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Nice review, Headgehog!!!
One thing I’d like to point out, you seem to be treating the #6 Baltar talks to AS a chip or some other implant of the real #6.
I’m not sure that’s the case at all. I think he’s literally gone insane and she represents his guilt, fears and conscience.
I oppose commericals on DVDs altogether, part of what we should be paying for is the freedom to watch a movie without commercials….sadly that used to be the case in movie theaters…
At least in the Dir.’s Cut of Riddick last night, I could skip past the commericals and previews.
Here’s another idea,
Hitchhiking with Ford Prefect to the Restuarant at the End of the Universe for cocktails and dessert.
I think we’re going to try and flag down some teasers around 8pm.
Ah, yes a Sci-fi Valentine’s Day…. hummm, well theSpouse would surprise me with tickets to someplace nice and warm with clear blue water and no gambling… then he would (without grumbling on how stoooopid this all is) give me a nice card and perhaps a bit of my favorite chocolate.
What is sci-fi about the above? Oh foolish foolish person. Obviously the above theSpouse has been taken over by a pod or replaced by said replicant , since that behavior is so clearly Non-theSpouse! I would not be fooled for an instance though. I would go along with it, but would not be fooled.
😀 😀 😀
I hate it when people I know are taken over by aliens, or myself for that matter. 😉
The real deal with Wal-Mart is the fact that the people they hurt the most are the people who can’t afford to shop anywhere else either.
Wal-Mart thrives off the people in this country who are constantly struggling to make ends meet. Because everything is sooo cheap there.
They fill a need this country has for low cost consummables.So until the market provides alternative, Wal-Mart IS going to think they can do what ever they want.
It’s a very sad state of affairs. They are abusive with the privelege of their position because there is no one to challenge them beside their own employees.
but how cool would it be if he turned out to be Drago Museveni, and Beka is the mother of the entire Nietzschean race!!!!
That is exactly how that turned out, and not only was Rhade having coniptions about that – he was raised to worship Drago Museveni and he’s having a hard time reconciling worshipping Beka as the Mother of all Nietzscheans and how well he knows her and despises her for past weaknesses and constant unreliability.
One of the few things in the last couple of episodes that did make sense. Rhade literally wanted to let himself die over it.
I’m still wondering how the episodes have progressed as if episode 509 never happened…..they are literally just spinning the wheels with the plot….Scifi should put it out of it’s misery at this point.
Quoting Bill the Cat from Bloom County, “Ack”.
boo-hoo! 🙁
Well if ever there is an occasion to make some more I would be more than happy to pay for the grace of wearing one…and having it shipped across the waters….
threads of pleasure and beauty! items of branded excellence!
untold joy and exuberance!
hmmmm….
Was it just me or was that a weird game?
As I posted before, I’m not really a football fan, but it did seem like a strange game. There were errors, injuries, upsets, but it all seemed subdude(sub-dude? is that a word? 😉 ) to me.
Or maybe that was just the numbing effects alcohol has on the brain….. 😳
Sorry folks but the girl from Beantown has to put in a word for the Pats!!!
However, they’ve won 2 years in a row now, so I suppose it wouldn’t hurt soooo bad if the Eagles won….
Wish I was back in FL…
(and this is just a home team thing – I’m not really a football fan at all, give me the Red Sox any day)
Hope it’s a good game no matter who wins!
You know Stanelle, I had no idea answering. “What is your heart’s desire” would be such a perplexing question.
Seriously, I wish my family all lived within a 10 mile radius of each other. Since I never had a family that stays together in the same place, as we all get older I find myself wanting that very much.
However there is nothing I would do about that because we all have made our habitation choices based on important reasons individually (and in some cases for my siblings’ children) and we grew up in an atmosphere that greatly values that. So to do something to change that would be to try and change the members of my family’s individual wills – and I would never do that, except maybe continue to keep everyone in touch as much as possible in hopes that if circumstances changed, being closer would become an important criteria for the future.This is a hard question to answer because I think I am doing my best to pursue my path in this life in faith that it is the correct direction – because that’s not always a clear thing.
