#colin trask

[barokworks]

I work for the President of the United States, Ms. Minogue. I don't work for Hugh Jackman.

[walkin-shxtpost-chick]

Colin Trask the new disaster bi on the scene!

[nichecomicstournament]

The final lineup has been decided! 64 unknowns will compete for the title of "Most Underrated Superhero (or Villain!)" beginning on Sunday!

All matchups will be tagged with #actual polls for easy finding!

Transcript under the cut

Match 1: Kubark vs. Dr. Yahya Badr

Match 2: Fernanda Rodriguez vs. Karla Sofen

Match 3: Martha Johansson vs. Arizona Annie

Match 4: Christopher Kent vs. Jimmy Hudson Jr.

Match 5: John Butcher vs. Theresa “Trixie” Collins

Match 6: Lorena Marquez vs. Henry King Jr.

Match 7: Hobie Brown (prowler) vs. Rose Forrest

Match 8: Matthew Hawk vs. Gavin King

Match 9: Lana Baumgartner vs. Koryak

Match 10: Nathaniel Carver vs. Jules Jourdain

Match 11: Gwen Lou Sabuki vs. Blaine "Kid" Colt

Match 12: Frank Payne/Schlichting vs. ForgetMeNot

Match 13: Toni Monetti vs. Larry Trask

Match 14: Laura Broadbahr vs. Raphael Arce

Match 15: Derek James vs. Mae Kent/matrix

Match 16: Nick Kovak vs. Ren Kemura

Match 17: Johnny Bart vs. Augustus Freeman

Match 18: Brigid O'Reilly vs. shortpack

Match 19: Blindspot (x-men) vs. Robbie Baldwin

Match 20: Joel Weinberg vs. Samuel Chung

Match 21: Lottie Person vs. Jack Ryder

Match 22: Stained Glass Scarlet vs. Sarah Vale

Match 23: Bellona Kinney vs. Steve Harmon

Match 24: Hector Ayala vs. Git Hoskins

Match 25: Maria Aracely Penalba vs. Verity Willis

Match 26: Talia Josephine "TJ" Wagner vs. David Zavimbi

Match 27: Tom Raymond vs. Otis flannegan

Match 28: Chance vs.Tao

Match 29: Karl Valley vs. Colin Wilkes

Match 30: Kristoff Vernard vs. Isabella Ortiz

Match 31: Jennifer Kale vs. Jonas Graymalkin

Match 32: Kahina Eskandari vs. Humberto Lopez

[astra-galaxie]

CC Characters' Headcanons - Suspects/Killers (A-D)

(Excluding main and recurring characters)

Aaron Seabrook

Abbi Absinthe

Abby Lee

Abe Mullins

Abel Dreschner

Abigail Simandl

Abigail Walcott

Abrax Tiakken

Ace Boome

Adaline Galls

Adam Bentley

Adam Enstrom

Adela Zhu

Adelia Baldwin

Adrian Lynn

Adrienna Brassiere

Agatha Christmas

Agent Z

Agnes Leek

Agnes Manners

Agrafena Raskolnikova

Ahmet

Akhen Khaba

Akiko Tanaka

Aicha Ben Malek

Aidan Moran

Alam Somalinggi

Albert Tesla

Alberto "Al" Salucci

Alberto de Medici

Alcott Milton

Alec Howard

Alejandro Pratx

Alex Lange

Alexander Vladinsky

Alexandre Devereaux

Alexis Cardinot

Alfred Lowe

Alfred Ziegler

Alice August

Alice Blick

"Alice Kelly"

