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notes/stories/film/film-scifi-1940s.st.txt

@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ father and daughter [Sir Humphrey Brandon was reluctant to let Julian Karell mar
 father-in-law and son-in-law [Sir Humphrey Brandon wished to get to know Julian Karell before letting him marry his daughter Eve Brandon.]
 art discussion [An art critic was critiquing a painting in front of some museum goers.]
 fingerprinting [The police chief used the science of fingerprinting to deduce that Dr. Julian Karell was the same man who had committed a murder generations ago.]
-rapid aging process [Julian Karell rapidly aged to death at the conclusion of the film when he couldn't get the chemicals he needed to maintain his youthful appearance.]
+rapid aging effect [Julian Karell rapidly aged to death at the conclusion of the film when he couldn't get the chemicals he needed to maintain his youthful appearance.]
 
 
 movie: Strange Holiday (1945)

notes/stories/film/film-scifi-1960s.st.txt

@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ mass infertility [Cosmic radiation made the people of 2024 infertile, dooming th
 :: Minor Themes
 sub-orbital spaceflight [Major Bill Allison piloted the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital space.]
 grandfather and granddaughter [The Supreme and Princess Trirene.]
-rapid aging process [Major Bill Allison returned back to his own year of 1960 but as an old man.]
+rapid aging effect [Major Bill Allison returned back to his own year of 1960 but as an old man.]
 
 :: Other Keywords
 mutant [The people in a post-apocalyptic world were in an open conflict with the mutants.]
@@ -1951,7 +1951,7 @@ boyfriend and girlfriend [Howie Ellison and Margie De Mar.]
 coping with a loved one being in peril [Sandy De Mar with her sister Margie being reported missing under mysterious circumstances.]
 American Civil War [people from the Civil War traveled into present day 1963 America.]
 sister and sister [Sandy De Mar searching for her missing sister Margie De Mar.]
-rapid aging process [Ernest Von Hauser invented an aging machine and used it on prisoners of a concentration camp.]
+rapid aging effect [Ernest Von Hauser invented an aging machine and used it on prisoners of a concentration camp.]
 theory of relativity [Ernest Von Hauser lectured Jim Crandall on the finer points of the theory of special relativity.]
 unethical human experimentation [Ernest Von Hauser conducted unethical experiments on human subjects while running a Nazi concentration camp.]
 
@@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@ mad scientist stereotype [Henri and Martin Delambre were testing their teleporta
 :: Minor Themes
 father-in-law and daughter-in-law [Henri Delambre and Patricia Stanley.]
 species transmutation [It was explained how some years ago that Martin Delambre had been merged with a fly when he went through the teleportation device.]
-rapid aging process [Martin Delambre had recessive fly genes which caused him to age rapidly and he needed a serum to keep him young.]
+rapid aging effect [Martin Delambre had recessive fly genes which caused him to age rapidly and he needed a serum to keep him young.]
 the good of the many vs. the needs of the few [Martin Delambre justified testing his teleportation device on people by arguing that the benefits the machine, once working, would bring the the world would outweigh the harm done to the test subjects.]
 
 
@@ -3154,13 +3154,13 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Under_the_Sea
 :: Major Themes
 underwater city [An underwater city was discovered off the coast of Cornwall.]
 volcanic cataclysm [Sir Hugh was seeking desperately to save his underwater city, and its inhabitants, from utter destruction by an undersea volcano that was about to erupt.]
-retarded aging process [Sir Hugh and his men were not subject to the process of aging while they stayed under the conditions of the underwater city.]
+retarded aging effect [Sir Hugh and his men were not subject to the process of aging while they stayed under the conditions of the underwater city.]
 
 :: Minor Themes
 master and pet [Harold Tufnell-Jones and his prize chicken Herbert.]
 cowardice [Harold played the coward in the film.]
 fish-like being [There were half-man/half-fish creatures, called the gill-men.]
-rapid aging process [Sir Hugh died of rapid aging once he reached the surface.]
+rapid aging effect [Sir Hugh died of rapid aging once he reached the surface.]
 
 
 movie: Monster a Go Go (1965)

notes/stories/film/film-scifi-1970s.st.txt

@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_(film)
 