I am working very hard to finish my application materials for grad school to the best of my abilities presently. Getting into school is one of my heart’s desires. But what is meant to be is what will happen.
I don’t think what we want is always necessarily what’s best for us.I think a great idea to reinvigorate the Space based scifi would be for the Jim Henson Creature workshop to explore other stories in the Farscape universe.
The miniseries left an opening for that, and it was fantastic.
I also think BSG will enjoy a good run as well. – and imagine ships in space that actually fly like they’re are in space!! (love that about this series) I was a fan of the old BSG – watched it religiously, and I think the remake is an amazing homage to it.
I mean if the old Conan novels can get reissued anything can happen right?
Logan, yeah I hadn’t intended to write that much about it, but you’re right, hopefully next week while I’m vacationing (visiting my sister) I’ll post my recommendation and more thoughts on the book in Scfi Choice.
To Logan and mysteriesofthesea :
Thanks both for the kind words, as ever!
mysteriesofthesea wrote:
Can you tell a little more about it?
It’s a gothic inspired atmospheric take on the future. The Wraeththu are a race mutated from humans that are seemingly male but are actually a type of hermaphrodite, they evolve into clans and take control of their new society as the humans are on a quick decline, helped along by some of the more aggressive Wraeththu tribes.
Themes of the book include conflict and the attempts at resolution between tribes, and the most important thematic issue of the series is each indivdual soul living to fulfill it’s true potential.
As far as the hermaphrodite sexuality(and that’s a large part of the books) – it reminded me alot of Pie O Pah from Clive Barker’s Imagica novel. Except the Wraeththu are all very much describe as a race of beautiful gay men.
And the author, Storm Constantine is a dyed in the wool, kohl eyeliner, white powdered goth – which definately shines through in the romanticism and melodrama of the story.It comes in a combined thick trade paperback, I found a copy in the Boston Public Library. And if you read any of Constantine, I have to insist that you read Tanith Lee afterwards. Because she is the Grand Mistress of the genre – and extremely accomplished in all the other genres she has tried her hand at…but the shining examples of Tanith Lee’s work are :
The Tales from the Flat Earth (my fav: Night’s Master)
The Secret Books of Paradys (fav of this series: The Book of the Damned)
The Secret Books of Venus (and fav of this series: A Bed of Earth)and she’s written alot more…Ms. Lee has been publishing novels since the mid 70’s.
Anyway…if dark moody possible futures or pasts are a distraction for you I’d highly recommend both of these authors.
I think Season 5 could be a fitting end to the Andromeda story.
This is better than waiting to see if Sorbo will resign, and if he doesn’t what will they do then.
Steve Bacic hinted at a movie in a recent interview, but I wouldn’t put any credence to that as of yet.
It’ll be interesting to see the new episodes with this new information in mind.
Will Rommie ever return?????
lexxrobotech wrote:
Best – The End of The Macross Saga : when a broken Rick Hunter answers Lisa Hayes when she asks what next whilst looking out over the devastated city, by looking up at the stars and saying simply, ‘beyond…’
One of the best ever, I have to agreed. And in the same vein of anime tv series…Gundam Wing final episode, when Heero speeds to blow up the falling piece of the Libra warship to save Earth…I was on the edge of my seat!!!
I loved the end of the Farscape The Peacekeeper Wars…
Half to say in the original Battlestar Galactica, I could have done without them finding Earth. It was such a disappointment in a way, and then they just had to leave anyway.
Yeah I can’t think of any others…except maybe Starblazers!
Cleopatra.
I would dump Antony and establish diplomatic relations with Octavius. Ceasarian could be sent to fosterage in Rome with provision of his rulership of Eygpt on his return.
I’d also order the contents of the Alexandrian library copied, so back-ups of the documents could be kept at Memphis.
Not that I’ve had the opportunity to watch Lexx, but based on the pictures and what I’ve heard of Kai’s character, I bet MM could play a great Treize Kushrenada, from Gundam Wing.
It be great if someone could pull off a live action movie with realistic looking mecha!
