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Everyone is Missing the Point
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Sci-Fi on the Cheap
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· Score: 2, Interesting
When I was a kid, long ago, the only people who were watching TV on Friday or Saturday night were geeks like myself, who just loved all that science fiction and horror, with monsters and spacemen and giant insects. I loved it.
And lately I've been noticing that the SciFi channel has figured out that there are people like me who like this kind of junk. I like it because it is funny. I liked it then because it was funny. Maybe both ease my tension about how insane the world is (today terrorists and mad cow, yesterday it was nuclear war and... well, nuclear war was pretty scary in the 50's).
It hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw a recent SciFi channel original called something like Hammerhead. It was about a mad scientist who had crossed his dying son with a hammerhead shark. It was just like a 50's monster movie. Right down to the all the dumb parts. And the sad part is that I was really enjoying it the way I enjoyed watching all those late-night Monster Thriller Horror Theater shows.
So bring it on. If you want thoughtful science fiction, you'll have to write it yourself.
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I hope your friend grew up to be a computer programmer. Lookup tables are much faster than calculating an answer!
When I was a kid, long ago, the only people who were watching TV on Friday or Saturday night were geeks like myself, who just loved all that science fiction and horror, with monsters and spacemen and giant insects. I loved it. And lately I've been noticing that the SciFi channel has figured out that there are people like me who like this kind of junk. I like it because it is funny. I liked it then because it was funny. Maybe both ease my tension about how insane the world is (today terrorists and mad cow, yesterday it was nuclear war and ... well, nuclear war was pretty scary in the 50's).
It hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw a recent SciFi channel original called something like Hammerhead. It was about a mad scientist who had crossed his dying son with a hammerhead shark. It was just like a 50's monster movie. Right down to the all the dumb parts. And the sad part is that I was really enjoying it the way I enjoyed watching all those late-night Monster Thriller Horror Theater shows.
So bring it on. If you want thoughtful science fiction, you'll have to write it yourself.