Links, baby! Links! (Including Stargate and Galactica and Macross odds and ends)

excited about Manga comics from Japan than they are about traditional American fare, you really don’t need to look much further than this for an explanation: http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/comics/f20080227/indexp2.html What you’ve got here is a comparison between the 1977 Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars (Which sucked out loud) and the 2007 japanese adaptation of *the same scenes*. Granted, the industry now isn’t what it was like 30 years ago, the art is much better, the stories are more flexible, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, so I admit this isn’t an entirely fair comparison, however just look at how much more fun the Japanese are having w/ the same scenes than Howard Chaykin (And his successors) did w/ the same material.
• Whoa, baby! Actual pictures of an avalanche on mars, taken *while* it’s happening! http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog/?p=141
• I’m actually rather pleasantly surprised by this listing http://www.rankopedia.com/ZoneID=3/8065/Best_sci-fi_movie_ever/Step1/754... I mean, Star Wars is undeservedly high, but I can tolerate that. Sure, there are some amazingly lowbrow films on here (X-Files Fight the future? Star Trek: First Contact? Independence Day? Hey, guys, 1950 called, they’d like their plot back) and as we all know, “Jedi” was just mephitic sh!t, but on the whole, I’m pretty happy with this list, even if it is a bit conservative and mainstream. And if you’ve *got* to put a star wars film as #1 on the list, at least they picked the best one. But, hey, the fact that # 25 made the list at all makes me happy. HEY! Know what? Let’s do an unscientific survey: you send me the titles of your top 10 favorite SF films of all time, and I’ll rank ‘em and include ‘em in the next “Bored Househusband” dealie.
• Is it just me, or is all this sc!entology bullsh!t remarkably like a bad 1950s science fiction novel? (Perhaps not at all remarkable as it was founded by a 1950s SF author-cum-con man) Here’s a timeline of what they believe to be ‘historical events’. It reads remarkably like the first part of a Star Trek or Space: 1999 chronology http://io9.com/363755/the-science-vs-scientology-timeline Whacky.
• To everyone out there who whiled away years of their lives playing this game – and to Bad News Hughes in particular – I’m so sorry: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-03-04-Gary-Gygax_N.htm
• So who would Alex P. Keaton have voted for in ’08? Assuming he were real, of course? http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/what-would-alex-keaton... (This whole article is worth it for the last two lines)
• Because I know you always wondered what the opening credits of that movie would look like if the movie was made in 1957, that’s why! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A
• I also know you’ve always wondered what World War II would be like if it was reenacted by ethnic foods, which is why I’m showing you this http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/foodfight/index.htm Actually, it’s not as funny as it sounds, but there’s lots of shots of exploding meat, and that’s always a good thing, right?
• Slurm! “It’s Highly Addictive!” Not only that, but now it may even be real! http://www.trademork.com/slurm/
• Well, this is it, the human race is no longer worth saving I give up. Even the glories of exploding meat can’t justify the staggering “WTF?” stupidity of this film project http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7256573.stm
• ...on the other hand, everything that’s good and pure about America is embedded in this clip, assuming the guy is actually American, but he kind of has to be, doesn’t he? http://youtube.com/watch?v=ELol1dHjHEE
• I have some concerns with the way they’re depicting the characters from “Watchmen,” here’s a picture of “Silk Spectre” from “Watchmen” http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/SilkSpectreFull.jpg Ok, now that we’ve got that out of the way, I feel that The Comedian here http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/ComedianFull.jpg looks simultaneously a bit too Tim Burton and also a bit too Gene-Simmons-By-Way-Of-The-Live-Action-Version-of-The-Tick. Finally, speaking of Tim Burton – Is this supposed to be Nite Owl, or “Batman?” Geez. This one really annoys me. http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/NIteOwlFull.jpg as for Rorschach, they nailed it http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/RorschachFull.jpg but really haven’t we all seen a lot of really really good Rorschachs at science fiction conventions over the last 23 years? It’s not that hard.
• So the good news is that there’s a 3rd Stargate:SG1 movie in the works, and the even-better news is it’ll be a Jack O’Neil story. The bad new is that Vala Mal Doran won’t be in it. WTF? http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/01/wright-discusses-third-sg-1-movie/
• Now that Stargate: Atlantis is done, Gateworld has a nice invertew with Marting Gero here, where he talks at some length about the McKay/Keller romance that most people seemed to hate (Fat chicks, mostly) http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/crossroads5.shtml and here he gives us a little info about the upcoming “Stargate Universe” http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/crossroads7.shtml also, in this interview David “Rodney McKay” Hewett fesses up that he found the romance thing a little awkward http://www.tvguide.com/News/David-Hewlett-Says-1001310.aspx
• Anyone who really likes the Stargate shows probably is already aware of this, but if you’re not, here’s MGM’s page for the new “Universe” show http://stargate.mgm.com/universe/