Alice Riddel

Allen Muir

Ally Salinger

Alonzo Conte

Amanda Harrison

Amandine Brioche

Amaru Condor

Ambassador Lee

Amelia Bats

Amélie Brassière

Amity Malone

Amrita Kumar

Anakee

Ana Gutierrez

Ana Herdez

Anbu Devanesan

Andre Roche

Andrew Lodge

Andy Mills

Andy Pascal

Angel Martinez

Angie Cortez

Anika Cross

Anir Aznag

Anita Diaz

Anka Wadj

Anna Blanchard

Annabel Leigh

Annabel Stewart

Anne Boleyn

Annette Strong

Annie Schmidt

Anthony Cole

Anuj Ghosh

Anya Ivanova

Aphro-Dyte

April Liu

Archibald Ashworth

Archibald Gilchrist

Archie Rochester

Aristide Akintola

Arsenio Castillo

Arsha Raju

Ash Bison

Ashley Collins

Ashley Howard

Ashton Cooper

Astrid Saucer

Astro Hawtee

Atreba

Aubrey Coprolite

Audrey Scott

Augusta

Aunty Hua

Aurora Dawson

Ava de Paradis

Averly Worthington

Avery Mitchell

Axel Bross

Ayanchin

Ayden Young

Ayush Patil

Azeeb Patel

Bai Bai

Balbina

Balthazar Torres

Barb Bellamy

Barbara Pickley

Bart Williams

Basil Cavendish

Batbayar

Bathsheba

Baxter Fraser

Baxter Trask

Beata Seahorn

Beatrice Vane

Beatriz del Castillo

Beauregard Lomax

Becky Walden

Belinda

Benedetto D'Agostino

Benjamin Fetcher

Benjamin Scott

Bernadine Rochester

Bert Tucker

Beshir

Betty Hawkins

Betty Hugo

Betty Wyatt

Betty-Lou Logan

Bertie Cornman

Biff Wellington

Bill Beatty

Bill Farnham

Billy Thompson

Big Baby

Blair Carpenter

Blaise Studebaker

Blake Cooper

Blake Woodbine

Blind Sen

Bob Levene

Bobby Prince

Bodhi Green

Boris Chiswick

Brad Belinsky

Brad Raybury

Bradley Fields

Brandon Cummings

Brett Darby

Brett Nolan

Brian Chua

Brian MacKenzie

Brice LeBeau

Bridget Baker

Brock Perry

Bron Sklar

Bronwyn Peters

Brooke Chase

Brooke Long

Brother Klaus

Bruce Anderson

Bruno Camper

Brutus

Bryan Vigman

Bubba Wyatt

Bucky Johnson

Bulldog

Butcher Betty

Buyantu

Callum Edwards

Calvin Ono

Camilla Brown

Candy Wu

Captain Clementine

Captain Mambwe

Captain Shafra

Cardinal Cisneros

Cardinal Salieri

Carl Ackerman

Carl Rossa

Carlos Cachorro

Carlton Franklin

Carly Lewis

Carmen Garcia

Carol Blanton

Caroline Fitzgerald

Catastrophe Joan

Catherine Kelly

Cecilia Carson

Cedric Duchateau

Céleste Alouest

Celeste Masters

Celine Dernier

Celine Georges

Cengiz and Zephora

Chad Baker

Chantelle Limousin

Charity and Mercy

Charity Stern

Charlene Cody

Charles Ferrial

Charles Parker

Charles Pilsnerfeld

Charlie Watchbird

Charlotte Fontaine

Charlotte Webb

Charlotte Young

Chelsea Bloom

Chester Holt

Chico Alegria

Chief Medhekar

Chockas D.Lux

Chon Sansurin

Chris McCoy

Christine Ramsgate

Christy Cole

Christy Mathis

Cindy Meyers

Claire Cambridge

Clarence Watts

Clarisse Gold

Claude Lamothe

Claudia Pulchra

Claudio Aguirre

Clay Westwood

Clayton Rose

Cleo Sinclair

Cleopatra

Cliff Montgomery

Clifton Shapiro

Clive Bloom

Clybourn Webster

Coach Kirk

Coco the Magnificent

Cody Mays

Colbie Arbor

Colette

Colette Eckhardt

Colin James

Colin O'Brian

Colin Stokes

Colum O'Callaghan

Constance Bell

Constantin Perrier

Cordelia Putnam

Cornelia Trent

Cosimo Silvestri

Count Blutsauger

Courtney Guerra

Crispin Ruff

Curly Stubbs

Curtis Newman

Cynthia Lane

Cyril Shelwater

Daisy Woods

Damaris Maina

Damien Holder

Dan Scruffinsky

Dana Lopez

Daniel Lambert

Danny Doyle

Danny Gibbs

Danny Moto

Danny Williams

Dara Chey

Darius Wexler

Darren Hong

Dave Simmons

David Jones

David Rosenberg

Deirdre Calhoun

Deki

Delignata

Delores Bower

Delsin Peota

Denise Daniels

Dennis Brown

Dennis Mills

Derek Molina

Derek Stone

Derek Trollope

Dermot McMurphy

Désiré Bower

Desmond Galloway

Diane Parker

Dick Shakespeare

Didier Soucy

Dimitri Balanchine

Dimitrios Moustaki

Dinah Cooper

Dirk Evans

DJ Blood

Dmitri Lermontov

Dolly Darnell

Dolly Hale

Dolores Harper

Dominika Snegurochka

Doña Amarga

Donald Byrd

Donald Hopkins

Donna Walker

Dora Umbright

Doris Black

Dorothy Kix

Dorothy McBain

Douglas Patterson

Dr. Aculus

Dr. Ezekiel Jones

Dr. Jennifer Russo

Dr. Rascher

Dr. Sumati Misra

Dr. Bishop

Drake Ribbs

Druk

Duchess Anastasia

Dudley

Duncan Young

Dwayne Reed

Dwayne Vermont

Dylan Cobbs

[6-and-7]

The Highlanders The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.

Grey, a crooked solicitor who sells prisoners to slavery for transportation in the West Indies, secures the group into his custody. Polly and Kirsty blackmail Ffinch into helping, and the Doctor wins the day by smuggling arms to the Highlanders who are being held on board a stolen ship, the Annabelle.

Grey and the ship's unscrupulous captain, Trask, are overpowered and the vessel is returned to its rightful owner, Willie Mackay, who agrees to take the rebels to safety in France.

The Doctor, Polly and Ben return to the Doctor's TARDIS, where they are joined on their travels by the young piper Jamie McCrimmon.

Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords As Captain Jack comes into the Doctor's life again, the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe. As the last remnants of humanity struggle to reach "Utopia", unknown to all, the Doctor's greatest enemy is about to rise again…

The Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones and Jack Harkness return to present day London, horrified to discover that Prime Minister Harold Saxon is the Master. "Saxon" informs the world about receiving contact from an alien race called the Toclafane. Framed as fugitives, the Doctor, Martha and Jack try to sneak in and stop the Master before he unleashes a wave of terror. But his dark ambitions reach beyond the stars…

One year later, the Saxon Master and the Toclafane are rulers of Earth, which is torn apart by a year of hell. The Tenth Doctor has been aged 900 years, and Jack Harkness and the Jones family have been reduced to slavery on the Master's ship, the Valiant. The only hope for everyone on Earth is Martha Jones, now a legend amongst humanity. As the Master prepares to turn the Earth into a giant warship that will ultimately engulf the rest of the universe, Martha must trek through dangerous territory to destroy him, but tragedy awaits her, the Doctor and her family on the day that will pit humanity against the stars…

[jsgsports]

Another QB list

So I've written up a list of UFL QB's and WR's that should be able to take the leap after the season. However there are a few QB's I would like to see play in the spring.

Kyle Trask: The Buccaneers picked Kyle Trask in the second round of the 2021 draft I assume to replace Tom Brady. He had a better than decent college career especially his last year, throwing for over 4200 yards, 43 touchdowns, and just 8 interceptions. He's a big pocket passer who seemed to be a perfect fit for the job in Tampa Bay after Brady retired. That all changed when Baker Mayfield showed up and beat him out for the job. That's not to say Kyle isn't good, on the contrary I would say its a really good sign that he could compete so closely with Baker considering how good he's been since he won the job. I think Kyle Trask might actually be a hidden gem waiting to be mined, teams just don't know how good he can be in a game situation. So maybe the move is to make a UFL team, get some more in game reps and prove to the league that he deserves another chance to compete for another starting job.

