Okay, I’m sorry guys but I have
to take a moment to talk about Geoff and Callista Curnow and how much
they love each other, because I gave myself feelings about them
again.
Just…
the fact that the first thing they talk to Corvo about is each other.
“Have you met my niece Callista? She’s getting more beautiful
every year.”“My uncle, Geoff Curnow, still serves as
Captain of the City Watch. But he’s a good man, and my only
family.” Geoff talks to Campbell about wanting to find
Callista. Callista gladly gives up a prized family heirloom,
something that likely reminds her of everyone she’s lost, if Geoff
is saved. Callista records several audiographs addressed to her
uncle, whether he’s alive or not. She is spared during the
Loyalists’ betrayal only because Havelock owed Geoff a debt (which
is a whole other thing that’s fascinating to me, but not the
point). Neither would have survived without the other. Their happy
ending is finding each other again.
What
always gets to me is Callista explicitly stating her uncle was better
to her than her father ever was, which is both heart-warming and
tragic at once. The wiki lists their ages as 20s (Callista) and 30s
(Geoff), which means there’s a maximum of nineteen years between
them, likely quite a bit less. Geoff was a teenager when Callista was
born. He spent most of his life working with the Watch, clawing his
way up the ranks; officers were almost exclusively picked from
nobility, so achieving a captain’s position as a commoner, and a
part Serkonan commoner at that, must have taken so much time and
effort. But Geoff did all of that, and still managed to be there for
Callista enough that she grew up to love him better than she could
love her father. We don’t know exactly what that entails, of
course, but it gives me the mental image of eighteen-year-old Geoff,
just home from his shift and still in uniform, rushing to read a
bedtime story to five-year-old Callista because she can’t sleep
otherwise, and her parents aren’t there to do it instead.
They
used to have a large family, and that whole family is gone now. All
they have left is each other. But their relationship isn’t just one
of ‘you’re the only one I have left’. It’s ‘if I can only
have one person left, I’m so glad it’s you’. And I just think
they deserve the whole entire world.
It’s crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.
This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in
It’s because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.
Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is “disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people’s time”. The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don’t Work. I don’t think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.
They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.
“This is uh. When I was growing up me and my dad used to go at it all the time. Over almost anything, but uh, I used to have really long hair way down past my shoulders, I was 17 or 18, oh man he used to hate it. And we got to where we were fighting so much that I’d spend a lot of time out of the house. And in the summertime it wasn’t so bad, ‘cause it was warm and your friends were out. But in the winter I remember standin’ downtown and it would get so cold, when the wind would blow. I had this phone booth that I used to stand in and I used to call my girl for hours at a time just talking to her all night long.
”And finally I’d get my nerve up to go home.I’d stand there in the driveway and he’d be waiting for me in the kitchen. And I’d tuck my hair down in my collar and I’d walk in, and he’d call me back to sit down with him. And the first thing he’d always ask me was what did I think I was doin’ with myself? And the worst part about it was I could never explain it to him.
“I remember I got in a motorcycle accident once and I was laid up in bed and he had a barber come in and cut my hair. And man, I can remember telling him that I hated him and that I would never ever forget it.
"And he used to tell me ’Man, I can’t wait until the army gets you. When the army gets you they’re gonna make a man outta you. They’re gonna cut all that hair off, and they’ll make a man outta you.’
"This was I guess in '68 and there was a lot of guys from the neighborhood goin’ to Vietnam. I remember the drummer in my first band comin’ over to my house with his marine uniform on, saying that he was goin’ and that he didn’t know where it was. And a lot of guys went and a lot of guys didn’t come back. And a lot that came back weren’t the same anymore.
"And I remember the day I got my draft notice. I hid it from my folks, and three days before my physical me and my friends went out and we stayed up all night. And we got on the bus to go that morning, man we were all so scared. [Laughs]. and I went, and I failed. [Crowd cheering.]
"And I came home, — [laughs] it’s nothing to applaud about — But I remember comin’ home after I’d been gone for three days, and walkin’ in the kitchen and my mother and father were sittin’ there, and my father said, 'Where you been?’ and I said, uh, 'I went to take my physical.’
"He says, 'What happened?’ I said, 'They didn’t take me.’
some additional context from the former principal chief of the osage nation:
Also I mentioned this in my notes but the (banger) song in the trailer is by First Nations electronic band Halluci Nation, who you should definitely check out:
