#ella watches skeleton crew

[jedisandspacepirates]

Oh my god, I'm really not okay by the end of that episode.

[inastarlesssky]

Interesting, he's force sensitive.

I mean that doesn't automatically make him a Jedi, no? To be that, you've got to be part of the order, learn their ways and learn how to control the Force and all that.

Hmm, I wonder who taught him how to use it, if anybody did. Maybe he just figured it out?

[unlikely-allies]

**Illuminae Spoilers, Slight Gemina Spoilers**

4.5/5

“Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was vengeance.”

Correspondence between the Hypatia and Heimdall has continued to be ineffective, and Heimdall is unaware of the events that occurred on Kerenza. BeiTech needs to tie up any loose ends to avoid having the facts of their attack made known. The Executive Director of BeiTech, Ezra’s mom Leanne, sends a team to the Heimdall in order to open a wormhole that can be used to exterminate the survivors on the Hypatia and Kerenza. The wormhole mechanics have been shut down for repair, and the Heimdall is left with a skeleton crew due to the upcoming holiday. Those on board include Commander Donnelly, his daughter Hanna, Nik Malikov and members of the House of Knives cartel, Chief Issac Grant, and various other crewmembers.

Nik’s crimes are shown through the tattoos on his skin, but he has a secret that he’d prefer to keep from Hanna. When BeiTech’s secret operative aboard the Heimdall threatens to tell Hanna about Nik’s past, Nik agrees to help smuggle a shipment on board the jump station. Things are not what they appear. What was supposed to be a simple contraband job turns into a hostile invasion. The BeiTech operatives take the Heimdall by force, focused solely on the mission to open the wormhole. Trapped in different parts of the station, Nik, Hanna, and Nik’s cousin Ella team up to buy the other survivors as much time as possible. They will not go down without a fight.

Typical to the series, there is betrayal, heartbreak, and plenty of suspense. There’s also a quick lesson in the multiverse theory. If you still don’t understand, I recommend watching Donnie Darko. Instead of a plan engine the object is a person. Gemina by Amie Kaufman and jay Kristoff does not disappoint. By the end of the book the characters from Illuminae have aligned themselves with our heroes from Gemina to fight back against BeiTech. The final confrontation awaits in the final book of the trilogy, Obsidio. Hopefully there will also be more appearances from my favorite Analyst ID 7213-0089-DN, whose comic relief is one of the best aspects of the series.

I almost enjoyed Hanna and Nik’s dynamic more than I did Kady and Ezra’s. The whole will they, won’t they and witty banter kept their plot from being to similar to Kady and Ezra’s. Nik’s cousin Ella was also a wonderful addition to the team. She didn’t feel forced, and proved to be badass in her own way. In both Illuminae and Gemina, Kristoff and Kaufman write compelling, strong female leads that don’t need to seem less-than to their male counterparts. They are not the sidekicks, they are their own heroes. I cannot wait to see the interactions between Ella, Hanna, and Kady in Obsidio. The plot, the twists, the characters, the format, everything about this series is amazing. I highly recommend both Illuminae and Gemina. You will not be disappointed.

[newyorktheater]

It was a good week to test your view of New York — the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the city’s teenagers in “Generation NYZ,” part of Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements series at LaMaMa?  How about by the African-American playwrights of the Fire this Time Festival? The truth is, in some ways, all of these share the sardonic and romantic view of the city by Rodgers and Hart in the 1920s, as presented by Santino Fontana as part of the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y? (It’s very fancy on old Delancey Street, you know/The subway charms us so.)

  Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

Generation NYZ

To the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in “Generation NYZ,” New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness.

They are all New Yorkers, but — as they recount for us over the course of 70 increasingly engaging minutes — either they or their parents or grandparents came from somewhere else. They tell, in other words, the story of New York, and of America.

.@BrandonVDixon, national treasure.#RentLive pic.twitter.com/RFzZ8ROjeq

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019

Rent Live

I had worried that, in Rent Live,  Fox television would ruin Jonathan Larson’s musical about bohemian life in the East Village of the 1980s by bowdlerizing it. I felt it worth watching anyway because its cast of celebrated young screen stars and recording artists would make the most of the catchy tunes.

As it turns out, it wasn’t the redacted content but rather a bad break and a series of poor choices that made “Rent” disappointing. And though the cast was clearly full of talent, only a few standouts brought it home in any memorable way. Brandon Victor Dixon, the one performer with the most live theater experience, floored us as Tom Collins,

We’ll Have Manhattan: Rodgers and Hart in New York

When at the age of 17 composer Richard Rodgers met 24-year-old lyricist Lorenz Hart in 1919, he instantly acquired “a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.”

