Shades of future past
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indigo_rose99Just saw "A Day in the Life," an episode of Battlestar Galactica that my DVR describes as Episode 56, "A pair of crew members are trapped outside in an airlock." originally aired 2/18/07. Yes, it is taking me a while to clean out my DVR.
But toward the end of the episode, I nearly swallowed my tongue when they did a long sweep of sickbay and I saw... an iron lung. I rewound it to be sure. Yep. An iron lung. Looked too short (I remember the top of one as being about 6 feet high, if I was standing next to it), but otherwise sealed and sitting in the center of the scene. Wasn't on and had no one in it -- no head sticking out one end, no bellows working at the other end. But clearly an iron lung. With the straps and portholes and all. The scene moved on...
And then they showed one of the characters as being inside. Like, her whole body was inside. The hole where your head is supposed to poke out was not-so-discretely made to look like something mechanical. But the darn thing was still not on! They were making out like it was some sort of oxygen tank (but didn't actually SAY what it was supposed to be). I have to think that either she is really short, or they moved some of the internal footwell stuff to allow her to fit inside.
Iron lungs... now a prop that they think no one will recognize? But... but... that is circa 1974 technology!!! This is now futuristic?
But toward the end of the episode, I nearly swallowed my tongue when they did a long sweep of sickbay and I saw... an iron lung. I rewound it to be sure. Yep. An iron lung. Looked too short (I remember the top of one as being about 6 feet high, if I was standing next to it), but otherwise sealed and sitting in the center of the scene. Wasn't on and had no one in it -- no head sticking out one end, no bellows working at the other end. But clearly an iron lung. With the straps and portholes and all. The scene moved on...
And then they showed one of the characters as being inside. Like, her whole body was inside. The hole where your head is supposed to poke out was not-so-discretely made to look like something mechanical. But the darn thing was still not on! They were making out like it was some sort of oxygen tank (but didn't actually SAY what it was supposed to be). I have to think that either she is really short, or they moved some of the internal footwell stuff to allow her to fit inside.
Iron lungs... now a prop that they think no one will recognize? But... but... that is circa 1974 technology!!! This is now futuristic?
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Date: 2007-09-07 03:18 am (UTC)