toysdream, with a laugh, remarks: "I might've filled in that answer a little differently."
I guessed "stupidity," myself.
Yay Writercon!
Ultimately, the more of this series I watch, even in order, the more convinced I am that it has not several points to make, but one major point - that John Crichton is a new kind of explorer, of a generation who knows what to expect from space travel from watching sci-fi.
One of the things that's very charming about him, and that makes him such an accessible viewpoint character, is the way he's constantly trying to fit his experiences into a narrative he understands, one that's shaped by popular culture we all share. But I would argue that the fit is often poor, and he gets tripped up in his expectations as often as he's able to make the patterns fit, and that's one of the ways the show is extremely clever in playing off viewer expectation--it's a double layer of expectation, filtered first through Crichton, and then through our own shared knowledge.
no subject
I guessed "stupidity," myself.
Yay Writercon!
Ultimately, the more of this series I watch, even in order, the more convinced I am that it has not several points to make, but one major point - that John Crichton is a new kind of explorer, of a generation who knows what to expect from space travel from watching sci-fi.
One of the things that's very charming about him, and that makes him such an accessible viewpoint character, is the way he's constantly trying to fit his experiences into a narrative he understands, one that's shaped by popular culture we all share. But I would argue that the fit is often poor, and he gets tripped up in his expectations as often as he's able to make the patterns fit, and that's one of the ways the show is extremely clever in playing off viewer expectation--it's a double layer of expectation, filtered first through Crichton, and then through our own shared knowledge.