Rant On!
So, because of the current way we live, Mrs. Andrew and I watch a bit of the TV. We watch NCIS, Blue Bloods, stuff like that. And a lot of educational and murder-death-kill shows. Some movies and such, both ancient and modern (love watching old Fred Astaire movies and such.)
And we have noticed things about dramas lately, really starting around 2015 or so. All the crime dramas, really. Guess who the Big Bad has become? Is it Drug Cartels? Nope. Communist China? Nope. Intercity Gangs of any flavor? Nope. Space Aliens? Nope. Bigfoot? Nope. Bigfoot Space Aliens? Nope. Antifa? Nope. BLM (either the minority group or the Bureau of Land Management who are really evil federal jerks?) Nope. Think of any actual criminal violent group of people who are working hard to destroy the very fabric of our nation and are they the Big Bad? Nope, nope, just nope.
The "SWAT" reboot, "NCIS: Los Angeles," NCIS: New Orleans," "NCIS," all of the "FBI" shows, all have the same Big Bad who are causing fundamental damage and are planning the fundamental rearrangement of this great country.
Uplifted Hamsters or other animals escaped from various labs? Canadians? Cubans? Nope.
White Christians.
Get that?
White Christians.
Who are also assumed to be... Nationalists or Supremacists. Because Christians can't be anything else than Nationalists or Supremacists.
Admittedly, the reboot of "SWAT" was a dog-turd to begin with, but in the greater Los(t) Angeles area, no other problem was as critical as dealing with those crazy White Christians (assumed to beNationalists and/or Supremacists.) Same with "NCIS: Los Angeles," sure, Commie China was a problem, so were drug and human smugglers and traffickers and such, but it was the WCNS that were the real threat to the team and the city and, by inference, the nation as a whole.
Same with NCISNO.
Tried watching some of the FBI shows, and, well, besides badly written, again, WCNS are the uber bad guys.
And now, even the original "NCIS" has fallen upon White Christians as THE WORST PEOPLE EVER, whatever the flavor they are, especially if they believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (and that pesky 2nd Amendment thingy.)
So, because of Loyalty and Stupidity, I'll give NCIS one more chance. And then I'll ditch it like so many other shows. Seriously, every year more and more shows get sent to the trashheap of my tv viewing history and looks like yet another one is joining the pile of jetsam.
It's like the scripts are being written by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is one of the most prejudicial, racist and bigoted organizations I've ever encountered. And after reading their version of various activities taken by people in Florida, in comparison to what actually happened, those yahoos at the SPLC are just lying liars that blatantly lie.
Seriously? My fat fundament is The Most Dangerous Threat to This Great Nation Ever? And, yes, I guess I am a nationalist, as I assume that, overall, the US of A is the Best Nation Ever and I want to keep it The Best Nation Ever. But that's supposed to be evil and bad now.
And it's not just Hollyweird. Our own Federal Government, who is supposed to serve us, has taken the stance all throughout its bloated corpulent pustulant body and all of its squiggly corrupt appendages. Like the military.
Sigh.
I hate being stuck in The Fall of Civilization. Dangit.
Sigh.
Rant over. Dangit.
Sigh.
So... Music.
Because of evil Christian stuff... OOOOHHH (waves evil wiggly fingers at all y'all) Muhahahahaha...
There's this group called GOL (gods of luxury) and they did a piece based upon... The Song of Solomon (you know, from The Old Testament) which, of course , you know will make this piece of music weird. It's electronic, and weird, and I really like it.
And just because ELO is still my favorite...
Lyrics
Hello, how are you? Have you been alright?
Through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights
That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything
If you'd pick up that telephone, yeah yeah yeah
Hey, how you feelin'? Are you still the same?