So Rodgers wrote, in one of the many tidbits Santino Fontana tells us in “We’ll Have Manhattan: Rodgers and Hart in New York,” Fontana’s celebration, as part of the 92ndStreet Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series, of the hundredth anniversary of Rodgers and Hart’s partnership

    God Said This

Leah Nanako Winkler was sitting on the couch in her mother’s hospital room in Kentucky while her mother was undergoing chemotherapy for a form of cancer called carcinosarcoma, when the playwright started writing what became God Said This. “It just came out.”

The play, now on stage at the Cherry Lane Theater through February 15, revolves around Masako, a Japanese-born mother who is undergoing chemotherapy for carcinosarcoma, and explores the effect of her illness on her family.

The Fire This Time Festival

Over the past decade, the annual festival, created to showcase early-career playwrights of African and African-American descent, has presented some of the first New York plays of such now-celebrated writers as Katori Hall (known for such later works as The Mountaintop and Our Lady of Kibeho), Dominique Morisseau (Pipeline, Skeleton Crew  and the book for the forthcoming Broadway musical “Ain’t Too Proud”), and Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play) .

This year’s offerings are not particularly political, although they do touch (often obliquely) on issues as varied as gentrification, immigration, protest, feminism, homophobia, and affirmative action.

Ruthie Ann Miles as Immigration Judge Craig Zerbe

The Courtroom

Elizabeth Keathley moved to the United State from the Philippines, married an American, and three years later registered to vote, even though she was not yet a citizen. As a result, the government ordered her deported.

“The Courtroom”is a re-enactment by Waterwell theater company of her deportation proceedings,  using the transcript as edited by Arian Moayed, directed by Waterwell’s artistic director Lee Sunday Evans, with Ruthie Ann Miles as Immigration Judge Craig Zerbe, and Kathleen Chalfant as Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The play is being presented for free through February 1 in a series of court-like settings

Red State Blue State

Near the end of Colin Quinn’s stand-up comedy, which promises to “lay bare the absurdities…on both sides of the political divide,” the Saturday Night Live alumnus manages to insult every single state of the union…It’s a baffling routine, almost tedious and even tacky…emblematic of Quinn’s enterprise….hit or miss and a missed opportunity.

Week in New York Theater News

Alanis Morissette

Anais Mitchell

Melissa Etheridge

Michael Jackson

“Jagged Little Pill” is coming to Broadway. The musical by Alanis Morissette @based on her 1995 album, put together after she was robbed at gunpoint. will open sometime in Fall, 2019, directed by Diane Paulus, who directed it for the American Repertory Theater last year.  Cast, dates and specific theater to be determined.

  When it opens on Broadway April 17, @Hadestown will feature the same cast that just appeared in London’s @NationalTheatre: left to r: @pagepatrick, #AmberGray, @Andre_DeShields, @EvaNoblezada @reevecarney pic.twitter.com/NgMmBsG3X4

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019

.@metheridge will provide the score to a musical based on the 1988 movie Mystic Pizza, the first time we noticed Julia Roberts! MT They are writing the script now and I am looking forward to getting to work on it pic.twitter.com/3xMQCAfJwa

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 22, 2019

The Michael Jackson musical, @dontstoponbway (Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough) premieres Oct 29 – Dec at the James M. Nederlander Theatre (@broadwaychicago) before a 2020 Broadway run. Book by @Lynnbrooklyn ! Music by the King of Pop pic.twitter.com/jShiAsLdnk

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 23, 2019

.@AudraEqualityMc & Michael Shannon will star in a revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune @fandjbway . Starts in May, 2019 for 16 weeks at a Shubert theater on Broadway. Details to come pic.twitter.com/2gHdflj3SG

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 23, 2019

Thanks @USPS for this new postage stamp of Broadway’s own Gregory Hines, Tony winner for “Jelly’s Last Jam.” He died in 2003 of cancer at age 57 pic.twitter.com/nbFRnATWel

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019

Finalists for the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, honoring women playwrights

Jackie Sibblies Drury

Ella Dickson

Lily Padilla

Martyna Majok

Nina Raine

Ella Road

Heidi Schreck

Lauren Yee

Hilary Bettis  (U.S.)- 72 miles to go…

Jackie Sibblies Drury (U.S.)- Fairview

debbie tucker green (U.K.)-  ear for eye

Ella Hickson (U.K.)- The Writer

Martyna Majok (U.S.)- Sanctuary City

Lily Padilla (U.S.)- How to Defend Yourself

Nina Raine  (U.K.)- Stories

Ella Road (U.K.)-The Phlebotomist

Heidi Schreck (U.S.)- What the Constitution Means to Me

Lauren Yee (U.S.)- Cambodian Rock Band

.@magicmikebway, a musical that’s touted as a prequel to the Magic Mike movies, Nov 30, 2019- Jan 5, 2020 @EmColonial in Boston prior to an expected Broadway run. Music by the Next to Normal team pic.twitter.com/JfC6gyXU3e

