Stories have a correlation to the world we are living in. They are man-made. There is nothing natural about stories.
Shortly after 9/11 a bunch of mainstream Hollywood movies best described as revenge movies came on the scene. No one explicitly taking on the subject of course, it was too early to do that.
We have struggled for a long time now with an enormous amount of post-apocalyptic movies and TV-shows. It does not seem to fade away.
Not so strange when crisis after crisis has had the world in turmoil this last decade. Economic collapses, political and environmental disasters. You name it!
Post-apocalyptic themes and zombies usually follows vampires, a leech that not so strangely correlates with economic changes in society.
I am not kidding. You can google it.
What comes after the post- apocalypse?
Babies, is the right answer!
We need something stabilizing. We need society to move one. We need the family to stay together and we need hope. Nothing says hope like a baby.
I do hope this fad is short-lived.
The last time we had a wave of pregnancies was during the mid-90 to mid-2000 and every drama/comedy in mainstream cinema had at least one pregnant woman or unprepared parents in it.
TV science fiction is now picking up the torch, expecting and bursting with babies.
Extant combines pregnancy with alien intrusion. As if it was not hard enough, Halle Berry need to struggle with aliens, a husband on a mission and Roboboy too.
This show tries hard at many things. Thankfully, they have money enough for visual effects, good actors and a solid production.
Perhaps it would be a better show if they had not done both the ‘alien pregnancy conspiracy’ plot at the same time as the ‘Roboboy is just like human boys’ plot.
The Lottery is seriously taking the subject of pregnancy, or the lack of, straight on. This show has potential.
I know. It is just another way to say they fucked it up.
It was supposed to be Children of Men for TV but perhaps they got too afraid it would look like a copycat? Children of Men was good on as many levels as this show is bad.
Okay, you had a beautiful baby. Can we please move on now?
Christine
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