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[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]I was born in the sixties. If Helena was born around 1970, she grew up with LPs! And before VCRs!I can only say that when we talk about The House Between, we often say it was “filmed using digital cameras”. There was no “film” involved. My dad records shows on DVR and says, “we’ve got it on tape”.
I think it may have been simply my anachronistic speech patterns showing up in the book, or Helena’s?[/quote]
For what it is worth, I rather doubt Helena would be the CMO of a major off-planet medical installation at age 29. It would make more sense to have her in her mid-thirties at the least, and even more likely a few years older than that. I’ve always thought the age of BB was probably not too far off what was appropriate for the position, Hollywood’s desire to have the ‘Doogie Howser’ mentality not withstanding. A rather long-winded way of saying I bet Helena at least knew how to use a VCR along with that record player. 🙂
And I agree about the anachronistic speech patterns, for all the reasons cited. In the hospital, we still ask for the x-ray ‘films’ when just about everything has now gone digital. :laugh:
[b]Exabyte2e64 wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Zack wrote:[/b]
[quote]The Network version is better than the US 30th anniversary version. Much much better.[/quote]
And it looks like it was just discontinued 🙁
Out of stock at Amazon UK, and deleted from Network’s site.[/quote]Huh. I wonder if this means Network is throwing in the towel, or if they are clearing stock in preparation for a HDTV release? I suspect this doesn’t bide well for ever seeing a Y2 Network series.
PatS, your reply is very well thought out. I very much enjoyed your insight, and find I agree with the vast majority of your analysis of Helena. Well done!
I am glad you commented on the entire psychology/psychiatry thing and Helena’s probable education. I meant to comment after reading Mateo’s note of earlier, but end-of-school-year chaos is currently reigning in our household.
To elaborate on what Pat has said: Psychiatry is a speciality in medicine whose practitioners hold an MD (or DO, if here in the States). They can prescribe medicine in addition to doing ‘talk’ therapy. Psychology is a research based degree, and the doctorate level is a PhD. To hold the PhD education and then go back to medical school for training as a MD, of the calibre to hold the CMO position, would entail most likely over a decade of education (4 years med school, 3-5 years residency +/- a fellowship, then several years of practice). Much easier to imagine a physician trained in Space Medicine would also hold at least limited training in space psychology.
[quote]Then there is the Y1 writer’s guide, which states she is not a GP, nor meant to be … Additionally, she didn’t get her position on Alpha by being a one-trick pony, by which I mean she was probably a good researcher, a savvy individual, and a skilled physician. I would postulate that Space Medicine encompasses physical, emotional, and psychological factors, and thus she never abandoned any one of those. (If pressed to “give” her an education, I’d say she was an MD-PhD. While I have worked with/for many MDs who were amazing researchers and clinicians, I have never met an MD-PhD who didn’t impress.)[/quote]
Just about dead-on what I’ve always thought, and I agree, an MD-PhD is exactly who I would imagine running Medical Center.
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]It has a LOT, but not everything. We could compile a list, I guess.Just to start it off:
1. The music from the coda of End of Eternity.
2. The episode title music from The Infernal Machine.
3. Almost all of the incidental score for The Troubled Spirit.
4. The music used as background music from much of Mission of the Darians (a personal favorite).
5. The ATTACK cue from The Infernal Machine….[/quote]Huh. Interesting to learn.
[b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote]Well, it took very little prodding and thus I ordered Y1 from Amazon.uk, and a multi-region (or regionless, I don’t know) upconverting DVD player, for not so bad a price. Y2 is well over $150, so that’s gonna hafta wait.
[/quote]Ouch! All I can find on Amazon.uk is the Carlton Y2 set, which is grossly overpriced at £160! You would do much better buying the entire R1 megaset for £43.
