Dvaldron May 29Th, 2011 12:09 AM
DValdron May 29th, 2011 12:09 AM The Moontrap Timeline Alright, I'm bored, and I don't feel like getting back to Green Antarctica or Axis of Andes just yet. I'll get to them, I promise. But in the meantime, I want to mess around a bit with a media-based alternative history timeline that includes everything from Total Recall, to Alien, Predator, Mad Max, Escape From New York, Blade Runner, the Hidden, The Last Starfighter, etc. etc. Basically, the notion I want to play with is that most of the 'non-franchise' Science Fiction movies and television of the 80's and 90's, can be fit into an alternate history continuity I call the Gigerverse. (Although arguably, we could call it the Cameronverse, the Ridleyverse, the Shwarzeneggerverse, etc.). The underlying idea is that our Sci Fi visual media, film and television, represented a relatively homogenous view of the future and of the universe and our place in it, which, surprise surprise, reflects where we are now. In the 50's and 60's, Sci Fi was essentially optimistic, the ships were gleaming silver needles, the heroes were establishment men - space pilots and captains, military officers and engineers, at the top of a hierarchical system with that hierarchal system backing them up. The state was a benign thing. The enemy was 'othered'. But by the 80's, that optimism had withered. The Sci Fi that was birthed in the contortions of the 1970's - of Vietnam, Watergate, the near financial crash of New York, of corporate and state malfeasance, and of new environmental awareness was much more battered.
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