Posted on 11/02/2009 3:09:41 PM PST by EveningStar
I’m watching SGU. A bit downbeat and seems to be still looking for its premise, but the cast is pretty good and the FX are better than one would expect from SyFy. Think I’ll stick with it a while. Nice switch from ‘Bones’ and ‘Legend of the Seeker’.
For my own pretentious list, gotta put ‘Eureka’ on there.
LOL!
future history repeats the past.
Ever heard the story about Harlan getting fired from Disney?
Frakes turns out to be a pretty good director, though. Try to catch the ‘Leverage’ episodes he’s directed.
I never saw that, but at about that time there were lots of heavy handed short stories in the kids magazines. I remember one in particular where kids had to wear gas masks on the school playground because of air pollution.
With you there. For all those years the series ran, I couldn't see him as anything but the shallow, conceited, ambitious little weakingling hiding behind his wife's skirts that he played in North and South.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
...sigh...Such a missed opportunity...now, if Nathan could get a sidekick worth watching for more than five minutes...I could get into Castle. Doesn't look like that's in the cards. Glad it's going two seasons at least, though.
Oh yeah, SeaQuest. It was so bad that when it got out that Scheider had called it “Underwater Star Dreck” I was expecting everyone associted with Trek to go to his house and kick his butt. “Spock’s Brain” is a masterpiece compared to ANY show with a talking dolphin and some prettyboy tween on the command crew.
The script for Bladerunner went through extensive rewrites. The set designers were paid to work through an actors' strike, with the result that these little known craftsman were given the time to create a deep and complex look for the film that contributed greatly to its appeal. Ridley Scott's perfectionism made him hated on the set. Rutger Hauer's final lines were of his devise, which Scott, almost out of set time, had the good sense to adopt. And after principal filming was completed, Scott was formally fired as director due to offenses against the budget and time schedule -- but, in the way of Hollywood, Scott was paid to keep working and produce a final edit -- which was later revised by studio execs who had little confidence in the film.
Outland was good although surely not up to Bladerunner standards. Might it have benefited from Bladerunner-type fruitful turmoil?
Burn Notice is a lot of fun and more accurate than most realize. During the Cold War, a good friend of mine, now deceased, was an agent for US Army intelligence in deep cover as a businessman. Like Michael Weston, my friend had a knack for accents and role-playing, for improvising and adapting plans on the fly, and often worked with or conned criminals and shady businessmen and foreign officials. In my friend's retelling at least, there were also a lot of absurd, chaotic moments touched with unintended comedy.
Only a complete and utter smeghead would even imply such a thing. ;)
I liked the Dixon Hill bit...and it sure did produce some fun in the movie “First Contact.”
I'll admit, it did work there.
Ping me!
I loved it when DS9 started doing the overarching WWII in space storylines in imitation of Babylon 5...and instead of being a pale imitation it rocked.
There were bathrooms in everyone’s quarters, they just never showed them.
Really, how often do you see someone on a non-SF series visiting the john?
I really like Outland. Although I have to note that the guy blowing up in vacuum (in the elevator/air lock) was scientifically unrealistic, the movie as a whole felt very real. The corruption, drug abuse, hookers, politics, etc. showed real flawed people in a sci-fi setting, instead of squeaky clean do-gooders of the ST:TNG variety. It was kind of a ‘Walking Tall’ set in space. It was also refreshing to have the lead female character in the movie be an older, rather plain-looking lady (Frances Sternhagen)... if that movie were remade today, 99% of Hollywood would cast, say, Denise Richards and have her become the police marshal’s love interest.
There were bathrooms in everyone’s quarters, they just never showed them. They don’t show them in any of the six Star Wars movies, either...or in the Alien films...you get the idea. BTW, there was a great book that came out during the late Eighties (about the time of Star Trek IV) called “Mr. Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise” that I still have, with enough info about the refit Enterprise to send any nerd to geek Nirvana. It even had floor plans for crew quarters, and there was a “refresher” in each one. Even some of the department maps (like recreation, IIRC) had refreshers on them.
And anyway, how often do you see someone on a non-SF series visiting the john? Other than Al Bundy, it’s not an issue. I’ve never seen Michael Weston’s bathroom, for example, or his Mom’s.
One thing that was funny was that when a role playing game company (I think it was West End Games) published a map of the interior of the Millenium Falcon, there wasn’t a bathroom anywhere on the ship. Since your average hyperspace trip takes a few days (and in the WEG rules any trip took at least 24 hours) it appears Han and Chewie were carrying a large chamber pot around...or maybe there was a portajohn in the cargo hold.
Dang straight! Least pretentious show in this thread!
LOL... I'm reminded of the 1st-season episode where Weasel-boy Crusher falls and breaks a flower pot on some orgy planet and gets sentenced to death for it. Picard spends the episode wringing his hands over the moral implications of intervening to save Wesley, thereby undermining the planet's system of justice. If aliens had ever threatened to kill one of Kirk's crew for tripping over a planter, he would have simply beamed the person up and then bombarded the city into radioactive glass.
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