Space Above and Beyond (hereafter referred to as SAAB) is one of those short-lived shows from the mid-90s that I had fond memories of watching as a kid. Many of the episodes still stuck with me 25-ish years later and I've been meaning to rewatch it for some time. SAAB was always near the bottom of my "to-watch" pile however due to the sheer volume of amazing TV being produced these days. The annoyance of tracking down a somewhat unknown one-season show from the 90s was also a factor. Quarantine and the fact that the entire series is on YouTube have finally made the conditions ripe for a me to sit down and watch the series again for the first time since it aired.
Does it still hold up? Is it a forgotten gem of a bygone era? Or am I looking at the show with the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia?
The TL;DR is that the show more or less holds up. It's pretty good for its time...I'd say it's on par with shows like The Outer Limits but worse than say The X-Files. It definitely does not hold a candle to modern shows. I thought the last half of the season was when the show found its groove as some of the early episodes are a bit rough. The show has a "Riker's Beard" moment that acts as a turning point for when the quality improves.
I want to preface the rest of this post by saying that I'm watching this series through the lens of 2020. Further, because the the show only lasted a single season, a lot of the ideas presented don't have the time to be fully fleshed out. I'm going to bring up a lot of elements of the show that weren't fully developed, just keep in the back of your mind that I'm mostly giving them a pass due to the circumstances. Also, um...spoilers for the rest of this post. Let's dive in!
The Elephant in the Room
Hoo boy, is this show ever jingoistic propaganda. It's absolutely an advertisement for the United States Marine Corps. I didn't really get that as a kid and as an adult it's impossible to ignore. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy the show as a work of science fiction, it's just something that makes me like the show a little less.
The Cast
The Wildcards are a lot less compelling than I remember with a couple exceptions. T.C. McQueen (James Morrison) is just as awesome as I remember...he's the space dad we all wish we had. He's like the Cersei Lannister of the show: when has has something to do he's fantastic, when he doesn't he just kind of longingly stares out of windows. Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland) is another favorite as he has the most compelling and developed character. Rowland really nails the duality of Hawkes as a fearless warrior and innocent child.
The rest of the main cast is whatever. Shane Vansen (Kristen Cloke) has one really great episode (The Dark Side of the Sun), and the rest of the time is just kind of there. It's great seeing a tough female character in a leadership role like this, I just wish she had more to do than bark orders at people. The show really wants us to invest into Nathan West (Morgan Weisser) finding Kylen (Amanda Douge), his missing girlfriend. It's a "women in refrigerators" trope and not very compelling. Paul Wang (Joel de la Fuente) and Vanessa Damphousse (Lanei Chapman) are paper-thin single-trait characters (he likes Chicago sports teams! she's a mother!) that aren't developed. Wang especially could be seen as a racist stereotype, something de la Fuente has talked about.
The recurring and guest stars run the gamut from passable to great; a standout is Tucker Smallwood who has a minor recurring role and is always a delight.
The Chigs
This element of the show mostly holds up. The "less is more" rule works to their advantage, as the Chigs are a mysterious implacable foe. We learn almost nothing about them until the series finale. A big criticism I have of the Chig War is that we're never really shown the stakes. The implication is always that the Chigs will come to Earth and wipe out humanity. However, this never really seems to be in danger of happening. The closest the Chigs come to Earth is Mars in the pilot episode. For most of the show, Earth seems to be winning the war or at least gaining momentum. Apart from the human colonies in the pilot, we never see any regular people in danger. We only ever see soldiers, and for most of the show humans seem to be the aggressors. Compare this with say Starship Troopers where the aliens are a credible threat to people on Earth.
