it would be AWESOME if all the writers were doing that. Then reading articles would be like reading those computer-spam emails that unintentionally make beat poetry. ;) not to mention the humor, oh the humor. ;)

maybe everyone is just too busy packing for comicon with one hand and trying to type with the other. ;)

1) you're confusing the entertainment industry with the fashion industry
The entertainers (such as the singers you've shown) have always been over the top in costume design, as needed for stage presence. A few silver space girl costumes for stage does not mean fashion loves scifi. Costume design for entertainers is very different from the overall fashion industry. The fashion industry isn't going to be cranking out metal bikinis for retail stores. Any extreme clothing made is for entertainers or couture use.

In addition, neither fashion nor costume design has really been sci-fi or pretending to embrace it. At best they're just doing a variation of the 50-70s sexy space girl thing: bustiers and miniskirts. That's pretty ho-hum to me. They're just recycling and they're not actually envisioning how clothing would change in a sci-fi future. They're just reiterating classic sexist stereotypes of women in sci-fi. In a bubble-world, they're fun, sure. But I wouldn't expect people to be embracing them for obvious reasons. Like this is 2009, not 1959.

2) "it's all tank tops, business attire and military jumpsuits."
You're referencing people who are either government officials or on a military ship. how else are they supposed to dress? the whole point of the BSC reboot was that it was supposed to feel close to our own world. Silver unitards aren't going to cut it there. And did you forget about Six's wardrobe? That wasn't fashion+sci-fi enough for you?

3) "No more space babes with foil bikinis"
Really? really??? You want to go back to foil bikinis? Again, that's just recycling the same crap we've had since the sci-fi hit film. It's boring. It's been done. How about actual creative thinking regarding fashion trends 20, 50, 100, 1000 years from now?

How about projecting what cultural and gender role changes will occur and how that will change our dress habits?
How about projecting changes in textiles due to scientific advancement or a reduction of natural materials and how that will influence clothing?
Or what jobs will be necessary and what clothing will be needed to perform those jobs.
Now those things would be sci-fi ACTUALLY embracing fashion. ;) Gees, the textile advancements in the past few years alone is mind-blowing.

4) Scifi fashion has forgotten its roots"
Or maybe Sci-fi fashion has just GROWN UP. And realized that it's ridiculous to keep putting women who are supposed to be in positions of authority in see-through vinyl miniskirts. ;) Or putting grown men in spandex onesies. Or just gluing geometric shapes to clothing and calling it "spacey". ;)

Historically sci-fi has been a reflection of contemporary fears and cultural changes of the time. Sci-fi hasn't forgotten it's roots, it's just evolved as we have. And our fears and cultural issues aren't the same as they were in the 40s, 70s, etc.

4) Did you not watch any of the Sarah Connor Chronicles?
the fashion on that show was INSANELY amazing, it was just full of subtleties. seriously, I'm dying to know who made the clothes and I don't want to even think about the astronomical wardrobe budget they must've needed.

and check out some video games for some great sci-fi and post-apoc fashion. It appears that game creators have finally stopped referencing bad 80s music videos for clothing and instead have hired actual designers.

and I agree that anything with "mega-mix" attached is best avoided. It calls to mind things like "MONSTER MEGA-MIX OF THE 80s... 80s...80s...: (always shouted and always with the echo effect).

that's right my protective chakra shell is made of magic chocolate.

;)

is we all gonna die in flamey sun death?
or be turned into a race of superhumans mutated by solar radiation?

coz I have plans to do laundry that day and I'd just like to know...

and I'm both delighted and terrified that I recognized that "Space Vampires" still as being from Buck Rogers based purely on the use of shiny spandex. Erin Gray, super shiny bodysuits and even shinier lip gloss is forever burned into my memory from childhood.

Vampire D is definitely worth a watch. Some great animation, though with the usual anime emo angst and dull damsel in distress thrown in. (wow that was alliteration salad) I really can't see any similarities with Blade though, other than the most basic that they're both half-vamp/half-human.

I mean, if you have a character who has been gang raped, I'm guessing repeatedly, while tied to a table and your audience still looks at the character with the first thought being "hey, hot naked chick"... well, I think the audience has missed the point and you've pretty much failed as a filmmaker. And then you're in the realm of "hey, let's make a rape revenge film, I hear that's cool and edgy with the kids these days" -- there's no real substance you're just using it as a flashy vehicle to put butts in seats, hiding sensationalism behind some false front of a "message".

Maybe the people who put the trailer together just botched it. But still if your audience knows the premise and still just views the bound gang rape victim in a primarily objectified manner -- viewing a sex crimes victim as a sex object -- again, I think you've failed. Either you're targeting totally the wrong audience, one who can't "get" the premise, or you've just done a bad job like the hundreds of people before you.

I'm doubtful of this film, like most films like it. Though they say they're trying to show the brutality of rape and turn it into some morality tale, etc. etc. 95% of the time when rape is depicted in movies it's like the director can't help himself from making it "sexy rape" -- representing it more like soft porn than an act of violence too uncomfortable to witness. Basically they film the rape like a typical consensual sex scene then later tell the audience the "rape is bad", despite presenting the opposite message.

So I don't expect this film to manage to transcend that trap.

dismantle the evil thing, end the cyclical game, ruin the perverse fun for the dark little puppet masters, steal the money, go to a nice little island, fuck you mister messed up face.

ROOOOOOAAAAADDDDD TRIP TO NEW MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!