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019

the third annual WOW – Women of the World Festival. March 12-17@ApolloTheater “Performances, conversation, activism.”https://t.co/3x7F0eP5yM pic.twitter.com/1y10Y8S7I2

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019

House Seats, a series that’s part of @ThirteenWNET‘s forthcoming streaming service @AllArtsTV, will launch Feb 3 w/ screening of @TheaterofWar‘s #AntigoneinFerguson. I saw the play in a playground in Brownsville in 2017, & wrote about it for @HowlRound:https://t.co/iDapHiXSxP pic.twitter.com/fYEnCiOYCp

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019

Applications to compete in the 2019 @RogerReesAwards for Excellence in Student Performance are being accepted until Feb 4 at https://t.co/gAN1zmqZBa pic.twitter.com/t6dFM5X7gv

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019

What Should We Do About Scandalous Artists? Accusations of misconduct against beloved creators are changing the way we think about genius

today as in the past, one of the most visible ways that our culture negotiates changing ideas about morality is by thinking about art and artists. Is an artist’s work tainted by his personal wrongdoing? Should we give honor and respect to people who excel in their art but are deficient in what we consider ordinary morality? These questions have been at the heart of modern thinking about art since the 19th century; but since the advent of the #MeToo movement, they have begun to receive new kinds of answers.

if Oscar Wilde’s case were being tried today, he might once again be widely scorned—not because the prostitutes he patronized were male, but because they were young, poor and powerless. The hostile gossip that surrounded him at the time, English critic Kate Hext writes, “would be nothing compared to the long lenses and comments section of Daily Mail Online, or the verdicts of social media.”

REST IN PEACE

RIP Kaye Ballard, 93, Broadway veteran (The Golden Apple, Carnival, The Pirates of Penzance), familiar face on TV, funny lady. She was impersonating Maurice Chevalier at age 5)https://t.co/6cMmnOm1ji pic.twitter.com/yfSs5MZk1L

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 22, 2019

RIP JoJo Smith, 80, Broadway veteran, dancer and choreographer. @msdebbieallen‘s teacher, #JohnTravolta‘s dance consultant on #saturdaynightfever pic.twitter.com/URzdmuj9D2

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater)

RIP JoJo Smith, 80, Broadway veteran, dancer and choreographer. @msdebbieallen‘s teacher, #JohnTravolta‘s dance consultant on #saturdaynightfever pic.twitter.com/URzdmuj9D2

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019

Rockers on Broadway: Alanis, Anaïs, Melissa and Michael Jackson. New York on Stage: Rent, Generation NYZ, Rodgers and Hart. #Stageworthy News of the Week It was a good week to test your view of New York -- the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the city's teenagers in "Generation NYZ," part of Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements series at LaMaMa?  

[inquisidorasamy]

SCP-1983 Link ESPAÑOL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNUUJ…

ENGLISH-------------------------------- Outpost 54 has been built on the land surrounding SCP-1983 and disguised as a chemical plant. The "plant" building serves as barracks for MTF Chi-13 ("Choir Boys"). All entry points into Outpost 54 are to be guarded at all times. Personnel will review Document 1983-12, which details the cover story to be given to any civilians expressing curiosity.

All MTF personnel must profess strong religious beliefs, per Chi-13 protocols. All ammunition stocked must have a silver or silver-tipped projectile. A 24-hour watch is to be maintained on the front door of SCP-1983-1. Guards are to engage any instances of SCP-1983-2 on sight. No personnel is to approach within five meters of SCP-1983-1 outside of scheduled testing protocol.

UPDATE: Following the Event 1983-23, a stand-down of Outpost 54 has been authorized. A skeleton crew will remain to monitor SCP-1983 for any further activity. Arms intended for use against instances of SCP-1983-2 are to be maintained at Outpost 54 armory.

Description: SCP-1983-1 is a one-story farmhouse in ███████ County, Wyoming. It was abandoned in 1968 after a series of ritual murders, allegedly performed by a "Satanic" cult. Please see capture logs for SCP-████ for further details.

