One "woo hoo!" and one "WTF?"
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trinityvixenBreakdown of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer. It looks like I was right: blondie is probably Diamond Emma Frost. There are only about thirty other dudes I didn't recognize, including Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. (That took some rewatching and pausing to find, as he's in it for less time than the close-up of Wolverine's dogtags.) I feel miffed that Diamond Emma would be featured so prominently, but given how stupid looking telepaths look in the movies, I'm happy to take that. As long as she's the bitch we all know and love, Diamond Emma is fine. (I really just think the telepath thing would detour the story too much. They're already juggling SO MANY THINGS.)
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JESUS H. CHRIST, I HOPE THIS PERSON IS KIDDING. REMAKE FARSCAPE!?! You know this article is a TRAIN WRECK from the first paragraph when you get to this:
There are a lot of cool ways this underrated show could return to TV as something darker, less campy, and more socially relevant, just like Battlestar Galactica did. And with all the good alien ensemble dramas evaporating from TV (later days, Star Trek: Enterprise and Stargate), now is the time to strike.
Gee, when I think of Farscape the first word that comes to mind is definitely "campy." And MAKE IT DARKER!?! They didn't even get out of the first season without torturing (literally!) the hero. After they first mind-fucked him, stuck him full of parasites, had his only friends in the far universe ditch him, throw him into mortal combat with a guy who hated him, and had him be possessed by a creature that forced him to kill. Yeah, that show is totally for lightweights.
Don't get me wrong--the show veered into crack territory and never left, but I'd be hard pressed to hold the faults of seasons 3-4 against the show when seasons 1-2-3 basically involved the main character (and others) being raped every other episode. Crack is different than camp, though. Crack is...well, what Farscape was. It's not even able to be camp because it's just not. It's in a class by itself.
Everything this person suggests makes me want to vomit. Let's make Scorpius look like a normal dude! Rygel needs to be ambiguously benevolent as a ruler. (Um, wasn't he?) Crichton and Aeryn need to have suffered some mutually tragic loss to justify their being together! Seriously, this person must never have watched this show. Because this:
And by focusing on the brain chip technology, instead of the wormhole technology, we open up space for genuinely scary episodes with a texture of conspiracy (who is controlling who? are our minds our own?).
Was pretty much the point of the Nebari. ("A Clockwork Nebari" anyone?) WTF?
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JESUS H. CHRIST, I HOPE THIS PERSON IS KIDDING. REMAKE FARSCAPE!?! You know this article is a TRAIN WRECK from the first paragraph when you get to this:
There are a lot of cool ways this underrated show could return to TV as something darker, less campy, and more socially relevant, just like Battlestar Galactica did. And with all the good alien ensemble dramas evaporating from TV (later days, Star Trek: Enterprise and Stargate), now is the time to strike.
Gee, when I think of Farscape the first word that comes to mind is definitely "campy." And MAKE IT DARKER!?! They didn't even get out of the first season without torturing (literally!) the hero. After they first mind-fucked him, stuck him full of parasites, had his only friends in the far universe ditch him, throw him into mortal combat with a guy who hated him, and had him be possessed by a creature that forced him to kill. Yeah, that show is totally for lightweights.
Don't get me wrong--the show veered into crack territory and never left, but I'd be hard pressed to hold the faults of seasons 3-4 against the show when seasons 1-2-3 basically involved the main character (and others) being raped every other episode. Crack is different than camp, though. Crack is...well, what Farscape was. It's not even able to be camp because it's just not. It's in a class by itself.
Everything this person suggests makes me want to vomit. Let's make Scorpius look like a normal dude! Rygel needs to be ambiguously benevolent as a ruler. (Um, wasn't he?) Crichton and Aeryn need to have suffered some mutually tragic loss to justify their being together! Seriously, this person must never have watched this show. Because this:
And by focusing on the brain chip technology, instead of the wormhole technology, we open up space for genuinely scary episodes with a texture of conspiracy (who is controlling who? are our minds our own?).
Was pretty much the point of the Nebari. ("A Clockwork Nebari" anyone?) WTF?
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Date: 2008-07-30 07:36 pm (UTC)And I have the same reaction you did to the diamond-izing: Um, corners? Why? Because people are usually so curvy, I guess I just assumed Emma would be, too.
(I, too, have a preference for White Queen Emma, but that's only because her costume post-that era has been...well. Also, I think she's f'ing Cyclops now, and that's just a sign of their mutual sickness.)