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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 11:47:36 GMT -6
So as to not flood Kappa's Nerd Talk thread with all my cool-kid AP thoughts about sports and drugs and rock music and stuff, I decided to start a separate ongoing thread for various AP-related pondering's I have from time to time.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 11:55:26 GMT -6
I binged the most recent season of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel yesterday. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth watching if just for the solid acting in it. The show is also set in the late 50s (the most recent season bringing us to 1960), so it's also fun to think about where the pretty young women on the show are now in 2019. I would love for the show to go some flash-forwards in later seasons to show us where these characters end up in the late 20th/early 21st century. Especially since I feel like the title character is at least partially modeled after Joan Rivers.
But one thing I especially wanted to share was in one episode Midge Maisel and her manager are paid for a radio commercial gig in a lifetime supply of tampons. They are carrying huge boxes of tampons out to a cab and Midge says "We've got enough here to get the Rockettes to menopause." Which is a solid joke when holding a huge box of tampons; but the phrase out of context has some pretty fun AP-connotations as well in my opinion.
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Post by rayc5678 on Dec 8, 2019 13:31:15 GMT -6
I haven't seen the show, as I don't have Prime Video, but I have heard good things about it. I do like to think about the women from time period shows and movies, and see where they end up in the present. As for me personally, I prefer to think of the young women from sci-fi and fantasy shows becoming old, either through magic or some sort of scientific invention/accident. Star Trek, Once Upon A Time, Charmed and Stargate would be good examples of the types of characters I imagine becoming old, either temporarily or permanently, and how they deal with being old, along with their daily lives as old women. Make sense?
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 13:54:42 GMT -6
Yeah I get what you're putting down. I enjoy AP-themed episodes from those shows but hadn't put too much thought on how they'd actually be if they aged into old age naturally. Except Charmed, i've definitely wondered what that house would be like when the trio are doddering old women.
But I definitely like imagining characters from period show in modern day - Like Downton Abby or Madmen. I always enjoyed the fact that Alison Brie claims that her character Annie on Community is the granddaughter of her character from Mad Men.
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Post by rayc5678 on Dec 8, 2019 14:53:13 GMT -6
One historical/time period show that I like is The Crown on Netflix, which chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II (the current queen of the U.K.), and the royal family. I thought that they would age the actors and actresses through prosthetics/makeup or special effects, and thought that it would be cool to see Claire Foy (who plays the young queen), aged into an elderly, present day, Queen Elizabeth. However, they decided to replace the actors and actresses with older people every two seasons.
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Post by VioletJames on Dec 8, 2019 17:07:07 GMT -6
Seconded on Jenn Coleman, Kap.
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Post by rayc5678 on Dec 8, 2019 17:40:14 GMT -6
I wouldn't mind seeing Jenna Coleman playing a role that has her aging. We did see her in old age makeup in the Doctor Who special, "Last Christmas", though I wouldn't mind her seeing her take on another role that ages her.
Even though I don't watch the show, I do like that Mandy Moore's doing the aging make up in "This Is Us". At some point we'll see her in old age make up again (she was briefly seen it in last season's finale).
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 18:17:52 GMT -6
There's a British coin, I forget what it is, but it has young thin Victoria on one side and old fat Victoria on the other. It would be perfect for determining whether to AP someone or not.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 18:42:15 GMT -6
Yeah I tried to find it before I mentioned it so I could post a picture of it but came up empty-handed as well. But it's out there!
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 8, 2019 19:04:13 GMT -6
Are you trying to obtain it so you can see pretty girls walk by and flip heads or tails to see if you'll let them keep their youth?
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Post by youthdrain on Dec 8, 2019 21:53:26 GMT -6
It's so frustrating! I found a Skeleton head coin, a commemorative coin, but I couldn't find that one! Googling double headed British coin, and variations on that, did not work! 😂 Could this be it? Also, I found this one of Queen Elizabeth II...
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Post by rayc5678 on Dec 8, 2019 23:27:07 GMT -6
Olivia Colman, who plays Queen Elizabeth II in the new season of The Crown, said in the first episode of the season, "Age is rarely kind to anyone, nothing more to do about it. One just has to get on with it." Also, the first episode of the season is called, Olding.
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Post by rayc5678 on Dec 8, 2019 23:38:47 GMT -6
I literally just started the new season, as I'm currently on the first episode. I'll let you know if anything happens.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Dec 20, 2019 13:28:57 GMT -6
If anyones seen Margaret Cho's first HBO stand-up special in 1994 - she had a bit that she would do about teens/20-somethings (Gen X at the time) being in nursing homes in the 2040s and she does an impression of herself as a little old lady in the future asking a nursing home attendant: "Could you play Hungry Like the Wolf Again?"
Well now we're just two decades out from that future, Margaret and her contemporaries are entering their 50s and Hungry Like the Wolf has been played pretty regularly on oldies stations for at least a decade. So the joke doesn't translate anymore (which may be why I couldn't find any clips online of her doing the bit).
But just for context - it would be like a 20-something stand up comic now talking about Millennials in a nursing home in the 2070s telling a nursing home olderly "Play Soulja Boy's 'Crank That' again" or little old ladies cutting a rug to Rhianna's Umbrella.
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Post by JackpotMans on Dec 20, 2019 20:03:24 GMT -6
What show is that?
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