Yesterday I mentioned that nearly every sci-fi TV series does a rapid aging episode. Both Warehouse 13 and Haven did it in the same week a while back. Another common sci-fi trope is body swapping. (Or mind transfer) Last night’s episode of Warehouse 13 had Pete’s and Mika’s minds transferred into each other’s bodies. (That’s not a spoiler since they showed that much in the commercials but I won’t say any more.) Now I’m wondering what this week’s Haven will be about. I think Eureka has already done a body swapping episode but I can’t remember anything about it.
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August 25th, 2010 - 10:23 am
Futurama also had a mind/body switching episode last week.
August 25th, 2010 - 11:21 am
Both tropes are among my least favorite. I call them “vacation” episodes, where nothing really happens, because the writer and the cast wanted to take a vacation from plot and characterization.
August 25th, 2010 - 6:43 pm
There hasn’t been a really good body-swapping story since Thorne Smith’s Turnabout, which dates to 1931.
August 26th, 2010 - 7:20 am
There was one that I simply cannot remember the show, but I do remember the male-in-the-female body looking down his/her shirt and jumping up and down….. OH! Yes, it was “Farscape”. I miss “Farscape.” I named my little roomba vacuum “1812″ after that show.
August 26th, 2010 - 8:03 am
The true classic was the episode of Star Trek: TOS in which Kirk switched minds/bodies with Dr. Janice Lester. It was horribly sexist though. I forget the line exactly but there was something about she could never be a captain because she was a woman. You know… that might make me crazy too.
August 26th, 2010 - 9:51 am
I always thought that was hilarious. Like, Gene Roddenberry had thought up this future society where there was no money and no racism (at least between humans) but when it came to men and women it looked like he just ran out of imagination.
August 26th, 2010 - 10:15 am
Was that really Gene Roddenberry or was it the network? In the original pilot the second in command was a woman but the network bigshots told him to get rid of her because no one would believe a woman could be second in command. They wanted him to get rid of Spock too but, fortunately Roddenberry won that one.