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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2011, 10:06:31 am » |
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It's never that easy.
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2011, 11:23:26 am » |
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I shall stay up late at night, paging through my ACME catalog, looking for another great plan.
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2011, 12:33:15 pm » |
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Anyone want to bet on 'all of the above'?
When I think of a ligature, I think of something that controls strength of a connection between two things - I think this comes out of the surgical background. But apparently the base meaning is to tie, bond or join (as with ligand, which you'd think would have leapt to mind with the protein work.) Hm. With aforementioned gold star pointing towards Chaz (or so it seems), a couple of thoughts occur. First, that his mirror anomability could be an interesting source of a bond between him and another.* Second, that there are some pretty major potential shoes that as far as we know have not yet hit the floor** regarding the way his mirror talent is bound up with the relative. * If there is a puppermaster behind the curtain, manipulating the manifestations of emerging gammas, as was suggested at the end of last season Chaz vs. puppetmaster seems a pretty natural face off... but I wouldn't expect such until the final season. ** Not that we've been getting transcripts from his EMDR sessions. But then, we don't know that, uh, normal psychological issues are the only things that are in play. |
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2011, 06:41:02 pm » |
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I shall stay up late at night, paging through my ACME catalog, looking for another great plan.
*peals of laughter* Saw Rabbit Barber of Seville at Seattle Opera yesterday afternoon. When Figaro was liberally applying shaving cream to Don Bartolo, I half expected some to end up on top of his (Bartolo's) head, and then out would come the lettuce, and vegetables, and... didn't happen, alas. Staging still was very, very, very funny. |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2011, 09:31:03 pm » |
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I shall stay up late at night, paging through my ACME catalog, looking for another great plan.
I note that the above is your post #1040, and therefore hope your search proves none too taxing. |
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"Suddenly one of my great satisfactions in life is knowing I'm not a character in an Anne Rice novel." - Hafidha |
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2011, 10:53:01 pm » |
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I shall stay up late at night, paging through my ACME catalog, looking for another great plan.
I note that the above is your post #1040, and therefore hope your search proves none too taxing. *groan* *tosses peanuts* |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2011, 02:55:40 pm » |
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One week to Ligature.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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No Dumping Dead Bodies Overboard In Harbour Area
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« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2011, 05:05:55 pm » |
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And all of us are fit to be tied with anticipation.
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
L. Annaeus Seneca, Epistles
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« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2011, 08:23:05 pm » |
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And all of us are fit to be tied with anticipation.
It says something about the way my mind works that I can't see the word, "anticipation," and not think, "Sweet Transvestite." |
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"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world." -- Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy
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« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2011, 09:33:32 pm » |
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And all of us are fit to be tied with anticipation.
It says something about the way my mind works that I can't see the word, "anticipation," and not think, "Sweet Transvestite." (Boom shicka, boom shicka) |
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2011, 10:07:47 pm » |
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For me, the key word is "Phenomenon", triggering the rest of the Muppet Show theme.
Minds are really weird places to live, sometimes.
(And I'm still wondering about a Gamma with the power to stick adjacent vowels together...)
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
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« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2011, 10:28:13 pm » |
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For me, the key word is "Phenomenon", triggering the rest of the Muppet Show theme.
The Muppet Show theme, or "Mah Nà Mah Nà"? Fun fact: "Mah Nà Mah Nà" was originally written for the Italian film, Svezia: inferno e paradiso ( Sweden: Heaven or Hell), and was originally titled, " Viva la Sauna Svedese" ("Hooray for the Swedish Sauna"). |
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"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world." -- Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy
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« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2011, 06:11:05 am » |
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For me, the key word is "Phenomenon", triggering the rest of the Muppet Show theme.
The Muppet Show theme, or "Mah Nà Mah Nà"? Fun fact: "Mah Nà Mah Nà" was originally written for the Italian film, Svezia: inferno e paradiso ( Sweden: Heaven or Hell), and was originally titled, " Viva la Sauna Svedese" ("Hooray for the Swedish Sauna"). Huh. You learn something new every day. Now that I've learned it, back to bed for me. That was easy. |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
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"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2011, 08:43:53 pm » |
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Want content. Want content NAO.
Sunday? Oh, OK. If I haaaaaave to.
signed,
Devoted
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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2011, 09:22:54 pm » |
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You learn something new every day.
It's late and I'm noodling about for something to think about, and this started me wondering what the team learnt about the Anomaly today (yesterday, last week, tomorrow, whenever). Investigating the Anomaly is not quite like any other investigation. At the sharp end is the Criminal Minds thing, 'We're from the BAU and We're here to help'; roving troubleshooters in the 'Have Coyote, Will Travel' mode -- if today's Tuesday then this must be Washington State and Wendigos in the Woods, because yesterday was St Louis and Sirens in the Suburbs. Each case brings a different crime, a different mythology, a different set of victims and a different set of cracks. With other, lesser, shows, that's all there is. Everything wrapped up in 42 minutes of on-screen investigation. But for the WTF catching the Gammas is just the day job, data gathering while the real investigation simmers in the background. This side is the cop's investigation, Falkner's, Danny's, Nikki's, maybe Sol's, catch the Anomaly by catching its agents. Then there's the disease model, and how that applies to the pursuit of the Anomaly, no matter whether it turns out to be a suitable analogy for its mechanism or not. Take all the patients and try and trace back to Patient Zero, that one common element, that one exposure to someone, something, some relative, that links it all together. But with a public health disease investigation, even the high-powered kind the CDC runs, the disease isn't actively trying to hide from you, nor does it turn around and come deliberately hunting for you. So that's another kind of investigation, Frost's angle, maybe Daphne's, catch the Anomaly by understanding it's epidemiology. And then there's Idlewood, the Monster Zoo, the black box that lets you poke the agents of the Anomaly and see which way they jump. WTF's captive set of Skinners Rats, complete with their very-own Hafs-in-a-Box. Invaluable resource, irresistible temptation, and if you stare long enough into the Anomaly, does the Anomaly stare back into you? This is Reye's investigation, maybe Sol's, catch the Anomaly by knowing the Anomaly. Three angles, three corners, a triangle of different investigations to pin down the Anomaly at the centre of a web of ideas and knowledge. Three parts making a single whole, and more and more Chaz at the heart of it, the synthesist, the one person able to turn his hand and mind to the entire meta-investigation. And ultimately to catch it, to destroy it, or to look into the mirror and become it? If the Fellowship finally makes it to Mount Doom, which way will he jump? Will he be Gollum, Frodo, or Sam? |
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