**puts on a pretentious hat**
Well, I hate myself for it but I am a grad student getting my masters in American History, specifically Civil War era, and you are NOT wrong. I didn't even try to watch this show because I read the description of the anti-hero and wanted to slap somebody. I can't imagine the level of naivety and gullibility the show's writers are imagining when they create such an obviously anachronistic, revisionist, modernized protagonist.
I once read (on Videogum? maybe) that it's hard to get audiences to bond with historical characters because if they are written realistically, we have nothing in common with them. So that is why historical characters are always weirdly feminist or open-minded or progressive or racially aware. It's idiotic but it's the easy path and writers go for it.
This show could have been good if they'd actually tried to make us like / understand a Confederate soldier. Confederates were people too. Sometimes they had slaves. Usually they didn't randomly free them just to advance some watery thin storyline. UGH.
**takes off stupid hat and stomps it into the ground**
You know what? I think this dude just really misses Steve Jobs and he needed to feel like he had something relevant to say. So he made his daughter into a connection between himself and a smart businessman who did not know about him, or care about him at all.
Or maybe I'm just a little sensitive because I like magazines and I can't afford an iPad. Hmm.
Well, this video is...long. That is really the biggest thing I take away from it. Long and lots of camera-spinning. I'm guessing the spinning is why I feel nauseated now, but I'm not sure.
Guys, Bachmann is obviously a joke and I love laughing at ridiculous politicians as much as the next person...but I don't get this one. Maybe I'm watching the wrong video? It was just a bunch of empty religious words and bible quotes about sinfulness, no outright bashing of liberal agendas via prayer. What did I miss?
Oh. My. GOD. I desperately need you to WMOAT the following:
Wet Hot American Summer.
A lying FORMER FRIEND tricked me into watching it and it is the most painfully unfunny, disjointed, insulting, disgusting waste of time I've ever suffered through. I would rather watch Paul Blart Mall Cop because at least it has a storyline and it does NOT criminally misuse and abuse its talented cast.
Seriously. Look, some people might argue that Wet Hot American Summer is a spoof movie and therefore supposed to be bad, but that's not necessarily true. It's a ridiculous mistake and it thinks you will be rolling in the aisles laughing at the jokes. It takes its comedy seriously for chrissake. A wise man once said that the mere act of creating art begs for the criticism of an audience. BE THE AUDIENCE WITH ME. I do not like to suffer alone and I can't find enough other outraged viewers on the internet to soothe my hatred of Wet Hot American Summer and what it did to 2 hours of my precious life. It came out too long ago! No one is currently hating it online with me! Please oh please oh please....watch it and tell me I am not alone.
I can't believe it was only 4 minutes long. Couldn't they have stretched those lyrics and dance moves for another two verses at least? I just wanted it to be long enough for my brain to shut down so I wouldn't have to remember what I just watched.
As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to unfriend me! I'm going to get my mom to buy me an iPad 2, and when it's all over, I'll never be uncool again!
Exactly! If her kids didn't learn compassion until "ages 5 through 12," I'm wondering how seriously they terrorized the other kids in their class. Hmm.
I don't know...keep the bags packed. Some of those idiots were yelling "One nation under God, not Allah." That seems pretty anti-Muslim and also ignorant on a whole new level. They don't even focus on their own bs issues anymore, they just pick on Islam. The worst part, imo, is that Islam considers the Christian "God" and "Allah" to be the same entity.
One more reason to slap those protesters, I guess.
That is a group I would sign up for. I would stand there all day to hold up the counter-protest sign. Can somebody make this happen please before the sane people have to give up on America and beg Canada to let us in?
Does everyone dress up as elves and gnomes and other fantasy characters? That is what I always picture. I was so disappointed in the reality of Fantasy Football....
I think it is also a symptom of people just loving the idea of a challenging and enjoyable "original screenplay" as opposed to "screenplay that is a reboot of a 1980s children's toy that in no way shape or form should become a film because it is a toy not a story yes I am looking at YOU Battleship ugh god."
That was 50% intro and exit music, thank god. But now I'm confused...apparently all it takes to run for President is a background in journalism? And you can be entirely digital? This can't be a bad thing.
In other news, was anyone else weirded out by her stance? I didn't know you could remain upright with your legs so far apart.
Please help me. Was she cradling a rat to her breast in the last cut? Something was squirming in her hand and she appear to stroke at it. It was rat-sized. I need to understand this!
Sad announcement: I grew up in a fundamentalist household where the politics were Tea Party before they had a name for it. This guy....my dad would shake his hand and invite him over to dinner.
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