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Aug. 16th, 2010 11:26 pmHere's an interesting quote from an article about Leonard Nimoy's photography exhibit at Mass MoCA...
We put on a mask and we grow our face to fit it. I find that a very provocative idea. We make a decision about what we want the world to see of us and what we want it to think of us. But it’s not the whole story, is it?
In other news, still working my way through MI-5/Spooks. Just watched a very tense episode ... one of those lockdown is-this-or-isn't-this-a-test episodes. It was pretty obvious from the audience perspective that it had to be a test. They wouldn't blow up all of England in the middle of a TV series, after all, but they did a pretty good job of keeping the tension mounting. But, they had some really good points about how a national government is supposed to function if all communication fails and most, if not all the heads of state are dead.
Of course as I watch these, I keep coming back to two things.
1. Children of Earth is like RTD's version of a Torchwood/MI-5 crossover fic from the moral ambiguity, internal government politics point of view.
2. That Covert Affairs line about the CIA encouraging dating within the agency. It makes SO much sense. Just from a practical, I can't tell you anything I do, you can never count on me, and my job will ALWAYS be more important than our relationship perspective. That's a lot to deal with for someone who's merely a civilian!
okay, off to bed soon ... well, it's a worthy goal, except I'm not really all that sleepy. damn, sleeping is something I'm really sucking at lately.
We put on a mask and we grow our face to fit it. I find that a very provocative idea. We make a decision about what we want the world to see of us and what we want it to think of us. But it’s not the whole story, is it?
In other news, still working my way through MI-5/Spooks. Just watched a very tense episode ... one of those lockdown is-this-or-isn't-this-a-test episodes. It was pretty obvious from the audience perspective that it had to be a test. They wouldn't blow up all of England in the middle of a TV series, after all, but they did a pretty good job of keeping the tension mounting. But, they had some really good points about how a national government is supposed to function if all communication fails and most, if not all the heads of state are dead.
Of course as I watch these, I keep coming back to two things.
1. Children of Earth is like RTD's version of a Torchwood/MI-5 crossover fic from the moral ambiguity, internal government politics point of view.
2. That Covert Affairs line about the CIA encouraging dating within the agency. It makes SO much sense. Just from a practical, I can't tell you anything I do, you can never count on me, and my job will ALWAYS be more important than our relationship perspective. That's a lot to deal with for someone who's merely a civilian!
okay, off to bed soon ... well, it's a worthy goal, except I'm not really all that sleepy. damn, sleeping is something I'm really sucking at lately.
