Tomorrow night at 7, Wingnuts, improvisation; at 9, "Mindless Creatures," sketch comedy.
They team up to fight the dust-infected, violent former miners, mindless creatures who resemble the suburban punk kids calmly sipping frappuccinos outside Starbucks in Greenwich Village.
But the word also has connotations related to male worker bees - drones are generally considered rather mindless creatures - which takes us to the possible implication that the weapons systems are mindless.
However, some have disputed the comparison of jiang shi with vampires, as jiang shi are usually represented as mindless creatures with no independent thought.
The ad portrayed office workers as mindless, blindfolded creatures following each other over a cliff one after another, until the last one in the line stops himself and removes his blindfold just before he's about to fall down the cliff like all the others.
According to folklore, when transformed they are nearly mindless, ravening creatures and can be killed only with a silver weapon.
For all their grace and "greater abstract agility," they lack initiative, and have let a mindless, pancake-shaped creature take over their habitat, resigning themselves to eventual extinction.
So why bother with consciousness at all? Couldn't that fantasy creature, a mindless zombie, do the job just as well?
So, do they continue to produce a stream of mindless blockbusters starring furry creatures and superheroes – or do they put their talent, resources and justifiable fury into movies that tell us how we got here, and how we escape?
