Thanks! I would assume IMDb was more likely to be accurate. I just went with the most obvious site for finding music from shows. And I have no recollection of that song in the show, so no way to know which one sounds right.
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Thanks for the research, Chigs, but that one is definitely not it, thank you for the try.
Would you mind holding, sir, we have @anon59592690 on the other line.
Okay, yeah, that’s definitely the one.
I love it, and hate me for doing so.
Win/win I guess, as I now like a band called screeching weasel. (nanny would be proud)
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You’re welcome, and also I’m 100% sure @anon67050589 does not go by “sir” 
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Many many years ago, after at least 2 (maybe 3?) iterations of bOING bOING’s comment system, for some reason my screen name didn’t port over correctly to the newest system, and even Rob couldn’t figure out what to do to save it, so I started a new screen name that was as close as possible to the old one, which for people back then wouldn’t have been hard to read, but it turns out that the underscore between ‘chgo’ and ‘liz’ was more important than one might realize!
It’s been funny to hear various posters’ assumptions about how to pronounce my ‘new’ screen name!
So yeah, I’m not “Chigs”, I’m Chgo (Chicago) Liz.
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Well, I finished it. I was greatly disappointed by the last episode.
The histrionics got to be too much: the usual scenes of people yelling at or past each other while ignoring important stuff that’s happening right now.
There are some plot holes, unless I missed the explanation for them. How did Grieff (the guy on death row) become interested in, or even aware of, Janice Fife (the math tutor)?
The teaser for a new season has Janice asking Grieff to kill her husband. This is the first we’ve heard of him, and I think it was explicit in the show that she is single. He certainly didn’t come looking for her when she disappeared. Of course, we’ve seen how devious she is, and she could be trying to have someone else killed.
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I always pronounce it Ch’GOliz in my head, but I can’t manage the guttural “Ch” of spoken Klingon.
I will not call you “sir” unless you specifically ask.
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Or unless she becomes your superior officer in Star Fleet
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Yep, all of that mess at the end left me a bit pissed off really!
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Oh, that was a weird assumption for me to make, my apologies.
It was late (for me), but that’s hardly a good excuse.
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I was thinking it was like the young ones these days, saying “dude” to everyone! No worries.
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Have we stopped saying “dudette” in favour of “dudeperson”, or does “dudette” abide?
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Wrong audience, you need to ask all the young dudes.
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Yeah, all the young dudes. I want to hear you!
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Dang, looks like they’re busy at the moment, carrying the news.
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That was probably what I had in mind, but reading upthread…
it was worth it!
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Was due a rewatch despite having so many new things to watch that i don’t know what to start with first.
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This put words on amorphous feelings I had while watching the movie:
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Unicorn chasers. These will not change your life, but you may get a few laughs out of them.
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I really liked the show while watching but thinking about it since I have some niggles. I thought they captured the style, the aesthetic perfectly.
I am a bit concerned that so far at least they
seem to be explaining the events happening between Flynne’s time and Netherton’s as having one clear starting point, being the attack on nuclear missile silos by US domestic terrorists.
Now that might just be a lie/simplification given to Flynne and later episodes may establish that even foiling that attack wouldn’t change a thing but if they stick with that, it seems to me to fundamentally undermine the basic point of the novel.
The whole idea is that by Flynne’s time, we all have collectively fucked the world up to the point that there are just far too many different vectors of apocalypse all converging at different rates and from different directions but each adding up to megadeaths and fundamental societal change and coming in a constant swirl.
And the impact of those events and losses which humanity collectively caused is what fundamentally shapes the future world and the people we see in it.
Having one identifiable group and event causing all the destruction seems to me to undermine all that. If we could all happily blame some US militia nutjobs for all the shit, people would and probably just shrug and carry on otherwise.
Does any of that make sense?
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