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itsallovernowThere's just no other word to describe the weather today except for hot. It's mind-melting, pavement wavering, please don't make me go outside hot. I'm no delicate little flower, but there's something really overwhelming about this kind of heat this early in the year. I want grasscloth and bamboo fans and a gin and tonic, and maybe some cabana boys waving those fans. Oh, and camels. If it's this hot, there should be camels!!
This heat can only mean drought, and in a region where water is already such an issue, drought can be disastrous. I grew up in the American west, and am baffled by the unwillingness of Angelenos to conserve water. At home, you don't water the lawn, don't pour that resource into grass and golf courses. I see so little conservation here and I wonder if people just don't understand that water is a limited resource. We're already in dispute over the water we're taking from the Colorado River. The other western states want their fare share, and really, CA has no right to deny them. I see major conflict in the future over this.
The whole concept of water rights fascinates me. Probably a residual from having watched Chinatown too many times as a kid, but it's a reality, a force of nature that no amount of money or power can ultimately control. The city thought it had solved the problem with the Aqueduct, praised the genius of William Mulholland, said up yours to the Owens River Valley and turned them into a desert. But eventually, the water always runs out.
I should maybe wait until Monday to post about the LGM trilogy, but the first episode is one of my favorite eps ever, with no disclaimers necessary. I like the next two, as well, but this one stands alone in a different way. The set up has been coming for a whole season.
This episode starts out with a bang, coalescing all of the problems the group has been having. They all think Zhaan's lost it, they're cranky, D'Argo's going crazy with worry for his son, and John is hanging onto his control and sanity by a thread. And then there's the plan. Ah the plan.
Until this point in the series, it wasn't so much that their plans were that bad, it's just that Murphy had it out for them. Circumstances and fate and poor judgment and not knowing the facts all contributed to past mishaps, and while Crichton infiltrating the Gammak base was a monumentally bad idea, robbing the Shadow Depository just took that idiocy to a whole new level. For once, they were willing to bypass certain disaster, and of course, that just got thrown out the window with D'Argo's rash behavior.
I can't really analyze this episode, except to say I just sat entranced the first time I saw it. The timing is impeccable. The layering of viewpoints and arguments. The camera work and set design and incredibly visual imagery. "We're gonna rob a bank?" said with such glee. I love the KFC reference, D'Argo being unforgiving and John fighting with him, Stark and all of the things he's not saying. He is a master manipulator, which sometimes gets forgotten under his own personal craziness. Aeryn protecting John with as much practicality and caring as she is capable of, the final confrontation with Scorpy.
The tag gets me every time. John pulled into himself, miserable because he thinks he's killed Scorpius and it was so frelling difficult to do, knowing that there is still something in his head, telling Aeryn he meant what he said, and the way she pulls him onto her shoulder. She's worried, and offers him comfort, stroking his neck, something she couldn't have done before, yet she still doesn't tell him she loves him, just says she knows. And of course, then there's the walking money. I'm telling you, I can watch this episode over and over again.
This heat can only mean drought, and in a region where water is already such an issue, drought can be disastrous. I grew up in the American west, and am baffled by the unwillingness of Angelenos to conserve water. At home, you don't water the lawn, don't pour that resource into grass and golf courses. I see so little conservation here and I wonder if people just don't understand that water is a limited resource. We're already in dispute over the water we're taking from the Colorado River. The other western states want their fare share, and really, CA has no right to deny them. I see major conflict in the future over this.
The whole concept of water rights fascinates me. Probably a residual from having watched Chinatown too many times as a kid, but it's a reality, a force of nature that no amount of money or power can ultimately control. The city thought it had solved the problem with the Aqueduct, praised the genius of William Mulholland, said up yours to the Owens River Valley and turned them into a desert. But eventually, the water always runs out.
I should maybe wait until Monday to post about the LGM trilogy, but the first episode is one of my favorite eps ever, with no disclaimers necessary. I like the next two, as well, but this one stands alone in a different way. The set up has been coming for a whole season.
This episode starts out with a bang, coalescing all of the problems the group has been having. They all think Zhaan's lost it, they're cranky, D'Argo's going crazy with worry for his son, and John is hanging onto his control and sanity by a thread. And then there's the plan. Ah the plan.
Until this point in the series, it wasn't so much that their plans were that bad, it's just that Murphy had it out for them. Circumstances and fate and poor judgment and not knowing the facts all contributed to past mishaps, and while Crichton infiltrating the Gammak base was a monumentally bad idea, robbing the Shadow Depository just took that idiocy to a whole new level. For once, they were willing to bypass certain disaster, and of course, that just got thrown out the window with D'Argo's rash behavior.
I can't really analyze this episode, except to say I just sat entranced the first time I saw it. The timing is impeccable. The layering of viewpoints and arguments. The camera work and set design and incredibly visual imagery. "We're gonna rob a bank?" said with such glee. I love the KFC reference, D'Argo being unforgiving and John fighting with him, Stark and all of the things he's not saying. He is a master manipulator, which sometimes gets forgotten under his own personal craziness. Aeryn protecting John with as much practicality and caring as she is capable of, the final confrontation with Scorpy.
The tag gets me every time. John pulled into himself, miserable because he thinks he's killed Scorpius and it was so frelling difficult to do, knowing that there is still something in his head, telling Aeryn he meant what he said, and the way she pulls him onto her shoulder. She's worried, and offers him comfort, stroking his neck, something she couldn't have done before, yet she still doesn't tell him she loves him, just says she knows. And of course, then there's the walking money. I'm telling you, I can watch this episode over and over again.
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Date: 2003-05-28 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-05-28 05:48 pm (UTC)Heck, if that doesn't give you a little frisson of doom, I don't know what will.
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