Down to Earth

[altariel]

communicator once said that anything could be improved by setting it in space. I've cheerfully pinched co-opted this idea on several occasions, because it's true:

• Upstairs Downstairs - In Space


• Boston Legal - In Space


• Law and Order: Criminal Intent - In Space


• Mansfield Park - In Space

See?

However, long and considered discussion has revealed that there is something that could be improved by not setting it in space. Blake's 7.

I was trying to think of how I'd do the show again, if someone handed me the money. And realized that if I did get to do it, I'd make it all about resistance against an Evil Earth Administration in a near future. No need for spaceships. It would be the programme that you think you're going to get when you watch 'The Way Back'. And it'd be great (well, it is in my head).

Callan In Space would be brilliant though.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've read practically no crit of Austen; I have the Cambridge Companion kicking around, but have only dipped into it.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Have you already read the article on "Austen cult and cultures" by Claudia L. Johnson in the Companion?

Among other things, it defends the non-academic Janeite fandom. And implicitly compares them to Star Trek fans, who are -- according to Johnson -- often unfairly maligned as well. I was most amused.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one I've read :-D And I liked its approach to fandom too.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Like the unjust vis a vis just's umbrella, the Crawfords would unquestionably steal Fanny and Edmund's modest spacehopper.

Possibly Crazy Space Incest would ensue.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I should have suspected as much... ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm bound to like anything that legitimizes me ;-D (Damn, they're cute in that icon!)

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I'm bound to like anything that legitimizes me.

That sums up my own reaction to the essay pretty neatly. Hooray, I'm now officially no longer just an anorak! (Or, in the case of Jane Austen fans, whatever the Regency equivalent to an anorak might be. Greatcoat? Pelisse?)

Damn, they're cute in that icon!

*g*

I hope that Kasiopea will draw a few more wee!Gondorians cartoons...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

whatever the Regency equivalent to an anorak might be. Greatcoat? Pelisse?

*snort!*