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Escape Pod => Science Fiction Discussion => Topic started by: Anarquistador on June 14, 2009, 03:42:15 AM
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I thought this might be as good a place as any to talk about my favorite guilty pleasure: Sci-Fi originals. I love them. Well, most of them. Saturday nights are often my favorite night in the world, and I hope it is for some of you.
Let's start with tonight's: Star Runners. Pretty good, actually. Derivative, sure, but fun and cool. Actual production values, and sci-fi character actors (James Kyson Lee being bad-ass? Awesome). And plus which, holy crap, actual SCIENCE FICTION on the Sci-Fi Channel. Anyone else watch it? Comments? Abuse?
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I only become aware of Skiffy movies when Joel McHale takes the piss out of them on The Soup.
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I thought this might be as good a place as any to talk about my favorite guilty pleasure: Sci-Fi originals. I love them.
You know, I hear there's a support group for that.
As for Star Runners, I enjoyed it more than the last original they ran a couple of weeks ago, The Book of Beasts. The Book of Beasts started out making me giggle more than was proper due to Baltar's outrageous delivery, but, consarnit, it needed more beasts.
Anyhoo, Star Runners. I just love how they made a point of saying they had almost no extra ammo, but their guns could shoot nonstop for 5 minutes at a time. Stuff like that just warms my coddles.
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See, I liked Book of Beasts, and I liked James Callis's performance. They took some very traditional themes about Merlin - he's the wild man of the woods, he ages backwards, you have to kill him three times - and made them work. And I liked the idea of a next generation of Arthurian knights, with Arthur's heir being a girl. Galahad being the last survivor, and having a kid? That just makes me laugh a little, too...