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A review copy of The Barsoom Project arrived from Tor Books the other day. There was no info included in the envelope, so I assumed it was something new from Larry Niven and started reading. A few hours later, John asked my thoughts on it.
“Maybe it would’ve been edgy in 1988 or 1990,” I said. “But in 2010 it feels dated, like the writers never left the 1980s.”
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As part of my geeky heritage, I enjoy staging fantasy fights. Khan Noonien Singh vs. Ming the Merciless. Pris vs. Six. Serenity vs. the Millennium Falcon. You get the idea. You’ve probably done it before, too. With The Fall, the second installment of Guillermo del Toro’s and Chuck Hogan’s vampire trilogy, I found myself pitting their parasite-based, bloodsuckers against some other current vampires.
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I still get a kick out of zombies and will pretty much give anything with zombies a decent shot. Even Zombie Strippers which, in the On Demand menu, sounded like a campy romp and turned out to be a deeply misogynist poopfest. Thankfully, The Walking Dead is far superior to Zombie Strippers.
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The structure of Colonial society was far more interesting than the Cylon bits or the religious bits and could have led to deeply thought-provoking discussions. Caprica was a missed opportunity to do some hard-hitting science fiction addressing the multitude of problems on Earth (terrorism, which has been well represented in the show, is not the only problem we have; nor is it the biggest).
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So, I’m sitting there, trying to watch Caprica, and all I can smell is cat pee. I think the that put a significant damper on my Caprica viewing experience. The other, non-peeing cat, had no such problems as she sat calmly on the ottoman, watching the entire show. I’ve only ever seen her do this with the Wesminster Dog Show.
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Hey, costume people? Let’s talk for a minute. I have a question. What the hell are you doing?Are you trying to make Alessandra Toressani look awful? Are you? She’s a cute girl the size of my pinky and you are dressing her terribly. Look, skintight metallics don’t look good on anyone except for American Apparel models and even they look like 1980s public access dance video understudies.
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If you’d told me in 1982 that Tron would be interpreted into couture in the year 2010, I would have looked at you perplexed and said, “What’s couture?” And I would have pronounced it “co-tore” because, well, I was six. Then I would have asked if, in 2010, I was married to Luke Skywalker because, well, you’d obviously know the future.
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As good as Carpica is, I’m finding that I’m simply not that interested in the architects of the Colonies’ ultimate destruction. We already know that, somehow, they’ll both succeed. What I’m interested in is the Adama family and I’m disappointed that there hasn’t been more of them. Cylons and grief and religion aside, the Adamas are the heart of the series. It’s their struggles – not Cylons – that tie BSG and Caprica together. I need more Adama and I need more Adama soon.
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This week’s episode of Supernatural is also the directorial debut of Jensen Ackles. Check out these behind-the-scenes photo of Jensen doing director stuff on set!
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I left “Rationalizing Comics and Sequential Art in the Classroom” annoyed with First Second for putting together a panel which implied that an education in visual literacy is for affluent kids. I left enraged (again) at public education in this country and how it’s set up to ensure that one segment of the population always succeeds and another segment always stays exactly where they are.
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I think the sexy Halloween costume phenomenon has entered a Sexy Event Horizon wherein “sexy” is spaghettifying into “satire”. (That’s probably not how event horizon and spaghettification work, but this topic makes me want to use smart words).
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So, it was grief and generalized fear of death that lead to the downfall of civilization. That’s hell of an advert for grief counseling.
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The Caprica DVD set also includes a Caprica t-shirt, so you can display your Caprica love to the world. The world will look at your shirt and wonder what this Caprica thing is.
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By WorldofHiglet- Quiz Time! I’m going to mix it up this week. So – a Cosmo quiz starting from the end back and going to the beginning, anyone? I hope the answer is yes because that’s what you’ve got…
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Earlier this week, Raygun Robyn attended a conference call with Eric Roberts and director Declan O’Brien in promotion of Sharktopus.
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Another property making its way through the reboot carousel is Godzilla. We heard about such a thing for years in the 1990s only to be hit over the head with that awful (dirty, no-good terrible) Roland Emmerich version of Godzilla back in 1998.
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