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Masters of Science Fiction
Randall_Flagg
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Portraying sci-fi short stories by such masters of the genre as Heinlein and Ellison, this show is on ABC 10-11pm on Saturdays.
The best part is the narrator--the one man qualified to narrate such science fiction masterworks:
Episodes so far:
Episode 1: "A Clean Escape," written by John Kessel
Episode 2: "The Awakening," written by Howard Fast
The best part is the narrator--the one man qualified to narrate such science fiction masterworks:
Episodes so far:
Episode 1: "A Clean Escape," written by John Kessel
A man walks into a psychiatrist's office in the future, but he thinks the year is 2007. He is unable to remember anything past 40 minutes in the past--anything beyond that, he remembers as a day in 2007. He has many conversations with the psychiatrist, which he forgets, eventually leading to the psychiatrist revealing the truth to him: he, the president of the US, caused global thermonuclear war. The few hundred people in their underground bunker are the only ones left alive on the planet. After forcing the president to remember everything, the psychiatrist, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer a few days previously, shoots herself. The episode ends exactly as it began, with a once again forgetting president walking into a psychiatrist's office, but with a different psychiatrist behind the desk.
Episode 2: "The Awakening," written by Howard Fast
Aliens come and tell us to disarm. All of the other countries begin disarming, but the president's black general tells him to nuke the shit out of the aliens. The Chinese threaten to nuke us if we don't disarm, but the president is afraid of Chinese people. Suddenly, everyone speaks all languages, the president disarms, and everyone is happy. Also, Terry O'Quinn has stopped beliving in aliens since his wife's dementia, but he starts believing again when the aliens come/
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also, we haven't gotten to the stories by Rob Heinlein or Harlan Ellison yet.
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Damn right. This thread needs the power of Grayskull... so badly.
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you could.
I missed it and I wanna know if it's any good.
also, the aliens were supposed to represent god
this is because everybody kept calling them god, and they quoted the bible, and the camera once zoomed in on "in god we trust"
also, they looked like angels
darn
Although that may just be for shows on NBC and the like, not sure.
It's not legal at this point, it just doesn't cost the company any money at that point because they have to have the DVD out before they can be losing sales to piracy. It's just something companies don't bother enforcing because it's a waste of money at that point.
:-(
I really wanted to watch that flash gordon show
only six episodes planned right now, and two were cut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_science_fiction
I watched a few minutes of it and it didn't seem good, though I'm a bit picky when it comes to TV sci-fi.
Poodles?
saw it coming.
most of the time
st:tng was excellent tho
He fought a robot!
How can you categorize a genre like that? Science fiction is like any other type of fiction; the interest comes from the characters, the ideas/philosophies, the drama, the humor, or whatever it is that the writer is trying to express in his work. The "alien races and lazor beams and space ships" is meaningless; it's just a costume that's put over top of the actual content. Granted, a bad costume or a good costume can affect the overall quality, but what really counts is the story, not how it's dressed up.
Because a large percentage of the mainstream thinks Sci-Fi is the empty action flick sci-fi they see in movies. It's unfortunate, because there's some great stuff out there.