’s never really established whether Daniel is in charge of his own team or runs his own department, but I think we can assume so? I like to think Barbara Shaw from the film is on the team at the very least.

However the “tyrant” gods being mostly from non-white cultures and the “culture-bearers” being mostly from white/western cultures is an ongoing yikes of the show.

I wouldn’t really characterise the Norse gods as particular friends to humans? I mean in the mythology they're not tyrants but they seem no less capricious than the Goa’uld-coded pantheons. Although I guess there is some interesting stuff around the Norse gods being more like higher beings as opposed to all powerful deities, which works in the show's presentation of the Asgard, but is hardly unique to Norse myth.

For example Odin (who I don't think we ever see on the show) being more of a hands off kind of god, who is not innately omniscient but himself pursues knowledge, hanging upside down from Yggdrasil and sacrificing an eye to obtain wisdom - and of course, the fate of the gods to die in Ragnarök, an acceptance of mortality that does fit the Asgard rather than the Goa'uld.

SGC Earth has a “Sagan Institute” - a nice tribute to Carl Sagan who died a year before the show was made. IRL The Carl Sagan Institute was established in 2014.

While the hammer is obviously meant to depict the death of a symbiote, it's also likely a reference to the Midgard/World Serpent. Although the Goa’uld are referred to as “Ettins” (Eoten/Jötunn) in this episode, Jörmungandr was the serpent who surrounded Midgard (Earth) eating its own tail, and was Thor’s enemy.

It’s Gairwyn! I love Gairwyn so much. Played by Tamsin Kelsey, who was also a big figure of my childhood as Evie O’Hanlon from the tv movie Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

"You must be from Thrudvang, Thor's home in the stars." Þrúðvangr was the realm of Thor and the location of his great hall Bilskirnir, which in later episodes will be identified as Asgard Thor's flagship.

“You and I might even have some of the same ancestors” - Sam has Scandinavian heritage I suppose?

Hologram!Thor is Mark Gibbon, who will go on to play a recurring Jaffa role in later seasons.

Thor of course is the obvious choice for Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet - we get a quick mythology primer from Daniel at the top of the episode and it's funny to think that would probably be unnecessary now given the Marvelisation of pop culture. But if there was a Norse god who could be considered a "friend to humans" like Daniel claims, it would be Thor.

“The High Council of Asgard has designated Cimmeria a safe world for developing sentient species, by unanimous decree 40.73.29. The Goa’uld system lords were so informed.” So is Cimmeria part of the Protected Planets Treaty? I assume so, but that Thor doesn’t trust the Goa’uld and installed the Hammer just in case. His message is kind of sassy too, we get the impression later that Thor is perhaps more invested in humanity than the other Asgard, and would take action against the Goa’uld if he could. So it makes sense his pet planet would have extra protection.

Galyn Görg (RIP) is wonderful as Kendra, it’s a shame she doesn’t recur.

What a Look too, fantastic costuming this episode - Gairwyn's is great as well.

And two women in major supporting roles! Another Katharyn Powers episode, this is one I really love.

The first proper appearance of the healing device.

Also the helmets are still with us - just attached to their backpacks.

“[Thor’s] race may have considered projectile weapons too primitive to be concerned about.” Heh. I love that this comes back into play with the Asgard vs the Replicators later on.

I think this the World Serpent on the wall behind Jack as well, in a more expansive form than was on the Hammer.

There’s another layer to this in hindsight - when Jörmungandr releases its tail from its mouth, Ragnarök will begin, and he and Thor will kill each other. Ragnarök is Götterdämmerung - the twilight of the gods. By the end of the series the time of both the Goa’uld and the Asgard will have passed, although not due to direct conflict between these two races, but rather the ascendancy of Midgard/Earth.

Jack is pretty subdued when Teal'c points out the Hammer could be used to free Sha're and Skaara - I think he's already figured out that they'll probably have to destroy the Hammer to get Teal'c out so won’t allow himself to think about the what ifs.

James Earl Jones! Everything is better with James Earl Jones.

“Unas is believed to have been the first host, born of the same primordial waters as the Goa’uld.” Although Unas is later revealed to be a race rather than a single being, the continuity of this in season 4 is great.

Kendra doesn’t say the name of the Goa’uld who possessed her, but mentions Marduk as the one who abducted her, which may present a continuity problem later as Marduk is trapped in a sarcophagus and only freed in season 4. But I suppose it’s not clear how long exactly Kendra was a host.

“Well Sha’re wasn’t trained in a temple like you, but she had a spirit, she was a fighter.” As we saw in CotG. Daniel's unwavering faith in Sha're fighting against the possession says a lot about their relationship.

But one of the failings of the show is that it is supremely uninterested in the trauma of Goa'uld possession - we get a bit with Sam although that becomes more about Jolinar's memories and the blending of the symbiote and host, and kind of with Vala later but it’s really only treated as a shorthand for why she is the way she is.

With Kendra we at least see how her trauma manifests in her isolation, her talking to the wind, interpreting the thunder, and ultimately deciding to face her fear.

