#interregnum

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[iisabelinski]

The lovely chaps behind the FANTASTIC Interregnum fics loved my ✨PRACTICAL SPACE FASHION MARA✨ so much that they asked if we could get a companion piece to celebrate the completion of their latest work.

AND WHO THE F*CK AM I TO SAY NO??!

Rogue Squadron jacket Luke? Non-black wearing Luke? Blaster-wielding, badass Luke? Slightly-older, lines-across-his-forehead Luke? YES.

Oh, also, I updated Mara's face a bit as well, so it would match more with the lighting and shading I did for him.

[boilingcowboy]

the Interregnum music video visuals are currently going platinum in my house because what the fuck!!!!! (in the most positive way possible)

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[obrashir]

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[meushell]

Peter Stebbings in Jeremiah 30

Interregnum (part 2)

The battle is coming…

Aww, sleepy Markus.

Yeah, he should be confused. 😆

Squeeeeeeee!

This overhead shot is reminiscent of Meaghan’s last scene. I wonder if it was intentional.

D’awww! He still loves Meaghan, but Erin is hopeful for the future.

Lee: Um, remember danger?

Now we know the real reason, Erin wanted Lee back in security. She wanted time off for a date. 😂 (Kidding, kidding.)

Badass in a tux!

“Erin, it was fun, but… I’m in love with Lee.”

I couldn’t resist. 😂 This is the last episode. If I can give “Team Leader” a whole boyfriend arc, then I can certainly throw in a budding romance between Markus and Lee. 🥰🤣

And that is the end of the series.

I wonder when they began writing with the knowledge that this would be the last season because there is a sort of strange combination having fodder in some places and feeling rushed in others. I must emphasize though, that this isn’t usually the case, but just in a few places here and there.

Okay, first, I admit, I find it hilarious that in the last episode, Mister was last seen, injured, having been throw in a river, and then almost at the beginning of this episode, he’s washed up on a riverbed. Like, “Oh, he’s just fine.”

But hey, he has a daughter…the girl that (until the last episode) I completely forgot about. They do have a cute moment together.

The school she is at though is what I mean by “feels like fodder.” Now…they did make use with school since Mister ended up there and used the posted guards to contact Kurdy about Sim’s location, which was an issue this episode…except that Mister had no problem finding Sim/the army last week. I suspect that the school plus daughter would have been much more major plot points if the show hadn’t ended, and I understand the writers going, “Gosh darn it, we are running out of time. Eh, just throw it in.” 😂 And Mister really needed some character background, so I enjoyed this choice.

However, as much as I enjoyed seeing “Ocker,” Karl from “Voices in the Dark” could have served the same purpose as Frederick.

Does this mean that the Blacked Widower curse continued? That girl had to have a mom. The mom probably died before we even met her. 😆

Okay, the build up, fake Daniel reveal, etc. I feel mixed, to be honest. There was a huge build up for two battles at once. The attack on Thunder Mountain is resolved fairly easily. (Because Lee is awesome.)

This was fine, to be honest, but it ends up being the only real “battle.” The other resolves in potential peace, which is great for the characters, but definitely left me feeling, “Huh? That’s it?!” I waited a few days to process this to write this post, and looking back… Yeah, it works. The whole season is about building an alliance, and now there is a great chance that a former enemy will join that alliance.

This is the main feeling rushed part. Had the show had more time, I am guessing we would have had that big battle, more conflict, then the Daniel reveal would have helped give a victory. There simply wasn’t enough time for all that, so the peaceful option is the better option. (But I also wish we saw that battle. 😂)

Erin was told by Mister that she would leave Thunder Mountain, so I think the dinner/dance was a nice scene of her accepting what is to come. The overhead shot, at least as I took it, implies that she will be leaving very soon. Having her actually leave would be a cliffhanger, basically, so this was a nice way to handle that issue. Believe in Mister, and the dinner and dance is Erin’s way of saying goodbye to a man she loves. Ignore Mister, and it sets up for a potential future relationship with her and Markus. It works both ways.

Markus himself… He’s not ready to move on, but he’s entertaining the thought of doing so in the future. His alliance is going to be stronger than ever. The future has a sense of hope. Two episodes ago, the chess scene was setup to be him to be the “king” who is taken by a surprise attack. Instead, he’s the “king” who won.

