Sunday 6 June 2021

We're Not Programmed -- We're PEOPLE. Understand?



Moon - Truth - Sam talking to Gerty

G.E.R.T.Y :
Hello, Sam. 
Sam, is everything OK?


Sam Bell :
Yeah!
  
Yeah, we had a fight.
Me and the other guy, the other...

He's very angry, you know?  
You know what he did?
  
He flipped my entire model over!  
You know how much work I put into that thing?

  G.E.R.T.Y :
938 hours.

Sam Bell :  
938 hours. Yeah, exactly. 
938 hours, really?

  G.E.R.T.Y :
Approximately.

  Sam Bell :
He's got a problem.
He scares me, G.E.R.T.Y.

G.E.R.T.Y :  
What is it about Sam that scares you?

  Sam Bell :
The Guy flies off the handle.  
I see it now. I see what Tess was talking about.

 
I never told you this, G.E.R.T.Y, but she...
She— She left me. Tess left me.
  
For 6 months. 
She moved back in with her parents.

  G.E.R.T.Y :
I know.

Sam Bell :  
She gave me a second chance.
I promised here that I'd change.

G.E.R.T.Y :
You have changed, Sam.

  Sam Bell :
Hey, G.E.R.T.Y, since I've been up here,
I've sent Tess...
  
I've sent her over a hundred video messages.
  
Where did those messages go?  
Did they ever reach her?

 G.E.R.T.Y : 
Sam, I can only account 
for what occurs on the base.

  Sam Bell :
What about the messages she sent to me?

  G.E.R.T.Y :
Sam, I can only account 
for what occurs on the base.

  Sam Bell :
G.E.R.T.Y... G.E.R.T.Y?
Am I really a clone?

  G.E.R.T.Y :
When you first arrived at Sarang,
there was a small crash.

You woke up in the infirmary. 
You suffered minor brain damage and memory loss.

  
I kept you under observation
and ran some tests.

Sam Bell :  
I remember, yea, 
I remember that...

G.E.R.T.Y :  
Sam, there was no crash.
You were being awakened.


It is Standard Procedure 
for all new clones to be given tests to establish 
mental stability and general physical health.

  
Genetic abnormalities and 
minor duplication errors in the DNA
can have considerable impact on...

  Sam Bell :
What about Tess? 
What about Eve?

G.E.R.T.Y :
They are Memory Implants, Sam.
  
Uploaded, edited memories
of the original Sam Bell.
  
I'm very sorry. 

  
Sam, it's been several hours since your last meal.
Can I prepare you something?

The Succession - Son and Heir

The Succession - Son and Heir

Schizoid Man : Double-Six is Twelve.

 


2 :
It's uncanny. 
Number Twelve has caught his whole style.

106
Village Supervisor,
Officer of The Watch :
In Haiti, we'd say 
He's Stolen His Soul.





The Prisoner 08 - The Schizoid Man from Geoff Geoff on Vimeo.


Mulder and Scully track a series of murders that lead to a home for the mentally ill 

and a clue that makes no sense: 

Each victim has appeared as an apparition in the area where their body was found along with the words 

"She is me".


Shiban was inspired to write the episode based on 

an incident that involved his wife's father 

seeing other beings in a room when he was dying.

He and his future wife 

were visiting her dying father in a hospital. 

According to Shiban, 

his father-in-law 

kept looking around the room, 

as if gazing at other people -- 


However, Shiban and his partner 

were the only visitors in the room. 


Eventually, Shiban's father-in-law asked the two 

who else was in the room

and when they responded 

that only they were visiting him, 

he seemed perplexed 

and kept looking around the room


Shiban began to wonder 

if "a dying person might be able to look through the cracks into the next world",

which he developed into a story about 

a "haunted bowling alley" because "it just seemed right".

 
 The Prisoner Ep. 5 Schizoid (2009)



  Sam Bell :
Where am...
Where am I?

GERTY :
Sam, you're in the infirmary.

You had an accident.
Do you remember what happened?

  Sam Bell :
No, I don't...
I don't remember a thing.

  
Do you remember me?

  Sam Bell :
Yeah, of course I remember you, Gerty.

  
That's good. That is very good.
It's nice to see you awake again.

  
I'd like to keep you under observation
here in the infirmary for a few days...
And run some tests.

  Sam Bell :
How long have I been out?

  
Not long, Sam.
Go back to sleep.

Sam Bell :
OK, pal.


You're still very tired.
We can talk later.

  
******

Sam Bell :
Hello?

  
(Distant conversation)
[Gerty]: 
The new Sam is in reworking order.
 
But we only have two
working harvesters now.

  
[Overmeyers]
(sarcastically)
Yeah, well,what a surprise!

  
[Thompson]: 
Gerty, we're going to have to
find a way to ramp up production.

