so i put the computer aside and sat and watched continuum, being there, and lost girl and disappointment times three is my first reaction... alas, the minds of humans bore me... start with continuum... i really expect so much from that word, it was bound to disappoint, but really, revamped sliders and time cops? (there's another show too, i just am not thinking of it at the moment)...
corporations take over the world (that's real life today, not science fiction, by the way) and a group of rebels (that would be the 99%, most of the audience) wants to bring power back to the people (freedom, liberty, equality, ya know?) and the heo of the show is a beautiful woman dressed in skin tight latex (of course) who, in her noble effort to prevent the rebels from going back in time to change the future and restore liberty, equality, and freedom (still good ideas, so why are they the bad guys?), gets sent back in time to 2012 with them and she connects with the mastermind (as a bot) who appears to have created the corporate technological big brother society of 2077... either this show was created by ultra right wing corporate megalomaniacs or there's gonna be a plot twist wherein our heroine wakes up to the ideals of freedom, equality, and liberty and does something to change the kid-who-will-be-king's mind... there's always hope...
still, it is presents as a basic good vs evil cop show and the pilot showed very limited imagination...
and then there comes the new season of being there... sad that so much angst needs to be poured into a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost because they want so much to just be human as if being human was something to idealize and strive for... even worse than star trek's data, cuz at least data was intelligent enough to know he was far superior to humans and did not have the capacity for the stupid angsts humans create in their own minds... emotions are so potentially wonder, why humans turn them into nightmares is a sad reflection on the limits most choose to place on their minds... so being there looks like it's going to stay sadly pathetic...
and then there is lost girl... again, the over-regurgitation of the good vs evil theme with the visual of needy anorexia trying to be macho and sexy... it reminds me a little too much of buffy and i just don't find the whole anything different must be evil thought process humans seem to love appealing... imagine a different species who was peaceful, friendly, and enlightened... goodness, what a threat they would be to our anger-addicted fear-driven war-dependent culture...
ok, so i am biased against human stupidity, prejudice, and small minds... feel free to show me the benefits and pleasures of those mind-sets and i will happily thank you for enlightening me...
