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Falken Could've Stopped Joshua . . .


Watching the expression on John Wood's face during the end scene I had the impression Falken could've stepped in and provided the proper answer at any moment. I suspect, though, that he was wanting to see if David had any pepper on the ball

I don't know about federal prison afterwards (as an earlier commentator wondered), but I suspect Falken gained a new assistant/protege when all of this was over.



"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"

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And what if David didn't get it in time? Was he going to let WW3 happen?

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I was sort of hoping Falken would lean over at the last moment and type in a secret code, but then I'm an eternal optimist.


"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"

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To the poster who wonders whether Falken would have let the war happen..

Falken was already ready to let World War happen with full nuke blasts. He would have been glad if it did, he would be instantly vaporized, no worries, no problems, and heavenly life in the astral world, of course.

So why wouldn't he have?

Didn't you listen to his speech?

"I was sort of hoping Falken would lean over at the last moment and type in a secret code, but then I'm an eternal optimist.
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That's 'hope' to you - that STATUS QUO that has been achieved by massive brutality and cruelty to millions and millions of human beings and animals (not to mention destruction of the nature and pollution), all of which is still continuing (read about Columbus raping and sex-trafficing nine-year old children and cutting off people's hands while forcing the natives to literally slave away their lives in gold mines for him - didn't bring him enough gold? That's violent brutality to you, dear slave - some of that may have gotten a bit better in the modern times, but corpotations don't care, they don't have a soul - they continue pillaging and raping the planet and the wage slaves and the child laborers until.. who knows).

So, 'hope' to you is a hostile, cruel, barbaric planet that's based on unimaginable horrors just so you can have toilets and showers and gluttonous, unhealthy corporate non-food to eat while you watch some bimbos and airheads pretend to do things on a screen inside your sheltered building, while children labor away their lives in dangerous conditions, where they die a lot, and are completely malnourished, without any real pay, with second-schedule (Shoe corporations, fireworks corporations, jewel corporations, etc.), so you can be dick to others on the internet and in real life, while not knowing or caring about much that's constantly happening around the world, because it's too far away from your navel?

No thanks. To me, 'hope' would be to HAVE that friggin nuclear devastation - I completely agree with Falken's arguments. Why continue this fiasco, this mockery of even a barbaric ape-society, this horrible plaque of ape-sheeple coexisting with ever-expanding and ever-enslaving corporations, so wars can be waged in poor countries somewhere far away...

HOPE IS RESET of this whole system, and beginning anew (or not - rather not begin anything than begin something and end up like THIS!)

Hope is not keeping the 'status quo' of cruelty and barbarism. Every time you put food in your mouth, you are contributing to something cruel and evil. Even if you are a vegan, unless you eat only your own, self-grown food, basically. Because even vegan food has been transported by polluting trucks from faraway (or closer) places, packaged usually in plastic and other materials that shouldn't exist and which absolutely will never completely decompose, so they will always exist, until the planet explodes, and possibly some of it even then..

Hope??

Optimist??

You are DELUDED - that's what you are, if you think nuclear war would be worse than what we are currently experiencing on this planet. Or perhaps you are one of those sociopaths with no empathy - I hear that's a very popular thing nowadays on this wretched mud ball.

Neverending status quo is the WORST thing that could happen to human beings, animals, nature, environment, the air, the waters, the landscape, the scenery, and the planet as a whole. And THAT'S what you wish?

Just how cold-hearted corporatist-capitalist feminist elitist freemason are you?

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That's 'hope' to you - that STATUS QUO that has been achieved by massive brutality and cruelty to millions and millions of human beings and animals (not to mention destruction of the nature and pollution), all of which is still continuing (read about Columbus raping and sex-trafficing nine-year old children and cutting off people's hands while forcing the natives to literally slave away their lives in gold mines for him - didn't bring him enough gold? That's violent brutality to you, dear slave - some of that may have gotten a bit better in the modern times, but corpotations don't care, they don't have a soul - they continue pillaging and raping the planet and the wage slaves and the child laborers until.. who knows).

So, 'hope' to you is a hostile, cruel, barbaric planet that's based on unimaginable horrors just so you can have toilets and showers and gluttonous, unhealthy corporate non-food to eat while you watch some bimbos and airheads pretend to do things on a screen inside your sheltered building, while children labor away their lives in dangerous conditions, where they die a lot, and are completely malnourished, without any real pay, with second-schedule (Shoe corporations, fireworks corporations, jewel corporations, etc.), so you can be dick to others on the internet and in real life, while not knowing or caring about much that's constantly happening around the world, because it's too far away from your navel?



Sounds to me like you should stop huffing paint and spouting out moronic anti-science nonsense long enough to pull your head out of your ass, pick up a history book, and find out just what kind of "hope" your beloved Communist Dictatorships and Islamist Caliphates were spreading.


Every time you put food in your mouth, you are contributing to something cruel and evil.


Then by all means, stop eating and find a nice corner to go die in somewhere.

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don't try to silence emotion with patronizing just accept the votum

instead of instantly delving into rhetoric as if inspired by the laughable Hasbara

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well said!

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Professfor Falken really reminded me of the Doctor from Doctor Who.

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Nice catch. John Wood would make an excellent Doctor.


"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"

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And I always thought David could've shown them on one of their computers the conversation he was having between him and Joshua to just show them he was telling the truth and maybe they could have figured out something that way. Lol but it's a movie and it wasn't written that way.

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He did have this knowing, zen-like smile of a seasoned pothead constantly on his face, but maybe that's just his usual expression. It certainly didn't look like he was going to take any kind of action any time soon.



"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

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