It was all a bad joke...
Apr. 26th, 2006 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellefliesIt's amazing what happens when you finally escape a stifling, confining and quite frankly a very cliquish environment. Oh look, it's my confidence. Hi confidence! I missed you!
I've had a day to reflect and I'm not broken up about the whole thing at all. Just glad it's over. Of course, there is that whole money problem... but I'm going to happily ignore that for at least a week.
I feel that my original decision to avoid advertising has been vindicated. Although the absolute irony of all this is that I told the roomie Sunday afternoon that I kinda missed the days of having no job since it meant a fair amount of bumming around. Then Monday, I get "terminated" and it's back to bumming around.
Dear God: I REALLY REALLY didn't mean it! It was a joke! See Joke. You know, Funny HaHa. You weren't supposed to follow through!
Although, to be fair, I spent the day bumming around Central Park, reading a book in the Sheep Meadow, and I really did enjoy it. I missed reading too, when I was working.
I ended up watching The End of the World last night in order to make myself feel better. God what a pretty ep. Ended up having a few thoughts about New Earth because of it
It seems the stuff about New Earth that got other people tweaking seem to have passed me by. Instead I was left wondering what kind of conversations the writers have about the progression of time and evolution and all that fun jazz when they're fleshing out these stories (or was this a case of RTD jotting out an episode and everyone else just happily going along without pointing anything out to him?)
I'd love to see a bit more contemplation on what could happen to the human race, given enough time. And I know fic writers have touched on this, but I'd LOVE to see this from the show. I'd love to see the creative team sit down and actually think about what the 'human' race would be like in 5 billion years, taking into account all the evolution and interbreeding that has been going on. Come on folks; let's have fun with What If!
Really, if you think about it – 5 billion years. That's a hell of a long time for one species to remain the same. To look and act and think the same as their ancestors did even a million years ago. Impossible really. I'm going to say if it takes 100 million years for humans to go from tiny little rodents to where we are now, then humanity could have evolved 5,000 times over in 5 billion years (or thereabouts, there's a reason I don't have a career that involves math).
One of the things I liked about The End of the World, as opposed to New Earth, was the idea of the human race evolving... interbreeding, becoming more then it was. Expanding and all that. And I know Rose talks about how humanity has gone forward whilst Cassandra has stayed behind, but they really did a poor job of showing it. I liked Cassandra better in The End of the World because she was so obsessed with being human and being "beautiful" and "pure" and it was almost like she had a reason to be that way. A deranged reason granted, but there was a point to it. What was off about New Earth for me (besides the obvious stuff that the entire fandom has been going on about ad nauseum) was just how human and normal the patients in the hospital were. The people mingling in the lobby, some of the patients... They were just too normal to be the end products of 5 billion years.
To me, it kinda boils down to what was the point of Cassandra going through all those surgeries, changing her body so drastically (or getting rid of her body) in order to be beautiful? I assumed, after I saw The End of the World that she went through all that because the people around her were changing so much physically in the process of becoming new humans or digi-humans or proto-humans. Cassandra was so obsessed with the physical that I always assumed it was the physical that led her down the 'pure' road. But if all of these new humans look exactly the same as old humans what was the point of going through all that in order to remain pure if you can't really tell the difference anyways.
I'd love to see an ep where they actually deal with what a couple million/billion years of evolution could actually do to the human race instead of the whole cat-nun-nurse thing. Humanity touches every star and 'dances' but they really haven't done too great a job of showing what that means.
And I understand the whole 'not enough money or time' argument. I really, really do. I'm just being excessively nitpicky at this point. It's fun to be nitpicky and it really was bugging me. That’s generally how it goes though. I'm bugged by the 1% of the stuff that doesn't bug anyone else.
I'm hoping this whole ramble made some sense...
I've had a day to reflect and I'm not broken up about the whole thing at all. Just glad it's over. Of course, there is that whole money problem... but I'm going to happily ignore that for at least a week.
I feel that my original decision to avoid advertising has been vindicated. Although the absolute irony of all this is that I told the roomie Sunday afternoon that I kinda missed the days of having no job since it meant a fair amount of bumming around. Then Monday, I get "terminated" and it's back to bumming around.
Dear God: I REALLY REALLY didn't mean it! It was a joke! See Joke. You know, Funny HaHa. You weren't supposed to follow through!
Although, to be fair, I spent the day bumming around Central Park, reading a book in the Sheep Meadow, and I really did enjoy it. I missed reading too, when I was working.
I ended up watching The End of the World last night in order to make myself feel better. God what a pretty ep. Ended up having a few thoughts about New Earth because of it
It seems the stuff about New Earth that got other people tweaking seem to have passed me by. Instead I was left wondering what kind of conversations the writers have about the progression of time and evolution and all that fun jazz when they're fleshing out these stories (or was this a case of RTD jotting out an episode and everyone else just happily going along without pointing anything out to him?)
I'd love to see a bit more contemplation on what could happen to the human race, given enough time. And I know fic writers have touched on this, but I'd LOVE to see this from the show. I'd love to see the creative team sit down and actually think about what the 'human' race would be like in 5 billion years, taking into account all the evolution and interbreeding that has been going on. Come on folks; let's have fun with What If!
Really, if you think about it – 5 billion years. That's a hell of a long time for one species to remain the same. To look and act and think the same as their ancestors did even a million years ago. Impossible really. I'm going to say if it takes 100 million years for humans to go from tiny little rodents to where we are now, then humanity could have evolved 5,000 times over in 5 billion years (or thereabouts, there's a reason I don't have a career that involves math).
One of the things I liked about The End of the World, as opposed to New Earth, was the idea of the human race evolving... interbreeding, becoming more then it was. Expanding and all that. And I know Rose talks about how humanity has gone forward whilst Cassandra has stayed behind, but they really did a poor job of showing it. I liked Cassandra better in The End of the World because she was so obsessed with being human and being "beautiful" and "pure" and it was almost like she had a reason to be that way. A deranged reason granted, but there was a point to it. What was off about New Earth for me (besides the obvious stuff that the entire fandom has been going on about ad nauseum) was just how human and normal the patients in the hospital were. The people mingling in the lobby, some of the patients... They were just too normal to be the end products of 5 billion years.
To me, it kinda boils down to what was the point of Cassandra going through all those surgeries, changing her body so drastically (or getting rid of her body) in order to be beautiful? I assumed, after I saw The End of the World that she went through all that because the people around her were changing so much physically in the process of becoming new humans or digi-humans or proto-humans. Cassandra was so obsessed with the physical that I always assumed it was the physical that led her down the 'pure' road. But if all of these new humans look exactly the same as old humans what was the point of going through all that in order to remain pure if you can't really tell the difference anyways.
I'd love to see an ep where they actually deal with what a couple million/billion years of evolution could actually do to the human race instead of the whole cat-nun-nurse thing. Humanity touches every star and 'dances' but they really haven't done too great a job of showing what that means.
And I understand the whole 'not enough money or time' argument. I really, really do. I'm just being excessively nitpicky at this point. It's fun to be nitpicky and it really was bugging me. That’s generally how it goes though. I'm bugged by the 1% of the stuff that doesn't bug anyone else.
I'm hoping this whole ramble made some sense...
