“At the end of the millenium, “Blast From the Past” took a look back, tapping into the retro nostalgia that hit at the same time. Brendan Frasier plays Adam Webber, a young man raised in a bomb shelter by parents for whom the early sixties never ended. Adam’s father, Calvin Webber, played by the always amazing Christopher Walken, who mistook a plane crash for the beginning of World War III, has locked the family in a bomb shelter for thirty-five years.

Adam has never seen the real world. Instead he’s grown up a bubble boy, a cultural bubble boy, living in a projection of the early sixties as an ideal past. Adam Webber’s conception of the world was colored by the determined optimism and cultural inheritance of the early sixties, uncomplicated by the later events of the sixties or any fragments from the darker underside of real life. This makes Adam a virtual innocent, not ready for the technological advances and cultural turbulences that have changed the world by 1997, but not ready for the darker and more complicated sides of human nature.”

Read more here Blast from the Past Retro Fears on DVD

“There’s a long history of fan fiction that plays with the idea of the actors on a Science Fiction show actually ending up in a real life Science Fiction situation, most notably Jean Lorrah’s “Visit to a Weird Planet.” “Galaxy Quest” is likely the only piece of fanfic to actually make it to film. Originally written by a “Star Trek” fan and intended to showcase the real life “Star Trek” cast, the script eventually evolved into a story about a Star Trek-like classic SciFi series, whose actors bear a certain amount of resemblance to the Original Series cast.

What is particularly startling about “Galaxy Quest” is how much better of a movie it is, than all of the “Star Trek The Next Generation” cinematic features combined. With the Star Trek franchise, that “Galaxy Quest” is based on, in severe decline. Perhaps it’s time for Paramount to look back to “Galaxy Quest” in order to recapture the Star Trek spirit.”

Read more here Galaxy Quest SciFi on DVD Blasts to the Stars

Fear of the Dark City

“One of the greatest terrors of the urban environment is a loss of identity. When people moved out from small towns and villages into the clustered mass of a big city, they also found themselves vanishing into the anonymity of that sheer vastness. The streets daily filled with people going about their business, buildings around them stretching into the sky. Stores that cater to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of shoppers a day. A world where no one remembers you and no one notices you.

The world of the city is also an ever changing one. Buildings are constantly being demolished to make way for new ones. Construction is always going on, especially in boom periods. The landscape of the city changes. Its face and texture rearranging themselves constantly”

Read more here Dark City on DVD A Dystopian Urban Nightmare

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Rumor has it going around that Sarah Michelle Gellar will be appearing as the Joker’s sidekick, Harley Quinn the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. Harley Quinn \ Dr. Quinzell, was a character created in the Batman animated series, which then appeared in the comic books and now will apparently make the transition to film as well.

“Science Fiction was a diverse field with both its racist and anti-racist elements. However “Far Beyond the Stars” positions Benny’s only hope as the emergence of Star Trek. “Far Beyond the Stars” further attempts to position Deep Space Nine as the true achievement of racial breakthroughs, but “Far Beyond the Stars” itself was an episode not written by a black man, but written by two white men. Deep Space Nine is a series with only two non-white cast members, one in the lead role and a completely white stable of writers and executive producers. What “Far Beyond the Stars” dishonest does, is create a black character to serve as their mouthpiece.

The value of role models is real. Nichelle Nichols recounts Martin Luther King telling her to remain on Star Trek. Whoopi Goldberg cited a similar desire for joining the cast of “Star Trek The Next Generation.” “Far Beyond the Stars” itself conveys Benny propounding the importance of a black role model for youth. But while Captain Sisko may be that role model, Benny is not. Benny is blackface painted on Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler, Rick Berman, Ron Moore and Michael Piller. All white men.”

Read more here Far Beyond the Stars Star Trek Deep Space Nine Speaks on Race

Horror is rooted in the fear of the unknown. With the transition of the United States along the road of a technological society through the 20th century, the locus of the unknown shifted increasingly moving from gothic themes, from demons, legendary monsters of superstition and curses to scientific experiments gone mad. technological monsters and creatures from beyond the solar system.

