frivolous geekitude
After yesterday's disturbing and important subject matter, we shift now to utterly frivolous science fiction and fantasy geekitude.
Yesterday I got a package in the mail - a used VHS edition of the virtually-unknown TV pilot movie called White Dwarf. (Apparently the only available DVD edition is a very rare and expensive Region 2 edition.)
I watched it before Rachel came on last night, and it was totally awesome, in that awful way that TV pilots are. The story is short but jam-packed with bizarre and wonderful characters, on a world that is more fantasy than science fiction for all that it's on a planet light-years from Earth where young New York doctors come to intern with the local healer. The 31st century is kind of regressive, and the planet has the ridiculous premise that one side is always dark, the other always light. The two sides are separated by a wall, and the weather is controlled by strange alien devices floating in the sky.
The light side is a sort of Wild West frontierland, while the dark is Renaissance Faire chic.
Anyway, it's great. I was terribly excited to finally get a decent copy (we had an ancient home recording off the TV, but it's long been lost among the collected detritus of M*A*S*H episodes and other movies stored on unlabeled or mislabeled tapes.) and it wasn't nearly as awful to sit through as I thought it would be.
It makes me wonder what a comic book writer or animator might make of the story and the world, if they were to revisit it now.
Yesterday I got a package in the mail - a used VHS edition of the virtually-unknown TV pilot movie called White Dwarf. (Apparently the only available DVD edition is a very rare and expensive Region 2 edition.)
I watched it before Rachel came on last night, and it was totally awesome, in that awful way that TV pilots are. The story is short but jam-packed with bizarre and wonderful characters, on a world that is more fantasy than science fiction for all that it's on a planet light-years from Earth where young New York doctors come to intern with the local healer. The 31st century is kind of regressive, and the planet has the ridiculous premise that one side is always dark, the other always light. The two sides are separated by a wall, and the weather is controlled by strange alien devices floating in the sky.
The light side is a sort of Wild West frontierland, while the dark is Renaissance Faire chic.
Anyway, it's great. I was terribly excited to finally get a decent copy (we had an ancient home recording off the TV, but it's long been lost among the collected detritus of M*A*S*H episodes and other movies stored on unlabeled or mislabeled tapes.) and it wasn't nearly as awful to sit through as I thought it would be.
It makes me wonder what a comic book writer or animator might make of the story and the world, if they were to revisit it now.