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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Jan 15, 2005 23:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by MC Habber on Jan 16, 2005 2:37:10 GMT -5
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Jan 16, 2005 6:14:57 GMT -5
Gadzooks! And here I am watching the second and final season of Dark Angel on DVD during my feeling fluish. The second and last season of Dark Angel, the inventive James Cameron show about mutants during a future Depression, has some real strengths as well as one or two bad ideas that partly explain its much-regretted cancellation. Among the strengths are Alex (Jensen Ackles), the thoroughly unreliable mutant charmer whose flirtations with heroine Max (Jessica Alba) complicate her doomed love for Logan (Michael Weatherly), the crippled newshound whom she cannot now even touch--she has been infected with a deadly virus tailored specifically to kill him. The distrust this sows between the doomed couple does not always avoid soap-opera clichés, but often produces fine performances from all three, especially Alba.
On the deficit side, John Savage's memorably ambiguous villain Lydeker from season 1 (who is alternately the mutants' nemesis and their protector) disappears to be replaced by the melodramatically sinister Agent White (Martin Cummins). White appears to be just a shoot-to-kill operative of the state and turns out to be another sort of superhuman, a product of an occultist breeding program going back to the dawn of history. After White's first ruthless killing, Max's reluctance to use deadly force is tested to near-implausible limits. The show ends with a rousing and moving finale, "Freak Nation", in which a theme often neglected in this final year--Max's relationship with her fellow couriers at Jam Pony--reaches a powerful climax. --Roz Kaveney |
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Jan 16, 2005 15:24:31 GMT -5
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Post by blaise on Jan 16, 2005 21:45:32 GMT -5
Thank you for downloading the images. I enjoyed them.
Recently I read about some taxidermists who enjoy assembling incongruous parts of animals from different species to resemble some of those chimerae. The original chimera from Greek mythology was a fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
In medical science, the term is not so fanciful. It refers to an organism that contains cell populations derived from zygotes of different genotypes. It may be homologous, consisting of fertilized ova or very early embryos from more than one organism of the same species, or heterologous (the result of laboratory manipulation of different species to form a mosaic). A chimera in which the foreign cells are derived from the same genotype (e.g., from an identical twin) is said to be isologous.
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Post by franko on Jan 16, 2005 22:14:11 GMT -5
Oryx and Crake ( Margaret Atwood)
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Post by blaise on Jan 17, 2005 14:09:58 GMT -5
Oryx and Crake ( Margaret Atwood) Crakes are smart birds. Oryxes aren't smart. They just run fast. |
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Post by franko on Jan 17, 2005 19:28:24 GMT -5
Crakes are smart birds. Oryxes aren't smart. They just run fast. Crake was not the smart one in this novel, though he was endowed with intelligence. |
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