...they need Navigators to fold space in the books because AI computers are banned.
"It's shaping up to be "World War Z In Name Only"" — Max Brooks
Folding space in the movie wasn't that different from in the book and miniseries - no, the Guild Navigators "fold space" using the ship engines, they just steer them. Folding space was not an exclusive idea to the movie, so why defend it as something the movie introduced?
May our children forgive us.
This has nothing to do with Bene Gesserit Voice: the books describe that as a form of hypnosis, using just the right tones which trigger certain parts of the brain which make people susceptible to suggestion. Science fiction, yes, but fairly grounded: auditory stimuli affecting brain function (not that different…
David Lynch's Dune has many problems, and I hate it, but even I would say that it doesn't rank among the "most unfaithful movies ever" - parts were stupidly changed....specifically, the "sonic weapons" thing was idiotic (they didn't have the SFX to show that Prana-Bindu training is super-fast martial arts, but they…
The animated version of "Animal Farm" ends with the animals successfully overthrowing the pigs....a drastic departure from the downer ending Orwell wrote, which really felt forced given how tragic the original novella was.
In all fairness, Philip K. Dick really liked the "Blade Runner" film adaptation.
"You've got to start charging more than a dollar a bag for this ice; we lost five more men on our last expedition to the arctic!"
It's basically the same animation quality/style as in the Green Lantern Animated Series....this is not a bad thing. I was afraid they were going to go with a far more anime-inspired kind of thing. Not great animation, obviously made on the cheat because insultingly they're just churning out product, but I have no…
But I *want* to know about the Underverse.
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Question: is the destruction of Krypton in the film purely due to over-mining the planet's core? This was a couple of DC metaverses back, but the backstory I liked was the "Black Zero" one, which is kind of reminiscent of the whole Genesis Chambers thing: thousands of years in the past, Kryptonian society had grown…
One of the reasons I'm so angry at Ron Moore, as a writer on the show, isn't so much that *I* was let down and lied to...well, that does hurt, but the thing that really makes it hit home is that this *wasn't* just a badly written comic book or something: actors live in and inhabit those roles. Now Katee Sackhoff is…
"Think of them both as tragic victims of war"
Better than many of the other troper-ific "haha look he's a gleeful anti-hero" things that didn't work out in the long run (Baltar from BSG became self-parody, Captain Jack from pirates was intentionally a parody character, etc.)
Garak, on the other hand, was a chronically manipulative back-stabbing anti-hero....whose…
I felt sorry for Helena.
He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil.