Exactly like he said.:side:

My partner watches the new V series, but I haven't been able to get behind it. It suffers from (among other things) taking itself too seriously, and the NBC (and now ABC) tendency to over-hype everything and try to turn it into an Event. (Yeah, NBC even named another over-hyped series The Event, in a desperate plea to viewers.)

I'm old enough to remember when the original V miniseries came out. It was groundbreaking for its time, doing what good science fiction is supposed to do: hold up a mirror to our society. V was a heavy-handed Holocaust allegory, full of obviously good good-guys, obviously bad bad-guys, obviously immoral collaborators, and guinea-pig-eating aliens. It was also great fun, and a wonderfully heroic story of ordinary people standing up against tyranny. The final showdown between Julie and Diana (I won't spoil it if you want to Netflix it) still gives me chills.

(Please note these remarks only apply to the original miniseries. The subsequent mini- and regular series weren't as good. But I hear Diana from the original shows is being brought into the new series, so you might want to check out the old stuff before January.)

Sure, it's schmaltzy, and very 1983. But I highly recommend the original miniseries. It was written by Kenneth Johnson, who wrote for The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (in fact, he wrote the episode of the former that introduced the latter), The Incredible Hulk, and Alien Nation. When he was on top of his game, Johnson was a master storyteller.

He could also turn out some pretty dire dreck, although to be fair many of those were sequels to his original stories and may have involved a) other writers, b) excessive input from the studio, and c) not enough time.

All of this is just my opinion, YMMV. I'm just very opinionated about what I consider Kenneth Johnson's best works. He is one of my heroes.

Guess it is not canceled afterall! New season to premiere on Tues, Jan 4, 2011 :woohoo:

I like Hilary Clintons one
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I don't really know what to say. I think that's one of only a few things in my adult life that's made me cry. I know this is an American politician speaking about American problems but it's a problem we share.

Homophobia in schools has a devastating effect and every young life that is lost to suicide is a pain we all have to feel. I know our government seems intent (not the new coalition, every government) to ignore the problem despite a few openly gay Members of Parliament speaking out about it. I hope your government listens and something is done.

It does get better.

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Seriously, I want to have his babies.

/agreed

thats all.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/itgetsbetter

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No one has mentioned Starship Troopers! I love that movie, infact... I need to go watch it :)

As I recall, the only thing I liked about that movie was Casper Van Dien's naked butt in the shower scene. Actually, now that I think about it, that's the only thing I remember about that movie. Wasn't Barney Stinson in it, too? As some kind of Nazi psychic?

Would you like to know more? :p

Starship Troopers is an awesome film, one of my personal favourites. First time I watched it I was about 11 years old and I've loved it ever since.

And yes Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) is in it and he's awesome. I only learned recently that he's one of us.

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No one has mentioned Starship Troopers! I love that movie, infact... I need to go watch it :)

As I recall, the only thing I liked about that movie was Casper Van Dien's naked butt in the shower scene. Actually, now that I think about it, that's the only thing I remember about that movie. Wasn't Barney Stinson in it, too? As some kind of Nazi psychic?

Episode 70 - "Whom Gods Destroy" - 01/03/1969



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No one has mentioned Starship Troopers! I love that movie, infact... I need to go watch it :)

I'm unclear on what you mean by "non-conventional Sci-Fi Movies." Do you mean anything that's not a big budget Hollywood blockbuster? Or does it need to be talky rather than action-packed? How about comedies with a sci-fi bent?

Three come to mind:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Big Trouble in Little China
Galaxy Quest

But I don't know if they count.

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These were probably more popular than what you're asking for, but all worth watching IMO:

The Abyss
Contact
Serenity
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Lawnmower Man
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Running Man
The Last Starfighter
Enemy Mine
The Fly

Hehe....that should keep you busy for a while :-)

The Abyss is an A+.
I love Contact and watched it recently. I would LOVE it if they made a sequel.
Serenity was very good and made me watch the Firefly series.
Lawnmower Man was a bit cheesy, but decent.
The Fly was just gross.

I'll check out the other shortly. :) Thanks!