March 24, 2024 • 10 mins
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(00:07):
Line. Welcome to your donut,you eat it. I'm your host,
Sean. You know, I've spentmy weekend being in the two a guy,
mostly imparting some knowledge on some friendsand catching up on shows. So
(00:34):
I finally caught up on the lastthree episodes of The Bad Batch. I'm
halfway through the last episode of Showgun, and what have I got to say?
I think there's actually still some somepunch left in Disney. If they'll
get away from trying to get intopolitics, if they'll stay away from these
(00:59):
you know, culture war issues andjust put out a good story, there's
some potential there, especially after thelast episode of The Bad Batch I watched.
You know, there's there's a potentialto bring something in that I have
not seen in culture that I'm curiousif they would even consider it. And
(01:21):
that's the damage about sending people togo fight in warfare. You know,
if you haven't watched the new one, I'm not gonna get too much in
it, and I won't give youtoo many spoilers, but you can kind
of already see what's happened given thatthey've been testing the sniper crosshair, you
know, and he's got some damagethat turns out it's not real physical damage.
(01:42):
It's more mental damage. And itmakes me think that if Disney were
to focus in on that just alittle bit with all their crap that they're
doing, and maybe shine some lighton what happens to veterans or people that
are sent to fight stupid wars andthe repercussions they have to deal with after
they get out of it, thatmight be an interesting storyline. You know,
(02:07):
you have someone who has a skill, a perishable skill. Marksmanship is
a very perishable skill. If you'renot using it, you lose it.
And you have someone who is exceptionallygood at it in the series, and
now he's not as good because hisarm keeps twitching and he's just went through
a medical evaluation and he finds outthat that's not actually because of damage they've
(02:31):
done to him during the torture he'swent through. It's a mental block.
And if you think about a lotof things that happen in your life,
about mental blocks and other things thathappened, the damage, the trauma we've
had in all of our life,if they would bring that to the culture
(02:51):
pieces, the movies, the books, you might have something that might resonate
with your audience a little more thanyou know, making some gay who doesn't
matter if they're gay or not,or making someone trans who didn't have any
signs of this or didn't have anythinglike that. Forcing those culture war issues
(03:13):
into a storyline doesn't make a lotof sense. It never has to me,
you know, It's been one ofthe driving issues behind your donut you
eat it and me trying to writea novel is because I'm sick to death
of forcing things into storylines or changingcharacters when you just need to make a
(03:34):
good, honest story that's different.You know. That's why I'm kind of
interested in where Showgun plays out.You know, I'll segue to that.
Showgun seems to be have some verygood historical pieces there, but it shows
the human condition. You know,you have death, you have potential for
strife because war. You see religiousovertones that are coming into this because that
(04:00):
would possibly cause wars. You seecultural differences, huge cultural differences, Western
culture versus Eastern culture and how theyclash and how they collide and what they
do. You know, there wasa point in time that we from the
West were considered barbarians because we wouldn'ttake a damn bath, and the fact
(04:23):
that we didn't really preserve our foodand we'd let it rot and fit.
And if you look at what happenedand say feudal Japan, they were already
taking baths and preserving food and levelswe never did, you know, in
the West, that is, butwe thought we were the better culture.
(04:46):
The Western world thought we're better.It leads me to think about the stuff
that's going on in Ukraine and everywhereelse, you know, in the rest
of the world. You know,for seventy or eighty years now, we've
had the Brenton Woods Agreement, whichwas basically setting up the globalization stuff that
was going on in the world,and we have arrogantly, in the West,
(05:08):
myself included, put ourselves in asituation where we think we're better than
everyone. Maybe we're not. Youknow, I think in a lot of
ways we are. You know.The freedom of our culture, the right
to say what you mean and actuallyhave it heard. That's something that is
uniquely Western. It's actually uniquely Christian. A lot of people don't understand that
(05:33):
that a Western society. Western culture, whether you want to admit it or
not, is deeply rooted in JudeoChristian values and our culture reflects it.
It has drifted apart from that,and that's where we're seeing the chisms with
these culture war issues, because theculture war issues are always been something on
(05:57):
the fringe. You know. Iremember going to high school and we had
one person I could think of probablytransition later in life. I'm just going
to put it that way, transitionfrom female to male. How did we
deal with that? We just kindof accepted them who they were and let
(06:18):
them figure that out on their ownbecause it was not our business. You
know. They have to figure thatstuff out. The people that have these
issues have to figure that stuff out. Society shouldn't change one hundred percent one
hundred different ways to accommodate one person. The same time that one person's rights
(06:41):
and individuality are just as important,and you'll have to make amends for it
one way or another, either insociety or in the afterlife if you believe
in one. And that's stuff thatis kind of cultural gold that we're not
seeing ingrained in culture or not asmuch as we once did. You know,
(07:02):
that's what I think a lot ofWestern society O men, while they're
being pulled to older ideals is thatthey were not given those you know,
it was for a long time inWestern society. Even now in certain circles.