Silicates
Oh man, this was definitely a case of nostalgia glasses. The concept of the Silicates is really neat: AI didn't rebel to wipe out humanity or any of the dozens of other overused tropes. They simply wanted to take a chance. That's a really cool idea. The execution is...well, it's really cheesy. The whole "taking a risk" idea is dialed up to 11 to the point where they're all compulsive gamblers to an absurd degree. There's a robot that compulsively shuffles a deck of cards in the background! They're nowhere near as threatening as the show treats them. A lot of the actors playing Silicates are hamming it up like there's no tomorrow. David Duchovny absolutely takes the cake in that department (more on that later).
In Vitroes
I think this is my favorite element of the show. It's a very science fiction concept and the show gets a lot of mileage from exploring this idea. In Vitroes are an obvious allegory for slavery and racism, and it mostly works. There are a few instances I found very problematic which I'll get into in specific episodes.
Aero-Tech Conspiracy
I thought this was the weakest element of the show. Conspiracy shows were very much in vogue at the time, and the two showrunners Glen Morgan and James Wong had previously worked on The X-Files (the granddaddy of conspiracy shows). Jamming in a conspiracy into a show that already has aliens, robots, and artificially gestated humans makes it feel little overstuffed. This isn't to say that it can't be done...The Expanse does an excellent job of incorporating a similar conspiracy arc. The Aero-Tech arc could have worked given more time to develop but the version we go felt very tacked-on and only gets a payoff (such that it is) at the very end.
Music
Just a quick aside here. Even 25 years later I could still remember the SAAB theme. Umm...the reason for that it's the same motif repeated over and over. You don't really notice it when you're watching one episode per week, but when you binge all of them in a few days, you get sick of it real fast :p I will say the music gets a lot better in the back half of the season.
Thoughts on Specific Episodes
I'm not going through all of them, just a handful I want comment on.
Mutiny
The "In Vitroes are an allegory for racism" angle is laid on extremely thick here. What I find really problematic is that the mouthpiece for the most bigoted lines is given to Calvin Levels, a black actor. I could be wrong, but I feel like his character is queer-coded as well (I don't know if Levels is queer himself or just played the character that way). I get they're going for the whole "the oppressed of today are the oppressors of tomorrow" thing, but holy shit I feel gross seeing a black and possibly queer man dehumanize people like this.
Eyes
Okay, last time I'll get on my soapbox, I promise. The episode itself is fine, there's just one scene in particular that really rubs me the wrong way for the same reason as in Mutiny. The premise is that an In Vitro assassinates the Secretary General of the UN which causes anti In Vitro paranoia to rise. The episode draws a specific parallel to the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2 with the Blade Runner inspired "loyalty tests," a real thing that was done in the internment camps. That's all great stuff. What I have an issue with is that the episode goes out of its way to have the Japanese UN delegate insist that this test be done on the In Vitro characters in the show. Again I get what they're going for here, it just really bothers me that they would make this deliberate choice.
The River of Stars
I dislike Christmas episodes of TV shows in general, and this one is no different. This is an umm...very Christian episode. It was written by Marilyn Osborn. Besides being the Executive Story Editor on SAAB, she was also one of the main writers on the show Touched by an Angel. It seems like she's injecting a lot of her religious beliefs into this episode which I guess is fair for a Christmas episode, though it's the only episode of the series that felt really overtly religious.
Who Monitors the Birds?
This specific episode stuck with me all this time and it absolutely holds up. It's the best episode of the series and quality of the show dramatically improves after this point. Rodney Rowland getting a proper haircut (RIP mop head) is the Riker's beard moment. This episode does an excellent job of humanizing (for lack of a better term) the Chigs. Up until this point, they were faceless space monsters, here we see that for all their differences, they are still people with human-like emotions. Rowland is terrific here in a story with minimal dialogue.
Level of Necessity
This is such a weird episode. Up until this point, the show has stayed away from the supernatural, mysterious comet angels aside. Introducing psychic powers this late is an odd decision. Damphousse's psychic powers are never brought up again, including in situations in which they would have been pretty darn helpful. You could easily skip this one.
