From what they’ve said in the last day or so, they really need the fan support to convince someone to pick the series up. So I can see why they went about building hype the way they did.
In any case, changing the topic to another beloved(?) sci-fi series, I’ve been seeing a lot of Battlestar Galactica stuff lately.
Now I’m finished with my Firefly/Serenity re-watch, that might be up next.
I found it an example of the same tendency I met in Alias and Lost: lots of really interesting ideas and puzzles, and in the case of BSG some very good acting, but the writers didn’t necessarily have solutions in mind, which meant that they couldn’t really lay a trail of clues, and they ended up half-arsing it when the show was cancelled.
I love BSG. I love the ending.
Also I’m a firm believer that
The Prophesy of the dying leader isn’t about Laura, it’s about Galactica itself.
Battlestar Galactica the original or the remake? Does it need to be rebooted or continued? It had its run. Twice. I wish I could find the skit from Robot Chicken with Ronald Moore throwing darts to see who would be revealed as a cylon.
Stargate is also coming back. I have mixed feelings because I like Stargate but my interests waned with Atlantis and I couldn’t watch Universe after a few episodes.
The remake, I’ve never seen the original.
Don’t think I’ve seen anything about it being rebooted, it just seems to be in my Shorts/Reels a lot. That’s possibly because Katee Sackhoff is doing a watch-along at the moment.
Stargate Universe became really good after the first pretty bad episodes (I remember the really bad one with the ship flying close to a sun to recharge and everybody thought they were dying and got saved by doing nothing) and found its groove. It got really good. It is much more Battlestar Galactica than Stargate in its tonality. I was sad about it being cancelled.
We are nearing the end of Wano in One Piece and Sanji is running around carrying Zoro while chain smoking and fighting. I recently watched the new Trigun Stampede and I am now sad that I have probably missed a ton if similar references.
“That cross looks heavy.”
“Of course it’s heavy. It’s full of mercy.”
I have only seen the original, but it is still probably Top 3 Anime Series Of All Time for me.
Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Cyberpunk Edgerunners… off the top of my head.
Funny, but I really loved that episode, because it showed the tech assumptions of how they thought the ancients would power the ship for journey through the universe, but YMMV, and clearly does.
Sure but these technical assumptions / limitations are not worth a whole episode in which everybody thinks they are going to die, just to be suddenly be saved by the ship itself which made all of the stuff from before moot. It is a filler episode in a lot of ways.
I think you can make an episode like that but not at the beginning of your show though of course the topic of how does the tech work is one for early on. Though I also think it is not necessary to talk about how your fuel works. Nobody really cares 
But that’s just my opinion and I am just a bit miffed because I thought the show got excellent but till then apparently already lost a lot of viewers. It didn’t help that it was so different from the other Stargate shows, going much more in a Battlestar Galactica direction (I actually preferred that, but I wasn’t a big SG fan though I watched Atlantis completely).
I still remember several songs they used for episodes.
I thought I knew what you were talking about until the phrase “the other Stargate shows”. I thought there was only the one TV show and the earlier film. One or other of which starred Richard Dean Anderson. Turns out there’s five shows, and an additional two films. Yikes.
5 shows? Wow, I only knew of SG-1 and Atlantis which I thought came afterwards. And then the third one I guess is Universe.
But let me google this….. interesting, my order is correct, didn’t know there was an animated show and something called Origins which isn’t even that old.
Stargate will always have a special place in my heart because
a) They sent rovers before people.
b) They brought a frickin’ linguist. This was very important for the original movie and got hand-waved away (out of necessity) during the series, but it’s an crucial detail.
Reminds me of some books I read as a kid, some adventure novel (Indiana Jones like) in which the US government hired a Latin professor (by sending a helicopter to basically kidnap him from a lecture) for a super important treasure hunt in a jungle somewhere and all the hints are written in Latin.
It’s the old joke … an announcement comes over the tannoy on a plane: “Is there a doctor on board the flight?” and the mother looks at her archeology PhD son and says “where do you think you’re going?”
Except it’s “Is there a doctor on board the flight because we cannot decipher these Sumerian cuniforms!?” and the archeologist son is all “Finally! My moment has come!”
Apologizes for the tangent and this is an old story but one I like to tell.
I was playing an RPG (maybe Call of Cthulhu) at a convention. The PCs were investigating a mystery involving the Maya and following the footsteps of a previous expedition. I was playing this party’s Mayan expert who had a very low opinion of the other expedition’s Mayan expert. At one point, we came across a 4-digit number written in Mayan numerals, left by the other guy. I painstakingly converted it from the Mayan base 20 back to Arabic/Indian base 10 to use as the code on a keypad. (For example, 1234 in base 20 is 8864 in base 10)
My code didn’t work. When I found out that the guy had lazily written each of the 4 decimal digits in Mayan rather than converting the the entire 4-digit number, my PC had very unkind words to say about her fellow academic on top of all the other unpleasant things she thought before they started.
A Stargate post from Mastodon this evening:
Went to the Prince Charles Cinema to see Wong Kar-Wai’s romantic classic In the mood for love. Surprisingly for an arty HK movie from 2000, the cinema was packed with not a single empty seat. Anyway, movies are great and yes getting a membership for the PCC was a good idea. Next week, for a change of pace, AKIRA.
(It’s also the movie that Ke Huy Quan is referencing when he’s being the coolest man in the world in Everything everywhere all at once.)
The last film I saw in a theatre was Dogtooth (2009), which I had last seen in… 2009.
A 17 year gap was long enough for me to have forgotten almost everything, meaning that I was, once again, unprepared for what I was about to see.
This was the first Yorgos Lanthimos film I watched, and I would firmly recommend his subsequent films ahead of this one; but if you’re a fan then Dogtooth is definitely a thing you might partially not regret watching :).
