They don't feel to you like products of it. It's like, to use the genetics metaphor, they've been seeded by some alien race.
ObBaxter: his talk at the AGM was about the history of his home town. He noted that there was massive urbanisation--like, a seven-fold increase in population--in the five or six years before his birth, that essentially paved over all the history that was there before. He likened it to being the first-generation child of a generation starship crew. :)
You think you know what that world produces. You don't - Deadwood does.
And it doesn't make its argument well enough to convince me.
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Date: 2006-06-08 08:30 pm (UTC)ObBaxter: his talk at the AGM was about the history of his home town. He noted that there was massive urbanisation--like, a seven-fold increase in population--in the five or six years before his birth, that essentially paved over all the history that was there before. He likened it to being the first-generation child of a generation starship crew. :)
You think you know what that world produces. You don't - Deadwood does.
And it doesn't make its argument well enough to convince me.