  
[Gerty]: 
I know.

  
[Overmeyers]: 
This is incredible!
But how do you manage to destroy
a fucking rover, a harvester and
an employee all on the same day?

  
These were extraordinary
circumstances, as you know.

  
[Thompson]:
Gerty, what is the status on Harvester 3?

  
How do the repairs look on... (stopped)
Sam, you're out of bed.

Sam Bell :
Yeah.
I wanted to stretch my legs a bit.
Who was that?

  
We've been having some problems
with the Lunar-Sat...
And our live feed seems to be down.

  
I was recording a video-message for Central...
Updating them on your progress.

  
Sam, you need to stay in bed.
You're not ready to walk around yet.

  Sam Bell :
Can you bring me my sunglasses?
It's really bright in here.

Give me some...
Give me all my stuff, you know?

  
Your belongings are in your quarters, Sam.

  
- Well, bring them in here.
- Certainly.

*****
  
Excellent, Sam.

  

Sam Bell :
What...When can I get out of here, Gerty?

  
Sam, you may have suffered
from brain damage in the crash.


This would explain your slight memory loss 
and logic impairment.

  
So what's the diagnosis?
When can I get back to work?

  
Central has asked me to slow down the harvesters to ensure you have time to recuperate and get your strength back.

  Sam Bell :
(sarcastically) 
That's terrific!

  
That's fantastic!

  
You can return to the sleeping quarters tomorrow.

  
But it will still be a few more days before you can resume anything like a normal work schedule.

  
Let's try another test.

  
I don't want to try another test!

  
Please, Sam.

  
Hey, Gerty?
Do you know about this?
Matthew has got no velocity readout.
He is completely still.

  
He must have stalled.

  
Well, he has obviously stalled.

  
Don't you think we should tell Central?

  
Unlock the doors and I'll go fix it.

  
I will pass on your message.

  
[Gerty]: Message received from Earth
via Jupiter link.

  
[Thompson]: Sam, we appreciate the offer,
but you concentrate on feeling better.

  
[Overmeyers]: Yeah, we don't want
you to take any unnecessary risks.

  
- You are too important to us.
- You stay put.

  
[Overmeyers]: That is an order.

  
[Thompson]: It's an order, Sam...
from Lunar.

  
[Overmeyers]:
And what we're going to do is send a rescue unit...

  
to tend to the stalled harvester
and get the base back on its feet.

  
- (under breath) Fuck is with...? What the fuck?
- I'm sorry, Sam.

  
- What?
- Sam...

  
I'm under strict orders not to let you outside.

  
I don't appreciate that—being treated like a child.
I don't appreciate it.

  
Gerty!

  
Gerty!

  
Gerty, come here!

  
- What happened?
- I do not know, maybe a meteorite...

  
There have been no meteorites, Sam.

  
Micrometeorites, maybe. I do not know.

  
Either way, there might be
damage to the exterior shell.

  
I think you better...you better
let me go outside and take a look.

  
There is no damage to the exterior shell.

  
Well, it's not that I don't believe you, Gerty...

  
But, you know, this thing is
springing leaks like an Acme firehose.

  
You need to let me go outside
and fix this problem, Gery.

  
I can't let you go outside, Sam.

  
Gerty, if you don't let me go outside,
we can't fix this leak.

  
I'm not permitted to let you go outside.

  
Just let...
We'll keep it between you and me, ok, pal?

  
This thing is leaking gas. Let's go! Come on...

  
Just to check the exterior shell?

  
- Of course.
- OK, Sam.

  
Thank you.

  
Gerty!

  
[Computer]:
Searching for long-range comms.

  
Searching for long-range comms.

  
Searching for long-range comms.

  
Signal failure on long-range comms.

  
Gerty!

  
Gerty!

  
I found him outside!

  
I found him outside!

  
Near one of the stalled harvesters...

  
Who is he?

  
Who is he?!

  
We need to get him to the infirmary.

  
Not until you tell me who that is.

  
You tell me who that is!

  
Sam Bell. We need to get him
to the infirmary immediately.

  
Hello, Sam.

  
How are you feeling?

  
Where—Where am I?

  
The infirmary.

  
You had an accident out by one of the harvesters.

  
Do you remember?

  
No, I'm—I'm thirsty.

  
I could get you some water.

  
I saw someone out there, Gerty.

  
I saw someone out there.

  
Sam, you suffered a slight concussion in
the crash and have incurred minor injuries.

  
But, all in all,
the prognosis is good.

  
I'm happy to see you again.

  
Gerty?

  
Yes, Sam?

  
Is there someone in the room with us?

  
Sam, get some sleep.

  
You're very tired.

  
[Tess]: Spoke to Thompson today.

  
They are in Europe, they—he's promising the world.

  
I think it was the right thing.

  
But...it's just such a long time.

