OT - Good sci fi TV shows?

[gregebowman]

I read Starship Troopers probably about 25-30 years ago, so even I don't remember the plotline of the book. Just the opening chapter is the only thing I still remember. I would have reread the book when the movie came out, but I think it's at my mom's house in Oklahoma. I didn't feel like rebuying the book when I already have a copy. But I loved the movie. Has anyone seen those animated shows based on it? I haven't, but I plan on getting them eventually.

I would like to see movies based on classics, but in that time period. Case of point: War Of The Worlds. This is the book that turned me into a hardcore sci-fi nut. I read it when I was about ten years old, and I became so enamored with it that I couldn't put it down. I would love to see a movie based on the book set in the 1890's. The movie made in the 50's was good, but sometimes the source book is much better than what Hollywood can come out with after all of the compromises that must be done to make a movie. At least Peter Jackson is trying to be faithful to the spirit of the Ring trilogy. I heard somewhere that there was going to be a War of the Worlds movie that was going to be made, but then 9-11 happened and it was put on a back burner. Then a few months ago I read that Tom Cruise might star in a WOTW movie. Although I'm not all that enamored with Tom Cruise, if his name is attached to a project, maybe it will come out. Hopefully it's set in the past, not the future. And please, no remake of that god-awful TV show.

[Desdinova]

late 80's/early 90's they did a remake of war of the worlds for holloween night. they did it as if the earth was being invaded similiar to the original orson wells radio play. it had actual news people portraying themselves.
ufo enters atmosphere and is shot down. aliens respond by sending a asteroid on collision with earth. space base missiles are used to destroy asteroid at Last minute. while everyone is congratulating themselves they pan to norads space tracking screen and it shows hundreds of asteroids on collision course. turns out the aliens were friendly until we shot down the ufo. there were lots of "special reports" during the program as if they reporting on a ufo crash and the followup investigation. it was enjoyable. i would have liked it better if it was actually on multiple channels.

[gregebowman]

Don't remember that one. Unless it happened from June 87 to June 88, when I was in Korea. I missed a lot of television during that year, and probably missed out on a lot of stuff I probably still don't know about.

[Krsqk]

Glenn Beck, a talk-show host, did a remake of the radio production of War of the Worlds just Last Holloween. It was actually pretty good.

[Cheeze]

Battlestar Galactica is being played this entire week on Sci-Fi. Funny how some SEIV rules seen to be working there.

1)Fighters rule...apparently because point-defense isn't really very good. Which mod is that?

2)Cargo CAN carry population. (Colonial Movers "We move anywhere" ship is nothing but cargo holds)

3)Clearly Galactica is in a P&N mod...they're always picking up supplies and moving along.

4)Cylons must have dropped their aggressiveness and defensiveness traits to get the emotionless and hardy industrialists traits. They can't hit anything and get blown away in massive numbers, but apparently can build LOTS.

[gregebowman]

Speaking of BG, have you heard the latest on the remake? There's supposed to be a female Starbuck. That's something I can't picture. A female Boomer maybe, but not Starbuck! Although she's probably a babe, but to play Starbuck she'd almost have to play it like a cigar-chomping butch type.

[Desdinova]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
Speaking of BG, have you heard the latest on the remake? There's supposed to be a female Starbuck. That's something I can't picture. A female Boomer maybe, but not Starbuck! Although she's probably a babe, but to play Starbuck she'd almost have to play it like a cigar-chomping butch type.

not necessarily, Geena Davis played a good pirate captain in CutThroat Island. a character like her would work out well.

edit: here is the description of the character.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, in her late 20s to early 30s, is a loner, which makes her an oddity among the Galactica’s tight-knit crew of pilots. She’s tough and ballsy with a certain worldliness. She’s as undisciplined and rebellious out of the cockpit as she is calculating and precise in it. Her mouth has definitely held back her career. Not fond of Colonel Paul Tigh, the ship’s Executive Officer, she enjoys both taunting him and beating him at cards. A take-charge woman who runs around the ship in a jogging bra and shorts, who might be attracted to Lee Adama, Kara is a warrior spoiling for a fight, and she gets her chance at battle when the Cylons attack. Forced to fly an antiquated fighter, Kara soon learns that the "modern" spacecraft have been infiltrated by a Cylon computer virus, and that only older fighters can survive in combat. Lucky, smart, and tough, Kara soon finds herself the point woman in Adama’s efforts to fight back against the Cylons. But when Adama and President Roslin agree to make a run for it, Kara must use her battle-honed skills not to fight the enemy, but to defend the fragile nucleus of humanity carried aboard the Galactica to an unknown future.

soo much for the geena davis character type.

[ February 18, 2003, 19:52: Message edited by: desdinova ]