Good Googely Woogely! !!!! The Cylons are FUNDIES!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

The new BSG series and the preshow makes it pretty clear, the Cylons are being written as fundie robots!

Now, THAT is original.

Anyone else watching it tonight?

[okieinpain]

1. yep, we need a bsg thread there are several going now.

[alittlelark]

5. We need one thread - ie: Malloy/Olberman,

or our own room (I pray this sci-fi works out - I see GREAT possibilities!).

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. I tried starting a thread in the SciFi Forum but there was no traffic

for the first half hour...

There just aren't enough of us SciFi Geeks to keep a thread like this going...

sigh.


Sunday.... Carnivale!

[MikeG]

2. #By your Command#

[alittlelark]

3. TIVOing it - Hubby wants us to watch it together......

.....but I've been cheating!!! They are Soooo Fundie - 1 belief, 1 focus, no independant thought.....

[Deja Q]

4. Starbuck should just sit'n'shit at Starbucks. Bad. Bad. BAD.

Ugh.

"ready room"

CGI cylons that look anorexic and have no cool scary 'whoosh' noise

Contemporary computer jargon terms...

And outer space scenes that looked like the f/x team from Firefly did them...

Ugh.

[alittlelark]

6. Oh, please, I don't want to hear that!!!!

I want/need this show to ROCK!!!!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. BOOOOO! Hypnotoad! Baaad Hypnotoad!

(LOL) Hey, It's better and fresher than any other Scifi weekly to come out since B5. 'Sides, I wanna like it!

:toast:

[Deja Q]

8. Funny, isn't it. How a remake is fresher than anything 'new'.

And even then, most 'new' things are ripoffs of startrek or aren't even really sci-fi (Xena, et al).

Meanwhile, I'm hyped for the continuation of Blakes' 7 and Doctor Who - which are being made only because the BBC wants money and can't do anything even remotely original anymore either. (Edit: Well, I am for B7. But I'm not so keen on this re-imaging of Dr Who. On the surface and what has been leaked, it looks all wrong - too contemporary for one thing, lacking in the unique eccentricies being another...)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Good point, but this is so far from a remake that to me, it's closer to

B5 than it is the original BSG.

It's still a "wagon train" in space, but completely character rather than gimmick driven.

And, like you, I'd love to see a renewal of Blakes' 7.

I never got to see much of Dr. Who though, so a remake would be entirely new to me.

As to something new, I'd still like to see a decent make of Farmer's Riverworld. Talk about the potential for a "never ending series."

[Deja Q]

10. Actually, this new BG is somewhat improving...

as with the new miniseries, there's too much too-contemproary jargon, but it's not really bad.

It's a mixed bag, though... but sufficiently worthy. :-)

WHat's "Farmer's Riverworld" about?

[Elidor]

11. Farmer's Riverworld

That sounds like the hack job Sci-fi did on Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld. God, it was disappointing.

You guys are making me wish I had the original BG. Those cylons were the shit! But the cognitive dissonance of imagining the Bonanza theme every time it came on sort of killed it for me.

Lorne Green
As Greene as the Swamp Thing
I rhyme like a dingaling
Lorne Green
As green as my –––––––!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. They absolutely BUTCHERED the novels...

It was a damned shame.

[Elidor]

16. Oh, that's an understatement!

I tried to like it, I really did. I tried to be forgiving, but it was a travesty. Someone could do that justice, someone like Peter Jackson, perhaps.

But I'd rather Jackson did Ringworld. That story needs telling so badly. And that's probably how it will be filmed someday: so badly.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. Absolutely.

I was in the same place. I think they scrubbed it after Kevin Smith died halfway through production and just finished it as cheaply and quickly as they could.

I'd love to see someone do Stranger in a Strange Land and the other Long family books of Hienlien.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Riverworld, To your Scattered Bodies go and several short stories

and other novels...

Basic premise is that everyone whe over lived from the Neanderthal to the end of the world is suddenly reborn along a vast winding river on an alien planet. Main characters included Mark Twain, Tom Mix, Richard Burton, Alice Hargeaves, Herman Goering and John Lackland.

They can't die without being reborn again and the main objective throughout the novels is to get to the headwaters and discover the creators.

Worth the read.

[EstimatedProphet]

13. Interesting twist, isn't it?

It explains Jerry Falwell, that's for sure.