Live On Mars - Dead TV Series ?

Life On Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoiUcj8mpOo

A modern (well, 2008 , pretty modern) detective winds up back in 1973, no forensics, no computers, no cell phones, and a fairly corrupt (probably fictional) 125th police district in New York City.

Sounds goofy ? Yes, but I gave it a watch , and found it fascinating. 17 episodes.  (Netflix, I'm on the cheapo 8$ / month plan)

Which is the catch. Who makes a 17 episode season ? Did it suddenly die ? Because I saw that before, a series called Constantine.

It was an awesome show ,up until episode 17 , which did nothing but tick me off and tempt me to rage quit (can you call it rage quitting when you watched all the episodes and it was the end of the last one that ticked you off ? )

What did they do ?

They did the Matrix thing. They did the BAD MATRIX thing.

Basically , it turned out the main charactar and the company of cops he was with were actually on a space ship on a trip to Mars, and to keep their minds active they were each in their own private little virtual world.

Why is this bad ?
1... broke the audience contract. 
   When you show the audience a world , you keep the audience in that world. You don't turn around after 17 episodes and a number of unresolved plot lines and say "enough about that. We're switching to 2035 and you're on a space ship just arriving at Mars" !  That's like making a years worth of some Greys Anatomy Soap Opera, getting everyone to love it and then saying "Forget it, we're going star trek , too bad if you guys don't like sci fi ! ". The audience you carefully built up , who were nostalgic about 1973 , who loved it all , you just ticked them all off. You just lost them.

2... Just a Dream = No Drama
Turns out they're all in little glass coffins on a star ship and they were all safe and sound and never in any danger. Now that you've established that, how are you going to have any dramatic moments ? If he goes back to 1973 , everyone knows he's safe and can't possibly be hurt. If he goes somewhere else, hey , he's just dreaming. Again , no worries.  You killed all hope of drama by doing this.

3...Broken Romance Arc
After 17 episodes of finally getting him to admit he likes that cute little platinum blonde, he wakes up in a space ship on mars and she's not there. She's not one of the crew members, she's not the computer Windy (or "W1N-D") , she's no where. She's a figment of the computer dream's imagination.  This just may be the worst way to end a romance in the history of TV. It certainly deserves nomination as such.

So, would you keep watching a show ? Knowing they're going to keep pulling the rug out from under you and just abandon most of the story once a year ? I know I won't.

Which is why I believe the show was actually Abandonned. As in , the backer said "Aint getting good ratings ! You got 1 episode to shut it down !" . That's really the only explanation that makes any sense here. Because there's no way there can be a next season if you're pulling crap like this. No one would watch it.  The main charactar would have to go back to 1973 , and it would have to NOT be a computer dream. And I just don't see that happening.

EDIT : https://www.justwatch.com/ca/tv-show/life-on-mars

 "Life on Mars garnered critical praise for its premise, acting, and depiction of the 1970s but suffered from a declining viewership after its premiere and a two-month hiatus. ABC announced on March 2, 2009 that it would not be ordering a second season."

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Justin Trudeau vows to turn every Chinese imigrant into a spy for China

Chinese premier arrives on Parliament Hill to kick off visit

 

The spectre of China's "Operation Fox Hunt" -- the pursuit and harassment of so-called economic fugitives and other dissidents -- is casting a shadow over today's talks.
Trudeau has acknowledged that the two countries are engaged in a high-level security dialogue, including the establishment of a controversial extradition treaty.

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So , what kind of extradition treaty could you have with a nation that routinely picks up people just on some communist party's say so, fabricates evidence, and executes people ? Are you going to say "no death penalty" and then when the victims dragged back to china he gets some other fabricated charge thrown at him and gets killed anyways ? Are we only going to allow certain pieces of evidence, effectively creating ground rules for 'how to fabricate evidence' to the Chinese Government ?

By doing this , you are granting the chinese government the right to threaten , extort , and turn into a spy , every single chinese refugee that is in the country.

And thats just the dumbest thing Justin "The Boy Non-Wonder" Trudeau could ever do.

But it looks like he's going to do it anyways.

No more security clearances for Chinese , it seems. They are now subject to black mail by their former nation. So much for the no racism regime we call Canada. Now we will be forced into it.

Next up ! All Former residence of the middle east will be allowed to be extradited by ISIS / ISIL if they don't cooperate ! What could possibly go wrong ?

 

NSA Approved ! Honest ! We didn't hack it before you even got it !

Crest takes over NSA Cira accreditation

 “It is hoped that it will encourage cyber security service providers to have their capabilities assessed and accredited. This will drive increasing levels of capability and capacity in to the market.”

 

Basically , all government and private cyber security must be approved by the NSA , which is to say , they help the NSA hack any place they work at. 

 Haven't we had just about enough of this NSA approved nonsense in Canada with the "spy palace" with every single phone having an electronic bug that reports back the contents of every single phone call CSIS makes back to NSA ? 

 Havn't we had enough of NSA pushing broken , or even outright bogus , encryption standards ? Ones with secret weak spots to make it easy to crack ? 

 NSA approved means "it comes pre-hacked", and it should be dumped as quick as possible. 

So long and thanks for the ransom money

Militants who beheaded two Canadians free Norwegian man in Philippines

 

 Abu Sayyaf extremists on Saturday freed a Norwegian man kidnapped a year ago in the southern Philippines with two Canadians who were later beheaded and a Filipino woman who has been released by the ransom-seeking militants, officials said.

