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physicist, sculptor, engineering manager, runner, and avid speculative fiction fan that is attracted to multiple complex balanced layers of the mind, physical, and iterating our better selves.
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First Wave (1998)
The path of the hero and what it demands
19 May 2020 - 1 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
- Joseph Campbell
Ultimately, the series was true to this theme with the crescendo of ethics, intellect, and body unified to act without doubt or hesitation in sublime balance. It evokes the fascinating conversation Between Krishna and Karna Before Kurukhestra War in the Mahabharata.
I happened by this series as my second wave at the remote to 1998. I appreciated it more this time around on a deeper level, hence the J.C. reference. It has many parallels with the original Star Wars' inspiration from the rise of our hero archetype in - Power of Myth. Yes, the format, layers, potential arcs, and production buy-in is not for the faint of heart which influenced its cycle. Maybe that's why one of my favorites, Forbidden Planet, although deserving of a sequel/remake should never be attempted lest it spoils the genre pool longer than CoVid's projected duration.
I'll just say thank you to Chris Brancato. and Francis Ford Coppola for providing this series and hope there's enough interest for C.B. to speculate the choices and consequences of Nostradamus' race of being thrown off balance that each of us faces individually, Of course, you need balance the layers of entertainment with philosophy, and lessons of hope scaled to digestible portions.
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