@Starwatcher-23: Jerome K. Jerome was half a century after or so Austen, of course. I'd love to see the Connie Willis book as a show or movie. Funny, funny stuff.
Pride and Predators made me laugh. Then I remembered Predator II and I threw up in my mouth a little.
I guess I should go pitch my Jane Austen-cyborgs-time travel-romantic action adventure script "Terminators and Terminatability" pretty quick, before this trend dies.
i feel like this is happening TO ME - i can't handle it. i love sci-fi and i LOVE JANE (yes, we're that familiar -> on a first name basis) but should they be brought together in such a way???????
@BeccaSaurus Rex: I hope so. I fully expect that these books/movies/whatever will be the greatest culmination of awesomeness to ever rock the socks off of society.
I don't care if that made no sense. It is that awesome.
@BeccaSaurus Rex: I'm in! Wouldn't it be great if they could get Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and crew to participate or at least have cameos?
@Garrison Dean: The only Jane Austen I enjoyed was when the Red Dwarf crew entered Pride and Prejudice in their virtual reality module, and Kryten blows the everloving shit out of a tea party with a tank.
@bluehinter: Yeah, this sounds funny on paper, but I don't care how good the special effects are. If I have to take listening to Jane Austin conversation, someone is getting hurt.
Unless Predator dies of consumption from running around the english countryside in the rain. That would be hysterical
@jbq: Hey, I love me some Red Dwarf, but even I'm willing to admit that a good chunk of Series VII was embarrasingly unfunny, and this episode was, above and beyond, the worst of the lot.
(That said, Series VII did provide us with Ace Rimmer wind-surfing an alligator, the Epideme virus, and Kryten hunting for nanobots in Lister's dirty laundry, so it wasn't all bad)
@oboesqueaks: God, seriously, the more Jane Austen Zombie Alien crap, the happier I will be. The comments at Jezebel that I read are equally as ecstatic. Brilliant I say!
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If you haven't read the series, I HIGHLY recommend it. Jasper Fforde. Check it out. Seriously. Do it.
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"I see people that have expired from consumption..."
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But let's keep it to a low roar here.
I mean what's next? Great Expectations in Space?
I imagine a conspiracy of English Lit professors somewhere.
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is this real life? is this going to be forever?
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I don't care if that made no sense. It is that awesome.
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no, that's probably not going to happen.
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And that was just a little over 3 minutes.
Imagine having to sit through basically the same joke, except stretched out over an hour and 25 minutes.
(I do hold out some hope for Lost in Austen, since by my understanding, events begin to change the moment Amanda wakes up in Austen-world)
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Unless Predator dies of consumption from running around the english countryside in the rain. That would be hysterical
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Hey, I love me some Red Dwarf, but even I'm willing to admit that a good chunk of Series VII was embarrasingly unfunny, and this episode was, above and beyond, the worst of the lot.
(That said, Series VII did provide us with Ace Rimmer wind-surfing an alligator, the Epideme virus, and Kryten hunting for nanobots in Lister's dirty laundry, so it wasn't all bad)
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