Entries Tagged as 'sci-fi'
Breakfast Links: Girl Scout, Dollhouse & Skin Disease v D&D
Some people are overly motivated. For example, this 15 year old girl who has sold 17,323 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. 17 thousand. (via) Honestly, though, I think it’s kinda sad. I mean, she worked 7 days a week, 3-7pm mon-sat and then 11-7 on sun from December to March. What the hell? Ah well. [...]
Categories: breakfast links · sci-fi · tv
Breakfast Links: Reaper, Iron Man 2 & Indiana Jones 4
Well you’ll be happy and relieved to know that CW has put in an order for 13 more Reapers. While it isn’t the most fantastic show out there, I still like it alot and recently it’s been on a getting really good trajectory dropping the tired formula that dogged the first many episodes and exploring [...]
Categories: breakfast links · movies · sci-fi · tv
Breakfast Links: Movies, WaSnake & Li’l Scientology
Ok, first just a pair of movie thoughts. First up John Scalzi writes for AMCTV his thoughts on whether or not Guillermo del Toro is the right man to direct the Hobbit (I really like that Scalzi). (via) I just like in his thoughts how he notes Jackson’s free ride through King Kong and Lucas’ [...]
Categories: breakfast links · movies · sci-fi
Review: Iron Man
I had pretty high hopes going into this movie, originally I was skeptical of Robert Downey for the part but the trailers immediately reversed my opinion and I went from eh to pretty psyched about it. And it doesn’t disappoint. The executive summary is I give it a 9, maybe just under a 9 on [...]
An awesome Star Wars fan flick
Found this on Michael’s blog and it’s pretty awesome. It’s probably about twice as long as it should be, but it’s pretty good - they got some mad light saber effects in there and it’s cool to see them thinking outside the box with how to play with sabers and the force. Good times. I [...]
Terminator, Turing and AI
So I thought the second to last episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles was really excellent, the scene were she walks out of the apartment with the two Russians not only was some of the best TV I’ve seen recently but it retroactively made the series great by contextualizing Cameron’s attempts to “humanize” herself. (Compare [...]
Sarah Connor - will it… be back??
So the finale. To me it was a mixed bag, I was all iffy pretty much through the whole first half - a throwback to the boring early episodes. I think this was largely because it had mom and son on screen most of the time. They just aren’t good at the show, it seems [...]
Under the Tusken Sun. Nice.
This has been making the rounds, it’s pretty awesome. Who knew that Tusken raider ladies were so hot! But the very, very best part of the video is the ending. Oh. Good times.
Ok, I like the Sarah Connor Chronicles
UPDATE: Check out the interview with Summer at the A.V.Club. (via)
Well, this last episode of Terminator sealed the deal for me. I like the show, two in a row of good stories and good acting and good times. This episode continues my theory that Summer Glau and Brian Austin Green are what make the show [...]
Whedon, Glau & Terminator
A li’l smörgÃ¥sbord of news bytes. First up is this interview with the Whedon. Not the most comprehensive, a little bit on Dollhouse - where he suggests that it’s moral greyness may anger some of his fans (given his usual good v. evil stance) - I dunno about you, but I’m looking forward to it! [...]
