Exiles / Milieu podcast & a time travel TV show

[imhilien]

The Saga of Rereading Epics have posted their latest podcast about the Exiles / Milieu series, 'The Metaconcert'. Uncle Rogi continues to be a 'lovely old crank'. The podcast did remind me that things got a little grimdark at times for some characters in this book. The author has a way of pulling the carpet from under you with her final sentences of her books too. I always remember the horror I felt reading the last sentence of 'Diamond Mask' (the second book of the Galactic Milieu trilogy).

I did like it when Unifex disguised himself as someone a bit similar to Uncle Rogi in order to get close to the villain as a 'trusted' associate. Heh.

Saga of Rereading Epics | The Metaconcert (Episode 7) (theincomparable.com)


A time travel TV show that fans of Julian May might like is one called 'Beforeigners' - a police procedural produced by HBO Europe (which I don't have, boo) set in Norway. It's about people from ancient Norway popping up in the present and learning how to get along with others (or not?). There's only one season so far but there's plans for a second one.

Review: "Beforeigners" brings the heathen past to the present | Arts & Culture, Culture, Film & TV Reviews, Paganism, Reviews, TWH Features (wildhunt.org)

Comments

[uncle_arthur]

I did like it when Unifex disguised himself as someone a bit similar to Uncle Rogi in order to get close to the villain as a 'trusted' associate. Heh.

Remind me? My mind's gone blank!

[imhilien]

Unifex 'borrows' a chap called Pete Laplace and there's this scene where he's talking to Kieran. There's the sound of a bird and then Pete says,

"...relic of the late Neogene Avifauna. Been yakkin' it up in these parts purt near five, six million years. Long time to hold on to a sense of humour, but I reckon it helps a critter survive."

The 'six million years' is a giveaway and the mention of how a sense of humour probably stopped Unifex going nuts at times.

[uncle_arthur]

Ah, I'd missed that entirely. It wasn't as blatant as other examples of Unifex's, er, interventions.

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[imhilien]

The 'intervention' that always gets me is when Unifex pops up as Swedish Dr M.A. Paulson at the awards ceremony where Denis and Lucille are and says to Gerry,

"It is hard to work with genius. I really cannot blame you for fleeing. You know that in the laboratory you will only be competent and so you turn the beacon of your ambition in another direction. Be careful."

[uncle_arthur]

That one was a tad more obvious, so even I managed to spot it! Dr Marc Ange (or Abaddon?) Paul's son. Definitely a give-away, and his comment to Gerry shows Unifex's empathetic side, no doubt developed over the millennia. Given the dangers of changing the past, I am surprised he gave the warning.

The one I enjoy the most is Unifex stopping young Marc from attempting to return home from Concilium Orb in order to rescue Rogi and Teresa. Any event that jolts Marc's immense self-confidence is fun to read, especially when it's himself doing the jolting!

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[imhilien]

It would have been Dr Marc Alain; his full name was Marc Alain Kendall Remillard. I know he couldn't alter the past, but I think he couldn't resist from trying to stop someone going to the dark as he did.

The scene where Unifex stops young Marc was comedy gold, he was well and truly put in his place by himself! XD

[uncle_arthur]

It would have been Dr Marc Alain; his full name was Marc Alain Kendall Remillard.

Duh! Of course it would have.