Three Things From My Head

[alasdair1076]

1.  The 2008 remake of The Andromeda Strain is really good.  To clarify, it's really good if you happen to like serious people, all of whom are very clever, sitting around a table in an underground silo trying very very hard to make sure we don't all die.  Oh and there are nukes.  And the cast is ridiculously good (Andre Braugher, Christa Miller,

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[wpeters]

Cross posted from the SFX blog:

This actually reminds me of a blog post I read a few weeks back that caused quite a stir in the Star Wars community. The author proposes (with tongue quite firmly in cheek - a fact that completely passed many fans by), that real Star Wars fans actually HATE Star Wars. He suggests that whilst many of us love the idea of Star Wars, we hate some if not most of the implementation. It doesn't matter what Lucas and co do with the Star Wars universe, it's not what we would have done.

After reading it I wholeheartedly agreed with his argument and I find I can equally apply it to Doctor WHO, Star Trek, Warhammer, Robotech religion - anything with a sizeable canon really.
I can't help feeling that this is where much of the negativity comes from.

Read it here, and remember he is a Star Wars fan himself:

http://www.jivemagazine.com/column.php?pid=3381

Wayne

[alasdair1076]

That's GENIUS. Thanks for pointing me at that:)

It's also absolutely true, especially for well...anything on that list...

[wpeters]

Wow! Communicating almost in realtime!

Also, That was meant to be Robotech and religion. Not Robotech religion - though reading through some of the posts by the scary people at Robotech.com one does actually wonder...

[alasdair1076]

The internet! Like the real world only shinierer and filled with more binary! I've listened to Jesus Jones, I KNOW WHAT'S UP!

Ahem.

Thankfully, despite writing for an anime magazine (And not actually watching much prior to that...ssshhhh) I have yet to fall foul of Robotech zealots.

Now Who zealots? They've jumped up and down on me a fair old bit:)

[morjana]

Justin Louis' character's name is Colonel Everett Young in Stargate Universe.

[alasdair1076]

Thanks for letting me know. Really looking forward to SG:U and having seen the good work he does as Colonel Ferrus in this, I think he's going to be a good fit:)