This is a nicely directed episode too, by Brad Turner, who will helm several future episodes. Some really nice shots of Kendra, Daniel, and Sam climbing over mountains and walking over aqueducts.

Sam the skeptic vs Daniel the optimist. She’s actually pretty hard on him here! I’m not sure what Sam thinks their other options are if they don’t follow Kendra.

If Daniel’s flaw is his hubris and tendency to fixate at the expense of all else, Sam’s is her judgemental streak and unwillingness to think outside the logic box.

“Haven’t you ever had a feeling that made absolutely no logical sense and it turned out to be right?” The answer for Sam is clearly no, but that will change as part of her character arc will be sometimes learning to trust things that can’t be quantified.

And its helmet time.

"I was with those who took the ones you love." A little bit of mitigating language on Teal'c part, but his willingness to remain trapped just on the chance that the wrong he was party to can be righted, we can see how much guilt he does feel. I still wish we'd actually gotten a scene before this between Daniel and Teal'c about Sha're.

Jack having Daniel be the one to destroy the hammer is harsh, but it has to be Daniel. Because he is the one most affected by the decision, he needs to be the one who makes it, not have it be made for him. Importantly, Jack doesn’t order him to do it, and isn’t completely sure he will, just hopes.

By being the one to fire the shot, Daniel takes ownership of it, and it avoids resentment on his part - Jack knows that it’s the way it has to be for Daniel personally, and the good of the team.

To his credit once handed the staff weapon Daniel doesn't hesitate - closing his eyes before firing is a nice touch though.

Kendra gives them the Ansuz rune, the equivalent to A in Elder Futhark, meaning god and is associated with Odin, knowledge and communication.

#stargate sg1 #stargate rewatch #1x09 thor’s hammer #jlf posts #norse mythology #meta #daniel jackson #sam carter #jack o'neill #teal'c #stargate sg-1

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jaketrains · 1 year

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PAW Patrol: 10 Year: Characters (2023)

Characters

Ryder

Chase

Rubble

Marshall

Rocky

Zuma

Skye

Robo-Dog

Everest

Tracker

Tuck and Ella

Rex

(Cat Pack)

Wild

Rory

Leo

Shade

Liberty

Al

Coral

(Rubble & Crew)

Charger (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Mix (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Wheeler (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Motor (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Auntie Crane (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Grandpa Gravel (Debut in PAW Patrol)

(Junior Patrollers)

Mini

Tot

Nano

Mayor Goodway

Chicketta

Julia Goodway

Julius Goodway

Gustavo Goodway

Uncle Otis Goodway

Mayor Greatway (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Mr. Ducky-Doo (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Mr. Porter

Alex Porter

Mr. Hudson

Katie

Cali

Cap’n Turbot

Francisco Turbot

Tilly Turbot

Dr. Tammy Turbot

Taylor Turbot

Codi Gizmody

Elly-Dee

Cassie

Eddie and Emmy

Mayor Humdinger

Kitten Catastrophe Crew

Meow-Meow (Hench-Cat)

Harold Humdinger

Cheetah Humdinger

Helga Humdinger

Farmer Yumi

Farmer Al

Ms. Marjorie

Maynard

Hurricane Harrigan

Adventure Bay Cameraman

Cletus

Adventure Bay Residents

Ladybird

Sweetie

Busby

Princess of Barkibgburg

Earl of Barkingburg

Butler of Barkingburg Castle

Henry and Elizabeth

Duke of Flappington

Jean-Claude

Claw

Sparks the Dragon

Henry

Luke Stars

Traveling Travis

Mr. Wingnut

Mrs. Wingnut

Cowgirl Beryl

Tough Guy (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Carmen (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Marty Muckraker (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Adventure City Camerawoman (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Butch and Ruben (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Window Washer (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Kendra Wilson (Debut in PAW Patrol

Tony (Debut in PAW Patrol)

Carols

Jake

Cora Colors

Mother Mer-Pup

Baby Mer-Pup

Kelp

Moby

McSquidly

Victoria Vance

Flight Controller

Captain Gordy

Hailey Daily

The Copycat (Mr. Nibbles)

Big Hairy

Little Hairy

(Ruff Ruff Pack)

Hubcap

Gasket

Dwayne

Speed Meister

Mr. McTurtle

Lily

Lucas

Omar

Juniper

Camila (Truck Driver and Pilot Airplane)

Grocer Gabriel

Cafe Carl (Ice Cream Shop and Popcorn’s Cafe)

Shopkeeper Shelley (Bike Shop and Toys Shop)

Sierra Sparkle

Farmer Zoe

Park Ranger Rose

River

Builder Cove Residents

Precious Owner

Precious Owner’s Father

Precious Owner’s Mother

The Great Wendini

Ace Sorensen

Daring Danny X

Diredre

Arrby

Sid the Swashbuckler the Pirate

Shaw

Sarah

Raimundo

Cake Judge

Chili and Pizza Judge

Spud

Little Boy

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kck4cu3o4ub · 1 year

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