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I don't know, maybe if somebody developed a website that let you type in certain keywords and then find you sites which pertain to them, that might help. You could call it a "search engine," perhaps.
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Am I the only one who didn't really like this show? Who scoffed at the implausibility of it all? Who ridiculed every technological inconsistency? Who nitpicked at the whole faux-military feel to the whole thing?
Sure, it was a nice enough drama, and it looked really purdy, but PUH-LEEZE...
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Well, Mark, you can take solace in the fact that not a whole lot of people tuned in.
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Yes, no teleportation, no shields, no warp, no replicators, no hyperspace, no Force, no androids. Just ordinary fighter jets with pressure-sealed cabins, short-range missiles and lasers, which dock in a space-faring battleship/carrier that's fighting a losing war.
I can't imagine what little improbability nugget you've picked up on that can outdo the shit Star Trek and Star Wars has pulled.
Invitro fertilization? Yes, that stuff is, like, Year 10000!!! ;-)
Faux-military? It's way better than "Starship Troopers", if there will be a spacefaring earth navy in the 2100's, this is what I'd want it to be like.
And the artistical quality of it, same as Millennium and X-Files, muyo bueno. And they used Lightwave for FX, just like Babsi-5, so the CGI evolutionized over time. Mmm...
Does anyone know if you can buy SAaB on DVD anywhere? I always regretted missing the pilot, that shit was 90 minutes of Fox-budget heaven!
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And the space battles were so fluid, no damn "dampening fields" here. Like the Bab-5 Starfuries, the Hammerheads were flexible and fast. The dogfight between McQueen and the Chig superfighter in "The Angriest Angel", that was good stoeghf.
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quote:Originally posted by Nimrod Pimding: [qb]Mark: "Technological inconsistency"
Yes, no teleportation, no shields, no warp, no replicators, no hyperspace, no Force, no androids. Just ordinary fighter jets with pressure-sealed cabins, short-range missiles and lasers, which dock in a space-faring battleship/carrier that's fighting a losing war.
Yes androids. Remember the AI Wars? Take a chance? Them ridiculous crosshair contact lenses?
Yes hyperspace, or some unexplained form of FTL travel. In the first episode there was mention of catching a wormhole and how tough it was, but therafter the ships seems perfectly able to get wherever they wanted to, whenever they wanted to.
quote:Faux-military? It's way better than "Starship Troopers", if there will be a spacefaring earth navy in the 2100's, this is what I'd want it to be like.
Hell, no. So-called "fighter pilots" who were also expertly trained for infantry, tunnel ratting, spec ops, and a multitude of ships and vehicles? And who regularly swapped between these roles? I think not. At least in Troopers they STAYED troopers. Fleet had the planes and ships. The only thing they shared was a silly plot.
quote:Does anyone know if you can buy SAaB on DVD anywhere? I always regretted missing the pilot, that shit was 90 minutes of Fox-budget heaven!
I've always said it looks really pretty. No argument there.
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