Don't you realize the things we did, we did
Were all for real, not a dream? And I just can't believe
They've all faded out of view, yeah yeah yeah
Doowop dooby doo doowop, doowah doolang
Blue days, black nights, doowah doolang
I look into the sky
The love you need ain't gonna see you through
And I wonder why
The little things you planned ain't coming true
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Okay, so no one's answering
Well, can't you just let it ring a little longer, longer, longer, longer, oh
I'll just sit tight through shadows of the night
But let it ring for evermore, yeah yeah yeah, oh oh
Doowop dooby doo doowop, doowah doolang
Blue days, black nights, doowah doolang
I look into the sky
The love you need ain't gonna see you through
And I wonder why
The little things you planned ain't coming true
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Oh oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
I reread Screwtape Proposes A Toast again, tonight. Man, that is a scary read. C.S. Lewis was way ahead of his time, with that one!
ReplyDeleteAnd a staunch Christian, which is why his works are being disfavored over a fantasy world created about killing God ("His Dark Materials.")
DeletePretty much most educated English men were way ahead of their times, even that complete socialist fart HG Wells. The parallels of the intense last years of pre-WWII is a heavy undertheme of the whole "Lord of the Rings" books.
The Federalist Papers and other writings of our founding fathers also were way ahead of their times. Some of them are downright scary considering the national socialist government that rules over us now.
Even though they may have the capability of being ahead of their times, the current equivalents of these people have had a major loss of vision or are being hidden by the "Cancel Culture" which dominates our world today. The-Powers-That-Be want us to live in a limited view, neo-Feudalism culture, i.e. The Great Reset.
DeleteYup. I've played, sometimes quite happily, in a pseudo-neo-feudal 'game' called the SCA. Key word is 'play.' The debt-peonage and chattel-slavery that we are heading into by our 'leaders' is nothing more than neo-feudalism, with them at the top and we peons being peed on. Sigh. And with the current state of our education system, all we have produced, for the most part, have been sheeple for the last 40 years or so. Double sigh.
DeleteExcellent rant Beans, stopped watching the iterations of NCIS years ago since I never cared for the copies and ten the original lost original cast members and the replacements went all PC. Hollywood pushing an agenda and plots that could get approved for broadcast. Oho.....ELO! That brings back some memories.
ReplyDeleteYeah, when 'Bishop' came along, the scripts went downhill. But I am one of those extremely loyal ride-the-dead-horse-into-the-ground kind of people. I like 'Ducky' and this new 'white Christian man bad' is pretty much the last straw. I'll see by the next episode. Mrs. Andrew and I have a 'give it three tries rule' for tv shows. Pretty bad that most of the modern dreck doesn't pass one episode.
DeleteSince most of the stuff coming out on TV now is so perverted, we binge watch all the old reruns on Hulu or FreeVee such as Dallas, Little House, Waltons, etc. No woke crap for us! BTW, your ELO song was replaced by another music video by an artist named Ruel (?). Too bad, I would have enjoyed Telephone Line.
ReplyDeleteWe watch a lot of reruns also. And have secured them in a DVD format because some of them are hard to find.
DeleteAnd there were two videos, a weird one by GOL and then an ELO one. I checked both just now and they both play. The GOL one is weird, but I like it. And you can't beat ELO, no matter what OAFS says with his Foo Fighter addiction... :)
Meh.
DeletePeople seem to forget, that all education is a development of religion. I repeat, all. It doesn't matter the skin color, all religion says believe our way. Don't you dare look or think differently. Or do differently. Or the sky monster will squash you. Or some such. And I still remember the adminission of my mother to not tell my grandmother that my wife was Catholic, and she died in the turn of the century. I can see why the writers have a storyline. And a simple one.who espouses the most hate, not the meek, but the Fundy.
ReplyDeleteGood point about religion. It's just Christianity has been replaced by Eco-Greenism and outright socialism by our school systems and media, who treat both as religions. Sigh.
DeleteBeans, I cannot remember the last time I watched a television drama. They are boring and as I get older, lack any sort of the realism of actually getting work done in real life. Sadly, the real world teaches one that problems are not cleverly and easily solved in 45 minutes slices.