Josh Rosen: Hear me out, if Josh can look good in the spring and somewhat bring his football career back to life, that would be really good for the game. It wouldn't really be a step down for him because I think he's in real estate or something but, he could have a career arc like A.J. McCarron. A.J. was really good for both the XFL and UFL for as long as he played. He elevated the play of both leagues and made them a compelling watch when the NFL season ended (in my opinion). I know Josh Rosen still has enough juice in his arm to at least be as good as A.J., so he should stop selling cars or whatever and get back in the game.

Colin Kaepernick: This is gonna be contraversial but HEAR ME OUT please!! When we talk about Superbowl winning quarterbacks playing in the spring, we're talking about backups. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a back up on a championship team, you are just as much a champion as everyone else on that team starters included. However we know for a fact that they were not the reason their team made it to the big game. If Colin can comeback after not playing football for 7 or 8 years and ball out in the spring that would be incredible for him and the league in my personal opinion. An actual Superbowl caliber quarterback taking snaps for the first time in a long time just to show all the right wingers who talked massive shit about him that he's still got it. I would personally like to see that he still has some juice left in him even at the age of 37, when asked he always says that he is still training and staying in shape so I'd like to see that in action.

[the--highlanders]

the novelisation adds in an extra scene where jamie, alexander, kirsty, and colin get attacked by two redcoats on their way to the cottage and. we have alexander killing one man and attacking another, we have kirsty pulling her father aside, but we never get a description of what jamie does. other than the fact that he stops alexander from chasing after the second redcoat (possibly to their detriment! alexander does make a valid point that he could bring reinforcements)

and I just think it’s interesting that. the highlanders doesn’t exactly shy away from death and dark subjects. the novelisation itself has a somewhat graphic depiction of alexander killing the first redcoat here. but - jamie threatens two, ben, and polly with a knife, sure, says their blood is warm enough to kill them - but we don’t know if he ever would have gone through with it. he doesn’t act at all here, other than to stop alexander killing another man. he stands at the window and stares in horror when alexander eventually dies. he pushes trask overboard during the fight on the ship, but it’s not a death sentence. in amongst everything going on, we never find out if he’s actually capable of killing someone. but I think he /knows/ the answer to that question is no.

which feels significant, given how influential he is on two’s character development, and hence the doctors development as a whole. he’s serving in an army, but he’s a piper, not a soldier. he’s just witnessed a massacre, and knows his life is in danger too, but he won’t kill to protect himself. he calls alexander back from chasing after the redcoat by telling him that his priority should be looking after his injured father. surviving and healing, rather than fighting and dying.

[abackstagefanlover-blog]

Backstage season 1 was really good but bad because Vanessa, Carly, Sasha, and Jenna were breaking apart. Julie got pulled out of Keaton because of  Denzel but Julie came back and forgave him. Scarlett lost he voice and was scheduled to have surgery. Bianca and Jax started to date but Bianca audition for a part in L.A. and Jax was going on tour with kit because she was dj diamondmind but Bianca got news that she didn't get the part. Alya went on tour and came back, Alya and Miles started to go out when she got back. Then Miles and Julie almost kissed when Miles told Alya, Alya broke up with him. That was it for all of them.

[jaxongardner]

Backstage premiered on Disney Channel 1 year ago today! 3/25/16

[michelles-garden-of-evil]

Episode 35 Review: In Which Matt Calls Out Jean Paul

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{ Synopses: Debby Graham | Bryan Gruszka }

{ Screencaps }

Welcome back to Maljardin, the beautiful tropical “paradise” that is, in reality, a deadly prison for the guests of Jean Paul Desmond and his demonic lookalike ancestor Jacques Eloi des Mondes. Tensions mount as more and more characters realize that the island’s multimillionaire owner god refuses to let them escape and pushes for a séance in order to contact his late wife. One, Reverend Matthew Dawson, ex-minister and current stalker of one Holly Marshall, has reached the breaking point and now dares challenge Jean Paul.

Now, I know that I briefly compared and contrasted Matt with Reverend Trask (specifically, the second Reverend Trask) from Dark Shadows in my Episode 10 review last year. There are a handful of similarities--including both running boarding schools of questionable ethics (which I forgot to list in that review)--but they remain characters with fundamentally different personalities at their cores. In spite of this, Matt does share one of the favorite hobbies of the men of the Trask family: YELLING in an exaggerated Mid-Atlantic accent in long and emotional speeches! That’s what happens for a good portion of the episode, and I can’t deny that I find this sort of soap opera shouting match highly entertaining.

We open with Jean Paul descending the Great Hall’s staircase while wearing the Blue Suit of Sexiness, which he will continue to wear for the next few episodes. He sees Matt staring at the portrait of THE DEVIL JACQUES ELOI DES MONDES and asks him if he’s “mesmerized by” him. (How could anyone not be, I wonder, before reminding myself that Matt is straight.)

“It seems everyone is, or at least the evil Raxl fears he’s spreading,” is the Reverend’s response.

“And you?”

“There is evil here, Mr. Desmond, but I don't believe in devils. I attribute it more realistically to a live, active human being.”

And then they exchange pissy faces to dramatic music.

I’ve noted before that I didn’t expect a minister like Matt (especially one who believes in other supernatural phenomena) to admit that he doesn’t believe in devils. Still, even if he did, that’s no guarantee that he would make a distinction between Jean Paul and Jacques or think anything of his sudden switches of personality beyond grief and/or mental illness.

The first shot of the glass-top table set up for the séance. Kind of odd that Jean Paul just happens to have a table with astrological symbols on it just lying around.

Just then, Raxl and Quito enter, and the former announces to Jean Paul, “It is foretold that the Conjure Woman one day will find death on Maljardin!” Jean Paul ignores this and tells Vangie (who also conveniently just entered) that she must hold the séance and he must speak to Erica.

