anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> . . .
>>
>>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>
>>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>
>>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>
>>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>
>>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>
>>>> I'm still sticking with my original point that the scene was utterly
>>>> stupid because in real life, the researcher would have been there to
>>>> actually check the reporter's facts on a story as big as this, not just
>>>> to passively-aggressively take cheap shots.
>>
>>> I think a scene that stupid can be stupid on more than one basis. For a
>>> third angle, I'm not even sure who we were supposed to be rooting for.
>>
>>> And if the fact checker doesn't sign off on it, does it get printed anyway?
>>
>> They shouldn't because that makes the publisher vulnerable in a
>> defamation lawsuit for knowing printing a false story.
>>
>>>> And that the story really and truly needed fact checking 'cuz Eileen
>>>> just handwaived that the source provided genuine documents. There was
>>>> really no reason for her to turn in that story in 20 minutes without
>>>> allowing time for fact checking.
>>
>>> I wondered what the hell the deadline was and where it came from. Is this
>>> actually a print medium publication? Why is she desperately typing to get
>>> it done in time? What is the fact checker checking if she hasn't finished
>>> writing the article?
>>
>> That wasn't clear to me. One of the reviews I found said that she worked
>> for The Vanguard, which was on line. The only way the deadline made any
>> sense were if it were something like The Atlantic, a monthly print
>> magazine.
>>
>> The deadline was absurd.
>>
>
>I fell asleep halfway through it. I don't even know if I want to go back
>and finish the episode.

You're no fun.

On 2022-10-08 10:41 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>
>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>
>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>
>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>> critics reviews....
>
> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>
I'm betting that the crew and cast strongly preferred to be in easy
commuting distance to a major city than to be many hours out into the
boonies. After all, their lead actress is a two-time Oscar winner! You
can't make talent like that spend their nights in a tent or rustic cabin
for months on end.

> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>
> (I know Rhino will get the reference without needing a map, some of
> you may need a map)
>
I certainly know where Thunder Bay is - two solid days drive from
Toronto, where I lived for 8 years. I had heard of Steveston a time or
two but honestly couldn't have told you where it is in BC. If you'd told
me that it was on the BC/Yukon border, I wouldn't have questioned it.
But know that I know it is near Vancouver, I know it's a LONG way from
Alaska.

> Speaking of British Columbia, Hope, BC is celebrating the 40th
> anniversary of Rambo: First Blood which was shot there and in the
> adjoining Manning Park.

--
Rhino

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> . . .
>>
>>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>
>>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>
>>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>
>>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>
>>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>
>>>> I'm still sticking with my original point that the scene was utterly
>>>> stupid because in real life, the researcher would have been there to
>>>> actually check the reporter's facts on a story as big as this, not just
>>>> to passively-aggressively take cheap shots.
>>
>>> I think a scene that stupid can be stupid on more than one basis. For a
>>> third angle, I'm not even sure who we were supposed to be rooting for.
>>
>>> And if the fact checker doesn't sign off on it, does it get printed anyway?
>>
>> They shouldn't because that makes the publisher vulnerable in a
>> defamation lawsuit for knowing printing a false story.
>>
>>>> And that the story really and truly needed fact checking 'cuz Eileen
>>>> just handwaived that the source provided genuine documents. There was
>>>> really no reason for her to turn in that story in 20 minutes without
>>>> allowing time for fact checking.
>>
>>> I wondered what the hell the deadline was and where it came from. Is this
>>> actually a print medium publication? Why is she desperately typing to get
>>> it done in time? What is the fact checker checking if she hasn't finished
>>> writing the article?
>>
>> That wasn't clear to me. One of the reviews I found said that she worked
>> for The Vanguard, which was on line. The only way the deadline made any
>> sense were if it were something like The Atlantic, a monthly print
>> magazine.
>
> Ok. I found another review that said The Vanguard was a newspaper. I'm
> not going to re-watch the beginning of the episode. It's still not going
> to make any sense.
>
>> The deadline was absurd.
>

If I re-watch it I’ll check

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>
>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>
>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>
> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>
> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
> again to return to the status quo.
>
Apparently, Black Jack Pershing was, for a time, a SIX-star general. The
only other six-star general in US history was George Washington but
Washington only got that rank as part of the bicentennial in 1976, long
after he was dead. Pershing was a six-star general during his lifetime.
(He died in 1948.)

For proof, watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBpk9cfawI [3 minutes].

It is the 8th of the 11 bits of little-known lore that establishes
Pershing's highest rank.

>a And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
> shoulder.
>
There are also pictures of Pershing wearing 4 stars. They are authentic
pictures but were taken at a time before he'd been elevated to 6-star
general. Perhaps the photo of the general in Alaska Daily stemmed from a
time before he got his 5th star? Of course this also assumes a universe
where 5 star generals are possible, which would make this technically
science fiction ;-)

>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>
>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>> questioned her judgment.
>>
>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>> story needed it.
>>
>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>
> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>
>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>
> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
> a few years ago.
>
> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
> seemed to be all the time.

--
Rhino

In article <7vc4khpo298ouknu35qdfr6qil8b7csohc@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat
<lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 02:42:01 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> >> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
> >> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
> >>
> >
> >Ian says Steveson, British Columbia, and Alaska.
> >
> >So is it one and done?
>
> STEVESTON?!?
>
> That's an outer semi-rural suburb of Vancouver and 900 or so miles
> from Alaska.

You're surprised that they didn't haul ass all the way to Alaska?

In article <31d4kh5t3k5ele6u8kf7h9c5mcpfbl4hh1@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat
<lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>
> >> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
> >> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
> >
> >Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
> >
> >Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
> >up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
> >now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
> >you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
> >that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
> >critics reviews....
>
> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>
> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......

The mass audience doesn't know and doesn't care.

In article
<1796987030.686990308.459259.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Oh and how about that Tesseract newspaper office in the shopping mall. The
> thing is gigantic and it¹s mostly empty space. They have to shout to talk
> to the person at the next desk!

That was the most ridiculous thing about this absurd show.

On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>
>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>
>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>
>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>>>> shoulder.
>>>>
>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>
>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>
>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>
>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and didn’t
>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>
>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>>
>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>
>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>
>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>
>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>
>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>
>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's deserted
>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>
>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>
>
> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>
I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
lifetime in Arizona....

> Oh and how about that Tesseract newspaper office in the shopping mall. The
> thing is gigantic and it’s mostly empty space. They have to shout to talk
> to the person at the next desk!
>

--
Rhino

On 10/9/2022 3:23 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2022-10-08 10:41 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>
>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>>
>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>> critics reviews....
>>
>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>>
> I'm betting that the crew and cast strongly preferred to be in easy
> commuting distance to a major city than to be many hours out into the
> boonies. After all, their lead actress is a two-time Oscar winner! You
> can't make talent like that spend their nights in a tent or rustic cabin
> for months on end.
>
Well, you can but it takes promising them a chance at a third Oscar. :P

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On 10/9/2022 12:01 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>
>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>
>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>
>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and didn’t
>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>
>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>>>
>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>
>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>
>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>
>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's deserted
>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>
>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>
>>
>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>
> “that seemed unpleasantly busy”
>
>
>>
>> Oh and how about that Tesseract newspaper office in the shopping mall. The
>> thing is gigantic and it’s mostly empty space. They have to shout to talk
>> to the person at the next desk!
>>
When I was working on 911 dispatch systems Anchorage was one of our
clients. One of the features of our system was a rotation list for
services like tow companies and some other things where the jurisdiction
has contracts with multiple vendors to provide a service. So they need
some way to make sure the work gets spread appropriately.

Anchorage used that feature for a list of non-profits to call when a
moose gets hit by a car and killed so they can come butcher it and use
the meat to feed the indigent population.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On 10/9/2022 5:28 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>>   anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
>>>>>> scenary
>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen
>>>>>> documents
>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired
>>>>>> general,
>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>
>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say,
>>>>> "Once a
>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>
>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such
>>>>> thing as
>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the
>>>>> American
>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to
>>>>> ever
>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on
>>>>> his
>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to
>>>>>> authenticate
>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted
>>>>>> anyone who
>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The
>>>>>> researcher's
>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed
>>>>>> women,
>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>
>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and
>>>> didn’t
>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>
>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown
>>>>> World.
>>>>>
>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the
>>>> first
>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already
>>>> told her
>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>
>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>
>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really
>>>>>> don't
>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took
>>>>> there
>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>
>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's
>>>> deserted
>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>
>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>
>>
>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>>
> I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
> lifetime in Arizona....
>
There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
summers and all-day nights of winter.

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dirty old man.

A Friend wrote:
>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

>>>>I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.

>>>Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.

