This is sparta?

Fixed! Thanks for the notification.

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
*dead

Screw you clueless guys. I submitted Chris Chan days ago, and was surprised to see there are no Chris Chan videos on the grater.

http://www.videograter.com/video/Chris-Chan-Sparta-Remix

>> ^qualm:
Of course I know who Sinclair is. I. Am. Canadian. By self-congratulatory tone I'm refering to the "crass self-congratulatory tone of USA! USA! USA! that the ROTW is always being subjected to."
As I said in an earlier post. Sinclair - who is a bit of a Canadian embarrassment himself - was embarrassed by this piece for all the inaccuracies it contained.


Wtf is that .. errm .. I. AM. SPARTA?
Speaking of Canadian embarrassments, fortunately you don't speak for all of those who are grown up enough to understand we share an alliance and aren't in this to win one over the other but to prevail together. Thanks neighbor!

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Honestly the best This Is Sparta techno remix. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

My top 5 before the siftsplosion (vote tallies as of March 7 according to google cache):

1. http://www.videosift.com/video/Firefly-proves-darn-is-more-badass-than-This-is-Sparta (214)

2. http://www.videosift.com/video/The-WTF-blanket-Snuggie-parody (185)

3. http://www.videosift.com/video/Jean-Luc-Picard-s-response-to-Rick-Warren (184)

4. http://www.videosift.com/video/Obama-apologizes-for-being-a-cockblocker (176)

5. http://www.videosift.com/video/She-USED-to-be-a-lesbian-now-look-at-her (150)


Out of these I would have to choose Jean-Luc Picard as my favourite, since he in only a couple of seconds describes so eloquently how I feel about secularism.

The subject of the popular Mean Kitty Song Sparta, has been diagnosed with leukemia. His owner made this video for him.

You are a great man. I fear most of the sift will either ignore it or simply not like it, however.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote

>> ^Xax:I have to agree with the person who pointed out that you're judging a character by one act... there's much more to Mal than these 66 seconds.

He wasn't exactly a boy scout in the rest of the series. Anyway, he's just the lead character of a TV show, not presented as a hero.

>> ^Kreegath:
Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?
Neither this nor the Sparta scene referenced sparked the kind of admiration in me that it apparently did in the majority. It just felt disgustingly nonchalant of human life.


You mean heroes like on the show Heroes?

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>> ^jwray:
Captain Picard is a nearly impeccable hero.

True, but he was a Frenchie liberal.

Mal's an American, through and through.

I do wish our iconic heros were more like Picard, and less like Mal. Might have saved us from the last eight years.

I also wish the networks would fuck off and let Joss Whedon do whatever the fuck he wants. I hear they're already giving him crap about Dollhouse, and they have yet to even air a single episode.

>> ^Kreegath:
Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?

I reckon the creator of the series was aiming for a realistic, human, and honest portrayal of his characters. No one's a saint, and not everyone wants to create a sanitized, rainbow-filled world for the benefit of blissfully ignorant children (or adults) and those who prefer to live in a padded bubble.

I find it refreshing, myself. I have to agree with the person who pointed out that you're judging a character by one act... there's much more to Mal than these 66 seconds.

>> ^Raaagh:
>> ^Kreegath:
Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?
Neither this nor the Sparta scene referenced sparked the kind of admiration in me that it apparently did in the majority. It just felt disgustingly nonchalant of human life.

Old kind of heros?
Like Hercules? Achillies?
I think society would be contemptibly evil if all we watched was Christmas specials.


Captain Picard is a nearly impeccable hero.

>> ^Kreegath:
Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?
Neither this nor the Sparta scene referenced sparked the kind of admiration in me that it apparently did in the majority. It just felt disgustingly nonchalant of human life.


Did you seriously just call Leonidas a "hero of today"? That was almost 2500 years ago and, yes, he really did have Xerxes' messengers thrown into the well.