Horror had always resided in the fear of the unknown. As the world became known, its forests mapped, its cities lit by electric light, its deserts and jungles photographed and each corner of the globe surveyed by satellites from space, the unknown had to come from the mysteries of scientific laboratories, radiation and of course outer space. Science replaced myth as the wellspring of terror and is doing so its discoveries, methods and processes became terrifying.

Read the rest here The Blob vs Body Snatchers � Jelly or pods?

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I know all Battlestar Galactica fans are just amped up over the amazing storytelling of the Season 3 finale. Now exclusively on Space Ramblings, we offer up some spoilers for Season 4. Don’t read on, if you don’t want to be spoiled.

* The entire crew of the Galactica and all of the humans on all the ships actually turn out to be Cylons.

When asked whether the show has a point anymore, now that the entire cast are Cylons, Ron Moore winked enigmatically and said, “That’s the point.”

* In a very special Christmas episode, Lee, Admiral Adama and President Roslin have random flashbacks of Caprica and contemplate killing themselves. Again.

* Baltar becomes reelected President of the Colonies after Lee delivers a long speech explaining that we’re all flawed, so who are we to deny a traitor the right to be President. All the extras applaud, except some extras who riot.

* Baltar’s inaugural address promises to betray everyone to the Cylons. The entirely Cylon crew applaud him heartily.

* Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica will briefly switch over to the launch of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff as a crossover with Who’s The Boss featuring Judith Light as a businesswoman on Caprica trying to raise her kids, with Tony Danza as their Cylon nanny.

* It will be revealed in a prophetic dream that all of Season 3 was actually a hallucination and everyone is still under Cylon rule on New Caprica.

* In the next episode, in another hallucination shared by everyone, it’s revealed that Earth never existed in the first place, that Battlestar Galactica is a hallucination and that everyone on the show is actually a patient in a mental ward.

Then Ron Moore runs out from behind the screen blowing a kazoo and waving his arms while yelling, “I fooled you! See, I fooled you,” over the closing credits.

“Coming from a time when cinematically horror and science fiction often blended together, both venturing into the exploration of the unknown, these movies date back to a time when horror was more than slasher flicks and science fiction was more than another asteroid about to plow into the earth.

Long before transgressive art was transgressive, horror and science fiction flicks, even at their cheesiest, were transgressive summoning up monsters and madmen from the id, stalking the bloody corridors of human nightmares and digging out what was hidden within their walls. The classic horror film was the grandfather of nightmare, the ancestor of terror and their feeble progeny today that rely entirely on blood, gore and musical cues, cannot hold a flickering candle flame to their innate terrors.”

Read more here. Monsters and Madmen - Classic horror & sci-fi on DVD

Do you have a toolbar installed in your browser already? Alright. Can it help you find search results? Probably? Can it help you block pop up windows? No doubt it can? But can it predict your future? Probably not unless you have the Starware Horoscope Toolbar.

The Starware Horoscope Toolbar can search from Internet Explorer like other toolbars can. It can also spot bad addresses and find related search items and plan your next vacation with airfare price searches. There’s even a reference button giving you access to veritable encyclopedias of information. But what really sets this toolbar apart is one click access to your daily horoscope reading.

Want to know what you have in store ahead of you for today? Wondering whether to cancel that business meeting, go ahead with your date or make that stock investment on that hot tip your buddy at the brokerage passed on to you? With the Horoscope Toolbar, you have the revelations of the day available at your fingertips with the easy and simple click of a button. Go ahead. Install it today and direct your browser above and up to your destiny in the stars.

> 18) You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in
> Vietnam but right in Iraq.

We have an exit strategy. Elect Kerry and run like hell.

> 20) You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers
> named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and
> censoring the Internet.