Some Jean Paul crazy eyes. Shades of Gérard “Crazy Eyes” Berner, discussed in this entry.

“Master! In the Temple of the Serpent, the Conjure Woman was told that this séance must not take place! The spirits have spoken!” Raxl protests, but he ignores her. Remember, this is a man who announced three episodes ago that he is willing even to perform blood sacrifices to get his Erica back. He is crazy in love--literally. His obsession with Erica makes Matt’s decision to quit his ministry to stalk Holly seem sane.

“On Maljardin, only I speak!” Jean Paul declares, eyes wide and burning like the blue flames on a gas stove. He uses his “on this island, I am God” tone of voice, but sadly Jacques isn’t cheering him on this time. Speaking of Jacques, he immediately storms over to the portrait and shouts, “I must have contact with my darling!” as though he thinks that Jacques will willingly provide that. Oh, Jean Paul, my sweet summer child, if only you knew that he has no intention of resurrecting your dear, sweet Erica.

Alison arrives just in time to overhear him tell Matt that, as an��“undesirable element that would ensure its failure,” he shouldn’t take part in the séance. He starts to ask Alison to join him, but then decides he would rather make a passive-aggressive comment about how Matt probably doesn’t believe in souls (WTF?), which triggers the following argument:

Jean Paul: "And the theologian, not because he believes in the soul, but because..."   Matt: "Because he is tolerant, Mr. Desmond!" Jean Paul: "Tolerant of what? My madness, perhaps?" Matt: "I did not say that!" Jean Paul: "Are you prepared to face the dead?"

He tries to get Vangie to let him choose who will participate in the séance, but she refuses because she understands spiritualist matters better than he does. (Also, she can teleport to and from Maljardin, so it’s not like she’s trapped on the island like the other guests. This means that she can stand up to Jean Paul without the risk of him imprisoning her.)

Raxl brings up the missing notes about Erica. Alison demands to know how she knows about them, and she claims that she knows because of how often she and Dan discussed them. Raxl accuses Alison of trying to hide the notes in the cove (but why would she store them so far from the lab?). Matt has a point when he says the following line:

I am accused of pushing Holly Marshall down the stairs, Dan Forrest is accused of tampering with the cryonics capsule, Mrs. Marshall is accused of trying to kill her own daughter, and you are accused of concealing Dr. Menkin’s notes that might bring Erica Desmond to life again!...Now, a séance. Who knows what new accusations we will hear and against whom, and I wonder who will make them?

Raxl, Vangie, and Quito visit the temple to pray for the protection of everyone during the séance. This is probably the point where Tarasca would have appeared and vanished for the first time in the original draft, but we may never know for sure. Meanwhile, Jean Paul brags both to Jacques’ portrait and to my hysterical laughter that he is now in full control of himself. Sure, Jan Jean.

I really like this shot of Jean Paul with his arms outstretched in front of Jacques' portrait. Taken out of context, it looks like he’s trying to hug Jacques. "Caressing" evil, indeed.

Matt approaches the stairway to the crypt, but Jean Paul stops him. Matt then remembers that he threatened to kill anyone who trespassed into the crypt, which shocks Alison. “Does it upset you that I want to protect your sister’s return?” he asks her, and this triggers a second, much longer argument between Jean Paul and Matt. As usual with long conversations on this show, I will only include the highlights and summarize the rest.

It starts out with Matt repeating that everyone on Maljardin is Jean Paul’s prisoner. He accuses him of making them all suspect each other as a deliberate act of divide-and-conquer. I think that, in order for that to be true, it would require Jean Paul to be both omniscient and omnipotent, neither of which he is. (Even his hidden camera system only covers certain rooms.) Matt also accuses Raxl and Vangie of “seeking guidance for further accusations,” whatever the hell that means.

“Do you fear to face your judgment day?” Jean Paul asks him, which momentarily shuts him up. He stares at Jean Paul, stunned at the thinly-veiled threat.

Meanwhile in the temple, Raxl and Vangie decide who should and shouldn’t attend the séance. In short, neither Holly nor Dan should attend, but Quito should.

When Raxl asks if Jean Paul should attend, Vangie faints onto the temple floor!

When Matt recovers, he makes a whole list of over-the-top accusations against Jean Paul: "Hear me! Be a little god on your insane Island, manipulate our lives, play games with our reason! Be both judge and jailer! Yes, raise the dead, walk on water! That will be next. Crucify yourself, but remember, you, too, will be judged!"

Matt trying to look intimidating.

Jean Paul (thinking): “Please. When I said I was God on this island, I didn’t mean it in that way.”

You know, Jean Paul’s behavior this week reminds me of someone--and no, I’m not referring to whom you probably think I’m going to. I’m thinking instead of Jerry Layton, the show’s co-creator, producer, and “so-called production expert” who apparently shared some notable personality traits with early Jean Paul. According to the show’s floor director, Bob Wilson:

To be honest with you I always thought, and I’m not the only one who thought this, that the Jean Paul Desmond character was really Jerry Layton.  Oh yes.  He was mad.  He was crazy.  He would rant and rave about the simplest thing.  And we would all stand around and wait until he did his little thing.  And it was almost like an actor taking his lines and just running amok with them.  I recall that--it was very easy to be intimidated by this character.   I remember [technical producer André “Andy” Moujean] and I coming away from that dinner and saying to each other--What are we getting ourselves into?[1]

According to StrangeParadise.net, Layton insisted on running the show on next to no budget, which earned him the nickname “Mickey Mouse” among the production team. There’s a hilarious photo on there of Colin Fox with a Mickey Mouse pin pinned on one of Jean Paul’s dressing gowns and a mischievous smile on his face. There’s also this one in the website’s archive of the wall where John Pashley, one of the cameramen, wrote the comment “While my prose will not compare with Proust, thank f.....g Christ for Mickey Mouse.”[2] Notable examples of Layton’s mismanagement of the show include the lack of air conditioning in the studio while filming in August (as noted in this quote on Fox’s IMDb page) and the grueling schedule for the cast and crew, which Wilson also mentioned in his interview:

We all put in horrendous hours, not only in the production, but in getting the thing together.  ...  There were an awful lot of people who stayed [in Chelsea, at Crawley studios] overnight.  I was not one of them, but I can remember the sound guys staying overnight, trying to meet deadlines, with their effects.  I can remember the lighting guys staying overnight, trying to get the right look on a particular scene. [...] The bus would deliver, say, 25 people, and at night, maybe 17 would go back, because the other people were staying overnight to try to make deadlines.[3]

Despite these similarities, however, I doubt that Jean Paul is based on Jerry Layton. First, there is no evidence that Ian Martin actually ever visited the set, despite his position as headwriter. In fact, according to Wilson, he never did:

SRS: I was curious whether you ever met Ian Martin--he was the guy who wrote the first seven or eight weeks.