Lee is also back where he belongs, and he continues to prove himself. He’s still rough around the edges, and I legitimately laughed at his interrogation scene. Like when the other guy is all, “You can’t do that!” when Lee threatens his life. 😂 That dude was lucky that Theo wasn’t the one threatening him. 😆

Mister helped build a brighter future for his daughter. His character is… Honestly, I like the character, but I was not really invested in him. He might have suffered from being a one season character who was mostly a mystery.

Jeremiah and Kurdy… It feels like their stories weren’t resolved.

Jeremiah killed Sims, but where does he go from here? He seems trapped between being a leader when he doesn’t want to be while really wanting to go around doing missions with Kurdy, but Kurdy already has a new partner.

Kurdy’s miracle wish was for all weapons to disappear (something like that), so it’s fitting that he is part of the team to make possible peace, but other than that… He basically spends time prepping for a battle that doesn’t come.

I don’t know, it just feels like, for being the main main characters, they got short changed.

I don’t want to end on a sour note though. Jeremiah, Kurdy, and Mister are a three-man team now, helping to forge peace treaties. Maybe. Well, partly.

The end will bring in the formation of a very strong, but peaceful alliance that will bring back old technologies to various people. Not everything is resolved, and they shouldn’t be, but there is hope for the world and the characters.

[fionamccall]

Were the 1640s and 1650s a dystopia?

When Mike Freedman emailed me in December asking me if I would be interested in recording a podcast for his 1984 Today! podcast on all things dystopian, I was intrigued by the concept of thinking about my historical period, the 1640s and 1650s, in this way.

How did the strictures of the real puritan regime of mid-17th century Britain compare with the fictional worlds of the books I read in my youth: 1984, Brave New World of course, but also John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and the particularly depressing outlook of John Christopher (born of his experience of WWII brutality) in The Death of Grass, The Tripods series, and The Prince in Waiting series.

There were certainly incidents I have come across that strike us today as dystopian: the execution of women (but not men) for adultery; the rise in witch hunting; clergy being stoned, beaten or killed during church services; a church full of listeners threatening to drown a baptist preacher; a raped woman being sent to prison for fornication, actors whipped for performing a play at Christmas. But it seems to me that we would understand the concept of dystopia in a different way to people of the 17th century. Everyday early modern life, by its prevalence of death and violence, and the use of capital and corporal punishment, its restricted hierarchies of status and gender, would seem highly dystopian to us in many of its aspects. For people living in the 17th century though this was considered normal, and individual misfortunes often rationalised as God's will. We only have to read early modern diaries like those of Nehemiah Wallington or Anne Fanshawe to reveal life events that many of us today would recognise as tragic: few expected to have all their children survive or to live to seventy. What many contemporaries would have found more dystopian was the sense that the world during and after the civil wars was 'upside down' or, as Andrew Marvell put it, its 'disjointed Axel' was cracking, undergoing an unprecedented degree and pace of change in religious practice, government and law, the sense that the tree of government and order had been cut down at the roots from everything they had previously known.

We ended up in the curious position of recording the podcast in a break from wrapping Christmas presents two days before Christmas from my rented Christmas accommodation in Bath with unreliable broadband signal. During our conversation, Mike asked some great questions, which I sometimes found difficult to come up with a ready answer to, the actualities of historical experience generally being more complex than the simpler monomaniac ideologies of dystopian fiction. One question I found most intriguing, derived no doubt from Mike's experience of interviewing many others on this topic, was the extent to which the creation of dystopias often originates in the desire for its opposite, an idealistic belief amongst those in power that they have a system for making the world better. The puritans of the 1640s thought that if they could just properly reform the Church of England, and have it have it singing on the same hymn-sheet as Presbyterian Scotland or Calvinist Geneva, everything would become more perfect and God would smile on them. What they didn't expect was to unleash all sorts of new ideas to challenge the Godly programme and prevent the implementation of orderly reform. They should have paid more attention to what was already going on in New England. They also consistently denigrated as irreligious and ungodly those with more traditional views on religion, and as a result undervalued the latent power of conservative resistance to change. Consequently they found themselves attacked and resisted on both sides, and ultimately defeated.

If you'd like to hear our conversation, it can be found here.

[jedimara77]

I'm rereading Interregnum (again) and got to the part last night where Luke leaves on the Wild Karrde and he hugs Mara goodbye and realizes he's in love with her and I could legit read that scene foreeeeeeever. It's absolutely perfect. The first time I read it I screeched so loudly my husband thought I was dying. Just dying of squee, it's fine!!!