  
I suppose there are—there are things...

  
You know...that needed to happen.

  
I—I need time to think.

  
Listen...umm...

  
Sam...

  
Be safe...And I'll...

  
I'll talk to you soon.

  
Goodbye.

  
Gerty?

  
Gerty, what the fu—what the hell's going on?

  
Who is the guy—
Who is the guy in the rec room?

  
Where did he come from?
Why does he look like me?

  
Sam, you're out out of bed.

  
Yeah, Gerty, I'm out of bed.
Who is the guy?

  
Who is the guy in the rec room?

  
- Sam Bell.
- Come on, come on, come on!

  
You are Sam Bell.

  
Sam, what is it?

  
It might help to talk about it.

  
I don't understand what is happening...

  
I think I'm starting to lose my mind.

  
We can run some tests.

  
I haven't let Sam contact Lunar.

  
They do not know that you were recovered
alive from the accident.

  
"Recovered alive"? What do you mean?
Why did not you report it to Central?

  
What are you talking about?

  
I'm here to keep you safe, Sam.

  
Are you hungry?

  
Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks

  
Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks, two weeks,
two weeks, two weeks, two weeks... (exhales)

  
- I'm just getting my slippers...
- I'm using them...I'm using them.

  
These are mine.

  
Gerty says you're Sam Bell.

  
I'm Sam Bell, too!

  
- What?
- Well, we've got that going for us.

  
Why...?

  
How long have you been...

  
What?

  
How long have you been here?

  
About a week.

  
- So how are you doing?
- What?

  
How are you doing?

  
"How am I doing?"
How do you think I'm doing?

  
They locked all The Exits.
Who's looking after the harvesters?

  
Harvesters are fine.

It's the fact that I'm here talking 
to a clone that's slightly troubling.

  
(chuckles) I'm not a clone.

  
I'm not a clone!

  
You're the clone.


Okay, Sam.
You're not a clone.

  
Hey, hey...You're not looking too good.

  
Sh! Butt out of this!
I'm not even talking to you, pal.

  
I think that Katherine likes you.
I think she likes you a bit.

  
You're not looking too good, my friend.
I hope you're not feeling too bad.

  
Are you talking to yourself?

  
Let's just get you fixed up...


How long have you been here?

  
Well, it's about...three years.
  
For almost three years.

  
Listen, I...  
I wanted to thank y—.
I wanted to thank you for, um...
If it wasn't for you, I'd—I...

I guess I'd still be in that crashed rover.
You Saved My Life.

  
Hey, I know this is weird, you know...?

  
I'm real lonely, you know, I...(puffs)

I just wanted to shake your hand.
Will you shake my hand?

Saturday 5 June 2021

Unrealistic Motherfuckers









I think you gonna find... 
when all this shit is over and done... 

I think you're gonna find yourself one smilin' motherfucker. 

The Thing is, Butch, right now... 
you got ability
But painful as it may be, ability... don't last

And your days are just about over. 

Now, that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life. 
But that's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about. 

You see, This Business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. 
Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age, like wine

If you mean it turns to Vinegar... 
it does
If you mean it gets better with age... it don't

Besides, Butch, how many fights you think you got in you anyway? 
Hmm? 
Two? 

Boxers don't have 
an old-timers' day. 

You came close
but you never made it. 

And if you were gonna make it, 
you would’ve made it before now. 

♪♪ [CONTINUES] 

You my nigger? 


Certainly appears so. 

[CHUCKLES] 

The night of the fight, 
you may feel a slight sting

That's Pride, fuckin' with you. 

Fuck Pride! 

Pride only hurts
It never helps. 

You fight through that shit. 

'Cause a year from now, 
when you kickin' it in the Caribbean, 
you gonna say to yourself, "Marsellus Wallace was right.

[CHUCKLES] 

I got no problem with that, Mr. Wallace. 

In the fifth
your ass goes down
Say it :

In the fifth, 
my ass goes down

Friday 4 June 2021

Hurt’s Their Immunity to Evil.









42 Proverbs







1. “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.’”


2. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

3. “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

4. “The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”

5 “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.”

6. “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”


7. “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

8. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

9. “The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

10. “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

11. “Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”

12. “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

13. “What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.”

14. “It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.”

15. “There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

16. “One is never alone with a rubber duck.”

17. “Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

18. “Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”

19. “Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

20. “I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view.”

21. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

22. “The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

23. “Life is wasted on the living.”

24. “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

25. “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”

26. “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

27. “Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

28. “A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”

29. “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

30. “People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”

31. “We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

32. “Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”

33. “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

34. “Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

35. “My Universe is My Eyes and My Ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

36. “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”


37. “A cup of tea would restore my Normality.”

38. “Human Beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

39. “It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

40. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

41. “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

42. Don't Panic.



42 Douglas Adams quotes to live by