#space above and beyond

[assassin1513]

⭐️The Signs of Stars ⭐️

[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.

[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 dialogue in it entirely. 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.

[kyefox]

I probably learned more about science by Googling stuff I saw in TV shows than I ever did from school or shows actually about science.

What it boils down to is active vs passive engagement. I took an interest in what I watched naturally, but I think it can be encouraged.

Like Space: Above and Beyond. I was just a little thing. There was a scene where one of the characters talked about entropy and the heat death of the universe. This, I Yahoo'd, because Google didn't exist yet. This is probably how I found stuff like Bad Astronomy.

[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!

[silver-painting]

Going back to the motherland for a quick visit. I sure miss your ethereal beauty, Lebanon. 🇱🇧

[guywithbeer]

You can now check out the first 10 full episodes of SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND on my new YouTube channel.

Remaining episodes will be up over the weekend.

Thanks and enjoy.

[designingmonkey]

Movies and TV shows I’d love to see remade as series:

Space Above and Beyond

Space 1999 (2999)

Buck Rogers

Logan’s Run

The Last Starfighter

A live action Vampire Hunter D

A show that completes the link between The Terminator and The Matrix (there’s no way those are not connected!)

An Ex Machina series about the robot learning humanity

[raguleader]

If you don’t watch Space: Above and Beyond, are you even properly observing the Marine Corps Birthday? 

[eriksamaya]

Tread Perilously -- Space Above And Beyond: Level Of Necessity

Tread Perilously — Space Above And Beyond: Level Of Necessity

Tread Perilously’s summer Grab Bag month continues with its first look back at Space: Above and Beyond — an episode called “Level of Necessity.” When an operation on planet Daedelus ends with heavy casualties, Lt. Colonel McQueen notes Damphousse’s “anomalous intuition” for saving the 58th Squadron. The notation in his mission report attracts the attention of Colonel Matthew Burke, chief of the…

[assassin1513]

✨Call me a Astronaut ✨

[snakeplantships]

I’m old so sometimes I wonder why we need all these tags and trigger warnings on fics. But then I remember that the first slash fanfiction I read (in about 1997) was a Space: Above and Beyond fic that involved a rapacious sort of weird alien blow-job. I was not ready at that time, being 14 years old and ignorant of many worldly things.

Thank you for taking care of people these days, beautiful fandom folks.

Now it’s also much easier for me to find weird alien blow-job fics if I want. Win-win.

[yumyumpod]

I guess Ray Butts has ate his last pancake.

[poptartportfolio]

Above and Beyond.

[healthpipe]

Full stop I think if you go out of your way to by definition gaslight and beat around the bush with someone you know is low functioning in the skull and has been very forthcoming about being a system with no information despite being asked again and again about strange treatment while you're this old then you should dropbox your will and kick the chair because clearly theres no fixing that one.