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Actually, if you read the TD website more carefully, you’ll see that the auction is to be Micheal McManus’s assistant during the boat cruise, and that no kiss from MM is being auctioned.
This convention sounds like it is going to be really fun for the people going– remember to take lots of pics for the rest of us!!
😡 Well, the frey, I was going to cough up some homey comforting words about how there are good things about moving– like how you can jettison a lot of stuff you don’t really need. But then I realized that even now, years after my last series of moves, I still catch myself saying “Hey what happened to the -instert missing appliance or household item- bamboo veggie steamer – chinese planter–bookcase–books– we had?”
Right now I am totally OBSESSED with the office move I am going to have to endure in the middle of classes next semester. The college that I worked for actually hired a group of “moving coordinators” who don’t actually do any packing or moving. They just talk to you about it (for less than an hour). The lady from the moving coordinators explained her job to us by saying that she was like a wedding planner but for moving. (Doesn’t everyone hate wedding planners, or is it just me?) I was DYING to know what these people got paid to explain to us morons in the math department how to open a cardboard box and stick a label on it!!
I was going to explain why I am worried about it NOW, but really it is too much– the office allocation is like the mad tea party, with people moving in and out of offices, different departments ousting each other, the administration ousting faculty to take the primo offices, all starting now and continuing through the next term.
I think I will take on the character of the doormouse and try to sleep through it.
I am sooooo behind the curve here!! I have caught a couple of the “new” Dr. Who on the US scifi channel– enjoyed it! But now find you all have moved on to a new Dr already!! I am just getting used to the old new Dr.
He seems to be getting younger and younger!
Hugo Weaving is amazing, brilliant. The plot: Subversive. The film manages to mostly succeed in the disturbing goal of making the audience root for the futuristic terrorist “Guy Fawkes”. Be prepared to be made uncomfortable. (for example, i wouldn’t recommend it to the guy I know who escaped from the WTC).
My only complaint: Gets a bit heavy handed and simplistic (the writers fault?) . The acting is really good , and the atmosphere chilling, a scary view of the not too distant, and not too implausible future. Modern day twilight zone feel.
Ooooh Great Question! Off the top of my head and I ‘ll make it short!
5) Mr. Spock. A great character. Providing logical counterpoint to the g eneral nonsense on the original star treck. Made some of the best moments of the series possible– going into heat, trying to kill the captain, etc.
4) Locutus of BORG. All time best turnaround of a character from good to bad. Shoulda lasted longer.
3) Cthulu– an alien so frighteningly ugly that it causes madness in humans just to look at him. Thanks HP Lovecraft.
2) Kai– so cold he’s hot! He also has the mythic appeal of the amnesiac, misused warrior fallen from glory. Wry sense of humor.
1) Dr Who (the Tom Baker version): Whacky and witty, wins his battles with a generally nonviolent attitude. Not threatened by independent lady companions. He also has the charm of being a somewhat disgraced Time lord.
I check out sad’s every month or so—-
For me, there has been an absolute dearth of sci-fi to watch! When Dr Who starts up in the states on the Scifi channel hopefully i can join in on the Dr who discussion. I just can’t seem to get into BSG.
I am really looking forward to the new Dr!!
Here’s an interesting one to rent (had it at blockbuster) A japanese film called the Spiral. Uzumaki or something in japanese. It’s low budget, but quite fun to watch and definitely odd.
Townspeople become obsessed with the spiral form– weird happenings and transformations abound. I give it three stars!
Really cute cartoon!!!! Can’t help with the translation but I love the artwork. The artist really captured the facial expressions .
Gosh this is interesting! Didn’t know there was such a to-do after the prisoner series. Patrick McGooan is an awsome actor. If something would make me go see Harry Potter it would be him. Too bad.
He is a villian in an episode of Columbo– one of the best.
So far, the only bad sign I have seen is the StarTrek next generation type wardrobe. However, since the originator Peter Chung didn’t have any artistic input I too am sceptical. I am planning to see the movie & hope to enjoy it in any case. Check out Peter Chungs commentary about how he would have liked to make an animated feature film of Aeon:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=3&id=33422&type=0This is cool! But I don’t think I can participate boo hoo hoo. Can someone who is there ask if he is writing anything new? appearing in anything?
Does he secretly miss being a robot head?
Will he produce some impromptu love poetry for us?
Well, he really made the show interesting for me, and convention going or not, MM will always have my respect for that and I would watch any show he gets on!!
