Hey!
My web-site ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002 ) contains an unproduced series of anime-inspired TV scripts which has a plot about space-tourism, mentions mars a few times, and contains a lot of unique names! If anyone who can name places on Mars reads this, go to my web-site ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ) and please name places on mars after characters from my story! Please!
I'm more inclined to trust the exploration instincts of a human, to search for fossils on Mars, than to trust a robot probe that's being remote-controlled by someone at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. No offence to JPL if they don't deserve it, but if humans get back from Mars and say they -- not under civilian monitored lie-detectors -- that they couldn't find any fossils, I'd be more inclined to believe the conspiracy theorists of the world, but that's just me.
I was just playing QUAKE 3: ARENA on-line on my Dreamcast earlier today. Those servers usually have enough people online at any given moment for pretty decent games, but does this mean that there'll be more servers, and more people? That'd be great!
I found that sentence interesting about how he found the window from theatrical release to DVD release shortening. It's probably because a lot of people are downloading movies now, on the day when they come to theater, and so since people are watching free home video copies of new movies anyway, the shorter window is now allowing producers to profit from people who desire early copies to watch at home. Or the following scenario probably happens a lot now: someone goes to a friends' house and watches a downloaded movie that's in theater, and then that person wants their own copy but doesn't want to download, and then that person gets less and less interested in having their own copy as time passes and newer movies are available, so a shorter window is important in getting customers like that. I'm not sure what my opinion about that is, really -- whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing.
DVDs are records, and records get scratched. A medium that gets damaged so easily, which can't be recorded on cheaply, which doesn't have all the stuff I've already recorded on videotape, which when sold with commercial content can so easily be pirated, and doesn't have the "recorded on" part protected by casing of any sort, can't survive. DVDs are a passing phase. They even used tapes on Star Trek, in the 23rd century.
A more complex representation of non-linear ethics is within the unproduced TV scripts at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/
If you read at least the first seven episodes, you'll agree.
This mission so obviously MUST be done, because this type of exploration, sparks imagination to inspire more than dreams, among Archaeologists, Paleontologists, Biologists, Ahthropologists, Geologists, even a whole bunch of -ists which begin with exo-... and writers, astronomers, ladies, gentlemen, men, women, children... explorers of all sorts.
News like this is why I read Slashdot. Wow.
I agree totally with the findings. I've got three brothers, and three sisters. Teachers never understood -- and still don't understand -- the dangers of imposing that their students put more priority towards homework than towards family, relaxation, and social obligations.
A good first step would be for teachers who were "only childs" to take classes about the dynamics of life with siblings. That can lead to better curriculums with workloads that each student can adapt within the balance of their lifestyle.
I agree with you. I want to actually go into space, not "sub orbital space"... but actual space, and I want to stay there for a while. Sub-orbital flight, especially at $250000 a pop, is a rip-off. I wouldn't pay that price for space flight, but I'd pay that price for the chance to do grunt-work for scientists who secretly work on top secret projects throughout the solar system. I'd pay to work!
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You made an interesting Freudian Slip. You called it the Firefox Universe, rather than the Firefly Universe. Someone likes his new browser:)
No. I've written a lot of sci-fi, and I've never used the word "mercenaries" or even "mercs." Your comment has over-generalized the genre of science fiction. I suggest more DS9 -- that was a good show.
Thanks for your reply.
And no, the name's not Sparky, but it's an interesting guess:)
To go down your checklist...
-"Writing other scripts" CHECK. Been there, done that.
-"Making other series" I've wrote for other serials... but never "made" them.
-"Polishing other people's writing." CHECK. I do that all the time!
-"Track record." CHECK. I've had plays produced.
-"Write scripts for a series you didn't create." CHECK. Many, many... many scripts.
The closest I'll get to where the market is, is the internet, thanks to the fact that I'm exactly as poor as any writer worth his words.
Tell me the e-mail address of an agent or script editor who accepts e-mailed scripts. I don't print my scripts. Printing is too costly, especially since no one's decided to produce the series yet.
You said "send them out." Give me e-mail addresses, and I'll tell them all the web-site where the scripts are available temporarily, until someone decides to produce the series.
And why would I want to pitch a story idea for another series when I want to put my good ideas in my own series?
I've been writing drafts of this series since 1995. It's not a rip-off of anything. It's a well-developed, extremely well-evolved, original idea. The draft of the first season, which is almost completely posted on my web-site, is the final pre-production draft. Read it before you judge me.
P.S. What credit limit? No way in hell I'm getting into more debt voluntarily. And you assumed I feel "superior." I'll have you know I'm typically a very depressed person. I hope that makes you feel good about yourself.
