Monthly Archives: October 2006

“No, I commute” — AS3×2 The Vision Thing

By terje | Published: October 31, 2006
Yay, a good one! This episode is practically thoroughly awesome. There’s Lilah’s plot to use Angel as a pawn, and everything related to that, as a kind of episode-plot, but at the same time, there’s lots of stuff related to the season plot arcs — both the Connor one and the Cordelia one, to [...]
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Decent enough, I guess — AS3×1 Heartthrob

By terje | Published: October 31, 2006
So, I finally got around to starting season 3. And I’m not really impressed. A fairly dull stand-alone, only notable for the second mention and the first meeting with Holtz, as well as the final scene where we get to see Darla again. There’s also some pieces added to the character arcs of Cordelia and Fred, [...]
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Nothing Hill

By terje | Published: October 30, 2006
(Geez, that one was lousy, even by the standards of these necks o’ the woods… ) So, I finally got around to watching “Notting Hill“, one of the most famous romantic comedies of the last decade. (Or so I presume, anyway, I’m not much of an authority on the popularity or quality of romantic [...]
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Back again…

By terje | Published: October 27, 2006
I’d almost forgotten all about how much it hurts to get a partially frozen, horisontally flying snowflake driven into one’s eye with the force of a fresh breeze. So thank you for returning and reminding me, dearest King Winter. Anyway, I’m going away for a couple of days, so there won’t be any new posts here [...]
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It’s kinda obvious that it’s made by the same people who made “West Wing”…

By terje | Published: October 24, 2006
… because seriously, even if Josh hadn’t been there, I’d recognise the way they walk while talking very fast at each other. Awesome first episode, though. I think I’m gonna watch another one; it’s not often that I’m hooked from the first scene… What? What I’m talking about? Why, “Studio 60“, of course. (Godawful title, though. Even worse [...]
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Theories in IR: Reflectivism — lecture #8

By terje | Published: October 24, 2006
“Reflectivism” isn’t an unitary perspective, but its various versions has in common that it can be seen as a kind of opposite to all of the other theoretical schools we’ve discussed this far. By this, we mean that the Reflectivist perspectives centers on ontological and epistemological questions not answered to a satisfactory degree by the [...]
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Ha ha!

By terje | Published: October 24, 2006
If you google for yayz0r, you get a hit on Loki’s Sensible Nonsense already at the first page. And what awaits on the second page? You guessed correctly: Another Loki-hit. Mwahaha! I am contaminating his non-blog with annoying brat-speech! Oh, and I’m changing the name of the category “Yay!” into “yayz000000r” or something moronic like [...]
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The Future — A Pessimist’s View

By terje | Published: October 23, 2006
The pessimistic vision of future world developments: As no one saw the economic advatages to reversing the emissions of climate gasses, global warming was never prevented or diminished in strength. Because of this, the melting of the ice caps continued its slow progress, and sea levels rose. Also, the deforesting of the world continued, due to [...]
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Poor Spike… — BS5×14 Crush

By terje | Published: October 23, 2006
Ah, I love it when writers manage to divide my sympathy between two opposing characters or factions. It’s just so amazingly wonderful when all sympathy isn’t placed with one part while the other is demonised. Of course, in an ideal world, this would have been how all conflicts were described in every form of media, [...]
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Wow, a Spikysode! :o — BS5×7 Fool For Love

By terje | Published: October 23, 2006
Great episode, too. On one hand, you have a really serious and touching plotline in which Buffy seeks the answer to how past Slayers have died, a quest which ends up with her spending an evening with Spike. (And Loki: The scene where he’s picking up the money Buffy threw at him is nothing compared [...]
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