Re: Simple Nuklearwarhead

In article<8mih2h$r2m$15$1...@news.t-online.com>, Ool
<ulr...@t-online.de> writes:
>"Peter Marquardt aka lastfuture" <las...@lastfuture.de> wrote in message 
>news:FAqMOUUBbu67BQZjaru8U=g90...@4ax.com...
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>> P.S.: OOL what's space opera?
>
>Space opera is a genre term.  It includes such kinds of epic science
>fictions--mostly movies--as Star Wars, 2001, etc.  They're all heroic
>stories within extravagantly designed alternate worlds.  The classical
>music and the mythological plot of these sagas is probably the reason
>why they're called "operas."

 I think the reason is a different one.  Pre-war family dramas
 on the radio aimed at housewives were called "soap operas".


"Soap" being not just a family sort of thing, but because the
 advertising sponsor usually sold soaps or soap powders.

"Opera" because the (family) situation had dramatic events (murders, 
 separations, etc) rather more often, and the characters' emotional
 reactions were rather more extreme, than is common in real life.


 Hence a similar kind of over-blown dramas in westerns 
 were called "horse operas", in SF "space operas", and so forth.

>
>I read a quotation recently in news:alt.humor.best-of-usenet along the
>lines of:  "Space opera--it's not over until the Fat Lady explodes."
>
>There's a phrase in battle:  "It's not over until the Fat Lady sings."
>The "Fat Lady" is the opera diva singing the "Ride of the Valkyrie" in
>"The Ring of the Nibelungs," signifying the heroes' glorious deaths
>and their subsequent ascent to Valhalla.  As a metaphor it's meant to
>mean that the battle ends in either victory or a glorious death or
>both.
>
>Many space operas, including The One, "Star Wars," end with some big
>spaceship or space station explonding in the end.  Hence the satiriz-
>ing "until the Fat Lady explodes."

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