A lot of people would be offended by your calling anime "shit." In fact, they do script it. Check out the films of Hayao Miazaki, and the television programs of Rumiko Takahashi, for some examples of good anime scripting. I'm glad you took an interest in the topic:)
I'm a sci-fi author who's jealous of Firefly's resurrection, because I know how to write sci-fi scripts, but I sure as hell don't know how to draw attention to them. Speaking of which, I post my series of sci-fi anime scripts at my web-site http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/
My point: For every one sci-fi show idea that gets produced, there are hundreds more whose scripts go unnoticed. Firefly was EXTREMELY lucky to even get produced, and even more lucky to get resurrected, and because I'm a starving sci-fi anime writer whose scripts still need to be noticed (you can read them at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ), I am EXTREMELY envious.
I'm not tired of it! I want more! I want new episodes to be daily! Is that too much to ask? Hell no! "IN A MIRROR, DARLKLY" was the best two-parter ever, and now that they've got the momentum of making stellar episodes like that, they're ending it? Why? It's awesome! They shouldn't stop! EVER!
No, "puff" isn't a swear word. It's just that any reference to God or religion sounds like a swear to certain alarmingly common sensibilities, so deleting that monologue made the movie more enjoyable for more people, and even though I love that monologue, I agree with its deletion in a movie version.
The main point of human life is to procreate, so I found Arthur's enhanced interest in Trillian to add more humanity to the story. The novels didn't get that refreshing level of humanity until book four. I loved the scene where his brain was almost being sliced out so he was telling Trillian how much he loves her. If the girl you longed for were in the room where you were being brutally attacked, you'd do the same thing. If you don't think you would, you're not human.
I enjoyed the extra Arthur/Trillian "angst" stuff. It added humanity to the characters who are otherwise comic pawns in the novel. Their humanity -- to that level -- is otherwise not shown until book/movie four. I can't wait for all five movies.
I thought Ford was done remarkably. He was a very passive "buddy" to all, just the kind of friend that would take a person on that sort of adventure. He had lots of character. From the cart full of beer, to the fiddling with the thing in the airlock, to the squeezing lemons on Zaphod's head... so many great Ford moments. The movie was great.
All of the books were hilarious. I could barely read any page without laughing my ass off. I can't wait to see how they make a film adaptation of the part where Arthur learns how to fly. The thing that made "Mostly Harmless" a great novel is that we finally got to really know the characters as people. It'll translate well to the screen. The best movie of the series will be movie five, though, because that's when everything gets resolved... hilariously.
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Hey! My web-site ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002 ) contains an unproduced series of anime-inspired TV scripts which has a plot about space-tourism, mentions mars a few times, and contains a lot of unique names! If anyone who can name places on Mars reads this, go to my web-site ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ) and please name places on mars after characters from my story! Please!
I'm more inclined to trust the exploration instincts of a human, to search for fossils on Mars, than to trust a robot probe that's being remote-controlled by someone at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. No offence to JPL if they don't deserve it, but if humans get back from Mars and say they -- not under civilian monitored lie-detectors -- that they couldn't find any fossils, I'd be more inclined to believe the conspiracy theorists of the world, but that's just me.
Oh. Thank you for your very informative answer to my question!
I was just playing QUAKE 3: ARENA on-line on my Dreamcast earlier today. Those servers usually have enough people online at any given moment for pretty decent games, but does this mean that there'll be more servers, and more people? That'd be great!
I found that sentence interesting about how he found the window from theatrical release to DVD release shortening. It's probably because a lot of people are downloading movies now, on the day when they come to theater, and so since people are watching free home video copies of new movies anyway, the shorter window is now allowing producers to profit from people who desire early copies to watch at home. Or the following scenario probably happens a lot now: someone goes to a friends' house and watches a downloaded movie that's in theater, and then that person wants their own copy but doesn't want to download, and then that person gets less and less interested in having their own copy as time passes and newer movies are available, so a shorter window is important in getting customers like that. I'm not sure what my opinion about that is, really -- whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing.
DVDs are records, and records get scratched. A medium that gets damaged so easily, which can't be recorded on cheaply, which doesn't have all the stuff I've already recorded on videotape, which when sold with commercial content can so easily be pirated, and doesn't have the "recorded on" part protected by casing of any sort, can't survive. DVDs are a passing phase. They even used tapes on Star Trek, in the 23rd century.
A more complex representation of non-linear ethics is within the unproduced TV scripts at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ If you read at least the first seven episodes, you'll agree.
You raise an interesting point. I can take that further by proposing the theory that they might uncover an ancient martian Technodrome.
This mission so obviously MUST be done, because this type of exploration, sparks imagination to inspire more than dreams, among Archaeologists, Paleontologists, Biologists, Ahthropologists, Geologists, even a whole bunch of -ists which begin with exo- ... and writers, astronomers, ladies, gentlemen, men, women, children ... explorers of all sorts.
News like this is why I read Slashdot. Wow.
I agree totally with the findings. I've got three brothers, and three sisters. Teachers never understood -- and still don't understand -- the dangers of imposing that their students put more priority towards homework than towards family, relaxation, and social obligations.
