"...being the first 3D model used to create a humanoid Terminator."
There's precedent for that.
In "The Sarah Conner Chronicles" Summer Glau was shown as the human upon whom her cyborg character was based.
That girl was killed once they were done with her, but you figure someone like younger Arnie might could have escaped, if he were a captive and not a willing participant, and become part of, and maybe even a high-ranking part of, the human opposition to Skynet in the future (his character's present) who has been fighting it for enough years to look the way he does now.
I assume they'll come up with some way to send him back in time, although I wouldn't mind if a lot of the movie was set "then" instead of "now".
Of course your idea about him being a "Servant of Skynet" would let him play the villain (let's not spoil him by having him develop a conscience) instead of the hero (who would no doubt be someone much younger, although they should feel free to surprise me on that front), and of course the villain almost always gets better lines than the hero.
When the price of paperbacks went over $5 in the early 1990s, rising at more than double the rate of inflation, it seemed like sheer greed to me.
Not saying your wrong, but it seems funny to me that $5-$10 for a full novel would seem greedy. I guess I'm just on the other side of the scale. I'm always amazed at some level when I read a good novel—it feels like I should have had to have paid $1000 for the experience because of the hundreds of hours of talented work that went into it.
In 1968, one hour of federal minimum wage (before any deductions) would buy at least one paperback, maybe two if both were on the lower end of the price scale.
Finally! Someone on slashdot that understands how politics in the US really works.
I regret that I cannot remember to which Slashdotter credit is due, but a few years ago they showed that they understood just fine when they said "The Republicans are the party of evil and the Democrats are the party of stupid."
I added my own corollary about the nature of those things which they get together to do.
...Seriously, what fucking alternate universe did you watch Star Trek in?
The '60s. As an adolescent.
And I'm actually not saying that to be humorous.
If you're 2 or 3 or 4 decades younger than I, you don't have the lack of knowledge of more recent years necessary to see it through the eyes through which I saw it, just as I'll never fully understand what it was like for my parents generation to have listened to the radio during the Great Depression and World War II in a time when television as a mass medium available to the public did not yet exist and had not been experienced, when one, or rare occasions, used a rotary phone on a party line to ask the operator to place a long distance call (that was going to cost an arm and a leg), and antibiotics were a recent discovery.
B...b...but it says Star Trek in the title. Not watching it is not an option.
Yeah, but waiting until you can see it for free on television instead of blowing a $20 is.
It certainly made the 2009 one less painful than it would have been otherwise.
It was bad enough that I paid full ticket price to see those swimmy backgrounds on the big screen in Jar-Jar, Ep. I, II, and III. At least it was "completing the set" of Star Wars movies watched with my nephew, back when he was young enough to think me cool rather than disgusting. (Well, he was a lot cuter back then, too.)
Star Wars is, or at least the first 3 movies were, Swords and Sorcery, but in space.
Star Trek was pitched as "Wagon Train" in space, but I think there was some "Route 66" and (David Janssen) "Fugitive" thrown in there as well, as far as making a different set of locals part of the plot most every week. (And if you think about it, just give Janssen occasional outbreaks of green skin, and you've turned him into Bill Bixby)
If not for her, would Dianne Carroll have gotten "Julia"? Would there have been a "Christie Love"? (they don't give you a gold shield just for being cute and sassy). Would Pam Grier have been offered any roles other than "black hooker #2"?
She was an officer (with probably a double major in physics/electrical engineering and linguistics) on the bridge of a starship. Pretty much the Federation's biggest deal starship. It wasn't like they had her working relief on the switchboard after she finished vacuuming the turbolift carpets.
"My main surprise was in how readily in absorbs through the skin."
Growing up in an area that included tobacco farms, I never heard anyone actually refer to it as Green Tobacco Sickness, but it was common to hear people talk about getting sick the first time they worked "pulling tobacco".
Go read the part of The Constitution where they limit funding of the military to a short period of time before it has to come up again.
The FFs were big on the idea of *not* maintaining a standing army, both for avoiding the expense, but even more importantly because they knew that having one created too great a temptation to use it just because it's there, and wanted to keep us away from that kind of mischief.
Having militias made up of civilians with day jobs who also had hunting rifles or whatever meant they could still throw together a defensive force on short notice.
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"...being the first 3D model used to create a humanoid Terminator."
There's precedent for that.
In "The Sarah Conner Chronicles" Summer Glau was shown as the human upon whom her cyborg character was based.
That girl was killed once they were done with her, but you figure someone like younger Arnie might could have escaped, if he were a captive and not a willing participant, and become part of, and maybe even a high-ranking part of, the human opposition to Skynet in the future (his character's present) who has been fighting it for enough years to look the way he does now.
I assume they'll come up with some way to send him back in time, although I wouldn't mind if a lot of the movie was set "then" instead of "now".
Of course your idea about him being a "Servant of Skynet" would let him play the villain (let's not spoil him by having him develop a conscience) instead of the hero (who would no doubt be someone much younger, although they should feel free to surprise me on that front), and of course the villain almost always gets better lines than the hero.
