@Casse: Also, how do you define scifi? In the correct definition, quite a lot of superhero comics and graphics novels qualify.
Help! I'm trying to video chat on a mac, but I need to use two webcams on my end and have them appear as one on the other end. Thoughts?
#tips #openthread
#tips #openthread
@phildini: I think the problem is that I've seen too MUCH genre television. They need a show like that's like Buffy, BSG, Supernatural and Dr. Who all rolled in.
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@33rd°: I have seen all of the recent Dr. Who, as well as Torchwood. Excellent suggestions, though.
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@Darklighter: Somebody else mentioned that. I'm keeping it in mind. Thanks!
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@Kevin Howell -The Unseen Commentor: I'm a huge Firefly fan, and know about Angel. I'm thinking about pausing and cleansing the palette before jumping back in to the Buffyverse though. Farscape is a great idea, thanks!
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@ExtensionOfBob: I saw the first season and was very impressed. I should check out the second, thanks.
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Help, I've just finished Buffy and don't know what to watch next! What were the best genre epics of the last decade or so?
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Along similar lines as the Na'vi animals, the dragon-rider relationship in Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels gets very close at some points, if not actually outright romantic.
The Drogonriders of Pern series, also by McCaffrey, does a little of this, but to me it feels stronger in Novik's work.
I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I would love to see some sf on the idea that anyone living in a city is an unconscious part of a hivemind connecting the city, a hivemind organically sprouting from the population density Annalee talks about.
The next step of course would be someone who can tap into that hivemind. A localized version of the Cosmic Consciousness?
Should there be an entire subsection of bad tropes related to Tron?
"42. No modern computer shall possess a VR representation of itself.
77. An 'evil' computer shall not be represented as a giant talking head"
@Blue_Mage:
Unless the Egg-Holograph thing counts as a MacGuffin.
@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I think its worth pointing out that there is an opinion of Supernatural that is kind of middle-of-the road rather than taking a firm viewpoint. One possibility is that there truly are things in the world that are Supernatural, that exist beyond the realm of science. In this viewpoint, God can exist. The other end of the spectrum says that demons, angels, ghosts and bogeymen can be explained, we just haven't discovered the explanation yet. If this is true, than we take table salt way too much for granted.
I argue that since Supernatural very rarely, if ever, submits any explanation for the creatures they encounter, then such creatures exist outside the realm of what we know, or possibly can know. In such a world, it is impossible to say God does not exist.
@Indigen: The media protrayal of religion is starting to become religious canon in the minds of the audience. Think of the effect Dan Brown's writing has had on thoughts of the Christian theology. Its not surprising at all to see Supernatural being used as a real reference to Religion.
I would appreciate the science more if there weren't quite so much science negativity. Science is involved in finding the solution, but its also almost always isolated as the problem. "Destruction through the advancement of technology." I would rather see Abrams create media that promotes the advancement of science, rather than shying away from it.
Yes, one of the points is that science can go bad. But I'm not positive Fringe ever showed a scientific advance that was used for good.
I'm still deeply curious how Annalee finds these things. Does the phrase "Atom Age Vampire" pop into her head and flow into a Google box?
@alphanumeric1971: Hate me if you want, but I'm privately of the opinion that Supernatural is what Buffy should have been.
Supernatural is, in its own way, an American response to Dr. Who. Beyond the fact that the show's writers keep referencing the high-mark for science fiction television, where Dr. Who creates a mythology that builds on the aloof lone wolf above governments, nations and planets, Supernatural builds on an American spirit of individualism, manifest destiny, and pride in fighting from the trenches. These are generalizations, and not necessarily to be taken to imply anything about the home countries. To be honest, this is more of a justification for my feelings about both shows, namely that I get the same feeling in my gut when watching them. I could go on about the similarities and differences for pages, but the result is that both show off a portion of the human spirit that makes for great storytelling. And this is a fantastic article.
Is anyone else interested in seeing an episode where they can spread diseases by videotape? Linking into some psycho-image thing that tricks DNA into creating disease patterns? It might sound far-fetched, but look carefully at some of the other things they've done.
@HobartJibo: Hmm... are we assuming that the experiments with cortexiphan are continuing? So far, I believe we've only seen the results from that first batch?
