Am just reading through this: More Than Meets Few Eyes At All by Micheal Peterson.

This isn't about his column itself (i'm reading it at the moment, and it's exactly what i'm arguing for below), just a couple of things referenced within it inspired me to post. From the blurb for "The Philosophy of Transformers":

"Transformers began with toys and ( Read more... )

From an interview with George Takei.

These are Takei's words:

"[J.J. Abrams] asked me if I'd have breakfast with him. He told me he'd been interviewing many actors for the part. He tried as hard as he could to find an actor of Japanese ancestry, which is what I am, but he found another actor who he thought would be wonderful. So he wanted to get ( Read more... )

"It's difficult having to hustle for jobs. Not knowing when the next job is coming in. It's hard. There are not enough roles out there. I try not to get wrapped up in it or I'll get depressed." - John Cho, an American of Korean descent (born in Seoul), on being an Asian-American actor ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfwRead more... )

"In one of the Australian film industry's most hotly-contested marketing campaigns, Queensland fought fierce interstate and international competition for this coveted project and is now in final discussions to become the enchanted world of Narnia." - Anna Bligh ( Read more... )

Am watching Twilight, and am actually kind of amazed at how much i'm enjoying it. (I reserve the right to make fun of it still!)

My favourite character is the guy in the restaurant who was thinking "Cat".

He may well be my favourite character of any movie.

My least favourite character is Edward's hair.

"[W]hen you mention the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much how I see contemporary society." - Alan Moore ( Read more... )

Wow.

Julius Sykes went to an amazing effort with this: Brave New World: The Government, Culture and Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets.

Also, "The existing evidence establishes the United Federation as a Marxist communist society." - hehe, told you so ( Read more... )

Have seen Star Trek, have very mixed opinions. I actually think there was a lot of awesome about it, though also a lot of atrociousness.

( Thoughts under text, to avoid possible spoilage. )

I don't want to be spoiled for the new Star Trek movie, but a friend pointed me to a review that mentioned that the scriptwriters are Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. I mentioned Orci and Kurtzman once before in reference to Star Trek and utopian fiction, but somehow didn't twig, at the time, that they are the writers of the Transformers movie ( Read more... )