On The Oparh Show, Christopher Plummer promoted anniversary of the Sound of Music with the cast from the movie, the so called great Oprah didn't mentioned that Christopher was in both Thorn Birds miniseries & Christopher & Julia were reunited playing leads of on golden pond on a sound stage.
"And what do you sacrifice?" "Calm, kindness, kinship, love... I've given up all chances at inner peace, I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every morning to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago for which there's only one conclusion: I'm damned for what I do. My ego, my rage, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they set me on a path from which there's no escape. I yearned to be a saviour against the injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is, what is my sacrifice? I'm condamned to use the tools of my enemy, to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future, I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this battle will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything! You'll stay with me Lonni. I need all the heros I can get." I didn't need to transcribe. I guess I've just seen this too many times
A bunch of y’all will scoff at this, but I’m telling you… This monologue describes being a cop in a really violent city, and really, really, getting bad people off the streets… and it what it will cost you to do it for a long time.
Dear Acolyte fans. Watch this. Next to whatever you would consider the best piece of dialogue from Acolyte. If you don't understand why people hated Acolyte after doing that. You are the problem.
You can feel sorry for Luthen even if you can't agree or despise his methods. Another time where the Empire didn't exist, he would be enjoying an everyday life with kin and loved ones while seeing the sun rise. Another casualty of the Empire and Sith.
He tells a story of a man-made-a-means. He is his own soulless creation, resenting his creator, but doomed to value and follow through with his directive no matter the cost. The soul is sacrificed. May as well get that damned victory.
If ya think about the lighting of the scene, the shadow over Luthen kind of represents the lengths he is willing to go to achieve his goals, while the light represents the goal itself which is to make a better world, one which he states he wont live to see.
The best Star Wars show ever! Brillantly written, great acting, morally grey not the the dumb "darkside is cool" (the Acolyte). I wish other shows were written like that. This monologue is Shakespearianly great, like Nemik manifesto, like the prison break, the ISB meetings and all the dialogues.
This is why Andor is so difficult. Parts like this are just awesome. On the other hand I could barely tolerate the children flashbacks, or the training to pretend to be soldiers, or the general redneck scenes where Cassian lived.
Everything he lists are the basic qualities of a healthy mind. Calm, kindness and kinship, inner peace, love. He's essentially stripped down the hierarchy of needs to the foundations. Luthen hasn't given up things. He's sacrificed the necessities of what it means to be alive.
Going forward, every SW movie or show that Disney wants to put out needs to first pass the "Andor test" it's simple, the script has to be as good or better than this show. If they can stick to those standards. I'll forgive them for letting The acolyte on the airwaves
"I made my mind a sunless place, I share my dreams with ghosts" honestly describes my mental state at the current moment so incredibly well that I'd just wanna cry. 10/10 acting.
Wow I only just now realized this: Luthen says he wakes up to an equation he wrote 15 years ago for which there is only one conclusion. The series is set 5 BBY, which means Luke and Leia are 14 because they were 19 during ANH. And the twins were born when the Empire formed. This means Luthen figured out exactly what was going to happen a year before the Clone Wars ended.
I read the whole book in a few days after having my wisdom teeth out. I don't know if it was the pain meds or the book, but that experience was absolutely heavenly.
Colleen McCullough. I was riding with my father to Yale University, many years ago, where my mother worked in the purchasing department. We stopped to pick up a lady, known to both my parents. I was in my late teens. What did I know? It was Colleen. Years later, after fame came her way, she visited Yale for a book signing. My mother exclaimed her excitement at the opportunity to see Colleen...again - to her disbelieving colleagues. The warm greeting, and the personal message to my mother in a copy of "Thorn Birds" was proof enough.
I don't know in this case, but I think pastoral care is best given from someone who has a family. And both men and women should be ordained. Not Catholic, just my opinion.
It’s much clearer in the book. Ralph was a good man, but he was aloof and proud, and could be condescending. He went to where Meggie was not because he was going to join her, but to help her get over her heartache over him, because he felt like he was above all that human emotion. That’s why Meggie was angry and ran from him. She saw the pity in his eyes. He felt that to be a priest was to not be a man. Now he is more human. He feels pain, longing, loss, humility, as well as real human love. In the book, Vittorio knows that he saw Meggie the minute Ralph raises his head after kissing the ring. The aloofness had left Ralph’s eyes forever. No one needs an aloof priest who can’t relate to human love, suffering, and loss.
@@annwood6812 The theological barriers to the ordination of women are much greater in the Catholic Church than to the a married priesthood. For about half of the Church's history, priests were allowed to be married. And many people do not realize that the Catholic Church currently allows married priests -- in two special cases. One is if a married Anglican priest or Lutheran minister converts to Catholicism they can enter the Catholic ministry. The second is that in the Eastern Catholic Churches (churches that historically followed Orthodox/Eastern Rite but which chose to be in communion with Rome) men can marry prior to entering the priesthood, as is the practice of the Eastern Orthodox Church. No Catholic priest can marry after ordination.
“And what do you sacrifice?” “Calm, kindness, kinship, love… I’ve given up all chance of inner peace; I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago for which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight: they’ve set me on a path for which there’s no escape. I yearn to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I look down, there’s no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them; I burn my decency for someone else’s future; I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. The ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.”
Priests way back when more than a thousand years ago could get married but because they gave church property to their children? Thats a no-no so priests had to take vows. So again it has to do with money.
