River ,'Objects In Space'
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I forgot I wanted to comment on the scenery. I especially loved the concepts of the different cities, like the one with the trolleys that carry everything downhill or the upside down Western Air temple. I wished I could have seen more of it.
My favorite thing was the hybrid animals.
It's a great world. I'm glad we'll get to see more of it.
Every time someone mentions Mockingjay I think "isn't that an Avatar thing?"
My favorite thing was the hybrid animals.
Katara: The King is throwing a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear.
Aang: Don't you mean platypus bear?
Katara: No, it just says, "bear."
Sokka: Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear?
Toph: Or his armadillo bear?
Aang: Gopher bear?
Katara: Just, "bear."
[short pause]
Toph: This place is weird.
I was just thinking about that exchange!
In response to a bit of news in Spoilage Lite that I won't comment on specifically, I really enjoyed Alice and the look of Tin Man. Though the trend toward reworking old stories in Syfy and elsewhere, makes me sad. No new stories. Really? (I'm ignoring the monster hybrid films as something altogether different. That particular slice of genre is a nofly zone for me.)
Which begs a question, I suppose. Is it just that, as consumers of popular media, we are more likely to 'buy' familiar commodities, thereby dooming creativity? Or is it true that the human experience is so complete that there really is nothing new to add to literature and/or entertainment?
I bring this up in Boxed Set because it seems ironic that genre entertainment geared toward envisioning new worlds is so locked into old stories.
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thereby dooming creativity
Do you think Wicked had no creativity?
Well, cannibalizing extant stories has been happening since there WERE stories. Shakespeare got most of his plots from previous works. I think the borrowing is fine, as long as the person retelling the story brings creativity to it themselves.
On TV and in film, the whole point of the producers is to make money, so betting on a proven performer usually pushes a project closer to yes than something entirely new. There is a lot of original stuff out there, but no one wants gamble millions of dollars on it.
Katara: The King is throwing a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear.
Aang: Don't you mean platypus bear?
Katara: No, it just says, "bear."
Sokka: Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear?
Toph: Or his armadillo bear?
Aang: Gopher bear?
Katara: Just, "bear."
[short pause]
Toph: This place is weird.
I loved that! Also the farm that had pig-sheep, pig-chickens, etc.
Do you think Wicked had no creativity?
Of course, there are exceptions, but I fear that actually proves the point. Not that I am interested in getting into a subjective innovation of thought-off, but my sense is the list of truly 'creative new visions' list would be woefully short compared to the retread list.
Hey, I enjoyed the concept of the BSG reboot (a bit more than the execution, in the end) but have to agree with Scrappy's assessment about tptb resisting investment in non-sure things.
I suppose the argument is tired before it's even begun, and I'm whinging down a bottomless well, but it does make me sad that we seem to have, as a culture, bought ourselves into a creative corner. (at the risk of dangerously mixing metaphors.)