Feeling kind of apocalyptic tonight. It is hot out, 30C at 7.00pm, and I am indoors with the curtains drawn to keep the heat out. Hapi is in the basement where it is around 20C. Last night I started watching Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (2003) and I finished it tonight; maybe that is why I am feeling apocalyptic. The show—it's really a movie split into two parts—ages well, the actors are great (Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, etc) and so is the writing. The special effects may be a little dated but they deliberately use old technology because they say (in the story) it is less susceptible to cyber-interference. And it is about AI—artificial intelligence—turning on humanity and seeking to destroy it.
At one point a female character tells her ex-boyfriend (or he may be the brother of her ex-boyfriend, not really sure) about some bad thing that she had done. He asks why she is telling him now and she replies, "Because it's the end of the world and I'm confessing my sins" and puts her helmet on and climbs into her fighter jet. Okay, maybe I'm not saying it right but it was impressive. In another scene Olmos wants to take his soldiers into war for one last stand against the robots and McDonnell is telling him the war is over, we lost, it's time to run away. Olmos is infuriated of course, but a few moments later he sees a young man and woman flirting with each other and says, "They should make babies," meaning that he was wrong and McDonnell was right. Once again, I'm not saying it right.
With all the crazy news from south of the border, it doesn't help; feels very apocalyptic.
3 comments:
I'm with you, just in the last few days I see so little hope and so many people I know racing about unmasked and rejoicing in the pubs.
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You are braver than me as I can't take violent films at all even the minor ones. We watched Music Man last night. We had bought a DVD that had it, Singing in the Rain, and three others on it. Music Man made me feel good.
I know what you mean Rain, I made an exception for Battlestar and don't regret it, but mostly I look for comedies now. I never saw Music Man but my mother had the sound track LP and I used to listen to it all the time. 76 Trombones...!
WWW, here we are dreading the return of the students, things will heat up for sure then. Our little county has had so few cases and it's been a couple of months since the last positive test here. They say a vaccine is on the way, but realistically I don't think we will see that before 2021.
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