Le monde du vieux bandit

I think I’ve finally understood Star Trek’s hook on me (and, I suspect, many others), the reason I keep going to it, good or bad — suspending my critical sense for a while in a most appalling way each and every time. It’s one of Star Trek’s premises. Never mind that the viewer is required to believe that 95% of all life forms in the Universe are humanoid and breathe a similar air — we are actually required to assume that all these humanoid species have a common language — not only a similar means of communication! Obviously all the shows and movies would have suffered if nobody had understood us earthlings and vice-versa, and obviously it is easy to justify English as the common language, since such was the initial target audience (not so easy to justify an instant deep grasp of such a foreign language by “new” species, but anyway…). Still, once you accept that premise, you are so far gone into suspension of disbelief that you’ve invested something in the viewing, and since it can’t possibly get more proposterous than that premise, you might as well keep watching, relax and enjoy… It works on me.

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I think I’ve finally understood Star Trek’s hook on me (and, I suspect, many others), the reason I keep going to it, good or bad — suspending my critical sense for a while in a most appalling way each and every time. It’s one of Star Trek’s premises. Never mind that the viewer is required to believe that 95% of all life forms in the Universe are humanoid and breathe a similar air — we are actually required to assume that all these humanoid species have a common language — not only a similar means of communication! Obviously all the shows and movies would have suffered if nobody had understood us earthlings and vice-versa, and obviously it is easy to justify English as the common language, since such was the initial target audience (not so easy to justify an instant deep grasp of such a foreign language by “new” species, but anyway…). Still, once you accept that premise, you are so far gone into suspension of disbelief that you’ve invested something in the viewing, and since it can’t possibly get more proposterous than that premise, you might as well keep watching, relax and enjoy… It works on me.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 pm and is filed under * in english, media. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.