![]() ![]() Correia has responded at length to Martin Martin has responded at length to the response. Martin, the author and creator of the "Game of Thrones" pop juggernaut, weighed in with a lengthy series of blog posts last week dissecting where he thinks the Sad Puppies have gone wrong. Let's hope our sexual future is a little more Roger Moore than Woody Allen.Some high-profile names are taking a stand. No one's had sex in space yet (as far as we know), but with commercial spaceflights nearly ready to blast off, it's surely a matter of time before someone joins the 62-mile-high club.Ģ000 movie " Supernova" and 2015 TV series " The Expanse" are among the sci-fi stories giving us a preview of zero-gravity groping and grinding, but perhaps the best example of getting wet and wild while weightless comes in " Moonraker." The late Roger Moore's James Bond celebrates saving the day by (what else?) "attempting re-entry." With all those amorous androids and ardent aliens awaiting us, no wonder we're so keen to explore the stars. That's enforced with smart viruses, including one that makes the people in relationships feel physically sick at the sight of each other, which kind of ruins the moment. The state monitors relationships to ensure no one with similar DNA gets together. In the bleak, near-future parable " Code 46," released in 2003, cloning comes with its own new problems. Most chilling is that this sci-fi parable parallels some women's real-life experiences. In the near future, it's not technological change at issue but social change, as women are subjugated under a totalitarian religious system in which the few fertile "Handmaids" are repeatedly raped and brutalized. While we're moving toward gene therapy and debating the merits of editing the DNA of our children, no one's yet suggesting we give up entirely on making the babies the old-fashioned way.įertility is at stake in Hulu's recent hit series " The Handmaid's Tale," based on the horrifying novel by Margaret Atwood. George Lucas' first film " THX-1138" in 1971 and the 2015 film " Equals," starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, depict austere societies in which emotions and sexual relationships are banned in favor of dispassionate reproduction. In the future, however, technology could come up with new ways of propagating the species - and the impact on society might not be much fun. Historically, sex has been important to, y'know, continue this whole human race thing. The creatures of the "Alien" series mix phallic and vaginal imagery to horrifying effect. The series is rammed full of terrifying moments of reproductive body horror - from the moment a monstrous egg gloopily peeled open and a facehugger leapt out in 1979's "Alien," through the egg-laying of the towering queen creature in 1986 sequel "Aliens" to the visceral gore of this year's "Alien: Covenant," in which an alien curls its spiked tail between two lovers and skewers them mid-coitus.įortunately, plenty of celluloid aliens have sex without all that blood and screaming, like the Antareans who join with Steve Guttenberg for a cerebral coupling in a swimming pool in 1985 heartwarmer "Cocoon." That brings us to the "Alien" series, which inspired a vast mythology and endless scholarly articles around its phallic and vaginal imagery of violent penetration, impregnation and birth. And in 1988's "My Stepmother is an Alien," Kim Basinger's race gave up sex 3,000 years ago, but that doesn't stop her getting it on with Dan Aykroyd to the strains of "Pump Up The Volume."Ĭultural theorists like Barbara Creed have had a field day with these portrayals of female sexuality, referring to the Freudian concept of the archaic mother and the monstrous feminine. ![]() David Bowie, Jeff Bridges and Jeff Goldblum make the earth move for the human women they encounter in " The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976), " Starman" (1984) and "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988). While Kirk and other sexual spacefarers have a girl in every galaxy, plenty of aliens have made the return trip with a twinkle of stardust in their eyes. 's Captain Kirk and Commander Riker, who are forever going on stardates, seeking out new life forms and new uncivilized things to do to them. In sci-fi, however, many aliens not only know English, but speak the language of love. In real life, alien life will probably take the form of bacteria, which isn't anyone's idea of a hot date. In the 2003 " Battlestar Galactica" series, the Cylons spot this weakness and infiltrate the human race through the clever tactic of being really, really hot. ![]() ![]() , our biological urges could prove our undoing. If we ever do find ourselves in conflict with ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |