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scottishlassYou know ... one of the main reasons I ever got onto the net and got hooked big time was one tiny little, early cancelled series called Space: Above And Beyond. When German television showed the first trailers of the sci-fi series I thought: "Oh no, not another clone and cross between Star Trek and Babylon5 ..."
From the first pilot I got sucked into this universe that was so similar than our own we live in. The characters and situations were so familiar and all was done with a twist. A twist that I had come to expect from the great team of The X-Files, Wong & Morgan, anyway.
I still remember the first time I saw Rod Rowland playing Cooper Hawkes. That cocky yet innocent grin, the flash of blue-grey eyes that could be harsh and dangerous one minute and deeply troubled and child-like the next. OMG, the horror of seeing him almost being hanged and then the struggle to fit into a situation where he never wanted to be, indentured into the Marines, flying jets, being a groundpounder.
I just love that series. I never got really warm with Nathan West (Morgan Weisser) who was supposedly the protagonist of the series, but Cooper Hawkes? Oh yeah baby. The whole concept of a six year old boy in the body of a twenty-three year old man? Yep, I could totally dig it.
I watched one of my all-time favourite eps tonight, Who Monitors The Birds?. The first ep ever with almost no dialogue on TV. S:AAB did it first, and was picked up later by Whedon Buffy and Carter X-Files (which had Morgan & Wong at the helm again at that time).
So what do I like about the ep?
Inevitability.
No matter what Coop decides at the end of his mission, he will acknowledge one thing: that the life of the Wild Cards and his own are conencted, that he relies on them just as much as they rely on him. He is totally alone, and he will be totally alone if he ever leaves them.
The Kaboom
The pyro technical site, definitely. And I pant and struggle alongside Cooper as he stumbles and runs through that half-desert like area on the run from the Chigs.
The Eye Candy
HONEY! 'nuff said
The Whore of Death
Civilians might see it as a myth, but service personnel who have been in war situations (especially really dangerous and fatal ones) have been recording occurances of that phenomenom and I thought it was a stroke of genius on the Wongs' side to use Kristen Cloke (Cpt. Shane Vansen in the series) to portray the Whore of Death. Only a few scenes but a major development for Coop. Shane had been his surrogate mother for most part of the series although he had tried to come on to her several times in the early days of the series.
It had been established that they were only good friends and that he would never end up in a zero-G chamber with her onboard the Toga. But with three small scenes, we see that Cooper also sees her as a sexual being and in rejecting her, he not only rejects the easy way out (being killed by the Chigs or simply dying of exhaustion) but also he accepts and transcendents to a maturer human being. The man-child has become a man.
I could go on and on about this episode, but I better stop now or it will turn into a definite drool fest about Rod Rowland aka Cooper Hawkes.
I miss the series. I really do. It was a lifesaver for me during a very dark and dangerous time. It will always have a special place in my heart.
From the first pilot I got sucked into this universe that was so similar than our own we live in. The characters and situations were so familiar and all was done with a twist. A twist that I had come to expect from the great team of The X-Files, Wong & Morgan, anyway.
I still remember the first time I saw Rod Rowland playing Cooper Hawkes. That cocky yet innocent grin, the flash of blue-grey eyes that could be harsh and dangerous one minute and deeply troubled and child-like the next. OMG, the horror of seeing him almost being hanged and then the struggle to fit into a situation where he never wanted to be, indentured into the Marines, flying jets, being a groundpounder.
I just love that series. I never got really warm with Nathan West (Morgan Weisser) who was supposedly the protagonist of the series, but Cooper Hawkes? Oh yeah baby. The whole concept of a six year old boy in the body of a twenty-three year old man? Yep, I could totally dig it.
I watched one of my all-time favourite eps tonight, Who Monitors The Birds?. The first ep ever with almost no dialogue on TV. S:AAB did it first, and was picked up later by Whedon Buffy and Carter X-Files (which had Morgan & Wong at the helm again at that time).
So what do I like about the ep?
Inevitability.
No matter what Coop decides at the end of his mission, he will acknowledge one thing: that the life of the Wild Cards and his own are conencted, that he relies on them just as much as they rely on him. He is totally alone, and he will be totally alone if he ever leaves them.
The Kaboom
The pyro technical site, definitely. And I pant and struggle alongside Cooper as he stumbles and runs through that half-desert like area on the run from the Chigs.
The Eye Candy
HONEY! 'nuff said
The Whore of Death
Civilians might see it as a myth, but service personnel who have been in war situations (especially really dangerous and fatal ones) have been recording occurances of that phenomenom and I thought it was a stroke of genius on the Wongs' side to use Kristen Cloke (Cpt. Shane Vansen in the series) to portray the Whore of Death. Only a few scenes but a major development for Coop. Shane had been his surrogate mother for most part of the series although he had tried to come on to her several times in the early days of the series.
It had been established that they were only good friends and that he would never end up in a zero-G chamber with her onboard the Toga. But with three small scenes, we see that Cooper also sees her as a sexual being and in rejecting her, he not only rejects the easy way out (being killed by the Chigs or simply dying of exhaustion) but also he accepts and transcendents to a maturer human being. The man-child has become a man.
I could go on and on about this episode, but I better stop now or it will turn into a definite drool fest about Rod Rowland aka Cooper Hawkes.
I miss the series. I really do. It was a lifesaver for me during a very dark and dangerous time. It will always have a special place in my heart.
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Date: 2005-12-09 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-09 05:26 pm (UTC)ooo, Cooper....:::thinks naughty thoughts::::
God, I love this series! I wish it was back on television....with new episodes...waaah.
Oh well, DVDs will have to suffice. :)
~*XOXOX*~
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Date: 2005-12-11 12:57 am (UTC)Saw Pirates Ahoy (Veronica Mars ep) and he now has the same hair do as when he started in S:AAB *big grin*.