BW: I did not. To the best of my knowledge, I don’t believe--which is an unbelievable statement to make, but I’m pretty sure I’m right in saying this--I do not believe that any of the writers ever attended a production meeting, when we were at the studio. Now if Ian Martin was there, it would have been fleetingly, and he was the initial writer. The reason I’m even bringing this up is it was the bane of the actors’ existence that this didn’t happen. Many times they would say, “How can this guy continue writing [the show]--he hasn’t even been here to see, to get the feel of the set, of the ambience...”

SRS: He was writing it, but you were taping at that point well in advance of the broadcast--I see on this plan [of the set, which BW had] here, there’s a date--”August 11, ’69, programs number 2 and 3”--I’m taking from this that the original production of the actual show began in August of ’69. I don’t believe it began running on Canadian television until October of ’69.

BW: That would be correct.

SRS: So Mr. Martin is happily writing his scripts, but he’s not viewing any of the episodes... So he’s just spinning it off in his little room.

BW: Which was a sin, because we could feel the way it should have gone, we could feel where it could go--we weren’t writers, and when I say “we” I include cast and crew, because we were a family, we were very much a family.  ... Had any one of the writers, Ian Martin or any one of the writers after that come out and even just spent some time, it would have paid so many dividends. As I say, I stand to be corrected, but to the best of my knowledge, that never took place.[4]

Second, such megalomaniacal types tend not to have a sense of humor regarding their own shortcomings. If Layton had even suspected that Jean Paul was supposed to represent him (assuming that he behaved as Wilson claims he did), I think that he would have insisted on changing his characterization earlier on. Most likely, Jean Paul’s characterization derives from the archetype of the Byronic lord of the manor, an extremely popular character trope in Gothic literature. Examples include Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre, Nicholas van Ryn from Dragonwyck, and (eventually) Richard Morgan from Martin’s 1979 novel Shadow Over Seventh Heaven. Despite this, I have to wonder if, when the actors were rehearsing this script, they were thinking of Mickey Mouse and his own so-called production expertise and putting their feelings about him into it.

Some delicious Raxl scenery-chewing in the Not-So-Hidden Temple after Vangie faints. “It is the prophecy,” she recalls in reference to Vangie’s prediction that she will die on Maljardin. “MUST IT BE NOW?”

Returning to our recap, Alison tries to shut Matt up because “Jean Paul is under a strain,” but he won’t have it. He proceeds to criticize Jean Paul to his face, and one has to wonder if some of these lines reminded Dan MacDonald of Mickey Mouse:

Why is it that no one’s feelings are to be considered, only his? There is no one, it seems, in all the world that has ever suffered except Jean Paul Desmond! No one has ever lost a loved one, only Jean Paul Desmond and his unique sorrow for his beloved Erica!

Colin Fox doing some literal backacting.

Jean Paul getting pissy.

We wondered whether we had seen him change into another man, one man one moment, another man the next! Now we are seeing the real man…A man who ignores the suffering of others, who is indifferent to the pain he inflicts upon them, who is willing to imprison them for all their lives for the sake of an impossible experiment in bringing back the dead, in getting what he wants because he suffers, because he is willing to punish the whole world in order to get what he wants out of blind selfishness masquerading as strength, this selfish thing! So great is his love of himself, which he calls love for his dear Erica!

 For the most part, he’s right about Jean Paul, save for the part about him being indifferent to others’ suffering. He’s indifferent to the detained guests’ wishes to escape the island, yes, but not to Alison’s mourning of her sister or Holly’s of her father. He just doesn’t want the tabloid press to find out about the cryonics situation and spread scandalous rumors (or, perhaps, a scandalous truth) about him and Erica. Matt thinks that the whole cryonics experiment is just as blasphemous and ridiculous as Jean Paul’s insistence that he is God on his island.

Jean Paul’s anger is so intense that it’s starting to mess up his shellacked hairdo.

Now it’s Jean Paul’s turn to fling accusations at him: "I did not pursue a young girl in the name of God and good works. I did not beset and harass a mere child out of a sick desire. And I did not strike the girl unseen and secretly fling her down the stairs because she knew, knew what you were!" A reminder: Holly is almost twenty-one, and yet Jean Paul refers to her as not just a child, but a young one. The way the characters keep talking about Holly like she’s seventeen is just baffling. Like I’ve said before, Matt’s attraction to Holly is already creepy enough without those kinds of implications, simply because of the former captor/former captive power dynamics involved.

Just after Jean Paul says that he is responsible for everyone on the island, Quito arrives, carrying Vangie. “Your responsibilities grow,” Matt tells him. “Now you have the soul [line flub for “blood?”] of Evangeline Abbott on your hands.” However, it turns out he spoke too soon, for Vangie soon recovers, albeit with a vision of death!

“Jean Paul, I saw death!” she says upon recovering. “The death I saw was not my own ending. A figure--it wasn’t clear.” And then she points to Jacques’ portrait and shouts, “That man! The Devil!”

This leads Alison to beg Jean Paul to cancel the séance. Jean Paul is surprised that "now the scientist believes in the devil." Jean Paul, being extremely stubborn, insists again on going through with the séance. But what unholy death and destruction will this séance wreak on Maljardin?

