Golden Girls: Science Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer • May 12th, 2008 @ 3:10 pm • Uncategorized
Okay, so the clip above isn’t SF, but it’s very surreal, and that’s what I like about The Golden Girls TV Show. Yes, it has been suggested I now need to turn in my man card, but I really enjoy this show when it’s not being preachy. Rose’s St. Olaf stories are utterly bizarre and surreal.
Also, the show has had its science fictional moments, as when they wind up as heads on ice-surrounded plates in a dream sequence about being cryogenically frozen….
May 12, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I once broke up with a girl because I couldn’t come to terms with the fact that she liked The Golden Girls. Well, de gustibus non est disputandum.
May 12, 2008 at 3:48 pm
You’re not going to break up with my blog now, are you?
May 12, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Come on! I’m no that shallow.
May 12, 2008 at 5:02 pm
LOL!
May 12, 2008 at 5:07 pm
The idea of Rose trying to recount a visit to Ambergris would be just as surreal as her St. Olaf stories…maybe *less* so. :)
May 12, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Golden Girls/Ambergris - now that’d be some fan fic to behold!
May 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I can’t wait to see the index in the back of your biography one day:
“Golden Girls, Jeff VanderMeer and”
May 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm
The Trekkie in me wonders what would happen if Rose was assimilated by the Borg….
May 13, 2008 at 7:41 am
@Jami Lutefisk and Lefsa conquer the galaxy!
May 13, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Could you imagine the Borg telling St. Olaf stories? It would be better then that little fan fiction play “Microsoft VS The Borg.”
May 13, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I submit to you, sir, the following equation of archetype:
Rose = Phoebe = Delirium.
May 13, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I could see Borges telling St. Olaf stories, but not the Borg.
May 14, 2008 at 9:10 am
But if they assimilated Rose the Borg would know every single St. Olaf story.
“We are the Borg, you will be assimilated, you know, back in St. Olaf….”