u/Aggravating_Cow7203

Mad Max Fury Road was a great action movie, no doubt about that.

My question though is:

Is it a Mad Max movie?

My thoughts being:

(Original movies) Mad Max was about scarcity and how that broke society. That scarcity lead to the brutality on the roads.

Fury Road, on the other hand, had an abundance of resources yet they still had a "Road war".

I get resources are still scarce for the majority but the constant shooting of guns and never ending distance of the motorbikes didn't feel very "Mad Max".

It just didn't "feel" like a Mad Max movie to me as the scarcity aspect wasn't really apparent.

Am I the only one that thinks this, am I just wrong?

Thoughts please.

Forgive me if this has been asked/addressed before.

Thanks for any replies and insights/explanations.

So, I just rewatched "The Inner Light" (S5 Ep25). Great episode, certainly in the top 10 of all TNG episodes. (Not my top 5 though).

Anyway...

My questions are:

1. What are peoples thoughts on the experience of the person that interacts with the probe (outside of Picards interaction), does the experience depend on the species that is interacting with the probe?

2. Would the end result of portraying their culture be the same but just expressed differently through the other species' culture that the probe encountered?

3. Does the probe only choose interactions with cultures similar to their own?

4. To clarify my above questions... Would the probe use different "experiences" to get across the same explanations to different cultures that encountered the probe?

For example: What if a Nausicaan met the probe, would the realiation of their life on Kataan still be the same as Picards was, even if "explained" in different ways but still get the same explanation of their culture across?

Thoughts?

And thanks for any theories and inputs.