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'''''Through the Eye of Eternity''''' was a weekly [[1990s]] [[television]] program made by [[Faction Hollywood]]. It gained a [[cult]]-like following, with fans behaving in ways similar to the [[Remote]]. | |||
Broadly speaking, ''Through the Eye of Eternity'' was a meta[[fiction]]al [[time travel]] adventure [[sitcom]]. However, the different episodes spanned a number of themes and genres; the genre of each episode would be indicated by the [[colour]] of the [[Eye of Eternity]] in the title sequence. The show featured a small set of cast members who, across the episodes, played characters with widely different roles, personalities, and genders, but always the same names; this was explained in the show's backstory through a mixture of [[parallel universe]]s, [[clone]]s, [[brainwashing]], and skilled female [[assassin]]s. | |||
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The show was created by [[Chad Vandemeer]], who produced 56 of its 77 episodes. He often saved money for the production by calling [[bomb]] alerts on the studios of older and more established [[science fiction]] shows, breaking in to film on their sets, and then calling it an homage. In [[1996]], when searching [[UPN]] storage for futuristic props for the show, Vandemeer discovered the [[GCI processor]], which he used to make the episodes "[[Oops Titanic]]", "[[There's No Ball Like Cher-No-Ball]]", and "[[Miss Hiroshima]]" before passing it along to [[Michael Brookhaven]]. Brookhaven executive produced the tie-in video release ''[[First Sight|Through the Eye of Eternity: First Sight]]'' in [[1997]]. | |||
By the summer of [[1996]], the show had developed a [[cult]] following, and fans began wearing [[Eye of Eternity]] pins of different colours. They would behave like their lives were set in a story with the themes corresponding to the colours used each week. For instance, an apprentice [[mortician]] was fired after laughing at a client's somber comment while wearing a [[Black]] Eye pin; after being served the wrong [[pizza]], another fan drove his [[Buick]] into a [[New York]] [[restaurant]] while screaming about the Eye being "on red". More broadly, after the airing of the only episode to feature a [[White]] Eye, there was a noticeable rash of engagements among the fanbase. | |||
Since each colour meant something different to each fan, the Eye acted as less of a guidance than a stimulus, with fans accepting the colours as behavioural cues. This paralleled the behaviour of members of [[Remote]] colonies in later centuries, who would dress in simple primary colours and think of colour-coding as vitally important. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | |||
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