Showing posts with label The Warrior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Warrior. Show all posts

Sunday 13 August 2017

The Thirteenth Warrior



“It’s not about deserving
It’s about what you believe. 
And I believe in Love.”



Herger the Joyous: 
When they come, we form a circle in the center of the room, backs to one another. 

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: 
I am not a warrior. 

Herger the Joyous: 
Very soon, you will be.



Crom : 
Eye have never prayed 2 U B4. 
Eye have know tongue 4 it. 

No-One, not even U, Will remember if We Were Good Men or Bad. Why We Fought, or Why We Died. 

All that matters is that 2 stood against Many 
When 2 R In Luv.

That's What's Important! 

Valor pleases you, Crom... 

And if You Do Not Listen - 
Then 2HELL With U!



Saxon: 
Listen, me and sis are off now, but we were kind of wondering, what's yer plan, Doc?  



Lady-Version : 
Because whatever you've got, you can't save them. 



Angry-Eyes: 

There's another solar farm five levels above us. 

If I can get all the children up there, and most of the adults...



Saxon 
Then the Cybermen will find them again. 


Angry-Eyes: 
It's the best I can do, so I'm doing it. 
Do you have a problem with that? 


Saxon: 
You can't win. 

Angry-Eyes : 
I know! And?  

Saxon : 
Come on, Lady Version. 
I honestly don't know what you see in him. 


Lady-Version :
Likewise. 

(They walk away.

Angry-Eyes: 
No! No! 
When I say no, you turn back around! 

Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. 

Winning? 

Is that what you think it's about? 

I'm not trying to win. 

I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. 

It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. 

It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. 

I do what I do, because it's right! 

Because it's decent! 

And above all, it's kind. It's just that. 

Just kind. 

If I run away today, good people will die. 

If I stand and fight, some of them might live. 

Maybe not many, maybe not for long. 

Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. 

And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. 

You're going to die too, some day. 
How will that be? 
Have you thought about it? 

What would you die for? 
Who I am is where I stand. 
Where I stand, is where I fall. 

Stand with me. 

These people are terrified. 
Maybe we can help, a little. 
Why not, just at the end, just be kind? 



Saxon: 
See this face? 
Take a good, long look at it. 

This is the face that didn't listen to a word you just said. 

(He walks off

Angry-Eyes: 
Missy. 
Missy. You've changed. I know you have. 
And I know what you're capable of. 
Stand with me. 

It's all I've ever wanted. 

Lady-Version :
Me too. 

But no. Sorry. 

Just, no. 

(she takes his hand

But thanks for trying. 

(Lady-Version leaves)






Saxon: 
How long do I have? 

Lady-Version: 
Oh, I was precise. You'll be able to make it back to your TARDIS, maybe even get a cuppa, although you might leak a little.  

Saxon: 
 And then regenerate into you. 

Lady-Version :
Welcome to the sisterhood. 

Saxon: 
Missy? Seriously, why? 

Lady-Version :
Oh, because he's right. 
Because it's time to stand with him. 

It's where we've always been going, and it's happening now, today. 

It's time to stand with the Doctor. 

Saxon: 
No. Never. 

Missy! I will never stand with the Doctor! 

Lady-Version :
Yes, my dear, you will.  

(So Saxon  zaps her in the back with his triple barrelled sonic whatever.) 

Saxon:
Don't bother trying to regenerate. You got the full blast. 

(They both laugh.

Saxon: 
You see, Missy, this is where we've always been going. 

This is our perfect ending. 

We shoot ourselves in the back

(
The lift doors close and he descends, still chuckling. 

Lady-Version dies amongst the greenery.)




On the morning of 16 October, U.S. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 metre final with a world-record time of 19.83 seconds.

Peter Norman finished second in a time of 20.06 s, after catching and eventually passing U.S. athlete John Carlos at the finish line. Carlos finished in third place in 20.10 s. Norman's time was his all-time personal best and an Australian record that still stands.

After the race, the three athletes went to the medal podium for their medals to be presented by David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter. On the podium, during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", Smith and Carlos famously joined in a Black Power salute. 

This salute was later clarified in Tommie Smith's autobiography as a Human Rights salute, not a Black Power salute.

Norman wore a badge on the podium in support of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR).

 After the final, Carlos and Smith had told Norman what they were planning to do during the ceremony. 
As journalist Martin Flanagan wrote; 

"They asked Norman if he believed in human rights. 
He said he did. 

They asked him if he believed in God. 

Norman, who came from a Salvation Army background, said he believed strongly in God. 

We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat. 

He said, 
'I'll stand with you'." 

Carlos said he expected to see fear in Norman's eyes. He didn't; 

"I saw love."

On the way out to the medal ceremony, Norman saw the OPHR badge being worn by Paul Hoffman, a white member of the US Rowing Team, and asked him if he could wear it.

It was Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his pair in the Olympic Village.

This is the reason for Smith raising his right fist, while Carlos raised his left.

Later career
After the salute, Norman's career suffered greatly

A 2012 CNN profile noted that "he returned home to Australia a pariah, suffering unofficial sanction and ridicule as the Black Power salute's forgotten man. He never ran in the Olympics again."

He was not selected for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 despite turning in adequate times, and was not welcomed even three decades later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Carlos later noted that "If we [Carlos and Smith] were getting beat up, Peter was facing an entire country and suffering alone."

Monday 5 June 2017

A Race of Warriors


Nor Shall My Sword Sleep at my Side...


