Tactics of War [Monday Evening]

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Before I begin, I would like to say that I'm impressed with the ingenuity of those who were involved in the attack on Friday. I know little of the details, but if anyone would like to give me a full account, I would be happy to award you with extra credit for this course.

Also, Cameron Mitchell? Please see me after class, thank you.

Now, I had a long and boring lecture planned for you today (in which, of course, I expected you to plot my doom, as it would be an excellent sign of success for you as my students learning the tactics of war as one of my long term goals is to ultimately destroy this planet -- *laughter* Oh, I'm just kidding) but last night I saw this film that I vaguely remember seeing from the early 90's and I wish for you to see it and to write down three shockingly irritating tactics of either the locust-like aliens or the ridiculously stupid Americans.

Being both a commander of an invading force and ex-American military, I have GREAT irritation at this film and feel that it is a wonderful learning tool in how NOT to proceed on either (a) invasion or (b) countering such a genocidal attack.

She looks over at Aeryn and smiles.

And Miss Sun, I particularly look forward to your rather inspired point of view.


Now, please, sit quietly and watch.

Eighth puts in Independence Day

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For I wish to see your pretty human handwriting.

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Aeryn signs in. She should write in non-human handwriting just to throw her teacher off. But she won't.

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Cameron signs in.

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M. Parker

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Alanna signed in. Her handwriting is human, but far, far from being pretty. Probably 3/4 of the school can claim that the scribble is their name.

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Sam signed in, but was too busy glaring at Janet to glare at Eighth.

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Janet rolled her eyes and signed in. Roll call, sign in, couldn't the evil robot make up her mind already?

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Pip signs in and sits in for the movie.

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Anakin signed in.

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Susan signs in. Her handwriting is almost compulsively neat.

Talk during the movie

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

*eyes Sam and Janet in particular*

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"They used a computer virus?" Parker's not getting over that one any time soon.

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[janet_fraiser]

Janet was too busy glaring at Sam to pay too much attention to the lecture. And she'd already seen this movie with SG-1 and heard it critiqued, at which point in time she'd had fun. And she was having a whole lot less fun now.

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron's just kinda staring at the space crafts and the F-16s. Shiny.

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[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna blinked at the screen. A lot. "Help..."

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip tilts his head to the side slightly. "Does the first lady seem familiar to anyone? Same with the head scientist and the badass millitary guy."

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto wondered if Professor Carter would notice if she swapped the brain-hurting movie for a couple of episodes of Strifeship Celestial, after all the First Lady did bear a striking resembling to President Roastin.

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin watched the movie, snickering a bit at the idea of sending the leader of the world up in a completely breakable airplane.

Turn in your notes

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

"three shockingly irritating tactics" plz

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

1. The aliens decided not to blow up the Earth all at once, giving the humans time to regroup.

2. The humans used an Apple computer and random computer virus to take down an entire alien armada. I can't even get my Apple computer to talk to my PC with any regularity.

3. The Americans decided to attack on Independence Day because it had a specific relevance to them. Meanwhile, the British response was probably 'WTF? Why would we want to attack on a day that started the downfall of British colonization? Choose a different day.'

4. The Americans had relevant information that could have helped out in the original defense, but didn't mention anything to the President until it was too late, costing millions upon millions of lives.

Tell me all about vampire hunting

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Impressive, most impressive!

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker turned in a written report (http://mparker17.livejournal.com/27296.html) detailing most of their exploits. [in progress] Then she sighed. "Primary objectives for this extra credit project weren't achieved, but the secondary were completed with minimal casualties. Several notes on how we could have done better: more prep time. Better intel. More extensive weaponry. Possibly, better-trained personnel. And support of the local authorities should probably be obtained next time."

Cameron Mitchell, report for duty

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*evil laugh*

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After class, Cameron goes up to Doctor Carter as she requested. "You wanted to speak to me, ma'am?"

OOC

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Have a nut.

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Nobody's perfect.