Search results

They do still have all of the negatives, by all accounts. However, what I've been reading over the last day or so is that that for many movies the fire got all of Universal's 35 mm positive prints that they would actually rent out to exhibitors. (Of course, for a lot of older movies there may...

You may have noticed in the news recently that there was a fire at Universal Studios. One of the things that burned was a film vault. The initial reports made it sound like a minor issue, but what I've been reading now looks much worse from a classic film viewing POV. It is true that the fire...

Well, no, I don't believe that is a point that is so self-evient that it does not need to be established, actually. In my opinion, a better analogy would be whether an American was subject to British or American law with respect to acts carried out inside the grounds of the American Embassy...

They got involved diplomatically, because it became an issue that involved other species present in the bars etc. where the fights occurred. They did *not* apply EA laws to the Drazi for performing their legal-under-Drazi-law acts of violence against each other. If they had done that...

No, they should not have. It was always made *very* clear that on board B5, in matters that are completely internal to a particular species it is their own planetary legal system that applies. (In interspecies interactions, things are different. But his was deffinitely "internal" to their...

However, it is also *possible* that the influance could have gone in the other direction. That the name "Shadows" (or, the original working name of "shadowmen") might have been what twigged the Jungian connection in JMS' mind and got him started moving more in that direction ....... as opposed...

From what I understand, it was actually pretty realistic ...... for that subset of political prisoners that the powers that be want to be able to parade around in very public repentence (and therefore want to not be *visibly* damaged at all). Granted that is a limited subset ....... they have...

My impression, though it certainly bears rechecking the intro to that section, was that the version that appears was written down after the pilot and before the series went into production.

I'm curious. What exactly felt so fake to you that it would be taken as belittling the concept or victims? I mean, there are some concessions to necessities of dramatic presentation (such as limiting the amount of repetition in the questioning, without which audience yawns multiply...

There's a difference between "bad" and "no fun to watch". IiRT is a lot like such movies as Sophie's Choice or Death and the Maiden: endured more than enjoyed, but extremely good at what it is doing. My vote for worst B5 episode always goes to Infection. It's the one that plays most like a...

Sorry. Typing without thinking between test runs at work.

Well, not really. At least not by my definition of "science fiction" (see above). Most of Jules Verne's writing is "science fiction". The fact that we have since caught up with most of the things that he speculated about (with the notable exception of the titular gadget in "The Time...

To me, the categories are not mutually exclusive. I'm not *just* talking about SF and fantasy, but it certainly applies to them. To my mind, if it includes fictional science or technology then it is science fiction. Star Wars certainly qualifies by that definition. However, Star Wars also...

Of course, that was not really an option ........ unless they wanted to scrap Sleeping in Light and rewrite and reshoot the whole thing.

On the other hand, "predominantly logical and analytical" doesn't necessarily equate to prudish or anti-sexual either. (Also, it is worth noting that the Borg in question *was* Human. She spent most of her life in the Collective and was used to approaching problems in that manner. However...

A real world note to add to the mention of the "Star Wars system": From what I've read, that is the system generally used on the international space station. Most of the time people who have studied a foriegn language, but haven't spent enough immersion time to "speak like a native", can...

You've never noticed that women move differently (when walking, running, etc.) when they're wearing high heals than they do when wearing gym shoes (or something similar)? Your eyes never need to get any lower than her butt (and often don't even need to get that low) to know that she's wearing...

I could have kinda accepted Seven choosing the skin tight jump suit (and it being an reasonably in-character choice on the grounds of sleek efficiency with nothing to catch in ships moving parts or whatever) if ...... *IF* ...... they had given "sensible" shoes to go with it. Shoes that you...

I have no idea about that show (being an American). However, I would expect that tracking down a specific episode title would become much more doable if you can come up with the title of the series. (For example, finding the episode title "To Serve Man" becomes much easier if you know that it...

Well, the full version of the "party line" has always been that at the end of S1 all of the relevent parties wanted basically the same thing ...... but for completely unrelated reasons. JMS had by then decided that previously planned coincidences of having that one character personally tied in...