>>>Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>>up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>>now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>>you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>>that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>>critics reviews....

>>That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>>to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.

>>I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>>also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......

>The mass audience doesn't know and doesn't care.

Washington D.C. looks exactly like Toronto. Seattle looks exactly like
Vancouver. Chicago looks like Queens.

On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 5:28 AM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> In article
>>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>>>   anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
>>>>>>> scenary
>>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen
>>>>>>> documents
>>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired
>>>>>>> general,
>>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say,
>>>>>> "Once a
>>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such
>>>>>> thing as
>>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the
>>>>>> American
>>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s
>>>>>> to ever
>>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars
>>>>>> on his
>>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to
>>>>>>> authenticate
>>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted
>>>>>>> anyone who
>>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The
>>>>>>> researcher's
>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer
>>>>>>> who
>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed
>>>>>>> women,
>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense
>>>>> and didn’t
>>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>>
>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown
>>>>>> World.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the
>>>>> first
>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already
>>>>> told her
>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>>
>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave
>>>> her a
>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really
>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the
>>>>>> town
>>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>>
>>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's
>>>>> deserted
>>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>>
>>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I
>>>> was in
>>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the
>>>> city
>>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital.
>>> Other
>>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>>>
>> I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of
>> a lifetime in Arizona....
>>
> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
> summers and all-day nights of winter.
>
Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the Arctic
Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter days are
short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in summer or
never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the
US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where the sun doesn't
set and where it doesn't rise....

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On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 22:09:52 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 02:42:01 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ian says Steveson, British Columbia, and Alaska.
>>>
>>> So is it one and done?
>>
>> STEVESTON?!?
>>
>> That's an outer semi-rural suburb of Vancouver and 900 or so miles
>> from Alaska.
>>
>
>That’s from IMDb. And it’s actually listed the way I said it
>Steveston, British Columbia. I don’t know if the comma indicates two
>different places or that one is a city and one is a province.
>
>As always, blame Ian.

OMG too funny.

No - the latter - city, province - you wouldn't get confused about
"Los Angeles, California" would you? or even something comparable to
Steveston like "Palm Springs, California"

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 06:23:30 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>
>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>>
>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>> critics reviews....
>>
>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>>
>I'm betting that the crew and cast strongly preferred to be in easy
>commuting distance to a major city than to be many hours out into the
>boonies. After all, their lead actress is a two-time Oscar winner! You
>can't make talent like that spend their nights in a tent or rustic cabin
>for months on end.
>
>> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>>
>> (I know Rhino will get the reference without needing a map, some of
>> you may need a map)
>>
>I certainly know where Thunder Bay is - two solid days drive from
>Toronto, where I lived for 8 years. I had heard of Steveston a time or
>two but honestly couldn't have told you where it is in BC. If you'd told
>me that it was on the BC/Yukon border, I wouldn't have questioned it.
>But know that I know it is near Vancouver, I know it's a LONG way from
>Alaska.
>
Ironically enough Steveston is about the same difference from
Bellingham, WA (Hillary Swank's home town) as from Vancouver though
the Canada-US border is in between.

Especially with the cross-border COVID regulations lifting I wouldn't
be all surprised if she visits her family on non-shooting days.

On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

>> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
>> summers and all-day nights of winter.
>>
> Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the Arctic
> Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter days are
> short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in summer or
> never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the
> US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where the sun doesn't
> set and where it doesn't rise....
>

Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and midsummer,
but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 06:23:30 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>I certainly know where Thunder Bay is - two solid days drive from
>Toronto, where I lived for 8 years. I had heard of Steveston a time or
>two but honestly couldn't have told you where it is in BC. If you'd told
>me that it was on the BC/Yukon border, I wouldn't have questioned it.
>But know that I know it is near Vancouver, I know it's a LONG way from
>Alaska.
>
So do I - 40 years ago I was a Co-op student and had the "privilege"
of "commuting" between Hamilton and Winnipeg every 4 months. Got to
know all those small towns on the north side of Lakes Huron and
Superior somewhat well. First job after graduation was also in
Winnipeg so another 5 years of that - haven't driven that highway
since.