If you're just a man, you'rea bad dude already. If you're
(07:26):
a man that believes that your jobis to protect and defend your home and
your family, and that's machoism,that's machismo. That's not something you're supposed
to do. You know. Butif you look at human society from its
beginning, it's kind of how italways has been and how society has been
(07:47):
able to thrive and exist period.You know, there's two sides of every
coin. There's a nurturing, carryingside that we need just as much as
we need the defense of macho typepeople. We need both sides. We
need that feminine care that comes fromwomen, and for it to be demonized
(08:13):
doesn't make a lot of sense tome. Neither does it make a lot
of sense to me to demonize themale role there. And if you look
at what's happened in cultural spaces forat least the last five years, I'd
say at least ten or fifteen,you've seen that it's not how it's been.
You've seen the boss woman be thenatural trope of the cultural pieces we
(08:39):
watch, the movies, the TVshows, whatever. Yeah, there's some
of those that actually exist. Iknow a couple of them, and they're
pretty badass people, but they usuallygravitate towards men who are stronger willed and
stronger original, you know, OldTestament type guys, and that they complement
each other. And that's what we'resupposed to do in the human condition,
(09:03):
and that's what our culture is supposedto reflect. So as I, you
know, keep pounding away on thekeys and rewriting pieces and adding pieces,
I look at that stuff in mynovel, that is, and I look
at the stuff that's going on inthe world. I see that there's some
potential. There's a lot of goodpeople that are writing some interesting storylines,
(09:26):
especially the Shogun writers and producers,and there's potential with the bad batch.
You know, this is our lastseason and it's supposed to end five oh
one. I wonder why five hundredand first. Anybody who knows Star Wars
knows the five hundred first legion was, you know, Vader's fist kind of
(09:46):
interesting, kind of cool if you'reStar Wars geek. But I'd actually like
to see more storylines about the clones. You know, these guys that were
basic slaves to the Republic and thento the Empire until they weren't needed anymore,
and what happened to them and howthey interact in what they did.
(10:07):
You had a culture that basically shunnedthem, some of them because they were
warriors that were seen as less thanhumans. You know, that's kind of
something that's relevant to us if youthink about the slaves of the day,
you know, and nowadays we're lookingat doing things like that with machines.
(10:30):
Now, to me, I'll neversee a machine as human of any kind.
It's a tool. But as wekeep pressing this stuff into play,
maybe I'm wrong. Like share,subscribe, most importantly, be great,
Line. Welcome to your donut,you eat it. I'm your host,
Sean. You know, I've spentmy weekend being in the two a guy,
mostly imparting some knowledge on some friendsand catching up on shows. So
(00:34):
I finally caught up on the lastthree episodes of The Bad Batch. I'm
halfway through the last episode of Showgun, and what have I got to say?
I think there's actually still some somepunch left in Disney. If they'll
get away from trying to get intopolitics, if they'll stay away from these
(00:59):
you know, culture war issues andjust put out a good story, there's
some potential there, especially after thelast episode of The Bad Batch I watched.
You know, there's there's a potentialto bring something in that I have
not seen in culture that I'm curiousif they would even consider it. And
(01:21):
that's the damage about sending people togo fight in warfare. You know,
if you haven't watched the new one, I'm not gonna get too much in
it, and I won't give youtoo many spoilers, but you can kind
of already see what's happened given thatthey've been testing the sniper crosshair, you
know, and he's got some damagethat turns out it's not real physical damage.
(01:42):
It's more mental damage. And itmakes me think that if Disney were
to focus in on that just alittle bit with all their crap that they're
doing, and maybe shine some lighton what happens to veterans or people that
are sent to fight stupid wars andthe repercussions they have to deal with after
they get out of it, thatmight be an interesting storyline. You know,
(02:07):
you have someone who has a skill, a perishable skill. Marksmanship is
a very perishable skill. If you'renot using it, you lose it.
And you have someone who is exceptionallygood at it in the series, and
now he's not as good because hisarm keeps twitching and he's just went through
a medical evaluation and he finds outthat that's not actually because of damage they've
(02:31):
done to him during the torture he'swent through. It's a mental block.
And if you think about a lotof things that happen in your life,
about mental blocks and other things thathappened, the damage, the trauma we've
had in all of our life,if they would bring that to the culture
(02:51):
pieces, the movies, the books, you might have something that might resonate
with your audience a little more thanyou know, making some gay who doesn't
matter if they're gay or not,or making someone trans who didn't have any
signs of this or didn't have anythinglike that. Forcing those culture war issues
(03:13):
into a storyline doesn't make a lotof sense. It never has to me,
you know, It's been one ofthe driving issues behind your donut you
eat it and me trying to writea novel is because I'm sick to death
of forcing things into storylines or changingcharacters when you just need to make a
(03:34):
good, honest story that's different.You know. That's why I'm kind of
interested in where Showgun plays out.You know, I'll segue to that.
