Here is a project I've been working on that is pretty much finished and so I thought I'd offer it up for anyone interested. This is Stargate: Apocalypse:
http://www.youtube.com/user/metatr2n
and it is a fusing of Stargate: Atlantis and Inception, so you have to have seen both of those for this to work.
Okay so here is one way of looking at the premise of the movie Inception:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/the-key-to-inception-its-a-movie-about-making-movies
So the premise I am building on here (which may or may not be the actual premise of Inception, but it is the premise with what I am doing here) is that movies and television series are in fact a type of shared dream. The writer/director/creator dreams up a world, he creates the world of the dream on screen, and then he incepts us the audience into his dream world through our vicarious character vehicles with whom we identify. So by this premise Stargate: Atlantis is a shared dream.
Okay, so if you've seen it then you remember that the writers dreamed up that Dr. Weir was zapped by the red death ray, invaded by machines and then cast into the cold of space to drift alone and I guess forever. I mean, this character was cast into Limbo in almost every philosophical and creative way and it rather pissed me off that the writers would do such unfathomably cruel things to this character, who is literally the woman in red. So in this dream these writers have dreamed and incepted the viewers into; they just abuse this character and so now she is trapped in Limbo. Zero catharsis in every way.
But wait; I've been incepted into their dream world through my vicarious character vehicle, right? along with all the other viewers out there? Okay so I can dream, too; and what I am going to do is dream a dream within their dream; and another and another: and I'm going to collapse the whole thing and bring Dr. Weir out of Limbo and back to Atlantis. So I'm reprising my "inception role" as Dr . McKay to play the part of "alternate reality mckay" here, and I am the architect of the dream within the dream; if you take my job offer here, then you will be going back into the dream as "alternate reality sheppard"; the extractor; and we're going to do this thing.
Think of it this way, if you watch my series, and then watch the television series; you will see and hear my dream embedded within their dream, like a hidden story within a story- all of the imagery is Stargate: Atlantis but remember the Inception aspects of catharsis, the potency of ideas and perceived self-generation of idea; labyrinthian dream architecture; etc. because it's the Inception angle that is giving rise to the substance of this idea. Though the premises are the same, the story itself isn't, so this isn't Cobb vs. Mal or anything like that.
Naturally there is meaning beneath the surface; I leave that for possible viewers to interpret or not.
I turned off the social aspects of the video (comments and ratings and such) because they are irrelevant and frankly asthetically loathsome to me. The first three seasons are intended to be tongue-in-cheek for the most part; and I just reduce each episode to 30 seconds in length; think of it as if i'm throwing Stargate: Atlantis into the crucible of Inception and revealing what remains. Apart from these, I used the soundtrack to Inception to create the visual story-angle of the extraction.
I think that's all the set-up this needs, so if it sounds like a fun ride, take my job offer and we'll head back into the dream after Dr. Weir. She'll be the one that looks really old. Also bear in mind that though it's technically a movie, we're going to be collapsing the series, so it will become more dream-like as it comes down and the story begins moving in a kind of freeform, non-linear downward/upward spirals.
The playlists are intended to be watched in order; and it's about 2 hours long, I think- so the episodic nature may be best a little at a time. But it is intended to become more, dream-like as you go so
Any and all criticism is more than welcome and in fact yes I do have way too mich time on my hands.
http://www.youtube.com/user/metatr2n
and it is a fusing of Stargate: Atlantis and Inception, so you have to have seen both of those for this to work.
Okay so here is one way of looking at the premise of the movie Inception:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/the-key-to-inception-its-a-movie-about-making-movies
So the premise I am building on here (which may or may not be the actual premise of Inception, but it is the premise with what I am doing here) is that movies and television series are in fact a type of shared dream. The writer/director/creator dreams up a world, he creates the world of the dream on screen, and then he incepts us the audience into his dream world through our vicarious character vehicles with whom we identify. So by this premise Stargate: Atlantis is a shared dream.
Okay, so if you've seen it then you remember that the writers dreamed up that Dr. Weir was zapped by the red death ray, invaded by machines and then cast into the cold of space to drift alone and I guess forever. I mean, this character was cast into Limbo in almost every philosophical and creative way and it rather pissed me off that the writers would do such unfathomably cruel things to this character, who is literally the woman in red. So in this dream these writers have dreamed and incepted the viewers into; they just abuse this character and so now she is trapped in Limbo. Zero catharsis in every way.
But wait; I've been incepted into their dream world through my vicarious character vehicle, right? along with all the other viewers out there? Okay so I can dream, too; and what I am going to do is dream a dream within their dream; and another and another: and I'm going to collapse the whole thing and bring Dr. Weir out of Limbo and back to Atlantis. So I'm reprising my "inception role" as Dr . McKay to play the part of "alternate reality mckay" here, and I am the architect of the dream within the dream; if you take my job offer here, then you will be going back into the dream as "alternate reality sheppard"; the extractor; and we're going to do this thing.
Think of it this way, if you watch my series, and then watch the television series; you will see and hear my dream embedded within their dream, like a hidden story within a story- all of the imagery is Stargate: Atlantis but remember the Inception aspects of catharsis, the potency of ideas and perceived self-generation of idea; labyrinthian dream architecture; etc. because it's the Inception angle that is giving rise to the substance of this idea. Though the premises are the same, the story itself isn't, so this isn't Cobb vs. Mal or anything like that.
Naturally there is meaning beneath the surface; I leave that for possible viewers to interpret or not.
I turned off the social aspects of the video (comments and ratings and such) because they are irrelevant and frankly asthetically loathsome to me. The first three seasons are intended to be tongue-in-cheek for the most part; and I just reduce each episode to 30 seconds in length; think of it as if i'm throwing Stargate: Atlantis into the crucible of Inception and revealing what remains. Apart from these, I used the soundtrack to Inception to create the visual story-angle of the extraction.
I think that's all the set-up this needs, so if it sounds like a fun ride, take my job offer and we'll head back into the dream after Dr. Weir. She'll be the one that looks really old. Also bear in mind that though it's technically a movie, we're going to be collapsing the series, so it will become more dream-like as it comes down and the story begins moving in a kind of freeform, non-linear downward/upward spirals.
The playlists are intended to be watched in order; and it's about 2 hours long, I think- so the episodic nature may be best a little at a time. But it is intended to become more, dream-like as you go so
Any and all criticism is more than welcome and in fact yes I do have way too mich time on my hands.