ReplyDeleteNice call on Telephone Line.
A well-written script where the continuity of scripts is followed (what happened on EP1 relates to all future scripts, no rewriting history type of thing) is wonderful, made better by excellent actors. Which is why I like/liked NCIS. And Nathan Fallon's "The Rookie." And others. I want to be amused. Though it is a pretty bad thing that I can read a book and watch a show at the same time and follow both.
DeleteThough if a show violates the rules of science and probability and reality (unless it's fantasy, but then it has to follow that 'world's' rules which is why I got to hate practically all the new versions of Star Trek) Mrs. Andrew and I will call Bullscat loudly and shout at the tv. Eh, we're weird that way.
ELO is known for either peppy wonderful music (Mr. Blue Sky) or sad, contemplative music (Telephone Line.) Or at least their middle period albums. The first 2.5 albums? Weird. Some of their later stuff? Rockabilly weirdness. But the middle period, pure gold.
Crusty Old TV Tech here. I concur, modern TV has devolved into a Commie echo chamber. The only thing I watch anymore is ME TV, Cozi TV, etc. and reruns of good stuff. Recorded a lot of it on my hard drive from local TV, I have.
ReplyDeleteAdam 12, Emergency, Dragnet (including the old stuff from the 50's), Kojak ("Greeks don't threaten, we utter prophecies!"), Magnum PI, Hawaii 5-0 (the "Book 'em Dan-o" version). Star Trek TOS, too.
What do they mostly all have in common? A strong central character, and a band of fellows around him, doing what guys do. Evil may keep popping up, but guys like Kojak do not allow it to change their fundamental goodness. They all fight the darkness. Modern TV makes the historically masculine characteristics out to be deviant and evil, so therefore being the unreconstructed traditional ancient guy that I am, I refuse to watch, and watch the above when in the mood for video entertainment.
Yup. I like well written characters, which is why I used to like NCIS. Why I still like "The Rookie" and some other shows. But more and more there's less and less to watch, and it's return to the old shows I never watched or shows I want to watch again.
DeleteHey Beans;
ReplyDeleteYep "White Supremacist" is the uber evvvil on all the shows, I have noticed and they tie in all the militia groups and 2nd amendment and secure border groups. dang echo chamber gets old....Then people wonder why I like older TV shows....at least they spread the villainy around..
The bad people are bad. Mean people are mean. Strong characters are strong. The uber messages were 'Stand on your own two feet and stand up for justice.' Sadly that has become an issue. Sigh.
DeleteI just watched Code 187, MDK last night. Too funny. I'm another cave dweller. No off air for me ever. I watch old stuff and very little new stuff. All these comic book movies are just mental manure. In the 60's, dad told me he like Dragnet and Adam 12 because it was pretty close to the real deal.... everything but the 30 minute time limit. I remember watching MASH in the 70's and I didn't like it much. Since then, there hasn't been much I really wanted to see on TV.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm sure the "as much as lieth within you, live peaceably with all men" is a dangerous ideology. I wonder how long it'll be before the .gov sets fire to DC and blames the Christians for it? Jesus said it: If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
The first years of MASH when it was a comedy and funny were good. Then it became a leftist shouting board and Alan Alda gained more power to control it. Bleh.
DeleteWhat's really funny about Adam 12 is you see all the police moves that are now badthink like restraining someone by rolling them onto their chest and putting a knee in their back. Which is a classic restraint technique. Unless someone (hint, hint) had just taken a lethal dose of 5 different drugs (hint, hint) and other people are trying to stir up the dumb masses (hint, hint, oh, what could I be talking about, hint, hint.)
As to the government? You have been following along with the not-insurrection Jan6 thing, right? Which is all the fault of white Christian MAGA types. So violent and evil that they showed up unarmed and were escorted around after being let in (well, most all, there were a lot of government plants and stooges that acted out when the cameras were on...)