And Trieze makes Lady Une develop split personalities because she’s in love with him!!
That would be great for live action, get Angelina Jolie to play Une.
My other suggestions:
Wu Fei : Chen Chang (Dark Cloud from Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon)
Quatre : Topher Grace
Trowa : Tobey macquire
Duo : Colin Farrell
Heero Yui: Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Intermission)Zechs Marquis: Jude Law
Lucrezia Noin: Amanda Tapping
Relena Peacecraft: Gyneth PaltrowSeveral agencies are taking online donations via credit/debit card.
Unicef.org has one set up for their disaster relief fund. I heard this morning the children will suffer the lack of clean water faster than adults.
I wish I could do more.
Yeah but what about the Replicator Ships??
and the Asgard did create the O’Neil…even though Samantha had them destroy it to take out the Reps.The Rep ships are some of the nastier looking, but I like the System Lords motherships, since there is no need for aerodynamic design in space…why not funky pyramids???
Plus I’m just a sucker for all things Eygptian.
I watched some of the marathon on Christmas with my dad, I’d never watched the show before.
We saw the one on the POW MIA bike they made for the Veterans Paul Sr. had met.
My dad’s a vet, it was meaningful to watch them craft this bike with him.
The bike was beautiful, Cody did a tremedous job on the graphics.And that drinking game would be brutal!
I was reading all the stories on the guardian, and cnn.com, it’s a terrible, terrible thing…the first hand accounts are just filled with shock and awe and the amount of people dead and missing…it’s an enormous tragedy.
” and the boys of the NYPD choir were singing ‘Galway Bay’ and the bells were ringing out for Christmas day!”
-Fairytale of NewYork, Shane McGowan & Kristy McColl
I love Cowboy Bebop too! Spike is a great character.
My fav ep. Jupiter Jazz I & II
I have the first volume of the Soundtrack as well, which is some of the best driving music.
The Seatbelts are great.Speaking of adaptations, I think they have an interesting opportunity with an Aeon Flux movie….because it’s based on an anime series, they can easily compress elelments of the entire story arc into a movie….but we’ll see.
(do I sound bitter lately??? maybe I should sit over here at my table for one 😛 )
I think Charlize Theron has a much of a chance as any other human actor to pull off an anime to live action transation….though perhaps if they worked on how she was shot perspective wise on film, Carrie-Ann Moss could have done it too.
Evodio – great Aeon design! now that’d be sumthin’ to wear to DC2006…if I had Aeon’s build 😉
Just perusing http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com
in the News section, he talks about the possible movie, apparently there’s no studio yet. Take a look:
“Covenant” movie
This past week, “The Hollywood Reporter” announced that “Covenant” is coming to the big screen. This is both premature and misleading. Here are the facts to date.
The production team of Mark Gordon (“Saving Private Ryan”) and Peter Winther (“Independence Day”) is quite serious about wanting to make a “Covenant” film. “Revelstone Development” has a design in place and a screenwriter on board (John Orloff, “Band of Brothers”). What Gordon and Winther do *not* have is a studio (i.e. money); and without a studio little or nothing is likely to happen. Since Hollywood basically shuts down in December, Gordon and Winther plan to start approaching studios in January.
I would like to emphasize that I have no control over any aspect of this process. After all, the film rights are held by Ballantine Books, not by me. I’ve met Winther and Orloff, and I’m convinced that their respect for and excitement about “Covenant” is genuine: for that reason, I’m starting to get excited myself. And I have no doubt that Revelstone Development will consult with me from time to time, and will take whatever I have to say seriously. But I have no actual power here. Nor do I want any. In fact, I’ve refused every offer to give me any power. I love movies; I hope a “Covenant” movie (or several) will be made; I hope it will be good; and I hope it will be successful. But I’m simply not qualified, either by experience or by personality, to make the kinds of decisions–and compromises–which are essential to film-making. And I have my own work to do, work which pretty much consumes all of my creative energy. So I’m rooting hard for Revelstone Development; and if Gordon, Winther, and Orloff ever want my opinion, I’ll give it to them. But really this is all out of my hands.
