@compfu@mograph.social early 70s baby here, so on TV for me it was Star Trek reruns, a lot of forgotten and bad stuff including all the Glen Larson series (BSG, Knight Rider, etc) and the cinematic Star Wars age - and Carpenter was an absolute badass through the 80s and beyond. Han Solo was never the hero figure to me that people talk about him as, I think mainly because I was way too young to formulate a real concept of adult romantic interactions, as much as I understood what that kind of kissing meant. He was much more of a safe uncle kinda figure, he talked a few lines about being out for only himself, but everyone knew he was a bigger teddy bear than Chewie. Now, Kurt Russell, on the other hand, specifically in the hands of John Carpenter, I went to Escape From New York over and over again to sit and identify with Snake Plisken as my post-apocalypse badass alternate wannabe persona. It starts with that theme music, what was of course thoroughly modern and cutting edge in that cultural moment, while also containing the seeds of what has grown into an entire musical genre, now. And at the end I'd walk out into the summer evening of downtown Winnipeg, and nobody knew I was a badass New York Escaper but me. Good times. You could go in at noon and sit there all day watching it over and over... @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net