#space above and beyond

[assassin1513]

⭐️The Signs of Stars ⭐️

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[nerds-yearbook]

The series finale for Space Above and Beyond aired on June 2, 1996. The series only ran for one season of 23 episodes. The peace talks began with the Chig ambassador on the USS Saratoga. Meanwhile, the 54th were sent to rescue POWs, but the mission went bad, and they took heavy loses. ("...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best" Space Above and Beyond, TV Event)

[cazort]

Space: Above and Beyond (1995-96) is somewhat of a forgotten show and sometimes I feel like it gets the short end of the stick in today's society because liberals hate it because it glorifies the Marines, has a distinctly US-based patriotic flavour, and depicts liberal politicians as corrupt, whereas conservatives hate it because of its inescapable anti-racist and anti-fascist commentary, its criticism of the military-industrial complex, and its depiction of the ugliest sides of war.

I kinda love it though. It is a difficult show to watch, touching on heavy topics, and there is a lot of violence and death in it in pretty much every episode. I normally dislike violence in TV or movies but something about how it is depicted in this show I love. It doesn't shy away from showing all the different aspects of violence, from the dehumanization of the enemy (both how it is cultivated in military culture and in how it plays out on the battlefield), to PTSD from survivors, to grief from those who lose loved ones.

Another thing that actual war veterans have told me is unrealistic about most TV and movie depiction of war, is how it is depicted as much neater and clearer than it is. Veterans have told me that two things are consistently omitted from TV and movies: on the one hand, just how much waiting and boredom there is in the military, and how this occupies the overwhelming majority of time. And then, on the other hand, how in actual combat it can be completely overwhelming and it happens so fast and you have no idea what is going on, pure chaos. Even if aspects of the show are still unrealistic, this show seems to nail both of these key aspects and I have seen veterans praising it online on both counts. Most of the show is shot from the perspective of soldiers on the ground and you never see a more complete picture than they see, and more often than not, they are confused and overwhelmed, and their communications get knocked out much of the time too.

Last night we watched the episode Who Observes the Birds which is kinda wild as a work of art, it aired in 1996, and it's a sci-fi episode that has almost no dialogue in it at all. It's basically one character in enemy territory getting shot at and struggling to survive, and it has a bunch of flashbacks that give him backstory.

It also is just brutally moving emotionally like you see this moment of empathy when this guy has been shot at, and then he's waiting and he sees this beautiful alien bird fly overhead. And then this enemy soldier walks into sight and he has this straight line of sight to shoot him, and he's about to do it, and then he sees the enemy soldier get distracted by the same beautiful bird and stop and look up at it as it soars overhead and he can't do it and it's just like gut-wrenching.

The whole episode is packed with this, like there are a bunch of different interactions that span the full range from dehumanization of the enemy to fleeting moments of empathy, and you also see that the guy also starts hallucinating when he is alone in the war zone too long.

This show is not for the faint of hearted, it has a lot of graphic violence and it will definitely ruffle some feathers no matter where you are on the political spectrum, but if you want to see some sci-fi that has good character development and gives a more realistic take on the ugly aspects of war, I can't recommend this show enough. And of course like so many good shows it was cancelled after one season.

[fangedbeau]

Rewatching S:AaB

Did you notice that according to the dialogue, in this sequence from the pilot of Space: Above and Beyond they weren't at Jupiter's rings but at the Trojan asteroid cluster? That's at Jupiter's L5 point. They should be as far from Jupiter as the Sun is; about as far as we on Earth are.

Somehow I didn't catch that when I first watched it back in 1996.

Also, I didn't remember how much they had explicitly talked about wormhole passages, probably because that was never visualised on screen for us. In my recollection the show seemed to ignore the question of how to travel to a distant star system and back within a lifetime. But that was explained.

[biestcallisto]

Space - Above and Beyond

Is available on youtube in its entirety. And its one of the best SciFi Shows ever made.

There are so many intriguing details in it. But what gets me just now, is the Invitros.

For your Information: Its set in 2064 in a war against an advanced alien race. Its military scifi about a squadron of space marines.

Besides the humans and the aliens (They call them Chiggs) there are also the Silicates(androids that rebelled) and the Invitros.

