Apparently the 2000 Tony-winning musical was something called Contact
Jaysis, here you go with the OLD again! (Ye gods, was that really so long ago??) You might be interested to know that there was quite a bit of controversy over its inclusion in the Musical category since it's in no way a traditional musical.
We still have no explanation for Lyta's gills.
Patience, my child.
- Uh...wow. Cartagia is insane. He's reminding me of...is it Mad Emperor Yuri Vorbarra? Yuri was his name, right? The crazy one, anyway.
He's Caligula. (Ever seen I, Claudius?) Which really messes with my head even now, because the actor, whose name is now escaping me, was the local minister on One Life to Live, which I was watching at the same time I was catching up on B5. (Actually, I think Cartagia is what finally got me off my arse to the library to borrow I, Claudius...)
- Uh...I can imagine conceiving a thought without language. Wouldn't be able to describe it, but you could have it. Lorien's peddling falsehoods.
Really? Something more than "Must eat" or "Mommy" or another idea of its ilk? Language and thought are a definite "Which came first?" item, but without language, you certainly can't have any sort of thought that transcends the extremely mundane. Definitely siding with Lorien here.
Marcus cut his hair. I don't think I like it as well.
Here I agree!
Especially disturbing, or perhaps prescient, in light of current revelations regarding the Bush administration and Gitmo.
Which is why, for the last eight years, every time some new announcement or discovery about the Bush administration came out, I would think/say, "This is bad. Very bad. I know this story. I've seen how it ends. It was on Babylon 5." (Which is also why I'm amazed that my cousin, who I've recently learned was a big B5 fan, approved of as much of W's crap as she did!)
I get that Lorien is, presumably, denying the existence of an anthropomorphized creator-god
This, to me, is the most interesting thing about B5--it's written by an atheist. And yet, I got more spirituality out of this show than I ever did out of all the years my parents dragged me to church. Somehow, in spite of the fact that he doesn't believe in a god, he gets it more than most of the religious people I've encountered (more than most Christians, to be sure, since I always feel that so many of them just parrot what they're supposed to say). I can't find the article now where he talked about how we need mythic signposts to show us/remind us of the way, but that always seemed to sum the show up to me. A show about spirituality and what life is all about, by an atheist. Helluva thing.
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Date: 2009-04-18 03:03 pm (UTC)Jaysis, here you go with the OLD again! (Ye gods, was that really so long ago??) You might be interested to know that there was quite a bit of controversy over its inclusion in the Musical category since it's in no way a traditional musical.
We still have no explanation for Lyta's gills.
Patience, my child.
- Uh...wow. Cartagia is insane. He's reminding me of...is it Mad Emperor Yuri Vorbarra? Yuri was his name, right? The crazy one, anyway.
He's Caligula. (Ever seen I, Claudius?) Which really messes with my head even now, because the actor, whose name is now escaping me, was the local minister on One Life to Live, which I was watching at the same time I was catching up on B5. (Actually, I think Cartagia is what finally got me off my arse to the library to borrow I, Claudius...)
- Uh...I can imagine conceiving a thought without language. Wouldn't be able to describe it, but you could have it. Lorien's peddling falsehoods.
Really? Something more than "Must eat" or "Mommy" or another idea of its ilk? Language and thought are a definite "Which came first?" item, but without language, you certainly can't have any sort of thought that transcends the extremely mundane. Definitely siding with Lorien here.
Marcus cut his hair. I don't think I like it as well.
Here I agree!
Especially disturbing, or perhaps prescient, in light of current revelations regarding the Bush administration and Gitmo.
Which is why, for the last eight years, every time some new announcement or discovery about the Bush administration came out, I would think/say, "This is bad. Very bad. I know this story. I've seen how it ends. It was on Babylon 5." (Which is also why I'm amazed that my cousin, who I've recently learned was a big B5 fan, approved of as much of W's crap as she did!)
I get that Lorien is, presumably, denying the existence of an anthropomorphized creator-god
This, to me, is the most interesting thing about B5--it's written by an atheist. And yet, I got more spirituality out of this show than I ever did out of all the years my parents dragged me to church. Somehow, in spite of the fact that he doesn't believe in a god, he gets it more than most of the religious people I've encountered (more than most Christians, to be sure, since I always feel that so many of them just parrot what they're supposed to say). I can't find the article now where he talked about how we need mythic signposts to show us/remind us of the way, but that always seemed to sum the show up to me. A show about spirituality and what life is all about, by an atheist. Helluva thing.
G'Kar is now Tigh
Oh, eeek.