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- AdolescentMasturbator - 09-07-2002
Here is a link. First the Invisible Man, then Lexx, then Farscape. Great Sci-Fi wants to become the channel that just reruns cheesy movies from the 80s.
Edited By AdolescentMasturbator on Sep. 07 2002 at 11:38
- fbd - 09-08-2002
sci fi is merging with tbs, tnt, and comedy central?
- Jack - 09-08-2002
I never saw the show personally.
I really haven't watched Sci-Fi Since Space Above and Beyond was cancelled. I used to watch Seaquest DSV and Earth 2 as well. Those were the days.
- crx girl - 09-08-2002
great, there just went my last reason to live :disappointed: congrats to whomever had 27 in the pool...
- The Sleeper - 09-08-2002
good, sci-fi sucks
- Arthur Dent - 09-09-2002
It's fucked up. Sci-fi keeps killing off it's good shows. Wonder how long Stargate will last before the ADD Execs get bored with it.
Bad enough they show chopped up and pussified versions of horror films. They have to kill off all their shows.
Farscape MUCH > Star Trek
- Keyser Soze - 09-09-2002
sci-fi is for geeks. good riddance.
- Arthur Dent - 09-09-2002
Quote:great, there just went my last reason to live congrats to whomever had 27 in the pool...
All those who want to give CRX a new reason to live, raise your hands.
:lookatme: :lol:
- Ken'sPen - 09-09-2002
Star Gate Blows,
the movie sucked and the TV show is unwatchable.....
I must say however Keyser that the great philosophers of our age are sci fi authors.
Not the L Ron Hubbards,
but the good ones.
(and no, not hacks writing Star Wars book #112)
- Keyser Soze - 09-09-2002
i'm more interested in science non-fiction. i'm just a realist.
- Arthur Dent - 09-09-2002
An author once put it best. There's Sci-Fi and then there's Science Fiction.
Sci-Fi is like junk food. It's just lots of special effects and gadgets just for the sake of having special effects and gadgets. A quick ride with no substance.
Science Fiction is like steak. It uses unusual situations to view humanity from a new perspective or to teach a lesson in a way that people will listen to without feeling preached to. The special effects and gadgetry are secondary to the story.
Most television and movies are just sci-fi junk. True science fiction is much harder to find.
- Ken'sPen - 09-09-2002
Many of the best sci fi writers of today are writing good fiction that is based on hard science......
A good story with good characters is all I look for,
Tom Clancy raves about my man Larry Niven,
Sheffield, Brin and others have Engineering degrees up the ass, but are capable of writing good stories as well.....
- Arthur Dent - 09-09-2002
Not to mention the classics like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Carl Sagan.
TV and movies never do justice to real science fiction because they beleive they have to dumb everything down for the audience. The only real science fiction films I can think of seeing in recent years are "Contact" and "The Imposter". I still haven't seen "Gattica".
Want a good Science Fiction show? Try "Oddysey 5" on Showtime. Very cool show.
And by the above definition, Star Trek is like 80% Sci-fi and 20% Science Fiction. Star Wars is a fantasy playing with sci-fi toys.
- Ken'sPen - 09-09-2002
Star Trek is 100% bull shit and you know it......
Warp speed is obviously light speed of some sort...
so they aren't usind worm holes or other creative outs to explain how they shoot across the galaxy,
so why is there no aging probs.
I forget what the term is but if a ship is traveling close to or at light speed there is a time dialation or whatever where they age at a different rate than everyone else...
the way they flit about their friends and families should have been long dead.......
- Keyser Soze - 09-09-2002
Contact and Gattica were excellent.
- Ken'sPen - 09-09-2002
Asimov was the first I read,
Niven's Lucifer's Hammer got me hooked.
- Arthur Dent - 09-09-2002
Been a long time since I looked it up, but the warp field has the effect of minimizing the "friction" that makes lightspeed the ultimate speed limit. The star fleet symbol is supposed to be some kind of the power curves or something. And yeah, it's all just a lame justification for a vague idea Roddenbury used for the show. Wasn't until ST:TNG that the writers started talking to real scientists and using real theories mixed in with all the pseudo-science crap.
There is a really amazing novel about the relativity effect your talking about. In the book, earth picks up signs of a fleet of alien ships off in the distance end of the galaxy. They put together a crew and send them out and 80% the speed of light. For them the trip was about 10 years each way while on earth about 10,000 years would go by. They're familied died of old age before they'd been gone a few weeks. Can't remember the name of the book right now.
- crx girl - 09-10-2002
Quote:sci-fi is for geeks. good riddance.take that back, farscape's my favourite show :disappointed: