Post by Spaced Out Looney on Dec 8, 2013 3:46:09 GMT -5
general impressions 4.11 Unrealized Reality
*I love this episode so much. I want to marry it and have 1000 of its babies. So much to parse and analyze. Hard to keep "general impressions" short.
*So Unrealized Reality... a concept that not only ties together the whole of Crichton's journey and existential crisis ("this is not me" "this is not me either"), the show, and not to mention setting up the next few episodes, but the whole of science fiction, fantasy, indeed all of literature, mythology, legends, and indeed the whole of human imagination. Life, the Universe, and Everything.
*"Every wormhole system has millions of exits, each to a distinct time and place. Travel from A to B; now attempt to travel back. You could arrive at point A immediately after you left or cycle later or a cycle earlier or 10 or 10000, millions of permutations. Unskilled wanderings create unrealized reality. Should a traveler appear earlier in the timeline of his own existence, he would be but as a pebble cast upon still water. The ripples he creates would over time radiate upon far distance shores, geometrically altering events in its path. Without such input, the odds of anyone actually appearing at a destination they previously occupied is so remote as to be mathematically disharmonious. At every point of entry, a wormhole branches into multiple paths. The subdivision continues until at length you are deposited back into space-time. The journey can be random, or with purpose. Destination is the key. Every portal has a distinct space-time signature. The only destinations you can realize by design are those of which you have foreknowledge. The more you travel, the more signatures you will catalog. Our ancients have given you the ability to recognize these subtle differences. Since every destination is surrounded by similar unrealized realities, the closer you travel, the more you must maintain absolute engrossment. And never return to a familiar place prior to the last time you left. Your next journey may lead to a permanent unrealized reality. Focus on the space time signature where you entered the wormhole. Every system is like a maze that loops back on itself. The elasticity of time allows unrealized realities to remain so. If matched closely enough to course, events have a way of restructuring themselves."
*And parsing the Ancients motivation and manipulation, Crichton's gom jabbar moment, with Schroedinger's Bullet. (Makes me think of Mal's quote in The Message. "Everybody dies... Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it."):
"Let me ask you, without getting all existential on me, why am I, why are you here?"
"You are here to perish, I am here to effect that option."
"And your Ancients gave me just enough knowledge to be dangerous."
"Are you afraid of this knowledge?"
"No."
"There is still time."
"You possess the knowledge!"
"From the moment the Ancients implanted that knowledge, you exist to serve a single purpose."
"No, that's what you want. My name is John Crichton. I'm not your pawn."
"Then, let us proceed."
"You afraid buddy?"
"Yes. No. Maybe."
"Are you suddenly becoming afraid?...Fear is the correct answer."
"Fear is your providence."
"When this is over, you're going to take this crap out of my head."
"Someday, should you survive."
*Lovely imagery and cinematography in this episode. The nebula/star scape, panning over to Crichton hand and then helmeted face. The iceberg and water. Einstein's make up. The Jerry Maguire homage is truly inspired.
*The language of wormhole = the language of love. "Wormholes bridge space-time, creating a unique ability to navigate."
*Flashing back to day 1 just reminds me of how much faster paced the show got over time.
*Claudia Black/Aeryn as Chiana, such a fantastic performance. "Oh come on, just once, like we should have at the very beginning." So many delicious layers to that moment.
*Crichton thinks of Moya as his home...and arrives back on Earth. Much like that discussion in Singles about how your ex is going is not going to want you back until the very moment that you truly no longer want them.
*Favorite Quotes
"Existentialism."
"They start small, they grow, and then they change. I dunno, 26 syllables, it should be easy."
"I wouldn't have risen to Dominar if I wasn't good at recognizing things before they happen."
"You were deposed in a coup led by your own cousin."
"Kansas, in the winter."
"Time is meaningless, and yet it all that exists."
"Einstein again, 1905. You publish anything since?"
"Oh, please. Like I'm going to sleep with a guy who only has one graduate degree."
"Impossible. Impractical. And possibly imprudent."
"Have you truly chosen to prevent aggressive species from acquiring this knowledge?"
"As a career, no."
"You failed me in art, not to mention 3rd grade English. And I still do not understand the use of a comma!"
"You did not forget the A, Johnny, you wrote a report about 'Mark Twin.'"
"Go help Stark hyperventilate."
"This construct disintegrates."
"Ah, screw it. But I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash, or Arthur Frelling Dent. I am Dorothy Gale from Kansas."
