One of the reasons I never watch any of those newfangled Star Trek shows is because whenever I turn one on there is a guy with an extra eyebrow sitting in a room with a woman who has an extra earlobe or a weird neck gabbing for half an hour about how they should get a space divorce. BORING.
I don't want to identify with creatures in space. I just want to see a fight between a space turtle and a space lobster. And who sez I wouldn't indentify with the space lobster anyway?
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
this is a good idea scott. but wouldn't the space turtle lobster fracas just be, like, the akira version of benji or the journey home or something? how about a film in space with no characters at all! it'd be like nasa footage only made up
― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/redhalcyon/me2.txt
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― de, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
In this battle, we all win
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Leee, I haven't read phoenix. Quick check on reviews gave me the impression it's deeper than most other mangas, you would agree?
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
But, if it does, I bet it comes from some neat whacko with a tricked out home editing studio.
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
<h2>TENTACLE PORN</h2>
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
My wife and I were just saying the other night that Pixar should do a serious, absolutely-no-cuteness version of Animal Farm.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
"Alien aliens
Life on other planets develops on its own, it doesn't have to imitate Earth at all. The basic physical, chemical and ecological rules are the same, but they allow infinite variation. An intelligent alien species will not look like a human in a funny suit - it may not even be similar to a vertebrate at all. Genetically we have more in common with an amoeba than any alien. And if they are not humanoid, their psychology and culture will be vastly different. Just as humans are different from each other and divided into a myriad groups, aliens will also be individual, not races where everybody is a wise mystic, stoic warrior or thieving businessman. "
It could be fun to make tight the "vow of sci-fi awesomeness" by including future studies stuff like forecasting methodology, the aims of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame etc
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― rejoinder, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Greg Egan: I think both effects apply. What disappoints me is that most SF filmmakers aren't even aiming for more sophisticated themes or a higher level of logical consistency, let alone real-world scientific plausibility. The science in, say, Lorenzo's Oil wasn't perfect - from what I've read, the oil prevented the formation of one marker for the disease, but has little or no clinical benefit - but by merely putting some simple biochemistry on screen and discussing it logically, that film beat 99% of Hollywood SF into the ground. So as well as all the mood-driven movies like Alien and Blade Runner, and the futuristic action movies like Terminator, I think there's room for a few SF analogues of Lorenzo's Oil.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
The film you're thinking of is the classic Silent Running.
Read about it here.
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
"And while I would love to see a crazy CGI flick about balloon-creatures extracting tin from air at the expense of a hive-mind's sanity, it's doubtful that it'll happen anytime soon."
this still sounds so good to me.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
{puts on his Aristotle hat}
Where would the katharsis come from?
― Aimless, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread sort of explains why I can't really stomach any sci-fi that's not set in the immediate future.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
hey scott:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_is_Wild http://www.amazon.com/Future-Wild-Phillip-Currie/dp/B0000YEDYU
show was made for you
― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Ever since this thread I imagine Scott sitting around at home watching third-generation VHS copies of Lancelot Link: Ape Detective.
― nabisco, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there may have been one where he went to space, actually.
― nabisco, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
dude scott you need to play metroid
― creme1, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
speaking of "space divorce," did anyone even see that lawyers-in-the-fyoocha show?
wtf was i on about
― gff, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_is_Wild"
this looks like a misanthrope's dream come true! i never even knew about it.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I totally remember a similiar thread to this one, but started by Tuomas! People just went "Star Wars lol".
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?
― gr8080, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
the discount CGI for 'future is wild' just adds to the fun, it's basically animal planet + sci-fi, you can not miss with nerd / stoner / sci-fi / animal geek sect convergence, 100% happy
Squibbons are air-breathing squid who can swing through trees. They swing better than modern day gibbons due to their lack of an internal skeleton. Because of their need to coordinate their many-muscled limbs and the complex visual perception needed to swing from branch to branch, their brains are highly developed. As a result, they are highly intelligent and can even outsmart a megasquid, which sometimes tries to eat them. It is implied that they have the capacity to evolve into sapient beings, thus allowing civilization to once again develop on Earth.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
they can even outsmart a megasquid! squibbons are amazing
― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for that, milton. i asked a similar question about fiction on this sci-fi thread if you have any examples:
School Me On Some Sci-Fi My Astral Brothers And Sisters!
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I think we're property
― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Century City, probably?
― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 30 June 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
films featuring no humans = that pokemon short. 15 minutes of some cartoon thing going 'Pika, Pika...'. not good.
― koogs, Saturday, 30 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
when they going to make a move about lichens and molds?
― sanskrit, Sunday, 1 July 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
alien vs. predator was kinda close.
― ian, Sunday, 1 July 2007 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
not to lichens & molds, but to "no people." (there were PEOPLE, but they were only vehicles to tell us that PREDATORS ORIGINALLY BRED THE ALIENS TO TEST THEIR YOUNG AS A RITE OF PASSAGE.)
― ian, Sunday, 1 July 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link