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beccaelizabeth) wrote2006-03-29 07:57 am
beccaelizabeth) wrote2006-03-29 07:57 am
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Coach of the apocalypse 2: Revenge of the coach
So I've been thinking on connotation, and how just a few tweaks in the setting can give you an entirely different experience. 48 seats is a lot. You could fit the whole cast of even quite large TV shows into 48 seats, with room for redshirts to spare. So why do Our Heroes never ride the bus?
Think about it. Battlestar Galactica? Could be redone on a bus. I mean you have the whole tin can full of survivors thing, and if its a post-apocalyptic bus they could well be the last humans anywhere. They'd have crises of resources, they'd have overcrowded people, they'd have whoever decided which way the bus was going, politicians and warriors and all. And, okay, Apollo and Starbuck probably couldn't fly. Unless they parascended out the sunroof or something. But still there would be room for warriors, bravely defending the last best hope.
Like Babylon 5. Again, tin can, people. Quite a lot of people. In different sections. The ambassadors could bagsy the comfy table up the back, while downbelow would be the seats next to the toilet. Or it could be a double decker. Not that you could fit a quarter million people in even a double decker, but you'd get closer to that sense of 'many', and there would still be room for all the regulars.
80 people wrapped in 9.5 tonnes of spinning metal, all alone in the night
er, not that buses generally spin, while in normal operations. The wheels famously go round and round, but the bus just goes on.
Babylon 5 isn't big with the moving though. It would probably be parked somewhere.
Maybe up on blocks in the car park of an apparently abandoned service station, the one where arcade games go to die, which turns out to be the home of one really old guy who has to stay there and keep the petrol station pumps in order or the whole place goes boom.
When he's dying his relatives turn up, presumably to claim all the coins still in the slot machines...
...and at this point I realise I have thought about this *far* too much, and hastily change the topic...
Firefly? Practically *was* a bus. I mean, they trundle around, bits falling off all over, just trying to make enough money to keep on moving. You do that with horses, its a western. On a spaceship, SF. Either way has a certain set of connotations, adventure and romance and all that.
Make it a bus? The romance is gone.
Plus the fact that taking on passengers is his money maker of last resort just gets funny.
The whole glowing-ass thing is problematic. You can get paint to do it, sure, that greenish glow in the dark stuff, would probably last for hours. Or some of that hologram foil. But it's just darn antisocial. You're rolling along, you see this glowing green backside of a bus in front of you, you're all "Ooooh, shiny!" And then *CRUNCH*. Traffic accidents everywhere.
Reavers are an easy translation. Mad Max already did them.
Andromeda would be tricky. Their coach would have to be a relic of a bygone era of better engineering. Probably have to be foreign. Also, extra shiny and able to repair itself by eating rocks. And everyone would want to steal it.
Same with the Liberator. Except theirs was from a highly futuristic society all obsessed with computers. So, Japanese, with cruise control and a dashboard that talks to you in koans.
Blakes 7 has the glowing ship too, but theirs was like a limo. You can get limousine coaches. They seat about 15. I figure they're for rock stars or something.
oh *dear*, now I have the AU bunny where B7 are a band...
Farscape-on-a-bus: the whole living ship thing would be an issue. Especially with regards to the toilet. I mean if you've got an entire starship to play with, it all seems distant. You have your room, your furniture. The fact that the waste disposal system is pretty much someone's lower intestine is easy to ignore. But shrink it down to coach size and think about it - would you go in there?
I'm thinking not.
And then there's Star Trek. You can just see it. Sleek shiny bus, big red glowy tail lights, all the passengers in matching jump suits...
You know, come to think, somebody somewhere's probably done that. There's probably a bus out there all tricked out to look like the Enterprise. With the glowing computer interface style panels on the dash even.
You get sufficiently large numbers of people being obsessive for a long time, pretty much everything as can happen does. And Trek is the size/time king of fandoms.
Now I want to see that bus...
ANYways, you can just see Picard and his lot, all with the being extra shiny, bringing their little beeping machines out of the bus and wandering around, like, Margate, watching the natives and being forbidden to interfere.
I saw a LJ icon once said 'Margate SG1'. That's much funnier if you've been there.
SG1 has no bus.
SG1 needs no bus.
You know, the more I think on this, the more British it seems. US TV has the big budget, the shiny sets, the fancy computer graphics. UK TV has Red Dwarf. Would putting Red Dwarf on a bus make it any more insane? Not so very.
And Doctor Who? Once had a whole story arc set in a Butlins type holiday camp. It's really hard to come up with something so lame they haven't already done it. The TARDIS would not be sillier were it to look like a bus.
It would however be rather larger and less convenient.
It could probably fit in the cargo section of a big coach.
Getting in and out might be a problem, but they could ride with the other passengers in the day and just wander back to their dimensionally transcendental travelling trunk at night.
SeaQuest... would not be a bus show. Unless someone ignored the signs somewhere with a causeway or a really high tide.
*glug*
*glug*
*glug*
Angel would have problems with light proofing. Probably have to travel in the suitcase section.
And Buffy?
It's canon.
Everyone saves the world, and what saves them?
The bus.
