Blog Restart

I'm starting this up again because I'm doing a lot of reading and thinking about stuff for my Star Trek 1020, and mostly I just need a place to put it all. I posted a note to my FB profile talking about the connection between ST:TOS episode "The Paradise Syndrome," my favorite episode as a kid, and Avatar, my favorite recent movie. I thought of a few other favorite stories, both books and movies that share that theme--protagonist falls in with less complex/more ethically groovy culture and falls in love with beautiful member of same. This causes protagonist to rethink whole worldview. Examples that came to mind immediately were Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, Last Samurai, The Bounty/Mutiny on the Bounty, Twilight, Harry Potter, The Matrix. Asked for other examples and tagged a bunch of people. Got lots and lots of great responses, many from my dear friend, Jonathan Darby. I spent some time processing those last night.



1) Amy Barwick

• Blue Sword by Robin McKinley


• Dune by Frank Herbert

2) Jon Darby

• Northern Exposure--TV Show 1990-1995


• Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
• Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake

3) Mandy Kaufman

• My Fair Lady
• Pretty Woman

4) Amie Rogala Hartnett

• Reality Bites
• Knocked Up
• Notting Hill

5) Jon Darby

• Hawaii by James A. Michener
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord--Peter Matthiessen
• The Man Who Would Be King--Rudyard Kipling
• Lawrence of Arabia--

6) Frances Smith

• Pocahontas
• The New World--Terence Malick, 2005

7) Kim Wilson Owen

• "you can never go home again but you can't stay here."

8) Jon Darby

• Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson (story of Cynthia Ann Parker)

9) Mike Adams

• LOST

10) Jon Darby

• World War Z--Max Brooks--Dystopian Variant
• Tales From The South Pacific--James A. Michener
• My Cousin Vinny--Jonathan Lynn, 1992
• Somewhere in Time--Richard Matheson
• ST:TNG--"The Inner Light"
• Shogun--James Clavell
• Apocalypse Now--Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
• Stranger in a Strange Land--Robert Heinlein
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas--Hy Averback, 1968

11) Kevin Black

• Razor's Edge--Somerset Maughan

12) Elizabeth Doyle

• Odysseus and Calypso