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What’s this half-baked spy thriller draft doing on HN’s front page? Plot’s a mess. I squinted at the Bulgarians intro but kept going—until, seriously, nerve tox
by ineedasername 2y ago
What’s this half-baked spy thriller draft doing on HN’s front page? Plot’s a mess. I squinted at the Bulgarians intro but kept going—until, seriously, nerve toxin in underwear.
If this is supposed to be an Austin Powers reboot, the whole script needs a rethink—though at least that’d explain the lack of coherence.
Then again, filing the serial numbers off a beloved franchise to pitch fanfic probably won’t get far in an editor’s slush pile.
Then again... again, maybe it’s not slush, just GPT slop, which honestly explains more than the Austin Powers sequel theory
- etc-hosts 2y agoI usually mentally poop on anything written by Michael Weiss's media operation (theins.press is a Michael Weiss joint) but "placing Novichok in Alexai Navaly's underwear" is how Navaly was originally poisoned.
- stef25 2y ago> nerve toxin in underwear. This fact came from one of the people who was involved in putting it there. Navalny phoned a Russian guy pretending to be another Russian official, asked him how this op went down and the dude said the toxin was in his underwear. You can see this all in the documentary. Your attitude is misplaced, so much that one wonders why you're posting this.
- ineedasername 2y agoI'm sorry, I should have falsed my flag better. I was poking fun at reality for plagiarising the fabulists.
- stef25 2y agoNo clue what you're trying to say ...
- ineedasername 2y agoreality plagiarising fiction writers. Because underwear toxin is bizarre to the point of "wait, was that from an Austin Powers movie?"
- type0 2y agoNot that bizarre really, friends and family often borrow coats/t-shirts etc from each other but not underwear.
- ineedasername 2y agoTrue, though in my admittedly not overly large circles of friends, family, acquaintances, etc., those brief (and sometimes frustratingly and unexpectedly permanent) reassignments of property, applying nerve toxin to the item has been a consideration in remarkably few situations. Those instances usually turned out to be a false alarm with only dry cleaning required to calm everyone's, um, nerves.