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Quote from: TaoHorror on March 18, 2020, 08:33:13 pm

War of the Worlds

On episode 4, and man, this is some evil shit 

Yeah, we went ahead and just watched the whole thing, all 8 episodes.  Pretty good show, although I don't speak French, so after some dedgy subtitles, I probably missed a bit on few parts, but likely not much.  I hope they do go ahead and make a second season.

Is that this one?

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That doesn't look like it. It's this here, compare the actors to be sure, but I don't think what you listed above here is the show I'm talking about, released just end of 2019/beginning of 2020 doesn't appear to have any characters named George or Amy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9686194/

I can't speak to the drugs, I'm not a doctor. And I shouldn't be speaking to the therapy either, being less than an amateur - but, from my personal experiences and social circle, CBT shows impressive results in my small reality - not big enough sample to mean it's all that on a larger scale, but from my personal social circle's exposure to CBT, it hasn't been presented as a quick fix, so not sure where that's coming from. It's years' long program from what I've seen, but behavior modification, while it seems to be putting the cart before the horse, can and does work. Which blows a "free will" person's mind, such as myself - changing your behavior changes your consciousness and in a way that's more to the repetition, not the enlightenment of learning how to be. After a while, you simply get it - and if you change your behavior back again, you'll change back. How to reconcile that with free will is beyond me.

I'm watching Hunters and made me realize a similar themed show I omitted a review here.

The Little Dummer Girl - excellent. I love Michael Shannon and he does not disappoint in this. Very fun/well done spy show, mini-series thing ( too bad, could use more of this stuff ). It's about the hunt for an assassin targeting Israelis. Interesting psychological talk in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyvmyIqiGk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2koyGDwdjeofLzNJRiO-e1QSI3R9GfLzAWCk9xrjf9130jNQnzPwi36yI

TLDW: We lie mostly not because we're "bad"/immoral, but because our consciousness is asleep. Less judging and more wake up calling is most effective ( please be honest, tell me what happened ).

From your friendly BS ( Behavioral Scientists ).

Quote from: TaoHorror on March 17, 2020, 02:01:15 pm

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Yeah, the first episodes were really good mystery/horror. I was mulling over how it could've been a time travel or ghost thing - the "thing" shooting birds at the cameras when it was intentionally generating evidence of it being in town when it couldn't have been, like a which came first - the person falsely accused and it's ghost/future self coming back to screw over the people/cops/lawyers who arrested him, destroying his family's lives. I hadn't put much work into this idea, but if it was a revenge thing of some kind toward the protagonists and the pros were the real fuckers, a modern day witch hunt gone bad kinda thing, that might've been more interesting than the devil's comes down to Georgia theme it took. I'm not a writer, so I'm not expressing my idea here very well. But otherwise, why was "it" shooting birds at the cameras? Just something cool/confusing toward the cops? Expressing it's hatred of it's food/humans?

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Well, I don't know that there is a "good" reason for it, but we could sort of invoke the notion of, if we don't know why someone did something, figure it was to do exactly what it, in fact, did.  So, it was to incite the cops, make them more zealously move to prosecute the accused.  In this way, they would, at least in theory, be less likely to really consider the contradictory evidence that might present itself.  I worked pretty well honestly.

We could likely come up with others, but that seems at least sufficient to me.

That's a good explanation 

I watched The Outsider - pretty good, I liked it.

I finished the 2nd season of Altered Carbon. Well, same as with the first season, about 4 episodes in I lost interest. But I stuck with it and it got a lot better. Overall, not as good as the first season, but was still descent. The AI steals the show, so much so I care more about it then I do the humans. Not a super clever ending, but pretty good all things considered. It could've been richer, like why the Antagonist is the way he is, that would've been a fun character deep dive ( for those who watch this, I'm talking about the military dude, not the governor ). It's best parts are the VR stuff, the just slightly above average parts is the unlocking of the mystery. It failed to go to hell with itself, which is a risk with this level of tech, but I like some of the philosophical aspects like immortality drives callousness to others ( even knowing the causalities will be permanently dead ). In short, knowing you can be spun back up drives depravity. I'm giving it more credit than it deserves, but this is a theme to the story.