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bearshorty) wrote2009-10-23 11:32 pm
bearshorty) wrote2009-10-23 11:32 pm
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5 Cheshvan/23 October, 2009
Dollhouse S2E4. This was a Sierra and Topher centered episode and it was quite a good one. It turns out Adele didn’t know that Sierra was coerced into the Dollhouse in that really icky arrangement explored last season. But it didn’t make it easier for her not only not being able to do anything about it but also to have to give Sierra to the creepy client permanently. However, Topher discovered a conscience and restored Sierra to her original Priya persona. That did not go too well either, as Priya went to confront her abductor and ended up killing him. I liked how the show pointed out the horror of that choice too, since the killing scarred Priya (and Topher) and Boyd made Topher deal with the consequences by making Topher cut up the body personally. (Boyd traveling with body dismemberment tools was cool and disturbing at the same time) It was a great episode, an emotional episode, a smart episode and I will miss this show when it will be gone soon. I adored that Victor just sat there waiting for Sierra to come back and that they love is not dependent on memory but on something intrinsic. And the use of art was nicely done. And now we have to wait more than a month for new episodes. At least we should get two in a row for three weeks. Still, Joss needs to work with cable, not network.
Numbers WTF moment of the day: today I finished the last six chapters of Numbers. Numbers 31 was probably the most disturbing passage I’ve read so far. Definitely elicited a WTF reaction. So God tells Moses to take vengeance on Midianites and then he can die. How sweet, a departing present! Nice of Israelite army to kill all Midian men. Well, they did capture the women, the children and the animals and burned all towns and camps. However, Moses was angry at the army for allowing women to live. He told them to kill all the boys and non-virgin women and only to live virgin girls alive. He is blaming the women for corrupting Israelite men previously. There is so much wrong with this Biblical passage. Later there is a recap of the stages of the journey from Egypt. It is a very long list. I do like that God commanded Moses to keep a record. Six towns also serve as refuge to accidental killers where they can hide until their trial or live in general. God is then very specific in his description of what makes a murderer versus accidental killer. It is all about a weapon of choice and intent. That is it for Numbers. The Israelites are at the borders of Canaan, ready to get the land that God promised them from the inhabitants there and already preparing how to partition it. One more book of Torah to go! I’m skipping tomorrow because I’m going to an opera and will probably start the last book on Monday.
I just realized something as I was reading the Bible; I’m more comfortable reading the bible in English (New International Version) from the computer screen than when I read the actual book in Russian. Partly it is a convenience of reading it and writing about it at the same time. Partly it is because some Russian Bible words are Old Russian and harder to understand. But I thought back to my student who finds it easier to read articles online than on the printed page and I realized with a slight shock that I’m more comfortable with reading online than I thought I was.
Numbers WTF moment of the day: today I finished the last six chapters of Numbers. Numbers 31 was probably the most disturbing passage I’ve read so far. Definitely elicited a WTF reaction. So God tells Moses to take vengeance on Midianites and then he can die. How sweet, a departing present! Nice of Israelite army to kill all Midian men. Well, they did capture the women, the children and the animals and burned all towns and camps. However, Moses was angry at the army for allowing women to live. He told them to kill all the boys and non-virgin women and only to live virgin girls alive. He is blaming the women for corrupting Israelite men previously. There is so much wrong with this Biblical passage. Later there is a recap of the stages of the journey from Egypt. It is a very long list. I do like that God commanded Moses to keep a record. Six towns also serve as refuge to accidental killers where they can hide until their trial or live in general. God is then very specific in his description of what makes a murderer versus accidental killer. It is all about a weapon of choice and intent. That is it for Numbers. The Israelites are at the borders of Canaan, ready to get the land that God promised them from the inhabitants there and already preparing how to partition it. One more book of Torah to go! I’m skipping tomorrow because I’m going to an opera and will probably start the last book on Monday.
I just realized something as I was reading the Bible; I’m more comfortable reading the bible in English (New International Version) from the computer screen than when I read the actual book in Russian. Partly it is a convenience of reading it and writing about it at the same time. Partly it is because some Russian Bible words are Old Russian and harder to understand. But I thought back to my student who finds it easier to read articles online than on the printed page and I realized with a slight shock that I’m more comfortable with reading online than I thought I was.