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A curious note about the title of the original finale episode, "The Only Neat Thing To Do" by James Tiptree, Jr. "James Tiptree, Jr" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon; she was a bisexual female scifi writer who, through use of an assumed name, no one actually knew was female until years after her works were already famous. Many of the "mainstream scifi boys" like Harlan Ellison and such seriously thought she was a man, she duped them all. Her works deal a lot with gender relations, i.e. "The Screwfly Solution". At any rate, the basic plot of "The Only Neat Thing To Do" is that a female protagonist is piloting a spaceship, and a parasitic alien finds it way on board. This parasitic alien could be a danger to her world if she returns, so she does the "only neat thing": she points her ship towards open space and begins heading outward and away from her planet forever, committing suicide by eventual diminution of resources. In the process, she'd either also kill the parasitic alien, or if it could hibernate or something, she'd make sure it never got near her planet and was stranded on her dead ship. Why she didn't just fly into a sun is beyond me. Though this does have echoes of Yui's ultimate lonely journey through space in Eva 01. --[[User:V|V]] 08:40, 16 December 2007 (PST) | A curious note about the title of the original finale episode, "The Only Neat Thing To Do" by James Tiptree, Jr. "James Tiptree, Jr" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon; she was a bisexual female scifi writer who, through use of an assumed name, no one actually knew was female until years after her works were already famous. Many of the "mainstream scifi boys" like Harlan Ellison and such seriously thought she was a man, she duped them all. Her works deal a lot with gender relations, i.e. "The Screwfly Solution". At any rate, the basic plot of "The Only Neat Thing To Do" is that a female protagonist is piloting a spaceship, and a parasitic alien finds it way on board. This parasitic alien could be a danger to her world if she returns, so she does the "only neat thing": she points her ship towards open space and begins heading outward and away from her planet forever, committing suicide by eventual diminution of resources. In the process, she'd either also kill the parasitic alien, or if it could hibernate or something, she'd make sure it never got near her planet and was stranded on her dead ship. Why she didn't just fly into a sun is beyond me. Though this does have echoes of Yui's ultimate lonely journey through space in Eva 01. --[[User:V|V]] 08:40, 16 December 2007 (PST) | ||
:Actually, I got a copy of that story a while ago. The ending ''is'' the two flying into the nearest sun. ----[[User talk:Gwern |Gwern]] [[Special:Contributions/Gwern | (contribs)]] 04:31 6 February 2011 (GMT) | |||
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Formatting
NAW just added the new translations by pmkava's guy but was a little incomplete about it; he didn't format the text (no line breaks), and thumbnails for the respective pages are absent as well. If somebody could fix this, that would be great. One way to get the page breaks without inserting them all manually is via the HTML (in Firefox, View->Page Source); they've been inserted into the forum post's text so that it displays correctly in the browser.
Nobody should begin "fixing" the translations until the basic formatting is finished. --Reichu 17:31, 18 April 2009 (PDT)
Notes
A curious note about the title of the original finale episode, "The Only Neat Thing To Do" by James Tiptree, Jr. "James Tiptree, Jr" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon; she was a bisexual female scifi writer who, through use of an assumed name, no one actually knew was female until years after her works were already famous. Many of the "mainstream scifi boys" like Harlan Ellison and such seriously thought she was a man, she duped them all. Her works deal a lot with gender relations, i.e. "The Screwfly Solution". At any rate, the basic plot of "The Only Neat Thing To Do" is that a female protagonist is piloting a spaceship, and a parasitic alien finds it way on board. This parasitic alien could be a danger to her world if she returns, so she does the "only neat thing": she points her ship towards open space and begins heading outward and away from her planet forever, committing suicide by eventual diminution of resources. In the process, she'd either also kill the parasitic alien, or if it could hibernate or something, she'd make sure it never got near her planet and was stranded on her dead ship. Why she didn't just fly into a sun is beyond me. Though this does have echoes of Yui's ultimate lonely journey through space in Eva 01. --V 08:40, 16 December 2007 (PST)
- Actually, I got a copy of that story a while ago. The ending is the two flying into the nearest sun. ----Gwern (contribs) 04:31 6 February 2011 (GMT)
