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shadowkatIt's hot outside, so don't want to walk and posting instead over lunch hour, which is nice and quiet - because most people have vamoosed to the area restaraunts - I tend to bring my own, due to dietary issues - although they do invite me to go with on Fridays.
Re-watched the Premier episode of Farscape last night - well tried to, got interrupted twice by Momster, first to discuss GH (which has taken an odd turn. It's a soap opera that up until this March was told from the perspective of a crimelord, his lover/ex-wife, hitman best friend, rogue/scoundrel buddy, and their significant others/extended. So cops and/or anyone that was antagonistic to these guys was shown as either inept or in a derogatory light. I call it my "anti-hero" romantic quilty pleasure. But then, the show brought back Jonathan Jackson as Lucky (anti-hero Luke's formerly inept cop son - who as portrayed by Jackson is anything but that, quite clever now and has a lead role) and introduced a Canadian actor - who is amazing as the mobster's unknown son, an under-cover cop. As a result the show now is told in the point of view of the cops or non-criminals or their perspective. Risky, if you think about it, considering the anti-heroes have insane fan followings. So spent twenty-thirty minutes analyzing the story. And...the folks, especially Dadster - are obsessed with Ballykissangle - a British television series currently appearing on PBS. (Not in NY, in Hilton Head). Dadster even googled it online and read the spoilers for all the up-coming episodes. (Which is hilarious). Sigh. It's apparently genetic. Second time was to inform me that she'd bought what I'd asked for from the outlet down there. (I'll see them in Maine next week.)
Anyhow, back to Farscape - in re-watching the Premiere - which is highly rewatchable and each time you see it, you pick up something new...I realized what they set up. It really does feel a bit like Dorothy landing in OZ, killing the Wicked Witches sister, and being relentlessly pursued because of it. Except of course she isn't, she's pursued for her magic or the ruby slippers. Here Crichton is pursued for his knowledge or wormholes. Both are their only way to get home. A home that increasingly becomes an illusion and less and less obtainable as they wander down their yellow brick roads. What's fascinating in both tales is that they go to someone else or search for the Wizard to get them home. But the knowledge is always within their grasp.
At any rate - the new bits I picked up on is the project Crichton's working on. It's the Farscape project - and what it is an extreemly dangerous experiment that he devised with his childhood best friend utilizing a spacecraft of his own design. Crichton's module - Crichton created. The experiment is to use the earth's gravitational pull to propell the space-craft like a sling shot into space. The experiment - we and Crichton learn later on in the episode, works - he uses the experiment to propell Moya, the living spaceship he's on away from her pursuers. Demonstrating to the crew what Crichton's skill is - or who he is, he's a scientist specializing in developing quicker and more fuel efficient means of inter-stellar travel.
On earth they announce if his experiment worked - it would have pushed the space program forwards about fifty years, but that is incredibly dangerous.
The other bit that comes up is heroes - Jack Crichton, John's father, is the old-school space hero. Portrayed by Kent McCord, the actor from old tv series, Adam-One. He's the Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon of his day. Jack tells his son that what he's doing is amazing, he's using his brains, in his day only the suits got to do it - we were...And John interrupts, I know Dad, you were "guts" in a can. His Dad got to go to the moon and spacewalk. All John is doing is a test flight. He says he's done these things before, no big.
He seems almost depressed by it. Nonchalant. He's not the bulky fighter.
In old sci-fi - the male hero is brawn more than brains. Here the male hero is brains more than brawn. In the Flash and Buck Rodgers tales - the hero
fights, while the brainy heroine scientist or old guy scientist figures stuff out in the background. This story is the opposite. Here - the hero saves the day with his head not his fists.
Okay, everyone is back. Off to get chocolat. Assuming I can get there by elevator. It takes forever, apparently. Stupid building.
