@Hotscot: @Charlie Jane Anders:
The movie is over 5 years old. If you want to be a spoiler nazi that's your deal but I'm not going to coddle people who can't be bothered to see a damned film after five years. Star or no star.
Or perhaps Charlie Jane you were being hyper sensitive and overly PC again. For the record I mean no offense or animosity towards transgendered people and was in fact mocking the white wash this film's remake is getting.
I happen to know several transgendered people who refer to themselves as trannies so in my mind it's not derogatory however if you were unsure of the intent you could have asked.
Anyway, it's been real IO9. Don't worry I won't let the door hit my ass on the way out.
@atrus123: @ctuley: I also put off seeing it for quite some time but finally did a few months back and was glad I did.
I highly recommend it. It's pretty much the antithesis of Twilight.
So I am guessing this sweet girlie vamp in Let Me In isn't really a little tranny with a lopped off penis?
@tipsymongoose: It happens sometimes. I visited the site of an old historic school in Japan where children were taught several hundred years ago.
The guide told us in those days children knew almost all the kanji (characters) and could reproduce 80,000 of them. Perhaps this was something of an exaggeration but even so the modern Japanese can reproduce about 2,000 and that number is dwindling due to computers and word processors.
Then we have devices like Antikythera mechanism, ancient computing device so advanced the likes of which was not seen again for well over 1,000 years.
Still, it's not the norm. I agree that progress, change and forward, not backward, thinking are things to be admired.
I think people have this grass is always greener revisionist history that the past is somehow better and if only we could get back to that then everything would be right again idea built into our collective psyches though.
Shakespeare used it in his plays and the Greek's before him. It's built into the creation story of the Abrahamic religions which were a foundation of Western civilization.
It's not something so easy to shake but it's definitely a good thing to be aware of and try to offer alternate, forward thinking points of view. At least in my opinion anyhow.
It's something that bugs me not only with fantasy but with science fiction and the often seen robots/technology etc=bad 'Me play gods. Me go too far!' trope as if somehow advancement is bad and we should just stay the way we are, or worse yet, the way we were.
Battlestar Galactica was probably the most heinous example of this in recent memory.
@closeencounter: A crabby old sarcastic atheist with a thing for young Asian women and his mother.
@Lassus: Totally. I would love to see a 3D Confucius epic. Hell let's go all the way and do 3D Confucius in space.
@Eridani: I never cared for her either and after the Natalie incident and later her refusal to empathize or show compassion for Boomer or really any other cylon I outright loathed her.
Judging by the posts I remember from the SciFi forums at the time more people cared for Boomer than Athena in spite of the creators of the show wanting us to do the opposite.
For me it was just one of the ways they were out of touch with the audience and failed to portray what they intended in an effective manner. (ie make us like Athena and forget about Boomer or buy into her as a villain)
@Eridani: Yes but they totally dropped the ball on Boomer after Downloaded. Then when they brought her back they did so only fleetingly and gave her the skin crawling bizarre romance with Cavil and made he into a soap opera style evil twin.
Then when she tries to redeem herself in the 11th hour she gets gunned down like a dog in front of a little girl. While the person who stole her life and gunned her down (and also gunned down the completely innocent Natalie) gets to have the family and the happy ending.
If that's the kind of grey Eick and company want to put out there then no thanks.
@CodenameV: re: Eick's 'In no way are we relying on the Battlestar faithful...'
Funny, the Buddy TV article linked from this morning's Morning Spoilers says:
[www.buddytv.com]
" 'We're our own show,' says Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Greystone) regarding Caprica, which premieres this Friday. The people behind the Battlestar Galactica prequel apparently can't stress it enough. But for the Los Angeles native, she admits that Caprica will be banking on the success of BSG to haul in viewers."
And I love the Weyoun analogy. Haha, how fitting.
Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part, but do we know for sure it's going to be silly?
Unlike the first two titles, the subject matter of this one, at least in my mind, isn't especially silly.
@Charlie Jane Anders: @Annalee Newitz: I loved her Buffy TV stuff. And some of the comics too. Harmony Bites was hilarious! She really needs to grab Mercedes McNab and do that as a full fludged mock reality TV Buffy spin off.
Having said that, I LOATHE her BSG stuff with a fiery passion. I don't think she gets the BSG universe at all.
Capica is far enough away from BSG that she's got some room to create her own world. Even so the pilot was pretty serious and if she tries to inject some Whendonesque quirky camp into there and James Marsters starts hamming it up I don't think it's going to work.
We'll have to see I guess.
@Cartman86: Sorry, Cavil hasn't been invented yet.
#1 looks like Catherine Weaver's pillow.
@shadowman90: The problem I have is that he obviously had backups and they know that. Maybe Dudley Doright Ballard didn't but the rest had to.
Even if Boyd was the stupidest nefarious in insane supervillain and had the tech to back himself up and didn't use it, we know for a fact that the evil Clyde was backed up elsewhere in multiple places.
@Magicant: Actually in all seriousness that was also BSG Final Five reveal. :-p
@Kessica: re: Them killing "the head of the snake" doesn't make sense, but that's also why it ends up not working.
Yes but they should have known that. Adelle herself said just last episode (to Boyd no less) 'Don't think high ranking Rossum board member doesn't have backup copies of himself'
And the first rule of backup storage is never keep it all in one place and especially not in the same place as the originals.
They are smarter than to think they could take Rossum out by blowing up one build...err, hallway, because the entire building didn't even blow up.
@Jonny_eh: It was almost like after they filmed the episode someone said
'Oh shit! Whiskey was in Epitaph One so she has to survive. Quick! Have one of the actors go into the studio and record a line saying she got out and we'll just play when they aren't in the scene like they said it out of camera range or something.'
Weak.
@Coen: Well she blew up that hallway real good! Must have been a super duper reinforced hallway. Except not so reinforced that she couldn't escape it with a fireball right behind her.
Or something.
@Chuck: @zslane: Yeah, the whole different timelines and how things kept changing and new players appeared etc was sort of woven into the plot of TSCC and I liked that.
It was like they were playing a chess (or go :-p) game and each side kept making moves but neither was really winning.
Besides, the only thing it really rebooted was the rather lackluster T3 and it's not like Salvation really did much to directly build upon T3 other than the token inclusion of Kate Connor.