Not saying your wrong, but it seems funny to me that $5-$10 for a full novel would seem greedy. I guess I'm just on the other side of the scale. I'm always amazed at some level when I read a good novel—it feels like I should have had to have paid $1000 for the experience because of the hundreds of hours of talented work that went into it.
In 1968, one hour of federal minimum wage (before any deductions) would buy at least one paperback, maybe two if both were on the lower end of the price scale.
Or 4 to 5 gallons of gasoline.
Finally! Someone on slashdot that understands how politics in the US really works.
I regret that I cannot remember to which Slashdotter credit is due, but a few years ago they showed that they understood just fine when they said "The Republicans are the party of evil and the Democrats are the party of stupid."
I added my own corollary about the nature of those things which they get together to do.
" The aim isn't just to provide machines with an unnerving bug-eyed stare..."
I do wish you'd found a different way to phrase that.
: - )
So does this augment blood got them there midol chloridians?
I for one fear a creature prone to PMS in possession of a weapon that can completely remove the binding forces of a cubic meter of metal.
What makes you think they need the weapon in order to be able to do that during PMS, instead of just giving it A Look?
It shat rainbows in the old movies.
Well, actually, it Shatnered rainbows.
...Seriously, what fucking alternate universe did you watch Star Trek in?
The '60s. As an adolescent.
And I'm actually not saying that to be humorous.
If you're 2 or 3 or 4 decades younger than I, you don't have the lack of knowledge of more recent years necessary to see it through the eyes through which I saw it, just as I'll never fully understand what it was like for my parents generation to have listened to the radio during the Great Depression and World War II in a time when television as a mass medium available to the public did not yet exist and had not been experienced, when one, or rare occasions, used a rotary phone on a party line to ask the operator to place a long distance call (that was going to cost an arm and a leg), and antibiotics were a recent discovery.
B...b...but it says Star Trek in the title. Not watching it is not an option.
Yeah, but waiting until you can see it for free on television instead of blowing a $20 is.
It certainly made the 2009 one less painful than it would have been otherwise.
It was bad enough that I paid full ticket price to see those swimmy backgrounds on the big screen in Jar-Jar, Ep. I, II, and III. At least it was "completing the set" of Star Wars movies watched with my nephew, back when he was young enough to think me cool rather than disgusting. (Well, he was a lot cuter back then, too.)
Star Wars is, or at least the first 3 movies were, Swords and Sorcery, but in space.
Star Trek was pitched as "Wagon Train" in space, but I think there was some "Route 66" and (David Janssen) "Fugitive" thrown in there as well, as far as making a different set of locals part of the plot most every week. (And if you think about it, just give Janssen occasional outbreaks of green skin, and you've turned him into Bill Bixby)
Please tell me you made all that up after not staying away from the brown acid and it wasn't really what happens in Son of Star Trek 90210.
Otherwise the only explanation is Abrams going "Oh yeah, you think my first Star Trek movie was bad? I'll show you bad!"
You're trying to claim that the original StarTrek wasn't a chauvinistic, womanising series in which Uhura was portrayed as an independant woman?...
Yes, TOS was a chauvinistic, womanising series in which Uhura was portrayed as an independent woman.
The '60s had a lot of contradictions like that, in real life as well as popular entertainment.
If not for her, would Dianne Carroll have gotten "Julia"? Would there have been a "Christie Love"? (they don't give you a gold shield just for being cute and sassy). Would Pam Grier have been offered any roles other than "black hooker #2"?
Congratulations, you have won the internets.
Except for the sober parts, of course.
: - )
She was an officer (with probably a double major in physics/electrical engineering and linguistics) on the bridge of a starship. Pretty much the Federation's biggest deal starship. It wasn't like they had her working relief on the switchboard after she finished vacuuming the turbolift carpets.
No, they said attractive.
...And is it just me, but does anyone else read Christopher Pike when the see Christopher Pine's name written?
Not just you, I keep expecting to see them say he's playing the part of Captain Jeffrey Hunter. : - )
Both of which came later than TOS, and to a certain extent took advantage of the trail blazed by it.
To be fair, you have to compare to the family section of one's local newspaper back in the mid '60s.
...he said to buy new pants.
"My main surprise was in how readily in absorbs through the skin."
Growing up in an area that included tobacco farms, I never heard anyone actually refer to it as Green Tobacco Sickness, but it was common to hear people talk about getting sick the first time they worked "pulling tobacco".
and realise that just like everybody else on the planet
Except that less than 100% of the participants actually chose to go through with it.
Those are the ones we'll eliminate first when we take over.
(I've got this funny feeling that things have gotten so bad I need to actually point out that I'm not saying that with any kind of seriousness)
Go read the part of The Constitution where they limit funding of the military to a short period of time before it has to come up again.
The FFs were big on the idea of *not* maintaining a standing army, both for avoiding the expense, but even more importantly because they knew that having one created too great a temptation to use it just because it's there, and wanted to keep us away from that kind of mischief.
Having militias made up of civilians with day jobs who also had hunting rifles or whatever meant they could still throw together a defensive force on short notice.
Wasn't Jefferson dead by then?