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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #725 on: January 27, 2017, 02:56:30 pm »
SciFi thought of the day..


What would the Enterprise would look like if the Boeing, SpaceX, or Blue Origin built the Enterprise.

That's easy. It would look like a female reproductive organ. Just like so many in popular cinema. Feminazis have complained for decades about how spaceships in movies always look like male phalluses. Explaining to them that this design is known, not as "phallus- shaped," but "aerodynamic" (like bullets, airplanes, arrows, etc) will only get a dismissive snort. The fact that aerodynamic shapes happen to also resemble male reproductive organs is not a moral failing of males.

However, since art-designers for films/T.V. ventured into using realistic designs, (a trend that started with 2001: A Space Odyssey and continued with Star Trek, Star Wars etc.) the fact that spaceflight in a vacuum does not require a vehicle to have aerodynamic shape (there being no air in space) set them free to go hog wild with all sorts of odd shapes for star ships. Close Encounters of the Third Kind introduced the "floating sports stadium" look, then, many shows realized that they could at long last undo the years of "oppression" of women by aerodynamics and finally make spaceships that looked like vulvas. One after another.

Virtually every time I see a "new" design for a spaceship on T.V. or in films, I just expect it to resemble a vulva now. After all, the Feminazis have centuries of catching up to do to "get even" with patriarchal domination.

Below is one of the most famous vulva-shaped space ship designs from Star Wars but there are dozens and dozens of them if you pay attention.
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #726 on: January 27, 2017, 04:05:52 pm »
This King Arthur movie could be better than Excalibur..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja9kDkmjdHQ

I wish they'd make a more historically accurate King Arthur movie. They always insist on having it set in medieval times (1000-1300). It would be more accurate to have it in late Roman times, just after the Romans abandoned Britain. They would not be armored knights in chain mail. They'd be Roman style infantrymen/light cavalry.

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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #727 on: January 27, 2017, 04:10:43 pm »
I wish they'd make a more historically accurate King Arthur movie. They always insist on having it set in medieval times (1000-1300). It would be more accurate to have it in late Roman times, just after the Romans abandoned Britain. They would not be armored knights in chain mail. They'd be Roman style infantrymen/light cavalry.

They did. Clive Owen and Keira Knightly were in it. It wasn't terrible.
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« Reply #728 on: January 27, 2017, 04:11:49 pm »
They did. Clive Owen and Keira Knightly were in it. It wasn't terrible.

Hmmmm.... I'll have to look that one up. Thanks!

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« Reply #729 on: January 27, 2017, 04:15:16 pm »
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/

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Like I say - not terrible. Entertaining. Some anachronisms to let the audience relate, but nothing really out there.
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #730 on: January 28, 2017, 01:28:56 am »
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Feminazis have complained for decades about how spaceships in movies always look like male phalluses.

Ya don't say!  :tongue2:

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« Reply #731 on: January 28, 2017, 01:43:42 am »
Ya don't say!  :tongue2:


I saw that movie. It was a riot! More parody than an 'adult film', for sure.
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #732 on: January 29, 2017, 10:27:24 pm »
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/

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Like I say - not terrible. Entertaining. Some anachronisms to let the audience relate, but nothing really out there.


I saw it too, I thought it was OK.. It was better than the one with Sean Connery.
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« Reply #733 on: January 29, 2017, 10:32:19 pm »
Well I saw For the Love of Spock and I liked it. I thought it was better than Trek Nation...
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #737 on: January 31, 2017, 12:39:24 am »
Isn't a three-year run in the role kind of traditional?   :shrug:

Yes, but kind of sad because it usually takes a couple of seasons for the writing to match the new Doctor, except for Mat Smith - they knew he'd be the crazy-funny guy.

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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #738 on: February 03, 2017, 01:20:37 am »
Anyone have thoughts on "Travelers"? (Netflix)

I just finished the final episode.

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« Reply #739 on: February 03, 2017, 01:31:23 am »
Anyone have thoughts on "Travelers"? (Netflix)

I just finished the final episode.

Yeah, if you made it all the way through I am going to give it a try. I have a hard time finding anything to watch anymore. So I end up watching nothing. Not that that is a bad thing. But I enjoy a good show.
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« Reply #740 on: February 03, 2017, 01:33:27 am »
Anyone have thoughts on "Travelers"? (Netflix)

I just finished the final episode.

I haven't seen it, but it sounds interesting.  I'll add it to my "to be watched" list.

I have been watching Knights of Sidonia on Netflix, and enjoying it quite a lot...
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #741 on: February 03, 2017, 02:37:09 am »
Yeah, if you made it all the way through I am going to give it a try. I have a hard time finding anything to watch anymore. So I end up watching nothing. Not that that is a bad thing. But I enjoy a good show.

For me, it started a little slow, but the plot is well developed and unfolds nicely. Good characters for both the travelers and non-travelers. Of the Travelers, the heroin addict is my favorite) he's a  brainiac. Started out hating a non traveler who is a social worker; but by the end, he had won me over.


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« Reply #742 on: February 03, 2017, 02:46:26 am »
For me, it started a little slow, but the plot is well developed and unfolds nicely. Good characters for both the travelers and non-travelers. Of the Travelers, the heroin addict is my favorite) he's a  brainiac. Started out hating a non traveler who is a social worker; but by the end, he had won me over.

I just watched the pilot. Looks good (enough to watch more). Thanks for the tip.
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« Reply #743 on: February 03, 2017, 10:53:14 am »
You might also want to try "Glitch."  It's an Australian take on the dead returning, and nicely different than all the other shows with similar themes.  It starts a bit slow, but it's worth continuing.
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« Reply #745 on: February 04, 2017, 11:05:07 pm »
Well I watched the first two episodes of The Expanse and it is good..
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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #746 on: February 04, 2017, 11:27:12 pm »
Well I watched the first two episodes of The Expanse and it is good..

I like the expanse because it shows where we should be with a great leap forward coming.

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« Reply #747 on: February 04, 2017, 11:32:08 pm »
I like the expanse because it shows where we should be with a great leap forward coming.


Two parts of The Expanse I don't like..


1. The UN Controls Planet Earth.. :(
2. Still stuck in the Solar System (well according to the books they will go Interstellar).
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« Reply #748 on: February 04, 2017, 11:35:30 pm »

Two parts of The Expanse I don't like..


1. The UN Controls Planet Earth.. :(
2. Still stuck in the Solar System (well according to the books they will go Interstellar).

True about the UN but they aren't portrayed as a great hope for mankind. The UN is portrayed as antagonistic and oppressive both on earth and in space.

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« Reply #749 on: February 04, 2017, 11:53:45 pm »
True about the UN but they aren't portrayed as a great hope for mankind. The UN is portrayed as antagonistic and oppressive both on earth and in space.


Which I'm surprised in how they are portrayed.
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