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I tend to binge on Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, because it wavers between awesome (Catherine Weaver! Peace-crazed Riley! Ellison and Sarah! Australian sub!), kind of incoherent (Ellison's theology, Cameron's flirtatiousness, Sarah's wacky dreams, the middle of the second season), and just insanely grim (Jesse and Derek's trainwreck, the dead main-to-secondary characters, the entire pre-apocalyptic scenario). But then you get episodes like the "Today is the Day / The Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter", "To the Lighthouse", and "Adam Raised a Cain" mini-arc, and it's awesome. While being grim. I'm not sure what I think about the framing of women as mothers. Sarah's important because she's the great John Connor's mom, Catherine's parenting the biokid (Savannah) and the AI (John Henry). But Savannah and the other strange little girls - Riley, Cameron, even Jesse - are expendable if the boys - John, John Henry, oh isn't that cute - are there to make the future. So that's a little weird.
I also watched the first two episodes of Sex in the City. So far I find it mind-bogglingly insipid. Somehow, your life is not complete without a man, but not any man, no: he has to be virile and subservient to your needs and as high-powered as you, and how do these people not have many, many STDs? There's also a worrying element of consumerism (shopping for a $9 dress to compliment your $300 Manolo Blahniks). I could resolve my life angst by buying $300 strappy sandals, and wondering why I still feel unfulfilled, or I could watch NCIS and snark about how S6!Ziva spends a lot of time proving she can beat up people who could beat Tony to a pulp, or dig up Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles and reflect on how awesome it is that I am not a shape-shifting machine assassin masquerading as a corporate executive. Unless it involves biology or a different specialized knowledge base, exec life sounds kind of boring. Especially if you got to terrorize humans by the sub-full in your last assignment in the future.
Also, I need to do something about my March reading list. Apparently I am getting everything but my homework finished during fake spring break.
Oh! Reader question - I can think of several men writing novels about Singularity events - Vernor Vinge, Charlie Stross prominently, maybe Cory Doctorow? - but are there any post-scarcity Singularity novels written by women or otherwise not white guys? I am curious about subgenre breakdown.
I also watched the first two episodes of Sex in the City. So far I find it mind-bogglingly insipid. Somehow, your life is not complete without a man, but not any man, no: he has to be virile and subservient to your needs and as high-powered as you, and how do these people not have many, many STDs? There's also a worrying element of consumerism (shopping for a $9 dress to compliment your $300 Manolo Blahniks). I could resolve my life angst by buying $300 strappy sandals, and wondering why I still feel unfulfilled, or I could watch NCIS and snark about how S6!Ziva spends a lot of time proving she can beat up people who could beat Tony to a pulp, or dig up Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles and reflect on how awesome it is that I am not a shape-shifting machine assassin masquerading as a corporate executive. Unless it involves biology or a different specialized knowledge base, exec life sounds kind of boring. Especially if you got to terrorize humans by the sub-full in your last assignment in the future.
Also, I need to do something about my March reading list. Apparently I am getting everything but my homework finished during fake spring break.
Oh! Reader question - I can think of several men writing novels about Singularity events - Vernor Vinge, Charlie Stross prominently, maybe Cory Doctorow? - but are there any post-scarcity Singularity novels written by women or otherwise not white guys? I am curious about subgenre breakdown.