Going Home [06.15.07]

[trash180]

LG15

Youtube

Summary
I've been out here for a few days, I'm tired, this is probably my last chance to use my cell phone...I want to go home. - Bree Faction: THE ORDER



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Uh oh...almost out of powerbars. Forget calling anyone...better send one last vlog to youtube! Will she make it out alive? Is this part of the ARG? Everyone out into the woods! Gotta find Bree!

Lookin' pretty good for roughin' it, eh? Is this the last we'll see of Bree for a while? Will the mystery be whether she's dead or alive and well and singing her eternal song™?

edit to fix link...

[robtomorrow]

This one isn't going over very well with the Phorumites.

[Alissa Brooke]

[hyemew]

Well I was going to state the obvious of how did she upload this if she's lost in the woods, but lgpedia says she likely uploaded it from a cell phone. I didn't know that was possible but I guess so. Also I don't know how likely it is that one can even get cell phone reception in the forest but who knows. Who would have thought a year would have brought us here

[milowent]

what was that?

she's been lost for days yet can record, edit, and upload a video to youtube?

and "Going Home"? Where is she going - her actual home?

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Renegade at the phorum still has the energy we lack to point out the dumbness:

Do I have to comment on the convenience of municipal wireless LAN in the middle of the fucking woods?
...or on how digital audio wouldn't get distorted by noise if the connection was bad?

Seriously...suspension of disbelief only works if the action to belief is within the realm of possilities.

I mean, look at on how many levels this video doesn't make sense:
Scenario A - Computer & Camera:

* AFAIK, nobody ever mentioned she took recording equipment with her
* If she did, she'd have been fleeing with a notebook, a camera and a firewire cable. Not saying that's impossible, just saying, if I was fleeing, I'd think twice about adding another six kilos to my bag.
* Video editing takes processing power. Video compression takes processing power. Processing power takes energy. Again, it is not impossible, but highly unlikely she could've shot, transferred, cut, compressed and uploaded a video running from battery.
* Even if she did, how likely is it that she conveniently has wireless LAN in the middle of the woods?
* And even if she managed to get a 'net connection over her cell phone (which I, quite frankly, don't think she'd manage), the transfer rate would be a pain in the ass - possibly slow enough to make the battery of the notebook run out before the upload was completed.
* And even if she managed to shoot, transfer to notebook, cut, compress and upload...a shitty connection would not add noise to the audio of the video. It'd either add jumps or fragments, due to missing packets/frames, or it'd corrupt the video so it wouldn't be playable for us.


Now, LGPedia suggests she was using her cell phone...let's look at that.
Scenario B - Cell phone skillz:

* While cell phone audio equipment probably is a little worse on distance than a camera's microphone, it's by far not as bad as this - think about it: A cell phone is made for telephony, an activity inherently connected to recording audio. I don't know about cell phones in the US, but over here, the sound quality is good enough to identify where the other end is from the background sounds.
* Even if her cell phone was so old or so bad to fail at its primary task (recording audio), she'd merely sound particularly bad - it wouldn't add a continuous, high-pitched noise in the background. (Except, of course, if there was a windstorm going on and she held the microphone into the wind....anybody seen a storm? No? Guessed so.)
* The probability that a cell phone without a real microphone records videos at 480x360px isn't that big, either.
* Then there's the total contradiction of skills: On on hand, Bree is apparently capable of setting the white balance and brightness settings of her cell phone's recording function, uses stop/record well enough to fake post-production cuts and manages to keep herself centrally in the frame without even seeing what's being recorded...but on the other hand, she fails at setting white balance and brightness correctly, ruining the image. Rolling Eyes
Let me make this clear: Cell phones usually start at all-auto mode. To have a fixed video "experience" like this, she had to set the settings manually. And if she knew what to change where, it is highly unlikely she knew what she had to change, she knew how to change it, but not what to change it to. Especially since the cell phone display shows the new settings, and she could've just cycled through modes until it looked good.
* Again, recording a video takes quite some battery power, and so does internet-usage (as the browser is probably java-based or something). Uploading a vid also takes time. She's been out there for three days. It's not impossible, but highly unlikely she would've had the power for all of that - especially given how crappy her phone supposedly is.
* And now, think about this: If she's got a well-enough reception from her cell phone to upload a video to the internet for several minutes...why hasn't she called the Order days ago? I mean, even if the Order dramatically conveniently forgets it has triangulated cell phone signals before...an organization of their size could've easily simply got a few hundred people together to search the fucking One in the woods. I mean, she's apparently still important to them - one call, and the skies'd be crawling with helicopters with infrared cameras. But noooooo, she uploads videos instead. Rolling Eyes

I could probably find more, but I think you get the point. I understand a suspension of disbelief is necessary for fiction, and believe me, I am capable of that. But this video is just unbelievable in too many aspects. It doesn't make sense.

[flwright]

My First Vlog Dorkiness Prevails

Going Home

This is what happens when you put yourself out there on the Internets. And Bree knew it from the very first vlog.

Oh, I think she's been lost since around January 1, 2007. It is inconceivable to me that this character, this smart, optimistic, strong, and independent woman, would trust the people who murdered her father.

Yeesh,

FLWright

[spaciegirl]

What the crap?

[hyemew]

Yeah, anybody remember Bree's dad? I stilly decry the fact he was murdered, but whatever. I want to know her brainwashed reasoning. Has she just forgotten people have dads to begin with, or that they noblely killed him for her greater good? Either way it's yet another extremely disturbing concept being brought to the show. No, not a "mature situation", since the show has "grown up", a disturbing one.

[elixir]

spaciegirl said:

What the crap?

Yeah that was exactly what I said too, hehehe!

Wow that phorumite post really points out how much the destroyers really screwed up the technicalities on this one. By now they should realise that fact checking is a must.

I don't know what to say - I mean even if they were giving Bree drugs to make her loopy - she wasn't even there long enough to have all that many of them, and she now would have had enough days to pretty much detox from what ever they are, and have them out of her system.

She can't possibly have forgotten about them killing her dad, kidnapping Daniel, using Jules as bait, oh yes - and the fact that she was probably stolen at birth due to being 'trait positive' or what ever the crap the story is now.

[Imparfaite]

Or the fact that her notMom is some high up evil Order leader.


What I want to know is if Bree is converted back to HoO, how come she hasn't seen her notMom again? Or heard something about her, from her, etc. You'd think notMom would maybe want to speak to her daughter, especially if said daughter has been successfully brainwashed...

[flwright]

Before I'm proven spectacularly wrong, I'm going to be the first to stick my neck out and say we'll never see Ms. Bree again. This is LG15's Soprano's "Fade to Black".

I really really hope I'm wrong.

Really,

FLWright

PS And I hope Aunt Alex has something to do with me being wrong.

[milowent]

flwright said:

I really really hope I'm wrong.

i hope so too, but your thoughts ring true.