#Clone of Samantha

[ramboss]

Fans went Awestruck by seeing Pavithra Lakshmi as Clone of Samantha

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Ark S02E07 It Can't Be True.

[seithr]

ok ok when you meet traynor again on the way to the normandy/clone chase to the deck. Shepclone coldly broke up with and fired her for fraternizing with an officer so she's confused/angry/stammering but Shepard (para interrupt) kisses her to tell her 'it's me'

ok

alright im good ok 🫡👍 the,

[lesbians4scully]

colony and endgame are such a fuckin MENTAL pair of episodes. theyre so good it goes so fast LMAOOO

[archivyrep]

Archivists on the Issues: Classified Records, Archives, and Fictional Depictions [Part 2]

Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Today’s post comes from Burkely Hermann (me), Metadata Librarian for the National Security Archive and current I&A Blog Coordinator. There will be spoilers for each of the books, animated series, films, and other media he will be discussing. This was originally published on February 7, 2023 on the Issues & Advocacy WordPress blog.

continued from part 1

In the episode "The Underground Tennis Tournament: The Campbelldon", Loid examines a file of his target, a man named Cavi Campbell, who has a painting in the basement of his mansion. As the story goes, the painting was originally owned by a general who had compiled a dossier of explosive top secret information which could tip the scales and cause possible cause military conflict if revealed, and the painting has a code revealing the dossier's location.

Classified records have often been depicted in popular culture. For instance, there is an episode of The Crown about classified records showing Duke Edward VIII collaborating with Nazis. Such records are also major part of the Spy x Family series. The protagonist, Twilight (voiced by Takuya Eguchi), poses as a father named Loid Forger, with a wife and child. He is tasked with a secret mission  to keep two countries from beginning a war. As a result, he is often passed information through a network of informants, spies, and others, or is given mission briefings by dedicated agents. The information he receives often includes classified records. Another pertinent example is the 13-episode anime, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. In one episode, "Deep Sea Secret", the protagonist, Ledo (voiced by Kaito Ishikawa), demands declassification of the record. What he learns causes an epiphany. It results in him questioning what he thought about the world and his life's purpose, causing a mental breakdown of sorts.

There are other examples, apart from the tongue-and-cheek U.S. Navy recording studio named "Classified Records" in The Simpsons, which included subliminal messages in their songs which encouraged people to join the Navy. For instance, classified archives of the CIA are shown in an episode of the TV series, Alias. Furthermore, classified, and restricted, records are a major part of the animated adventure series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which has many archivy themes. In one episode, Mara, the previous She-Ra, learns that the Heart of Etheria project is classified, with Light Hope worrying about information being accidentally shared with Madame Razz. In many others, records are only accessible when specific words are spoken, or specific people are detected by computer systems. The same could be said about the records inside the data archives of the World Organization Of Human Protection which is shown in the Totally Spies! episode "The Yuck Factor", or the "healing center" for Pearls known as The Reef, which is a structure used to create, repair, or modify Pearls, shown in the Steven Universe Future episode "Volleyball". Both undoubtedly contain restricted or classified records.

In Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, two animated series, there are records which can only be accessed through magic or other means. As such, they are classified, as a result. Accessing secret, and classified, records is a major plot point for live-action films such as Sneakers (1992), The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and My Fellow Americans (1996). In other cases, like in Joker (2009), the records are even stolen. In the latter film, the records clerk is implied as an impediment to protagonist Arthur Fleck, as are the bureaucratic requirements which require a signature from Fleck's mother, before he can take the file.