More news as it develops….
P.S. I’m just guessing here; but I suspect that peculiar references to “Saturn” in “The Hollywood Reporter” are a confused conflation of “Satan” and “Sauron.” I can’t think of any other explanation.
I’m glad he took the time to post his thoughts on this.
7th_Dizbuster,
Thanks for chiming in!!!! And very well said!
As I had said, they will most likely hatchet Covenant’s character to such an extent, they might as well just create a new character with a different name.
I was very surprised to see the story on scifiwire.com because I loved the books precisely for the reasons why it is so uncomfortable…same reason I love Donaldson’s scifi work the Gap Series.
He begins his characters out in such bleak terrible places,(Thomas Covenant, Angus Thermoplye) but I love how he pushes them into places where they perform redeeming acts, but are never fully redeemed as individual souls.Much more fascinating than reading about the “good guys” trying to do the right thing, but constantly making mistakes. (though that has it’s place too) 🙂
I read the Covenant books in a week, when I was 14 and have reread them since. The gap Series I had the agony of waiting the year – year and a half between books and I’ve reread them again since too. I like Donaldson’s other books too – the Man Rides Through series(there were 2 I think)I remember enjoying quite a bit.
He’s a great story teller.
I caught the second half of the Earthsea mini Sunday, the acting and directing were atrocious and the dialogue was so blase and predictable….
“so this is our destiny?”
“If not us, then who?”
Puh-leezzzz…can I have some crackers and wine with that?
It is like Scifi just kind of throws this stuff together…though the new BSG, looks very good and I’m excited for that -was a HUGE fan of the original.(have been avoiding the buzz on the boards here until it airs in the states)
mandara K wrote:
we’re in sci-fi hell in the States.
yeah, all I watch is SG-1 and Andromeda….Men In Black was on TBS constantly last week…..
headgehog wrote:
The supporting characters were reading their lines, the plot set up was hackneyed and predicatble, and so much of the story was derivative of other recent movies. It MIGHT have been original at the time of hte writing, but not in 2004.
LOTR was kind of the precident of all fantasy quest stories, Eddings, Feist, Le Guin, Moorcock….followed this kind of grand tradition in a way. Any screen adaptation of fantasy is going to derive from jackson’s movie and any other great fantasy films…but to make those homages in a unique way is the trick.
thefrey & Lexxlurker wrote:
thefrey wrote:
Many, many years ago… when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I read this series. Once.Once. Do you know how seldom that happens when I own the books? I cannot even remember what happened in them. Which is also unusual for me. All I can remeber about the books is that they were IMHO, at that time, vapid crap.
Sounds like Eddings new series.
I read and reread Edding’s Belgariad and Mallorean series….but his most recent stuff has been formulaic crap….I concur!!!
I’ll take Tanith Lee’s Tales from the Flat Earth anyday….and do quite regularly….not quite the same type of quest motif, but I love her work.
For covenant, I don’t now how a 2-3 hour movie can encompass 6 books, and he actually wrote a seventh after the original series.
It could be that they will just focus on the first 3 books which I’m sure could be done…but it’s just as complex a story as LOTR and very much a descendant of that tradition, so I’m very sceptical a movie could be made to do the core story justice.
And quite frankly there are a lot of themes that Hollywood doesn’t deal with well….Covenant is a leper – very bitter in his disease and rapes the first woman he meets in The Land. Not the most pretty hero type.
They will take the Lysol spray to him.
that’s why I have no idea what is going on here…..
only saw one episode of Firefly before it was cancelled. 😥
Whoa…
geek envy…..so why do you suppose you check 5 boxes just for being a female of the species anyway???
Though I’m game to say we are from another planet.
That’s quite the nifty gadget you got there thefrey. I’m kind of a muppet when it comes to technology, though I’ve been very happy with my mobile phone I got in Sept.
I was just wondering though, how much do you email? Work vs. personal?
I’ve a friend whose working on a graduate degree studying how email communication has evolved/ is evolving.
