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al succession wait jesus gets killed that s how it ends seriously the only good thing about this is that some republicans are asking themselves about the future of their party susan collins the tower of jello representing maine said this i think we need to get away from the idea that the republican party is just one person and adherence to just one leader she thinks that s what the gop needs but her comment is a sad example of the very problem republicans are facing instead of addressing the actual issue instead of trying to figure out a viable future direction of the party republicans are concentrating their energy on whether or not they should remain faithful to an unfaithful dishonest failed former president that simply reinforces the notion that they are a party of just one person just one leader without trump the republican party is rudderless without trump there is well nothing don t forget for the first time since 1854 the gop didn t bother to craft a party platform for a presidential 2020 election they basically said their party platform was whatever trump wanted at any given moment there is no longer any traditionally conservative governing philosophy that unites republicans and shapes their policy positions there is absolutely nothing that moves the gop forward except the entertainment value of owning the libs do they try to regroup if so as what as a traditional center right conservative political party do they gather together and concoct a political party platform do they get caught up in some sort of political mitosis and split into two different political parties do they just continue to drift randomly driven only by opposing whatever democrats propose and the haphazard arbitrary volatile anger and resentment of their base do they organize and morph into a violent guerrilla insurrectionist movement live trump or die i don t have any answers i know what i d like i d like to see the gop reform into a functioning organization with moderate conservative values and policies i can oppose but still understand i d like them to be a traditional loyal opposition party but that seems unlikely hell nothing seems likely no particular possible future seems more likely than any other it all seems pretty aimless and accidental i haven t a clue what comes next but i m genuinely curious and a wee bit fearful posted in politics religious stuff republican fuckwittery 7 replies miss scarlet knows how to wear a hat posted on february 16 2021 by greg reply yesterday i came across a news item wait make that a news item i mean there s news which is information important to me and there s news which is information i might find momentarily interesting like say sports news or religious news or in this case entertainment news yesterday i came across a news item which informed me that the protagonist in a bbc pbs show called and i am not making this up miss scarlet and the duke was patterned after miss elizabeth bennett of pride and prejudice i shouldn t have to tell you that you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire miss bennett i ve always been of the opinion that her keen observational skills coupled with her lively wit and plucky nature would make her an excellent detective so of course i determined to watch the show last night i watched the first episode let me just say this i know miss elizabeth bennett miss bennett is a friend of mine miss eliza scarlet is no miss elizabeth bennett that s not necessarily a bad thing the differences between the two characters are actually important to the narrative miss bennett of course is a gentleman s daughter miss scarlet is the daughter of a police detective in addition miss bennett is the product of the regency era whereas miss scarlet is firmly planted in the victorian finally the pace of miss bennett s life is determined by the rhythms of a rural and village existence miss scarlet lives in london those differences in social class in social status in societal change over time and in environment radically expand the parameters of miss scarlet as a character being a police detective s daughter in victorian london allows the character of miss scarlet access to most of the common tropes of the modern criminal investigation show this is both unfortunate and very convenient it s convenient in that it makes the nature of the show familiar to the viewer it s unfortunate since the viewer knows pretty much what to expect and the first episode of miss scarlet and the duke meets that expectation there s nothing new nothing original nothing surprising basically we have a 21st century woman protagonist set in 19th century london with a nod toward a more historically restrictive patriarchal system in other words we have a generically plucky woman detective who has to 1 strive to be taken seriously 2 overcome obstacles presented by the patriarchy 3 defy gender norms but only to a certain degree and 4 establish her independence that said i think we can all agree that you can t judge a television series on the basis of the first episode or even the second or third but you can i think get some idea of the nature of the show and miss scarlet and the duke gives every impression of being pleasant it wasn t exciting it wasn t intriguing it wasn t compelling it wasn t even particularly interesting it was a mildly entertaining diversion that doesn t require much on the part of the viewer it was pleasant that s not a criticism there s a need for mildly entertaining diversions especially during a pandemic so let s take a look at that first episode warning engage spoiler alert system spoilers follow stop reading if you want to avoid spoilers because it s the first episode a certain amount of narrative has to be spent introducing the characters it opens with eliza being led by a street urchin to an unsavory part of london she s paying the kid to lead her to a dead body not any particularly dead body just a random dead person why so she can investigate something the body appears to be that of a woman we assume to be a one eyed prostitute she is in fact one eyed and a prostitute she is not however dead only drunk as a scene it makes absolutely no sense unless eliza has some sort of necro curious fetish which doesn t seem likely from pbs the point is to show she s eager to prove herself to her father a retired police detective turned private investigator eager but inexperienced and not very competent not only does she not get a dead body she doesn t get her money back from the urchin her father would be horrified but he doesn t learn of the encounter because he s nowhere to be found ooh suspense he s not at his office and his police protégé chief inspector william duke wellington hasn t seen him eliza assumes he s either working a case or drunk he s not he s dead eliza returns home to find a stranger a doctor no less and her dead father in the drawing room this stranger found her father dead and apparently brought his body home i suspect in a later episode we ll learn there s something odd about her father s death because that s how the mystery story universe works possibly the doctor is involved the mystery story universe is predictable before she can even begin to mourn eliza encounters a prospective client looking for her father needing the money she lies to him telling him her father will accept the case this is where the actual plot begins oh lawdy the plot let s dispense with the plot