I am too far away to go anyway, but I wonder if there is a day pass for people to check it out for one day and not pay for the whole package??
Depending on how big it is, a lot of the ticket cost could be going to overhead for the venue and stuff. It will be very cool if someone in the area could go and get an interview w/ ellen d. and any of the other Lexx cast that shows up! esp. If M.Mcmanus does decide to go, that would be really awsome.
The Dragon con that he and Xenia did’nt make it to at the last minute was still a lot of FUN. I was actually really disappointed that EllenG couldn’t make it either! I think she is really funny.
Sigh– reading lexx poetry makes me go all sentimental–well partly sentimental and partly 790ish!
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Yes, Lexx was my favorite cartoon.
Its a really big convention in San Diego. I first heard about it when I saw a report (on E channel?) about how important it was for flicks about comic characters to respect the “serious” fans. Then there was a clip of C.T. saying how it was out of the question that her character wear a thong.
Which begs the question: if some thin actress can’t feel comfortable in a thong who can?
I agree that sci fi is totally overlooked when it comes to awards.
Hmmm, I wonder if one reason their are sci fi conventions and not others is that there are a lot of books, comics and genre art as well as just the TV shows.
I think it could work for the dectective genre, if anybody tried it!
theFrey wrote:……… but sleeping with those pearls catching on and digging into your arm? I kept thinking, what in heavens name was the wardrobe designer thinking.
Har har! I don’t know Frey. A maschocistic nightie seems like something she may have chosen. You all make excellent points about her clothes that I didn’t notice.
I mostly enjoyed the movie– thanks saddie for the warning about the lava fight in the stupid science section btw!
Big complaint:
What is G.L’s problem with women anyway?? Better to have no female characters at all instead of this one vapid, characterless creature. He couldn’t think of how to get rid of her either– hence the sudden death caused by “losing the will to live” (?). This flick needed a Lady Macbeth, or else someone who can play a supposedly completely good and innocent character irresistibly drawn to someone with a prominent dark side.question for the guys: Are three boobs better than one? What about that chick with a bit part in Total Recall with the three boobs?? Is she sexy?
”The wrote:I smell.
My laptop stinks. I don’t know why. It smells a bit like human B.O. Is it possible for a computer to have keyboard BO??? Don’t really know what to do about it.
–I am a bit bored! Trapped in a dorm at a meeting in N.C.! no tv, no books.
Here’s one that I feel certain I have pointed out before (hopefully not earlier in this thread– because I am too lazy to check 😉 )
In the season finale of one of the STNG (with picard and riker), there is a strange phenomenon of an explosion that moves back in time. In other words, it starts as a tiny point, getting larger and larger as one goes back in time– so that it is destroying the past. So say it appears at 10:00 it’s a bit bigger at 9:59 — 9:58 … etc.
Well, they have to find the origin of this explosion and try to stop it. In the end, the enterprise crew finally tracks down the location where the anomoly is supposed to start– and it’s not there. So they go away for a while and come back LATER and it IS there! They say something like “we were just to soon before”! Well! (This is like checking for the thing at 10:05 above, not finding it and coming back at 10:10 and it IS there!) If this thing moves backwards in time they would have to go away and have come back SOONER not later, and when they missed it say “it’s not here already”
I like SF with time travel, but they really screwed up by basically forgetting about their own premise about the anomoly
🙁Some ships might need to be aerodynamic, if they intended to land on a planet with atmosphere. That’s one reason I would like to nominate the original Borg cube from STNG as a great ship. So mathematically pure, so unconcerned with aerodynamics! Because of this utilitarian non-planet oriented shape we know the Borg live in space, not on a particular planet.
Saw it, did enjoy it. But the tv show is better (except for the special effects which are super in the movie).
The vogons are the best and funniest part of the movie. It’s true that a lot of the puns and verbal jokes are shortened, but the movie moves along at a zippy pace and made me laugh. I actually liked the depressed robot better in the movie than in the show (he started to wear on my nerves on TV after a short time).Hmmmm. PG rating, disney– I am starting to see an upside. We don’t need a baby sitter! Maybe the kiddie, who determines what we do with all of our entertainment dollars, will sit through it.
Hoping it’s good, but I will sure miss the verbal humor if that is what is cut out.
The NOMAD episode is a great episode! I think that I like the episode a bit better than the movie. That really was a new idea, and ahead of it’s time.
