Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Two words: John Sim!!
Three more words: He. Is. Worthy. Though you've really got to feel a little sorry for Derek Jacobi - there's a really funny patch in the podcast for Utopia, where costume designer Louise Paige and producer Phil Collinson both said how excited he was. And he did a lovely, lovely job with relatively little screen time.
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BTW, could Prime please kick off Doctor Who immediately. I really need to join Spoiler Sluts Anonymous, but Utopia & The Sound of Drums? Bugger. Me.
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Er ... BTW ... I've tried to get into BSG - but without success. It's right up there with Babylon 5 and Star Trek Deep Space 9 isn't it?
Well, I think so - then again, DS9 is my favourite Trek show precisely because it was (deliberately) intended to be a little darker and more ambiguous rather than the happy-clappy utopia of the standard Trek effort. (Which is why there are so many Trekkies who hate it even more than Enterprise.) Of course, you get the hardcore original series 'Ron Moore raped my childhood - and Starbuck's a MAN damnit!' crowd, but I'll freely admit that it's heavily serialised, tonally pretty grim and that's not to every taste.
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I like Supernatural, but no one ever said it was an awfully smart programme.
Boy, that deserves a prize for the best use of understatement in a PAS comment. Supernatural is much like Smallville . Sometimes I'm just in the mood to power down the brain and pig out on eye candy, but I don't make a point of catching either show. (Compare and contrast with Veronica Mars which has eye candy up the wazoo for all genders and sexualities, and some smart writing.) But I agree with you: Helfer was pretty good in a predictable story - and I guess we're going to have to get used to it, because shows like Galactica just don't come along every day. Which is (I guess) tough titty for (IMO) the best ensemble cast on television, full stop.
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Folding socks as a multi-media, site-specific post-colonialist critique of consumerist heterosexism? I'm up for that - and I guess you'll be wanting a commission for coming up with the idea, you filthy mercenary swine. ;)
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cylon babe Tricia Helfer.
Not only a babe, but Battlestar Galactica also happened to find perhaps the only ex-Victoria's Secret model who can really act. (No, whatever Tyra Banks does is not acting,) Only hope there's some truth to the rumours that Helfer and Lucy Lawless get a nice juicy plotline as BSG comes to a close...
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but it seems clear enough that places with a reasonable stock of bohemians, artists and poofs are more interesting places to live.
Must invite you round on laundry day - fun, fun, fun. :) But things let really interesting when 'creativity' is just a wee bit anarchic, and has the great and the good reaching for the aspirin rather than canapés. Jeebs, when I turn into such a big hippie. :) Still, any day when creative folks are being asked to submit grant applications rather than being chucked into a cell and having their work burnt isn't too bad, in the grand scheme of things.
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It's not like New Zealand's arts hippies have to be ordered to go forth and be creative. (You half expect the announcment of an official creativity target - 15% more creative in 2007!) And Helen hasn't quite got to the stage of issuing "prime directives" ...
Fair enough, and I'm rather thankful William Gibson was never moved to describe New Zealand as 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. :) But I just wonder if (as you put it) "creative industries rhetoric" misses the point too, though without the funny-peculiar comic relief of Creative Community Singapore. You don't have to trigger Godwin's Law to just cringe a little at the memory of Tony Blair's 'Cool Britannia' cocktail parties, or every time Helen Clark craps on about creative industries being an engine of economic transformation or fostering a sense of national identity in partnership with government.
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S'alright. I walked into exams the year before that wearing a vote National button, partly to wind up my liberal teachers. I'd also given the young Labour reps a grilling when they came to pitch to us.
Hum... funny thing is that my father didn't talk to me for six months after he found out I'd joined the National Party, but I've got to admit if I'd turned 18 in 1981, rather than 1990, I couldn't have brought myself to vote for Muldoon. Just couldn't.
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I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website. It seems like the National Party's wet dream of what an arts/creativity policy would be. Must... generate... income.
*sigh* Robyn,I'm not even going to bother getting into a partisan slap-fest on that but I'd respectfully suggest that the incumbent minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage might find the quote Russell provided from that site oddly familiar.
I want to reach for a gun when any government tries to reduce 'creativity' to a nice, shiny marketable brand is quite another question. The folks at Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission, and New Zealand on Air may well be a little more enthusiastic for the notion.
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