Star Wars: The Nerds Awaken [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[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...

[kien]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

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...

I totally agree with you and can relate to everything you mentioned here. Including the part about getting old.

[Delphinus]

I find the trend in current sci-fi is to make even bigger and bigger threats to existence than ever seen before. It's like the pressure is on to present something that's so dangerous it shocks us into caring that much more about the outcome. Except now that it's so big it's just hard to comprehend the scale. It's not just this movie with the planet that kills several planets at once, but look at Star Trek: ooops there goes the whole planet Vulcan, shucks. I don't know how many times "the galaxy" or "the universe" or heck "all of creation" is threatened by the Daleks but since the last threat was solved, this next one has to be even bigger! .. but for me the problem now is that these are just sooooo big, it's hard to buy into it, and it affects my suspension of disbelief.

Switching gears a little .... I will say that whatever the Millenium Falcon is made out of .... I want my next vehicle to be made of that!! Boat bike truck whatever. Just make it out of that stuff! "Military Grade Aluminium" has NOTHING on it!! Look, you fly straight into mountainsides, through forests .. and not a scratch. Oh, the insides are falling apart and stuff, but nothing an astromech or a reupholstering couldn't fix up nice.

[Delphinus]

I tried to come up with a witty remark to the Space-1999 comment ... but the truth of it is I can't remember if I actually watched this show on TV. Odds are kinda good I didn't: my parents really weren't big on the whole TV thing and kinda opposed any sort of potential enjoyment that those things could bring. I had the hardest time convincing them to let me watch "Greatest American Hero". Come on, someone tell me that this show was awesome, because I grew up thinking that it probably was and I just had no idea because I couldn't confirm it for myself. I'd look for it on Netflix but the reality is I don't know if should watch it now because it's probably just for the best now that I don't really find out.

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I tried to come up with a witty remark to the Space-1999 comment ... but the truth of it is I can't remember if I actually watched this show on TV.

Yeh, I can't remember that one at all... Maybe I'm too young... NOT...

[The Guy]

Well I go back to TV in the mid fifties and don't remember Space 1999

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by The Guy

Well I go back to TV in the mid fifties and don't remember Space 1999

We weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV when we were kids but didn't really care that much.
We were from an era where kids actually played outside most of the time, unlike today with all the electronic toys.

[Dearth]

Originally Posted by The Guy

We weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV when we were kids but didn't really care that much.
We were from an era where kids actually played outside most of the time, unlike today with all the electronic toys.

We didn't have tv until I was 8 years old country living at its best but after we got the TV which by the way was a combination record player/TV/stereo and weighed 5 tons we spent more and more time watching than playing

And for the record space 1999 and battle star galactica ruled