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A float filled with conspirators dressed like teddy bears, concealing: a catapult loaded with flaming naphtha! The naphtha goes up, and whoosh! Giant flaming balloons! Mass panic in the streets! More exclamation points than you can shake a stick at!
I've presented this idea before but don't have the funding to go forward with it.
If you really want to sci-fi it up, how about a giant Tripod lumbering down the street? A firetruck of firemen setting fire to copies of Twilight. An Area 51 "weather balloon". A flashmob of zombies fresh from an outbreak of the Rage virus. Darth Vader's Helmet balloon. An army of cylons marching along. Alien Vs Predator - they could stage a mock battle in various locations as the parade progresses.
Suggestion for the SG:U float - RDA can make sporadic, brief appearance along the parade route. Staying for only a few minutes to get off a few wisecracks before once again disappearing.
How about a freak electrical storm zaps LIFE into the balloons?
What am I saying, at best the Superman balloon would dry-hump Rockefeller Center and a world-weary New-Yorker would look up and say "More of the same." before ducking into the subway.
@OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of THIS reality, in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and in which THIS has happened to ME!! [holds up newspaper reading "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"] No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the time line skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and specific circumstances of how, when, and where young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
@Grey_Area: Aww, thanks! :) Here's a secret, though, I already have a 4-year-old. But he thinks I am cool too. And he watches LOTR. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
@OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: If you're referring to the description of Frank Miller's Martha Washington, it works out like this:
1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.
2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.
3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.
4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
It would be interesting to see a BSG DVD movie that takes you back to that period.
It was dumb of Ron Moore and David Eick to push off the idea of more movies. But then maybe they figured everyone would be so disgusted by the fourth season that no one would want to see anymore.
No cause George Lucas invented everything himself and original. Star Wars was not inspired by various good and bad WW2 movies, 1940s movie serials, Kurosawa films or the Japanese movie, The Hidden Castle. No siree, not one damned bit. /end snarky fanboy reply
Sadly, the one character that was a true Lucas original was Jar-Jar Binks.
11/26/09
I've presented this idea before but don't have the funding to go forward with it.
11/25/09
Just think of all the little Death Star balloons you could sell.
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What am I saying, at best the Superman balloon would dry-hump Rockefeller Center and a world-weary New-Yorker would look up and say "More of the same." before ducking into the subway.
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(I kid, I kid!)
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1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.
2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.
3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.
4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
06/15/09
It was dumb of Ron Moore and David Eick to push off the idea of more movies. But then maybe they figured everyone would be so disgusted by the fourth season that no one would want to see anymore.
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LOL.
So that's the connection between Star Wars and BSG.
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No cause George Lucas invented everything himself and original. Star Wars was not inspired by various good and bad WW2 movies, 1940s movie serials, Kurosawa films or the Japanese movie, The Hidden Castle. No siree, not one damned bit. /end snarky fanboy reply
Sadly, the one character that was a true Lucas original was Jar-Jar Binks.
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