Comments on: Red Dwarf!

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:24:17 +0000

Fast? Hmm, I guess but I’m used to multi character shows (lost, bsg etc) so it didn’t seem that way to me….

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:13:00 +0000

I thought that it was a bit too fast actually; there were too many main characters to keep track of, though I am sure that after a few more episodes it will be okay.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:59:02 +0000

Yeah Heroes wasn’t too bad, a bit slow but hinted at some good things to come…

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:56:38 +0000

‘Heroes’ was rather enjoyable. I also liked how they used Madras instead of Chennai.

By: Bert Preast

Bert Preast — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:37:47 +0000

Brod.

“You keep hold of Hubert – he’s a hunter” *croak*

By: Don

Don — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:27:32 +0000

Yeah, loved ‘The Survivors’. Brian Blessed as a really loud villainous patriarch in railway carriages surrounded by feral dogs.

By: Bert Preast

Bert Preast — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:53:09 +0000

Anyone remember the BBC’s ‘Survivors’, post apocalyptic plague drama from the 70s?

After vague recollections of riflemen on horseback from when I was a kid, I’ve been watching it again. And do you know, it’s better than most of the crap they pump out these days? I was expecting it to be rubbish but it’s really rather good.

Available at the usual place.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:45:54 +0000

Liking Heroes.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:51:55 +0000

The recent trend for complex, multi-main-charactered dramas (sci-fi or whatever else) is much to be welcomed in my opinion.

Yep, one started (in recent times at least) by Babylon 5.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:34:59 +0000

Ditto Heroes – i.e. yes, Don, it is very good. The recent trend for complex, multi-main-charactered dramas (sci-fi or whatever else) is much to be welcomed in my opinion. Doesn’t look down on the audience, expects you to keep up with fairly complicated plotting – generally the opposite of “dumbing-down”.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:46:45 +0000

Every one, and I mean EVERY one, I know that loves BSG has been banging on about Heroes for months now. I’ve heard its a bit of a slow burner but watched the first ep a few weeks and it looks good (the Japanese guy that can manipulate time is cool!).

By: Jai

Jai — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:23:32 +0000

Don,

Heroes comes to terrestrial tomorrow. Is it worth watching?

Hell yeah.

One of the central characters is Indian too (he’s important enough to provide the voiceover in the show). And he’s about as far from Apu as you can get*, which is quite a radical change for the US when you consider what a mainstream success “Heroes” has been.

*Well, apart from the fact that both are South Indian and have PhDs, but the Heroes guy is very cool. He also noticeably loses his accent as the show progresses, which may or may not have been a deliberate manouevre on the part of the show’s creators.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:46:28 +0000

Heroes comes to terrestrial tomorrow. Is it worth watching?

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:21:58 +0000

I’ve really got to get a copy of that…

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:19:34 +0000

Firefly rules!

By: sid

sid — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:18:21 +0000

oh yeah
one of George Lucas’ better forgotten, erm, turkies.

Remake! Remake!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:15:46 +0000

They did the Duck, it sucked.

By: sid

sid — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:54:51 +0000

Don, I’m with you on Bladerunner. My others would be A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), Alien (Ridley Scott), Matrix (1) and Howard The Duck (Marvel). The last one is a comic not a film, but is begging for a movie adaptation.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:42:05 +0000

Bladerunner is the only movie to come close to doing justice to the genius of PK Dick.

Sid, five best dystopian sci-fi movies? I’d include Bladerunner, Metropolis, The Time Machine {1960}
(the time lapse effects alone are outstanding), 1984 and Brazil.

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:25:29 +0000

Leon, Bladerunner is based on PK Dick’s “Do androids dream of electric sheep”, I believe.

Rumbold, yeah I know.