DOCTOR: 
Well, believe me, I know the Ice Warriors, Jo. 
They're a savage and a warlike race. 
[Usually only with each other.]

No, among the delegates, only Ssorg's strength could have shifted that statue. 

JO: 
I still think you're jumping to conclusions. 


IZLYR:
 Sit down, Princess. 
Why did you try to escape? 


JO: 
I was frightened. 
Can you blame me? 


IZLYR: 
So, Princess, you believe that we tried to kill Arcturus. 


JO: 
Well if you didn't, 
why was the missing servo-unit in your room? 


IZLYR: 
Perhaps you brought it here as part of your scheme to trap us. 


JO: 
But that's just Not True! 
I... One of you must have tried to kill Arcturus. 


IZLYR: 
Nobody tried to kill him. 


JO: 
What? 


IZLYR: 
To destroy Arcturus, 
the helium regenerator must be deactivated. 


JO: 
What about the unit? 


IZLYR: 
Merely sensor equipment. 
Disconnecting that only produces metabolic coma. 


JO: 
So it couldn't be fatal? 


IZLYR: 
Only uncomfortable. 


JO: 
I'm sorry if I might have misjudged you, 
but the Doctor did say you were A Race of Warriors. 
[That isn't quite what he said, now is it...?]


IZLYR: 
We were once, but now we reject violence 
except in self-defence. 


JO: 
What about Ssorg's gun? 
This is supposed to be a peaceful mission. 


IZLYR: 
Unfortunately, in order to preserve Peace, it is necessary to Survive. 


JO: 
Well, if you didn't do it, who did? 
Who could benefit by it? 


IZLYR: 
Perhaps The Doctor will be able to explain.

"Whoever you hate will end up in your Family. 

You don't like Gays? 

You're gonna have a Gay Son

You don't like Puerto Ricans? 

Your daughter's gonna come home with 
'Livin' La Vida Loca!' *

[ * That is one catchy-ass song!  That shit is like the Puerto Rican 'WHOMP! There it Is'..! ]

You hate Warriors - Well, Guess What...?

The Way of The Warrior has been misunderstood 
as a means to kill and destroy others.

Those who seek Competition are making a grave mistake.

To smash, injure or destroy 
is the worst sin a human being can commit.


The real Way of The Warrior is to prevent slaughter - 
it is The Art of Peace, The Power of Love.


Saruman: 
You have fought many wars and slain many Men, Théoden-King, and made peace afterwards. 

Can we not take council together as we once did, my old friend? 

Can we not have peace, you and I?

Théoden: 
We shall have peace. 

We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there! 

We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers, whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead against the Gates of the Hornburg, are avenged! 

When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace!

Saruman: 
Gibbets and crows?! Dotard!
What do you want, Gandalf Greyhame?
 Let me guess - the Keys of Orthanc? 
Or perhaps the Keys of Barad-dûr itself, 
along with 
The Crowns of  Seven Kings 
and the rods of the Five Wizards!

Gandalf the White: 
Your treachery has already cost many lives. 
Thousands more are now at risk.
But you could save them, Saruman. 
You were deep in The Enemy's council.

Saruman: [smiling
So you have come here for information. 
I have some for you.

Something festers in the heart of Middle Earth. 
It Does.]
Something that you have failed to see. 
He Has.]
But the Great Eye has seen it. 

True. ]

Even now, he presses his advantage. 
His attack will come soon. 

True. ]

You are all going to die.

True. But no Today. Today is not a Good Day to Die.]

But you know this, don't you, Gandalf? 

He Does.]

You cannot think that this Ranger will ever sit upon the Throne of Gondor! 

He Does.]

This exile, crept from The Shadows, will never be crowned King! 

Ouch. Wishful Thinking by The White Wizard - Swing & a Miss. ]

Gandalf does not hesitate to sacrifice those closest to him, those he professes to love. 

He Does. But not to excess. And that group of people includes Himself. ]

Tell me, what words of comfort did you give the halfling, before you sent him to his doom? 
The path that you have set him on can only lead to Death.

True. But no Today. It's a Wasting Death. ]

Gimli: 
I've heard enough! 
Shoot him, stick an arrow in his gob!

Gandalf the White: 
No. Come down, Saruman, and your life will be spared.

Saruman: 
Save your pity and your mercy! 
I have no use for it!


Gandalf the White: [sternly]
Saruman! Your staff is broken!

[ And it is. ]

Théoden: 
Gríma! You need not follow him. 
You were not always as you are now. 
You were once a Man of Rohan!
 Come down.


Saruman: 
"A Man of Rohan"?

What is the House of Rohan, but a thatched barn, where brigards drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor with the dogs?! 

[ Currently True. ]

The victory at Helm's Deep does not belong to you, Théoden Horse-Master! 

[ True.]

You are a Lesser Son of Greater Sires!

[ Also True. But irrelevant. ]
[ Arthur was a bastard, born of Lies, Treachery and Rape. ]

Théoden: 
Gríma, come down. 
Be free of him.

Saruman: 
Free?! He will never be free!

Gríma Wormtongue: 
No.

Saruman: 
Get down, cur! 

Gandalf the White: 
Saruman! 
You were deep in The Enemy's council. 
Tell us what you know.

Saruman: 
You withdraw your guard and I will tell you where your doom will be decided. 

I will not be held prisoner here!

[ All True - His Kung-Fu is still The Best. Even with no Rod ]

"Whoever you hate will end up in your Family.