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Dec. 2nd, 2013 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
More Sarah Connor:
It's awesome to me how obviously this show is fanfiction, much more than it is a strict sequel. It doesn't really care about "what happens next". It cares about taking existing characters and situations and playing around with them. Changing tone, following through to logical extremes, deconstructing, subverting, showing the villains POV, showing the sidekick's POV, making the off-screen on-screen, putting characters in new situations, exploring new corners of the world...Oh, show.
I also continue to wonder how this even got made. How did that meeting go, which started out with "Hey, we have a giant, action movie franchise with a bit of romance and a couple of kickass lines, where things blow up a lot. Let's make a tie-in show," and ended with "And it should totally be this intense, melancholy reflection on the nature of heroism, loyalty and leadership, with a keen respect for the value and fragility of human life, a meditation on the meaning of the soul and a complex and challenging approach to gender and motherhood. Awesome, dudes!"
We will never know.
(Unless we do know? There's probably a blog post somewhere, isn't there?)
Also,
Is it just me (data is not the plural of anecdote, but still...) or has it been chattier here since the change so thingy will tell you if comments have been replied to? My months on Dreamwidth so far have been relatively quiet. I read stuff, I write stuff. Sometimes I comment or get a comment and there's a sense that people are reading what I write, but it's all a bit vague. The past few days it feels like there's an almost constant snippet of conversation going somewhere. (That's cool.)
It's awesome to me how obviously this show is fanfiction, much more than it is a strict sequel. It doesn't really care about "what happens next". It cares about taking existing characters and situations and playing around with them. Changing tone, following through to logical extremes, deconstructing, subverting, showing the villains POV, showing the sidekick's POV, making the off-screen on-screen, putting characters in new situations, exploring new corners of the world...Oh, show.
I also continue to wonder how this even got made. How did that meeting go, which started out with "Hey, we have a giant, action movie franchise with a bit of romance and a couple of kickass lines, where things blow up a lot. Let's make a tie-in show," and ended with "And it should totally be this intense, melancholy reflection on the nature of heroism, loyalty and leadership, with a keen respect for the value and fragility of human life, a meditation on the meaning of the soul and a complex and challenging approach to gender and motherhood. Awesome, dudes!"
We will never know.
(Unless we do know? There's probably a blog post somewhere, isn't there?)
Also,
Is it just me (data is not the plural of anecdote, but still...) or has it been chattier here since the change so thingy will tell you if comments have been replied to? My months on Dreamwidth so far have been relatively quiet. I read stuff, I write stuff. Sometimes I comment or get a comment and there's a sense that people are reading what I write, but it's all a bit vague. The past few days it feels like there's an almost constant snippet of conversation going somewhere. (That's cool.)
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Date: 2013-12-02 07:42 pm (UTC)