Re-watched the Premier episode of Farscape last night - well tried to, got interrupted twice by Momster, first to discuss GH (which has taken an odd turn. It's a soap opera that up until this March was told from the perspective of a crimelord, his lover/ex-wife, hitman best friend, rogue/scoundrel buddy, and their significant others/extended. So cops and/or anyone that was antagonistic to these guys was shown as either inept or in a derogatory light. I call it my "anti-hero" romantic quilty pleasure. But then, the show brought back Jonathan Jackson as Lucky (anti-hero Luke's formerly inept cop son - who as portrayed by Jackson is anything but that, quite clever now and has a lead role) and introduced a Canadian actor - who is amazing as the mobster's unknown son, an under-cover cop. As a result the show now is told in the point of view of the cops or non-criminals or their perspective. Risky, if you think about it, considering the anti-heroes have insane fan followings. So spent twenty-thirty minutes analyzing the story. And...the folks, especially Dadster - are obsessed with Ballykissangle - a British television series currently appearing on PBS. (Not in NY, in Hilton Head). Dadster even googled it online and read the spoilers for all the up-coming episodes. (Which is hilarious). Sigh. It's apparently genetic. Second time was to inform me that she'd bought what I'd asked for from the outlet down there. (I'll see them in Maine next week.)
Anyhow, back to Farscape - in re-watching the Premiere - which is highly rewatchable and each time you see it, you pick up something new...I realized what they set up. It really does feel a bit like Dorothy landing in OZ, killing the Wicked Witches sister, and being relentlessly pursued because of it. Except of course she isn't, she's pursued for her magic or the ruby slippers. Here Crichton is pursued for his knowledge or wormholes. Both are their only way to get home. A home that increasingly becomes an illusion and less and less obtainable as they wander down their yellow brick roads. What's fascinating in both tales is that they go to someone else or search for the Wizard to get them home. But the knowledge is always within their grasp.
At any rate - the new bits I picked up on is the project Crichton's working on. It's the Farscape project - and what it is an extreemly dangerous experiment that he devised with his childhood best friend utilizing a spacecraft of his own design. Crichton's module - Crichton created. The experiment is to use the earth's gravitational pull to propell the space-craft like a sling shot into space. The experiment - we and Crichton learn later on in the episode, works - he uses the experiment to propell Moya, the living spaceship he's on away from her pursuers. Demonstrating to the crew what Crichton's skill is - or who he is, he's a scientist specializing in developing quicker and more fuel efficient means of inter-stellar travel.
On earth they announce if his experiment worked - it would have pushed the space program forwards about fifty years, but that is incredibly dangerous.
The other bit that comes up is heroes - Jack Crichton, John's father, is the old-school space hero. Portrayed by Kent McCord, the actor from old tv series, Adam-One. He's the Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon of his day. Jack tells his son that what he's doing is amazing, he's using his brains, in his day only the suits got to do it - we were...And John interrupts, I know Dad, you were "guts" in a can. His Dad got to go to the moon and spacewalk. All John is doing is a test flight. He says he's done these things before, no big.
He seems almost depressed by it. Nonchalant. He's not the bulky fighter.
In old sci-fi - the male hero is brawn more than brains. Here the male hero is brains more than brawn. In the Flash and Buck Rodgers tales - the hero
fights, while the brainy heroine scientist or old guy scientist figures stuff out in the background. This story is the opposite. Here - the hero saves the day with his head not his fists.
Okay, everyone is back. Off to get chocolat. Assuming I can get there by elevator. It takes forever, apparently. Stupid building.
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Date: 2010-07-16 05:36 pm (UTC)Are they going to allow folks in Port Charles to notice that Jason is a freaking hitman instead of just pretending that he's some white knight?
And yeah, the primiere is fun to rewatch just to notice where John began (and where he changed later).
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:24 am (UTC)Doubtful. But hope springs eternal.
That said, they've managed to write Spinelli and Carly into a dark corner. And Sonny almost blew up his own daughter and is being portrayed as very creepy. And Jason is no longer quite the white knight he was before. They all are coming across as bit...well tarnished?
Re-watched the episodes of Farscape that deal with John going back to earth, with exception of Kansas, Won't Get Fooled Again, and Dog With Two Bones...and even those...what they do with the whole dream of home or going back home and the realization you can't is fascinating. They literally explore can John return to earth with his friends from Moya from every angle imaginable. They also explore can he go without them.
Before finally having him realize he can't and sealing it off. The love triangle is partly Aeryn/Earth/John, which is an interesting angle.
There's also the whole science bit - about whether we should pursue space travel, can we handle it? What price knowledge?