this is also why all my philosophy classes gave me crises

[schmerica]

Last night I watched SG-1's "Tin Man", and the more time goes by, the more thinking about it is kind of freaking me out.

Here's the thing: probably the easiest way to freak me out completely in fiction is to start dealing with epistomelogical issues of reality and the self. Who am I? What is real? How do I know I am who I think I am? How do I know the world is what I think it is? How far can I trust my own perceptions of reality?

Which, of course, knowing that presses all my weird buttons, I immediately go and seek it out in fiction. Sane people trapped in Victorian mental asylums, checked. Fictional characters who are self-aware of their fictional state and seek to outwit their author, check. Waking up in asylums and told your experience of your life is a hallucination, check. Having yourself be doubled so there are two original and equal versions of you existing in the same time, check. Realizing you are an inferior cloned copy of the person you thought you were, check. Realizing your friends or family were created recently and your mind was tampered with false memories of their always having existed, check.

Seriously, it freaks me out even more than needles in the eye, and that's saying a lot.

(I have determined that the reason I liked "The Real World" on Friday more than everybody else is probably just because of my terrible fondness for Torri Higginson, though.)

I am waiting for my parents to come and pick me up to take me home. My sister is coming home from her summer on the East Coast with our grandparents tonight, too -- I haven't seen her in months! She sent me an email on Friday squeeing quite loudly and incoherently over the awesomeness of SG-1 "200". Basically she is the cutest baby fangirl ever, and I can't wait to see her again.

Comments

[celli]

I likd Real World too! :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

See, and you like McKay/Sheppard, so you don't have lack of caring about them as an excuse for liking it either!

[celli]

*laughs* This is true!

I thought Torri kicked some serious butt with what they gave her, and it felt like watching a fic. Those are my favorite eps lately. :)

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Yes, I would usually say your fondness for Torri is indeed terrible, but I enjoyed her performance, too, so I think it's time I cut her some slack. Also, the writers are having her kick butt a little more this season, which makes me like the character a whole lot more.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, my fondness for her has nothing to do with the show at all; it is most almost entirely on the fact that she is the CUTEST THING IN EXISTENCE on the season 1 dvds, you know? Weir is, admittedly, a mediocre character, but unlike the equally mediocre Sheppard, she coasts by on my actor love. Seeing her actually acting on Friday was an awesome surprise, actually!

[grey853.livejournal.com]

Have you read DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Phillip K. Dick? It poses a similar question. It was made into a movie called BLADE RUNNER, and while it's a great movie, the book addresses the questions of how we define sentient life and reality a lot better.

[dirty-diana.livejournal.com]

I love Torri and my Torri!love could not save that episode for me.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* And you even dig the Sheppard/Weir, too! Failure all around, episode.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

...I'm watching the episode right now and I'm liking it a great deal (and, to be honest, more than I liked Normal Again), and, well, frankly that scares me a little.

Help. Me.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I do not judge! Just remember: still better than Dempsey!