I dunno. Sometimes you just roll with it and laugh.
It’s a two-episode miniseries called Cat8. I love it for so many reasons. I heartily recommend it to all our readers.
First, are Matthew Modine and Ed Begley Junior the same person? What do you think?
So incredibly earnest. And quietly sanctimonious.
Sandy haired, weak, soft-headed, prematurely wrinkled, and ultimately dim, they’re both poster boys for green phantasms and ill begotten leftist causes.
What’s so funny about this three hours of nonsense. The premise is absurd. The plot is absurd. The characters are absurd. And it’s all just perfect entertainment.
Matthew Modine is a scientist who wanted to deter global warming. He invented a technology that tapped into the power of the sun. But the evil Bush-era Republicans weaponized it. Of course. He tried to destroy his research, but all he destroyed was his own career. Irony One.
The president, who is obviously Bush, and the Secretary of Defense, who is obviously Cheney, push ahead with a premature test of the weaponized technology which obviously pisses the sun off big time. Irony Two.
Typical SyFy soap opera follows. Modine saves the entire earth and its inhabitants not once but twice. With the Cheney character gunning for him the whole time, beating him in a Guantanamo situation even though he’s the only one who might have a clue how to save the earth, and sending special forces against him with kill orders throughout, even when it’s clear that earth itself is about to break apart (cat8). The movie is a leftist political masturbation orgy. Irony 3.
Oh. The Bush stand-in dies humiliatingly. The Vice President is mysteriously Hillary like. What you expect is that she will know immediately who the villain is. But she doesn’t. It takes her to the final five minutes of Episode 2. Oh shucks. Irony 4.
No, I’m not going to do a matching game. I’m just going to talk sense. The whole purpose of the script is to bash Bush and Cheney. But being ill educated idiots, actors like Modine don’t realize that the premise is more damaging than the target. Hubris is believing we can deal with earth factors we don’t fully understand without creating unintended consequences. The movie is 100 percent about unintended consequences.
Evidence increasingly suggests that the sun is a huge part of the climate effects we think we see. Did somebody sneak that idea in, past the physics geniuses of folks like Matthew Modine?
The only president we’ve had who would have punished Americans for just being Americans is Obama. The idea that the whole planet imploding wouldn’t change the equation recalls nothing so much as the current administration’s desire to punish ordinary citizens for nothing but wanting to visit the nation’s heritage sites. America is dying. Obama is sitting for a portrait and playing more golf.
I know. Nobody wants to blame Obama for anything. Cipher. Geek on the golf course. Intellectual. Right. Tiny little creep of a vicious halfwit who thought he was something he clearly isn’t. And a world of morons who are determined to sustain him in his fantasy.
IRS audit to come.
He’s happy. Are you?