Also, remeber Trilain? The guy on a planet that was “playing” with them and had lots of powers? Yet he didn’t realize he had been obsvering earth in the past so dressed like Liberace??Do y’all think that he was from the Q-continuum?
I think the best movies are the wrath of Khan, The one where they save the whales, and the one where Picard fights the borg queen. I can’t really remember the first one! The worst one is the Final Frontier or whatever it is called, where Spock’s half brother thinks he has found the supreme being. 🙄
An s.f. show devoted entirely to shape shifters with lots of shape shifting effects is exactly the kind of show that I would not whine and complain about! (overall not just online but in r.l. as well I confess to doing way to much whining— 😳 )
Such a show would have everything I am missing, lots of special effects. Plots could be fairly confusing and strange– hmmm
does any one know yet when/where this show will be seen??? I wonder if any of the cable stations in the US will pick it up. Sometimes PAX shows canadian shows, and BBC america used to show a fake reality comedy from nova scotia.
It would be interesting to see this new show, sounds really fun.
Bowcatz, with all that facial hair and “hi I live in a log cabin” look, I can’t tell if that picture is Michael McManus or the Unibomber.
The Brunnen G finished the insect wars, but who started them?? Why is there more than one??Is it a fight over territory? I read your fic for answers to all of these pressing questions!!
I think that enterprise has just been Cancelled! It wasn’t that bad, I wonder if they will fill in with another SF show in it’s place.
Hang it all! I cant get the little movie clip to play! I don’t know what application to use.
Selling the set on ebay during the premiere of the show is an interesting fundraising notion. Kinda like watching a show and the shopping channel at the same time!
Maybe it’ll show in the U.S. on a cable channel. I did manage to see Ellen “gigoratta” in a wrinkle in time on PAX last year.
BowCatz wrote:No cologne, Michi M. C?
Married guys rarely bother. 😉 😉
And I still think he would make a really fabulous detective type as opposed to an assassin.
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Evodio! That looks great! The model is the perfect type!! (Which I am sorry to say I still think C.Th is not!) In fact, I am not comforted by how she looks with the short dark hair, go to Fashion Police at the golden globes if you don’t believe me
http://www.eonline.com/Features/Awards/Golden2005/Fashion/index8.htmlIt is not a flattering look on her 🙁 But here’s hoping the movie is good any way! Maybe they will do more than one like “batman”.
Really?! I have watched every episode of the show at least once, and I don’t remember ever seeing anyone with a sword.
His weapon of choice is the built in insect like pincer-claw- wrist thingy.
Now that I think of it, on the chess board in the “chess” episode, the king (who is kai) uses a dagger to dispatch one of the other pieces. Oh, and fake kai in Season 3 is good with a bow and arrow.
I enjoyed watching earthsea, but one thing that seriously deflated the plot was reformulation of the priestesses as another set of “good guys”. So the wizard and the priestesses are in opposition because of a misunderstanding of how to do good??? In the book the priestesses are in the service of dark god or spirits, perform human sacrifices and are only allowed to see males that are eunichs. The young teenage priestess is already complicit in the unpleasant deaths of some prisoners sent as a sacrifice, and she almost kills ged too. The book is about being her being redeemed (or redeeming herself by helping the wizard) from a situation where she is serving evil.
I am not sure why the TV show sanitized the priestesses, maybe to be more politically correct, I am not sure. I did like the production values and the actors that they chose.
theFrey wrote:Actually, I belive there were two such dolls. One knitted with a detachable, and one polyclay one with a dangly.
One might want to distance a bit from stuff like that. But overall, MMM Twack was said to have been the type of person who was only comfortable with people in the trade. This is not limited to him, or indeed actors. I know computer people who only like to associate with other geeks, understandable since they WON’T ask you to fix their system. I also know political types who refuse to associate with people who are not up on what is happening in the land of deceit… errr politics. 😀 Me? I talk to almost everyone. 😛 🙂
Oh heck– I hope this doesn’t offend too much, but I think the knitter was a bit of a nutter. Of course, it could have been meant as humor, I wasn’t there.
Anyway, I agree that this short film isn’t meant to be any big deal, but I still had fun watching it. If Mr. McManus starts doing more work in Germany in TV or film I hope we can rely on our german friends to let us know! Of course, I wish he was in something on Scifi. I mean it takes a certain type of actor who knows how to be good in a bad show to make some of this stuff work.
it would be nice to redeem 790 to some extent. His degeneration into a complete psychopath by the end of season 4 is one of the unsatifactory aspects of S4. In previous seasons he actually made sense sometimes. If you write something like that I’ll check it out.