Invitros are humans that were made in a tank. After the Silicates rebelled, humans needed more fighters, fast. So Invitros were artifically made and quickly grown in a tank. They are born as fully formed adults. They get some time in a school and then have to be adults pulling their weight. Initially used for the war against the Silicates they then were forced to work in the mines. The slur for them is also "tanks". When the show starts that indentured servitude was already outlawed.

Space above and beyond has two main characters who are Invitros.

Cooper Hawkes, a seven year old who was sentenced into military service.

T. C. McQueen, a twentysomething, so he looks like early 50s. He becomes their commanding officer.

These are people who came into the world without parents, educated only about things needed for the jobs they should perform.

But they are humans. They love. Especially Coop at the start has zero emotional maturity. And he only knew abuse when he joined them. He didnt want to be there.

Their journey in this war full of pain, hardship and loss compells me the most. They have zero reason to endanger their lifes for humanity. Except being humans. And they care. So much. They dont understand their friends. They never had parents, not good parents, not bad parents. They never were kids. They dont understand love and they know they dont understand love, but they love so much.

I love them. They never did anything wrong in their life, your honor.

There is a HD remaster on youtube. Please watch this fantastic show. It had banger CGI for 1996. But most of all, they dont write characters like that anymore.

[yumyumpod]

Coolio did indeed show up in Space: Above and Beyond and it's as weird and wonderful as you'd hope for it to be.

[patchoblack]

I haven’t been posting about retro cartoons lately. I think I’m a bit burnt out, so I’m going to focus on retro science fiction for a bit. This week’s series is Space: Above & Beyond. I like how it attempts a more realistic view of space flight and combat.

[grayrazor]

This might be a weird thing to say, but I love how sad parts of the Space: Above and Beyond score are. Perfectly matches the show's gradual trajectory from "hoo-rah let's smash the aliens and save the Earth" to "oh war is Bad."

[assassin1513]

✨It really rained stars ✨

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#happybirthday @RobinLCurtis #robincurtis #actress #saavik #startrek #thesearchforspock #thevoyagehome #tallera #gambit #thenexgeneration #generalhospital #macgyver #murdershewrote #babylon5 #TheUnborn2 #ScorpioOne #Recoil #MakingContact #SpaceAboveandBeyond #startrek57

[booitislife]

My life is utterly falling apart.

So, I decided to rewatch X-Files.

What a better time to delve into my childhood nostalgia. Yes, I am aging myself to say I watched X-Files as a kid. However, not too much because I was vastly too young and it was super inappropriate to let me watch X-Files as it aired. (Thanks horror loving dad who thought I could handle anything!) I am sure it didn’t cause damage.

So, yeah, who else loves the X-Files?

Who was your favorite character and why?

I loved both Mulder and Scully (did I secretly know I was bisexual? Maybe.)

I also really loved Krycek. Yeah. The double agent. The one who did a lot of bad things. What does that say about me? But come on - look at him!

Anywho, I am on season 2. The first Samantha Mulder clone has just appeared. Morgan and Wong had some good content. Did anyone else also watch Space: Above and Beyond? If not you should!

So, fellow X-Files lovers - give me your thoughts!! I need someone to talk to about this!

[inquisitorpsyduck]

Space: Above and Beyond

Heck I can't even find gifs for it here.

From the creator of the X-Files, a war between the humans and the mysterious aliens set only a few years after an AI rebellion was put down using artificially vat grown human soldiers.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/RBCH1i2rjNM?si=-gTlCLU7kr1i8xYA

Full series on YouTube

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMD9ghErEvtxvdsWQIoWqN2kPbl6nLKv2&si=otkF8BcB2toDrqnz

Do me a favour and reblog this with a show you like that was cancelled after only one season. I don't mean shows that were always meant to be miniseries or shows that work perfectly well as a standalone story, or shows that might still get renewed. I mean shows that are and will forever remain unfinished. The more obscure the better.

[dalesramblingsblog]

Watching Season Three of The X-Files with an eye towards writing a critical history of it is interesting, because I have a vague idea of the themes I wanna develop for Seasons One and Two, but without the additional context of Space: Above and Beyond I'm loathe to nail down my plans for Season Three with the same specificity.

[zuko-always-lies]

Edit: I also have similar polls for the 1960s/70s/80s , for the 2000s, and for the 2010s.