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This graphic was originally at the top of the offical Earth2 homepage published by MCA/Universal. They removed the Earth2 pages when NBC canceled the series.
Earth2 is a 22-segment science fiction series co-produced by Steven
Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment & Universal Television. The series
executive producers are Mark Levin ("The Wonder Years"), Carol Flint ("China
Beach") and Michael Duggan, ("Law & Order") none of whom have previous
science fiction credits. NBC scheduled Earth2 to play opposite CBS's
ratings star, "60 Minutes" and just before "SeaQuest DSV," another Spielberg
science fiction production for NBC. It premiered on November 6, 1994, with the
two-hour "First Contact." By close of the season in June, 1995, the program had
been preempted eleven times. Earth2; does not fit the mold for science
fiction adventures, the series is shot in the open vistas of northern New
Mexico and is short on special effects. It features strong leadership roles for
four females and spiritual or nurturing attributes for some of the male
characters.
Considering Spielberg's involvement it is not surprising that Earth2
would have a mythic base similar to "ET" but on Earth2 it is we who are
the aliens. Set 200 years in the future when the depleted Earth(1) is mostly
uninhabitable, this series turns us back on ourselves to reconsider our
relationship to our own planet, indigenous peoples and other species. While
post-colonial and frontier metaphors abound, it is the metaphysical themes and
the unique semi-sentient planet that set this program apart from other science
fiction and adventure series. I will argue that the series uses archetypal
figures and mythic themes to promote ideas of connectedness and wholeness as
found in popular conceptions of the scientific theory known as the Gaia
hypothesis.
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