Serenity observation

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UPDATED: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 22:15
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ZICSOFT

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 1:28 AM

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Originally posted by Delvo:
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Of course, starting with Star Trek, priapic imagry sort of disappeared from space fiction.
Remember the launch of the Phœnix in First Contact? Just a plain old cylinder, thrusting straight up out of the ground, with a bulging semi-conical section on top just a bit wider at its base than the rest of the rocket. That was the most precise non-statue recreation of a penis I've ever seen other than a giant balloon sticking out of a window of a car parked at a sorority house.

That's probably an innocent coincidence. The Phoenix was supposed to be an adapted ICBM, after all. (Suddenly I'm struck with the imagery President Kennedy and Premier Kruschev pointing thousands of phallic ICBMs at each other. "Mine's bigger than yours!" Oh dear.) If Rick Berman, who has the creative courage of a cockroach, had noticed this, he would have insisted on something less, uh, you know.

In contrast, Joss Whedon loves a sly, subtle joke, and probably did his Freudian space ship on purpose. And even if he didn't, he'll certainly insist that he did!

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

ZICSOFT

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 1:32 AM

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Originally posted by Delvo:
I can stretch my imagination to make this work as long as we're only talking about PART of the ship, not just THE SHIP... but I'd still be mighty upset if mine really looked much like that. It not only looks out of proportion, but just too sharply angular.

Yeah, you're right. But it's close enough to make you laugh, isn't it?

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

QUILL

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 4:19 PM

"Everything's either concave or 'vex
So whatever you dream of will be about sex."

Can't remember who wrote that, or even if I've got the exact words, but in the spirit of...

Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher

KALIMAC

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 9:27 PM

Anyone ever seen Lexx? Now there's a flying penis...

Keep Flying

AVALON

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 9:59 PM

^^^ Nuh-uh -- it's just a really big dragonfly without wings. No, really. Really--

MALCOLM

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by Kalimac:
Anyone ever seen Lexx? Now there's a flying penis...

Keep Flying

And I'm pretty sure the South Park movie had at least one flying penis.

-MBS

ZICSOFT

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by Quill:
"Everything's either concave or 'vex
So whatever you dream of will be about sex."

Very cute. But it doesn't explain Xander Harris's erotic fixation on linoleum!

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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