Kjartan Sekkingstad was freed in Patikul town in Sulu province and was eventually secured by rebels from the larger Moro National Liberation Front, which has signed a peace deal with the government and helped negotiate his release, Philippine government officials said.
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 So long and thanks for the ransome money. You'll be hearing from Abu Sayyaf soon as they kidnap 10 more and try it again.

Good job Duarte ! (Philipine president)

Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science

 

In November, the AP also reported on emails showing Coca-Cola was instrumental in creating a non-profit that said its mission was to fight obesity, even though the group publicly said the soda maker had "no input" into its activities. A document circulated at Coke said the group would counter the "shrill rhetoric" of "public health extremists."
Coca-Cola subsequently conceded that it had not been transparent, and the group later disbanded.

 

 I find it fascinating that they place the juiciest quotes waaaay at the bottom of these articles , as if  hoping no one will read that far. 

I knew there was a war going on in the grocery stores and even the vending machines when they started a rating system in the vending machines at work that implied certain items (chocolate bars !) were actually healthy. Everyone (even chocloholics) knows that just isn't true and we made a lot of jokes about it at the time. 

Apparently , the average consumer who bothers to read the labels is considered a "public health extremist" ? Wow...just wow. When there is money on the table the lies and false accusations just keep on coming, don't they ? And setting up and running entire false "non profit" organizations to "fact check" their claims and pass them no matter how bogus they are ...just wow. 

 

 

Temporary Foriegn Workers ... Again !

Canada may grant easier residency for foreign workers: minister

 

  Canada in June watered down measures to limit the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers that firms can hire after complaints the restrictions would cause major labor shortages.
Farmers and meat processors had complained the limit would result in labor shortages.

 Here we go again. 
"Labor shortages" = not enough people willing to do back breaking labor for minimum wage, no benifits, no job security. So rather than provide these things, these businesses want to bring in workers from the other side of the world , taking jobs from Canadians. Because why would you possibly want to raise the pay of someone doing a difficult job when you can hire a philipino , house him in a cockroach infested room with ten other philipino's , and then work him like a dog instead ? 

This goes on the list as another one of the Liberal Crimes. Stealing Jobs from Canadians.

The Return of Edward Snowden ... Not !

Let NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden return to US, urges Zachary Quinto

 

Zachary Quinto plays journalist Glenn Greenwald in Oliver Stone's new film Snowden (AP)

Actor Zachary Quinto has called for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to be allowed to return to America without facing espionage charges.

 Ignoring , for the moment , the fact that Quinto is an actor trying to push the movie he stared in for his own personal benefit ... Snowden isn't coming home. 

He signed an agreement with the NSA to keep things secret, and the US Gov doesn't want everyone and the dog feeling that they can break that agreement, so they will persecute (yes, I meant persecute not prosecute) Snowden as best they can. 

This is ridiculous logic , of course, because the NSA was breaking the law (still is !) and no one is doing anything about it (and still wont ! They're writing laws to "backdate" the NSA's actions to make them suddenly legal). The truth is they got caught doing something illegal , and they'd like to keep on doing illegal things, and they're going to crucify Snowden as an example to everyone else not to mess with them and let them continue their illegal activities. 

It's called a dictatorship , by the way , when this sort of thing happens. Not democracy. DICTATORSHIP. As in the law is only for other people ? Not for the people in power ? 

 

Apparently , Quoting the Koran is "Anti-Muslim"

Soldiers of Odin now 'patrolling' Edmonton streets

The Anti-Defamation League has said the organization 'can easily be considered a hate group'

 

Anti-muslim...hate group ...blah blah blah ... oh they  havn't done anything illegal and there have been no complanits...

 

Oh they put a rant on facebook   https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=876883075749659&id=764143103690324  lets just mention it in passing and say what terrible people they are, lets not actually examine it we'll just call it a rant and move on...

 And what exactly does this "rant" say ? 

Islam rejects Democracy. Yeah , most every religion does that. Still, a true statement, not a rant.  Unless you got a real funny definition of "rant"

For example, in Saudi Arabia, a country ruled by Islamic law, sorcery, witchcraft, and blasphemy are all crimes punishable by death

Oohh...they dared to quote an actual real world event in a muslim controlled country ? Shocking ! 

Saudi Arabia infuses Islam in all aspects of daily life. The practice of any other religion is against the law and there is an actual Religious Police to enforce this law.

 Honest ... those muslims love canadian values ...NOT !!!

Wow, what an increadably racist piece. Actually quoting facts is now an Evil Thing, apparently. You are a racist anti-muslim pig for daring to do such a thing. What is the world coming to ?

 

Freedom of speach , people ! We have a right to say anything we like, ESPECIALLY if it happens to be true and we can back it up. 

 

When did the CBC become the Muslim Propaganda Bull Horn ? Did I miss that somewhere ? 'Cause we don't even have a Christian Propaganda Bull Horn we put those people down every time they start pumping their lies too , I see no reason why any other religion should get an exemption. 

  I would like to close this "rant" , as I'm sure it will be called, with my favorite Quote from the Koran. I am certain I will be called an anti-muslim bigot for doing this , but hey. If you can't stand the facts of the religion, have you considered quitting ? 

Koran 2:191 --And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them -- such is the recompense of unbelievers --