<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post2488310733363579950..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9199325770945268013</id><published>2009-04-10T01:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T01:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was quite satisfied with the ending, actually. I...</title><summary type='text'>I was quite satisfied with the ending, actually. I thought it was quite well done. It&#39;s not even a deus ex machina, really, but rather a machina ex deus. Speaking of ironic reversals. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree that complaining about angels misses the whole point, because they&#39;ve been present all they way through the show. It&#39;s just one more reveal that was set up a long time ago. It&#39;s also pretty clear </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/9199325770945268013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/9199325770945268013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239342780000#c9199325770945268013' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6232248853273228617</id><published>2009-04-09T18:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T18:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;My estimate would be that 99.99% of Hollywood fil...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;My estimate would be that 99.99% of Hollywood films are shit.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fine.  It&#39;s a high percentage.  As I said, the number has been going steadily up as years go on.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Coppola&#39;s Godfather films are basically high budget Italian neo-realism, with some impressive editing.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do you really want to engage as a critic with such drastic generalizations?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Topically, they </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/6232248853273228617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/6232248853273228617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239315360000#c6232248853273228617' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2049709916688468653</id><published>2009-04-08T20:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T20:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My estimate would be that 99.99% of Hollywood film...</title><summary type='text'>My estimate would be that 99.99% of Hollywood films are shit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Coppola&#39;s Godfather films are basically high budget Italian neo-realism, with some impressive editing. Topically, they so far from being progressive that it is funny. They may be a step up from the “Classic Hollywood” gangster genre, but even then, from that, they might be a step in the wrong direction. One only need watch </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/2049709916688468653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/2049709916688468653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239238080000#c2049709916688468653' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00366558985672640249</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1875260577"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5256853879740553171</id><published>2009-04-08T19:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T19:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>BSG&#39;s theme was &quot;All this has happened before. And...</title><summary type='text'>BSG&#39;s theme was &quot;All this has happened before. And all this will happen again.&quot; In a way, they&#39;ve been telling you all along exactly how it would end! How can everyone be so shocked?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve also noticed that no one has yet to make mention of the fact that Six is an angel, and that concludes the debate as to whether machines can have souls. Because, obviously, that cylon did. So, Moore </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/5256853879740553171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/5256853879740553171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239234300000#c5256853879740553171' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03267444929810505425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YNbIZZa3_fc/SZ33F9IjsyI/AAAAAAAABQM/aN80Ny-TDVw/S220/l_8720ade3e7644669a97600b5c90713ff.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790052993"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3718489099488284518</id><published>2009-04-08T12:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T12:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Really, Coppola&#39;s work is anti-feminist trash. Do...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Really, Coppola&#39;s work is anti-feminist trash. Do you think we should go around touting the work of D. W. Griffith without acknowledging that it is disgustingly racist? I would think not.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re ridiculous. To define Coppolla&#39;s movies (&quot;work&quot;) as &quot;anti-feminist&quot; (that is, to define it as being primarily against a social movement) is ridiculous.  (&quot;Laughable&quot;.)  And, even if you do </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/3718489099488284518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/3718489099488284518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239206400000#c3718489099488284518' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3217243383185300977</id><published>2009-04-08T08:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T08:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I would like to point you to the first scene of Go...</title><summary type='text'>I would like to point you to the first scene of Godard&#39;s &lt;I&gt;King Lear&lt;/I&gt; He has an old &#39;Lear-like&#39; screenwriter finishing up the touches on a mafia version of the the Lear story, and his daughter sits across a round, white, lazy-Susan table... he then turns the text to her on this table (The O, or nothing of Lear himself in the original play), and his daughter questions why he is so interested </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/3217243383185300977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/3217243383185300977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239195060000#c3217243383185300977' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11387237324417934642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1272311462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1403493685221278180</id><published>2009-04-07T22:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T22:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, there is a *Beginnings* for endings.  It&#39;s ca...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, there is a *Beginnings* for endings.  It&#39;s called *The Sense of an Ending*, but it&#39;s by Frank Kermode.  Said wrote *Beginnings* as a response to Kermode.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/1403493685221278180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/1403493685221278180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239158100000#c1403493685221278180' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2543764407432756507</id><published>2009-04-07T21:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T21:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>AHHHHH!the last episode.the last supper.everyboddh...</title><summary type='text'>AHHHHH!&lt;BR/&gt;the last episode.&lt;BR/&gt;the last supper.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;everyboddhi lust after/for the girl in the red dress.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;fitting that she is a blond. most likely blue-eyed&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is Galactic a a spin off of  War of the Worlds?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or that Captain Kirk drama?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;any body remember Buster Crabbes outer space stuff?radio&#39;s  oh I forget  there was even a serial series  oh  FLASH GORDON&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/2543764407432756507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/2543764407432756507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239153180000#c2543764407432756507' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7963928740987354049</id><published>2009-04-07T16:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T16:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The difficult aspect of Battlestar Galactica&#39;s las...</title><summary type='text'>The difficult aspect of Battlestar Galactica&#39;s last episode is the dissonance it has with the rest of the episodes. Particularly egregious, I thought, was the vindication of Gaius Baltar, who not only miraculously lives through all the selfish and lunatic things he does, but manages somehow to modeled exactly like the &quot;angels&quot; at the end of the film.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why is this so aggravating to others </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/7963928740987354049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/7963928740987354049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239136500000#c7963928740987354049' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14349982082048168288</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-35286894"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7165767937174566407</id><published>2009-04-07T14:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T14:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Silliman, let me be frank.  The ending of BSG ...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Silliman, let me be frank.  The ending of BSG was *not good*.  From Cavil shooting himself in a way that clearly served the purpose of bringing the show to a close far more than it suited his character, to the pessimistic ludditism of sending the ships into the sun rather than planning a city, to the just plain bad prose of Baltar’s cliché-rich final appeal to Cavil, to the pedantic final </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/7165767937174566407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/7165767937174566407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239127680000#c7165767937174566407' title=''/><author><name>Adam Katz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15697999742501448021</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591150966"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8057910131066127550</id><published>2009-04-07T11:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T11:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s Schopenhauer on drama (and especially endin...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s Schopenhauer on drama (and especially endings):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first step is the hardest--says the popular adage.  But in dramaturgy the reverse is true: the last step is the hardest.  Evidence of this is the countless dramas the first half of which promises well but which then become confused, halt, waver, especially in the notorious fourth act, and finally come to a forced or unsatisfying </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/8057910131066127550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2488310733363579950/comments/default/8057910131066127550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html?showComment=1239119400000#c8057910131066127550' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-my-links-list-noted-week-ago-monday.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2488310733363579950' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2488310733363579950' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 07, 2009"/></entry></feed>