(Roughly 950 miles)

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>
>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>
>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>
>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>
>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>> again to return to the status quo.
>>
> Apparently, Black Jack Pershing was, for a time, a SIX-star general. The
> only other six-star general in US history was George Washington but
> Washington only got that rank as part of the bicentennial in 1976, long
> after he was dead. Pershing was a six-star general during his lifetime.
> (He died in 1948.)
>
> For proof, watch:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBpk9cfawI [3 minutes].
>
> It is the 8th of the 11 bits of little-known lore that establishes
> Pershing's highest rank.
>
>> a And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>> shoulder.
>>
> There are also pictures of Pershing wearing 4 stars. They are authentic
> pictures but were taken at a time before he'd been elevated to 6-star
> general. Perhaps the photo of the general in Alaska Daily stemmed from a
> time before he got his 5th star? Of course this also assumes a universe
> where 5 star generals are possible, which would make this technically
> science fiction ;-)
>
>
>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>
>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>
>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>> story needed it.
>>>
>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>
>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>
>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>
>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
>> a few years ago.
>>
>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>> seemed to be all the time.
>
>

Hell, it already looks like it’s set in the Omega Man universe.

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Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>
>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>
>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>
>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and didn’t
>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>
>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>>>
>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>
>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>
>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>
>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's deserted
>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>
>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>
>>
>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>>
> I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
> lifetime in Arizona....

I would however enjoy 30 days of night

>
>> Oh and how about that Tesseract newspaper office in the shopping mall. The
>> thing is gigantic and it’s mostly empty space. They have to shout to talk
>> to the person at the next desk!
>>
>
>

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anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>> . . .
>>>
>>>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>
>>>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>
>>>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>
>>>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>
>>>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>
>>>>> I'm still sticking with my original point that the scene was utterly
>>>>> stupid because in real life, the researcher would have been there to
>>>>> actually check the reporter's facts on a story as big as this, not just
>>>>> to passively-aggressively take cheap shots.
>>>
>>>> I think a scene that stupid can be stupid on more than one basis. For a
>>>> third angle, I'm not even sure who we were supposed to be rooting for.
>>>
>>>> And if the fact checker doesn't sign off on it, does it get printed anyway?
>>>
>>> They shouldn't because that makes the publisher vulnerable in a
>>> defamation lawsuit for knowing printing a false story.
>>>
>>>>> And that the story really and truly needed fact checking 'cuz Eileen
>>>>> just handwaived that the source provided genuine documents. There was
>>>>> really no reason for her to turn in that story in 20 minutes without
>>>>> allowing time for fact checking.
>>>
>>>> I wondered what the hell the deadline was and where it came from. Is this
>>>> actually a print medium publication? Why is she desperately typing to get
>>>> it done in time? What is the fact checker checking if she hasn't finished
>>>> writing the article?
>>>
>>> That wasn't clear to me. One of the reviews I found said that she worked
>>> for The Vanguard, which was on line. The only way the deadline made any
>>> sense were if it were something like The Atlantic, a monthly print
>>> magazine.
>>
>> Ok. I found another review that said The Vanguard was a newspaper. I'm
>> not going to re-watch the beginning of the episode. It's still not going
>> to make any sense.
>>
>>> The deadline was absurd.
>>
>
> If I re-watch it I’ll check
>

OK

I never found confirmation that either “paper” she worked for had a dead
tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.

When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds of
problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this horrible
below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.

The evil general is initially up for the patient position of “defense
secretary“ (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense), then
he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he’s defense secretary. In
the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that while the Gen is a
bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that drop completely unless
it’s still coming.

I don’t know where the hell they’re supposed to be but they referred to
both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.

Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy in
Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.

I can’t find any such thing as the Alaska Native Health & Hospital Center.
It looks like they faked the sign on the Alaska Native Medical Center in
Anchorage.

How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
out on trees when it’s in the middle of a strip mall?

Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department. I have seen three different
spellings for her name now. I’m going with the one from the close
captioning.

There are definitely windows on two sides of the newspaper office, possibly
three, with different views. Possibly four depending on which way the
separate foyer set faces. You don’t often see that on an interior store in
a strip mall.

The daily Alaskan frontage in the strip mall is only 20 or 30 feet wide.
There are multiple occupied storefronts on either side of it.

“Inspired by the anchorage daily news and propublica series“

Articles on filming locations

https://www.distractify.com/p/alaska-daily-filming-locations

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/alaska-daily-show-filmed-alaska.html/

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/events-and-entertainment/metro-vancouver-film-set-alaska-daily-hilary-swank-5690094

Apparently it’s primarily filmed in Burnaby British Columbia regardless of
what Ian claims on IMDb.

