Kevin's Watch

aliantha wrote:Lordy, SD, having nothing to add never stops *me* from commenting!

Hear hear.

(See? )

--A

Sure, I have a comment: how could Francis 7 be mistaken for Carl Sagan???

Ah, I see the connection: Sagan has contemplated billions and billions of stars, while Francis 7 has executed billions and billions of Runners (all right, maybe a slight exaggeration).

I can't speak for Lucimay, but I was not familiar with Logan's Run (haven't seen it in many years and recall little of the characters, etc.) and spaced on the fact that Lore had changed avatars recently.

Now I know why his current avatar looks like Sagan to me...

Sorry, SD, my bad for not making clear I was kidding around.

Came in via a link on the Stephen R donaldson page on Wikipedia. Very happy to be here. Still have a lot of work to do to suss out how it all works but am having a lot of fun at the moment just exploring and seeing whats going. I never realised there were people just as Covenant obsessed as me in the world and it is nice to know I am not the only one!

Found the site via a link from the SRD entry on Wikipedia and really happy that I did! Still a real 'newbie' and having lots of fun just exploring the site and seeing whats here to do. I am so pleased that there are people just as crazy about the Land as I am! After half a life searching I never expected to find 1000 plus soulmates in one day!

matrixman wrote:Sure, I have a comment: how could Francis 7 be mistaken for Carl Sagan???

Ah, I see the connection: Sagan has contemplated billions and billions of stars, while Francis 7 has executed billions and billions of Runners (all right, maybe a slight exaggeration).

Well, you could also reason that both died before their time.

Loremaster wrote:

matrixman wrote:Sure, I have a comment: how could Francis 7 be mistaken for Carl Sagan???

Ah, I see the connection: Sagan has contemplated billions and billions of stars, while Francis 7 has executed billions and billions of Runners (all right, maybe a slight exaggeration).

Well, you could also reason that both died before their time.

True. Francis was a wonderfully tragic character, if I can put it like that.

And Sagan...I thought of him during the spectacularly successful mission of the twin Mars rovers. How delighted he would have been...

Francis 7 is really the best character in Logan's Run. There's something about his death; you realise that he was only doing what he was trained to do, and it befell Logan 5 to solve the situation without violence. However, his death has such pathos.

God, I love that movie.

Loremaster wrote:Francis 7 is really the best character in Logan's Run. There's something about his death; you realise that he was only doing what he was trained to do, and it befell Logan 5 to solve the situation without violence. However, his death has such pathos.

God, I love that movie.

hear hear.

My 16-year old self developed such a crush on both Michael York and Richard Jordon. And the idea of Carousel floored me. Too bad the t.v. series that followed practically ruined that setting for me.

Enjoyed the book though. The change in the age one is exterminated made even more sense for the lifestyle these youths lived. And the different ending surprised me. I have yet to read the two novels that came after.

I think that Logan's Run is the single greatest influence on my life, besides the works of H.G.Wells. Yet, I have yet to read the novel!

I have not seen the television series, nor do I want to.

Loremaster wrote:I think that Logan's Run is the single greatest influence on my life, besides the works of H.G.Wells. Yet, I have yet to read the novel!

Did you ever see Logan's Run in the theater, Lore?
Oh gosh, as I said, in 1976 the Carousel effect was stunning.
At least to me.

The novel the movie is based on is different in a few fundamental ways. Yet I still enjoyed it. I searched it out after I saw the movie. My understanding is that the two novels after attempt to take the different vision of the movie and first book, and even some aspects of the t.v. series, and bring them all together. My guess is they don't work very well...

Loremaster wrote:I have not seen the television series, nor do I want to.

Hold tight to that determination.

I saw it on big screen last year with Forbidden Planet. What a great night.

Loremaster wrote:I saw it on big screen last year with Forbidden Planet. What a great night.

I bet. Fascinating combo!!

The Logan's Run TV series would have been a trip down memory lane - that is, if I had remembered any of it! My sister had a thing for Gregory Harrison, who played Logan. But I guess that show went nowhere fast. It proceeds from a false position, doesn't it? I mean, did the show's writers pretend that the movie didn't exist so that they could have Logan just be a "good cop" character having adventures every week? Or does Logan discover the truth about his society in, say, the pilot episode, and then spends the rest of the season running in search of Sanctuary...even though we know he already "found" it in the movie?

I probably did read, or try to read, the novel when I was small. Totally forgot everything about it. Might see if the library has a copy.

Be Welcome to the Watch, FireCat.
Be Well Come and True.

Terrific username and avatar!

Welcome to the Watch. Beware of spoilers for the new series though. We do our best to keep them in the Last Chrons forums, but the occasional one slips by.

Join in anywhere else too.

--A

I came here because Cag told me to. Then I hung around a lot, then disappeared, then came back.

On the dedication page of FR, funnily enough