Cool to see Ginger Buchanan in there, I met her once at the '96 World Science Fiction Convention (The year Neal Stephenson won the Hugo for The Diamond Age). She's pretty cool. On a side note, one of the vendors in the Dealer Room was trying to sell some of William Gibson's notes from Neuromancer for $1000. No provenance, just some typewritten notes outlining spellings of character names, alternate spellings, etc. with a few handwritten notes. Actually I was a bit tempted, but I wouldn't have wanted to see Gibson at a subsequent book signing only to have him say "That's not my handwriting, sorry."
One of the best opening lines in the genre...
Seriously? I hope you're being sarcastic. The 3% of scientists that doubt that anthropogenic climate change is real might need to come clean--or at least publish some peer reviewed research to support their views (assuming they aren't bought and paid for by the Koch brothers, etc.--e.g. The Breakthrough Institute): [thinkprogress.org]
Think Disney, not Marvel--with a current market cap of around $62 Billion, they can afford to finance films aggressively. They bought Marvel for just over $4 Billion, and you know the House of Mouse is going to work hard to get a return on their investment...
This show's a bit like Shadow Unit, about a FBI behavioral science unit that chases serial killer mutants, with a few mutants of their own on staff (and written by science fiction authors Elizabeth Bear and Emma Bull, among others): shadowunit.org
Think season 1 of Heroes without a silly tagline that is meaningless (save the cheerleader, save the world). David Strathairn makes the show, for me. Will it continue to improve into season 2? Hopefully.
I was talking about this just the other day. Glad to find out that NASA, as the early adopter, didn't pay as much as we feared. I can just picture the Cosmonauts using their version of the Parker Space Pen and sounding like Yakov Smirnoff: "America, what a country!" What would he say? "Here, we write with pens, but in Soviet Russia, pens write with you!"
Nice "A Scanner Darkly" reference...
I couldn't look at Marcus without thinking of the Keith Stone/Keystone Beer commercials. Made me thirsty for bad beer. Life's too short to drink bad beer. Glad his character arc is done.
I agree with you, though I think much of the blame for why SyFy aka The paranormal wrestling channel, is unwatchable is due to the decisions made by the network heads. If only the suits were actual science fiction fans...Sigh.
Amanda Righetti has been cast as Sharon Carter in the Avengers, according to other sources than IMDB. It's a cool idea, having Sharon Carter in the film. If there's a sequel to Captain America and/or The Avengers I'd hope the role would be greatly expanded.
7 episode guest role.
I'm still lukewarm towards this show. One glitch with the characterization is that for several episodes, Mason's oldest son Hal seems completely unaffected by losing his girlfriend to the Skitters. No mention by anyone else in the cast either. I though the actress had been fired from the show for something she said (like Megan Fox). But suddenly, she's alive (!), and Hal suddenly acts concerned. Hal: "I have to save her," Dad: "Not now." (Wouldn't be convenient for the plot)
My father had spinal fusion done years ago--very painful recovery process and still endures significant pain today. I hope research proceeds on this as quickly as possible, if not for him, for people like him in the future...Sometimes, the future can't get here fast enough.
In the battle of Helm's Deep, Jackson said in the DVD commentary that they had extras play both Uruk Hai one day and soldiers of Rohan the next.
Well, to be fair, a lot of Uruk Hai were played by Caucasian extras, too, but I get your point.
Damn straight
Yeah, the film makers of the original film were hard pressed to find "Frazetta-esque" women. It would be interesting to see if Rodriguez can find the right women this time around. We didn't really need a remake :)
