#gansa

For World Migratory Bird Day, we meet Gansa! Gansa means goose, but the Cotton Pygmy-goose is also regarded as the smallest duck found in the country.

They are actually hard to find, as they are considered rare migrant birds in the Philippines.

They were last seen in Candaba in 1979, but were seen again in Apalit, Pampanga last year… more than 40 years after its first sighting (From DENR-BMB Phil CHM).

#NotOurHomeland has banded Homeland fans together from across the globe to amplify and bring light to an already large segment of #Homeland’s disappointed viewers, their voices, concerns and outrage.

Unfortunately for Executive Producer and current Homeland showrunner, Alex Gansa and Showtime boss, David Nevins - the criticism of this past season of Homeland doesn’t begin or end with the current fan response.  Here are a few snippets of Season 6 reviews from television bloggers, critics, reporters, etc.

From The Hollywood Reporter:  

“...Alex Gansa and the executive producers of Homeland, who made a cottage industry out of torturing Quinn, putting him in near-death positions and then stringing the character and the audience along, refusing to just take him off narrative life support and let everybody (including Friend) move on.”

“...To me, the monkey thing was a nadir of a performance that could never feel grounded because the writing never let it feel grounded. The whole season's arc became analogous, as far as I was concerned, to the show's general failures with Quinn. He was a great character and Friend was giving a great performance when Quinn was a cold-hearted, badass killer, when he was the kind of operative who might even give Jack Bauer nightmares. When they tried to force romance and pathos and near-death after near-death after near-death on him, Quinn worked less and less. Although he was somewhat correct to blame Carrie for his weakened condition, he was also right when he tried reverting to the ruthless figure he was before, when he tried claiming he was too far gone to be changed. If only the writers had respected that a few years ago.”

From Entertainment Weekly:  

“...Homeland took a long, winding, and at times bewildering path...”

“...I’m disappointed to see the show couldn’t keep its emotional ball in the air long enough to make [Quinn’s] sacrifice sink in. Did we need an entire, drawn-out episode of Carrie just crying over his death? Of course not — and that wouldn’t have felt right for the character. But did her crying over his copy of Great Expectations (a novel with a classic, absolutely appropriate story of love and loss) six weeks later resonate the way her drawing a star for Brody did? To me, it just missed the mark.”

“And it missed it because it raced ahead to set up the next season. Homeland has always kept a fast pace, but the time jump, combined with that chilling, sinister shot of Keane shut in inside the Oval Office, felt like it came out of nowhere. Yes, we’ve seen Keane’s steely resolve slowly torn down over the course of the season, and yes, we’ve seen how she had been hurt before by those around her, especially when she had been kept at the compound, but we spent barely a minute with her after the assassination attempt to understand her thinking. The new chief of staff is also a question mark, and the new status quo feels too extreme, too bleak to be real.”

From IndieWire: 

“[Peter Quinn] who inexplicably survived a debilitating attack last season only to perish while trying to protect the President-Elect from the people who were supposed to protect her. Quinn was a beloved fan favorite, and his role in the show cannot be overstated. His death, however, felt anticlimactic and almost too blunt to be believed. After agonizing over his fate at the end of Season 5, a quick and inarguable resolution was appreciated. (Carrie immediately said he was dead, and his memorial was referenced after the time jump.) But it felt like delayed punctuation for a fate resolved a year ago.”

From The Atlantic:  

“The sixth season revealed a TV show trying desperately to keep up with the news, and sacrificing coherence as a result.”

“Part of the issue, too, is that Homeland is always waging an internal war between the erudite political drama it aspires to be and the extravagantly ludicrous and enjoyable thriller it actually is...”

“...trying to knit together fiction and nonfiction seamlessly means sacrificing something from either category.”

From AV Club:

“...more than anything, “America First” is such a deeply implausible and phony episode, a radicalized Carrie wouldn’t be any harder to believe than the crimes committed by Dar Adal and his treasonous “deep state” co-conspirators.”

“Quinn gets a send-off that would be fitting and poignant had it not grown out of such a profoundly silly plot. As much as Quinn will be missed, the decision not to write him out at the end of season five is more confounding than ever.”

“The grossest thing about this finale to me is how it returns Homeland to the neo-conservative fantasy it’s always threatening to become. If the president watched this show, I shudder to think what he would take away from a story in which a newly-elected Interrupter-In-Chief becomes a literal target of deep-staters intent on usurping his power. The ending seemed to condemn Keane’s actions, but there was, in fact, a far-reaching conspiracy to assassinate her. I don’t know that her arrest spree is that unreasonable a response under the circumstances.”

“I, your humble reviewer, will not be back next season. This season finally pushed me away and I feel comfortable parting ways with Homeland. Good luck and godspeed.”

From the Wall Street Journal:

Tangina naman oh. PAKSHET. ANO NANAMAN BANG KAPUTAHAN TONG PAG OOVERTHINK MO YANA!!! IMBIS NA MAG ARAL KA JUSKO HAHAHAHAHAHA SO ETO STALK AKO NG STALK TAS MASASAKTAN LANG DIN AKO. SINONG TANGA? SYEMPRE SIYA. JOKE :((( SYEMPRE AKO. SINO PA NGA BA? LAGI NAMAN AKONG TANGA. DI KO ALAM KUNG MAPAPANTAYAN KO PA BA O SADYANG NALAMANGAN KO NA MATAGAL NA. YUNG HIDDEN HINTS NIYA NA IIWAN NIYA RIN AKO THEN SUDDENLY BABALIK SIYA SA EX NIYA. FAK NASASAKTAN NANAMAN AKO 😩

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Poniendo estaba la gansa: Martiniano Molina le pagó 20 mil pesos a Jorge Rial por un tweet

El periodista y conductor Jorge Rial publicó ayer un tweet en el que invitaba al aniversario 350 del partido de Quilmes, pero hoy se conoció que el cocinero e intendente abonó unos 20 mil pesos, y se rumorea que la cifra alcanzó los 150 mil pesos nacionales. “#350AñosDeQuilmes Quilmes conmemora “350 años de historias” el próximo 13 y 14 de agosto. Recuperando el Orgullo de ser Quilmeño”, escribió…