<![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> The South will rise again? :3

Silver_Back

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> "The states are so bereft of power at this point and have been for so long a period that they idea that, at some point, it would ever actually be necessary to abolish them is implausable."

Nah.
The States are weak, but there are still important differences between having them and not having them. For example, different States, different laws. There would also be no reason to have State legislators or elected Governors if the States were to just become provinces.

-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> I've been of the impression that Sci-Fi is putting out these movies to deliberately parody them on a MSTK3000 type show.

Until that day, never anticipate anything on the channel being anything but a catastrophic let down. A few shows are giving people false hope, and it needs to be crushed for the sake of sanity.

Balius

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Grey_Area: One can hope that someone decides to make some great sf instead of the crap that passes for sf.

I have some pals that make movies and we were all sitting around talking about a great new idea, which was based on a Greg Bear story. One of the guys from HBO asked if Bear would do a treatment and be part of the project. I emailed Bear and asked. He said his agent was already working on a project, so I said, "Okay." Well, it never happened. Bear might very well have sold the project if he had wanted to get involved. Or not. Most of these ideas never get past the first round of drinks.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Jeff-Minor: Moving Mars doesn't deserve the depredations of the SciFi Channel. Let them spew their hack. Someday all our favorite novels will be adapted into movies or miniseries worthy of them. Possibly in full sensory interactive threedee at the old folk's home orbiting Europa.
Someday...Someday...Someday...

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Charlie Jane Anders

"United State Of America" still isn't as good as "The American Empire" from GITS S.A.C.

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Charlie Jane Anders

Yea I actually liked Ghost Rider more than I originally thought I would, especially since there was the mention that they trashed the original script which was supposed to have been darker and sadder.

Dark and Sad is how Ghost Rider is supposed to be.

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: Yeah, Dennis Hopper did a great job directing too

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Plague: D00d! Ghost Rider was AWESOME! Plus, it's what Peter Fonda is famous for.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @Kiamat: Agreed... please see above rant.

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @pinkiedeathhead: HEY! THEY STARTED IT FIRST! HEY SEYE-FEYE! DON'T BE MAKIN' NO MOVIES 'BOUT NO MAN-SKEETOS IF YOU DON'T WANNA BE MADE FUN OF!

Seriously, tho... I guess the alternate premise I offered was merely a Freudian Slip. But then, I've stopped waiting for SciFi to make any programming sense.

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Couldn't they just have put it on Mars and used Greg Bear's Moving Mars as the Universe? So much great stuff and wouldn't haver required FTL, which I'm sure is just there for effects. Besides, Robinson, Bear and probably others, have revolutions in their stories. Bears was the best IMHO.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @NefariousNewt:
Too bad that's supposed to be his take on The Devil.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> @shehanum: Hey, are you cracking on MANSQUITO?

This sounds rather interesting if they go all the way with it. But wouldn't it have been cheaper to just buy JERICHO?

pinkiedeathhead

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> ...meh I think it would have done better as a second American revolution on earth in the near future (like where Jericho was going) but at least SciFi is traveling down the right road with the plot (instead of man-sized mosquitos)

shehanum

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Didn't Joss Whedon do this already?! C'mon, Skiffy! Just pick up Firefly already!

Kiamat

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> That pic makes him like a retro-futuristic George Washington.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Bringing up Ghost Rider is no way to sell anybody on anything.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Sounds so Browncoat, but really, any hard Science Fiction on Sci Fi is better than nothing.

PVIII

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Bring on the Fonda love!!! Bring it on, I can handle it!

Will there be Redcoats? or at least red spacesuited stormtroopers?

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> The fact that the U.S.A is now called the United State of America has a nice, contrived, ring to it.

The states are so bereft of power at this point and have been for so long a period that they idea that, at some point, it would ever actually be necessary to abolish them is implausable. Trying to be subtle by making an extreamly overt name change just makes the whole world sound more made up.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> Pls pls pls decide on ONE place for the Manhattan links!!!!

Aph

]]> <![CDATA[New America Revolts Against The USA]]> One America is enough for the universe, we don't need an annoying little brother bringing us down.

Killa_Charlie

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