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selenakAh, very topical, that topic. *g*
Right then.
1) The Sarah Connor Chronicles: got around the problem of T3 having killed Sarah of unceremoniously by using the canon time travel in a creative way, and by adherring to a multiverse model - i.e. changing the past means creating a new timeline, but not instead of the old one but in addition to. So the post T2 movies take place in a parallel universe, and SCC can continue on its own sophisticated path without being bound by their continuity.
2) Star Trek: no, no, not yet. I mean, of course, the very first parallel universe, the one originally presented in Mirror, Mirror. Thereafter giving the franchise an excuse to dress up
their cast in slinky leather outfits and let them camp it up. The original Mirrorverse episode was fun, but I must confess my favourites are the first two DS9 ones (the later ones steadily declining in quality), with Kira hitting on herself in the first one, and Sisko enjoying being undercover as his mirrorverse self by having having sex with Dax, having sex with Kira AND making up with his dead wife in the second one. (Oh, and the fact that Kirk's heartfelt speech to Mirrorverse Spock resulted in change, only the change wasn't more liberty for everyone but humans going from the top to the bottom of the foodchain and everyone else taking the dictator place - that was a marvellously mean twist on the TOS premise.) The Mirrorverse also is noteworthy for being a genuine PARALLEL universe, not one that splintered of from a shared timeline.
3) Farscape: despite my issues with season 4, it had some wonderful episodes which I do love a lot. One of them is "Unrealized Realities", where Crichton zips through an endless variety of alternate realities, all of which (and more we didn't see) are thus canon in FS. (It also made me realize the odd fact I like Stark best when he's played by the actress who usually plays Sikozu.) Crichton being a geek, he did actually refer to these verses as Bizarroverses, and they offered some great mindgames. (Like the one where Earth was occupied by the Scarrans and John and his father, in this case played not by the actor who usually played Jack Crichton, but by Wayne Pygram, aka Scorpius, are hybrids.) And had some follow-up later that season.
4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish. And the Wishverse resulting from it. Angel did a canon AU, too, in s3, the Birthdayverse (named after the episode "Birthday", but I didn't like that one nearly as much - though the s4 Jasmine retcon gave it an interestingly sinister spin). The Wish on the other hand is one of my favourite episode. Not just for the AU - the opening scenes with Cordelia in sorrow and fury about her discovery of the Xander/Willow tryst are among Charisma Carpenter's best work on BTVS, and the scene with her and Buffy outside the Bronze is a great mirror to the one between Cordy and Buffy at the start of s2 - but the AU itself was just great, with Marti Noxon using her liberty to kill off the entire cast in various heartwrenching ways, and went on to provide endless fodder for fanfic, a return engagement for VampWillow, and a great new character for the show in the form of Anya. "How do you know this world is better?" "It has to be."
5) Star Trek 2009: barely wins over Doctor Who's "Inferno". Nobody is perfect as Billy Wilder tells us, and the new movie isn't, either, but it is highly enjoyable, manages to be a great tribute to the past AND a good film on its own, and provides a way to tell new stories by using the "multiple timelines can co-exist" canon established on the show ingeniously. Also, the scriptwriters when trying to excuse Abrams' old "I'm a Star Wars fan, me" interviews said that he was "Riker, in Matter of Honor" (a season 2 TNG episode - as they also said, TNG covers almost everything), by which they referred to a plot wherein Riker guests on a Klingon vessel and starts out being appalled by the local customs and ends up playing by Klingon rules and enjoying the hell out of it, thus saving the day. Orci & Kurtzman, you are true fans and I salute you, sirs. How could I not love your movie?
Right then.
1) The Sarah Connor Chronicles: got around the problem of T3 having killed Sarah of unceremoniously by using the canon time travel in a creative way, and by adherring to a multiverse model - i.e. changing the past means creating a new timeline, but not instead of the old one but in addition to. So the post T2 movies take place in a parallel universe, and SCC can continue on its own sophisticated path without being bound by their continuity.
2) Star Trek: no, no, not yet. I mean, of course, the very first parallel universe, the one originally presented in Mirror, Mirror. Thereafter giving the franchise an excuse to dress up
their cast in slinky leather outfits and let them camp it up. The original Mirrorverse episode was fun, but I must confess my favourites are the first two DS9 ones (the later ones steadily declining in quality), with Kira hitting on herself in the first one, and Sisko enjoying being undercover as his mirrorverse self by having having sex with Dax, having sex with Kira AND making up with his dead wife in the second one. (Oh, and the fact that Kirk's heartfelt speech to Mirrorverse Spock resulted in change, only the change wasn't more liberty for everyone but humans going from the top to the bottom of the foodchain and everyone else taking the dictator place - that was a marvellously mean twist on the TOS premise.) The Mirrorverse also is noteworthy for being a genuine PARALLEL universe, not one that splintered of from a shared timeline.
3) Farscape: despite my issues with season 4, it had some wonderful episodes which I do love a lot. One of them is "Unrealized Realities", where Crichton zips through an endless variety of alternate realities, all of which (and more we didn't see) are thus canon in FS. (It also made me realize the odd fact I like Stark best when he's played by the actress who usually plays Sikozu.) Crichton being a geek, he did actually refer to these verses as Bizarroverses, and they offered some great mindgames. (Like the one where Earth was occupied by the Scarrans and John and his father, in this case played not by the actor who usually played Jack Crichton, but by Wayne Pygram, aka Scorpius, are hybrids.) And had some follow-up later that season.
4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish. And the Wishverse resulting from it. Angel did a canon AU, too, in s3, the Birthdayverse (named after the episode "Birthday", but I didn't like that one nearly as much - though the s4 Jasmine retcon gave it an interestingly sinister spin). The Wish on the other hand is one of my favourite episode. Not just for the AU - the opening scenes with Cordelia in sorrow and fury about her discovery of the Xander/Willow tryst are among Charisma Carpenter's best work on BTVS, and the scene with her and Buffy outside the Bronze is a great mirror to the one between Cordy and Buffy at the start of s2 - but the AU itself was just great, with Marti Noxon using her liberty to kill off the entire cast in various heartwrenching ways, and went on to provide endless fodder for fanfic, a return engagement for VampWillow, and a great new character for the show in the form of Anya. "How do you know this world is better?" "It has to be."
5) Star Trek 2009: barely wins over Doctor Who's "Inferno". Nobody is perfect as Billy Wilder tells us, and the new movie isn't, either, but it is highly enjoyable, manages to be a great tribute to the past AND a good film on its own, and provides a way to tell new stories by using the "multiple timelines can co-exist" canon established on the show ingeniously. Also, the scriptwriters when trying to excuse Abrams' old "I'm a Star Wars fan, me" interviews said that he was "Riker, in Matter of Honor" (a season 2 TNG episode - as they also said, TNG covers almost everything), by which they referred to a plot wherein Riker guests on a Klingon vessel and starts out being appalled by the local customs and ends up playing by Klingon rules and enjoying the hell out of it, thus saving the day. Orci & Kurtzman, you are true fans and I salute you, sirs. How could I not love your movie?