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]What Zack didn’t mention–and this is what really excited me when I got mine–is that the Network release has an ISOLATED SCORE! Yes, you can listen to the music by itself while watching the episodes. This gives you access to music used in the show but not on any soundtrack CDs! Sweet![/quote]I was under the understanding the Fanderson CDs had everything played in the series. Is this incorrect? :unsure:
[b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote]Also, can anyone tell me if it is worth investing in a region-free DVD player and to pick up the Network release of the two seasons? Is the picture/audio quality that much better? [/quote]Yes, to both. It [i]is[/i] well worth investing in a region free DVD player, and the quality IS that much better, although I am only aware of season one being redone and available by Network.
[b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote]Don’t know for sure, but I’m thinking go to the topic and click [b]unsubscribe[/b]. As for doing it right from the get-go, I guess right after you post you could click that button. This is just a guess, though.-Pat.[/quote]
Yes, thank you. I have been doing this but have forgotten just enough to make it an issue.
[b]admin wrote:[/b]
[quote]It’s a system-wide setting — we’ve turned it off (the subscribe set to Yes by default) — let’s see if that makes things easier.[/quote]Thanks for making the board-wide change.
[b]gcamo@netconnect.com.au wrote:[/b]
[quote]You could do a survey on this[/quote]IMHO the omnibus is a good deal, for all the reasons Mateo mentions. Year Two [i]is[/i] an impressive book to look at and feel, and brings a significant measure of dignity to both the second season and the series on a whole.
Sounds good, unfortunately I’m stuck more-or-less about equal-distant between the two options. Give an option of somewhere in the middle, and it might work.
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote] Martin Willey gave me a list of 65 issues with Y2 that he thought should be addressed. We tackled as many as we could within the context of storytelling.[/quote]Now this is a list I’d love to see!
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]The “loose ends” stick in our minds, but do they a story make? Sometimes a loose end can be cleared up with a single line in a novel or story. Only if the loose end suggests that it is actually the beginning of a big ball of yarn (pun intended) does it warrant developing.[/quote]While i am not sure I agree with this, why not then address loose ends in a short story anthology? While a ‘single line’ may serve to clear up many loose ends, I am certain the clever writers you have rounded up could develop more of a story, albeit a short story, if they were so inclined.
[quote]Once I got an email asking if we’d explain why Fraser’s sleeve color was different in one episode. I said, no. Books are in black and white and no one can see the color of the sleeves in a novel. So drawing attention to what was most likely just a wardrobe mistake didn’t make sense story-wise. Nor would any of the characters comment on such a thing–not without drawing undue attention to it.[/quote]
Two thoughts on this answer: One… adjectives are a wonderful thing. I think we readers can handle the descriptors of ‘red’ and ‘orange’ well enough. 🙂 Two… the readers of these books are, I imagine, almost to a person fans of the series, and we all know Fraser is running about with the red sleeve. And wardrobe malfunction of not, it was consistent throughout Y2, so why not address it?
[quote] If an answer is needed, here is one: Koenig (in our novels) is having all the Alphans trained in other areas, so as to guard against losses. If all the nuclear engineers die, or all the hydroponic staff die, or all the doctors die, then what do they do. Also EVERYONE is being trained to fly Eagles in our books. So maybe Fraser was working in another section that day as part of his interdisciplinary training. [/quote]
Well enough, and I agree the cross-training would be inevitable. Given this, why not run with it and include it formally in a story?
[quote]The point is that I know it drives us crazy, but it doesn’t necessarily work in a novel to answer such questions. [/quote]
It could. Many of the novels to date are almost over-full with details, it seems that this rather obvious incongruity could be addressed somewhere along the line.
[quote] What I’m really surprised no one has asked about is the alien ship from Space Warp. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I left the question alone. Next thing you know the book is published–question unanswered! :blink:[/quote]
Rather, take it one step further and ask what about any and all of the ships that ended up on the moon in the run of the series. It has always seemed to me that this was one potential resource that went begging to be explored and possibly used.
