<![CDATA[Comments from EGN]]> <![CDATA[Comments from EGN]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Robo-Bear Armed with a Canon Awaits His Perfect Shot]]> NRA beware, this is what happens when you have the right to arm bears.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Will Battlestar Season 4 Suck?]]> @SavannahJack: Yay, someone else hates it too!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Will Battlestar Season 4 Suck?]]> Considering that the last three seasons sucked, why should season four be any different?

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Your Heart Monitor Has Been Hacked]]> It's taken them until the END of Shadow President Cheney's tenure to figure this out?!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on What's Really The Worst Thing Trek Brought To Scifi?]]> The most hateful thing I've found in the trek universe is the "Warp Core is Overloading and We Can't Eject It" crap. I would say the Federation should sue its starship manufacturers for fraud, but I recently saw an episode of Voyager that had an alien waste hauler that couldn't eject it's warp core! GAA! Is there something about the physics of a universe that allows faster than light travel that also prevents the design of reliable safety features?

As a side note how about a "STARFLEET LEGAL" series? Imagine the depths of legal jargon that could be generated!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented]]> @Kaiser-Machead: So wait, I don't have to hide my box turtles the next time my sink backs up?!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented]]> The last couple incarnations (inpixelations?) of Mario look really pissed! Did he finally realize how much all that running around in magical lands cost him in good union jobs?

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on What Movie Remake Are You Dreading Most?]]> Anything that gives that demon-spawn Will Farrell any more money/exposure is an abomination unto Flikko the Great God of Cinema!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Steampunk Taxidermy Takes Steampunk to Awkward Places]]> @mangochutney:
I was thinking more "I am Bambi of Borg" myself.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Believe It Or Not, "Greatest American Hero" Is A Movie]]> If this movie is made with Will Farrell it will definitely have an evil alien. Will Farrell is the latest in a series of evil aliens that have invaded Hollywood and use their powers of mind control to make people think they're funny. Bob Hope was an evil mind control alien, so was Jerry Seinfeld. Now that one has returned to the home planet and the other's powers have attenuated their masters have sent Will Farrell to subvert and dull humanity's sense of humor. Be warned mankind; without our sense of humor we will be defenseless during their final onslaught.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on What Should Happen in Cloverfield 2: The Reclovening?]]> The first ten minutes of the sequel is some guy running around getting shaky footage of this critter. Then he's scooped up, lightly chewed, & swallowed whole. His camera however has gotten caught between a couple of the creature's teeth and by some miracle is pointing outward; so we watch the rest of the movie from its perspective. Watching jittery camcorder footage from 500ft up is just as interesting as watching it filmed at ground level, right?

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Kill Your Foes With Creative Teleportation]]> @learnesp:
Love that Book! I read it at least once a year. We have the effects technology to make a stunning looking movie out of it. But I don't think we have the writing or directing technology to make it not suck.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Rough Nano-Wires Hold the Secret to Efficient Heat to Electricity Conversion]]> @Barcard: Yeah, laugh it up Coppertop.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Don't forget Futurama's Hanukkah Zombie, who finally makes an appearance in "Bender's Big Score." Gotta Love a Zombie with a TIE Fighter!

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Which Parallel World Deserves Its Own Novel?]]> It doesn't matter if the Aztecs still control the Americas, or the South won the Civil War, or if Nazi dinosaurs oppress all of mankind; it's got to have blimps! How else will you know it's an alternate universe if it doesn't have blimps all over the place?

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on When Animals Think Like Humans, They Won't Thank Us]]> Haven't read We3 but I'm guessing from the picture up top that its a techno/horror version of "The Incredible Journey."

He wasn't exactly uplifted but what about Ralph Von Wow Wow from Spider Robinson's Callahan's series? A mutant dog with human intelligence who just happened to get surgery that allowed him to talk. Which he did with a noxiously thick german accent that tended to slip the drunker he got.

The Uplift stories are great, I've read my original book to death.

If/when we uplift critters I would expect a range of reactions from them. After all, a lot of the primates we uplift today aren't exactly happy with the job their parents do.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Which Dead Sci Fi Show Should Breathe Again?]]> Voted for "Sliders" but I think it would have to be with a cast that can get along with each other (there were some serious personality issues given all the cast changes that went on.) One I would have liked to have voted on was a short lived little gem on Fox called "Strange Luck" with D.B. Sweeney. I don't know if counts as sci fi but it was on the quirky/weird side.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Ten Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2008]]> More Varley?! Goody, goody, goody, goody, goody! I love Steel Beach and The Golden Globe (still waiting for the third in that trilogy John!) Red Thunder was a blast. Red Lightning needed to have the whole middle section hacked out and stomped into the mud but the rest of it was quite enjoyable.

@ceriphim: Yeah, I've read Stross' "Glass House," "Singularity Sky" and "Iron Sunrise." I liked "Singularity Sky" the best. A good old fashioned space opera with lots of transhuman themes worked into it. Iron Sunrise has the same main characters as SS but falls a little flat. "Glass House" is interesting. I've only read it once, and I'll probably go back to it again, sometime.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Secrets Of Battlestar Season Four Betrayed In New Photo]]> @jennaw:
Thank you, Jennaw that was very helpful. I saw all of what you mentioned when I was watching, so I guess I didn't miss anything. It sounds like what you enjoy, keeping track of all the details, relationships, and long view story line, too me seem more like work than entertainment. But as you say different tastes.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Secrets Of Battlestar Season Four Betrayed In New Photo]]> @doctor_cos:
But WHY do you find it so compelling? I watched it for a couple of seasons, and liked it less and less. I know what I don't like about it, what do YOU (or any one else) like?

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on What To Put Into Your Spaceship's Gas Tank]]> OK, the Star Wars nerds have gone to town on the various power sources in the Lucasverse. Now it's time for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy nerd to weigh in. The Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive did NOT run on tea. The IID was created out of thin air by a Finite Improbability Generator which was made by "hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea)." That's the only link between the IID and tea. There is no mention in any of the five books in the trilogy* on what, if anything, fueled the Heart of Gold. Really if there's going to be a blog entry about such important technical issues as power sources of imaginary spacecraft at least get the "facts" right.

*don't bother to give me any grief on that, it's how the series is described by Adams.

]]> <![CDATA[EGN commented on Secrets Of Battlestar Season Four Betrayed In New Photo]]> I'm interested to know what everyone finds so great about Battlestar Galactica. Is it the unpleasant personalities? The hopeless, bleak despair? The overarching themes of predestination, lack of free will and inevitable doom?
I tried watching this for a couple of seasons and found only the Cylons interesting, but not interesting enough to keep coming back for more.

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