New Show...

Surprise…I was on Google and I typed in The Diamond Age and up pops a page about it being a new show on Sci-Fi…with George Clooney! It says it will be a long form series…no idea what that is. It also says it is only in the plans but still I wonder how they will do it…

They could do maybe a couple scenes a week, like how in the book there are different scenes. Or I could see them focusing just on Nell and having the other characters just be secondary ones, and we really only see the show/book through Nell’s eyes.

I think it would be interesting to see who they get to play the characters; Clooney I could see him as either Hackworth or Finkle McGraw.  He would be good playing a lord, or a well-rounded engineer, that recites poetry. I am sure whatever he plays, and if it actually makes it to TV or a movie even, my mother will be all over it, she LOVES him! As for the other characters I am not sure…especially since the characters age and the book time jumps.

Anyways I think it would be an interesting show/movie to see; just because it has so many things going on, and different points of view. I wonder how they would do the whole aspect of the primer!  Well if it happens cool if not oh well….

Thoughts?

Here are the pages I got it from

1.       http://io9.com/5280607/george-clooney-brings-diamond-age-to-syfy

2.       http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=422

3.       http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/upcoming-movies/the-diamond-age-coming-to-the-scifi-channel/

Primer...the gift i want. :)

The primer is one gift I wish I would get. I like that it teaches you what you need to know about life and in a sense yourself, to make it through and how to adjust to new experiences and you know what is required of them to make the most of the situation. I think Stephenson did a good job at explaining and showing the different primers and that everyone doesn’t experience the same thing, and that we do not all have the same reactions to them. Like on page 318, when Elizabeth is acting like a brat (that we already established in class) and taking out her frustrations on the primer. While Fiona creates her own world and is having a breakdown. Nell on the other hand seems to find herself with the help of the primer. She starts to help herself; she isn’t relying on others to help her.

I think that in the way they react to the primer; shows how they want to act like they do in the primer but the larger society doesn’t allow them to, Elisabeth’s family is to rich and bratty; Fiona’s is to angry and dysfunctional. It seems like that the experiences in the primer are changing them but then they are caught up in what their society wants. Nell grew up suppressed and the book taught her what she need to know, she didn’t know it was right or wrong until she got to school. The primer is what she knows; she doesn’t get caught up in society because society wasn’t there for her before so she doesn’t have to unlearn anything. The other two have to unlearn which is usually more difficult than learning in the first place. Making the reactions reasonable because they are caught in-between, where Nell, even with her frustrations, knows where she stands.

So even with all the complications, and hoops Nell and the others have to jump through, I still think the primer would be the coolest gift ever. What about y’all? Is the primer for you?