Never No More / The Angriest Angel
Now we're talking! This is another episode that has really stuck with me. Chiggy von Richthofen was such a memorable antagonist, so much so that I have one of my Star Wars miniatures painted up to look like his ship. This episodes also cements the badassery of T.C. McQueen.
R&R
This is a very weak episode, my least favorite of the back half of the season. However, it's worth watching for one reason: David Duchovny guest stars as a pool shark in a performance that is so out of this world hammy that it has to be seen to believed. There's a lot of other stuff going on, like the Very Special Episode on drugs. In Vitros are especially susceptible to drug addiction, which is ummm problematic if you think about it. There's a brief romance between Wang and Damphousse that goes nowhere fast when everyone realizes that those actors have no chemistry. And McQueen loves old movies I guess?
Sugar Dirt
Uninspired title aside, I like this episode a lot. The cast does an excellent job of conveying the passage of time and their increasing desperation and isolation. Definitely topical in 2020.
And If They Lay Us Down to Rest.../...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best
The finale was the best they could do under the circumstances. They knew they were getting cancelled and so they tried to wrap up the story as best they could. The result felt unsatisfying and rushed. I love the scenes with the Chig ambassador as we finally get to learn a little about their motivations. I wish I could have seen a version of SAAB that got to fully explore these ideas. Sadly, it's like a timer went off and someone flipped the board throwing the pieces everywhere. Most of our heroes are KIA, MIA, or WIA in the end and we don't get a lot of closure. The only closure we get is the one I wanted the least: West finally finds his missing girlfriend. Cool. It's a very somber downer ending. What I would have liked to see is some kind of epilogue explaining what ends up happening with our surviving heroes and the Chig war in general. That at least would have given us some closure.
Overall, I did enjoy rewatching the series. Most of the episodes are decent to good, and if you're in the mood for a science fiction war drama, you could definitely do worse. However, I don't think I'll be revisiting it again any time soon. For my money, there are better stories that occupy a similar space.
If you read this whole thing, I salute you!
submitted by Man, what a ride that was. It wasn't perfect, but I had a blast from beginning to end. I only watched an episode or two a day (sometimes I couldn't fit in any) so it probably actually took me 50 days to get through the whole thing. Kinda feels like I was on the journey too, you know?
I kind of had mixed feelings on the structure of the series - on one hand I liked that the entire series was hyping up this one epic fight, but at times it did drag a little and I found myself getting a bit annoyed, especially towards the end, when ANOTHER Stand user would turn up when they were so close to DIO. I suppose having all these obstructions towards this end goal made me more determined to see it through, but I did feel like my patience was being tested at times, some episodes were more miss than hit. That said though I thought some of the later episodes were the funniest, especially 'Bastet's Mariah', 'D'Arby the Gambler' and 'Hol Horse and Mondatta'. It did feel like there was a fair bit of filler though.
I thought the final fight with DIO was good, although I kind of wished we could've seen all six of them take him on together instead of individually. I get it, he would've defeated them all together, but it was kind of a bummer that only four of them actually made it to the fight to begin with and they didn't really get to do any sick team-up attacks or whatever. But I guess we got to see enough of that throughout the earlier episodes, so hey. It did seem like there were a lot of ass-pulls in regards to character's powers but I've come to expect that from JoJo at this point to be honest. I didn't care all that much, this show barely makes sense at the best of times anyway. I would refer to the
Rule of Cool (TV Tropes).
As for characters, standouts for me were probably Polnareff and Joseph. I thought Polnareff had a great arc and was probably the most well-rounded character, he had plenty of emotional, funny and badass moments and he was present throughout almost the entire series instead of Kakyoin who was hospitalised for like 8 episodes and Avdol who was 'dead' for a long time (speaking of which, I thought it was kinda bullshit how he 'survived' the first time, but I guess killing off someone was necessary for character motivation and all that shit). I also think he had the coolest Stand and the one that most complemented his own appearance/personality. And I liked Joseph for the memes and dodgy Engrish mostly. Would've been nice to see him use Hamon a bit more though, there were a ton of situations that he would've easily got out of if this were Part 2.