It’s very interesting don’t you think – we can stay in constant availability with mobiles now and the language we use electronically is a new dialect from spoken lauguage….just me thinking over here! (again 😯 )
Capt Stanley H Marsh said:
Be Warned!! It does not. My impression is it came from one of the Falstaff colonies, Their leader is Schlitz Thunderbird, of the Blue Ribbon Brigade.😆 PBR making Romulan Ale!!!
I mentioned the Romulan Ale to a brewer at the beer company I work for….he’s just not a scifi fan….thought it was weird!
I swear, after this holiday cycle I will attempt a concoction myself…long live my homebrew kit!
Thank you, thank you! I really enjoyed the writing it!!
Sadgeezer:
As for a rating I thought it was the best episode of the season, with the exception of The Weight (parts 1 & 2) but I’ll give a system a little thought (can’t now, just taking a brief break from paper work 😉 )
I promise more “astute” 😈 comments in the future!!!
😆
Romulan Ale!!! What color was it?
That’s a great idea! Pretty steep price, now I’m dying to know if it’s any good…could you get that at the bar?
Anybody try it?
That’s a great idea for my company’s homebrew competition we have every late spring. I could make Romulan Ale…hee!
(this year I made Boston Tap Water Ale- didn’t turn out so good)Scifi inspired drinks…. 😀
Ok, that just might be THE last interesting tidbit to get me to consider heading to Las Vegas…the more I hear the better it sounds…the stuff that has nothing to do with the gambling….I go through money fast enough without trying to lose it!!!
An ex-co-worker went last year and spent most of the time driving out to the national parks near by…..but I’d love to check out this Star Trek Experience thing. I actually did watch the first season of Voyager – pretty zealously too. But then i moved to a hill town with no cable or reception for the next 3 years after that and didn’t see much of anything!
(hillbilly sidhecafe, gardening in the nude and shocking hikers! 😳 ) lol!
Yeah the Cylons at the Universal Studios ride in CA!!!!!
I have a picture of the Cylon just as you go into the tunnel where King Kong is! That was back in the day.
They had a whole show with look-a-likes from Miami Vice when I was there too!!!
da fairy’s 2 cents:
sorry but Darklight????(scifi original picture) was there a plot besides which actors they managed to cast???
Will the real Lilith please stand up? Please?
And I don’t know what the writers are smoking, but the S5 eps are a whole plateful of WTF?
I think that’s what I like the most about S5, it’s just so out there in comparison to the rest of the series, but sometimes that’s what a series needs…but who knows considering the iffy future of Andromeda at the moment…
hasn’t he been reincarnated as Dylan Hunt?? + some treehugger thrown in for good measure?? 😈
No really they should make Kirk a franchise within the Star Trek universe somehow, like Kirk academy churning out newer improved “breaking the rules” type starship capts!!
Or a fast food chain? line of EVA wear?
Logan, really great post! Very balanced how you think back and forth over the possible elements of Stanelle’s decision.
Stanelle, I hope some of this has been helpful to you.
“What unites us universally is not our experiences, but our feelings in the face of our experiences” – Anais Nin….
probably bastardized that quote a number of times on this board but it seems to resonat well for me these topics our our life experiences and how we respond to them. ..
mysteriesofthesea wrote:
Since you are a working journalist,..it is your mode of making a living and if you do it full time,..that should be a very satisfying living indeed!!
actually not a journalist 😳 – just educated and trained, did that one internship as a general assignment reporter and confirmed what I already knew- I had no desire to be a journalist. I thought it would be the best major for me to take to improve my writing, and I wanted to leave college with a skill.
Now I’m sojourning as the corporate receptionist for a well known northeast beer company, while I apply to grad school. Figure I’ll go back to school now that I really want too- I didn’t want to be in college the first time around.Don’t put selling your work in the same catagory as selling yourself,..I let myself fall into that trap with my line-drawings and my cartoons. …
They express too much of your own quirky personality and not enough of TRUE art!” …
What I am leading up to with this tale is this: Don’t fragment your writings and your artwork, inside your self, saying,..”This is just for me and this will be for the people that I want to sell it to or even just show it to.”
