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butterflySo, I very much want to rewatch the first two movies in the SW saga. And yet, I want to wait until RotS comes out so that I can get them in a set (I like boxes that go in other boxes -- I bought the special box to put the three extendeds of LotR in, just because of the "Ooo, pretty box!" factor). I was all, "sadness" about it for a few days and then the light clicked on in my head and I went and put the movies at the top of my netflix queue. So, I should be seeing TPM and AotC in a few days' time.
I've also noticed that there has been quite the resurgence in my sci-fi watching in the last year or so. Before that, I was all about the fantasy. But now, most of what I'm watching has strong sci-fi elements (the lone new hold-out is House and I half suspect that the ducklings are really aliens sent to test House) -- Stargate and Star Wars are at the top of the list, of course. But sci-fi in general is holding an appeal for me that it hasn't since I was younger. Since before Buffy, really.
I'm never quite sure how I should classify my childhood. I was fairly happy, as far as I recall, but I don't recall much. Moments, images, feelings. I remember the excitement of going to Star Trek cons when I was younger. I remember playing D&D with my family. We all watched Next Gen, DS9, and the beginning seasons of Voyager together, as a family. BtVS was my thing, the thing that the rest of my family didn't get (they still don't). Stargate? My mom gets that -- I've been showing it to her and she loves it. My dad is still huge into Trek.
So, now that I'm really getting back into sci-fi, it's very familiar ground, and only made more so by my venture into fantasy. They're different vehicles for that same desire to reach towards the impossible, to explain humanity, to explore issues sometimes thought too touchy to show in more 'realistic' venues. So, I can take what I've learned (and am learning) in fantasy and apply it towards sci-fi, leading to a richer understanding on my part of both speculative fiction and my own life.
And everything ever created is all of a piece, all created out of human understanding. No man is an island and such. It's all connected.
"The answers make us wise, but the questions make us human." -- that's from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, an oldish Barbra Streisand movie (1970).
And that's what I'm most interested in, I think, what draws me to certain shows -- not the answers, but the questions. I like shows that don't try to definitively answer things, that have shades of ambiguity. That's part of why I like Stargate so much -- it asks a lot of questions but tends to leave the answers open to the audience.
I've also noticed that there has been quite the resurgence in my sci-fi watching in the last year or so. Before that, I was all about the fantasy. But now, most of what I'm watching has strong sci-fi elements (the lone new hold-out is House and I half suspect that the ducklings are really aliens sent to test House) -- Stargate and Star Wars are at the top of the list, of course. But sci-fi in general is holding an appeal for me that it hasn't since I was younger. Since before Buffy, really.
I'm never quite sure how I should classify my childhood. I was fairly happy, as far as I recall, but I don't recall much. Moments, images, feelings. I remember the excitement of going to Star Trek cons when I was younger. I remember playing D&D with my family. We all watched Next Gen, DS9, and the beginning seasons of Voyager together, as a family. BtVS was my thing, the thing that the rest of my family didn't get (they still don't). Stargate? My mom gets that -- I've been showing it to her and she loves it. My dad is still huge into Trek.
So, now that I'm really getting back into sci-fi, it's very familiar ground, and only made more so by my venture into fantasy. They're different vehicles for that same desire to reach towards the impossible, to explain humanity, to explore issues sometimes thought too touchy to show in more 'realistic' venues. So, I can take what I've learned (and am learning) in fantasy and apply it towards sci-fi, leading to a richer understanding on my part of both speculative fiction and my own life.
And everything ever created is all of a piece, all created out of human understanding. No man is an island and such. It's all connected.
"The answers make us wise, but the questions make us human." -- that's from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, an oldish Barbra Streisand movie (1970).
And that's what I'm most interested in, I think, what draws me to certain shows -- not the answers, but the questions. I like shows that don't try to definitively answer things, that have shades of ambiguity. That's part of why I like Stargate so much -- it asks a lot of questions but tends to leave the answers open to the audience.
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Date: 2005-06-16 03:06 am (UTC)That sounds like my family (sorta). I grew up on Star Trek (DS9 has always been my fave) and other sci-fi/fantasy stuff, but I'm the only one who likes Buffy/Angel (although my mom can tolerate it) and Stargate (my dad will watch it with me if he's bored enough).
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Date: 2005-06-16 03:08 am (UTC)I'm slightly amused by the fact that my parents are opposite yours -- my mom likes the SG and my dad is okay with BtVS/AtS.
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Date: 2005-06-16 06:57 am (UTC)DS9 was my favorite as well: So many interesting characters. While I like Picard on Next Generation and they had some fascinating stories, the other characters just were too bland for my taste. Q, of course, was great, especially when he interacted with Picard.
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Date: 2005-06-16 11:16 am (UTC)Ah-ha! I have a name for this strange feeling. I never disliked the SW movies, but it's definitely RotS that made them into an epic for me. And now that I care, I want to analyse in excruciating detail!
Because of the fun.
DS9 was my favorite as well: So many interesting characters. While I like Picard on Next Generation and they had some fascinating stories, the other characters just were too bland for my taste. Q, of course, was great, especially when he interacted with Picard.
Q was terrific fun!