Buffy can make anything cool.
Think about it. Battlestar Galactica? Could be redone on a bus. I mean you have the whole tin can full of survivors thing, and if its a post-apocalyptic bus they could well be the last humans anywhere. They'd have crises of resources, they'd have overcrowded people, they'd have whoever decided which way the bus was going, politicians and warriors and all. And, okay, Apollo and Starbuck probably couldn't fly. Unless they parascended out the sunroof or something. But still there would be room for warriors, bravely defending the last best hope.
Like Babylon 5. Again, tin can, people. Quite a lot of people. In different sections. The ambassadors could bagsy the comfy table up the back, while downbelow would be the seats next to the toilet. Or it could be a double decker. Not that you could fit a quarter million people in even a double decker, but you'd get closer to that sense of 'many', and there would still be room for all the regulars.
80 people wrapped in 9.5 tonnes of spinning metal, all alone in the night
er, not that buses generally spin, while in normal operations. The wheels famously go round and round, but the bus just goes on.
Babylon 5 isn't big with the moving though. It would probably be parked somewhere.
Maybe up on blocks in the car park of an apparently abandoned service station, the one where arcade games go to die, which turns out to be the home of one really old guy who has to stay there and keep the petrol station pumps in order or the whole place goes boom.
When he's dying his relatives turn up, presumably to claim all the coins still in the slot machines...
...and at this point I realise I have thought about this *far* too much, and hastily change the topic...
Firefly? Practically *was* a bus. I mean, they trundle around, bits falling off all over, just trying to make enough money to keep on moving. You do that with horses, its a western. On a spaceship, SF. Either way has a certain set of connotations, adventure and romance and all that.
Make it a bus? The romance is gone.
Plus the fact that taking on passengers is his money maker of last resort just gets funny.
The whole glowing-ass thing is problematic. You can get paint to do it, sure, that greenish glow in the dark stuff, would probably last for hours. Or some of that hologram foil. But it's just darn antisocial. You're rolling along, you see this glowing green backside of a bus in front of you, you're all "Ooooh, shiny!" And then *CRUNCH*. Traffic accidents everywhere.
Reavers are an easy translation. Mad Max already did them.
Andromeda would be tricky. Their coach would have to be a relic of a bygone era of better engineering. Probably have to be foreign. Also, extra shiny and able to repair itself by eating rocks. And everyone would want to steal it.
Same with the Liberator. Except theirs was from a highly futuristic society all obsessed with computers. So, Japanese, with cruise control and a dashboard that talks to you in koans.
Blakes 7 has the glowing ship too, but theirs was like a limo. You can get limousine coaches. They seat about 15. I figure they're for rock stars or something.
oh *dear*, now I have the AU bunny where B7 are a band...
Farscape-on-a-bus: the whole living ship thing would be an issue. Especially with regards to the toilet. I mean if you've got an entire starship to play with, it all seems distant. You have your room, your furniture. The fact that the waste disposal system is pretty much someone's lower intestine is easy to ignore. But shrink it down to coach size and think about it - would you go in there?
I'm thinking not.
And then there's Star Trek. You can just see it. Sleek shiny bus, big red glowy tail lights, all the passengers in matching jump suits...
You know, come to think, somebody somewhere's probably done that. There's probably a bus out there all tricked out to look like the Enterprise. With the glowing computer interface style panels on the dash even.
You get sufficiently large numbers of people being obsessive for a long time, pretty much everything as can happen does. And Trek is the size/time king of fandoms.
Now I want to see that bus...
ANYways, you can just see Picard and his lot, all with the being extra shiny, bringing their little beeping machines out of the bus and wandering around, like, Margate, watching the natives and being forbidden to interfere.
I saw a LJ icon once said 'Margate SG1'. That's much funnier if you've been there.
SG1 has no bus.
SG1 needs no bus.
You know, the more I think on this, the more British it seems. US TV has the big budget, the shiny sets, the fancy computer graphics. UK TV has Red Dwarf. Would putting Red Dwarf on a bus make it any more insane? Not so very.
And Doctor Who? Once had a whole story arc set in a Butlins type holiday camp. It's really hard to come up with something so lame they haven't already done it. The TARDIS would not be sillier were it to look like a bus.
It would however be rather larger and less convenient.
It could probably fit in the cargo section of a big coach.
Getting in and out might be a problem, but they could ride with the other passengers in the day and just wander back to their dimensionally transcendental travelling trunk at night.
SeaQuest... would not be a bus show. Unless someone ignored the signs somewhere with a causeway or a really high tide.
*glug*
*glug*
*glug*
Angel would have problems with light proofing. Probably have to travel in the suitcase section.
And Buffy?
It's canon.
Everyone saves the world, and what saves them?
The bus.
Buffy can make anything cool.
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I'm thinking not.
This had me laughing. :) Very funny, be.
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*bows*
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*blushy*
:D
Heeee!
(Anonymous) 2006-03-29 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)Farscape on a bus. **snicker**
Star Trek with a shiny bus and matching suits. **snicker, snicker**
Firefly practically was a bus already. **snortle, snorfle**
Very funny!
Lola
Re: Heeee!