god i love the realm of possibilities that fanfiction unfolds. i was thinking about this outlander fanfic idea that is still in its embrionary stages and now i’m contemplating turning percy wainwright into one of frances pocock’s parental figures
OUTLAND (1981): Grim and grimy Peter Hyams sci-fi Western, essentially a futuristic HIGH NOON restaged on a mining colony on Jupiter's moon Io, where new marshal O'Niel (Sean Connery) goes to war with the colony's genially corrupt general manager (Peter Boyle) over his traffic in a dangerous amphetamine that's driving miners crazy, even though almost everyone around them is either too jaded to care or being paid to look the other way.
The visual design is outstanding, but OUTLAND too often feels like a series of cool sets in search of a story: Connery is fine, and Frances Sternhagen is very good as the cynical doctor who becomes O'Niel's only ally, but Hyams' script adds nothing to the original template beyond the sci-fi trappings. As with the 1952 HIGH NOON, the story's political subtext can be read in a number of ways, but there's a distinct tang of Randian Objectivism here, which leaves a bad taste, as do the movie's occasional forays into unrealistic but icky gore. The bigger problem dramatically is that there's no reason to care what happens, and the execution is unpleasant and mean-spirited enough to make it a pretty dreary trip.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of this disappointing movie is that Jim Steranko did a very stylish comics adaptation in HEAVY METAL, although given the subject matter, maybe it should have been Steve Ditko.
CONTAINS LESBIANS: Nope, and its regard for women is not high. VERDICT: It wouldn't take much to imagine this as an ALIEN spinoff with no xenomorphs, but does anyone want an ALIEN spinoff with no xenomorphs?
I’m obsessed with that Outlander dress too, it’s gorgeous
Maybe I am crazy, but this is about the red dress with the gold entanglements, isn’t it? From the France season?? You’re right. It’s gorgeous and the France fits have me OBCESSED like fr
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Outland | Episode 423
Jim reflects his first viewing of a classic Sci-Fi from 1981 from Director Peter Hyams – “Outland,” starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham, Nicholas Barnes, Clarke Peters, and John Ratzenberger. A Federal Marshall assigned to a mining outpost on Jupiter’s third moon, Io, is faced with a drug smuggling operation that is taking the lives of several workers. Find out how he faces up to incredible odds on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Outlander fics that I’m gonna write at some point (or try to lmao):
John/Percy happy ending AU: yeah fuck Bees
adults! Jem, Mandy and Germain, the time traveling trio: I don’t have a plot for this yet, I just want them to travel and have adventures together. Mandy is gonna be a lesbian and Germain is gonna have this epic love story with Frances, which is going to involve a lot of yearning, angst, separation in time and space and all of that shit
Joan (Marsali’s sister) and Michael (Young Ian’s brother): I mean, Paris in the brink of the French Revolution + a widower + a novice with supernatural powers + romance?? If you can’t see the vision, I’m sorry
I have other minor ideas (mostly J/P stuff because they have me on a chokehold), but these are the ones that I will actually try to do first (then I might try the others).