 :: Major Themes
 teaching occupation [Melodye Amerson moved to the remote village of Bendo to be the teacher at the schoolhouse there. Her teaching in the schoolhouse was amply featured, and she acknowledged to having of love for her profession.]
-retarded aging process [The people of Bendo didn't age at an appreciable rate and were free of illness.]
+retarded aging effect [The people of Bendo didn't age at an appreciable rate and were free of illness.]
 folk belief [Melodye insisted that the talk of mind reading and levitation was just superstitious nonsense, but then she observed these phenomena with her own eyes.]
 what is good and evil [Melodye's ideas of what was moral conflicted with the villagers. The villages were stoic and anti-pleasure seeking, but Melodye took efforts to try and open the children's minds, and show them that the things they had been taught to be wrong, like music and the taking of pleasure in life, was in fact good.]
 extraterrestrial being [It turned out that the people of Bendo were actually aliens who had come to Earth as refugees.]
@@ -4218,7 +4218,7 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_(film)
 accelerated growth rate therapy [Dr. Paul Holliston invented a hormonal serum that grew a dog fetus into a full grown dog in a matter of days. A side effect of the serum was that it made the dog very smart by dog standards. He subsequently used the serum to bring the fetus of a suicided mother to term.]
 unethical human experimentation [Dr. Jim Winston, after urging Dr. Holliston to refrain from testing his accelerated growth serum on a human subject, supplied Dr. Holliston with the body of a 14 week pregnant suicided mother. Dr. Holliston brought grew the fetus into an adult female using his special serum, but he came to regret it because she turned into an emotionally underdeveloped murderer.]
 EQ vs. IQ [Dr. Holliston's creation Victoria excelled at logical thinking, but her emotional development lagged behind by comparison.]
-rapid aging process [A consequence of Victoria being developed into an adult from a fetus in the space of a few days was that she was bound to rapidly age.]
+rapid aging effect [A consequence of Victoria being developed into an adult from a fetus in the space of a few days was that she was bound to rapidly age.]
 the nature of human emotions [We saw Victoria experiencing a full range of human emotion in her short go at life.]
 artificial womb [Dr. Paul Holliston brought both a dog and human fetus to term in an artificial uterus.]
 
@@ -6021,7 +6021,7 @@ law enforcement [We saw a small town sheriff and his deputy buddy investigate a
 alien living secretly among us [The enigmatic Mr. Zachary turned out to be an alien that was sent to Earth to stop the alien creatures from killing people.]
 
 :: Minor Themes
-rapid aging process [The coroner told the police that Ed Miller died from was appeared to be old age even though he was in midlife.]
+rapid aging effect [The coroner told the police that Ed Miller died from was appeared to be old age even though he was in midlife.]
 Bigfoot [A guy who sounded like a crackpot to Sheriff Cinder mentioned this gentle giant of the forest by name to the mayor.]
 speculative spaceship [Mayor Wicker and Zachary discovered a crashed alien spaceship in the woods.]
 
@@ -6847,7 +6847,7 @@ robot helper [Golob had a dog-like robot assistant, named Kip, aboard his vessel
 flying car [Golob, no a human monstrosity, was hovering around Metropolis in on of these contraptions.]
 mind control ability [Tom Tom mind controlled Golob into not killing Barbara. He also used this ability on other occasions, like once when he mind controlled a guard to let him and his party get into a building.]
 the desire to be beautiful [Lady Agatha was taking a special serum to keep her good looks.]
-rapid aging process [Lady Agatha rapid aged to death when she couldn't get her beauty serum in time.]
+rapid aging effect [Lady Agatha rapid aged to death when she couldn't get her beauty serum in time.]
 
 
 movie: Mad Max (1979)

notes/stories/film/film-scifi-1980s.st.txt

@@ -4450,7 +4450,7 @@ interstellar space travel [The Ice Pirates went flying around from one planet to
 slavery [The Ice Pirates were captured briefly ended up working as slaves of Princess Karina on the planet Mithra.]
 coping with unwelcome romantic attention [Jason had to put up with the unrequited amorous advances of a weird looking female alien whose vehicle he was in need of.]
 disembodied head [Wendon existed as a disembodied head.]
-rapid aging process [Everyone aboard the Ice Pirates ship aged at an accelerated rate while in the time warp. The middle aged people became elderly, and Princess Karina elderly caretaker died from old age.]
+rapid aging effect [Everyone aboard the Ice Pirates ship aged at an accelerated rate while in the time warp. The middle aged people became elderly, and Princess Karina elderly caretaker died from old age.]
 father and daughter [Princess Karina was on a quest to reunite with her missing father.]
 
 
@@ -4675,7 +4675,7 @@ teleportation device [The Enterprise transporter.]
 unethical experimentation for scientific progress [Kirk's son David knowingly used dangerous proto-matter to make the Genesis effect work with dire consequences.]
 risk taking in the advancement of science and technology [Kirk's son David knowingly used dangerous proto-matter to make the Genesis effect work with dire consequences.]
 the dangers of unfettered scientific advancement [It was discussed about how the Genesis Project technology could be weaponized to destroy all life on a planet, even though it was designed to create life on lifeless worlds.]
-rapid aging process [Regenerated Spock aged from a small boy to an adult while on the Genesis Planet.]
+rapid aging effect [Regenerated Spock aged from a small boy to an adult while on the Genesis Planet.]
 coping with the death of a child [Kirk was momentarily overcome with grief over the murder of his son David at the hands of the Klingons.]
 
