Yeah, there's a ton about this that doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.
Syfy's Ascension Miniseries
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If my Roswell theory is right, it wasn't evolution the project was accelerating, but hybridisation. They were trying to warp human minds until they had alien telepathy.
The project thought they had the problem licked in 1972. Did that guy die from complications/withdrawal?
The project thought they had the problem licked in 1972. Did that guy die from complications/withdrawal?
You never saw a porn, right? Because it seems you are a little confused about what is "graphic sex"....
My god man, we saw butts and people moaning!!!!!! And underwear!!! How much more graphic can it get???????
My god man, we saw butts and people moaning!!!!!! And underwear!!! How much more graphic can it get???????
A LOT of 60's underwear!
As pleased as I was by the rare bit of good science of having the ship overheat when damaged rather than freezing (because vacuum is an insulator -- of course, it wasn't really in vacuum, but it was designed to behave as if it was), I couldn't help thinking that it was done mainly as an excuse to show lots of women in bikinis.
And it stays that way as long as no one gets pregnant.
(Implants, y'know?)
(Implants, y'know?)
Yep, pretty much. And that resonates pretty well with how the stewardess job was implicitly seen in the '60s -- as fair game for casual seduction by travelers. At the time, they were hired for their looks and required to be young and single, so there was an ingrained assumption that their job was to be desirable to the men they serviced. Part of the reason the term "stewardess" has been dropped these days in favor of "flight attendant" is because it had taken on rather exploitative connotations. I found that one of the cleverer ideas in the miniseries, taking that bit of ingrained sexism of the era and making it overt, not merely an implicit subtext of the profession but part of its formal definition.
Heinlein did something similar in The Puppet Masters. "Dang it! The aliens sneak into your clothes and latch onto your back! Now everybody's gotta walk around in French bathing suits! Such a hardship... but necessary!"
To be honest, I was a little unclear if the stewardesses had always been intended to be deep-space geishas or if this was just something that evolved over time, particularly under Viondra's leadership . . . .
Or was it just that Viondra took advantage of the system to use her girls as spies and political favors?
Or was it just that Viondra took advantage of the system to use her girls as spies and political favors?
Well, given the need to control and limit reproduction, both for population control in a confined environment and for the experimenters' breeding program, the crew would've needed a sexual release unconnected to parenting. Raising them to see sex and procreation as distinct spheres of activity would've facilitated convincing them to accept limits on the latter. So it seems likely to me that the "stewardess" program in some form was part of the original social engineering.
But the political element strikes me as something that Viondra recognized and nurtured for her own (and her husband's) ends.
It was also unclear to me how much the sex was actually part of the stewardess's job description and how much of it was just sort of "expected"--in the manner of the old "coffee, tea, or me?" stereotype.
I mean, clearly they were intended as eye candy and any stewardess who was not up to showing a guy a good time now and then would not go far, but were they literally escorts?
I mean, clearly they were intended as eye candy and any stewardess who was not up to showing a guy a good time now and then would not go far, but were they literally escorts?
The final part of the job interview was to sing, splayed out on top of a piano.
The stewardesses didn't go below decks to service anyone.
You couldn't buy them.
They were just supplied to the upper ranks.
And sex wasn't a certainty.
Remember when Mork became a Dallas Cowgirl Cheer leader?
The stewardesses didn't go below decks to service anyone.
You couldn't buy them.
They were just supplied to the upper ranks.
And sex wasn't a certainty.
Remember when Mork became a Dallas Cowgirl Cheer leader?
Have you seen old people?
They think that the belt should be resting about the belly button.
I understand what you are saying, but I also think it's funny that there used to be a lot more under the belt than there is today.
They think that the belt should be resting about the belly button.
I understand what you are saying, but I also think it's funny that there used to be a lot more under the belt than there is today.
Belly button? I thought it was just below the sternum