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Star Wars in Old Norse
Because why not? Jackson Crawford is a PhD student in Scandinavian Studies, specializing in Old Norse and its descendant languages. He was trying to find a way to sharpen his linguistic skills in a creative way, and when a colleague pointed out how well Star Wars would work as an Icelandic saga a ljósapera went…
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Amnesia of the Future
Christina writes book reviews for STACKED. She somehow managed to grow to adulthood without ever seeing an episode of Star Trek. Thus, when she decided to review Wil Wheaton’s Memories of the Future: Volume 1 she also decided to watch each TNG episode covered in the book before reading the corresponding chapter. Now that she’s…
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The Face Behind the Mask
The ChicagoNow A&E blog has a slideshow of movie aliens along with the actors who played them. It’s a bit heavy on Avatar characters, and I kind of question the inclusion of E.T. (since an actor only “played” the alien in a couple of scenes when it had to scurry across the floor), but it’s…
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Everything Old is New Again
It’s this kind of news that makes me believe a Quark reboot is only a matter of time. Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod has struck a deal with Imagine Television to develop a series based on The Questor Tapes. “The Questor Tapes” was originally conceived as a television series pilot about an android with incomplete memory…
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My Neighbor Robocop
Lore Sjöberg (of Slumbering Lungfish and Brunching Shuttlecocks fame) recently saw My Neighbor Totoro for the first time and claims that the movie put this in his head. I don’t necessarily want to explore the thought process that led from one to the other, but I have to admit that I’m terribly fond of this…
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Why It Sucked
This breakdown of the train wreck that was The Phantom Menace has shown up on several blogs recently, but it’s so thorough I wanted to feature it as well. It’s an evisceration in seven parts. Part 1: Links to the rest: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
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This Does Sound Eerily Familiar
In 1607 2154, a ship carrying John Smith Jake Sully arrives in the lush “new world” of North America Pandora. The settlers are mining for gold unobtanium; under supervision of Governor Ratcliffe Colonel Quaritch: John Smith Jake Sully begins exploring the new territory, and encounters Pocahontas Neytiri. Read the rest of the “script treatment” here.…
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This Kind of Thing is Why the Internet was Invented
This has been posted on several other sites, but I don’t care. Enjoy. Happy New Year.
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That’s Sir Jean-Luc
Patrick Stewart has received a knighthood, as has Peter Jackson. Link
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Space: 1999 Remixes
The Bleat calls these “a meme of which you may be unaware,” which kind of contradicts what a meme is. It’s certainly surprising* that a crappy 70s SF show has got so much fanlove, though. Weird. Eerie. *Okay, maybe not that surprising, given that even Quark has a tribute site.