 
@@ -10344,7 +10344,7 @@ human-bug hybrid [The Fly's son MArtin is himself half-human and half fly.]
 species transmutation [Martin Brundle slowly turned into a fly-hybrid creature.]
 what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis [Martin Brundle slowly turned into a fly-hybrid creature.]
 teleportation device [Seth Brundle's teleporter was being perfected at the Bartok company complex.]
-rapid aging process [Martin Brundle developed from a baby to a full grown adult in the space of five years, and continued to age rapidly, because he had inherited housefly genes from his father.]
+rapid aging effect [Martin Brundle developed from a baby to a full grown adult in the space of five years, and continued to age rapidly, because he had inherited housefly genes from his father.]
 accelerated growth rate therapy [Martin Brundle developed from a baby to a full grown adult in the space of five years.]
 father and son [Martin Brundle resolved to finish the work his fatehr Seth had begun on a teleporter. Bartok wanted Martin Brunble to think of him as a father.]
 romantic love [Martin Brundel and Beth Logan.]

notes/stories/film/film-scifi-1990s.st.txt

@@ -6133,7 +6133,7 @@ human self-actualization need [Krank longed to be able to experience having drea
 brain-shaped being [Uncle Irwin was a disembodied brain that was living inside a fish tank.]
 brother and brother [The story follows a carnival strongman, named One, as he attempts to rescue his kid brother, Denree, from the clutches of a strange man who wishes to experiences the boy's dreams.]
 child abduction [Krank was abducting orphans for the purpose of experiencing their dreams.]
-rapid aging process [Krank was had grown aged prematurely on account that he was unable to dream.]
+rapid aging effect [Krank was had grown aged prematurely on account that he was unable to dream.]
 human cloning [Krank had created six child-minded adult clones who served as his assistants.]
 speculative technology [Krank was using a dream-extracting machine that he'd invented to steal dreams from children.]
 coping with a loved one being in peril [One was worried sick about his abducted kid brother, Denree.]
@@ -10341,7 +10341,7 @@ self-healing ability [Much was made of Alfie having been genetically engineered
 :: Minor Themes
 medical occupation [We saw Marty's kid daughter being treated in the hospital after she'd made an ill-conceived attempt to rescue a tree-stranded kitten.]
 artificial womb [Alfie was gestated in a red fluid fill, spherical chamber.]
-rapid aging process [Alfie was genetically engineered to reach physical adulthood in the span of a mere 10 years.]
+rapid aging effect [Alfie was genetically engineered to reach physical adulthood in the span of a mere 10 years.]
 sister and sister [Alice and Emily Stillwater.]
 father and daughter [Marty and his two young daughters.]
 mother and daughter [Paige and her two young daughters.]
@@ -10418,7 +10418,7 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Years_to_Life_(1998_film)
 :: Major Themes
 what if I were being framed for a crime [The story follows Vinnie Dawson as he tried to prove his innocence after being wrongfully convicted of having murdered his stepfather.]
 speculative society [We saw a society where prison had been abolished and people were punished by being subjected to a process that rapidly ages them by a given number of years, depending on the crime.]
-rapid aging process [Vinnie, a 15-year-old, was subjected to a process that ages him thirty years.]
+rapid aging effect [Vinnie, a 15-year-old, was subjected to a process that ages him thirty years.]
 speculative punishment [Vinnie Dawson, a 15-year-old, was punished for a murder he didn't commit by being subjected to a process that aged him 30 years.]
 patricide [Vinnie Dawson was framed for the murder of his stepfather, and spent the bulk of the film trying to prove his innocence.]
 romantic love [Vinnie and Darla fell passionately in love.]
@@ -10601,7 +10601,7 @@ interstellar space travel [Travel among the stars is a fundamental reality in th
 neo-Luddist utopia [The Ba'ku held a belief in the virtuousness of manual work and lived basically as Mennonites even though they were acquainted with advanced technology.]
 anti-technology way of life [The Ba'ku held a belief in the virtuousness of manual work and lived basically as Mennonites even though they were acquainted with advanced technology.]
 romantic love [Picard and Anij. Riker and Troi rekindled their love.]
-retarded aging process [The Ba'ku villagers had not aged a day since they settled on their planet some 300 years ago because of the presence of metaphasic particles.]
+retarded aging effect [The Ba'ku villagers had not aged a day since they settled on their planet some 300 years ago because of the presence of metaphasic particles.]
 forced resettlement [The Federation was going to resettle the Ba'ku against their will because they wanted to get the resources on their planet.]
 the good of the many vs. the needs of the few [Was the Federation justified in relocate 600 Ba'ku villagers so that billions could benefit from the life extending metaphasic particles on the planet?]
 the desire for vengeance [Ru'afo and his Son'a brethren had been exiled by the Ba'ku in the past and he was seeking to avenge that.]

