On no ordinary family episode 16

Let me preface with a disclaimer, I don’t really like this show. I should mention that I was turned off very early on when the mother character first used her super speed to do all of the housework. She’s the one who makes all the money, too. Yet she seems to be fine with a very traditional role in her family. She also says something at one point along the lines of, “I can understand why you would want to protect your family, but why would you want to help out strangers?” Can’t this at physically and intellectually superior woman have a respectively superior sense of ethics and compassion, or at least make her family do some of the housework? The gender roles in this show are a bit to rigid for me in general. This family is far to ‘ordinary’ for me…

Ep 16

So in this episode a black kid gets hit by a deflected bullet and is left in a life threatening state. The family possesses a serum that has the power to heal the boy but would also have the side effect of giving him super powers like they have. In the end the boy is not given the serum. He survives and the doctors discover a tumor that would not have been noticed if he had not been shot.

It seems to me that the episode may have some fucked up undertones. Not only should black people not be given equal opportunity to reach their full potential, but it is actually good for them to get shot because that is the only way they can expect to get decent healthcare. Racist? I also wish the black best friend/sidekick would pick up some superpowers.

The characters in this show are shortsighted, as is the show’s themes. It makes me miss Alex Mack, or even Rosewell…

When is the next decent show involving superpowers going to be manifested? I want something complicated and insightful. Something that isn’t simply good vs evil. Something that isn’t the same every episode like Smallville or Power Rangers. In the meantime, I’ll make do with Fringe. It isn’t quite the X-Files, but it’ll do.

hfcs ad

Does that high fructose corn syrup ad where they say your body can’t tell the difference between hfcs and sugar bother you?

After all, your body can’t tell the difference between phosphorous and arsenic either. That’s why arsenic is poisonous to us!

Anyway, thinking this ad is carefully worded not to say that hfcs actually behaves exactly the same as sugar in the body, because they can’t say that.

 

I have a similar problem with the dove soap ad that says that bars of soup that dry out probably dry out your skin. Water evaporates but that doesn’t mean that touching water will make you evaporate. Christers! No wonder americans can’t tell the difference between science and bullshit.

Misinformation is the mainstream.

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Cat Stevens

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healthcare reform pizza

Bed, Bath, and Beyond Awkward

The awkwardness vampire waits in the shadows, feeding on awkward moments.

Layers of Self Image

1. Public – Basically capable but far from extraordinary

2. Private – Generally awesome but terrified of life and epic failure

3. Inner – Absolutely capable and absolutely isolated

1. Determinist and optomistic

2. Fatalist and despairing

3. Free but dormant

1. Polite

2. Honest

3. Ambiguous

1. Deferring

2. Collaborating

3. Leading

1. Presenting

2. Present

3. Distant

1. Surviving

2. Living

3. Growing or dying

The Cutest of Borg

Resistance is futile.