I haven't really watched nearly as much anime as you guys but in terms of pure HYPE I think this is probably at the top for me. Every time Jotaro said his catchphrase and
this started playing, oh God. It was just too good. My favourite instance was when Alessi turns him into a kid and he beats the shit out of him. I would also like to add that Stand Proud is easily the most hype OP I've ever heard. End of THE WORLD was great as well, I especially liked how they twisted it by adding Dio in the final two episodes, they even kept the credits text in there during the camera pan which was really neat.
So yeah, this wasn't really a serious review or anything, just wanted to share my thoughts (this is also my first self post here). It had its issues but I still haven't felt this much hype out of an anime since I first watched AoT, and even that was more 'holy shit, can't wait to see what happens' than 'fuck yeah, this is awesome'.
Can't wait to start Part 4 soon.
While we're on the topic, if anyone has a high quality version of
this, that would be awesome.
So I rewatched DR1 so I could make the
Hope Jesus analysis (which, as far as I know, is the only one that exists) I posted on his B-Day, and I’ve decided to chronicle my thoughts along the way.Mystery games have a weird tendency to make solving mysteries really fucking weird. In Ace Attorney, sometimes you play mind chess, in Ghost Trick, you sometimes are a ghost (I'm so sorry I spoiled the entire game) in Hotel Dusk, you do the fucking matchstick puzzles, but in Danganronpa, you gotta do it with your pure unadulterated disco fever.
And also bullets.We start off with our protagonist, Makoto Naegi, who basically tells us he's the normie to end all normies. We get some exposition about Hopes Peak Academy, the school he's standing in front of, where only the elite of the universe are allowed to stay.
Of course, they're all teenagers.
Makoto also tells us that to prepare, he fucking went on 4chan to research his classmates, somehow evading all the pepe's reeing at him along the way. He goes on to say that some students existed he couldn't dig up any info on, wondering if some of the other students are normies like him. Speaking of, the reason he got into the school was by winning a lottery, making him the heckin spiciest lucky student.
Makoto takes his first steps into the school before immediately being hit with a bad case of the mind fuck and falling unconscious. He wakes up in a technicolor classroom with bolted down windows and a pamphlet telling him to get his lucky ass to the main hall. Once he gets there by walking through a technicolor hallway, we find our cast of characters! These include:
Kiyotaka Ishimaru, the heckin spiciest moral compass who's first action is to call Makoto out for being late. Savage. He got his title by basically being the nerd to nerds what Makoto is to normies. By the way, Makoto’s first impression of this guy is that he’s a bit annoying. Nice.
By the way, he’s nicknamed “Taka.”
Sayaka Maizono, the heckin spiciest pop sensation. Makoto has a brief internal monologue after he exchanges a few words of introduction with her that basically boils down to, “fuck, she’s REALLY hot.” She then replies with something along the lines of “Man’s- I mean
I’m not hot, silly! my body temperature is at the healthy amount for your average human being!”
Which, if you actually looked it up, is pretty goddamn hot. 97 degrees? Dam.
Makoto asks how she knew he was internally orgasming over her, to which she replies she’s psychic, before quickly dismissing it as a joke, claiming she just has great intuition. I dunno though, this is the same series that has robot bears, robot people, the previously mentioned disco fever, and V3 in it, so one more bit of nautical nonsense isn’t exactly something I wish, but bullshit like ESP wouldn’t really surprise me at this point.
Hifumi Yamada, the heckin spiciest fanfic creator.
Junko Enoshima, the heckin spiciest fashionista, who is not a fashionista but a model. Nice. Makoto notes how she looks different from her cover photos and presumably reaction.jpgs he saw of her on his 4chan crusade. She replies saying the photos were the unfortunate victims of adobe photoshop (or fortunate, depending on who you ask), implying Sayaka’s album covers or whatever were too.
THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT FORESHADOWING. PAY IT NO MIND. PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
By the way, her neck deserves a spot among the bullshit pile I mentioned earlier.
Chihiro Fujisaki, the heckin spiciest programmer and also best girl. She mentions how she thinks Makoto seems familiar, which Makoto denies, hence him greeting her with the phrase “nice to meet you.”
THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT FORESHADOWING. PAY IT NO MIND. PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
Byakuya Togami, the heckin spiciest affluent progeny, and also worst boy. His introductions with Makoto basically boil down to this:
Makoto: Hello.
Byakuya: Hello.
Byakuya: Fuck off.
(Side note, had anyone ever heard the term, “affluent progeny” before this game? Or the word affluent? Or the word progeny?)
Kyoko Kirigiri, the heckin spiciest “i’m not telling lmao.” Her introductions with Makoto basically boil down to this:
Makoto: Hello.
Kyoko: Hello.
Kyoko: *not directly stated but slightly implied fuck off.*
Touko Fukawa, the heckin spiciest writing prodigy (which is kinda redundant ‘cuz attending this school kinda implies prodigy anyways) who wrote a book that, according to Makoto, “shot fishermen to the top of ‘hottest guy’ popularity polls.” That implies that one, this lady decided to write a romance story starring fishermen, two, that book got popular, three, it was so popular that it influenced a “hottest guy” poll, four, a “hottest guy” poll, let alone multiple, exist, and five, fishermen were an option on all of them. While Makoto is monologuing, Touko calls him out for staring, under the assumption he was staring at her not because he was too busy monologuing to not, but because she was ugly…
Nani the fuck?
By the way, she’s nicknamed “Toko.” You may notice that Toko and Touko are pronounced the same. The writers clearly didn’t.
Sakura (not to be confused with Sayaka) Oogami, the heckin spiciest martial artist (which kinda makes no sense because one of the later heckin spiciest titles is the heckin spiciest aikido master so how the fuck does that work?). The classic but lovable “large muscle, large heart” trope. Her rep in the ring earned her the title “ogre,” a title sure to give birth to many a Shrek reference.
Leon Kuwata: the heckin spiciest baseball star, but he really should be called the heckin spiciest hairdo, my man is ROCKIN it. Makoto brings up how much this hella rad chad hair contrasts the sad pathetic virgin shaved hair he had in a picture Makoto found on 4chan. Leon brings up how he hates that photo, revealing he actually has no passion for baseball whatsoever and wants to spend the rest of his life chasing his dream of figuratively rolling rocks.
Celestia Ludenberg: the heckin spiciest gambler. There’s a TV tropes page called Aerith and Bob, but here it’s more like Akamutsurokmo and the whitest name you can think of off the top of your head (which may or may not be Bob). Makoto reveals that she got famous for winning an underground gambling competition where she, and I quote, “took [her competitors] life savings, laughing as she did.” Holy shit. I kinda question how the internet knows this if it was so underground, but then again, it’s 4chan so it’s not that improbable.
Mondo Owada: the heckin spiciest biker gang leader.
Yes you read that correctly. A school, funded by the government, a body responsible for enforcing laws, searched for the best and the brightest the world has to offer, and came up with an actual criminal who commits crimes.
HOPE’S PEAK IS DEFINITELY NOT CORRUPT, PLEASE AVERT YOUR SUSPICION ELSEWHERE.
Aoi Asahina: the heckin spiciest swimming pro. I can’t really come up with any jokes for her, that’s basically it.
She’s nicknamed “Hina.”
And last and possibly least:
Yasuhiro Hagakure: the heckin spiciest clairvoyant. He looks older than the rest of the cast, and that’s because this absolute legend got held back a few times and is in his 20s. He starts off seeing a prophecy of rainbows, unicorns, angels, and 2 versions of cinnamon toast crunch (one with a rolled r one without) or something. He then suggests he and Makoto go out for a drink sometime, forgetting he is the only one who can legally do that.
