I dunno, the marionettes were pretty wooden.
No way! They had supermarionation!
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 16, 2005 9:47:15 am PDT #8578 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DXMachina - Aug 16, 2005 9:48:32 am PDT #8579 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I dunno, the marionettes were pretty wooden.
Not as wooden as the actors in UFO.
JZ - Aug 16, 2005 9:54:06 am PDT #8580 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I always found the marionettes disturbingly Garboesque, especially the later, uncanny valley versions -- I remember reading a contemporary of Garbo talking about her perfect blankness and stillness, and how her magnetism was less about her incredible expressiveness than about her total inwardness and inexpressiveness. She was just so terrifyingly perfect and photogenic and remote that she was a perfect empty vessel into which the audience could pour every conceivable emotion.
The supermarionation puppets are so very much her Uncanny Valley döpplegangers: those unnaturally perfect cheekbones and the eerily flawless skin and perfect hair and Anderson's penchant for endless puppet reaction shots. All those aesthetically perfect, alien faces with those impenetrably deep blank stares. Cree. Pee.
askye - Aug 16, 2005 9:59:35 am PDT #8581 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Cool Co Worker just bought the dvds for The Fantastic Journey, about a group of people who are trapped in the Bermuda Triangle and go from portal to portal or time to time or something. We watched some of it at lunch.
DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2005 10:00:47 am PDT #8582 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Kind of OT, but DebetEsse, you were IB, right? What did you guys have to focus on for 20th century world history? (We did a lot on WW1, a bit on the events leading to WW2, and then a lot on the Cold War and Vietnam. We had The End of the European Era and Where the Domino Fell as our main texts senior year.)
Plei, I was not. I was in AP Euro and US, but that works differently (and my Euro teacher sucked a lot. It was her last year before she retired)
Wolfram - Aug 16, 2005 10:01:55 am PDT #8583 of 10002
Visilurking
All those aesthetically perfect, alien faces with those impenetrably deep blank stares. Cree. Pee.
It is now.
t shudder
Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2005 10:04:23 am PDT #8584 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
UFO had the best costumes and set designs of any sci-fi show ever. They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.
Calli - Aug 16, 2005 10:06:06 am PDT #8585 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can see where they might have been seminal in some anime artistic conventions.
tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 10:06:13 am PDT #8586 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.
That's why I'm single. My childhood expectations as to what women of the future would be like were never met....
DavidS - Aug 16, 2005 10:07:41 am PDT #8587 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Holy shit! Purple haired UFO girl is Nick Drake's sister.