We did a "play" based on MASH is school. We lifted it out of Mad Magazine or Cracked. We had a ball. The TV show just seemed preachy to me. Especially with the token christian being a pencil necked, adulterous, whiner. As far as Adam 12..... One of dad's squad told me some real stories. Like Billy Bad Arsch . Dad had arrested him, was a prosecution witness, and rearrested him after he fouled up again on parole. "I remember you, pig. I'm gonna find your family, sergeant, I'm gonna do THIS to your girls and wife, I'm gonna do THIS to your boys..." Dad walked over and took his cuffs off. The guy looked down at his hands and dad went to work on him. Squadie said it was over in a couple seconds. They cuffed the guy and picked him up and put him in the back seat, unconscious. 1960's were a bit tougher than today. "Stop or I'll shoot" meant stop or get perforated, none of this running s--t. Shotgun squads, wall to wall counseling, city limit conferences. Not at all like today.
Delete.gov / J6? yes, I've been reading up on it. The bell is tolling....
Maybe the funniest opening of "Dragnet" are the expressions when Friday and Gannon are sipping coffee as their shift starts, and they get a call "Grand Theft Real Estate". (Someone had sodded their lawn, and some thieves had rolled it back up over the weekend and carted it away0.
DeleteStopped watching commercial TV quite some time ago. Loved NCIS, until they started shedding characters that I liked and replacing them with those I didn't. I also no longer have the patience for commercials. Too damned woke, too damned self-righteous.
ReplyDeleteNow I pick and choose what I watch via various streaming services.
Ayup. How's the editing going?
DeleteFair point Sarge - Other than if commercial TV is on somewhere I happen to be, there is no way I could watch it- we do not even have any way to get it.
DeleteWe use the cable DVR and record everything. And fast forward past any commercials. Any movies and we'll look for a non-commercial break version.
DeleteThe editing proceeds apace, I'm nearing the 500 pages out of roughly 800 mark.
DeleteHuzzah! On your way to fame and fortune! Huzzah!
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DeleteOur most recent binge was our old DVD collection of the Babylon 5 series and the follow-on Crusade and the various pilots. Gifted writing. Before that, Farscape. Before that, "Pie in the Sky", an old British comedy series about a cop/chef who's trying to retire and open a small cafe. She loves British murder series; I tend to read during those.
ReplyDeleteB5 etal rocks. Peeves me to no end that J. Michael Strazinski is working on rebooting it. Jerk.
DeleteIt's supposedly a different set of stories in the same universe, not a remake or retelling, so given what he did with B5, I'm hoping ... and thinks that's all we'll get.
DeleteI sure hope so. What freaked me out was someone dressed as Londo Molari who wasn't Peter Jurasik. A skinny guy. Looked more like Lord Rifa in Londo's clothes. Weird.
DeleteLove my Roku! Tons of old stuff on there. Been binging on Rat Patrol lately. Lol
ReplyDeleteBeans, have you heard of archive dot org? They have lots of free old timey movies in the public domain, OTR, books, etc. One of favorite sites.
I haven't heard of archive dot org. Thanks, will look it up.
DeleteArchive dot org is also home of the "Wayback machine" where you can find old website content, including probably half of the original Neptunus Lex posts, also a ton of books in .pdf format. Privately funded, and well worth throwing a few loose bucks their way, if able and so inclined.
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I watched HBO's "The Last of Us" - a zombie/virus apocalypse show based on a video game. It's very true to the game apparently, save this one part. There is a villain in the game who led a group of people and kept them fed through cannibalism, which they were not aware of. In the game he was just a bad dude. In the show, he's a religious, bible spouting fanatic who is also a rapist and cannibal. Of COURSE they had to turn the villain into a demented Christian.
ReplyDeleteThey own the airwaves, they make the message.
DeleteWhether they know it or not, all who watch these shows are being brainwashed into believing that White Christians are the evil in the world. I wonder how much help is being given by current or former government workers who were involved in the subtle propaganda that is being spewed by the shows.
