And you can't view who who voted, so they're anonymous.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x09 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
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here i thought we all had the self control to discuss the episode in the run up to it airing without arbitrarily voting.
Probably some plebe who doesn't know Latin.
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unfortunately there isn't an option to view who has voted, there is no option to make voting public.
"Et in Arcadia Ego" is most familiar to me as the title of a painting by the 17th century French Nicolas Poussin.
Wikipedia's summary of the phrase and its background covers the basics.
Wikipedia's summary of the phrase and its background covers the basics.
The translation of the phrase is "Even in Arcadia, there am I". The usual interpretation is that "I" refers to Death, and "Arcadia" means an utopian land. It would thus be a memento mori. During Antiquity, many Greeks lived in cities close to the sea, and led an urban life. Only Arcadians, in the middle of the Peloponnese, lacked cities, were far from the sea, and led a shepherd life. Thus Arcadia symbolized pure, rural, idyllic life, far from the city.
However Poussin's biographer, André Félibien, interpreted the phrase to mean that "the person buried in this tomb lived in Arcadia". In other words, that the person too once enjoyed the pleasures of life on earth. This reading was common in the 18th and 19th centuries. For example, William Hazlitt wrote that Poussin "describes some shepherds wandering out in a morning of the spring, and coming to a tomb with this inscription, 'I also was an Arcadian'."
The former interpretation ("ego" referring to Death) is now generally considered more likely. The vagueness of the phrase is the subject of a famous essay by the art historian Erwin Panofsky[.] Either way, the sentiment was meant to set up an ironic contrast between the shadow of death and the usual idle merriment that the nymphs and swains of ancient Arcadia were thought to embody.
The implications of the title are interesting. There is death, even in an ideal world? Or, alternatively, the dead have shared this world with us?However Poussin's biographer, André Félibien, interpreted the phrase to mean that "the person buried in this tomb lived in Arcadia". In other words, that the person too once enjoyed the pleasures of life on earth. This reading was common in the 18th and 19th centuries. For example, William Hazlitt wrote that Poussin "describes some shepherds wandering out in a morning of the spring, and coming to a tomb with this inscription, 'I also was an Arcadian'."
The former interpretation ("ego" referring to Death) is now generally considered more likely. The vagueness of the phrase is the subject of a famous essay by the art historian Erwin Panofsky[.] Either way, the sentiment was meant to set up an ironic contrast between the shadow of death and the usual idle merriment that the nymphs and swains of ancient Arcadia were thought to embody.
Too damn early if you ask me.
Indeed. Especially since there will be 200 needless posts before the episode even drops.
Oops.
201. Sorry!
Looks good on my end.........got rid of early vote and they should be public now.
Don't know if spoiler, but in Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2, (but not in part 1) Rambda is set to appear and if we recall, she is still on the Borg cube which is now fully functional with nowhere to go..
EDIT: I was typing my post while @KennyB made the fix, but it doesn't change what I think and said below...
There's always going to be that one person. If they reset it, someone else will be a smart-ass and do it again. They'll turn it into a game and put the mods through the paces.
It doesn't matter anyway. Going by these polls, over 90% of the people here like the episodes. Someone voting a 1 isn't going to change anything.
"What about when you do the averages for the season, Garth? Like you did with Discovery here?" I'm telling you right now, as someone who's put these things together, those troll votes are statistically insignificant. They don't matter.
There's always going to be that one person. If they reset it, someone else will be a smart-ass and do it again. They'll turn it into a game and put the mods through the paces.
It doesn't matter anyway. Going by these polls, over 90% of the people here like the episodes. Someone voting a 1 isn't going to change anything.
"What about when you do the averages for the season, Garth? Like you did with Discovery here?" I'm telling you right now, as someone who's put these things together, those troll votes are statistically insignificant. They don't matter.
you know, i have this feeling the borg ship does have somewhere to go...
i was thinking the same thing. it's not going to put a dent into what i kind of feel like is a positive bias in these polls. i'm not saying the show is bad and the polls are wrong, but that enthusiasm for the latest episode weighs the polls a little differently than is realistic. but that's just my take.
You have no excuse to give 1x08 a 5Sorry, wrong thread...
The five is mine at the moment, I just edited and put it in the middle at the moment..
*off the vote in the episode 8 thread instead*
(my excuse is that this thread are really, really early).
Maybe the polls should be locked until the episodes have actually aired?
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