Rolling Stone will only cover the new movie-Bastards!

[trevanian]

To say nothing of MAD MEN and DEXTER, which may wind up rising above THE PRISONER and TWIN PEAKS and CARNIVALE and DEADWOOD and THE SHIELD and THE SOPRANOS and early MI-5 on my alltime faves list.

I really do like the new BATTLESTAR, for fun and its occasionally significant indictment of our times and politics, and for some episodes that are very rewatchable, but I think the look of the show (especially the base star interiors, which seem very digitial-equivalent-to-alien-ships-in-Bigfoot-episodes-of-SixMillionDollarMan to me) will date itself horribly in a short time,

Olmos is so good I wish he had been in CARNIVALE somehow. But the moments with Olmos demonstrating his brilliance have a tendency to make some of the other actors seem like Marina Sirtis by comparison.

 

[22 Stars]

Ya know what bugs me? Threads with subjects that look like they have something real to report and then turn out to be tripe.

 

[Kegek]

Never quite got the love for nuBSG, but I'll admit I never really gave the show a chance either. I saw the first part of the miniseries and I wasn't impressed. And after Firefly - and Enterprise - I was no longer in the mood for sitting around and hoping things got better.

Dexter, however, made me a fan in five minutes flat (having turned on at a rather inopportune time, midway through the second episode - and knowing nothing about it at all except that I chuckled at an ad for it on TV). I've never felt such an instant connection with a TV show before. This probably says more about my idiosyncratic tastes than anything else.

Still, if Rolling Stone is extolling the virtues of BSG and is now reporting Trek IX, then it probably has more of a sci-fi bent. Or whatever, I'm not quite sure what it is.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I liked the half dozen or so episodes of nuBSG I've watched (the pilot mini-series left me cold as ice) but not enough to follow it to Sunday night. I liked Razor, too, but not enough to make the show appointment viewing.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Brutal Strudel said:
You really ought to see a urologist about that raging hard-on you harbor against The Shat.

Criticize my feeble abilities as a parodist if you must, but try not to miss the point.

I will aver and attest, though, that I've never had anything approaching a "hard-on" in regard to the Shat...nor to George Takei.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Starship Polaris said:

Brutal Strudel said:
You really ought to see a urologist about that raging hard-on you harbor against The Shat.

Criticize my feeble abilities as a parodist if you must, but try not to miss the point.

I will aver and attest, though, that I've never had anything approaching a "hard-on" in regard to the Shat...nor to George Takei.

Nah, I got the point... and I actually found it quite amusing. I just figured you were killing two birds with one stone, as a man of your gifts is often wont to do.

I know you love tweaking hardcore Shatner fans (the ones who'd like to see The Return brought to the screen as a $200 million epic) so I just thought I'd tweak back. (as a casual Shat fan, I'd only budget $175 mil. )

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Brutal Strudel said:

Nah, I got the point... and I actually found it quite amusing. I just figured you were killing two birds with one stone, as a man of your gifts is often wont to do.

I know you love tweaking hardcore Shatner fans (the ones who'd like to see The Return brought to the screen as a $200 million epic) so I just thought I'd tweak back. (as a casual Shat fan, I'd only budget $175 mil. )

Nah, it's just that if you look at Thompson's most memorable short rants a lot are against establishment figures he despised and who would not give him the satisfaction of going away - Abrams and the gang are too nouveau to be particularly juicy targets. Since Shatner is the biggest source of personalized controversy on this project he was the obvious choice. If Berman were involved it would have had to have been him - he's probably the most "Nixonian" of figures involved with Trek in the minds of a lot of fen.

I suppose as an alternative it could have been a paragraph about dropping acid with Nimoy in the studio commissary.

Thompson's dedication for "The Great Shark Hunt" is one of my favorites: "To Richard Nixon, who never let me down."

 

[Ward Fowler]

Starship Polaris said:
Thompson's dedication for "The Great Shark Hunt" is one of my favorites: "To Richard Nixon, who never let me down."

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Ok everyone, guess I jumped the gun there, and I apologise. It's just that I want this film to do well, and I hope that it does (I just saw the trailer a few seconds ago, and I think that it looks great.) but I can't shake the feeling that the mags (Entertainment Weeklyexcepted: they always covered Star Trek pretty well) I mentioned are just jumping on a soon-to-be bandwagon because it has a few big stars in cameos. These mags only covered Next Generation mostly: DS9 & Voyager were left to founder for themselves (mostly DS9) and the same thing happened to Babylon 5 during its run-not a peep from anyone except TV Guide

And as far as the current coverage of the recent Battlestar Galactica is concerned, John Kenneth Muir has some things to say about that...

 

[blockaderunner]

misskim86 said:
I'm just thankful for the publicity

Exactly. Me too. Hopefully they can get a cover story with photos of behind the scenes and on the set by Anne Liebowitz like Vanity Fair has done with the Star Wars Movies and new Indy Movie.