Comments on: I Got a Bad Feeling ‘Bout This Drop

By: quagmire

quagmire — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:56:33 +0000

I lurv it when people respectfully disagree, better than disrespectfully agreeing, eh?
Yep, SarConCron is a love/hate for me, yet disproportionally more love is in the room than hate. I really only have one recurring pet peeve: the way they’ve written Johnny-boy’s character. On the one hand, we have this Mensa-level young man who has been told a bazillion goddamn times that the fate of MF’n EARTH and all humanity depends on his ‘growing up’ to be Big John and leading the rebels. Yet, each and every effin’ time mom has to go somewhere to look pensive and fine, she flippantly says, “John, stay put, don’t go anywhere or talk to anybody.’… and what does the dweeb savior-of-mankind do? He says some shit like, ‘I got a life of my own man. What’s the point if I can’t go to Starbuck’s or shopping for a sexy dress with my well-endowed not-girlfriend?’ Of course the next scene is ALWAYS Cromarty about to cap his skinny ass in the mall.
… I gotta go check the ship’s x-band array now, so I can get next weeks show!

By: Sunday

Sunday — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:13:21 +0000

I suppose I should have started a list of “Proof That Fringe Takes Place In An Alternate Dimension”. I just felt my blood pressure going up so I drank a beer and unfocused my eyes a little.

I also enjoyed the brightly lit sense-dep tank. Sensory deprivation is a difficult concept for people. I don’t remember where I read it, but I read some mainstream entertainment review comment that Agent Dunham, while in the tank, was swimming in a vat of “unknown chemicals” or some such – and they weren’t referring to the cocktail in her bloodstream. They were referring to the sodium chloride. WHAT COULD IT BE?

I like it when you decry the inherent stupidity of the human brain. But I’d also like to see you rip Fringe. I’ve tasted blood.

Oh, and even quagmire disagrees with quagmire, maybe not even respectfully. He actually really enjoys SCC, just as I do, but once he starts in on something he’s difficult to stop.

By: Megasquid

Megasquid — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:43:01 +0000

Astonishingly, even sites like “Biology in Science Fiction” are giving this turkey a pass– didn’t even mention the whole fuck-the-laws-of-physics growth rate. (And even that pales next to the proposition that unused lab space at a major university is going to remain vacant for 17 years without being invaded by Denethor’s better-published rivals, or carved into two thousand grad-student cubicles.)

I was seriously considering decrying that idiotic show on my own blog, but given how many people seem to be liking it I think I’ll just cut to the chase and write something on the inherent stupidity of the human brain instead.

Oh, and respectfully disagree with quagmire re SCC. That show has some moments of supreme dumbness, yes, but it’s also got some of the deepest literary roots I’ve seen in televised sf.

By: quagmire

quagmire — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:05:09 +0000

Shows you love, but hate to watch … TVland is rife with ‘em.
(sorta related): Sarah Conner Chronicles is/are fuckin’ stupid, yet I start to shake if it looks like I may miss an episode. I mainly watched last season because Summer Glau’s character was brilliantly (and I believe, intentionally) funny. Example: John ‘Estupido’ Conner say’s “I call shotgun!” as they get into mom’s SUV. Terminator girl quips, “I call nine-millimeter!” LoL’d that one.
This season they made her sullen, unfunny and apparently suffering an aneurysm in her CPU that makes her want to kill the good guys! … fucktard writers (and they ’struck’ for more money???). Rumor has it that they completely ruined ‘24′ next season … prolly Kiefer sobered up and can’t empathize with the character any more.
Next thing ya know, they’ll have a story-line and some kinda actual plot to ‘Lost’ … (naw, no chance!)

By: Sunday

Sunday — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:30:46 +0000

There was a point, I think around the eyeball part, where I stopped caring. You nailed it: eyes just don’t work like that.

The sucky part is that I love fringe science. I love Charles Fort. But fringe science is supposed to be sciences that are unsubstantiated, not dumb, impossible science. Blerg!

I’m sure I’ll keep watching it. I hate myself for it, but I’m weak.

By: xadrian

xadrian — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:57:40 +0000

Not to mention the fact that eyes just don’t work like that. Once it hits the retina, it’s no longer and image you can filter out. Neurons fire into the back of the brain, there’s no little drive in where can “see” the image. Pulling it out of the optic nerve would be like trying to watch a movie by putting a butterfly net between the projector and the screen.

I’m entertained by banter and the Bishops have that. As long as Dunham doesn’t turn into a parody, I’ll keep watching.