"All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun."

[greygirlbeast]

We saw a little summer, and now cold spring has wrapped itself about us once again. Today, we'll be lucky to see 71˚F (currently a balmy 66˚F), and the skies are overcast. And I know, now, that the next six months are going to be the busiest of my whole writing career (well, thus far, so the busiest in nineteen years). Busy is good. Busy is work.

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[readingthedark]

Not enough people worry about the ghosts of dead squirrels.

Oh, and while I offer congratulations tempered with a deep understanding of what that much more work will be like for you, my dear, I do still extend congratulations.

[greygirlbeast]

Oh, and while I offer congratulations tempered with a deep understanding of what that much more work will be like for you, my dear, I do still extend congratulations.

Or.

I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.

[readingthedark]

Well, um, yes. The wordwooze and the wordmills (F. Leiber) are rarely kind, yet their cruel and arbitrary whims seem to guide our fates.

I'm not a huge Bukowski fan, but his poem "So you want to be a writer?" has been coming to my mind a lot lately: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16549

[greygirlbeast]

Nice.

[jeditrilobite]

The medipod thing being set for only one gender *is* really odd. All that technology, and you can't program for both?

[humglum]

It was not meant for the whole crew, so there would be no reason to set it for anyone but the person for whom it was intended. Given that the person in question was a selfish man who fashioned himself worthy of great and many things, it makes perfect sense.

[greygirlbeast]

And it would, of course, have a password, and Shaw is hardly in any shape to hack it.

[greygirlbeast]

This is like a Victorian questioning why an iPod won't do X, given all our marvelous tech. We cannot know why an essentially still experimental (only 12 in existence) machine does or doesn't do anything.

[seph_ski]

My husband and I are thinking Vickers may have also been an android. I noted that she was never definitively proven human, and my husband pointed out that an android wouldn't have needed a surgery pod, and perhaps that's why she didn't bother to bring one programmed for females. But then the pod was probably for Weyland anyhow.

We're supposed to go see it again this Saturday with some friends who haven't seen it yet, and I find I'm even more excited about this viewing than I was the first one.

ETA: Also, now that I think about it, if I were David 8, I think I'd be far more tempted to try and slip some primordial ooze into Vicker's drink to see what happens. Unless she wouldn't react to it because she's not human. ...Or, of course, is too suspicious of him. Or maybe he had some other reason for not offing her, like direct orders from Weyland. I don't know. SO much to think about. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

[greygirlbeast]

My husband and I are thinking Vickers may have also been an android. I noted that she was never definitively proven human, and my husband pointed out that an android wouldn't have needed a surgery pod, and perhaps that's why she didn't bother to bring one programmed for females. But then the pod was probably for Weyland anyhow.

She would have been much more advanced than David 8, who is the most advanced android to date. Also, she's in stasis during the journey. And she clearly shows disappointment at her rejection by her father, Weyland. The pod was simply meant for her father (biological father), and she still had hope that her creator would not reject her (she bows to kiss his hand), so no way she would have sabotaged to Medipod.

We're supposed to go see it again this Saturday with some friends who haven't seen it yet, and I find I'm even more excited about this viewing than I was the first one.

I found the second viewing more amazing.

[andrian6]

First and foremost, I adore the new icon. Very bow tie. And I'm glad to see Cavalorn's essay continue to make the rounds. It is nice to see a more nuanced view of the film from on-line presences.

And the ghost squirrels. Do they find themselves trapped in the patterns they followed through life? Our parks must be filled with the dead, then: benches cluttered with ghosts flicking invisible bits of bread or CrackerJack to phantom squirrels, who eagerly grab the invisible food and nibble away.

[greygirlbeast]

First and foremost, I adore the new icon.

Thank you. I made it this morning.

[readingthedark]

When I first saw it, I thought it was the scariest icon I've ever seen.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you!

[whiskeychick]

Do androids want to fuck?

That's my question RE: Vickers.

[greygirlbeast]

Do androids want to fuck?

Well, I don't she wanted to. It was a challenge, and Vickers wasn't the sort to back down from a challenge.

But Vickers was not an android, nor was she a transwoman.

[whiskeychick]

I agree with you. She's not an android, nor was she a transwoman. Just to make that clear.

[greygirlbeast]

Okey dokey.