Life imitates Aeon Flux?

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You know, I used to think of "Aeon Flux" as a television signal leaking through from a slightly askew neighboring universe (where the program would be considered a basic account of daily life).

Then I watched a show on The Learning Channel last night... and realized our world is a lot closer to Aeon's than anyone would've guessed.

The program featured an American anesthesiologist helping three, middle-aged women, uhm, achieve climax by rooting around in the middle of their spinal columns with an electrode probe. I wish I was making that up. I really do. It was actually more disturbing than Trevor's sessions with Cybil in "Thanatophobia." Very bizarre. Mr. Chung et al better make a run for the patent office.

If you're curious (and not too squeamish), you might be able to catch the program. Try to get through it without saying, "That which does not kill us makes us stranger." I couldn't.

http://tlc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=109834&gid=0&channel=TLC

― Randy Johnson, Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

"that which does not kill us makes us stranger"
I cringed at that pun when it first aired. awful! awful!
also "utopia or deuteranopia" as an episode title smells like
a bad pun but I don't really know what deuteranopia means
outside of the eye condition, but my spidey senses tingle
bad pun nontheless!

― the PUNisher, Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

deuter- as a prefix, means 'false' so utopia or deuteronopia means "paradise or false place?"

I think, it's been literally 10 years since I figured that out.

― skye, Friday, 2 December 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I recently purchased a Buck Rogers pistol made by Daisy for a friend of mine as a gift. He is an older man who still goes by the name of Bucky, and that I found out is because of his love for Buck Rogers.

I became intersted in Buck Rogers as a result of this and found that the series was very innovative as far as scifi. It often predicted scienctific achievements years before it's time. Rogers had rockets before there were rockets, jets before there were jets, and just great little futuristic guns. I wish Daisy had made a Flux gun, all out of shining blue steel. I for one would love to own one.

Early art of Buck Rogers was done sometimes by Frank Frazetta and is going for thousands, just for the prints from magazines.

I think Aeon Flux is in the genre of a Buck Rogers series for that same innovative scifi-ness. Not many around on that score.

― Barb e (Barb e), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Actually, the prefix "deuter" (or "deutero) means second or secondary. That's where we get words like "deuterium," which is hydrogen that has twice the atomic weight of regular hydrogen and "deuteronomy," which is the fifth book of the pentateuch and contains the second statement of Mosaic law. As for what that has to do with the episode, I have no idea. Maybe it's meant to imply that what seams like a utopia is actually really very similar to what one is already experiencing; kind of a grass-is-always-greener effect.

― Logo, Saturday, 21 January 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Woops, I'm an idiot. I mixed up U/D with Thanatophobia. That last sentence must be confusing as hell to anyone who read it.

― Logo, Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Utopia = Perfect Society = Black or White
Deuteranopia = form of color blindness = shades of gray

― Ray Lee, Monday, 23 January 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

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