CDA and CDAII were enacted under Clinton. There hasn’t been any
recurrence under Bush. The ignorance of Democrats about their own
party is downright shocking. Democrats have pushed internet censorship more aggressively and ruthlessly, not Republicans. Tipper Gore has pushed censorship, far more than any Republican.

> 22) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about
> Hillary’s cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages
> from the
> Congressional 9/11 report because you just can’t handle the truth.

Well shockingly enough we’re in a war which involves classifying
inteligence. Hillary’s cattle trades don’t come under this heading.

> 23) You support state rights, which means Ashcroft telling states what
> locally passed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.

Yeah he’s worse than that bastard Lincoln who destroyed state’s
rights. Why couldn’t that nice General McClellan have come in and made
peace with the south.

> 25) You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is
> communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy

China is reforming, is Cuba?

“Today’s animated films are increasingly creatures of computer animated graphics, three dimensional to a fault, shiny and crowded with textures and vivid vistas. While no one will deny that Pixar’s animated films are beautiful and inspiring, but there’s a certain longing for classical hand drawn animation, for stories that are charmingly two dimensional and harken back to the classic animated children’s movies we grew up with and loved.

For many of us, “The Last Unicorn” is one of those movies.”

The Last Unicorn - A family fantasy classic on DVD

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“If the mystery of Lost began with its first season, the second season is when it truly intensified taking a panoramic look around the island, deep into the workings of the hatch and exploring the backstory behind the Dharma Initiative and the human and perhaps inhuman presence on the island.

The stage for everything seen in later seasons would be set in Season 2 and it’s a season you just can’t miss watching from end to end. And once you’ve watched every episode and nearly worn out your DVD’s, it’s time to find the buried easter eggs in them that add value to your DVD and open up the mystery of the island, both on and behind the camera, for your viewing pleasure.”

Lost DVD Easter Eggs Season 2

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The secret to Lost’s success is in its mysteries, in its ability to keep the secrets of the show close to its chest and reel out just enough hints and answers to keep audiences tuning in week after week for year after year. From the Dharma Initiative to the real nature of the Others and the questions about the island itself, “Lost” has unrolled a lot of mysteries for eager viewers to explore.

There’s no reason Lost’s DVD’s should be any different. “Lost” Season 1 DVD’s contain more than their fare share of hidden easter eggs that take you behind the scenes of the real mystery, the creation of “Lost”. With extra hidden behind the scenes clips, interviews with cast and crew and footage of actual shooting scenes as well as discarded footage that has never been seen before, the “Lost” Season 1 DVD’s are a treasure trove of mysteries waiting for you to unlock them. Do you dare to explore them?

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One of the wonderful things about Galaxy Quest was its creation of a world where Galaxy Quest was a real, if cheesy Science Fiction TV series, much as Star Trek is in our world. (In fact its screenwriter wanted the show originally to be about the Star Trek cast and possibly even featuring them, though for better or worse Paramount shot that idea down.)

This is the documentary about Galaxy Quest the TV show, released to promote Galaxy Quest the movie and it’s full of wonderful moments that the movie only gave you glimmers of when exploring the backstory of the Galaxy Quest TV series. Where there is a certain amount of mockery of fans and the seriousness of any Science Fiction TV show, it’s worth viewing for that warm glow, even if it’s an entirely artificial one, from SciFi shows the way they used to be.

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Data hasn’t had a lot of relationships but he has made an interesting journey.

“It isn’t easy being a machine in love as Data, the android on the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” could tell you. If his predecessor Spock had women throwing themselves as his unemotional Vulcan feet usually to no avail, Data never could never claim to possess that kind of magnetic appeal. Where Spock was the brooding charismatic type, Data might be said to be the nerdy engineer with a pocket protector over his heart. Spock appealed to the tormented loners and the emotionally unavailable, Data was simply the nerdy nice guy and like his archetype never had much luck with women.”

Read the rest of the Hub about Data’s relationships here.