There's too much Elton John in this.
Aug. 18th, 2009 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynSomething interesting and sort of thought provoking from yesterday. I was watching the first ep of the British Life On Mars.
My immediate reaction was, "Damn, people need to read more scifi." Because I know if I was suddenly 35 years in the past, I'd react better having read all the people with massive fail and flail.
Of course, seeing 1973 from my now perspective makes it obvious that no one would EVER have wanted to live then. Men were pigs and women let themselves be treated like doormats. People drank way too much... (though that might have been Manchester more than the 70s, I know someone who lives around there and whose twits are always about being piss-drunk on ludicrously over-priced beer.) The colors and music and decor were all ghastly. It's got way too much of the pre-sober Elton John music in it.
I think every pregnant woman in 2009 should watch an episode of the British Life On Mars so they know what feminists were fighting for and so they shut the fuck up about how they have their prissy needs which aren't being met. (I've never been pregnant, maybe it really is like being disabled, but I think it undermines all women's chances of having careers when some of them let their personal lives dictate corporate policy. Honestly... and Republicans were saying Sotomayor was going to be on the Supreme Court while she was having her period... pregnancy seems to be like having your period for 2 years straight.)
Also. Anyone who ever gives me anything olive green owes me an immediate apology. I'd almost forgotten the trauma of foot-wide green "flower" images on wallpaper. It's enough to put a person off olives, some of which are supposed to be that color.
But the most interesting part of this was my deep-seated belief that I would react better in a really bizarre situation because I read science fiction and fantasy. I honestly think my mind is more open. (The bitchy comments I get (elsewhere and via email) belie that belief.)
I remember when I watched an episode of the recent remake of the Bionic Woman. Bitch wasn't grateful to have been resurrected and just couldn't deal with the change in her reality. I think I would adapt to a changed reality better than that. Show got canceled quickly (because it was terrible in myriad ways) without resolving that. I kept thinking, if she hadn't been a useless bimbo who never read a book in her life, she might have had a brain limber enough to wrap around a new concept.
I'd like to see more shows where someone smart and mentally agile gets thrust into a weird situation and has to resolve it by thinking and applying actual skills. So you would think I might like this British Life On Mars more than I do after just seeing one episode.
[The American remake of LoM is horrible, since they omitted the quality sets and props, hired ridiculously bad actors, and decided to churchify the script so it would appeal to Americans who are used to having their thinking done for them and presented pre-chewed in Jesus flavor. Personally I prefer chocolate.]
My immediate reaction was, "Damn, people need to read more scifi." Because I know if I was suddenly 35 years in the past, I'd react better having read all the people with massive fail and flail.
Of course, seeing 1973 from my now perspective makes it obvious that no one would EVER have wanted to live then. Men were pigs and women let themselves be treated like doormats. People drank way too much... (though that might have been Manchester more than the 70s, I know someone who lives around there and whose twits are always about being piss-drunk on ludicrously over-priced beer.) The colors and music and decor were all ghastly. It's got way too much of the pre-sober Elton John music in it.
I think every pregnant woman in 2009 should watch an episode of the British Life On Mars so they know what feminists were fighting for and so they shut the fuck up about how they have their prissy needs which aren't being met. (I've never been pregnant, maybe it really is like being disabled, but I think it undermines all women's chances of having careers when some of them let their personal lives dictate corporate policy. Honestly... and Republicans were saying Sotomayor was going to be on the Supreme Court while she was having her period... pregnancy seems to be like having your period for 2 years straight.)
Also. Anyone who ever gives me anything olive green owes me an immediate apology. I'd almost forgotten the trauma of foot-wide green "flower" images on wallpaper. It's enough to put a person off olives, some of which are supposed to be that color.
But the most interesting part of this was my deep-seated belief that I would react better in a really bizarre situation because I read science fiction and fantasy. I honestly think my mind is more open. (The bitchy comments I get (elsewhere and via email) belie that belief.)
I remember when I watched an episode of the recent remake of the Bionic Woman. Bitch wasn't grateful to have been resurrected and just couldn't deal with the change in her reality. I think I would adapt to a changed reality better than that. Show got canceled quickly (because it was terrible in myriad ways) without resolving that. I kept thinking, if she hadn't been a useless bimbo who never read a book in her life, she might have had a brain limber enough to wrap around a new concept.
I'd like to see more shows where someone smart and mentally agile gets thrust into a weird situation and has to resolve it by thinking and applying actual skills. So you would think I might like this British Life On Mars more than I do after just seeing one episode.
[The American remake of LoM is horrible, since they omitted the quality sets and props, hired ridiculously bad actors, and decided to churchify the script so it would appeal to Americans who are used to having their thinking done for them and presented pre-chewed in Jesus flavor. Personally I prefer chocolate.]
