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Mar. 26th, 2019 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWatched "Miri" last night. Had a couple of basic reactions.
- Wow, the digital remastering and updating of FX did some serious favors for the orbital views of replica Earth. I remember seeing that on channel 11 way back when, and thinking that I'd be more impressed with 'an exact duplica of Earth' if it had, y'know, clouds. Or oceans that weren't the color of 1966 globes' blue paint.
- Good heavens, they appear to have beamed down into Fallout Earth, judging by the style and quantity of gratuitously destroyed crap in the streets.
- Is... is there a reason the redshirts just sort of wander off without indicating anything to anyone whatsoever? I mean, is that standard Starfleet secure-the-perimeter protocol?
- Miri's actress looks amazingly like a very clean and much more healthy Gilly, from Game of Thrones. Also, props to Miri for making a point of maintaining hair and skin hygiene in a world of ruins.
- The 28-year-old they had playing the lead 'child' does not in any way have any ability to convince me he is an adolescent. His first appearance gave the impression of 'I am an adult who is trying to pass myself off as a kid for unhealthy reasons', and the rest of his time on screen, thanks to 1960s impressions of what children were supposed to be like, left me thinking 'what chromosome is the deletion on, and how big a section is it?'. He felt like an adult who had something very, very wrong with him, or else one who was deliberately goading the children into being stupid.
- Props to the people of Miri's world 300 years ago for having the sense to put No Smoking signs in their medical laboratories; if they were anything like 1960s Earth, that's more concern for safety than I would have expected.
- Okay, it wasn't Fallout Earth; Fallout Earth would have had advertising plastered on building walls somewhere.
- No, seriously, what the hell was with the redshirts? The whole time everyone else was in the lab, there was no sign of the security guys. There was never any mention of the security guys catching the disease, no indication that the security guys were keeping watch on anything. The ease with which Captain Disturbing and his merry band of Not Quite Lord Of The Flies got into the lab and stole the communicators, and the fact that nobody even once suggested that the security guys might still have their communicators, led me to believe that the children had captured the security guys and eaten them. Imagine my shock when they showed up again towards the end of the episode, AFTER Kirk had already dealt with the band of semicompetent idiot children to rescue Yeoman Rand.
- The utter idiocy of the children after three hundred years was so severely out of sync with the kids I remember of that age band that I can only assume that three hundred years ago, all the smart kids got frustrated with 'school's out forever! we're going to eat crap and play forever! yay!', turned on the radio distress beacon just in case, and left en masse. Somewhere out there, there's a community of three hundred year old kids who used to be Boy and Girl Scouts, and 4H types, and Future Farmers Of America Only This Isn't Earth So It's Not America Wink Wink, who don't go anywhere near the city any more and maybe are doing their best to keep their old crystal radio sets working, because in the 1960s that was a Thing That Kids Did.
I can only assume the screenwriter and the executives involved in Miri were men who left interaction with their children largely to their wives and whose idea of kids without adults was based largely on William Golding. I am pretty sure that there were, and are, children across large swathes of rural America at the very least who would be capable of at least trying to keep up doing important stuff, and trying to read the books left behind when the adults died, and doing better than these yoyos.
(Speaking of which, for kids who were hanging out in a toy store and talking about games, they had awfully few actual games. When I was in third and fourth grade we scratched out checkerboards on the pavement or drew them on pieces of paper and made game pieces from whatever we had on hand in order to play chess or checkers. Weren't board games a thing in the 60s? Wouldn't the kids of a world that was like 1960s Earth have played them, or had bits of them left, or developed new versions of them? Seriously, did Adrian Spies actually ever interact with a child?)
- Wow, the digital remastering and updating of FX did some serious favors for the orbital views of replica Earth. I remember seeing that on channel 11 way back when, and thinking that I'd be more impressed with 'an exact duplica of Earth' if it had, y'know, clouds. Or oceans that weren't the color of 1966 globes' blue paint.
- Good heavens, they appear to have beamed down into Fallout Earth, judging by the style and quantity of gratuitously destroyed crap in the streets.
- Is... is there a reason the redshirts just sort of wander off without indicating anything to anyone whatsoever? I mean, is that standard Starfleet secure-the-perimeter protocol?
- Miri's actress looks amazingly like a very clean and much more healthy Gilly, from Game of Thrones. Also, props to Miri for making a point of maintaining hair and skin hygiene in a world of ruins.
- The 28-year-old they had playing the lead 'child' does not in any way have any ability to convince me he is an adolescent. His first appearance gave the impression of 'I am an adult who is trying to pass myself off as a kid for unhealthy reasons', and the rest of his time on screen, thanks to 1960s impressions of what children were supposed to be like, left me thinking 'what chromosome is the deletion on, and how big a section is it?'. He felt like an adult who had something very, very wrong with him, or else one who was deliberately goading the children into being stupid.
- Props to the people of Miri's world 300 years ago for having the sense to put No Smoking signs in their medical laboratories; if they were anything like 1960s Earth, that's more concern for safety than I would have expected.
- Okay, it wasn't Fallout Earth; Fallout Earth would have had advertising plastered on building walls somewhere.
- No, seriously, what the hell was with the redshirts? The whole time everyone else was in the lab, there was no sign of the security guys. There was never any mention of the security guys catching the disease, no indication that the security guys were keeping watch on anything. The ease with which Captain Disturbing and his merry band of Not Quite Lord Of The Flies got into the lab and stole the communicators, and the fact that nobody even once suggested that the security guys might still have their communicators, led me to believe that the children had captured the security guys and eaten them. Imagine my shock when they showed up again towards the end of the episode, AFTER Kirk had already dealt with the band of semicompetent idiot children to rescue Yeoman Rand.
- The utter idiocy of the children after three hundred years was so severely out of sync with the kids I remember of that age band that I can only assume that three hundred years ago, all the smart kids got frustrated with 'school's out forever! we're going to eat crap and play forever! yay!', turned on the radio distress beacon just in case, and left en masse. Somewhere out there, there's a community of three hundred year old kids who used to be Boy and Girl Scouts, and 4H types, and Future Farmers Of America Only This Isn't Earth So It's Not America Wink Wink, who don't go anywhere near the city any more and maybe are doing their best to keep their old crystal radio sets working, because in the 1960s that was a Thing That Kids Did.
I can only assume the screenwriter and the executives involved in Miri were men who left interaction with their children largely to their wives and whose idea of kids without adults was based largely on William Golding. I am pretty sure that there were, and are, children across large swathes of rural America at the very least who would be capable of at least trying to keep up doing important stuff, and trying to read the books left behind when the adults died, and doing better than these yoyos.
(Speaking of which, for kids who were hanging out in a toy store and talking about games, they had awfully few actual games. When I was in third and fourth grade we scratched out checkerboards on the pavement or drew them on pieces of paper and made game pieces from whatever we had on hand in order to play chess or checkers. Weren't board games a thing in the 60s? Wouldn't the kids of a world that was like 1960s Earth have played them, or had bits of them left, or developed new versions of them? Seriously, did Adrian Spies actually ever interact with a child?)