Samantha "Sam" Cross, a certified archivist who was part of the SAA Issues & Advocacy News Monitoring Team in 2018, has highlighted this on her blog, Pop Archives. She notes Carol Danvers (later becoming Captain Marvel) examining likely classified information in Captain Marvel and Loki trying to use his manipulation and charm in the Loki TV series to get classified files from a female character credited as an archivist. She also writes about a character in the Danganronpa game, Byakuya, who "read and study the classified information" in an archives-like room and states that many of the documents shown in Federal Bureau of Control, in the video game Control, are redacted, and classified. [7]

Other pop cultural critics in the library and information field note other examples. For instance, librarian Jennifer Snoek-Brown, known as the creator of the site Reel Librarians and real-life librarian at Tacoma Community College, noted classified records featured in Rollerball (1975), Soylent Green (1973), and likely ones in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). [8] Elsewhere on her blog, she pointed out similar themes in Mercury Rising (1998) and WarGames (1983).

The over twenty popular culture examples described in this post only scratch the surface. There are as undoubtedly many more films, comics, and series which featured classified or restricted records. The examples noted in this article do not always feature archives, however, as some creators confuse archives with libraries. To add insult to injury, archivists are often not present, resulting in the characters, who have no archival training, to go through the records themselves. Very few depictions in popular culture reflect the current reality of classified records within archives. Hopefully, this changes in the future.

© 2022-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[7] Cross, Samantha. "Archives in the Movies: Captain Marvel." Pop Archives, Aug. 20, 2021; Cross, Samantha. "Archives in Video Games: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc." Pop Archives, Jan. 19, 2021; Cross, Samantha. "Archives on TV: Loki." Pop Archives, Jun. 24, 2022; Cross, Samantha. "Archives in Video Games: Control." Pop Archives, Aug. 20, 2021.

[8] Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "A round-up of library, archives, and reel librarian scenes in MCU’s Phase Four TV series (so far)." Reel Librarians, Aug. 24, 2022; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reel librarians and archivists in 16 sci-fi films." Reel Librarians, Mar. 11, 2020; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reel librarians in ‘Rollerball’ | Analyzing the 1975 original film and 2002 remake." Reel Librarians, Feb. 1, 2017; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reader poll of runner-ups, Fall 2016: ‘Soylent Green’ and the Books." Reel Librarians, Nov. 30, 2016; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "First impressions: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’." Reel Librarians, Jan. 23, 2012.

[xfiles-vibes]

Kind of relieved that apparently I’m not the only one who wants to write X Files fanfiction about Samantha Mulder, who—despite being Mulder’s main drive to find the truth—only appears in a handful of episodes and 95% of the time she’s a clone with a less-than-great hair situation 😂

LET MY GIRL LIVE!! (And have great hair)

[aquitainequeen]

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

wait i just realized that the whole time Roy (2.0) is being a little twit in season 1 of YJTV, his... not exactly mom but kinda mom???.... is the den mother of the team he turned his back on and is actively betraying beyond his control. why does this seem poetic to me.

[maepolzine]

The Read-Cap: Week of July 20, 2024

Sharing my thoughts on all the books I read in the last week and what I'm planning on reading next.

This week, I was determined to finish off the books on my TBR, as well as the new releases that came out recently. I’m honestly a bit surprised I managed to finish three books, and got halfway through another. If you are new to the Read-Cap this a weekly post I’m doing where I share what I’ve been reading in the last week and what I plan on reading next. If I finish a book and decide not to do a…

[swreactions]

Welcome to Star Wars Reactions!

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“Flash Strike” Discussion

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Rampart

Echo’s escape

Echo and Emerie

Zillo Beast

M-Counts and Omega

Final Reactions

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Psychology Factoid

Star Wars Dad Joke of the Week

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[lohstandfound]

I love Bunny but god if I met anyone like any of those characters in my time as a creative writing student...

[steviesays]

WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE WE DONT KNOW SAMANTHA WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS

[scre6m]

You are a clone of Regina. RENEÉ RAPP & ANGOURIE RICE as REGINA GEORGE & CADY HERON in MEAN GIRLS (2024) dir. Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. 

