"By doing so, we also want to provide a means for members of the deaf community to see films that are in their native language and to have deaf characters that are believable, with story lines that the deaf community can relate to," she said.
This is one of those moments where the episode fails in its core mission, the one thing it has to do to keep viewers interested -- to be believable -- and flirts with total implausibility; intelligence agencies fail to spot things every day, but that doesn't mean governments use that as a pretext to disband them altogether.
The name still needs to be believable, and fit in with the culture/time period of the character.
We know that anyone can make themselves sound too good to be true, or too compatible with you to be believable.
But the underlying lament, that Bright has been censored out by fashion "as people became cynical of moral and political certainties" is too marbled with nostalgia to be believable.Bright was a political force, but he never held high office, so he was rather like a midfielder who forever sets up the strikers: assists don't count as much as goals.
But nothing about this male fantasy, under the direction of David Cromer, is believable, starting with the fact that Feiffer and Pourfar are lovers: they have no chemistry.
The first is political: if polls about party identification are believable, an affiliation with the Republicans is an increasingly large scarlet letter.
Hillary, this person added, did seem to be engaged in a fierce defense of the Clinton plan, as written, but when Clinton said, as he has said a couple of times, that he had "no pride of authorship" in his plan and was open to compromise, that was believable, because it was consistent with his approach in the past.
