tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post5798656843422940474..comments2024-03-28T09:04:42.135-04:00Comments on Rip Jagger's Dojo: Kamandi - This Island Earth!Rip Jaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-73296645509397839212016-06-09T01:30:31.663-04:002016-06-09T01:30:31.663-04:00I thought of The Time Machine too. The parallel wh...I thought of The Time Machine too. The parallel which smacks me quickest though is Nova from the actual PotA movies, the feral girl Taylor falls in love with and who eventually speaks. Clearly Kirby didn't want to encumber his hero with a sidekick so offed she must be. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-26008503043755817322016-06-08T16:22:42.089-04:002016-06-08T16:22:42.089-04:00Flower seems an archetype in some ways, a primitiv...Flower seems an archetype in some ways, a primitive fantasy figure that Kirby may have encountered by reading the Bounty Trilogy or seeing Mutiny on the Bounty in the theater, where Clark Gable finds romance with a primitive island girl. There is also the childlike Weena who the protagonist of the Time Machine meets. I'm sure Kirby had seen the George Pal production in the sixties. There have been many romantic stories about civilized "superior" white men finding and rescuing a wild, primitive flower in an exotic world, who then becomes devoted to him. It must be a pretty potent fantasy; it was all over popular entertainment and still pops up from time to time. More recently we've had more able and intelligent females joining our heroes (or being our heroes) in adventures on other worlds. It's much more engaging... to me, anyway.Russhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809592629762693427noreply@blogger.com