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thejester wrote:asimov's early stuff was often pretty classic 'canals on Mars' stuff...the Lucky Starr series in particular

Akhlut wrote:Man, if someone made a movie about the jungles of Venus today and it wasn't shitty, I'd enjoy it. I mean, shit, the only person who reasonably gets the science right, ever, is James Cameron, while most directors/writers/whatever tend to be liberal arts people and thus know approximately jack and shit about most science (not that that is really a personal failing, obviously).


Also, Her Majesty's Shithead pretty much came out and said that he hates everyone darker than alabaster.

I wonder if he's one of those BNP chucklefucks.

Jose Arcadio Bakendia wrote:you cant expect a boat to have a great deal of comprehension about events

Akhlut wrote:

Jose Arcadio Bakendia wrote:you cant expect a boat to have a great deal of comprehension about events

I mean, it's one thing to say "on the whole, colonialism was bad, but it produced a mixture of effects, such as allowing for a lot of people to get quality university educations they wouldn't have otherwise got and uniting disparate peoples in their hatred for their imperialist overlords," but to out and out say "man, I miss colonialism when we were civilizing those fucking dark-skinned savages"? In 2012?

I also enjoy how I gave him a boatload (HAR!) of links after he asked for 'em about the Indian famines and he just said "lol, natural" instead of noticing how the Empire managed to prevent one famine from killing tens of millions of people and then promptly stopped doing that because it cost money.

Jose Arcadio Bakendia wrote:

Akhlut wrote:Man, if someone made a movie about the jungles of Venus today and it wasn't shitty, I'd enjoy it. I mean, shit, the only person who reasonably gets the science right, ever, is James Cameron, while most directors/writers/whatever tend to be liberal arts people and thus know approximately jack and shit about most science (not that that is really a personal failing, obviously).


Also, Her Majesty's Shithead pretty much came out and said that he hates everyone darker than alabaster.

I wonder if he's one of those BNP chucklefucks.

you cant expect a boat to have a great deal of comprehension about events

anyways, an updating of gernsbackian canals-of-mars stuff with modern sensibilities would be totally boss, so the only equivalent we would get would be EXTREME and EDGY and TERRIBLE

Stofsk wrote:hey guise i hear that they made a movie adaptation of john carter of mars and it was fun and campy

and it also flopped because nobody went to the cinema to see it

Flagg wrote:lol Bean is disappointed the Hound didn't almost rape Sansa on GoT.

Mr Bean wrote:Episode 19(9 in season) was @$@$ amazing

Blackwater was great, the fighting was great. The acting from everyone was great and the substance was fantastic even if underused. No brief tastes of it before the FAE ship bomb and Bron's amazing shot. Let me just say that spending the entire episode here was a wonderful change of pace. I wish they would have modified the opening to reflect that, just a zoom in on Kings landing with slow booming drums, maybe get a view of the important gates and landmarks in Kings Landing.

There was no chain there was no wrecks and hulks fleet which is a shame and the fighting was chaotic at times. There was no almost rape by the Hound.

Knubble tov wrote:I like how he loved the episode because of the splosions and not the character work.

Flagg wrote:

Knubble tov wrote:I like how he loved the episode because of the splosions and not the character work.

Says the guy who loved Transformers 3.