On 23/12/2013 3:10 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Spoiler alerts below for Breaking Bad (read no further if you don't know
> how it ends).
>

Or if you live in a media vacuum. :-)

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:23:27 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> I've given up going to the movies and watching them on TV.
>> I've just watched a play about Kenneth Williams. A very troubled man,
>> indeed. There were no goodies nor baddies and it was a difficult watch.
>> Seeing how hard and sad life was for one of my childhood heroes.
>
> Theater itself probably does have more complexity in its storytelling,
> that's for sure.
>

Sorry, it was a TV play. Every now and again a drama budget is spent on 
drama.


>> It got good reviews but I knew that he would die in the end. Even in
>> American book, so my wife tells me. The character that does something
>> bad has got to pay for it.
>
> Watching the story, I wasn't so sure - Walt didn't really *pay* for his
> crimes, in the end, his death was a bit more of an easy way out.  It
> wasn't a "fair" punishment, and it wasn't clear how they were going to
> wrap it up.  Having it be an accident as a result of his own hubris had
> kind of a poetic justice to it, but it was far from the punishment he
> deserved.
>

(How to put this without sounding overly critical, or personal?)
It is that attitude, the one that expects people (exclude politicians) 
to pay for their wrong doings, to the N th. degree, that disturbs me.
It is reflected in American literature and films. Which is where I came in.


>>>
>> Noy you know how we feel when we hear SF called Sci Fi. And while I am
>> on the subject. It is MATHS not math. ;-)
>
> Depends on whether we're talking about the subject as a singular object
> or not. ;)
>

It is a collective noun.
The different branches are singular.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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