The front door of SCP-1983-1, when opened, appears to contain a spatial anomaly. Neither matter nor light has been observed to exit the doorway, save for instances of SCP-1983-2 (though the anomaly is exothermic).

SCP-1983-1 is accessible through other entrances, including windows, the back door, and entrances cut into the back of SCP-1983-1. However, the front room does not appear to exist inside of SCP-1983-1. Doors that should lead to the front room instead lead to other doors inside the building. Measurements of the inside and outside of SCP-1983-1 are inconsistent. Holes cut through the interior walls of SCP-1983-1 that should lead to the front room lead instead to the outside walls around the front of SCP-1983-1, but stop three meters on either side of the doorway. Attempts to drill into the front room of SCP-1983-1 from the outside have led to the exposure of smaller portions of the anomaly, though instances of SCP-1983-2 have not been observed to exit them. Further attempts to breach the wall have been forbidden by O5-03, due to the possibility of allowing increased potential for instances of SCP-1983-2 to appear.

SCP-1983-2 are bipedal creatures approximately 1.8 meters tall. They are vaguely humanoid, and entirely black in color. They are highly aggressive and will engage any human on sight. When an instance of SCP-1983-2 comes into contact with a human, they extend an upper limb into the human's chest cavity, without any apparent damage to skin or tissues. Through unknown means, they then extract the heart, killing the human. Once it has acquired a human heart, the instance of SCP-1983-2 will return to SCP-1983-1.

Silver munitions fired while offering prayer is the only known method of killing SCP-1983-2. The precise form of the prayer or religion of the supplicant does not appear to matter, so long as the prayer is sincere. Once killed, the bodies of SCP-1983-2 appear to "evaporate," leaving a small layer of sulfur.

SCP-1983 was discovered after a series of mysterious deaths in the vicinity of ███████ County. Foundation investigators encountered instances of SCP-1983-2 and were able to trace them back to SCP-1983-1.

ESPAÑOL--------------------------------- SCP-1983-1 es una casa de campo de un piso en el Condado de ███████, Wyoming. Fue abandonada en 1968 tras una serie de sacrificios rituales, supuestamente llevados a cabo por un culto "Satánico". Por favor véase registros de captura de SCP-████ para más detalles.

La puerta frontal de SCP-1983-1, al ser abierta, parece contener una anomalía espacial. No se ha observado que hayan salido materia o luz del portal, salvo ejemplares de SCP-1983-2 (aunque la anomalía es exotérmica).

SCP-1983-1 es accesible a través de otras entradas, incluyendo ventanas, la puerta trasera, y aberturas hechas en la parte dorsal de SCP-1983-1. Sin embargo, la habitación frontal no parece existir dentro de SCP-1983-1. Las puertas que debieran conducir a la misma se dirigen, en cambio, a otras puertas dentro del edificio. Las mediciones del interior y exterior de SCP-1983-1 son inconsistentes. Agujeros hechos a través de las paredes interiores de SCP-1983-1 que deberían dar al cuarto frontal conducen, en cambio, a las paredes exteriores alrededor del frente de SCP-1983-1, pero cesan a los tres metros de cada lado de la entrada. Los intentos por taladrar hacia el cuarto frontal de SCP-1983-1 desde el exterior han producido la exposición de fracciones más pequeñas de la anomalía, aunque no se ha observado a ningún ejemplar de SCP-1983-2 salir de ellas. Los intentos posteriores por traspasar la pared han sido prohibidos por O5-03, debido a la posibilidad de generar un incremento en la aparición de ejemplares de SCP-1983-2.

SCP-1983-2 son criaturas bípedas de aproximadamente 1.8 metros de altura. Son vagamente humanoides, y de color totalmente negro. Son altamente agresivas y se enfrentarán a cualquier humano a la vista. Cuando un ejemplar de SCP-1983-2 entra en contacto con un humano, extienden un miembro superior sobre la cavidad torácica de la persona, sin ningún daño aparente a la piel o los tejidos. A través de medios desconocidos, extraen a continuación el corazón, matando al individuo. Una vez que han adquirido un corazón humano, los ejemplares de SCP-1983-2 regresarán a SCP-1983-1.

Las municiones de plata disparadas mientras se reza son el único método conocido de matar a los ejemplares de SCP-1983-2. La forma precisa del rezo o religión del suplicante no parece importar mientras que la plegaria sea sincera. Una vez eliminados, los cuerpos de SCP-1983-2 parecen "evaporarse", dejando una fina capa de azufre.

SCP-1983 fue descubierto tras una serie de misteriosas muertes en las inmediaciones del Condado de ███████. Los investigadores de la Fundación encontraron ejemplares de SCP-1983-2 y lograron rastrear su origen hacia SCP-1983-1

[jedisandspacepirates]

.

