Jenny Agutter as Jessica in the dress that send a thousand teenage boys to their bunks.

Logan’s Run

The government ruins everything.  Take electric cars, for example.  Elon Musk figures out how to mass-produce an electric car.  He even built out his own charging network, all of which is a fine thing.  He eventually even sold enough cars to become profitable.  The government sees this and decides “Let’s make everyone drive electric cars.” Never mind the fact that Elon is very savvy, and his success in electric cars cannot be repeated by other companies without Elon’s skill sets. Overall, forcing consumers to buy electric cars becomes a high-profile failure and the coercion leaves a bad taste in many people’s mouths.  Thanks, Ass! But don’t think to coercion has ended. They never stop.

Now translate this to the push for assisted suicide.  The initial concept was good. Allow people in agony the option of release instead of months of decline and suffering. The government decides, “let’s let everybody do it.”  Pretty soon every doctor is forcing it as a subsidized option, which is absolutely dastardly.  Now let’s fast forward another ten years in time.  What if the government decided it can’t afford social security anymore and so the solution, instead of cutting off benefits, is mandatory death at age 65.  The next thing you know, that age comes down a little every year…

Then you have recreated Logan’s Run.  I know a lot of us saw this movie years ago.  Watch this again with fresh eyes.  We are on the other side of the mirror now.  This is hard to watch.  Most reviews of Logan’s Run were prior to 2020 so all the crap we have gone through had yet to filter into the collective consciousness.  For those of you who need a quick review of Logan’s Run, including a comparison to the book, here is one that isn’t too long and doesn’t harp on the disco fashion. Otherwise IMDB has a plot summary here.*

I am curious to hear all your thoughts on the subject of assisted suicide and where we are heading. It’s damn near part of the Iron Law of Oligarchy that government programs cannot be destroyed and inevitably grow, so where goes Canada and New Zealand from here?

Trivia:  A fair bit of this was shot in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I was proud of that.   One of the scenes showed waterfalls and steps which Logan and Jessica navigate.  That was the infamous Water Gardens in Fort Worth, Texas. From IMDB:

“The main pool used to be nine feet deep, but it closed in 2004 after four people drowned near the spot where Logan and Jessica dove in. When it reopened in 2007, the depth had been reduced to two feet.”

Good Lord.  Some people could not abide the instructions to keep out, so the entire thing had to be altered. No accidents for 28 years, one thing happens and the city goes all soft and fainty. I was not proud of that.

One more trivia point:  There was a TV series of Logan’s Run that managed to stay on the air for an entire year. Until now, I had never seen even a small bit of it.  I realize now the Good Lord was protecting me from it.

So watch!  Or don’t!  Everything is voluntary until some government functionary murders you for the greater good! Next week, it has been highbrow around here for too long….

So we will watch Repligators! Soldiers, transformed into beautiful female fighting machines!  Who then turn into gators!  Are they cannibals if they have gator heads and eat people?  Is this plot for real? Answer these questions and more next week!

*IMDB also has a great goof point about how Jessica’s panties changed color throughout the film. 

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