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Sep 26, 2011 01:06
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a 2011 interview with cook said he had two books to write before the next black company book, and one of those two books is already scheduled for publishing in early 2012 so if we get really lucky there's a new one that could be here by early 2013
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Sep 26, 2011 01:08
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im starting watching deep space 9 for the first time. cant wait~
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Sep 26, 2011 01:24
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Sneaking Mission posted:im starting watching deep space 9 for the first time. cant wait~ Kirk posted:a 2011 interview with cook said he had two books to write before the next black company book, and one of those two books is already scheduled for publishing in early 2012
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Sep 26, 2011 01:27
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FMguru posted:warning: the first couple of seasons are kind of meh cant possible be worse than next generation 1st season
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Sep 26, 2011 01:29
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wondering if i should bother watching terra nova knowing full well fox will cancel it after half a season
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Sep 26, 2011 01:33
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i prob wouldnt watch it knowing full well it looks pretty bad
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Sep 26, 2011 01:35
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Sneaking Mission posted:cant possible be worse than next generation 1st season it took a long time for the show to find its stride. the first several seasons resemble nothing so much as GUNSMOKE in space, with ds9 as the dodge city, and every week a stranger comes to town, and trouble ensues, and it all gets wrapped up in time for next week's adventure. lather, rinse, repeat. i think by the end of season two, one of the characters is actually working as a schoolteacher, because how can you have a space western without a pretty young schoolmarm? eventually the suits and executives wandered off to mess with the newly-launched voyager, and ds9's writers were able to dig in to the characters and the setting in the way that they'd always wanted to, and some really excellent sf tv resulted.
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Sep 26, 2011 01:41
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Sneaking Mission posted:cant possible be worse than next generation 1st season it sure didn't age well but at the time i thought it was fuckin awesome
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Sep 26, 2011 02:25
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Trig Discipline posted:it sure didn't age well but at the time i thought it was fuckin awesome i just rewatched a couple of episodes from 2nd season, and they were better than i remembered them being, but i still wish dr. pulaski would fall down a turbolift shaft and die.
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Sep 26, 2011 04:13
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Bad rear end Boutique posted:fifth element is dumb as poo poo in all the right ways
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Sep 26, 2011 19:07
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i think i oversaturated on van vogt yet again there's a super-smart scientist going down into a loving cave on the moon and i'm just sick of it, idgaf if he finds the germans or not otoh, it was written in the 40's and it's chock full of stuff you couldn't write anymore like a magic pill women can take to become equivalent to a man
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Sep 26, 2011 19:25
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JawnV6 posted:i think i oversaturated on van vogt nooooooooooooo don't start another loving gender politics debate i've had enough of that in literally every other subforum
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Sep 26, 2011 19:29
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Luigi Thirty posted:nooooooooooooo don't start another loving gender politics debate i've had enough of that in literally every other subforum
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Sep 26, 2011 19:35
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we did the left hand of darkness in college (in general lit not sci-fi specifically) and it went pretty well
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Sep 26, 2011 19:36
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Luigi Thirty posted:nooooooooooooo don't start another loving gender politics debate i've had enough of that in literally every other subforum oh ok there's also a black servant that he refers to as "negress", go hog wild w/ that instead guys
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Sep 26, 2011 19:36
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The Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books are good cheesy ancient sci fi it's all "we're harnessing the power of seven kinds of RAYS  " and sword fighting four-armed dudes and it's hella racist but it's martian racism so you don't have to feel bad and if you get the right versions they have  cover art
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Sep 26, 2011 19:41
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haveblue posted:we did the left hand of darkness in college (in general lit not sci-fi specifically) and it went pretty well Ursula Le Guin is pretty much the best at writing about gender and feminism in sci-fi. drat the Hainish cycle books are good!
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Sep 26, 2011 20:36
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Talk more about dune, I'm almost done book six and holy mother of god is it insane ~entire chapter about bene gesserit vaginal movements~ ~50 thousand duncan idaho clones~ ~A magical man who does matrix stuff and then dies, then gets cloned~
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Sep 26, 2011 21:22
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SRQ posted:Talk more about dune, I'm almost done book six and holy mother of god is it insane The Miles Teg parts were pretty badass
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Sep 26, 2011 21:30
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Never read past the 1st Dune book. It always ends in tears.
