Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Insider" channel.

  1. The age is a side issue. What I want to know is why they took away the great ironic heart of the character, namely that before the war, Serena Joy was a famous televangelist. This situation wasn't something that was cooked up for the war - Serena had spent YEARS advocating exactly this kind of thing. There's a line in the book that sums it all up perfectly, when Ofglenn is thinking about how Serena is just as imprisoned as herself, "How furious she must have been to have been taken at her word." Now that most basic bitterness - having all her fame and power stripped away by getting what she demanded, and then finding out it's hell - is gone, and that's too bad, because it was one of the best things about the book, in my opinion. (I really don't get some of the changes made, some of them make little sense, and some seem to be made solely to keep from upsetting somebody.)
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  2. Yes, with enormous loss of flavor and often loss of other essential components. No, thank you. Please keep your grubby tech-obsessed hands off the saffron.-
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  3. +moonlilly1 I didnt' say it rang false. I said her character's irony was greatly diminshed because she lost EVERYTHING SHE HAD. She lost all the power (among fundamentalists, the televangelists have a considerable amount of power), she lost the recognition (of which she had A LOT, because televangelist), she lost the prestige (ditto). It was not a matter of "my husband thinks I'm not all that anymore". It was a PUBLIC humiliation, a stripping of her PUBLIC power, the loss of any influence that was WELL KNOWN. There's a huge difference between your husband deciding you don't get to do things and the ENTIRE SOCIETY deciding that.
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  4. +Kowalski K Didn't you read the BOOK? No, it's not more ironic. An author is not in front of her readers, right there on the screen, talking to them. She was FAMOUS, as in "people know your face" famous. As in "people think you love them because you talk to them through the TV" famous. In this day and age, NO author can compete with a media personality when it comes to fame, recognition, and power. SHE HAD ALL THREE. Really, I understand you like the series, but don't be ridiculous.
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  5. Can't. Not sold in stores. You have to order it online.
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  6. Don't be too hard on Dick. He was intentionally misled about how he should sound, and was mortified when he found out how bad it was.
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  7. Gee, maybe INCLUDE A LINK in the description instead of making everyone go and look for it!!
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  8. AHAHA. Dude, fruits have lost flavor just during my LIFETIME. The bigger the growth, the less flavor. You can check that yourself by tasting different sized versions of the same variety. But hey, nice try at sounding all high and smart and all. LOL
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  9. Ah yes, dig up the one rare exception and use it to dismiss every other example that invalidates your thesis. That's logic.
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  10. No, botany.
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  11. Because we'd ruin it. Some things are JUST FINE ON THEIR OWN.
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  12. Oh goody. Another asshole with a scheme to ROB PEOPLE OF THEIR LIVELIHOODS. Christ, when will you techies learn?
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