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What you got? I got this pain… that runs right on down here and down into my leg.

John Furlong & John Davis Chandler Doc Hooker's Bunch Dir: Zack Belcher

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Terminator Dark Fate Review (spoilers!!)

I really liked it!!!

So I want to see Terminator Dark Fate last night and yeah, that was a good time and a half!! Seriously, I’m a huge Terminator fan: T2 is in my opinion one of the greatest movies in the last 30 years, and I’ve been waiting to see if anything the franchise did after could capture any of that lightening in a bottle again.

I can’t say this one does that, but I’d solidly argue it comes the closest. I’ll come right out and say it: I think killing John Conner was the right narrative move for the franchise to move forward. And I like John Conner a lot! But we’ve seen so many different iterations of him and his story: T3’s adult John before the apocalypse becoming a saviour, Salvation’s John in the apocalypse (becoming a legend), and Genysis’ John as a legend in the future and then as a villain. It honestly felt like they explored most of the possible outcomes for John and the mythos of him as the resistance leader against Skynet that if they wanted to go forward they were going to have to shake it up.

And they did, though in a very Force Awakens way: which isn’t bad!!! Now we have Dani as the saviour who needs to be protected, Sarah as what she always was (the mentor/mother of the saviour), Grace as the Kyle Reese “doomed to die for love sent back in time protector” and just for fun, Carl, the good Terminator and drape enthusiast 😉 I thought Dani worked really well as a character: I can’t say I was surprised by the reveal she was the saviour and not her future child (I mean come one we knew that), but I really liked the changed and I liked how we got to see how she evolved into that person young Grace met, and how it was an extension of her character from the beginning.

Grace was also great: Mackenzie Davis is a fantastic actress, and I really liked that her “enhanced Terminator hybrid” version included a stated and followed through weakness (short bursts of power followed by a crash). It gave her a nice contrast in fights and action lore to Arnie’s Terminator, and it really worked for me. I also really like the cyclical nature of her and Dani: I was here for the tragic and somewhat sinister story of John and Kyle, of becoming friends but of John always knowing that friendship was going to end in Kyle’s death, and that he’d perhaps feed his interest in Sarah just for that purpose (love me some sentimental ruthlessness). And I liked that Grace and Dani had that, but in reverse somewhat; that Grace knew she wouldn’t be coming back, and had agency in her decision to get enhanced and go back and die for Dani and the future she believed in.

As for Carl, your friendly old man Terminator: this is going to be controversial but I liked him ... but I liked his Genysis version more. Which I get it, that movie wasn’t good (though I’ll argue for hours it had value and also I like it?) but I mostly liked how that movie really focused on his relationship with Sarah, how that had evolved his humanity, and his antagonism with Kyle was hilarious. I did like that he basically had to develop an new purpose on his own, and making him a basically an “asexual father and husband” and having him live a real life was a really nice way to have him have agency. I just found his Genysis version funnier and more poignant, but that definitely isn’t to say this was bad!

And finally, last and best, Sarah MOTHERFUCKING Conner 🤩 Look T2 Sarah Conner will go down as the baddest bitch who ever lived, but Dark Fate Sarah Conner comes a close second. This really was a movie about Sarah Conner, and I was here for it: I loved seeing her allowed to be older, and grey haired and still badass. There was real weight in her realizing that her son had died and they’d stopped Skynet but that the future is still doomed, and choosing to help shape Dani into the leader John never needed/got to be. I thought her evolution of her feelings toward Carl was really well done, and her interplay with Dani felt really natural. Sarah Conner was always more than just “the womb that birthed the leader of the rebellion,” she was the true “mother of the rebellion” irregardless of her son, and this movie really lets her have this legacy and still be the one who gets to shape and train Dani to save the world.

Overall, I really liked it! Is it as good as T2, or even T1? No. But I think it’s a solid sequel to those that honours their story but also branches off and lets a new story grow organically, and I’m totally here for that!

(Also if anyone is curious, my Terminator ranking is: T2, Terminator, Dark Fate, Genysis (fight me), T3, and Salvation).

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Mudhoney (1965)

“Almost everyone is on their worst behavior, and almost everyone is willing to flaunt it for our enjoyment.”

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Canada explores first-ever Indigenous-led Olympic bid with First Nations eyeing a Vancouver 2030 Winter Games

Canada explores first-ever Indigenous-led #Olympic bid with First Nations eyeing a #Vancouver2030 Winter Games @TeamCanada @triciasmith @kennedystewart

The four First Nations of British Columbia’s Sea-to-Sky Region that includes the City of Vancouver and the Municipality of Whistler will front a possible Vancouver 2030 Olympic Winter Games bid after the signing of an historic memorandum of understanding on Friday. Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremony (IOC Photo) Chiefs of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, Musqueam and Líl̓wat Nations will lead the…

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Vancouver and First Nations set to announce formation of 2030 Olympic Bid Exploration Committee Friday

Vancouver and First Nations set to announce formation of 2030 #Olympic Bid Exploration Committee Friday #Vancouver2030 @TeamCanada

Representatives from four First Nations, the City of Vancouver and Town of Whistler will announce Friday an initial step towards a bid to host the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremony (IOC Photo) According to a media advisory released Thursday and local reports, the signing of a memorandum of understanding among partners will launch the “exploration of a…

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Survey finds as many as 77 percent support Vancouver 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games bid

Survey by @insights_west finds as many as 77 percent support #Vancouver2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games bid

A small majority of respondents to a survey taken across British Columbia support a bid to host a second Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver in 2030. Source: Insights West According to a newly-released independent poll by Insights West, 55 percent across the Canadian province would support a new bid for the Games.  Support skyrockets to 77 percent if the project is privately funded,…

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