So the characters finally decide to address the metal vault covering the exit shaped elephant in the room, mentioning how everyone else got a bad case of the mind fuck and passed out just like Makoto did.
The bell then rings and the TV in the room starts to turn on, showing a vague silhouette, with an unnervingly whimsical voice on the other side ushering them towards the gym. Some just go immediately, a few others hesitate, but eventually, they all wind up there.
Once everyone reaches the gym, a goddam cartoon bear jumps up on the podium. Calling himself “Monokuma,” this bear goes on to explain that he is the headmaster of the academy.
Everyone kinda freaks the fuck out due to there being an evil teddy bear claiming that he is the headmaster of a government funded school, and for some reason, the part of that sentence Monokuma takes offense to is the part claiming he’s a teddy bear.
Anyways, Monokuma explains that the students are going to live a “communal life” at the school. The school will provide them the foods, the waters, the beds, etc.
That's great! No one in their right mind would ever try to make things unfair by starving these poor kids.
Monokuma then explains that this life is to go on F O R E V E R .
Everyone is obviously s h o o k by this, except Hagakure, who is under the assumption that this is just a part of the entrance ceremony and is meant to just get the students a bit shook. He will hold this belief for way too goddamn long.
Anyways, the students clamor about asking if there’s any hope to escape, and Monokuma explains that there is in the form of the “graduation rule.” The students are meant to live a peaceful life in the school, so if someone disrupts that peace, they’ll have to go.
Sounds great, right?
WRONG.
What that
actually means is that if a student murders another student, then survives the class trial, where the other students will try to find them out, they will be granted permission to leave the school.
Hifumi tells Monokuma to stop “blabbering” about this murder bs, to which Monokuma replies, “Blabbering, blabbering, what do you mean blabbering!? Stop blabbering on about blabbering on!” which is actually a really creepy line.
Monokuma ushers the students to start killing, excited at the despair to come.
So that has got everyone (except hagakure) POSITIVELY SHOOK. That’s obvious, I’m pretty sure everyone would be positively shook if they were told that they were gonna spend the rest of their life in a school where they’re constantly under the threat of betrayal and death.
This shakes Mondo so much he decides to pick Monokuma up and yell at him some. Monokuma stops talking and starts beeping, causing Mondo to yell MORE. Kyoko, quickly realizing what is going on, tells Mondo to get rid of Monokuma ASAP, so he yeets him upwards, where Monokuma FUCKING EXPLODES.
And then another one appears, and continues his exposition.
He gives each student their “e-handbooks,” little tablets that have a variety of useful features, such as viewing the school regulations, which when broken, will cause Monokuma to fucking come and kill you. Nice.
Kyoko starts to summarize what Monokuma just told us, and Taka interjects, mentioning just how ridiculous this entire situation is. Byakuya says that’s not important, and asks who is seriously considering what the bear just told everyone. This strikes everyone silent, causing everyone to start looking at each other like a 15 free for all western showdown. While New World Order plays in the background, Makoto then realizes the true terror of the rules Monokuma laid out, now nobody can trust anyone in good faith.
This will not stop people from trusting each other in good faith later down the road.
PROLOGUE END.
Has anyone ever read a book with the Card Mage archetype? It is a relatively rare concept it gaming, though does exist.
Examples: Ace from Final Fantasy Type-0, or Twisted Fate from League of Legends.
I googled and the best I came up with was TV Tropes, Gambler. This turned up results from Wheel of Time (a super lucky character) and a James Bond villain (a genius). Neither is what I am looking for. It did, however, lead to the Death Dealer trope which is a little more promising, but still only 2 examples within literature.
I am looking for a story where there is a character that uses a combination of cards and magic, particularly for combat. This may or may be tied in with things such as tarot. A very open request as long as it fulfills the requirement of [a character using cards (preferably with magic) for combat].
I've been cooking up an idea for a story about a character who is a Card Mage and want to see how other books have handled it or if I have fresh territory.
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