However this article

https://www.readsme.com/2022/10/08/alaska-daily-series-filming-locations/

Claims that

““Alaska Daily” is filmed in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and
Alaska, specifically in Metro Vancouver, North Slave Region, Squamish, and
Anchorage.”

That last article goes on with a great deal of detail as well as mentioning
that many terrible productions have been filmed in metro Vancouver.

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> A Friend wrote:
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:
>
>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>
>>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>
>>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>>> critics reviews....
>
>>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>
>>> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>>> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>
>> The mass audience doesn't know and doesn't care.
>
> Washington D.C. looks exactly like Toronto. Seattle looks exactly like
> Vancouver. Chicago looks like Queens.
>

The great support of metropolis, Kansas, looks just like…

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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 22:09:52 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 02:42:01 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ian says Steveson, British Columbia, and Alaska.
>>>>
>>>> So is it one and done?
>>>
>>> STEVESTON?!?
>>>
>>> That's an outer semi-rural suburb of Vancouver and 900 or so miles
>>> from Alaska.
>>>
>>
>> That’s from IMDb. And it’s actually listed the way I said it
>> Steveston, British Columbia. I don’t know if the comma indicates two
>> different places or that one is a city and one is a province.
>>
>> As always, blame Ian.
>
> OMG too funny.
>
> No - the latter - city, province - you wouldn't get confused about
> "Los Angeles, California" would you? or even something comparable to
> Steveston like "Palm Springs, California"
>

I would win the next line simply read “British Columbia“

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On 2022-10-09 1:19 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 06:23:30 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>
>>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>>>
>>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>>> critics reviews....
>>>
>>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>>>
>> I'm betting that the crew and cast strongly preferred to be in easy
>> commuting distance to a major city than to be many hours out into the
>> boonies. After all, their lead actress is a two-time Oscar winner! You
>> can't make talent like that spend their nights in a tent or rustic cabin
>> for months on end.
>>
>>> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>>> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>>>
>>> (I know Rhino will get the reference without needing a map, some of
>>> you may need a map)
>>>
>> I certainly know where Thunder Bay is - two solid days drive from
>> Toronto, where I lived for 8 years. I had heard of Steveston a time or
>> two but honestly couldn't have told you where it is in BC. If you'd told
>> me that it was on the BC/Yukon border, I wouldn't have questioned it.
>> But know that I know it is near Vancouver, I know it's a LONG way from
>> Alaska.
>>
> Ironically enough Steveston is about the same difference from
> Bellingham, WA (Hillary Swank's home town) as from Vancouver though
> the Canada-US border is in between.
>
> Especially with the cross-border COVID regulations lifting I wouldn't
> be all surprised if she visits her family on non-shooting days.

I'm not sure when they filmed this but I'll bet it was mostly before
Trudeau finally relaxed the border crossing rules on Oct 1. Also, I
understand Swank has just announced that she's pregnant so I'm guessing
the nesting instinct will make her want to stay close to *her* home
(presumably in Greater LA) rather than her parents home - with plenty of
visits to the grandparents after the baby is born and old enough to
travel, especially if they get a second season of Alaska Daily and
return to Steveston for that. (Big Sky's first season was filmed in
Canada but the second and third seasons are apparently filmed in the US.)

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On 2022-10-09 1:21 PM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>
>>> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
>>> summers and all-day nights of winter.
>>>
>> Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the Arctic
>> Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter days are
>> short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in summer or
>> never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the
>> US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where the sun doesn't
>> set and where it doesn't rise....
>>
>
> Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and midsummer,
> but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.

I went to timeanddate.com, set my location as Anchorage, and looked at
sunrise/sunset times throughout the year. It certainly *looked* like
full daylight for several hours at the Winter Solstice (Dec 21), the
shortest day of the year but that's assuming their data is accurate;
maybe it's not.

I've certainly never been there so have no real-life experience to draw on.

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On 2022-10-09 1:50 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> In article
>>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to authenticate
>>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone who
>>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The researcher's
>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and didn’t
>>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>>
>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told her
>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>>
>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took there
>>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>>
>>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's deserted
>>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>>
>>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
>>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>>>
>> I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
>> lifetime in Arizona....
>
> I would however enjoy 30 days of night
>
You'd have to go further north than Anchorage to get that....
>
>>
>>> Oh and how about that Tesseract newspaper office in the shopping mall. The
>>> thing is gigantic and it’s mostly empty space. They have to shout to talk
>>> to the person at the next desk!
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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