Kevin's Watch

...or lack thereof. Earth and satellites still have TV, and obviously there are outposts that offer various diversions, but aboard the actual ships everything seems strictly utilitarian. Not that I expect a high-tech, Star Trek level of shipboard leisure, but doesn't anybody read? Listen to music? Small wonder it's such a dark and angry future.

Sorus wrote:Small wonder it's such a dark and hungry future

I fixed that for you.

Yes, that too.

Remember that disgusting stage show, where the woman cut bits off herself? If that's what that era has to offer, then no wonder that it's not only an angry place, but that nobody wants to be entertained.

Seriously, though: First, it takes a lot of energy and/or space to store anything and haul it around, and useable energy in space is limited, so extraneous stuff probably tends to get left by the wayside. Heck, look at the minimalist clothing - everybody seems to wear the same shipsuit or two day in and day out. Second, what fun would it be to read about people reading? I think SRD left out shipboard entertainment because it did not serve to illustrate anything or to further the plot.

I can just imagine a "Human Apace Beauty Pagent". First, the girls get pciked for winner for the human station she is on... that there is a final, one girl from each human station, and two from earth...

Then, when they are all together, smiling their annoying smiles, wasting our time by giving us inane responds to pathetic questions, a kaze blows them all up.

Entertainment... is it not?

I was perhaps in some ways making an unfair comparison to the Chrons. Music was important in the Land, TC was a writer, but such things really didn't have a place in the Gap universe.

Still, I don't believe that the depravity on display at Billingate was the accepted norm.

...Well we know how Nick liked to entertain himself...

I also had the feeling that the self-mutilation act at Billinsgate would not have been considered acceptable throughout most of human space... i think that SRD used it as an example of how extreme both the place and its customers/resdients were.

It was deffinatly Extreme.
I wondered what the deeper meaning, if any, was behind it, but for the life of me I couldn't

There was entertainment... of course there was... Human beings need it. Yet there was really no need to show us Angus dancing up and down to Britney Spears, was there?

The story didn't make music necessary to tell it... music wouldn't have helped convey any kind of poetic, moral or fate, sense, in these stories...

Although, maybe in a future so bleak as the Gaps's time, where all business, industry, politics, and policing are corupt, there are guttergangs in every neighborhood, with the ever present threat of an Alien race, bent on assimilating the entire human race...maybe the recording industry was put on the backburner.

drew wrote:Although, maybe in a future so bleak as the Gaps's time, where all business, industry, politics, and policing are corupt, there are guttergangs in every neighborhood, with the ever present threat of an Alien race, bent on assimilating the entire human race...maybe the recording industry was put on the backburner.

i can see how you'd make this leap in your thinking but...nobody get's a sense of humor like Dolph Ubikwe's in that kind of exclusively dark, dank, humorless societal enviroment.