Re: scifi character type question/commentary

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:08:49 +0000 (UTC), Wesley Struebing
<strueb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:03:44 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
><aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:29:01 -0400, Chris wrote
>>(in article <pelzo63-A1E130.22280228082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>
>>> In article <Xns96C0D5423C94Cmethuselahaltgeekorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Methuselah Jones <methuselah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2001
>>>> The Last Starfighter
>>>> Men in Black
>>>
>>> been a long time since i saw 2001(ok, partially saw it before being
>>> bored)....but wasn't that set in 2001? i wouldn't really call 2001
>>> contemporary to it's time(it's time being the 60's)
>>>
>>> not sure how i forgot about MiB! i did think of starfighter though.
>>>
>>> and so far, no one's commented on whether or not anyone has played TWO
>>> of these roles besides browder(let alone 2 in a short time). <<
>>
>>Keir Dullea.
>>
>>Although you're specifically asking for characters taken out of their time,
>>your initial post begins with >>Ben Browder's addition to Sg:1 got me
>>thinking, this being his second character that is a "contemporary" human sent
>>into the rather extraordinary circumstance of space travel beyond our
>>real-life means. <<
>>
>>So, I'm looking at that and thinking "sent into the rather extraordinary
>>circumstances of space travel beyond our real-life means," and that includes
>>Arthur Dent, who didn't actually go out of his own time (until he went to
>>Milliways, and then back to prehistoric Earth on the Golgafrincham ark). And
>>so that also, arguably, includes Dr. Dave Bowman in 2001 and also his
>>character (was it Devon?) in The Starlost. Wasn't he the first one to figure
>>out that they were on a ship, and not a planet? And thus had to exceed
>>greatly his circumstances in order to seek out the control room and fix it?
>>
>>Thus: Keir Dullea.
>>
>Ahh, the only other thing I remembered him in was, "The Fox" - it was,
>err, execrable.

you didn't see David and Lisa then
now, that was BAD

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