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The...*homages* in "Threshold"
Sep. 16th, 2005 11:13 pmOK, I'll admit that final scene was terrific. And most of the jump scenes were effective. But did Braga et al. need to borrow so much?
Resident Evil - no-longer-human attackers with an insane, primal bloodlust rushing commados in dark, enclosed spaces
The Ring - the videotape that brings real-world illness and effects, plus the corpses with the distended mouths
Cube 2: Hypercube - the "four-dimensional object", which in turn looks remarkably like one of Cube 2's room traps. I've never quite grokked the concept of a tesseract, but that's no problem, since I feel safe in saying I understand more than the producers of Threshold.
Star Trek - Technobabble. Patticularly noticeable in the viewing and "explanation" of the 4-D object on the videotape. Also, the concept of the show, of a species preserving itself by turning another species into its own, was appropriated from a third-season Enterprise episode whose name escapes me at the moment.
Event Horizon - An unknown influence turning a close-quarters crew homicidally wacky - "trying to kill themselves, trying to kill each other".
Contact - the alien master-plan message hidden within a seemingly innocuous audio transmission. The sound is similar, too.
Lost - OK, the actor who played Ethan Rom is allowed to have other gigs, but how remarkable that he yet again is a mild-mannered yet unnaturally unstoppable superkiller.
More tentative connections:
Jurassic Park - The mention of chaos theory, as in, "Fractals. A type of mathematics that crops up in chaos theory". Regardless of its real-life applications, I think it's unwritten law that any sci-fi mention of chaos theory is meant to hearken back to JP. Besides, it would've been just as accurate, if not more so, to say, "Fractals. A type of mathematics that crops up in really funky Trapper Keeper designs."
Independence Day - Didn't Brent Spiner play a similar, albeit differently-attired, wacky-sixties scientist there, too?
Batman: The Animated Series - "Technology so advanced that it borders on the supernatural". Wasn't that, worded almost the exact same way, the focus of one of the Ra's Al Ghul episodes?
In other news, I see that true linguistic Kung Fu is evinced by mastery of Pig Latin. Why am I going to school, then?
Resident Evil - no-longer-human attackers with an insane, primal bloodlust rushing commados in dark, enclosed spaces
The Ring - the videotape that brings real-world illness and effects, plus the corpses with the distended mouths
Cube 2: Hypercube - the "four-dimensional object", which in turn looks remarkably like one of Cube 2's room traps. I've never quite grokked the concept of a tesseract, but that's no problem, since I feel safe in saying I understand more than the producers of Threshold.
Star Trek - Technobabble. Patticularly noticeable in the viewing and "explanation" of the 4-D object on the videotape. Also, the concept of the show, of a species preserving itself by turning another species into its own, was appropriated from a third-season Enterprise episode whose name escapes me at the moment.
Event Horizon - An unknown influence turning a close-quarters crew homicidally wacky - "trying to kill themselves, trying to kill each other".
Contact - the alien master-plan message hidden within a seemingly innocuous audio transmission. The sound is similar, too.
Lost - OK, the actor who played Ethan Rom is allowed to have other gigs, but how remarkable that he yet again is a mild-mannered yet unnaturally unstoppable superkiller.
More tentative connections:
Jurassic Park - The mention of chaos theory, as in, "Fractals. A type of mathematics that crops up in chaos theory". Regardless of its real-life applications, I think it's unwritten law that any sci-fi mention of chaos theory is meant to hearken back to JP. Besides, it would've been just as accurate, if not more so, to say, "Fractals. A type of mathematics that crops up in really funky Trapper Keeper designs."
Independence Day - Didn't Brent Spiner play a similar, albeit differently-attired, wacky-sixties scientist there, too?
Batman: The Animated Series - "Technology so advanced that it borders on the supernatural". Wasn't that, worded almost the exact same way, the focus of one of the Ra's Al Ghul episodes?
In other news, I see that true linguistic Kung Fu is evinced by mastery of Pig Latin. Why am I going to school, then?
