Supernatural v Sci-Fi

Decided to start a Sci-Fi fan club on www.mytalent.co.za - just for fun. What the heck I could be dead within the next ten years or so, may as well leave something of my alter-ego in the virtual world of lost words and hidden personalities.

Just finished watching Season 1 of Heroes. "Watch it granny" said my 13 year old granddaughter - so I bought two seasons, (must be ok - she is only 13) sat down with diet coke and started to watch a complicated, gory, fantasy come supernatural movie series.

Well its no Roswell - which was sticky sweet but still my favourite, and its no Carnivale - which I finished last week, which was - dark, to say the least and as I said before, borders on what I let though my eyegate but it has value. Spent most of the time wishing I could get Nick Stahl into a bath, and wondering if he had fleas in his clothes or if they actually washed them during the filming and just stuck some dirt on them again. Most of the cast that did the ground work stayed dirty to the point I wondered how on earth any of the women got off with them. In the fantasy world - they must have stank!! Still not a bad series - not all who seem good are good, and not all who seem bad are bad, but from a Christian perspective, anyone who heals someone and it kills the vultures or anyone else in the area - left me wondering about Revelation that warns of imitators of gifts in the last days. Maybe the series is closer to the truth than one realises.

Back to Heroes author must have kept their brain switched on 24/7 to write this series. You meet all the characters one at a time, (still wondering if more are going to crawl out of the woodwork in Series 2), get to know their lives, get frustrated at their lack of acceptance of their abilities, maybe Roswell just spoilt me. I found it frustrating that they took so long to start finding each other with special abilities, and of course the introduction of Sylar - the one with the inferiority complex who needs to feel acceptance by absorbing others abilities - put an edge on the movie which took away any thoughts I had of 'If my 13 year old granddaughter suggested it, it must be ok" Ha!! Last time I take what she says at face value. So here I am hopping back and forth in time, plus they throw in a curve ball with the "6 months earlier" - usually this type of scene is just a flashback, this one left me feeling I had maybe missed a chapter somewhere and fallen asleep

However the series is keeping me on my mental toes - as you really have to learn and remember your characters, time, place, things said, things suggested - to get the full value out of the interaction between the characters. Nothing done or said, no chance meeting of persons is co-incidental. Everything and everyone intertwines somewhere.

Something that scratched was Hiro Masi Oka. I felt Roswell was more plausible here. It is an unwritten rule that a future personality cannot travel back in time and meet their past personality. As one watches Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Supernatural movies - certain ground rules seem to be in place, but I guess now-a-days its the writers prerogative to break the rules, after all 'in my days' vampires would have burned to a cinder in the sun, now they glow like a mother of pearl shell - think of Twilight.

Plus Sylar and his absorbing brain habits, smacks a little of The Highlander - another movie which should have stopped while the going was good.

I see some similarity between Roswell and Twilight as far as copy-cat goes. Well maybe not copy-cat could just be the way movies are going now-a-days. Both have a romantic backdrop. Both lead roles are men with shall we say supernatural powers, that look down slightly giving their eyes and looks a slightly 'off world feeling' - that make them unreachable and off limits to mere humans. Both their leading ladies, look like sweet innocent little 16 year olds that could have been sisters in another life.

Mmm think of the possibilities of Roswell with a new unknown member of the pod-squad - Edward Cullen - minus the teeth. Well that is the things fantasy is made of immaterial if you are 16 or 60 - speaking for the feline section of course.

Oh I wish they would bring on Roswell: The Next Generation, that I could live without having nightmares - then again, they might be adults and survival is built into all our genes - right!?

We Come in Peace - yeah right!

Being a fantasy and Sci-Fi fan led me back to Potters latest escapades. Ho Hum!! After Roswell everything else is just kids fantasy. I know both Roswell and Potter are written for a much younger group than I belong to, but Roswell had a few 'adult threads' running throughout its series - one that touched me was 'humanity' and man's 'in-humanity'. Roswell was believable, while Potter is not but I guess that is open to debate. I have a friend whose mother is a practising witch. And don't give me that 'white witch' jargon - there is no such a thing even if she thinks so. You choose either light or the dark side. There are no witches in the light. But before I am labelled inhumane let me continue. In a way some things in Potter are believable I guess I can give it that, but it lacks depth that we all look for

Still with Roswell I found myself sickened in the stomach by what people do to things or people they do not understand. Why is life always 'shoot first ask questions later?' The experts say we make up our mind about new people within ten minutes based 90% on what their body language is saying - that's scary, I would hate to know how many people have written me off based on my body language which most of the time is defensive and withdrawn at new encounters. No wonder that those people who always run around looking for 'visitors' have 'dissection' on their minds. Then again that is generally what we are like - we want to 'dissect' people, to analyse them, to accept or reject them. If they are 'different to us' we very seldom let them into 'the inner sanctuary of our lives' do we? Over the years I have made an effort to open my friendship to those who others reject. It's been a humbling experience. Because the stone that is rejected is often the corner-stone that holds the whole arch up. These people do not stab you in the back, gossip about you. They are transparent and make loyal, supportive friends.

So one never knows what or who you are rejecting and what you are missing out on if you allow body language or first impressions influence who you accept. Maybe it may be an idea to 'hang ten' and give people a chance before we dissect them.

Is there more to life than this?

I wonder if there is a Bermuda Triangle for all the millions and millions of words written from peoples hearts and minds in blogs. How many of these ever find a home in a perfect strangers life who just happens to stumble over them. Still as I get older and more of a recluse - the thought of just dumping my totally irrelavant thoughts down onto a virtual sheet of paper - appeals to me. The 'blog becomes your friend' - scary thought.

Just finished the series of Roswell. Heaven only knows (and He is not telling me), how I missed it when it originally came out because I usually sniff out a good sci-fi when it hits the screen or TV channel. Took me about 2 weeks in my impossibly busy agenda. I am no owl but found myself watching till 1am in the morning. I kept promising myself, as soon as it gets to be repetitive, I'm dumping it and getting my life back. It never happened. Although it was written for older teenagers - the plot fascinated me, and 90% of the time was original enough not to give me the feeling - ho hum here we go again. Now I am saturated with Roswell, its oozing out of my pores but its old news - no one wants to chat about the plot, the characters, the movie any more. My generation - well their response was "what is Roswell', my friends - nope 99% Christian and would most probably go into rigger mortise if they knew I love sci-fi (not horror) and fantasy.

My poor teddy bear - has never eaten so many 'take outs' in his life, his wife was lost in the sci-fi Roswell and I did not stop until I watched all 3 seasons. Pity they do not continue now with a older version, may be less sticky sweet, now that that edge of innocence has left the casts faces.
Oh well you know what the bible says, 'in the last days we will 'dream dreams' - not that it was talking about sci-fi LOL but at least we can dream of the next season.

So if there is still someone out there young enough to remember Roswell, but old enough to make intelligent comments on it, someone who sat, like I just sat - every free waking moment glued to the laptop (set on Zone 1 as I fall in Zone 2) just to finish all three seasons - let me hear it. D'