as quickly as possible it s convoluted and the least interesting thing about the first episode the client a man dying of some undisclosed illness is looking for his estranged niece tilly his last living relative she married unwisely and was cast off by the family now that he s dying and has an estate to dispose of he wants to find her again eliza finds tilly working as the human target for a knife throwing act in an unsavory dance hall in soho tilly confesses her uncle was right her husband a once widowed actor was only interested in her uncle s fortune when he learned she was disowned he disappeared she s willing to meet and reconcile with her dying uncle case closed no of course not the dying uncle turns out to be and again i m not making this up tilly s husband in a fake beard he d learned of the uncle s death and as her husband in victorian england he basically has control of the estate she inherited he has the estate but he has no need of a wife and yet he decides for reasons that he must find her does he return to soho where he left her no does he look for her no instead he puts on a disguise and hires somebody to find her does that make any sense no doesn t matter when eliza brings tilly and her husband together he removes his disguise calls in a pair of ruffians and has ivy hauled off to be committed which allows him to control the estate he s already controlling i know i know just go along with this the husband pays eliza her fee she feels awful girls have all these emotions so she decides for reasons to investigate the husband s first marriage she discovers his first wife wasn t actually dead gasp this makes him a bigamist eliza threatens him with arrest he threatens to strangle her but she s had a maid lace his tea with laudanum knocking him out she then calls her friend chief inspector duke wellington who arrests the husband and chides eliza for being a girl doing police work why didn t eliza simply notify duke of the husband s crime and let the police arrest him avoiding the need to 1 risk her life and 2 spike the man s tea with drugs reasons that s why tilly is released from wherever she was committed to and everybody is happy except the duke who insists eliza shouldn t investigate anything because she s a girl the end this sounds painfully bad and it would be if you were only interested in the plot or in the characters but miss scarlet and the duke is meant to be a confection it s a teacake not a meal it s a show about miss scarlet s costumes and men with precise beards wearing bowler hats and long coats it s about stage sets depicting victorian london the drawing rooms the taverns the bawdy houses it s not meant to make you think oh miss scarlet takes on the patriarchy in a variety of non threatening ways she mocks the men for being protective and condescending she out thinks them she finds a way around whatever attempts they make to keep her docile and biddable the viewer understands that the patriarchy is awful but isn t it cute and clever how eliza gets around it only two scenes were potentially interesting potentially dramatic eliza in her search for tilly encounters moses the black man who protects the women who work in the dance hall there s something awkward about the only person of color in the show being a criminal but eliza wants information about tilly moses wants a bribe she pays the bribe he takes her coin purse when he refuses to return the purse eliza flirts with him miss elizabeth bennett would have vapors when moses responds eliza quickly handcuffs him to a rail a tangent ratchet cuffs weren t invented until the early 20th century she then threatens to burn him alive unless he 1 returns the money and 2 tells her where to find tilly the second scene was momentarily very distressing eliza is arrested during a raid on the dance hall where tilly is employed three men take her by force to a room with an exam table and are apparently about to inspect her to see if she has a venereal disease for a brief moment there was nothing amusing or sugary about the show eliza quickly defuses the situation by claiming to be the preferred prostitute of chief inspector wellington who then rescues her what was potentially traumatic and horrifying becomes somewhat comedic eliza is completely unfazed by that sexual assault is miss scarlet and the duke a good show not by most pbs standards is it worth watching it s a nice diversion i ll watch the next episode if only for the set design and the costumes miss scarlet knows how to wear a hat posted in stuff i saw on television stuff i think about leave a reply monkey s paw impeachment moment posted on february 14 2021 by greg 7 at the beginning of the 20th century w w jacobs a former post office clerk turned short story writer published an anthology of his work the lady of the barge it was a collection of three types of stories the misadventures of sailors ashore celebrations of artful dodgers in slow witted villages and what were called tales of the macabre included in the collection was the monkey s paw it s the story of the white family mr and mrs white and their son herbert who receive a visit from sergeant major morris a villager who d recently returned after 21 years spent in the british army in india morris regales them with tales of wild scenes and doughty deeds of wars and plagues and strange peoples mr white had heard something about a mummified monkey s paw it had a spell put on it by an old fakir said the sergeant major a very holy man he wanted to show that fate ruled people s lives and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow he put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it morris tells how he d obtained the paw from its original owner i don t know what his first two wishes were but the third was for death he refuses to discuss his own wishes but suddenly throws the paw into the white s fireplace mr white retrieves it over the sergeant major s objections later herbert encourages his father to use the paw and make a wish mr white wishes for 200 pounds the amount needed to pay of their home the following day herbert goes to work at the nearby factory the wish of the night before is forgotten that evening a man from the factory arrives with the unfortunate news herbert was caught in the machinery and killed the factory admit no liability at all but in consideration of your son s services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation it s 200 pounds of course he has been dead ten days and besides he i would not tell you else but i could only recognize him by his clothing if he was too terrible for you to see then how now ten days later after the funeral mrs white insists her husband use the monkey s paw to wish our boy alive again he s reluctant but eventually gives in later that night there s a knock at the door mrs white wants to answer it her husband resists she breaks away from him he finds the monkey s paw and frantically breathed his third and last wish the knocking stops mrs white opens the door a cold wind rushed up the staircase and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side and then to the gate beyond the street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road why am i telling you about this 120 year old story because yesterday the house impeachment managers had a monkey s paw moment they wished for the power to call witnesses and that wish was granted but the wish came 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