I wrote a fan fic over on lexxfans.com with kai in it, but I tried very very hard to keep him in character (frigid that is!) But he does get slobbered on.
Here’s a suggestion, a habit in my family. A double feature of new vs old versions of films.
The Fly with Vincent Price / The Fly by Cronenburg
Cat People (in black and white)/ Cat people with Natasha Kinski
and since we are on the Kinski’s
Nosferatu (silent) / Nosferatu (Claus K.)Solaris / Solaris might be interesting but I have not yet tried it.
Good work pet! You are definitive proof that we internet lounge lizards are not all a bunch of slackers. Writing a kinky book, brilliant!
I am going to have a glass of champagne in your honor (next time I am in a position where I don’t have to pay for it!)
SadGeezer wrote:….
Headgehog wrote:As for President Priest, I think that he made a good parody of Dubya. Remember that this episode was written before 9/11 when the president was behaving (even more) like an incompetent dofus. It’s difficult to see today, since the public perception of his inability to lead, has shifted toward his other failures.
Besides Priest was sort of a dim-witted yes-man back on Fire, why should that have changed?Yep, and don’t get me wrong, the part is played MAGNIFICENTLY! Personally I think that there is just too much of him. It’s like the beans were trying to get back at the US for CANADA being out of the limelight in regards to so much stuff that happens in the North American continent. I’ve been to the US and Canada and enjoyed the close relationship between the two countries, but sometimes (as with LEXX) I get the feeling that there is some antagonism….. Perhaps like England and Scotland in the UK (Scots tend to take the mickey at the English and the English are regularly stunned at seemingly feverish Scotish Nationalism – ie. un-British)[/quote]
Ok, this is totally off topic– but my spouse is suggesting that we wetback it to Canada if GWB wins the election (I say the damage has already been done and that running away won’t help, plus my french stinks), but anyway, he is also a proponent of the alternative version “…One nation, under Canada, with justice …” in the pledge of allegiance. I agree with you about P.Preist being a bit of a one joke pony and I would have liked at least more variety in the lines and interaction between him and Bunny.
I now realize that I don’t remember most season endings because I haven’t seen most of them! Maybe it is better that way.
Logan– I don’t know why we are discussing sienfield here but
SPOILER
The last ep of Sienfeld has the group getting arrested for being “guilty bi-standers.” They mock a guy who is getting mugged in a state (Maine?) That passed a law against refusing to aid a person in distress. They are defended by the Johnny Cockrane character to good effect.
And about the Village– Yes I would go live there for a while, I suppose they have a good library, but the beach looks cold. I also like the way that people dress there.
I have failed to watch the farscape ending mini series– but I might re-attempt it when in gets re-run. I ended up watching an interesting NOVA about neandertals instead.
As far as I am concerned, one can never have too much of the insect civilization! I would watch a whole show (heavily animated) populated almost exclusively with insects.
I read Micheal Moore’s piece in USA today, and it is quite well mannered. But it must be weird for him to attend a convention where he is the focus of some of the vitrol.
But the more that the republicans focus on the evils of hollywood and documentary film makers the more wacky and out of touch they seem with the very real problems that people have. Remember the republican convention in texas that did in George senior??? That was hilarious! Alot of zealots with odd facial hair ranting about Woody Allen (who wasn’t running for anything) the whole time.
I was never too sure about the whole “Q” thing in the first place, but I have totally lost track of this show, because I am not sure when it is on. If I can find it I will probably start watching it again.
I think with the mysterious time travellers and what not they may have already filled all the “slots” for characters that can appear at will from nowhere and zap people to odd places.
On the other hand, a series ENTIRELY devoted to “the Q-continuum” mitght be interesting. Because anything would go..
PS I am not one of the writers you were seeking to contact, perhaps you should print out your suggestions and send it to the studio! they could use your help.
Well, I have been spared the morbid fascination of watching the convention, because I have not had television since the cable went out during that last hurricane (ok, tropical storm) that hit us in SC on last sunday morning.
I enjoyed seeing pics and reading about the massive protest march in Salon Mag. and the NYTimes. Perhaps it is better this way, cable news is soooo “Fox news” that it makes me foam a bit at the mouth.
