Sci-fi

i’m sure this is exactly the plot of some movie…

Last night I dreamed that I lived in a little apartment in a New York style apartment building, in a row of nearly identical apartment buildings that was completely enclosed in a shell from the outside world. In the center of the neighborhood was an expanse of green space, a little park about the same footprint as an apartment building, and one end of it opened to a dock and the sea beyond, with a big industrial garage door that would open and close. Everyone was in a panic and in the process of evacuating because we had been invaded by aliens, although we never actually saw the aliens themselves and there was nowhere to evacuate to. They had landed on the rooftops of our buildings and were slowly taking over. Even though we couldn’t see them, we knew their paths because wherever they went, everything turned dark and crumbly and dead. Walls, plants, furniture. And people who’d been “infected” or whatever began to look like zombies, with tattered clothing and purple circles around their dark dead-looking eyes. I was one of the unofficial leaders trying to get the remaining people to safety, and I was lucky in that even though I was running around everywhere, through infected areas, I hadn’t been turned into a zombie yet. I wasn’t sure where we were going to take people anymore, because the park had been taken over by the aliens. I thought that maybe it was possible for us all to gather on the roofs, since the park wasn’t safe anymore and we had nowhere else to go, but then remembered that the roofs were probably where all the aliens were gathered. I noticed that Bob and someone else were up on the 3rd floor of one of the buildings, and they […]

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i guess now we’ll NEVER meet the furlings

I’m actually surprised that Stargate lasted as long as it did. I thought that it was kind of running out of steam by season 7, and had definitely lost its way by season 8. The 200th episode, which aired last Friday, however, was absolutely fantastic. So many inside jokes, so much poking fun at themselves. SG-1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back SCI FI Channel confirmed that it will not renew its record-breaking original series Stargate SG-1 for another season, but will pick up its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on Aug. 18, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television. SCI FI issued the following statement on Aug. 21: “SCI FI Channel is proud to be the network that brought Stargate SG-1 to its record-breaking 10th season. Ten seasons and 215 episodes is an astounding, Guinness World Record-setting accomplishment. Stargate is a worldwide phenomenon. Having achieved so much over the course of the past 10 years, SCI FI believes that the time is right to make this season their last on the channel. SCI FI is honored to have been part of the Stargate legacy for five years, and we look forward to continuing to explore the Stargate universe with our partners at MGM through a new season of Stargate Atlantis.” Stargate SG-1, developed for television by executive producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate. SG-1, which originally starred Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge, began on Showtime, then moved to SCI FI after five seasons. The current cast includes Tapping, Shanks and Judge and newcomers Ben Browder, Claudia Black and Beau Bridges. It airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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logan’s island

looks like they remade logan’s run, except this time logan is called “lincoln six echo” and carousel is referred to as “the island.” clones on the run! “the island” is quite pretty (thanks to ewan and scarlett, and oh, that beautiful cinematography too) and flashy (hello, epileptic seizures, anyone?), and it’s been, as doc said when referring to the new battlestar galactica series, “surgically de-cheesed” from the original. i do realize there’s only so many movie plots in the world and thing get recycled with new skins and new details all the time, but this was remarkably transparent as a remake. logan: logan 5 and jessica 6. island: lincoln 6 echo and jordan 2 delta. logan: horrible catastrophe/contamination in the real world forces remainder of humanity to live in a contained society underground. island: horrible made-up catastrophe/contamination in the real world forces remainder of humanity to live in a contained society underground. logan: smart sandman comes to realize that there is life beyond the society he lives in, and takes a beautiful girl on the run with him to reach the outside world, which he finds has been safe for a very long time. island: smart clone comes to realize that there is life beyond the society he lives in, and takes a beautiful girl on the run with him to reach the outside world, which he finds actually exists and was never contaminated. logan: all members of society must go through carousel ritual when they turn 30. they believe it is a wonderful experience of rebirth and renewal, but in reality they die. island: some members of society go through lottery ritual. they believe they are going to the utopian paradise of the island, but in reality they die. logan: logan returns to destroy the master computer system that […]

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