The host says "Antonio Urzi . . . . has done it again" I think that tells you everything you need to know.
"autism, extreme synesthesia, and other neural disorders."
Now wait a minute, is the issue network overload, or or signal bleed?
If and where it's the latter, a genetic development of denser myelin sheathing might more efficiently cut down on signal interference, or more efficient chemical transport across the synapses might allow denser networks.
I don't know, but the authors might be guilty of having the mindset "we've gone about as far as we can go" prematurely.
Now wait a minute, is the issue network overload, or or signal bleed?
If and where it's the latter, a genetic development of denser myelin sheathing might more efficiently cut down on signal interference, or more efficient chemical transport across the synapses might allow denser networks.
I don't know, but the authors might be guilty of having the mindset "we've gone about as far as we can go" prematurely.
"The image up top reveals the topography of the Moon's mysterious far side in technocolorrific, Jackson Pollock-esque detail"
I was thinking these looked like what Peter Max paintings would look like if he went into abstract Impressionism.
I was thinking these looked like what Peter Max paintings would look like if he went into abstract Impressionism.
Our own Columbia and Harvard University-educated President also didn't happily dismantled all the sane rules put in place to rein in the greedy excesses of big banks and Wall Street, which then set off the worst recession since the Great Depression. Nor run roughshod over the Constitution and intentionally LIE to the nation with fabrications about non-existent weapons of mass destruction to take us into a COMPLETELY illegal, immoral, poorly planned, poorly funded and POINTLESSLY HUMILIATING war with Iraq against all advice from our own military and EVIDENCE to the contrary, costing far more than the Health Reform Bill ever could in not only treasure (over TWO TRILLION dollars) BUT AMERICAN LIVES and world prestige. It was very wily of Bush & Co. to keep those massive military expenditures off the official national dept. And remember how then viciously attacked ANYONE who questioned their reasons to start the war as TRAITORS. And Congressional Republicans gleefully joined in. Remember Republican FREEDOM FRIES?
beefmalone, io9 is a great website, but make no mistake—they dish it out the fresh mouth and attitude—but won't tolerate it one bit.
No, I would not say would not say MSNBC has an "anti-Republic bias".
Knowing Roger Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group, and was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989, I would say FOX is the propaganda wing of the Republican Party and one would have to be stupid, delusional or a liar to say otherwise.
Knowing Roger Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group, and was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989, I would say FOX is the propaganda wing of the Republican Party and one would have to be stupid, delusional or a liar to say otherwise.
LOL!!! That's what I was thinking too!
Hilariously BAD.
Hilariously BAD.
Yeah, whoosh—Civil Rights when right over her dated bouffant!
With all due respect to Bobbie Wygant, her hairdo was almost as bad as Lea's original cinnamon buns.
LOL! WHAT was that from?
I'm afraid I agree.
The Tharks seem to have all the verisimilitude of the vampires in 'I Am Legend', or the robots in 'I Robot' rather than say, the gritty and astoundingly rendered Orcs in the Rings trilogy.
The Tharks seem to have all the verisimilitude of the vampires in 'I Am Legend', or the robots in 'I Robot' rather than say, the gritty and astoundingly rendered Orcs in the Rings trilogy.
I feel the same way Kitradu.
A HUGE challenge for the film is even though Burroughs' series is pretty much THE wellspring of high adventure swashbuckling science fiction, (Conan, Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Star Wars Avatar etc, came several to many decades later) viewers with shallow knowledge of the genre are already commenting that to them, the grand daddy seems derivative of his decedents! Painfully ironic!
A HUGE challenge for the film is even though Burroughs' series is pretty much THE wellspring of high adventure swashbuckling science fiction, (Conan, Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Star Wars Avatar etc, came several to many decades later) viewers with shallow knowledge of the genre are already commenting that to them, the grand daddy seems derivative of his decedents! Painfully ironic!
