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British sci-fi. <3
The new series of Red Dwarf is FABULOUS! For those who don't know this gem, it's basically a sitcom in outer space... a bit like a grown up Doctor Who, which instead of the Last of the Time Lords features The Last Human. Who - instead of being alien and clever and magical - is a space bum and a total slob, yet he is also every kind of awesome. I shall illustrate the differences like so ('Wonders of the Universe' Vs 'New Computer Game!'):
And yet, both shows play with EXACTLY the same ideas - time and space and what-it-means-to-be-human and paradoxes and all that mad sci-fi stuff. (Yesterday's episode centred around actions being predetermined, fatherhood [I... won't even begin to explain the impossibility of the paradox involved in this - it was GLORIOUS, and reminded me of Moffat's Jekyll. Pissed out of its head] - and Chinese Whispers. Last week's was mostly about the paralyzing force of jealousy. It was hysterical.)
Seriously, for any sci-fi trope you can think of, Red Dwarf will have done an episode, and it will have been hilarious and clever. ETA: This is a typical line...
Kochanski: I'm not sure I can do this. This is the first time I've been seduced by pre-determinism theory.
(I am so tired, but this show should see me through the next few weeks. ♥)
And yet, both shows play with EXACTLY the same ideas - time and space and what-it-means-to-be-human and paradoxes and all that mad sci-fi stuff. (Yesterday's episode centred around actions being predetermined, fatherhood [I... won't even begin to explain the impossibility of the paradox involved in this - it was GLORIOUS, and reminded me of Moffat's Jekyll. Pissed out of its head] - and Chinese Whispers. Last week's was mostly about the paralyzing force of jealousy. It was hysterical.)
Seriously, for any sci-fi trope you can think of, Red Dwarf will have done an episode, and it will have been hilarious and clever. ETA: This is a typical line...
Kochanski: I'm not sure I can do this. This is the first time I've been seduced by pre-determinism theory.
(I am so tired, but this show should see me through the next few weeks. ♥)