criminal minds, ohmiya of the day and "oh, philosophers!"

[cimorene]

1.

in criminal minds, we met a bank robber on the verge of becoming a serial killer who was acting out mommy issues by forcing bank customers to strip at gunpoint. morgan called garcia "mama" (me: MAMA? wax: as in sexy mama! me: I KNOW), hotch told garcia to "keep it clean" and not call him honey, garcia was wearing animal-print fuzzy platform shoes with a purple top and orange print satin skirt and also was pacing and developing software, morgan got to show off at the crimescene and daddy - i mean gideon got to talk down to the suspects. elle and reid's parts were negligible. and of course, there was the BIG, GLARING introduction to hotch's Family Angst, which is displaying all the early warning signs of becoming a recurring theme or possible a whole subplot. he got irrational about children, he forgot his son was in the hospital and experienced marital strife, and he had a quiet heart-to-heart with daddy about how his job sucks. if the creators of criminal minds are reading my journal? your subplot sucks. it's an old, old subplot and it's got no surprises in store for us. "oh noes! is one of the main characters going to quit his job, leaving the show?" no. he's just going to be a kind of sucky dad, and his wife's apparently pretty naïve about what his job entails.

i was amused that the Villain Cam sort of stutters and jerks around a lot to indicate when the villain whose pov we are sharing is tweaked. thanks, guys. that was handy.

2. this philosophy book keeps cracking me up.

'We have to ask whether the mind of man can have any contact with reality at all, and, if it can, what difference this will make to his life'. [...] [I]t is not an empirical question at all, but a conceptual one. It has to do with the force of the concept of reality. An appeal to the results of an experiment would necessarily beg the important question, since the philosopher would be bound to ask by what token those results themselves are accepted as 'reality'. Of  course, this simply exasperates the experimental scientist -  rightly so, from the point of view of his own aims and interests.

- peter winch, the idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy

3. so then...

wax: and then after that quote you have a picture of two japanese boyband members -
me: yeah, it's not connected.
wax: but perhaps as an illustration.
me: so you're saying one of them represents the human mind and one represents reality, and they can't have contact?
wax: no, this is the - 
me : oh, they're reality and the human mind can't have contact with them?
wax: no, they -
me: oh, they represent the human mind and they can't have contact with reality?
wax: no. they're boyband members so they can't have contact with their own reality. they live in a little constructed reality.

a constructed reality of SPARLKLY and WEE and GAY.

Comments

[perhael.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the first thing that came to my mind was 'tinhats'. It's the combination of rps + inability to connect with reality that does it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

celebrities just WISH they had no contact with tinhats.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

I just wish tinhats had any contact with reality.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i think you just begged a question! uhoh!

[perhael.livejournal.com]

oh, shoot!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

is that hewlett's begging face? but really if you wanted one person to symbolise reality and one to symbolise tinhats, they should never have any contact or even a passing acquaintance, so you couldn't really use two members of arashi. so instead maybe say ohno could be "japan (or japanese people)" and nino could be "crack". as we know, japan and crack are like THIS.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

hahaha, japan/crack otp, for real. and yes, that's hewlett. it's a scene from a movie, and it plays out like this (approximately, i'm too lazy to look up the exact words):

some dude: "hey -david's character-, open your mouth real wide."

david: *looks puzzled, but complies*

some dude: "no, just a little bit wider..."

david: *complies again*

some dude: "great! now you can fit -some other dude-'s dick in there."

david: *snaps mouth shut* "ha ha, very funny."

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

a constructed reality = a pod? :o!!!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

that's more like yet another metaphor for one.