What difference would she have made? She handed him a gun she said was loaded only with inert rounds, but instead had live ammunition in it. It wasn't part of his role in the chain of custody to inspect the ammunition. Regardless of any safety violations by Baldwin or the AD, she negligently loaded a prop weapon with live ammunition, something that should never have happened. She failed to inspect the ammunition while it was in storage, then failed to inspect the ammunition a second time when she loaded the weapon.

Trying to blame the AD for the lion's share of the responsibility when his only interaction with the weapon was to take it from the armorer in a declared "cold" state and hand it to Baldwin is ridiculous. He's getting punished accordingly. He should have done more to prevent an accident, but the accident is not a direct result of anything he did.

I loved seasons 1-2. Rewatched them with my girlfriend who had never seen it. Then we just pretended there was no cliffhanger at the end of Season 2.

Was rented to a relative. I'm guessing the teenagers took it for a joyride, and the younger kids went along for fun.

It's probably nothing suspicious. There were two sets of siblings in the car at least. Apparently the driving teen had taken cars out before and gotten in trouble for it (with his family, not legally).

Nearly all of the weapons being given to Ukraine were bought by their original owning countries with the intention of potentially having to fight Russia and this guy is mad that the weapons are being sent to fight Russia, lol.

Another good time to remind everyone how the margin of victory in Arizona was roughly 17,000 votes and Arizona lost 31,000 people to Covid prior to the election, with a dramatic difference in vaccination rates between Democrats and Republicans in the state.

Never. That would mean that at some point we weren't a fascist police state. We wrote a Constitution that not only allowed people to be owned, but then gave them 3/5ths credit toward representation, just to appease the people who owned them.

The Fall is one of my favorite films ever made.

Breaking news, bottom-halfer doesn't understand what actual tyranny is, and thinks public health measures designed to protect the elderly and the immunocompromised is it.

If you really got good grades and are going to spontaneously combust before 45, then a year of watching Netflix was hardly a problem for you. Sorry you were so emotionally fragile you struggled.

>Been pretty healthy despite actively trying to get the virus that I don't think it exists

Yeah, I'm sure all the people whose family members died are excited to hear about what you think exists.

And I'm sure you have an intelligent, educated, rational explanation why there were 470,000 more deaths in the US in 2020 over 2019. Must have just been a bunch of gallop-by unicorn gorings.

But I do appreciate you. It's good to be reminded how the bottom half lives with their two digit IQs, lol.

The control group is quite large already. It isn't like the people who refuse to get vaccinated generally change their behavior to be more safe.

After Season 4 of Fargo (the first I didn't finish), I'm a little worried.

This show has the capability to be great, but it has a lot of conceptual red flags going around. The fact that it seems to be surrounding this transhuman "lost sister" plot makes me worry. Don't get me wrong, I love transhumanist science fiction. But I also don't want to see the Alien get sidelined in its own show.

> Covenant is a better movie than Prometheus is

This sounds like a gingivitis vs lip cancer argument. I'd rather just not have either.

Mostly just timing. Originally they didn't think they could get Sigourney Weaver back. She was too famous by then and hadn't been interested in making Aliens until they gave her a fat paycheck. Fox assumed she was done with the franchise, which is why early versions of Alien 3 (including the first treatments by Neuromancer author William Gibson) either didn't feature Ripley at all, or in a tiny cameo.

But, eventually Weaver relented and agreed to be in the film, but by then, Michael Biehn (Hicks) was booked solid for 2 years, including in the timeframe where they wanted film Alien 3 with Weaver. Hicks was the central character in the William Gibson Alien III (and does his own voice alongside Lance Henriksen in the fairly-good audio drama adaptation released a few years back). But his character wasn't considered essential to Fox, so they went with a script that didn't utilize Hicks, which was essentially a mashup of ideas from previous iterations, mostly Vincent Ward's version, only moved from a weird wooden planet (yeah, who knows) to a prison, and Ward's monks turned into a religious cult of prisoners. I'm assuming they just decided it was too hard to get from Aliens to an Alien 3 set on a prison planet without just killing off Newt and Hicks.

> Not a fan of Resurrection, though.

Resurrection is just not a good movie. It's too tonally jarring, and took a lot of talented people and put them in a place where they weren't working to their strengths. The took a talented French arthouse film director and tried to have him make a boilerplate sci-fi film. And then they took a comedic writer and tried to have him write a serious science fiction script.

So what you have is basically an Alien film that is bizarre in both its aesthetic and its plot, trying too hard to be clever and funny while still trying to remain horrific. Cast with a bunch of fairly good actors who all seem to think they are in different movies.

Alien 3 is a flawed film from a great visionary director like David Fincher, and as much as Fox screwed with him and the production, sending him into shooting with a film where the sets were already half finished, but the script was still being changed, you can see David Fincher's directorial vision stamped all across it.

Resurrection has this weird mishmash of Jean Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen) trying to direct a film written by Joss Whedon (at the time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and rewrites for Speed, Toy Story and Waterworld), as a sequel to a franchise that was dark and horrific body/creature horror set in a bleak corporate future. Whedon's script not only abandoned the bleak corporate future (there's a deleted scene joke about Weyland Yutani, the company from the first three films, having been bought out by Walmart), Jeunet seemed to struggle with the "dark and horrific" part. About the only part of the film that seemed "on brand" is the fairly great scene where she comes across the other Ripley clones. It's the one part of the film where there are no attempts to cram in a joke, a visual gag, or be anything other than horrific, and Jeunet's flair for the bizarre actually helped the film rather than hurt it.

The main reason some Alien fans hate Alien 3 is they never got over Noot and Hix dying in the opening scene. Otherwise, the Assembly Cut (later remastered as the "Special Edition") is a fantastic character piece about sacrifice and redemption. That original ending where she just falls into the molten lead and the Alien isn't born is incredibly powerful, ruined completely in the theatrical release with a chestbursting scene that removes the sacrifice element. The score by Eliot Goldenthal is top notch too, probably the best of the franchise.

Yeah, even in the Bluest states you have the "Those parts" in them.

Yeah, okay little buddy. All lives matter. Feel better now?

"The fatal beatings will continue until the protests over police murdering people stop."