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I saw the 2001 and Tron references, plus the reference to Space Invaders, which was a first generation arcade video game rather than SF. Oops; I followed the link and saw today's strip rather than the Saturday strip initially mentioned. That's where the Space Invaders bit came in.

Re: Actual B5:TLT News But considering what we've been hearing about the more extensive use of "virtual sets" in the TLT, the live action shots *may* also be noticably different ..... especially when directly intercut.

Or, alternatively ....... The second part is true but not the first. That is to say, maybe one will sometimes do the job, but the odds of fertilization increase with each additional appendage used (and volume of sperm deposited. For those who think that evolution will always simplify...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Well, almost *every* TV has some good quality character moments that don't make it into the show itself. You can see them under the "Deleted Scenes" heading in the DVD extras. Clearly not anything like all of the deleted scenes are things that are all that good. In...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Yes there was, though I don't recall the episode name. (I *think* that it was 2-parter.) I think that would something more like "emote almost as well" instead of "just as well". As skillful as the Henson puppeteers are, Rygel and Pilot were never going to have as many...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News It's pretty clear that humanity has no contact with any aliens in the Firefly universe. (Whether any *exist* somewhere outside the range of human travel is, naturally, an open question.) There are no possible places to trade with non-humans if think through the...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Of course there those people out there ..... just like ther were people who watched a couple minutes of B5, decided that Londo's hair was too much like Bozo the Clown and tuned out. Both reactions were much more common among people who were not SF fans in general ...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I think you've hit on a major point. However, I don't think that it's the humanoid form (2 arms, 2 legs, etc.) that people need to see. Further down you talk about the subtlety of actors expressions. That's hinting at what I think is the human-like thing that people...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News However, it's not clear to me whether it can be done convincingly *yet* on a TV series budget and turn around schedule. That becomes a particular issue if your CGI characters need to directly interact with your live human actors. I mean, even with the time and budget...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News That doesn't mean that it's any more a thing-of-the-past than it ever was. The SciFi Network (US) made a conscious decision to move away from space and aliens sorts of shows. That only reflects one small group of "suits". (Farscape started in 1999, and so *barely*...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Except that I think that this shifted at least part way back toward a more normal mix once many of those active-on-the-net fans became aware of WB's recurring hub problems in the packaging ..... and the associated high rate of scratched disks and return / exchange issues...

However, on the "barely play well enough to keep their jobs" end, a *key* part of that is "in the NBA". There are lots more players that are very similar, but were the last cuts, or are playing overseas, or are still playing in college, or decided that they were better off starting their...

I'm more inclined to agree with KF on this one. (Although I would probably call full mundanes P 0's and give Ivanova a P 1/2, or something similar. It just seems to me that a rank of 0 ought to really mean Zero.) My guess for most likely distribution would be more like the right half of a...

So, is this the flip of the story of Brimstone? ;) :p

Re: Technomages and Their Tech (implants) Or, possibly ... An issue of possible side effects of the release of as much energy as would be involved interacting with the rift? Or concern about the Great Machine directly exploiting the rift in a desparate defence?

I disagree. Not with the "not saying much" part; that's definitely true. For me the one decent bit in that whole movie was Kirk going (as only Shatner can quite do): "Excuse me. Why does God need a star ship?"

They're both your basic late-1960's -> 1970's Clint violent action-fests. It's just that there are some holes in the writing of both of them. In The Eiger Sanction Clint plays a character that sounds *very* worthy of a Matt Helm style send-up of spy flicks (top secret agent assassin; professor...

Charlettes Web being done in live action bugs me less. In that one that animals are actually farm animals. All of the basic facts fit well enough. Underdog, however was the kind of thing where all of the dogs bipedal people, supplanting humans in the universe of the story. Underdog was a...

Re: Firefly convention cancelled. Cast shows up an Then how do you explain Cleopatra 2525? Or does the theory assume some minimal level of competence in the show's writing etc.?

I would take KF's "no market" comment to mean that they would sell anything like anough of them to make the publishing economically viable ...... not that there wouldn't be a single copy sold. While I am sure that some copies would be sold, I think he's probably right. I think that an explicit...