I'm pretty sure this is the DOOM engine and not the Quake engine? I could be wrong though.
Great points and great post.
To folks who are still able to watch Lost and believe satisfying explanations are on the weay, you are made of far more patient and tolerant stuff than I am.
Me, around Lost Season 2, I started having PTSD flashbacks to X-Files' long string of abusive non-revealations and just couldn't hang anymore.
And it's frustrating that they generally suck, because the ideas behind them are often so compelling. Who wouldn't want to see a well-done story about the orgins of Darth Vader or Wolverine or whoever? Knowing the ultimate end-point of the plot shouldn't prevent us from enjoying quality filmmaking.
I think another big part of the reason is that by the time a prequel is announced, the studio has so much invested in the franchise that it needs to be as profitable and risk-free as possible. So you get bad decisions all around.
"oh yes. i have seen the blue people. yes."
that larper has an uncanny resemblance to Nikita Chrusov of the Soviet Unterzoegersdorf #cosplay
that larper has an uncanny resemblance to Nikita Chrusov of the Soviet Unterzoegersdorf #cosplay
i enjoyed Total Recall too. there are a lot of reasons to enjoy it.
but I don't think anyone could reasonably argue that it in any way represented Dick's original "We Can Remember..." vision.
"Disconcerting and strange" is bankable this year, so it's no surprise that Hollywood producers are returning to Dick.
no love for Transmet's "The City"? [en.wikipedia.org])
AWESOME
MILES O'BRIEN IS THE FIFTH CYLON
because he was the guy that the weird shit always happened to in DS9. whenever a character had to wake up and realize they were a clone of themselves from the future programmed to kill the president or whatever, it was always O'Brien. he was the only character normal and happy enough to need those things to happen to him to keep him interesting. except possibly jake sisko.
Everything was downhill once they left New Caprica.
i *really liked* New Caprica! a lot of fans were pissed about "Tent City Galactica," but it was exactly the kind of risk-taking that makes me love the show's writers. Recontextualizing all the characters into completely new situations, ones that stayed totally true to their characters and history but made us see them from weird new angles. Tigh as a resistance leader? Tyrel as a union boss? Baltar as a dictator? Yes yes awesome more please!
The return to the Battlestars was a retreat from those interesting choices, BSG De-imagined. The Cylon politics kept the show from devolving completely into muddled torrid Adama-Starbuck romance. But I don't think it ever fully recovered from failing to stick with the awesome character evolutions it toyed with in early S3.
In S4, things really seem to have "X-Files Syndrome," where the fans are taking the plot far more seriously than the writers, who have no idea what theyre going to do next and are now just kind of flailing around writing nonsense.
Obama for Dhalgren City Council 2008!
now that is a good freakin list
stunning
Duck Dodgers!
Putch: Good call! "There is the theory of the MOBIUS-- a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop..."
IMHO the canonical scifi-sampling album is DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, which is basically a scifi movie in and of itsef.
And the soundtrack for almost every John Carpenter movie has been sampled to death, esp The Thing and Assault On Precinct 13. Or if there are any that haven't been, they should be!