notes/stories/film/film-scifi-2000s.st.txt

@@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ mother and daughter [The teenager Kelly interacted with her mother, Jenny.]
 brother and sister [The teenager Zak briefly quarreled with his younger sister, Kelly,]
 father and daughter [The teenager Kelly interacted with her father, Dr. Gibbs.]
 husband and wife [George and Jenny Gibbs were more or less happily married with two teenage children.]
-rapid aging process [Earl Dopler aged about 20 years after tested out a prototype time speeding up wristwatch. Dr. Gibbs likewise aged prematurely after trying out the wristwatch.]
+rapid aging effect [Earl Dopler aged about 20 years after tested out a prototype time speeding up wristwatch. Dr. Gibbs likewise aged prematurely after trying out the wristwatch.]
 music [Meeker was an aspiring DJ.]
 friendship [Zak used his time speed up wristwatch to help his best friend Meeker win a DJ contest.]
 with great power comes great responsibility [Zak quipped that "with such awesome power comes awesome responsibility" to Francesca after the two played some practical jokes with the help of his time freezing wristwatch.]
@@ -2593,7 +2593,7 @@ anti-gravity technology [The gravity in some hypercube rooms pointed in the oppo
 the desire for vengeance [Simon waned to get back at Kate for having elbowed him in the eye.]
 private investigator occupation [Simon revealed that he was a private investigator who'd been hired to enter the cube to rescue Becky.]
 romantic love [Max and Julia began to develop romantic feelings for one another after getting trapped in the hypercube together.]
-rapid aging process [Max and Julia aged rapidly to their deaths while trapped in a time dilated room.]
+rapid aging effect [Max and Julia aged rapidly to their deaths while trapped in a time dilated room.]
 
 
 movie: Cypher (2002)

notes/stories/television/tv-futurama.st.txt

@@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ parent and child [Leela with her parents. Amy with her parents.]
 :: Minor Themes
 coping with a grumpy old coot [Everyone was fed up with the Professor's grumpiness.]
 the role of the elderly in society [There was a parody on old people driving.]
-rapid aging process [Professor Farnsworth used a sort of fountain of aging to revert everyone to their normal ages.]
+rapid aging effect [Professor Farnsworth used a sort of fountain of aging to revert everyone to their normal ages.]
 husband and wife [Turanga Morris and Turanga Munda.]
 boyfriend and girlfriend [FFry and Leela did some stereotypical teen dating.]
 teen romance [Fry and Leela did some stereotypical teen dating.]

notes/stories/television/tv-night-gallery.st.txt

@@ -440,10 +440,9 @@ Directed by: Richard Benedict. Story by: Rod Serling.
 
 :: Major Themes
 husband and wife [Jonathan and Pamela.]
-ghost [The story followed the quarrels of Johathan's ghost with Pamela's ghost.]
 what if I were a ghost [Johathan was dismayed to find out that he had died and become a ghost.]
 coping with a nag [Pamela was a real nag to Jonathan.]
-personal haunting [Pamela's ghost haunted her husband Jonathan.]
+personal haunting [The story followed the quarrels of Johathan's ghost with Pamela's ghost. In particular, Pamela's ghost haunted her husband Jonathan.]
 the afterlife [Jonathan speculated as to whether Pamela belonged in heaven or hell whereas she in fact lingered on Earth to haunt Jonathan.]
 spouse murder [Jonathan had murdered his wife.]
 lovers' quarrel [Jonathan and Pamela took their quarreling even beyond the grave.]

notes/stories/television/tv-talesfromthecrypt1989.st.txt

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ murder of a lover [Sylvia shot her super rich boyfriend dead in a violent rage.]
 prostitution [Sylvia was a cheap street prostitute who dreamed of becoming a rich man's lover, then went for it.]
 ironic twist of fate [Sylvia committed various sins out of vanity, and lost her beauty as a consequence (i.e., a vain person was punished by becoming ugly).]
 greed for riches [The street prostitute Sylvia targeted a certain wealthy bachelor to make her own, and got him for a time.]
-rapid aging process [The process by which Sylvia lost her beauty was portrayed as the rapid onset of the ravages of advanced age.]
+rapid aging effect [The process by which Sylvia lost her beauty was portrayed as the rapid onset of the ravages of advanced age.]
 
 :: Minor Themes
 living corpse [The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver.]