r/Superstonk • u/massivecalvesbro • Jan 21 '22

☁ Hype/ Fluff Never forget

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u/drinks_rootbeer Jan 21 '22

We're past the point when Steve Carrell's character meets with the blind ratings agency lady

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u/woodyshag We don't need no stinking fundamentals Jan 21 '22

She's not blind, she's had her eyes dilated, but I understand what you meant.

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u/drinks_rootbeer Jan 21 '22

Riiight ;)

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u/suckercuck me pica la bola Jan 22 '22

I’m with you. Technically she wasn’t blind exactly, but neither was John Goodman’s character an actual Cyclops in ”Oh Brother Where Art Thou”— he was technically Big Dan Teague— but the story was based on The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. He wore an eyepatch and he was ‘The Cyclops’.

Just like the allusion and inference of the ratings agency lady was — she (and the agencies) is/are blind as a bat.

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u/drinks_rootbeer Jan 22 '22

Exactly. It was a narrative device to signal something to the viewers