Okay, hold up. Wait a minute.

So Jod's holding her. The knife isn't actually against her neck, like it's a bit of a distance away. And maybe one shouldn't trust the words of a pirate, but he says, "I'm sorry for this, I really am. But you have to say it."

What if he's doing that to force her to yield because that's what she needs to, to avoid the alternative of killing her? Maybe he sees that taking control of the ship is the easiest way for him to get them all through this, and according the code, the only way for that to happen is to make her, force her to say she yields?

I'm not excusing his behaviour, I swear. It's not good, and I don't approve of it, but this is me trying to figure out why he could possibly do it.

I think if he really didn't care about hurting them or not, he would have immediately put her into greater danger than she's in, maybe.

[jedisandspacepirates]

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Jod WOULD do that, wouldn't he? Force grab the knife after it's confiscated. And the smug look on his face when he does.

I headcanon that when he was a kid, he used the Force to pickpocket from folks.

[jedisandspacepirates]

Spoilers under the cut!

Jod being mysterious as ever.

*quotes Qui-Gon Jinn* How the hell does he know that? Unless he was taught by a Jedi who had learned from Qui-Gon? Obi-Wan learned from him. Did Jod learn something under Obi-Wan or be in contact with him? 🧐🤔🤨

**Edit: I'd heard that he was quoting Qui-Gon, when he said this. I have no idea if it does or doesn't have anything to do with Jedis. Just my thoughts here** There's an article here that touches on that.

*Does his Force thing* When Wim asks him about it, he just says nothing, up and leaves.

What are you up to, sir?!

[jedisandspacepirates]

Scratch that. Nope. Okay, I'm questioning Jod and his motives.

And sort of hating this because I wanted to like him. But he's not being a very likeable person right now.

[jedisandspacepirates]

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SM-33 (Observing some ships in front of them): ...Grr, a cavalcade of fearsome, bloodthirsty buccaneers, no doubt! Jod: (incredulous) Mhm, those look like pleasure yachts.

[jedisandspacepirates]

Spoilers ahead for 1x05!

Okay, so sure, it looks like he really doesn't want to have anything to do with Wim's sobbing in a corner. The way he sort of cringes and is like 'Oh dear.' Also excuse me sir, pirate saying 'oh dear'? XD

But then, look, he stops and sits down with Wim and talks to him.

Softy pirate man, look at him.

[jedisandspacepirates]

Well, Jod goes into protective mode now. The minute he sees the droid starting to become more threatening, he asks for the blaster.

Okay, maybe this is me reading too much into stuff but until I'm proven wrong, I'm (maybe foolishly) hoping that he won't be such a bad guy.

[inastarlesssky]

Okay, so I started watching it, The Skeleton Crew.

I have to say, as soon as the big bad ship appeared and the bad people boarded it, I was thinking, "If Jude Law's character is among these guys, he can't be good. They all look up to no good."

Then Captain Silvo appears and I cringed a bit bec darn it, there's me liking another apparently (bc I literally know nothing about his character right now) bad guy. I mean, he looks pretty mean with all the stuff he was doing when they landed.

I want to know more about him!

[inastarlesssky]

"You're a Jedi, right?"

"Of course."

I'd say Jod's not being very honest (of course I don't know yet which side of the Force he lines up with, if at all) but by the look on his face, that almost wolfish smile. Idk if I'd believe him.

But I'm growing to like this guy, not gonna lie.

Please, please, please don't turn out to be very evil, Jod Na Nawood.

[jedisandspacepirates]

Skeleton Crew spoilers!

Okay, so I was right about Jod getting captured by the pirates and the pirates being under attack by the x-wings.

Hmm still up in the air about Jod's true intentions and whether he'll pull through for the kids in the end.

Though, one of my initial theories has been a little bit debunked. I thought he might make a deal with the pirates involving the kids, getting them to let him go and lead them to the treasure and that would involve taking the kids as bargaining chips. He hasn't done that....yet.

Oh my, I can't wait for the next episode. But so help me god, please stop with such short episodes. I need MORE. I mean, thank you, writers and bless because Jude Law singing. Jude. Law. singing.

But yes, well, those are my very brief thoughts.

[jedisandspacepirates]

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Oh well, looks like Jod turned on them.

But he hesitated for so long...he was thinking. What was on his mind, really? I mean I think he might have been quicker to the draw if that had really been the first thing on his mind.

I hope he doesn't turn out to really, actually evil in the end. Please, no.