DeleteYep. I much prefer the 'evil white Christians' in John Ringo's "The Last Centurion." Good old Southern Baptists. Good book, too. Hate to think of what Hollyweird would do to it if they got their evil satanic clutches on that piece of work. Same with Larry Correia's "Monster Hunter" universe.
DeleteThey (the evil ones) just can't restrain themselves. Like Disney, Netflix and Amazon, well, all the networks, too, gender and racial swapping characters. Sigh. Hate these fallen times. They (the evil ones) won't like it when the tide turns.
Hmmm. my comment went... missing. Oh, well. Yes, evil WCs. Sigh. We can do no good. They (the evil ones) can do no wrong. Sigh.
DeleteWell, I can be satisfied that they'll realize their mistakes sometime, maybe once they cross The Great Divide and meet their true master.
Bill B- Not "all" who watch these shows. Being a white Christian myself, I'm immune.
DeleteHey Beans here we go with a music suggestion again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOsc7EaeBIA Fine lady vocalist called Leah, she has a pretty big catalog.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's good. Kind of like Enya or Seay (new age Celtic-y stuff) singing for Garbage (the progressive heavy metal group). I will forward this to Mrs. Andrew and let her check it out and add it to her play lists.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiwCTqYMVWo
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msD08Pxy9fY
DeleteShe's Canadian and has been called the metal Enya.
DeleteThen here's another one for Mrs. Andrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo This group has been around for 26 years and the lead singer is a super star.
DeleteWhat's really weird is I sent Mrs. Andrew, the household music archivist, the link to LEAH and said just what I said above, Enya meets Garbage. And then she looks up Leah and the wiki page says... the metal Enya. Boy, I can sure call them some days.
DeleteGood post, Beans. Thanks for bringing the obvious out of the dark. Miss Jeanie and I have been watching older stuff on Britbox. The occasional white guy (typically) who works for the CIA, who saves the world from the domino effect of World Communism, gets our time. Curiously, I thought I stopped the domino effect back in the sixties.
ReplyDeleteWe like the older Brit comedies especially. "The Goode Life" about a couple who drop out of the corporate world and start a hobby farm on their city lot was especially good. "Are You Being Served" was another.
DeleteMost US sitcoms aren't comedies, they are badly written indoctrination shows.
I haven't owned a television for several years. Maybe that is why I am still sane. For certain, that is why I'm "ignorant". I can live with that.
ReplyDeleteI so wanted to be able to like Castle but thousand dollar outfits on her with long hair swinging for any perp to grab along with the louie high heels. Nope. Can't do it. Whenever it shows up and I stop to watch a few minutes I immediately start picking it apart. Oh, well back to the food network.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I watch that show more for the clever writing and witty repartee than any real truth.
DeleteWhen we moved to the farm about seven years ago- I dropped DirecTV (and the price increases for the three channels we watch) and took John Prines "Spanish Pipe dream" into action.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the kids who are grown and plums instead of peaches...
https://youtu.be/oPwq0YoOy4g
How the heck did I miss this yesterday?
ReplyDeleteWe were without television for about a year. When we were able to resume watching we eagerly tuned to our favorite shows, one of which was NCIS. We wondered what had happened to it. It just wasn't as good. Now we mostly watch Food Network and sports.
SCA, eh? We did that for about 17 years starting in the late '70s.
We don't watch many tv shows for any number of good reasons. We do watch and enjoy a lot of stuff on netflix and prime. The country is going crazy and it's interesting to watch and observe. I noticed as I drove to work over just the last 3 or 4 years that NPR and the rest of the commentariat simply cannot bring themselves to introduce anybody who is not a dyed in the wool communist as "an extreme right wing" person. I can't really watch or listen to much on tv or radio unless its music or history (not the crap created out of whole clothe by the likes of ken burns.)
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