Strange Conversations: Part Forty-Four
Posted 11 September 2008 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
Geek conversations are much funnier when they’re uncontextualised:
NICK: I’ve figured out Defamer’s “Shirley Manson as a urinal” reference.
ME: Right.
NICK: She’s a terminator.
ME: Okay.
NICK: Who finds a creative way of getting rid of a suspicious underling.
ME: So at some point someone urinates on Shirley Manson?
NICK: Or intends to, anyway.
Share your thoughts [7]
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 11, 10:31 am
well now i don’t feel so bad about the spoilerific post on terminator that I’m about to write. I mean it’s pretty obvious she’s a terminator but you don’t get proof until the end of the episode. (She’s one of those quicksilver models). I think they were just running with a gag based on a guy saying “that bitch pisses me off” and then she comes out of the urinal and tells him the feeling’s mutual.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 11, 10:49 am
I didn’t even think that this was spoilerific! Whoops. Perhaps I should put a spoiler-warning tag? Or have all the mad fans already seen the episode? (We haven’t even finished season one yet: I enjoyed it, but there was too much angst and not enough one-armed shotgun racking for my taste.)
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 12, 02:15 am
Not really, anyone who really cares would have picked it straight away but they did keep it a little bit quiet as to the nature of Shirley’s character, on the website they just said she was playing a “psychopathic CEO”.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 12, 02:30 am
So they revealed that she was psychopathic, but left it ambiguous as to whether it was by choice or whether she was just programmed that way?
Fair enough.
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 12, 04:59 am
she makes a good psychopath, much more convincing as a psychopath than a urinal anyway. It was quite disturbing. The website did recommend that viewers go to the toilet before watching the episode not after (they think they’re so funny).
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Catriona wrote at Sep 12, 05:41 am
How many viewers are likely to have a urinal in their own home, anyway?
And I think you’d be more frightened if you have a metal toilet, anyway: I can’t imagine even a T1000 turning itself into your average porcelain toilet. (Although I suppose the original T1000 did turn himself into a black-and-white tiled floor, didn’t he?)
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 15, 01:46 am
It’s more like she pops out of the water pipe somehow.