A good first step would be for teachers who were "only childs" to take classes about the dynamics of life with siblings. That can lead to better curriculums with workloads that each student can adapt within the balance of their lifestyle.
I agree with you. I want to actually go into space, not "sub orbital space" ... but actual space, and I want to stay there for a while. Sub-orbital flight, especially at $250000 a pop, is a rip-off. I wouldn't pay that price for space flight, but I'd pay that price for the chance to do grunt-work for scientists who secretly work on top secret projects throughout the solar system. I'd pay to work!
You made an interesting Freudian Slip. You called it the Firefox Universe, rather than the Firefly Universe. Someone likes his new browser :)
No. I've written a lot of sci-fi, and I've never used the word "mercenaries" or even "mercs." Your comment has over-generalized the genre of science fiction. I suggest more DS9 -- that was a good show.
I enjoy a good laugh. What's the joke. Please explain your laughter. Share!
Thanks for your reply. And no, the name's not Sparky, but it's an interesting guess :)
To go down your checklist ...
-"Writing other scripts" CHECK. Been there, done that.
-"Making other series" I've wrote for other serials... but never "made" them.
-"Polishing other people's writing." CHECK. I do that all the time!
-"Track record." CHECK. I've had plays produced.
-"Write scripts for a series you didn't create." CHECK. Many, many ... many scripts.
The closest I'll get to where the market is, is the internet, thanks to the fact that I'm exactly as poor as any writer worth his words.
Tell me the e-mail address of an agent or script editor who accepts e-mailed scripts. I don't print my scripts. Printing is too costly, especially since no one's decided to produce the series yet.
You said "send them out." Give me e-mail addresses, and I'll tell them all the web-site where the scripts are available temporarily, until someone decides to produce the series.
And why would I want to pitch a story idea for another series when I want to put my good ideas in my own series?
I've been writing drafts of this series since 1995. It's not a rip-off of anything. It's a well-developed, extremely well-evolved, original idea. The draft of the first season, which is almost completely posted on my web-site, is the final pre-production draft. Read it before you judge me.
P.S. What credit limit? No way in hell I'm getting into more debt voluntarily. And you assumed I feel "superior." I'll have you know I'm typically a very depressed person. I hope that makes you feel good about yourself.
A lot of people would be offended by your calling anime "shit." In fact, they do script it. Check out the films of Hayao Miazaki, and the television programs of Rumiko Takahashi, for some examples of good anime scripting. I'm glad you took an interest in the topic :)
Any American citizen has a chance, you know. Just make the right choices, and I'm sure your dream will come true.
Not sure. I'll have to wait. Thanks for your concern.
I'm a sci-fi author who's jealous of Firefly's resurrection, because I know how to write sci-fi scripts, but I sure as hell don't know how to draw attention to them. Speaking of which, I post my series of sci-fi anime scripts at my web-site http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/
My point: For every one sci-fi show idea that gets produced, there are hundreds more whose scripts go unnoticed. Firefly was EXTREMELY lucky to even get produced, and even more lucky to get resurrected, and because I'm a starving sci-fi anime writer whose scripts still need to be noticed (you can read them at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ), I am EXTREMELY envious.
Lucky Firefly.
Bah humbug.
I'm not tired of it! I want more! I want new episodes to be daily! Is that too much to ask? Hell no! "IN A MIRROR, DARLKLY" was the best two-parter ever, and now that they've got the momentum of making stellar episodes like that, they're ending it? Why? It's awesome! They shouldn't stop! EVER!
No, "puff" isn't a swear word. It's just that any reference to God or religion sounds like a swear to certain alarmingly common sensibilities, so deleting that monologue made the movie more enjoyable for more people, and even though I love that monologue, I agree with its deletion in a movie version.
The main point of human life is to procreate, so I found Arthur's enhanced interest in Trillian to add more humanity to the story. The novels didn't get that refreshing level of humanity until book four. I loved the scene where his brain was almost being sliced out so he was telling Trillian how much he loves her. If the girl you longed for were in the room where you were being brutally attacked, you'd do the same thing. If you don't think you would, you're not human.
I enjoyed the extra Arthur/Trillian "angst" stuff. It added humanity to the characters who are otherwise comic pawns in the novel. Their humanity -- to that level -- is otherwise not shown until book/movie four. I can't wait for all five movies.
I thought Ford was done remarkably. He was a very passive "buddy" to all, just the kind of friend that would take a person on that sort of adventure. He had lots of character. From the cart full of beer, to the fiddling with the thing in the airlock, to the squeezing lemons on Zaphod's head ... so many great Ford moments. The movie was great.
All of the books were hilarious. I could barely read any page without laughing my ass off. I can't wait to see how they make a film adaptation of the part where Arthur learns how to fly. The thing that made "Mostly Harmless" a great novel is that we finally got to really know the characters as people. It'll translate well to the screen. The best movie of the series will be movie five, though, because that's when everything gets resolved ... hilariously.