Yeah, Matai Shang and the other men of the white priests also wore blond wigs in the books which was a plot element.
"Well, actually, there are several cities on Barsoom."
Meredith is only referring to the two cities featured in the first story—of course they're are MANY cities and civilizations on the planet.
Meredith is only referring to the two cities featured in the first story—of course they're are MANY cities and civilizations on the planet.
The thing that crashed is the air ship that was carrying (now hostage) Deja Thoris.
The Tharks shot it down, slaughtered the crew and is collecting the booty among the wreckage.
The Tharks shot it down, slaughtered the crew and is collecting the booty among the wreckage.
So what's your point then Belabras?
Maybe Burroughs went into HIS future to rip off Marvel, and then went back into his own time to sinisterly only SEEM to come up with the idea many decades before the Hulk!
THAT CROOK!
Keen observation Belabras.
Maybe Burroughs went into HIS future to rip off Marvel, and then went back into his own time to sinisterly only SEEM to come up with the idea many decades before the Hulk!
THAT CROOK!
Keen observation Belabras.
I recognize, that the challenge for ANYONE bringing the John Carter/Barsoom stories to the screen, is that for over NINE DECADES these stories have taken seed mainly in the the minds of adolescent boys and and sunk deep roots almost exclusively in their imaginations throughout their young adulthoods, with at best only book jackets for visual clues of what they were internalizing. So like stories first received through radio, true fans are going to have VERY personalized expectations of what they OUGHT to be presented within this film, and might ironically be the movie's harshest critics—I know for instance, that I would not have made the cities of savage Mars/Barsoom look even MORE futuristic than the cities of today.
Another HUGE challenge for the film is even though Burroughs' series is pretty much THE wellspring of high adventure swashbuckling science fiction, (Conan, Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Star Wars Avatar etc, came several, to many decades later) viewers with shallow knowledge of the genre are already commenting that to them, the grand daddy seems derivative of his decedents! That's a wincingly irony!
Those issues aside, I do think I see some technical/creative missteps that the director Stanton has made in the trailer at least—the Tharks seem to have all the verisimilitude of the vampires in 'I Am Legend', or the robots in 'I Robot' than say the gritty and astoundingly rendered Orcs in the Rings trilogy.
But in the end, since Disney failed to hand ME 100 million dollars to create MY vision of this classic, I'm determined to cross my fingers and withhold too much judgement, and go see 'John Carter' with as open a mind and heart as possible, and PRAY that the movie can imbue new generations with a sense of wonder and excitement for Edgar Rice Burroughs' enduring stories of far way Barsoom that it did me.
Another HUGE challenge for the film is even though Burroughs' series is pretty much THE wellspring of high adventure swashbuckling science fiction, (Conan, Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Star Wars Avatar etc, came several, to many decades later) viewers with shallow knowledge of the genre are already commenting that to them, the grand daddy seems derivative of his decedents! That's a wincingly irony!
Those issues aside, I do think I see some technical/creative missteps that the director Stanton has made in the trailer at least—the Tharks seem to have all the verisimilitude of the vampires in 'I Am Legend', or the robots in 'I Robot' than say the gritty and astoundingly rendered Orcs in the Rings trilogy.
But in the end, since Disney failed to hand ME 100 million dollars to create MY vision of this classic, I'm determined to cross my fingers and withhold too much judgement, and go see 'John Carter' with as open a mind and heart as possible, and PRAY that the movie can imbue new generations with a sense of wonder and excitement for Edgar Rice Burroughs' enduring stories of far way Barsoom that it did me.
YES lilitlayil138! I was thinking the same thing!
The episode is 'Back to the Pilot". Now I wonder if the writer Mark Hentemann has read 'Q'?
It so far is the best episode of an otherwise dreadful season.
The episode is 'Back to the Pilot". Now I wonder if the writer Mark Hentemann has read 'Q'?
It so far is the best episode of an otherwise dreadful season.