I was very lucky to be encouraged in my art, I hate hearing when people disuade others from their heart felt passions as not “true art” 👿
I’m sorry anyone ever told you your drawing wasn’t art- that is evil.And as far as selling myself, I only use that to explain the part time job it is to send out manuscripts and sell what I write. i.e., as in representing myself to the publishing community/editors/what have you.
I didn’t mean producing work I think will sell! lol
that could be a fun excercise though!As to the questions of writing….I believe EVERYONE has a story and a VOICE in which to tell it. Anyone can write their story and they all have value as part of human culture.
If a person pursues writing as a craft, which IMHO it is, then there comes in the dedication and affliction of being, “a writer”.
Why am I a writer? I started writing poetry when I was 10 years old because I wanted to express the feelings I had in side of me, I was obsessed with sunsets then and I grew up on the ocean so the natural world continually entranced me. One of my first poems that was “discovered” by my family was one I stuck in my oldest sister’s luggage when she was leaving for college- to tell her I was going to miss her. My mother still keeps it on her bureau.
That same year I had an English teacher who told me I had great potential as a poet and a writer and talked to my mother about it.My mom bought a timer and made sure I wrote for at least 15 minutes every night before I went to bed!!!
Though I still write the occasional poem – and torture myself occasionally by participating in public poetry readings – even did a slam once. Yikes! 😯
Mostly I write fiction now. One scifi story I’m working on presently, but to describe what I write as a whole I usually use the term “speculative” which I find is more of a broad term to describe it. I’ve written a modern fable/fairy tale type story, one about serial murderers, and about sorceresses, aliens and genetic engineering…
I can’t stay within one genre because that’s not how my stories evolve.For me, a story starts with a character in one moment in time usually. The action begins and I follow it. The character starts to evolve and the story is uncovered to me. Then I begin the fleshing out of the details the plot, how will this work with that sort of stuff and move the story along emotionally.
I write very character driven stories, the characters motives – emotions are very important to me and why the story is important. I don’t write for an audience, I write for myself. Do I like it? Does the story challenge me? These are the questions that move my creative process.
If someone else reads it and likes it great – if they have constructive criticism that will help clarify the story and make it more immediate – even better!I fought long and hard with the doubts about my writing, and probably always will. I have finally arrived at a place where I know I can write. I know I can construct sentences that work, paragraphs that build scenes and tension.
Selling what I write is another matter altogether – one I’m still grappling with – the commitment to sell oneself, is something I’m working slowly towards.
Bottom line for me is that being a writer is part of who I am, a natural progression of my life to express my self with words. And that might sound arrogant or self-satisfied to some people but it’s a compulsion more than anything else. If I haven’t worked for a while I get peevish and depressed and whenever that happens I have to stop and ask myself, “When did I last do any writing?”
Stanelle, the question of ghostwriting for a dying friend…why not? Regardless of whether I agree or not with a friends message or voice, if I could do something for them that would help ease their mind or get something done for them before they passed I would do it. I think we must honor the dying – they do not know where their journey is taking them, and if they need to leave something behind and it is within my power to help with that I would.
OK, ok enough of me 🙄 ….between this and having to write a personal statement for grad school admissions, I’m sick of thinking about myself!!! (odd thing to happen to a Leo 😉 )
Thanks for the tip on the Will Cuppy book, thefrey!!!
Made me think of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds which was written in the 1800’s about how all these ideas have just been swallowed whole by the mass consciousness. Like Tulip Mania and the Inquisiton and paper money backed by gold somewhere you’ll never see it.
Now mysteriesofthesea, you take care of your noggin!!! You only get one!
Very sorry to hear about your fall, great news about you book though!
Good and bad altogether….
As for writing, I just wish I could finish this scifi story….it starts and stops and this has been going on for about 15 years now….
But my other fable/fantasy story is doing a great job of lining my wall with rejection letters – but I’m still plugging away, someone is bound to want it!! Some of the others even said it was well written, just not what they were looking for…so that was very encouraging!
Happy friday!!!!