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Sep 26, 2011 22:06
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SRQ posted:Talk more about dune, I'm almost done book six and holy mother of god is it insane stop after 6. do not read any of the new *quels. ever. (i am not joking.)
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Sep 26, 2011 22:06
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"ultraspice! that's even better than normal spice! gently caress you, dad!"
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Sep 26, 2011 22:07
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and then in the last chapter new characters from the prequels show up magic away the bad guys, making absolutely everything that happened in books 4-6 meaningless.
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Sep 26, 2011 22:08
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Barsoom series, Pellucidar stuff, Skylark of Space series, all of these are awesome old scifi that you should totally read like right now (it's all on gutenberg because man gently caress copyrights)
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Sep 26, 2011 23:14
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syfy tried to do a miniseries of the first couple Barsoom books and it was like hellabad
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Sep 26, 2011 23:24
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qirex posted:syfy tried to do a miniseries of the first couple Barsoom books and it was like hellabad i honestly do not understand how you could gently caress up the barsoom series, but, well, i'm sure syfy found a way
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Sep 26, 2011 23:25
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rotor posted:i honestly do not understand how you could gently caress up the barsoom series, but, well, i'm sure syfy found a way they made it look like "Mars" by basically going to the desert near LA then putting an orange color key over everything and using some poo poo that looked like leftover LotR ork costumes it really should be the easiest thing to do, even the green dudes. there's this coming but it will definitely suck [but this is pretty funny]: Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas, a Barsoomian warrior and ally of John Carter[15] Thomas Haden Church as Tal Hajus, a vicious Thark warrior[16] edit: jesus this has had a development nightmare journey quote:Producer James Jacks was reading Harry Knowles' autobiography, which lavished praise on the unfilmed John Carter of Mars series, and Jacks remembered he had read those novels as a child. He convinced Paramount Pictures to acquire the film rights, only to enter a bidding war with Columbia Pictures. After Paramount and Jacks won the rights, Jacks contacted Knowles to advise on the project and hired Mark Protosevich to write the script. In 2003, Robert Rodriguez signed on to direct after his friend Knowles gave him the script. Recognizing Knowles had always been an advisor to many filmmakers, Rodriguez asked him to officially be credited as a producer.[24] qirex fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 26, 2011 |
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Sep 26, 2011 23:36
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syfy's business model for producing new content is to basically do things as cheaply as possible so that no matter how low their ratings are they'll still make money off the ad revenue. oh also i remember hearing that if you're related to a syfy exec you've basically got a free ticket to do w/e. want to be a producer on a supershitball movie? you got it!
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Sep 26, 2011 23:39
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:syfy's business model for producing new content is to basically do things as cheaply as possible so that no matter how low their ratings are they'll still make money off the ad revenue. is there a geneology website specifically dedicated to this
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Sep 27, 2011 00:40
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none that i'm aware of. that fifteen minutes of internet fame could be yours, champ!
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Sep 27, 2011 00:49
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Shaggar posted:i prob wouldnt watch it knowing full well it looks pretty bad shaggar was right. drat.
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Sep 27, 2011 04:46
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i just finished Blake's 7. kinda went downhill those last two seasons, but overall it was fun.
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Sep 27, 2011 05:38
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Pram posted:this is my favorite sci fi novel but i cant read it anymore because it gives me violent emotions liked stand on zanzibar, want to read the shockwave rider
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Sep 27, 2011 14:36
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hahaha they filmed it at the Kirk rock and Traci Lords is Dejah Thoris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnsuVpG_OZQ
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Sep 27, 2011 16:09
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qirex posted:hahaha they filmed it at the Kirk rock and Traci Lords is Deepah Throatis
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Sep 27, 2011 16:24
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qirex posted:hahaha they filmed it at the Kirk rock and Traci Lords is Dejah Thoris i've seen this. jane fonda fucks every guy she meets and then duran duran gets eaten by a lava lamp
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Sep 28, 2011 07:55
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that awful man posted:i've seen this. jane fonda fucks every guy she meets and then duran duran gets eaten by a lava lamp but enough about the eighties
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Jonny 290 posted:but enough about the eighties ummm, that's the sixties you're complaining about
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