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Poster for the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie unveiled. ...Meh.
Every time I think it's not the quality of the Lucas and Roddenberry franchises that's deteriorated, but rather my own attitude toward them, something reminds me that they were, indeed, redeemable. Flipping channels yesterday landed me on an ST:TNG rerun of "Family," a great little episode far removed from what a casual fan's expectation of what the series should be, but delightfully human. When TNG was good, it wasn't just good sci-fi, it was good TV, and people seem to have forgotten that. I'm thinking the (critical) successes of Firefly and BSG as well as the scorched-earth management policy might breathe new life into the whole Trek concept, but rewinding the show to Kirk's academy days.... If you think you can out-Kirk Shatner, you're just biting off more than you can chew.
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kateshort pointed me to a gallery of RPG motivational posters (first link dead, second still twitching), and I went ahead and perused the first 100 pages of the RPG.net thread, ganking my favorites. I just need to set up a Picasaweb gallery of 'em. (The latest update of Picasa supports Explorer-style browsing. Thank you, Internet gods.)
I know I've not done a picspam lately. I'm working on an auto-picspam generator to speed the process. Moo hoo haa haa. Fear me.
Possibly the weirdest sentence in the English language is: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”. Pete Bevin has never taught English comp, nor read an Erin Schneweis column. ("A train of no respect....")
Every time I think it's not the quality of the Lucas and Roddenberry franchises that's deteriorated, but rather my own attitude toward them, something reminds me that they were, indeed, redeemable. Flipping channels yesterday landed me on an ST:TNG rerun of "Family," a great little episode far removed from what a casual fan's expectation of what the series should be, but delightfully human. When TNG was good, it wasn't just good sci-fi, it was good TV, and people seem to have forgotten that. I'm thinking the (critical) successes of Firefly and BSG as well as the scorched-earth management policy might breathe new life into the whole Trek concept, but rewinding the show to Kirk's academy days.... If you think you can out-Kirk Shatner, you're just biting off more than you can chew.
The delightful
kateshort pointed me to a gallery of RPG motivational posters (first link dead, second still twitching), and I went ahead and perused the first 100 pages of the RPG.net thread, ganking my favorites. I just need to set up a Picasaweb gallery of 'em. (The latest update of Picasa supports Explorer-style browsing. Thank you, Internet gods.)I know I've not done a picspam lately. I'm working on an auto-picspam generator to speed the process. Moo hoo haa haa. Fear me.
Possibly the weirdest sentence in the English language is: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”. Pete Bevin has never taught English comp, nor read an Erin Schneweis column. ("A train of no respect....")
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Aye, so true. I've heard many critics, fans, and friends say this. Most of the best sci-fi shows are good when the sci-fi stuff is secondary. Yeah, people like spaceships, laser, etc., but if you can't care about the people the flashy stuff will only take you so far. A lot of people are complaining that Hollywood currently has computer graphics as the star, not as a tool to help tell as story.