DrestinBlack

DrestinBlack t1_j86000m wrote

Reply to If life can randomly appear in the oceans of earth, why can’t it also randomly appear in the oceans of titan? by governingLody

We have a sample size of 1. All we know about how life is created and evolves comes from our one single experience. So the most logical thing to look for would be similar circumstances. We have no data to support the idea that life could form under any other condition so why look for the unknown?

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DrestinBlack t1_ittv3rt wrote

Reply to FX has greenlit “Never Let Me Go,” a drama series inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel of the same name. by HumanOrAlien

Oh! I’m not excited for this.

A Part of what made the Book/Movie work so well for me, what set it apart, is how the clones were raised to accept their fate as just how things go. Not being taught or exposed to any other way, they didn’t have a reason to rebel or escape - they weren’t taught that what was happening to them was “wrong.” They accepted the process and their fate. They didn’t know different. And when love happened, they were upset that the system didn’t adjust for them to postpone a bit so they could enjoy love for a while. But it was still inevitable that they’d fulfill their role, as they were raised to believe and understand. It was their role, and that was normal. They wouldn’t ask us to pity them for donating, they ask for sympathy that they didn’t have more time to love a bit.

If this series changes it so that somehow upon discovering (what they already knew) they’d decide to run away to expose their purpose and becomes a story about the evil corporations filled with old white capitalist men did - well, we just went back into old SF territory. We’ve already read and seen material on clones unknowingly used for organ harvesting or body replacement and then they discover this, because no one told them and out come Michael Bay chase scenes and pew pew lasers. I fear this series will ruin and lose that … feeling that was handled so well.

I’ll be willing to give it an episode or two, but as soon as i see old, typical tropes I’m out of there. I don’t want my memories of the original material ruined.

This reminds me of how the TV version of Let The Right One In is going. LTROI had an entirely unique approach to the subject and it’s focus was not on the background, and barely on the mechanics or how’s/whys. It was far more about a unique relationship with a lonely young boy and his strange new friend.

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