Re: District 9gryaziNovember 20 2009, 21:25:23 UTC
Missed my chance to see it in a theater. The visual style looked spot on (as far as trailers) and the plot sounded only forgivably semi-retarded compared to the usual space opera.
2nd. Especially since they had just started to really line up the story arc and... *ding* gone.
Starting to want to just avoid an entire first season of any show to see if it's going to survive before getting into it or not. Then can get DVDs or off iTMS or whatever to catch up.
X-Mas special? The one with the giant Power Rangers Cyberman? Yeah, that blew ass.
But there's been two new episodes since then. Unless you're planning on watching the whole specials year in one blow, you should get 'em. One is a tolerably fun hour, the other is tolerable until the last fifteen minutes which are awesome.
I heard the Prisoner sucked, but only from people who love the original. I assume you saw the British version and still liked this new one?
I didn't hate it, but neither was it mind-blowingly good. Dubai is very pretty. What's her name's butt in leather pants was very pretty. David Tennant is very pretty. Nothing else happened in it. Maybe there was a bus.
You know what the New Prisoner trailer looked like? That episode. Plus Ian McKellen.
Pardon my ignorance, but is this a remake of the V mini-series, or a new show, or what? I saw some reference to Icke-vs-V yesterday (roughly, "what do you expect from a man who thinks V is a documentary") and found it weird that something I'd watched and read in the '80s was being brought up for a comparison point.
>I saw some reference to Icke-vs-V yesterday (roughly, "what do you expect from a man who thinks V is a documentary")...
I'm wondering if some of the conspiracy theorists will claim "V is trying to mislead people into believing that some of the Reptilians can be good."
I know there's at least a couple people who don't think the theoretical Reptilians are universally evil. But, for the most part, the people who talk about this stuff seem to think "Reptilian=BAD!" I think that kind of stereotyping is unnecessarily hateful toward our imaginary modern-day bogeymen. (Or am I engaging in a misinformation campaign?)
I may have only caught the first(?) episode - not sure, because it was after the writeup I'm about to mention - but V became completely intolerable when Time pointed out they were giving the Galactica-type 'srsness' treatment to every single right-wing birther trope. ...and then threw in the TERRARISM CONSPIR-AH-SEE thing on top of it, which jumped the shark right into orbit (nice trick!) but means I'll have to hear coworkers blathering about how "clever" and "intelligent" and "it really makes you think" it is for months to come.
(The same coworkers who are likely to still be forwarding around shit like that White-House-in-a-watermelon-field picture. And it's not even that I'm so partisan, I'm just sick of the stupidity and the... can "Palining" be a verb now?)
Outside of that whinge, it really is just exceedingly weird to see them try to remake what was basically a feel-good us-vs.-them Cold-War-was-still-on thing for the current era of WTFery. Again, I can only assume Galactica's success made them figure "why the hell not?", but
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I haven't watched South Park since about 2/3rds of the way through season 1.
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Also: "Community" has plenty of good geekiness.
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Make me feel better, what sucked?
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Starting to want to just avoid an entire first season of any show to see if it's going to survive before getting into it or not. Then can get DVDs or off iTMS or whatever to catch up.
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But there's been two new episodes since then. Unless you're planning on watching the whole specials year in one blow, you should get 'em. One is a tolerably fun hour, the other is tolerable until the last fifteen minutes which are awesome.
I heard the Prisoner sucked, but only from people who love the original. I assume you saw the British version and still liked this new one?
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I hated the original Prisoner. But I also hated all Dr. Who prior to 2005.
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You know what the New Prisoner trailer looked like? That episode. Plus Ian McKellen.
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I'm wondering if some of the conspiracy theorists will claim "V is trying to mislead people into believing that some of the Reptilians can be good."
I know there's at least a couple people who don't think the theoretical Reptilians are universally evil. But, for the most part, the people who talk about this stuff seem to think "Reptilian=BAD!" I think that kind of stereotyping is unnecessarily hateful toward our imaginary modern-day bogeymen. (Or am I engaging in a misinformation campaign?)
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(The same coworkers who are likely to still be forwarding around shit like that White-House-in-a-watermelon-field picture. And it's not even that I'm so partisan, I'm just sick of the stupidity and the... can "Palining" be a verb now?)
Outside of that whinge, it really is just exceedingly weird to see them try to remake what was basically a feel-good us-vs.-them Cold-War-was-still-on thing for the current era of WTFery. Again, I can only assume Galactica's success made them figure "why the hell not?", but ( ... )
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