Summer Talking Meme #5

[lost_spook]

From evelyn_b: Recommend something with one of your favorite actors in it for an old-TV newbie (me).

Well, I gave this matter about two seconds of consideration before I knew there was only one answer. I know that evelyn_b has been enjoying everything she's seen of Doctor Who so far - and also likes I, Claudius (and Julius Caesar?), so what else could I say

Comments

[lost_spook]

I think maybe the audios have made me think that you could possibly pull off a new S&S - if you did it right. (I'm not sure how right would be. The new 21st C weird/mysterious, I suppose.) However, I really don't have a lot of faith in people having the nerve to swear off explanations and human characters. The details are all here.

while you can be creative in coming up with alien characters and technologies and settings, they can never be too genuinely alien, because they have to be comprehensible to the audience and to be usable for the kinds of storytelling human beings understand. This principle is clearly, obviously, fundamentally true... and S&S ignores it completely.

*nods* They are so genuinely other, and yet it does work - and it's this fascinating Outsider POV on the human race and I just cannot think of anything else I've seen that pulled off anything remotely similar, not to the same degree. I'm sure there are probably some books somewhere, or something, but certainly not TV.

Everything you say about B7 is, of course, true.

I never lie about the important things. :-D

[astrogirl2]

I've listened to one or two of the audios, and they were pretty good, but a remake... Well, yeah. I don't have that faith either. And if it was more human and explicable, it wouldn't be Sapphire & Steel! There surely has never been anything like it on TV.