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Captain Midnight!

posted 16 years ago by shiftylee
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I can't believe no one on this board has mentioned the Captain Midnight incident. I find it funny how this guy showed his discontent in a much more effective manner than the characters this movie is based on.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070128101239/http://www.signaltonoise.net/library/captmidn.htm

[–] flern 13 years ago

I fail to see any connection whatsoever between a guy who resorts to espionage and the selling of top secret information to foreign countries because he thinks what the CIA is doing is wrong, and a guy who disrupts the broadcast of a cable movie channel because he's upset over their plans to scramble their signal so that people with a satellite dish can't just watch it for free.

I can't believe that you thought that the Christopher Boyce situation would somehow make people think of a guy who got upset over the fact that he was going to have to start paying to watch HBO.

[–] estcst-3 13 years ago

The connection is that the Captain Midnight incident happened on HBO during a showing of TFATS.

[–] henrimaine 11 years ago

I wonder if this Captain Midnight guy chose this movie to jam because he thought his actions had some connection to the events depicted in the movie? Or was it just a random movie.

[–] shiftylee 11 years ago

I always assumed he did but now you've got me guessing.

[–] Mick1994 11 years ago

Tell me, do you know anyone who experienced it when it happened?

[–] shiftylee 11 years ago

Yeah -- me! That is why I posted it. I didn't understand what I was watching at the time. I just thought someone at the satelitte company screwed up and started showing the wrong thing.

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