[clockwards]

random x-files thoughts. love that mulder is genuinely athletic and good at sports it makes chase scenes more realistic to me. also he just dunked on a prisoner so that's a w for him. scully is equally possessive over mulder - he's gone for like two days and she ends up being in contempt of federal court just by refusing to talk about him. both agents are really touchy as a love language and it's very sweet that they trust each other with touch even directly after invasive trauma. skinner and scully's relationship is actually very funny to me. he gets shot and she's the first one that's called. mulder sees samantha in everyone and the clones he finds are not talked about enough. mulder beats up a lot of people and also gets beaten up a lot. little meow meow. scully believes in god but not aliens and that's all mulder can believe in because people have failed him too often for god to be real. queequeg's death was out of hand and i'm sad about it.

[syntax6]

XF rewatch with my husband

We finally made it through the end of the original series. I haven't seen most of these episodes in years–and Seasons 8 & 9 only once at their original airing–so I am surprised to find my opinions really haven't changed. Episodes I loved, I still love. The final three seasons don't do a lot for me, with rare exceptions.

I asked my husband for the episodes he liked best. He named checked the Flukeworm, Squeeze, Pusher, and everything by Darin Morgan. There's a reason we're married. He favors to the MOTW eps over the mytharc, which he never really warmed to. I defended it mutliple times because I still think the early mytharc is pretty fabulous. The Anasazi trilogy is amazing. Scully's abduction. The Samantha clones. Anytime the characters are having to make agonzing choices about their love for each other or the pursuit of the truth, it's story-telling gold.

As a GenXer, my husband likes "Sunshine Days," and I agree it's one of the better episodes from the post-Mulder days. One of the lessons of the XF is indeed about the importance of found family. But this is why it really didn't work very well without Mulder, whose quest for family really drove the series. I liked Doggett and Reyes, but they didn't have the same skin in the game that Mulder and Scully did. Fox kept GA around for Season Nine, but 1013 didn't seem to know what to do with her. The better MOTW eps from this season pretty much ignored her entirely. And I still can't believe they brought Mulder back for the finale only to have a boring two-hour recitation of the series. WTH???

My husband is a completionist, so we'll probably move onto the reunion episodes, most of which I have never seen. To me, though, the XF still ends at "Je Souhaite," with Mulder and Scully having a beer on the couch, the alien invasion still waiting in the wings, but for the moment, both of them fairly happy.

[archivyrep]

"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist": Star Wars and archives in popular culture [Part 1]

On the night of March 11, 2019, partially in preparation for the next week's discussion, on March 27th at 8 PM, of the SNAP (Students and New Archives Professionals), a division of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), which will be on "the representation of archives and archivists in popular culture" I watched Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, a film that came out 17 years ago. The movie itself has the theme of archives throughout at least part of it, as it is a major plot point. I don't wish to tread on the same ground as Samantha Cross, the archivist who combined her passion for pop culture and archives together on POP Archives, who wrote an article about how "two movies in the Star Wars franchise have made use of the archive as an important setting within the narrative" and in doing so "highlighted the importance of archives as institutions of memory and accountability while simultaneously showcasing the shortcomings of archives to protect the people they serve." She also focuses on Rogue One, but I'll talk about that in a later post on here. With that, I'll begin my post in earnest, focusing on the interconnection of archival themes with Star Wars Episode II. All images in this article are used under the fair use exception to U.S. copyright law, as they are used as a means of criticism and education, nothing more.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Archival Stacks WordPress. Originally posted on Aug. 8, 2020.

The first mention of archives in the film is not when Jedi Master Obi-Wan (played by Ewan McGregor) comes to the archives of the Jedi Temple in Coruscant. Rather it is when he talked to his old friend Dex, who owns a small restaurant, complaining that the analysis droids in the archives were no help in identifying the poison dart fired from a bounty hunter, with Dex telling him it is from the cloners on Kamino:

While the photos above are not their whole conversation, the screencaps I show above are the most relevant parts. In fact, there is a deleted scene from the movie, where, according to Wookiepedia (the premier Star Wars encyclopedia), Obi-Wan has "the Kamino saber dart analyzed in the Analysis Rooms in the Jedi Temple," which he considers in some sense to be part of the archives!

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