Star Wars: The Nerds Awaken [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[WarDog]

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

[kien]

Originally Posted by WarDog

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

Even in the senate there were laser guns and laser swords with hand(ish) to hand combat.

Midichlorians, btw.

[WarDog]

Originally Posted by kien

Midichlorians, btw.

Auto-correct. Yup, I'm going with that.

You're only old if you use to watch 'Space 1999' on TV.

The Force Awakens just became the largest grossing domestic film of all time. I wonder if that speaks to the production value or the sheepishness of today's society?

[kien]

Originally Posted by WarDog

Auto-correct. Yup, I'm going with that.

You're only old if you use to watch 'Space 1999' on TV.

The Force Awakens just became the largest grossing domestic film of all time. I wonder if that speaks to the production value or the sheepishness of today's society?

it's in part the propaganda and lemming affect due to its pop culture pervasiveness. I've had many discussions over the past month with non-scifi/non-star wars fan who planned to go see it or have already seen it just out of curiosity. They rarely ever bother with science fiction/fantasy/comic book movies but these people (that I speak of) went to see the new Star Wars anyway. It's as if it was programmed into them to go watch the movie. That's what happens when you put a Dark Lord of the Sith on a cereal box, I suppose.

[kien]

Originally Posted by kien

That's what happens when you put a Dark Lord of the Sith on a cereal box, I suppose.

Sorry, I guess he's just a Dark Jedi, not quite a Sith yet. But his master may be a Sith (or may not be) so it's still a bit ambiguous, I guess. #nerd.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by WarDog

Auto-correct. Yup, I'm going with that.

You're only old if you use to watch 'Space 1999' on TV.

The Force Awakens just became the largest grossing domestic film of all time. I wonder if that speaks to the production value or the sheepishness of today's society?

Ohhhhhh me. I watched all the time.

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by Doug

Ohhhhhh me. I watched all the time.

I guess it wasn't on any of the 2 channels we got, Channel 2 CBUT Vancouver or channel 12 KVOS Bellingham.

[WarDog]

Yeah, if I think hard enough I somewhat remember it around '76-'79. We had cable... so about 6 channels to choose from!

[kien]

Space 1999 was awesome. I watched re-runs of it in the 80s, along with re-runs of pretty much every other 'B' rated sci-fi show ever made.

The Greatest American Hero was great too ! I hope the follow through with a remake of that show. Most superhero shows these days only briefly touch on that awkward phase between being normal and having awesome superpowers. It's like, one day they are normal, the next day they have powers, spend a bit of time figuring out said power, then the day after that they are saving the world/galaxy Whereas The Greatest American Hero spent an entire series run trying to figure out the whole superhero powers thing.

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by kien

Just curious, were you expecting there not to be any hand to hand combat, no shooting with laser guns and an elaborate plot ?

Originally Posted by WarDog

Perhaps Walter was expecting more Senate debates, trade blockades and talk about medicholians?

No, but they are just overdoing it too much these days. And no I didn't like the later political Star Trek ones either. But I did like the old sci fi stuff incl the original Star Trek series and movies. It's just that the current "action" movies are so shallow.

I used to like Battlestar Gallactica, remember that? Yeah, there was always some shooting and fist fights, but they were more than that, had interesting characters (incl villains) and appealed to my imagination, too. The older Star Wars movies had that, too.

Maybe I am just getting old...