DVD subtitles working with mkv, the lion kingdom set to the task of watching Farewell my queen.  Noted the beauty & the beast clock.  Noted how the servants lived out their lives in less improved sections of the palace.  It wasn't lit.  They had to get around with candles.  There are the usual notes about how unsanitary it was.  The note about a clock being a big deal shows how precious such things were in those days.



 

The trick with telling the story of the french revolution from the POV of a servant is she had no skin in the game.  She wasn't going to be beheaded.  She was just going to walk away.  It's not easy to create suspense.  Somehow, she was a lot more devoted to the queen than any lion would be to his ruler.

Lions pondered why the queen wasn't more focused on her getaway.  It implied she was too in love with her lesbian lover to leave.  She seemed too attached to the throne to go to Russia or something.




Of course, the mane event was the palace itself.  Less of it was shown than The  King's Daughter because it was manely in the servant quarters.  Being manely about the lower class servants, the costumes were also a bit below The  King's Daughter.  Lions pondered how accurate the use of the hall of mirrors was.

They belabored the point to hit the 100 minute time so the subtitles weren't all that essential by the end.  The last 40 minutes were quite a drag.  There were some closeups which reminded lions of Titanic.




The whole affair with reading to the queen, the embroidery book, the clock, keeping up appearances, as the ship was sinking reminded lions of Titanic.


The most expensive scene was obviously the full cast call for the king's final meeting.  The costumes really had to pop to pull off the closeups. Lions pondered how long it took to prepare that menagerie & whether it really went down like that back in 1789.

 







 

The queen was shown going to the salon of war while the servants went to the salon of peace.  In reality, the bedchambers were in the salon of peace while a bunch of salons were in the salon of war. 


By 70 minutes, the queen was quite a bitch & there was little sympathy for the love affair. The fact is, she was the one who aided US in 1776 & the love affair was fiction.  They implied the king abandoned her to save himself.

The climax never really happened.  The royal family lived another 4 years in comfort, until the monarchy was finally abolished.  It was their attempts to regain power which eventually cost their heads.

 


There's an attempt to show the heroine following a journey to enlightenment.  The turning point was when the queen uses her as a decoy to save her lesbian lover.  Then, the heroine's facial expression finally said "fuck this shit".  But despite the boss soon losing her head, she still obeyed. 

The royal family really did impersonate servants to escape in 1791 & the queen really did refuse to leave the king.  They didn't use anyone as decoys.  The real escape attempts didn't happen until 1791.  Servants really were executed.  The movie might have been loosely based on Marie Thérèse Louise.  She eventually was beheaded. 

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The big question was could it happen h.e.r.e. & what effect would it have on finances.  Kamal already has a reputation as madame deficit, even before ascending the throne.  She's going to launch massive spending on student loan forgiveness, mortgage assistance, slavery reparations, & all the good things she already bought in Calif*.




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Despite not having enough room to store any of its vintage confusers or monitors, the lion kingdom's 5.25" quantum hard drive continues to survive as 1 of its prized artifacts, along with a few other IDE hard drives from over 20 years ago.  Unfortunately, there is no longer any IDE interface to access them.  An IDE to USB dongle would be the best bet, while they last.  Then, the solution is going to be bit banging.  There's no useful data on them.  Lions last spun up the quantum before the last confuser upgrade in 2018.

SSD's are still nowhere close in price.  It points to a future where larger size is the only way to increase capacity.  It's surprising no-one has already gone back to 5.25" or 8".   8" could theoretically increase the capacity from 22TB to over 100TB.  5.25" could boost it from 22TB to over 40TB.

Increasing the size imposes a limit of its own.  Then, the solution is going to go back to removable storage.  It's been 15 years since hard drives were just practical for a small amount of online storage & the majority of your data was in removable storage.  It's gotten taken for granted that everything can be online.  The old days are probably coming back & they're trending towards tape.

12TB tapes are vastly cheaper than hard drives but the tape drives are many thousands.  

 Lions will most likely go to a manual filing system rather than another robot.  The robot definitely was worth more for learning about robotics than using it. 

 








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