'Out Of Gas'
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.
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Honestly, there's never been a real life death close to me since The Body where that phrase hasn't gone through my head.
My father's death was sudden in the plain sense. Unexpected. Until I heard Tara saying, "It's always sudden," I sort of had an unreasonable prejudice about deaths that come after a long illness, that somehow they were easier to grieve because there is warning. Hearing that undid that thinking in me. It has made me more compassionate.
12 great science fiction and fantasy stories that deal with death
Heh, I can't help but think that at some point, Machine of Death: A collection of stories about people who know how they will die will be on such a list. It's tailor-made!
And while fictionalized, yet not at all fiction, the Matthew Broderick movie Project X highlights how cruel humans can be in the pursuit of death. Guts me so badly, I can only see it every few years, but can replay it in my mind, scene for scene in between viewings.
Is that the one with the chimpanzee? I think I remember that.
When I reporter right out of school, I spent part of every day doing what was a rite of passage for reporters back in the stone age: I wrote obits. One of the first ones I wrote included "died suddenly," and the assistant city editor told me to never write that, because all death is sudden.
I'd put Clifford Simak's Why Call Them Back from Heaven? on that list.
Is that the one with the chimpanzee? I think I remember that.
That's the one. While packaged as a teen comedy...which completely mystified me...it illustrated the Air Force experiment which irradiated chimpanzees who had been trained to pilot a flight simulator. The proposed goal was to see how long fighter pilots would continue to fly once they knew they had been irradiated.
See the problem there?
The chimps kept flying because that is what they had been trained to do. They did not have the cognitive ability to imagine an alternative, nor to conclude that they were dying.
I'm not generally anti-military, but that program caused me to curse a lot. The Air Force wanted to know how long a pilot could keep flying after irradiation, without taking into account whether or not a pilot WOULD keep flying.
That sucks. So disappointing.
Heh. Final five episodes deferred to 2011, eh?
I'm not broken-hearted over that cancellation. Caprica is sometimes on the verge of being awesome, but it's also often pretty boring.
I didn't love Caprica, but it was much, much better than Stargate SGU. What a waste of resources that show is. The only part I've even remotely enjoyed is the 'hey, it's that guy' moments with SG alums.
Oh, that's too bad.
I will miss it, but it never reached the majesty of BSG.
And, I still watch SGU. Am I the only one?