"Do you now know what it is?"
*I love this episode so much. I want to marry it and have 1000 of its babies. So much to parse and analyze. Hard to keep "general impressions" short.
*So Unrealized Reality... a concept that not only ties together the whole of Crichton's journey and existential crisis ("this is not me" "this is not me either"), the show, and not to mention setting up the next few episodes, but the whole of science fiction, fantasy, indeed all of literature, mythology, legends, and indeed the whole of human imagination. Life, the Universe, and Everything.
*"Every wormhole system has millions of exits, each to a distinct time and place. Travel from A to B; now attempt to travel back. You could arrive at point A immediately after you left or cycle later or a cycle earlier or 10 or 10000, millions of permutations. Unskilled wanderings create unrealized reality. Should a traveler appear earlier in the timeline of his own existence, he would be but as a pebble cast upon still water. The ripples he creates would over time radiate upon far distance shores, geometrically altering events in its path. Without such input, the odds of anyone actually appearing at a destination they previously occupied is so remote as to be mathematically disharmonious. At every point of entry, a wormhole branches into multiple paths. The subdivision continues until at length you are deposited back into space-time. The journey can be random, or with purpose. Destination is the key. Every portal has a distinct space-time signature. The only destinations you can realize by design are those of which you have foreknowledge. The more you travel, the more signatures you will catalog. Our ancients have given you the ability to recognize these subtle differences. Since every destination is surrounded by similar unrealized realities, the closer you travel, the more you must maintain absolute engrossment. And never return to a familiar place prior to the last time you left. Your next journey may lead to a permanent unrealized reality. Focus on the space time signature where you entered the wormhole. Every system is like a maze that loops back on itself. The elasticity of time allows unrealized realities to remain so. If matched closely enough to course, events have a way of restructuring themselves."
*And parsing the Ancients motivation and manipulation, Crichton's gom jabbar moment, with Schroedinger's Bullet. (Makes me think of Mal's quote in The Message. "Everybody dies... Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it."):
"Let me ask you, without getting all existential on me, why am I, why are you here?"
"You are here to perish, I am here to effect that option."
"And your Ancients gave me just enough knowledge to be dangerous."
"Are you afraid of this knowledge?"
"No."
"There is still time."
"You possess the knowledge!"
"From the moment the Ancients implanted that knowledge, you exist to serve a single purpose."
"No, that's what you want. My name is John Crichton. I'm not your pawn."
"Then, let us proceed."
"You afraid buddy?"
"Yes. No. Maybe."
"Are you suddenly becoming afraid?...Fear is the correct answer."
"Fear is your providence."
"When this is over, you're going to take this crap out of my head."
"Someday, should you survive."
*Lovely imagery and cinematography in this episode. The nebula/star scape, panning over to Crichton hand and then helmeted face. The iceberg and water. Einstein's make up. The Jerry Maguire homage is truly inspired.
*The language of wormhole = the language of love. "Wormholes bridge space-time, creating a unique ability to navigate."
*Flashing back to day 1 just reminds me of how much faster paced the show got over time.
*Claudia Black/Aeryn as Chiana, such a fantastic performance. "Oh come on, just once, like we should have at the very beginning." So many delicious layers to that moment.
*Crichton thinks of Moya as his home...and arrives back on Earth. Much like that discussion in Singles about how your ex is going is not going to want you back until the very moment that you truly no longer want them.
*Favorite Quotes
"Existentialism."
"They start small, they grow, and then they change. I dunno, 26 syllables, it should be easy."
"I wouldn't have risen to Dominar if I wasn't good at recognizing things before they happen."
"You were deposed in a coup led by your own cousin."
"Kansas, in the winter."
"Time is meaningless, and yet it all that exists."
"Einstein again, 1905. You publish anything since?"
"Oh, please. Like I'm going to sleep with a guy who only has one graduate degree."
"Impossible. Impractical. And possibly imprudent."
"Have you truly chosen to prevent aggressive species from acquiring this knowledge?"
"As a career, no."
"You failed me in art, not to mention 3rd grade English. And I still do not understand the use of a comma!"
"You did not forget the A, Johnny, you wrote a report about 'Mark Twin.'"
"Go help Stark hyperventilate."
"This construct disintegrates."
"Ah, screw it. But I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash, or Arthur Frelling Dent. I am Dorothy Gale from Kansas."
"Do you now know what it is?"