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Dear Daedroth,

I have an itchy red rash on my arms and face whenever I'm around Dagoth Ur... I've been really careful all through my life and I don't drink or smoke. Do you think I may be the Nerevarine?

Signed,
Moon and Starstruck

I was just following CJ's lead! I didn't know if there was a Dear Deirdre column thing in England, as in Dear Abbey over here! I didn't think he might be refering to you!

Bad CJ, bad!

You aren't reading me right...

You say you don't like noir because it has these messages you see. Then you say sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Therefore sometimes a movie is just a movie and has no underlying message or fear of cultures in it. Sometimes a butler is just a butler.

Do some movies portray a fear of the unknown through racial themes? Sure thing! Does all Noir do this? Impossible.

So then do you disagree with your initial statement then?

"I hate Noir. It shows the fear for ethnic minorities like blacks, latino's, homo's, jews and in the X-files even aliens is correct. These minorities are here to destroy the family values. To come in contact with their culture will rot your life just like that of the detective."

Since that was a generalization of all film noir.

Where was I, ah yes, 2:45 am.

I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.

As he already said, he believed it was an orange already.

And sometimes things are just as they appear.

Exactly! Somtimes an alien is just an alien, sometimes a movie dealing with a dark gritty storyline has nothing to do with secret feelings towards black people learning to read, therefore not all film noir can be generalized! We agree finally.

I salute thee.

*jet, gives Eric a firm handshake

Simply put. Everything in film noir that isn't white, middle class, hetrosexual, male is bad.

Everything? I thought sometimes things are just as they appear? From your response to my agreeing with you I'd say that you agreed with me, so why are you back to making generalizations?

Dear Deirdre,

Long time reader first time writing in!

I was just writing in to ask you how would I go about getting past the medusa creature in the desert to the left of Mannanan's cottage? My boyfriend and I have been stuck for weeks and it's starting to ruin our gameplay experience! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Signed,
Lost in the Desert

I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.

As he already said, he believed it was an orange already.

And sometimes things are just as they appear.

Exactly! Somtimes an alien is just an alien, sometimes a movie dealing with a dark gritty storyline has nothing to do with secret feelings towards black people learning to read, therefore not all film noir can be generalized! We agree finally.

ps, "I wouldn't be the first." just because you feel other people haven't offered examples to back up their arguements doesn't mean you don't have too since you're the one that brought the whole thing up.

I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.

As he already said, he believed it was an orange already.

Yes but would you agree that sometimes an alien is just an alien?

The same way a mexican in a movie can just be a mexican?

Eric

Unless he's a mexican't

Jet, no one said you were lying, it's just no one agrees with you.

That is the first I heard of xfiles being "packed with paranoia and anxiety that is characteristic to American culture" as you say.

Anyone else reading this, have they heard what Jet is talking about before?

In my opinion it's mostly about what is real and what is truth and no matter how many levels of the onion you peel, there are always more.

Men in Black is more about people being afraid of aliens so they take on human form and try to be "normal humans".

Xmen is even crazier when it comes to parelleling fear of the unknown throughout the earth's history. Mutants being mass arrested and put in camps, forced labor, mass genocide...

Xfiles is a sci-fi show that kind of stumbles around and doesn't get much done. If it was trying to convey these themes you're impressing on it it did it so poorly that it's hard to even see them.

I think you should watch Star Trek if you want a tv show that tried to deal with these themes. They had a black lady on that show!

"Yes, it is possible that sometimes a theme can be taken from real life and applied to another style of story telling without condoning the theme. But not in this case. "

Why? Explain, please.

"Well, there was an episode where a few jews gassed in WW2, turned out to be aliens. And that alien shape shifter who looks black in order not to be noticed."

Those are 2 episodes off the top of my my head that I could think of also... The show was on for how many years? How many writers did they go through? How many episodes were there? In my opinion this is just a case of a writer taking a theme or bit of history and writing it into their story.

"I don't understand your comment. X-files is packed with paranoia and anxiety. I'm not the first to say so, yet you claim this is "wacky?" "

So is the Xmen comic and movies, Men in Black, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, do these fit in the same slot as noir?

The Pianist, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful... All of these are filled with paranoia and anxiety.

Or is it possible that sometimes a theme can be taken from real life and applied to another style of story telling without condoning the theme?

Right well, I'm done... That's just too wacky for me.

I guess the black goo in Xfiles is people's fear of black people integrating into our society... And that one Xfiles about cockroaches that killed people was about mexicans and that one Xfiles about snake like fish materializing in salt water to kill people was about... Jews?

How would they go about telling countless writers that worked on that show that the secret symbolism behind the show is that americans are afraid of losing culture and having them all go "Good idea!"

have you ever seen a film noir, jet?

And who is Christy Burns? People who think film noir is racist or whatever it is you said are far outweighed by people who don't... So why hold this one person in such high regard?

If a movie is made during a time of crisis and reflects that in the movie it... How is this bad?

If that's as much as you choose to educate yourself on the situation, you don't really deserve to voice your opinion on it.

I have proposed to Steve's post and hope to marry it, that's how much I agree with it...

Awesome stuff, the Prince Brandon sprite actually makes him look good, god I hated that guy...

Now, everyone head on over to the animation competition, eh eh eh?

I'll enter yours if you enter mine, Farlander!

I don't know who locked this but it is now unlocked. I think if a mod is going to lock something a reason should be given unless it's pretty obvious why it was locked. This, not so much...

So anyway

In conclusion, get rid of the worst noob award... It's stupid.

I nominate it for "worst award in an awards ceremony that is only supposed to be a bit of fun so when you single someone out with an award that means no one likes you is very dumb" ...award....

My meaness is directly proportional to your retardedness, so if you just stopped having extreme frontal lobe damage I'd probably start petting kittens and stop gluing them to car tires... It's the balance of life!

Also, WINK!