Virtual Prisoner Convention 2020 - Free For All

Due to the current Covid-19 outbreak, the Prisoner convention due to start at Portmeirion this weekend has been postponed.
                                                

However, a group of Prisoner fans, determined to have a good time, have decided to host a virtual Prisoner convention. This is an independent event, and is not connected to any club, society, business or other organisation. You do not need to be a member of any group, and participation is Free for All!

The event will be hosted online here: http://www.hot-thing.co.uk/VirtualCon/

There's a terrific line-up of events including interviews, virtual poetry and much more.

The virtual convention opens on Friday, 24 April 2020 at 7pm.

BCNU...?

Interstellar - out of this world?

So, Christopher Nolan's epic 3 + hour film Interstellar will be hitting a cinema near you soon. It sounds like the standard golden age science fiction with big themes (end of the world) and heavy musings on the meaning of family.

The question is, though I am sure it will be beautiful and the special effects will be grand... will the writers have been given enough to allow us to care about the characters? 

3 hours isn't enough to get to know or care about characters if the focus of the script will be on "big themes". Will the characters be allowed to show some agency, or will they be there to service the script? As much as I love 2001, for example, I have often thought that the characters were left blank in order for the big ideas to have more time. 

Have you seen a film with big ideas that had time to develop characters that are quirky, imperfect but still ones we can identify with? Or is that best left to grand space operas like Babylon 5, where the characters are given time and space to develop?

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Image source: Interstellar official website http://www.interstellar-movie.com/