Social Media and Biomimetics BIBLIOGRAPHY, with excerpts
Jan 21, 2015
🔴 A. Poetics
🔴 B. Politics
🔴 C. Neurobiology
🔴 D. Social Media and the Arts
🔴 E. Social Media and Co-Creation
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Jan 21, 2015
🔴 A. Poetics
🔴 B. Politics
🔴 C. Neurobiology
🔴 D. Social Media and the Arts
🔴 E. Social Media and Co-Creation
Continue reading ‘🔴 Biomimetics Bibliography’
For the record, I think Red is straight. I was making a “the case can be made” type of argument.
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I have a copy of the original script for The Blacklist pilot (it precedes even the online version which in turn is not identical to the performance). It has more information on Liz’s youth ➔ but it may be more important to know that they did decide to change certain things: it could mean they definitely are NOT going with these ideas. For instance, they apparently decided to change the time of the fire from when she was 14 to when she was four (or else there were two fires). Obviously, the final production is what matters. But, just fyi: about Liz’s youth, it says [stage directions in parentheses]:
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Great episode. We finally got an answer to Something: Berlin in Zoë’s father. The scene where Zoë told Red about her father doing terrible things was really moving. Red knew he had to deliver her to Berlin to stop the “war” despite what her feelings about it might be, or his own. Best delivered two lines in the episode: “What have you done?” “I’m not going to hurt you.” The words seem pretty plain, – until you see them acted.
So Red is Lizzie’s father (?) based on his discussion first with Zoë and, later, with Berlin – though we’re told it’s still “complicated.” I guess it’s still vaguely possible he’s talking about Jennifer, but we have not even been introduced to her. With Berlin no longer a threat to Lizzie, will Red tell her? Or do other threats remain. Does Lizzie even want to know? There must be a surprise or two planned for next week. (Will Red ask Liz if she likes anchovies?)
The story of ‘what happened to Red’s family’ that Diane Fowler knew about is still unknown. Was the Christmas story with “blood everywhere” true? Where was the fire that burned Lizzie & Red? Why did Red leave his former life? Lots of big questions still. More immediately: who came up with story that Red killed Zoë, and why?
Meanwhile, Samar has become a murderer and Lizzie is considering it.
I will miss The Blacklist while it’s on break very much. Without question, this is the best drama series I have ever seen, and the competition (eg The Sopranos, Homeland, House of Cards, etc), in my view, isn’t even close. Vikings is an exceptional show, but a very different genre. I especially like how the ‘scaffolding’ of the blacklist knits together the episodic procedural elements with the show’s serial mythology. This gives the show a density that magnifies the intensity and authentic feel of the acting. James Spader’s Red is riveting, engaging, seductive & remains deeply mysterious.
Amazon Season 2
251/302 83% 5-star ratings
Amazon Season 1
1715/2061 83% 5-star ratings
[Cross-posted at WSJ Speakeasy]
@Jim @JBlitz The reference to Red graduating the Naval Academy “by the time he was 24″ is in the first 10 minutes of the pilot. In the real world, you can’t graduate ahead of your class.
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I looked up Reddington’s birthday on the on-screen display of the female security guard in the very first scene of the pilot: Feb 7, 1960, same as James Spader (enhanced screenshot: http://bit.ly/1zkNgXZ ). If he “graduated at 24 from the Naval Academy,” that would have been in the spring of 1984 (simple date arithmetic). My husband was on the Honor Committee at West Point and every single time cadets went off base, when they came back they had to sign a statement saying they were “unmarried, … and have no incurred obligations of parenthood” http://1.usa.gov/105GExy. If that signed statement was found to be false, they could be kicked out.
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Why I thought “the girl” could not be Red’s daughter & why that may be wrong (dates, dates, dates):
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2:8 Decembrist: The Warrior Gene & Lizzie’s Mom (11/21/2014)
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