Jean Paul sitting down at the séance table during the credits.

Coming up next: The séance and a return to the YouTube episodes. (Am I the only one who’s been missing the ridiculous automatic captions? I hope not.) Shortly after that, the next part of my review of Shadow Over Seventh Heaven, which I would have posted before this one, but I was so much farther along with this one that I decided to post it first.

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Notes

[1] Bob Wilson, interview with S. R. Shutt, Ottawa, October 15, 2002. Wilson is also the one who called Layton the “so-called production expert,” which reminds me of David Benioff, the “so-called production expert” behind Game of Thrones whose mismanagement of that series is well-documented on the YouTube channel The Dragon Demands. In a sense, Benioff and Weiss wrote it like a soap opera, changing characterizations and ���subverting expectations” at will with random plot twists--which is fine until you remember that they were running a high-budget adaptation of an unfinished book series.

[2] Another funny photo of the wall can be found here, On this one, someone dubbed the show “Canada’s own all-American T.V. series!” and used the Mark of Death (from a future storyline--not saying any more about it until later) as an unofficial logo.

[3] Wilson.

[4] Ibid.

[myeyesareopenbuticannotsee]

Episode 11: Courtyard Hip-Hop Flash Mob

[asfaltics]

tackings

  water; this caused me to tack about immediately, and change my design         1 with me tacking the care of... tacking the whole         2   finds me tacking naught. Blinded         3 when it reached me, tacking gracefully, and came         4   r y, LINE TO ME TACKING 1 » t*» •» i a 1 c» S 3 3 O s o 100** -i z " 3 5 l~~ * c* $ z fli.         5   wind caused me to tack towards Porama. Thus I landed         6 me, tacking on to it parts of... speech         7   me, tacking me         8 me, tacking on a shoe ; of course,         9   rather late in the day, found me tacking up the Bure         10 says he can see me tacking No. 14 silk on my sieves         11  

reads, OCR misreads, side-reads — sources

1 ex Jean de La Roque (1661-1745 *), A Voyage to Arabia the Happy, By the Way of the Eastern Ocean, and the Streights of the Red-Sea, Perform’d by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together With a particular Relation of a Journey from the Port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second Expedition, A.D. 1711, 1712, 1713. Also, An Account of the Coffee-Tree and its Fruit... (London, 1730): 59 his Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse (1716), Englished 2 ex deed of Goodman Andruss, tanner (narrated; signed by a mark and dated January 4, 1717) in Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut; The Original Township embracing present Watertown and Plymouth, and parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck. With an appendix of biography, genealogy and statistics. (1858): 133 3 OCR misread of “me lacking naught” “Mutual Blindness” by C. A. C. H. in Godey’s Magazine (Philadelphia; September 1870): 228 (snippet only) see entire in different copy/scan, 228 4 ex “A Catamaran cutter – a queer craft coursing a North-Western prairie” in Farm Implement News (December 8, 1892): 24 5 ex snippet, dramatically inventive OCR misread of text (at 90ºcw), in chart showing naval evolutions during the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, February 14, 1797, in Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812 (sixth edition, vol. 1 of 2, 1892): (facing) 223 6 ex “Missions of Oceania / Mission of the New Hebrides / Kaina’s Conversion.—His Baptism.—His Zeal and his Self-Sacrifice.” in Annals of the Propagation of the Faith 58 (1895): 299 7 ex J. W. Wilkins, “The International Submarine Telegraph Memorial” (interesting letter to the editor) in The Electrical Journal (November 6, 1896): 59 8 ex (an intelligent and well-composed) letter by John Minot (Portsmouth, April 20, 1725) in William Blake Trask, ed., Letters of Colonel Thomas Westbrook and Others Relative to Indian Affairs in Maine, 1722-1726 (1901): 100 9 ex Colin Harding (Acting-Administrator of North-West Rhodesia, Commandant Barotse Native Police), his In Remotest Barotseland: Being an Account of a Journey of over 8,000 Miles through the Wildest and Remotest Parts of Lewanika’s Empire (1904): 273 whew 10 ex G. F. Bradby, “The Haunted Boat” in The Cornhill Magazine (January 1905): 80-77 (80) 11  “Brain storms are still rampant in this land of ours, even among millers...” American Miller and Processor (November 1, 1912): 892-893

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mindful that few (if any) of these links will work in distant lands

all tagged tack all tagged lack  

[walkin-shxtpost-chick]

So turns out I'll have to watch the residence again because all the Englisch gifs make Colin Trask less bisexual than what he said in my native language..

But the acting delivered either way..

[malicerewatchesdoctorwho]

The Highlanders - Episode Two

Written by – Elwyn Jones and Gerry Davis Director – Hugh David Producer – Innes Lloyd

Episode Two

(“I’m just beginning to enjoy myself!” – The Doctor about being shoved into Inverness gaol surrounded by the sick and dying as a traitor to the throne to Ben and Jamie.)

Likes

- Kirsty going off right after their fight over the ring to see what dropped in the pit and, when realising it was Polly goes to help her (and herself) out afterwards.  She fell in too, because Polly is bigger than her, hah, poor girls.

- The girls making animal sounds to get Ffinch to fall into the trap with them.  Nice. 

- The Doctor putting on the Standard and saying it is nice and warm.  Doctor, that isn’t yours and is trying to be protected.  But i guess you using it like that would definitely keep it safe XD

- Ben, what night exactly is your bath night?  And is it using cold water all the time, or just when you’re not at home.  Also, salt or fresh water?  These are the important questions this episode gives us to ask XD I found this a small, funny Ben moment.

- Oh my God, Polly.  You sweet talking, backstabbing, Lieutenant capturing thief you.  Blackmail your way through the ages, girl.  Hell yes! 

- I don’t know why, but I like Perkins.  He’s just a clerk, really, but he is always there in the background, unless he’s being called for... Yeah.  He’s fun.

