So This Is What It Feels Like To Live In The Whoniverse...
matociquala is talking here about how the new presidency is making her feel as if this is a parallel Earth "where the trainwreck end-of-the-world narrative was just a trashy bestseller."
I understand what she means. Look at this bit from Obama's inaugural speech:
We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise healthcare's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
If I wrote about that in a short story or novel--eight years of an anti-intellectual, conservative Christian government, followed by a government based on science, education and logic--any editor would red-pencil it as too fantastic and not following rationally from the narrative.
I'm not thinking so much of parallel universes, though. Instead, I imagine the Doctor arriving in his TARDIS, taking a look at the mess that was America, saying, "No, no, no! Earth's going to need this country in twenty years! If they continue on their present course, Earth is doomed and the monsters win!" And then he does something terribly subtle, like exposing that Sarah Palin is an brainless plastic imitation of a human controlled by the Nestene Consciousness, which alters people's perception of her and gets people worried about what will happen when her running mate dies and she, the Auton, takes over. Humans vote for the human candidate in droves.
After the Nestene Consciousness is destroyed in a battle the media never hears about, the last scene takes place in Washington, D.C. A smiling Time Lord stands by his TARDIS, watching the inauguration as we hear Jack Harkness's voiceover from Torchwood: "The twenty-first century is when everything changes. And you've gotta be ready."
I am not a fan of politicians. But that's how it feels. As if somehow the world shifted like a kaleidoscope...and everything changed.
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I understand what she means. Look at this bit from Obama's inaugural speech:
We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise healthcare's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
If I wrote about that in a short story or novel--eight years of an anti-intellectual, conservative Christian government, followed by a government based on science, education and logic--any editor would red-pencil it as too fantastic and not following rationally from the narrative.
I'm not thinking so much of parallel universes, though. Instead, I imagine the Doctor arriving in his TARDIS, taking a look at the mess that was America, saying, "No, no, no! Earth's going to need this country in twenty years! If they continue on their present course, Earth is doomed and the monsters win!" And then he does something terribly subtle, like exposing that Sarah Palin is an brainless plastic imitation of a human controlled by the Nestene Consciousness, which alters people's perception of her and gets people worried about what will happen when her running mate dies and she, the Auton, takes over. Humans vote for the human candidate in droves.
After the Nestene Consciousness is destroyed in a battle the media never hears about, the last scene takes place in Washington, D.C. A smiling Time Lord stands by his TARDIS, watching the inauguration as we hear Jack Harkness's voiceover from Torchwood: "The twenty-first century is when everything changes. And you've gotta be ready."
I am not a fan of politicians. But that's how it feels. As if somehow the world shifted like a kaleidoscope...and everything changed.
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