Posted on 09/23/2012 4:32:14 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (09/23/12)
Monday:
8/7 -- Alphas -- SyFy
9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Revolution -- NBC
Friday:
9/8 -- Haven -- SyFy 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
I didn’t watch Revolution because I thought the premise was ridiculous.
Someone posted a thread soon after it, and it got mixed reviews.
I did watch The Last Resort. For some reason, ABC released the first episode to On Demand and online, even though the actual premier isn’t until later this week. I will catch another episode or two, but I’m not sure it has a premise that will last very long — an American sub gets secondary instructions to fire nuclear missiles on Pakistan, but when it asks for confirmation, it gets fired upon by another US warship. The sub and crew go rogue.
Not Fi, but Si ...
interesting video entitled “How to Get to Mars”:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0
I picked up Outcasts on Netflix. What a shame that BBC did not pick up a second season. I enjoyed it much better than BSG.
Si=Sci
I will most likely watch LR on the idiot box and see but I don’t see it working.
Dr. Who was fair this week. No doubt there have been budget cutbacks at the Beeb. I would give it a C+. It had a few good moments.
I will most likely watch LR on the idiot box and see but I don’t see it working.
Dr. Who was fair this week. No doubt there have been budget cutbacks at the Beeb. I would give it a C+. It had a few good moments.
I liked it. They address the fact that the blackout shouldn’t be possible very early on. and there is a “game changing” scene at the end.
I liked it enough to download it from iTunes (for free).
It’s not perfect, but if they go the right way it could be very good.
Collecting space and science related videos to load onto my grandson’s laptop he’s getting for Christmas. Thanks for that link ... it’s getting added. Have you seen ‘Race To Mars’?
Light sci-fi
Giants Fall
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/GIANTS-FALL-a-short-political-satire
I have not seen “Race to Mars.”
Is it on youtube?
Speaking of "Three", I watched "The Power of Three" episode of Doctor Who. Some of the stuff that they're putting in the dialogue is getting silly.
They've been traveling with the Doctor for "10 years" now, on and off? Bad enough that they disappeared for seven weeks on their anniversary (but at least they made it home the same day). A friend of mine was confused about the comment last week about Amy and Rory aging faster than their friends -- I had to explain that there was nothing wrong with them, except that they are living for days or weeks within a single day.
And don't get me started on the doctor's age! He managed to make it to 2010 and be a ripe old 905 or so. Now he's 2000. He more than doubled his age with a line of dialogue. I realize that he's some kind of immortal, but isn't that pushing it a bit? And he's still got a lot of life ahead of him -- he's only encountered River Song as two of his incarnations, so far. She's met more of him.
And on a tangent: my library expanded its collection of old Doctor Who on DVD! Woo hoo! Some have been updated, but I watched the original versions for all their cheesiness, and then watched the bonus material to see what they did.
Okay, enough. I'm rambling.
I thought it was ridiculous too. There was a scene where the militia were using musket loaders as their rifles while the black bad guy had a semi-auto handgun, which made no sense at all. I guess the premise was that even standard firearms were rendered useless following whatever happened when the power went out.
Swords, bows and crossbows as the primary means of self defense? Give me a F'n break..........this will be a one season pony only.
This season has been a bit of a disappointment. I think Moffet is running out of good script ideas.
Read my prior post regarding firearms. There's no reason why swords and bows and arrows should be the primary means of warfare.
I would imagine that it’s not that modern firearms would not work, but that the ammunition cannot be mass manufactured. Muzzle loaders could also conceivably be made with a “muscle, fire, and water” tech base, where modern firearms could not.
I doubt that a local strongman would have difficulty finding sufficient ammunition for his army only 15 years after everything stops tho.
In one of the scenes they said something about citizens not being allowed to own guns. I don’t think I dreamed that. Anyway, might explain the excessive use of bows, etc.
Lots at the Archive. Searching can be frustrating.
http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.1257628
“This film details the comprehensive coverage surrounding the July 1969 launch of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon. The film details activities of both the astronauts and mission control during pre-launch and launch sequences, daily activities aboard the spacecraft and the moonwalk, and provides a view of the historical and cultural events of the time. The footage includes clips from science fiction television shows such as “Flash Gordon” and “Buck Rogers,” as well as a lengthy segment on American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. The film also explores some of the critical preliminary stages of the Apollo program, including medical testing of the human body in space conditions, as well as the assembly and testing of space suits as worn by the astronauts.”
Prometheus available bluray DVD October 9
I haven’t seen it yet, But my plasma Panasonic should do it justice
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