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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Summer Sci-Fi Geek Out
Scotty is dead. Did Voyager even have an engineer? Speaking of dead, now that Trek is dead ... er, resting ... Star Trek.com is continuing to carry the torch and helping me realize how much I don't give a damn about Kes, Chakotay, Neelix, Dr. Holographic Jar Jar Binks ...
Where does Neil Gaiman get his ideas? [via Jenv] I will bet you a shiny metal toonie that he gets his ideas out of his ass!
Next year's Superman movie [via Trent] picks up where Superman II left off and will use the original musical score. I will probably enjoy the movie for that reason alone. Wait a minute ... doesn't that make this movie Superman III? I wonder who's playing the Richard Pryor role, the child-like genius computer hacker?
Which reminds me, Season 4 of Smallville was pretty much a waste of time, eh? The first three seasons set a pretty quick pace and covered lots of ground ... what did season 4 accomplish besides turing Lana into the most irritating character this side of Firefly ...
Here's the Serenity trailer. It's 64.5% lame but the version I saw in the theatre had 38.7% of that lameness edited out. It looks like a cliche-fest except it's a Western ... or it would be a Western if all the characters weren't total fops. Which they are. I dunno, I tried to watch Firefly but it just didn't gel, y'know. Firefly? What kind of name is that? Serenity is even worse. Serenity. Serenity. Serenity. It's a Western. Serenity. You figure it out.
Okay, enough crap ...
Season 2 of BSG is running on Friday nights! And near the end of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica, the rag tag fleet runs into the Battlestar Pegasus, borrowing a page from the original series (the day the Cylons attacked was a bad day for Cain to quite sniffing glue). Hear that sound? It's the sound of a million geeks spooging.
Okay, quickie BSG reviews:
EPISODE 1 Frak, what a great show. Second season starts with a bang, keeping the tension cranked right up. Flashbacks with Adama and Tigh are groovy, nice stuf with Tigh overall ... his character continues to be the best on the show. Excellent space battle near the end.
EPISODE 2 Cyclons board the ship. Things somehow get even more tense and the running tally of remaining humans shown at the opening is set to drop again. Great Tigh moment when he figures out the Cylons' plan. GEEK BONUS: Phillip Glass is Starbuck's dad.
I kinda miss the Space:1999 homage in the opening.
Do you think Season 3 of Arrested Development will be influenced heavily by the Da Vinci Code? And do you think it should be? And do you think Tom Hanks should be banned from ever making a movie again?
SciFiDaily blog is great. They have a snap of the new Doctor's duds. BBC has a load, too. I dunno, it's treading a bit close to some of the loonier post-Tom Baker outfits. Or maybe it's an homage to Baker, sans scarf? It's fine I guess, just comb his freakin' hair already. Eccleston is gonna be a hard act to follow. Here's the CBC page.
Quick War of the Worlds review:
The sum of its parts doesn't add up to a whole. There's lots of good stuff, but at the end, it's an unsatisfying mix and has a hokey ending with people hugging and kissing and being friends again and everything. Updating the story to a contemporary setting makes the aliens' plan look stupid ... if they're so damn technologically superior, you'd think they would have guessed that alien microbes would be an issue. A better approach would have been a straight adaption of the novel set in the time it was written with a less technologically advanced Earth and Mars dukin' it out. Then maybe we could buy the microbe thing.
The good: Tom Cruise. He may be a Scientological nutjob, but he does a great job of taking his character from a cocky jerk to shock to shell-shocked and down from there. At the start of the movie we learn that his blue-collar character is the best crane operator there is ... if that was supposed to be a joke, it was lame. If it was supposed to make us think his character is cool, it was lame. Speilberg is lame. Special effects are good and most of the time the flick does a better job than most not looking "computery". The actor playing the daughter is good, the action is good, the pace is pretty good but loses steam at the end.
The bad: The kid playing the son and his character in general are both unforgivable Speilberg schlock. The film is top heavy like most recent Speilberg movies; all the good stuff happens in the first half and the second half just sort of yawns. Remember JAWS, Steve? Remember how it built to a great big finish? Of course you don't.
Ok, this is the end of the post ... right ............... NOW!
9:13 PM
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