Showgun seems to be have some verygood historical pieces there, but it shows
the human condition. You know,you have death, you have potential for
strife because war. You see religiousovertones that are coming into this because that
(04:00):
would possibly cause wars. You seecultural differences, huge cultural differences, Western
culture versus Eastern culture and how theyclash and how they collide and what they
do. You know, there wasa point in time that we from the
West were considered barbarians because we wouldn'ttake a damn bath, and the fact
(04:23):
that we didn't really preserve our foodand we'd let it rot and fit.
And if you look at what happenedand say feudal Japan, they were already
taking baths and preserving food and levelswe never did, you know, in
the West, that is, butwe thought we were the better culture.
(04:46):
The Western world thought we're better.It leads me to think about the stuff
that's going on in Ukraine and everywhereelse, you know, in the rest
of the world. You know,for seventy or eighty years now, we've
had the Brenton Woods Agreement, whichwas basically setting up the globalization stuff that
was going on in the world,and we have arrogantly, in the West,
(05:08):
myself included, put ourselves in asituation where we think we're better than
everyone. Maybe we're not. Youknow, I think in a lot of
ways we are. You know.The freedom of our culture, the right
to say what you mean and actuallyhave it heard. That's something that is
uniquely Western. It's actually uniquely Christian. A lot of people don't understand that
(05:33):
that a Western society. Western culture, whether you want to admit it or
not, is deeply rooted in JudeoChristian values and our culture reflects it.
It has drifted apart from that,and that's where we're seeing the chisms with
these culture war issues, because theculture war issues are always been something on
(05:57):
the fringe. You know. Iremember going to high school and we had
one person I could think of probablytransition later in life. I'm just going
to put it that way, transitionfrom female to male. How did we
deal with that? We just kindof accepted them who they were and let
(06:18):
them figure that out on their ownbecause it was not our business. You
know. They have to figure thatstuff out. The people that have these
issues have to figure that stuff out. Society shouldn't change one hundred percent one
hundred different ways to accommodate one person. The same time that one person's rights
(06:41):
and individuality are just as important,and you'll have to make amends for it
one way or another, either insociety or in the afterlife if you believe
in one. And that's stuff thatis kind of cultural gold that we're not
seeing ingrained in culture or not asmuch as we once did. You know,
(07:02):
that's what I think a lot ofWestern society O men, while they're
being pulled to older ideals is thatthey were not given those you know,
it was for a long time inWestern society. Even now in certain circles.
If you're just a man, you'rea bad dude already. If you're
(07:26):
a man that believes that your jobis to protect and defend your home and
your family, and that's machoism,that's machismo. That's not something you're supposed
to do. You know. Butif you look at human society from its
beginning, it's kind of how italways has been and how society has been
(07:47):
able to thrive and exist period.You know, there's two sides of every
coin. There's a nurturing, carryingside that we need just as much as
we need the defense of macho typepeople. We need both sides. We
need that feminine care that comes fromwomen, and for it to be demonized
(08:13):
doesn't make a lot of sense tome. Neither does it make a lot
of sense to me to demonize themale role there. And if you look
at what's happened in cultural spaces forat least the last five years, I'd
say at least ten or fifteen,you've seen that it's not how it's been.
You've seen the boss woman be thenatural trope of the cultural pieces we
(08:39):
watch, the movies, the TVshows, whatever. Yeah, there's some
of those that actually exist. Iknow a couple of them, and they're
pretty badass people, but they usuallygravitate towards men who are stronger willed and
stronger original, you know, OldTestament type guys, and that they complement
each other. And that's what we'resupposed to do in the human condition,
(09:03):
and that's what our culture is supposedto reflect. So as I, you
know, keep pounding away on thekeys and rewriting pieces and adding pieces,
I look at that stuff in mynovel, that is, and I look
at the stuff that's going on inthe world. I see that there's some
potential. There's a lot of goodpeople that are writing some interesting storylines,
(09:26):
especially the Shogun writers and producers,and there's potential with the bad batch.
You know, this is our lastseason and it's supposed to end five oh
one. I wonder why five hundredand first. Anybody who knows Star Wars
knows the five hundred first legion was, you know, Vader's fist kind of
(09:46):
interesting, kind of cool if you'reStar Wars geek. But I'd actually like
to see more storylines about the clones. You know, these guys that were
basic slaves to the Republic and thento the Empire until they weren't needed anymore,
and what happened to them and howthey interact in what they did.
(10:07):
You had a culture that basically shunnedthem, some of them because they were
warriors that were seen as less thanhumans. You know, that's kind of
something that's relevant to us if youthink about the slaves of the day,
you know, and nowadays we're lookingat doing things like that with machines.
(10:30):
Now, to me, I'll neversee a machine as human of any kind.
It's a tool. But as wekeep pressing this stuff into play,
maybe I'm wrong. Like share,subscribe, most importantly, be great,
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