14 Tishrei/2 October, 2009
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bearshortyToday one of my neighbor’s kids, a seven year old girl, stopped by. Mama sometimes babysits her and takes her to swimming practice. The girl wanted to say hi to me and asked me to help her with her homework a little. It was fun to help and it got me out of my house and out of my funk a bit. Somehow hanging out with kids makes me feel like a kid and hers is a fun age. Reminds me of the kids I watched in the summer camps too. I actually felt quite suited for that job, I’m glad that was my first real job. I always wanted to be a teacher, even when I was a kid. I guess I have more patience than I think I have. Just random musings of the day.
Dollhouse. “Instinct” When they showed promos of this episode with the whole “Hand that Rocks the Cradle” feel I didn’t particularly care or look forward to it (at least not until I saw previews of individual scenes). I didn’t think I would like this episode. But it worked well because it had a strong emotional core and for once I bought Echo’s acting. Usually I like other characters more but Echo’s role as a new mother that thought her child was being taken away from her was interesting and very emotional. This episode was written to let us really understand the life of an active, how real the engagement is and how much they experience everything on a deep emotional level. Which leaves the question if the emotional feedback remains after a wipe on some level. Comparing Echo’s situation with Madeline/November who no longer feels sad over her daughter’s death, also raises questions of the long term effects of being wiped and memory vs passing of time. I hope that will be addressed more. But this episode as a whole worked for me more than last week’s engagement.
Exodus WTF moment of the day: I started Exodus last night. This is probably the book of the Bible that I’m most familiar with because of how popular the story is with all movies like “Ten Commandments” and “Prince of Egypt” and recounting the story at Passover Seder every year. But it is interesting to actually read the details. It is astonishing how in one chapter, chapter 2, we go from Moses’ birth to his exile. It is a really short chapter that is cramped with information. The fact that Moses just killed the Egyptian guy who was beating up a Hebrew man is usually glossed over. It is not like Moses lost his temper or was doing it in self defense. The chapter specifically mentions that he looked both ways to make sure no one was around before he killed the guy. He, of course, also runs away after Pharaoh finds out about this and wants to rightfully punish him. Moses also came off as really whinny when God was asking him to return to Egypt and lead the people out for three days to the desert to pray to God. (It wasn’t even specifically about leaving Egypt completely). Moses didn’t like to speak in public and wanted God to least pick a different person to be a spokesman. So God just said, “Fine, your brother Aaron can do it.” So it was actually his brother who was doing all the talking in Egypt, Moses just gets most of the publicity because he has the signs and can turn a staff into a snake. And the fact that Moses even has a brother is a bit shady; obviously the pharaoh just stopped killing male children or something shortly after Moses was born. Maybe the Pharaoh stopped worrying about Israel’s population growing. Tonight’s reading – the plagues.
Dollhouse. “Instinct” When they showed promos of this episode with the whole “Hand that Rocks the Cradle” feel I didn’t particularly care or look forward to it (at least not until I saw previews of individual scenes). I didn’t think I would like this episode. But it worked well because it had a strong emotional core and for once I bought Echo’s acting. Usually I like other characters more but Echo’s role as a new mother that thought her child was being taken away from her was interesting and very emotional. This episode was written to let us really understand the life of an active, how real the engagement is and how much they experience everything on a deep emotional level. Which leaves the question if the emotional feedback remains after a wipe on some level. Comparing Echo’s situation with Madeline/November who no longer feels sad over her daughter’s death, also raises questions of the long term effects of being wiped and memory vs passing of time. I hope that will be addressed more. But this episode as a whole worked for me more than last week’s engagement.
Exodus WTF moment of the day: I started Exodus last night. This is probably the book of the Bible that I’m most familiar with because of how popular the story is with all movies like “Ten Commandments” and “Prince of Egypt” and recounting the story at Passover Seder every year. But it is interesting to actually read the details. It is astonishing how in one chapter, chapter 2, we go from Moses’ birth to his exile. It is a really short chapter that is cramped with information. The fact that Moses just killed the Egyptian guy who was beating up a Hebrew man is usually glossed over. It is not like Moses lost his temper or was doing it in self defense. The chapter specifically mentions that he looked both ways to make sure no one was around before he killed the guy. He, of course, also runs away after Pharaoh finds out about this and wants to rightfully punish him. Moses also came off as really whinny when God was asking him to return to Egypt and lead the people out for three days to the desert to pray to God. (It wasn’t even specifically about leaving Egypt completely). Moses didn’t like to speak in public and wanted God to least pick a different person to be a spokesman. So God just said, “Fine, your brother Aaron can do it.” So it was actually his brother who was doing all the talking in Egypt, Moses just gets most of the publicity because he has the signs and can turn a staff into a snake. And the fact that Moses even has a brother is a bit shady; obviously the pharaoh just stopped killing male children or something shortly after Moses was born. Maybe the Pharaoh stopped worrying about Israel’s population growing. Tonight’s reading – the plagues.
