It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.
Tuesday, February 20
Things I Learned From Stargate
- Planets are small things, rarely supporting more than a handful of villages.
- The two most dangerous professions in the galaxy are Space Marine and Senior Medical Officer.
- All pre-industrial civilisations are blissed-out hippies.
- All post-industrial civilisations are stupid.
- All industrial civilisations are psychotic.
- You can get away with anything if you can plausibly lay the blame on a parallel universe.
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Well, of
course you can get away with anything if you can plausibly lay the blame on an alternate universe. The tricky part lies within that word, "plausibly," of course.
Posted by: GreyDuck at Tuesday, February 20 2007 07:54 PM (GRUEw)
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95% of habitable planets look like Vancouver, Canada.
Unless the hot chick is Goa'uld, she's likely a good guy.
Few aliens have discovered sarcasm.
Posted by: Will at Wednesday, February 21 2007 12:10 PM (SOx9v)
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Religion is based on the worship of stupid, post-industrial beings. Unless you're a "fanatic" and worship the stargate itself.
Any fraternizing between soldiers must immediately be followed by a time warp or a dimension hop.
True love is doomed. The best you can hope for is to be with your loved one after you've died.
Even if your planet has had no outside contact for thousands of years, you will still speak modern english.
Posted by: owlish at Wednesday, February 21 2007 03:00 PM (Pnk6d)
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Even if your planet has had no outside contact for thousands of years, you will still speak modern english.With the solitary exception of Abydos.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 21 2007 09:44 PM (FSeIE)
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If you have an incredibly valuable and useful portal to thousands of other worlds, you will most likely forget how to use it, and only in the rarest circumstances will you guard it.
In contrast to pretty much all of recorded history, most civilizations are both peaceful and liberal.
One shot stuns, two shots kills, three shots disintegrates.
The floor is never "out of phase."
Posted by: TallDave at Thursday, February 22 2007 11:50 PM (odS+4)
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Sunday, February 04
The Other Magical Harry
Caught the first two episodes of
The Dresden Files today. If you haven't heard of this, and you like urban fantasy, you should check out
author Jim Butcher's site and then take a look in your favourite bookstore.
Anyway, the show: It's good. It's not a direct adaptation of the books, at least not so far; there are hints that some later episodes will be closer to the source material.* Also, there are changes: Harry's apartment is aboveground; the Blue Beetle has been replaced by a Korean War era Jeep (which is fine; the reason Harry drives the Beetle in the books works just as well for a Jeep, and a Jeep would make some of the scenes in the books work better); Murphy is brunette; and Bob has gone all Quantum Leap on us.**
None of these present a major problem, and Paul Blackthorne makes a great Harry Dresden. He's not quite how I pictured Harry... or wasn't, until I saw him playing the part. Valerie Cruz isn't Murphy, but I think she'll make an acceptable not-Murphy. Terrence Man isn't quite Bob either, but given the changes that they needed to make to Bob for TV, I think he'll do fine. Conrad Coates as Morgan hasn't shown up yet, though it's a good sign that they list him as a major character.
Overall, a strong thumbs up from me. SciFi have put the whole first episode online so you can take a look.
* From this page, episode 6 is titled The Storm Front; Storm Front is the first book in the series.
** You'll know what I mean when you see the first episode. You'll say "Who the heck is that?!" That's Bob. "Oh... He's gone all Quantum Leap on us!" It works okay though, and book-style Bob would have been tricky to bring across to TV.
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OMG! I
love Harry Dresden! This makes me almost want to get cable tv....
Posted by: Susie at Monday, February 05 2007 01:15 AM (Qkgxj)
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Hi Susie!
Our literary tastes collide once again. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 05 2007 03:45 AM (GaSFI)
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I've watched one and a half episodes. Pretty good.
Although the style of it reminds me of Angel. Right down to the beginning where Angel Investigations were living hand to mouth.
Picked up the first book to read while I'm in Melbourne next week.
Posted by: Andrew at Sunday, February 11 2007 01:18 AM (81C4m)
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