- The Doctor just flat out being a badass and taking everyone out of commission.  He’s lying his way into and out of trouble all over the place XD I didn’t particularly like the line he said about not knowing how to use guns and the pistol might go off in Grey’s face much though. 

- The Sergeant sassing Ffinch.  Hahahaha! Yes. 

- The Doctor dressed up as an old woman.

Dislikes

- Kirsty, sweetie, if there are redcoat soldiers sitting right by where you are, don’t talk.  You’re much more likely to be spotted doing that.  Best to be as quiet and silent with your movements as possible.  You should know this already.

- Is Trask supposed to be a pirate?  Or is he just a normal Captain?  Because he sounds like a pirate.  I don’t think this is a particularly good pirate story.  Just no on Trask.  And speaking of...

- Did...did Trask say that he was interested in Grey sexually while he is tied up and barely able to move while being gagged in a cupboard?   He called Grey a pretty sight like that. Just...do we need more rapists in this show?  This one going after men. 

Awesome

We don’t really get to see the Annabelle at all in the telesnaps, but I have no doubt I would enjoy the set for the ship.

I DO oddly like he rowboat though. 

Grey’s office.  I think it’s a great little set.

The clothes of Ffinch. I just really like his uniform, lol.

Shitty

It’s missing.

We don’t get a good look at the Annabelle.

The telesnaps aren’t the best in the recon I am watching.  

In Conclusion

That first episode was horrible to try and watch with the recons.  This one, even with the horrid recons was a blast.  It’s fun.  The characters are all different and interesting.  I like how Polly totally gets a great moment to shine in this story after being separated from the boys.  She isn’t going to be a damsel in distress waiting for the knight to come save her.  She is going to save herself by blackmailing the ‘knight’ to get her out and leaving him trapped in her place XD

Kirsty didn’t have a lot to do and at least the Laird this episode is supposed to only moan and not be talking.  He didn’t bother me this episode.

One thing I don’t like is how I can’t really tell who Colin is.  I mean, I know who his character is, but I have no idea what he looks like or when he is speaking. 

And, if you couldn’t guess already... I really don’t like Trask.  I will never not see him as a rapist after what he said about Grey being tied up in the cupboard... Nope.  Ben and Jamie are with that man and a body was just pushed off the plank.  I fear for them.

All up though, this episode is fun and I wish I could see it in motion, because it would be so much greater.

Body count – 1.  That guy who was pushed from the plank.  I think his name was Jebb?  Have no idea how he died, but my guess is overwork, murder or illness.  Any of them seem likely.  It is a slave ship, after all.  He was used as an example of the only way you get off that ship with Trask being her Captain *shudders*

[chlostertalks]

Big 3 at NABJ

This time last week, I was gearing up for a fun afternoon during the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention in Miami, Florida.

Okay, it was in Aventura. It was expensive getting around to my favorite spots in South Florida after workshops, but it was still a lot of fun.

My favorite panel was "Big 3 and Diversity with Ice Cube" August 9th. 

In addition to the co-founder of the league and critically-acclaimed artist, the panel featured CubeVision COO and Big 3 Co-Founder Jeff Kwatinetz, Senior ESPN/Undefeated Writer Marc Spears, Atlantic Staff Writer Jemele Hill, and Big 3 Coach and Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Leiberman. The panel was across the street from the convention at AMC Theatres in Aventura Mall.

The panel was about the difference between diversity and inclusion, how the Big 3 approaches both topics, and how the Big 3 looks to disrupt the sports and sports media spaces.

L-R: Jeff Kwatinetz, Nancy Lieberman, Marc Spears, Ice Cube, Jemele Hill. Personal photo. 

Since 2017, the Big 3 has been the premier 3-on-3 basketball league in the United States. It features former NBA players in the most entertaining traveling basketball games around. The league travels to 18 cities during the regular season, and between three and six games are played on one half-court in each city. One of their biggest innovations on the court is the four-point space. There are three circles behind the three-point line where a shot can count for four points.

The Big 3 Court. FOX Sports 1340 AM. 

Ice Cube wants the smartest individuals to join his staff, regardless of background. It's why Amy Trask left the Raiders for this league after 17 years. It's why Clyde Drexler is commissioner. It's why  Lisa Leslie and Julius Erving are among the head coaches in the league. More importantly, all coaches are equally paid.

Cube and Kwatinetz's talks of disrupting spaces was the most fascinating portion of the discussion to me. Kwatinetz brought up the NFL owners' depositions around Colin Kaepernick, and compared the owners' views to the Big 3's views. "What we're doing is scaring people [because] we are empowering athletes," he said. It reminded me so much of what LeBron James and Kevin Durant are trying to do in media, and what Russell Wilson is trying to do as part-owner of a major professional team.

Kwatientz continued on space disruption, this time in sports media. Concerning morning shows, "there's no one talking about what we need to talk about," he said. "If someone can put out a point of view that disrupts corporate greed, that's dangerous power." He even talked about fellow panelist Jemele Hill, who left ESPN after her relationship with the Worldwide Leader was fractured over her tweets directed at President Trump. "Why didn't another network hire Jemele Hill….It's not always racism; they have to go to the convention and have their friends ask them, 'Why did you hire Jemele Hill? Now I gotta hire my Jemele Hill!'"

By allowing athletes to use their voices and platforms to address social injustices, it ultimately puts owners in an uncomfortable position to either listen to their players and enact change, address their players' concerns in broad strokes, or no longer employ them. As co-founders of a league, Cube and Kwatientz want to enact change as one of the fresh, new leagues in the summer season.

However, it was Nancy Leiberman who truly sold me on the Big 3's mission, and got me excited to go to their event the following day at American Airlines Arena. In terms of diversity and inclusion, she compared the two to being asked to the dance vs. having your date dance with you. "If one African-American gets in, and no one after him gets in, we have failed," she noted. To her, the Big 3 is opening doors to minorities and women beyond the court, and keeping the doors open to include more people in the league in playing, coaching, and managing. She also talked in detail about the human element that she gets to see in her players after the game. Her parting words: "We're building a superteam, and we want you to be a part of it."

