@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:I desire to see and hear BEAUTY ALL OVER; I desire joy, elation, euforia,
Why the eff are you watching TV, then?
@DrewDad,
DrewDad wrote:
OmSigDAVID wrote:I desire to see and hear BEAUTY ALL OVER; I desire joy, elation, euforia,
Why the eff are you watching TV, then?
BEAUTY is freely to be found in many places,
including my 7 foot Hi Definition TV.
It gives me
mind blowing pictures.
I told my friend, Marty, over dinner: u don 't look as real as my HDTV.
I have a Bose system for the sound.
A lot depends on the programing tho.
Have u ever seen Natalie Dormer in Hi Def ?
@dyslexia,
The writers of a scripted series have usually written movies where they do, or do not succeed, in fleshing out real characters. In a series, the characters are overshadowed by the storyline and the introduction of sub-plots and new characters over the first season. SSC did pretty well shaping and bringing to life the main characters -- the cyborgs were just cyborgs with no personality. Now even the cyborgs are developing unique characteristics even though not much personality. You'd have to watch every episode from the beginning and I have to say, the main characters have been sufficiently drawn but some of the supporting additions (and subtractions) are not given much of a unique personality. Hey, that's like real life, isn't it? I've even met people who do seem to be robots. Mainly my right-wing wealthy customers, but so?
"Back to the Future" was only superficially a sci-fi flick and an homage to Frank Capra, very much resembling "It's a Wonderful Life" but without the time travel, of course. It's great fun on a teeny-booper emotional level with state-of-the-art special effects which earned an Oscar, but only nominated in technical categories and the screenplay, which did successfully evoke a sentimentality about one's high school days without getting too mushy. The time travel part of the story was drawn out of old sci-fi pulp but was carried off brilliantly, mainly because of Christopher Lloyd, the most endearing mad scientist in film (although he was more eccentric than mad). BTTF II had a long, very gritty and amoral, section in the alternate world part of the story.
III was a wild west story with the same thematic material as the first two.
@Lightwizard,
"Lightwizard" wrote:
Quote:"Back to the Future" was only superficially a sci-fi flick and an homage to Frank Capra,
very much resembling "It's a Wonderful Life" but without the time travel,
of course. It's great fun on a teeny-booper emotional level with
state-of-the-art special effects which earned an Oscar,
but only nominated in technical categories and the screenplay,
which did successfully evoke a sentimentality about one's high school days
without getting too mushy. The time travel part of the story was drawn out of old sci-fi pulp
but was carried off brilliantly, mainly because of Christopher Lloyd,
the most endearing mad scientist in film (although he was more eccentric than mad).
Candor moves me to admit
that tho I may be older, fatter n uglier than I used to be,
I still remain the kid of single digit age, inside looking out.
I applaud with great enthusiasm the work of
Christopher Lloyd,
who is
FANTASTIC in
EVERYTHING that he does.
He is indeed endearing; a uniquely talented artist.
Note, incidentally, that sci-fi pulp is OK by me.
I still have hundreds of comic books from the 1940s n 1950s.
Many of them, for which I paid a nickle or a dime,
now command hundreds of $$, but I don 't believe that I 'll ever sell them.
David
Pulp sci-fi was not especially in comic books -- the magazines were Amazing Stories but especially Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories. Astounding Science Fiction, which was renamed in the late 50's as Analog, Galaxy and later, If, were digest size serious sci-fi periodicals. A story along the lines of "Back to the Future" would never appear in the serious sci-fi zines -- it was based on bits-and-pieces of the mad scientist, time travel pulp zines and dime novels. It didn't even take itself seriously, so as escapism entertainment, it's fun for the two hours it takes to watch it. Other than that, if one's life is so bad they need to only need to be coddled by teenage level entertainment and reject the rest, I'd tell them to get a life. Beauty is still in the eye of the beholder. A beautiful story, TV series or film can be gritty, true-to-life drama even if it has a sci-fi backdrop. "Atonement" had it's beautiful opening romance, then the darkness of an obsessive jealousy, then went through the grittiness of war ending with Dunkirk, and a tragic ending (with, fortunately, a spirit of redemption). Blade Runner, in the sci-fi league, was from one of sci-fi's best writers, Philip K. Dick, who has had more films made from his books than any other sci-fi author. It is even grittier than SCC, but in a mesmerizing film noir storyline, and, thanks to a determined director, was finally released without the tacked on happy ending which ruined the first release.
If someone expects everything to be happy, gilded, fluff in their movies and TV series, I'd say they have a Pollyanna complex.
@Lightwizard,
now watching my second episode, getting interesting.
So the eel was part of the T-1001. I didn't see that one coming
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
now watching my second episode, getting interesting.
Did you start from the beginning of the first season, or are you just picking it up with the current episodes?
man if I had a 7 ft screen this would be a totally awesome program, if it was prettier and nicer and more pleasant.
@dyslexia,
Be careful who you're calling a bitch.
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:man if I had a 7 ft screen this would be a totally awesome program, if it was prettier and nicer and more pleasant.
Yeh, it if was just a bit prettier then we wouldn't have to be distracted by all that darn subplot and nuance.
I thought this was a fantastic season finale. This show doesn't seem to get stuck in one place for too long, it moves along, closing/confirming plot lines and opening new ones.
They've really changed the timeline now. The future John Connor doesn't exist in this line, but the skynet war still rages.
Did anyone notice the similarity of the shot with [future] Cameron sitting next to the Dog at the end of the show. It's almost a duplicate to the photo of Sarah Connor sitting next to the dog from the original film, the same photo that led Kyle Reese to go back in time to meet Sarah. And while they were composing the Cameron/Dog shot, Kyle Reese was meeting his son from a different timeline.
They've really messed up the timelines now. I hope season three doesn't get too convoluted and paint itself into a corner. I can endure a little bit of accidental paradox in time travel shows as poetic license, but just a little.
This last episode revealed so much that I'm still putting the pieces together.
In the middle of the show, Catherine sent Ellison to ask Cameron "will you join us". Cameron doesn't answer, but clearly recognizes the question, the end result of which is that she goes to John Henry (while pretending to have intentions of terminating him) and instead sacrifices her own CPU to him, and he promptly time-travels, presumably to the future. So the question is, "why"?
Now that he's in the future, the young John Connor will obviously fall in love with Allison (before the cyborg kills her and mimic's her). This show has been aching to put John and Cameron together all season, but they couldn't do it because network television just isn't ready for teenage boys to be boinking hot cyborgs (the closest they could get was the "put your hand on my mechanical heart", topless surgery scene). But now that they are both human, I predict different results.
@rosborne979,
Can someone explain to me why cyborgs wear support garments?
@DrewDad,
DrewDad wrote:
Can someone explain to me why cyborgs wear support garments?
What, you don't like them?
Season 3 of Sarah Connor Chronicles is at risk because FoxTV has not set for production yet. If you want to vote to keep it going, go here:
http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b117753_save_one_show_help_your_fave_see.html
I'm hoping that a big success with Terminator:Salvation at the theaters will urge FoxTV to continue the series.