I had so many takeaways from the panel. How can I diversify my space? How can other leagues, like the WNBA and NWSL, learn from the Big 3 and disrupt the sports media space? I left the panel energized and full of ideas.

First, though, it was time to return to the American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami HEAT, my first network internship, and the night's Big 3 games. It felt so good to be back in the Arena and to see how far I've come; I went from running around the court, scarfing down popcorn at halftime, and gathering audio in the locker room postgame to editing promotions, commercials, and more for one of the largest media companies on earth.

Outside the HEAT locker room. Fun times in the 305! Personal photos. 

Being that my friends, coworkers, and I had press passes, we entered the Arena through the locker room hallway. I actually got to enjoy the walk this time instead of trying to sneak photos as a production intern. I even ran into former HEAT player Willie Reed and his family. He looked so familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it until I reached my seat.

The Big 3 matchups that night were 3-Headed Monsters vs. Enemies, Power vs. Tri-State, and Ghost Ballers vs. Trilogy. 

There was a lot of energy in the building, and lots of families. The latter is so because the tickets are so affordable; Ice Cube noted at the panel that they wanted to accommodate working-class people, attracting a fan base that can't always afford tickets to NBA games.

Though the Big 3 has a shot clock, there is no game clock. Instead, the first team to 25 points ends the first half, and the first to 50 points ends the game. In fact, when a team scores at least 46 points, the music becomes more dramatic, and the PA announcer alerts the crowd that it's a "Point Game."

The best game was 2018 champion Power against Tri-State. Nancy Leiberman and Dr. J squared off in a coaching battle. It was cool seeing former LSU Tiger Big Baby Davis on defense, but it was most entertaining when he went against Nate Robinson of Tri-State. The two were the Shrek and Donkey duo on the 2010 Boston Celtics that were points away from winning an 18th NBA championship. Here, though, they were rivals. In Point Game, Robinson broke Big Baby's ankles; Big Baby tried redeeming himself after sliding across the floor, but Robinson already rose to take the shot. Big Baby grabbed him midair, but the shot was good! It was worthy of a SportsCenter Top 10 spot. The crowd erupted, and Robinson and his teammates ran around the floor.

Special thanks to NABJ for making connections like these happen. It's having tangible access to and learning from executives and notable figures that make the conference special.

On the court. Personal photo. 

[efrikanengine]

List of Efrika Riders (Axel’s Gang) Members (A-Z, ranks)

President (1): Armstrong, Axel “Chief”

Road Captain (1): Schafter, Tony “Patriot”

Sgt. At Arms (1): Kaviz, Sophia

Secretary (1):  Grau, Fulvey “Fufu”

Treasurers (2): Gryll, Anthony | Hart, Katherine

Enforcers (12): Arlington, Demeter “Acid” |  Aniy, Reid “Chino” | Chitzky, Jane “Jewels” | Colter, Troy “Colt” | Ducatti, Maurice “Maul” | Eastwood, Jonathan “Johnny” | Fujimori, Aki “Fuji” | Le Mans, Yamille “Spagonia Yam” | Oberwich, Hunter | Prince, Anatoliy | Ramirez, Harley | Sokolov, Tuma “Eagle” |

Members/Patched (62): Ach, Tamara “Tammy” | Ackermann, Thomas “Tack” | Acrey, Wesley “Acres” | Ahrendt, Lynn | Amarov, Randall | Bohan, Suro “Trophy” | Bohan, Boro “Tarmac” | Bohan, Taro | Bojanowski, Jack | Boomgarden, Tanya “Boomer” | Bramante, Daniel “Bram” | Brazelton, Tom “Tabby” | Cliffe, Sanford | Corvette, Salvador “Sal” | Corwood, Nigel | Czechowicz, Jakob “Czech” | Davis, Pam | Eisenhardt, Faust | Elk, Moore | Eyre, Jayna “Darling” | Featherstone, Trevor “Tiny” | Fehl, Wellington “Wellie” | Finelli, Pat | Furlong, Jason | Gadberry, Ron “Fancy” | Gallo, Logan | Gilgreath, Martin “Ivy” | Ginyard, Keanu | Gorringe, Terry | Grau, Fibi “Racer” | Grohman, Rat | Hashimoto, Tokage | Hatt, Phil | Hendershott, Sterling | Jackowski, Neil | Jackowski, Gerry | Jonassen, Hadvar “Jon” | Kahr, Boris | Kerrick, Stanley “Mad Dog” | Kozlovsky, Yov “Crazy” | MacGregor, Willy | Marine, Ryker | McClinton, Steve “Cueball” | Na, Xiao “Grim” | Niewiarowski, Aleksander “Polski” | Notch, Bonnie “Smiley Face” | O’Neil, Charles “Charlie” | Racki, Pablo | Redmont, Harry | Remington, William | Renninger, Rosaline “Rose” | Repkovi, Kalari “Viper” | Scarff, Allen “Scarf” | Tackett, Sierra | Tierney, Scott | Trask, Colin | Tomkiewicz, William “Bill” | Vacca, Milo “Farmhand” | Van Liere, Treyard | Vee, Joey | Wesley, Kevin | West, Yanni “Northwest”

Prospects (24): Abernathy, Roland | Akridge, Sven | Arey, Richie | Backe, Corey | Cooke, Francis | Eavey, Sally | Eis, Wyatt | Danley, Owen | Desmond, Monik | Durich, Jakson | Durn, Noah | Dwight, Austin | Emmerson, Patti | Escalante, Patrick | Fann, TJ | Ferris, Alex | Ferris, Dana | Fritz, Michael | Gresley, Evan | Grestin, June | Takashi, Kenji | Thorpe, Catherine | Vienna, Marc | Zentorno, Oliver

    * note that numbers and names are sometimes subject to change owing to deaths, expulsions and/or egressions from the gang.