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Sigh...I just can't get a break! LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 12:17 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Sure guy...(YOU ARE SO BUSTED!!!) Reece Jennings mcjennings124@ mailto:mcjennings124%40yahoo.com yahoo.com wrote: I know! And to make it worse, I sent the reply first, THEN looked at who sent the original, expecting to see Keith or Astro...A little chagrin when I saw MAIDMARIAN The Poet! YIKES! I figured you would know I was kidding, though! :o) Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com mesavers.com http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ mesavers.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? shame on you! (smile) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will NOT say what my initial mental image was when you said Cock Fighting! There WAS pain involved, though...LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com mesavers.com mesavers.com http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ mesavers.com/ mesavers.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Let's just saying you know more than you think, but we're not going to help you figure it out. - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie - Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Sure guy...(YOU ARE SO BUSTED!!!) Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know! And to make it worse, I sent the reply first, THEN looked at who sent the original, expecting to see Keith or Astro...A little chagrin when I saw MAIDMARIAN The Poet! YIKES! I figured you would know I was kidding, though! :o) Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:10 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? shame on you! (smile) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will NOT say what my initial mental image was when you said Cock Fighting! There WAS pain involved, though...LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com mesavers.com http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ mesavers.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Lets just saying you know more than you think, but were not going to help you figure it out. - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie - Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction?
I enjoyed Jerry Was a Man best. I don't know if its wry tone matched the original story. It was the story of a wealthy couple who set out to purpose a bio-engineered flying horse in order to outshine their neighbor who has another bio-eng animal. The company owner/engineer talks them into leasing a man who the wife comes to see as human. She sues the company in order to break the lease saying that Jerry is a Man and not a throw-away. I see on the net that Heinlein wrote it in 1947, so it preceeds Asimov's The Bicentennial Man. The Discarded is based on an Ellison story that I recall reading. We have a ship full of people disformed by disease. They are in orbit, not allowed to leave. Earth sends a ship saying 'the virus that caused your deformation is spreading. We now know that we can make a serum from your blood as a cure. Give us your blood and we'll let you land.' Despite the warnings of their leader, they give the blood. I'll let you guess the ending. The stories are not unoriginal. Especially for their time. The Discarded was as much of a slap of cold water in the face as The Cold Equations was in its time. I think that our society is more cynical now and more aware of how we use people and throw them away. Perhaps the stories could even be saved. I heard a journalist talk about how many emails he got from people who didn't understand the flack that Vick received about killing dogs. Many people feel that nature is here to serve man. Maybe if Jerrry was played by a dog, people would get Heilein's message. I see that in the original story, Jerry was chimpanzee. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give a quick synopsis of these two, and why they're so unoriginal? -- Original message -- From: my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. -- Original message -- From: maidmarian_thepoet [EMAIL PROTECTED] I enjoyed Jerry Was a Man best. I don't know if its wry tone matched the original story. It was the story of a wealthy couple who set out to purpose a bio-engineered flying horse in order to outshine their neighbor who has another bio-eng animal. The company owner/engineer talks them into leasing a man who the wife comes to see as human. She sues the company in order to break the lease saying that Jerry is a Man and not a throw-away. I see on the net that Heinlein wrote it in 1947, so it preceeds Asimov's The Bicentennial Man. The Discarded is based on an Ellison story that I recall reading. We have a ship full of people disformed by disease. They are in orbit, not allowed to leave. Earth sends a ship saying 'the virus that caused your deformation is spreading. We now know that we can make a serum from your blood as a cure. Give us your blood and we'll let you land.' Despite the warnings of their leader, they give the blood. I'll let you guess the ending. The stories are not unoriginal. Especially for their time. The Discarded was as much of a slap of cold water in the face as The Cold Equations was in its time. I think that our society is more cynical now and more aware of how we use people and throw them away. Perhaps the stories could even be saved. I heard a journalist talk about how many emails he got from people who didn't understand the flack that Vick received about killing dogs. Many people feel that nature is here to serve man. Maybe if Jerrry was played by a dog, people would get Heilein's message. I see that in the original story, Jerry was chimpanzee. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give a quick synopsis of these two, and why they're so unoriginal? -- Original message -- From: my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction?
Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level.
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I will NOT say what my initial mental image was when you said Cock Fighting! There WAS pain involved, though...LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:54 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Don't really know. Never considered looking for them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all sound like good stories, good old school scifi. I'll need to look them up. wonder if they're available online? -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fondly Fahrenheit is about a labor robot that begins killing people when the temperature is too high. Its owner, who makes his living on the sweat of the 'bot's brow, tries to cover up the crimes and fix the thing on his own. His repair work keeps the bot from killing in warm temps, but when the owner takes it to a cold planet... Beep is one of my all-time faves. It's about a future where a new comm technology, based on Dirac theory, allows people across the Galaxy to communicate with each other instantly. The system works like a charm, save for this annoying, loud BEEP at the beginning of each transmission. A scientist sets out to try to remove the beep from the transmission, only to learn that the beep is, in actuality, the aggregation of *every signal the system has or will ever send*. The perfect spy tool-slash-time machine... Anderson's TIme Patrol stories are just that, a group of people who keep Time safe from all sorts of miscreants. Piper's Paratime does that for all known worldlines. Nightfall is the tale of a civilization that lives in perpetual paradise, save for the one night every ten thousand years when the sun goes down. Talk about folk being afraid of the dark... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are those about, i haven't read any of them. -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that they were trying to introduce the old classics to a newer generation. I've read most of the stories the eps were based on, but I can't really say that I liked any of them. Some great ones I would've liked to have seen, which I think could've translated over well, are Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester, Beep by James Blish, any one of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories or H Beam Piper's Paratime stories and the classic Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction?
shame on you! (smile) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will NOT say what my initial mental image was when you said Cock Fighting! There WAS pain involved, though...LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:54 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction?
If you can't find them online, try the library. Most of these stories have been anthologized (is that a word?) quite often. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all sound like good stories, good old school scifi. I'll need to look them up. wonder if they're available online?
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I know! And to make it worse, I sent the reply first, THEN looked at who sent the original, expecting to see Keith or Astro...A little chagrin when I saw MAIDMARIAN The Poet! YIKES! I figured you would know I was kidding, though! :o) Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:10 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? shame on you! (smile) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will NOT say what my initial mental image was when you said Cock Fighting! There WAS pain involved, though...LOLLOL! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com mesavers.com http://www.legacyho http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ mesavers.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of maidmarian_thepoet Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction? Yeah, I would not call him Hitler. Here in La., we have our own problems with cock-fighting. Just a different animal. Everyone picks a cause that they are rabid about. (un-intentend pun) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ wrote: thanks for the summaries. As for Mike Vick, what he did was horrible, no doubt. But I have long been amazed at how so many people spend more time fighting for animal rights than humans'. Dogs and cats are absolutley deserving of humane treatment. But (some) people want to penalize Vick as if he were Hitler or something, and I don't see it on that level. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I guess that they were trying to introduce the old classics to a newer generation. I've read most of the stories the eps were based on, but I can't really say that I liked any of them. Some great ones I would've liked to have seen, which I think could've translated over well, are Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester, Beep by James Blish, any one of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories or H Beam Piper's Paratime stories and the classic Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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what are those about, i haven't read any of them. -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that they were trying to introduce the old classics to a newer generation. I've read most of the stories the eps were based on, but I can't really say that I liked any of them. Some great ones I would've liked to have seen, which I think could've translated over well, are Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester, Beep by James Blish, any one of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories or H Beam Piper's Paratime stories and the classic Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Can you give a quick synopsis of these two, and why they're so unoriginal? -- Original message -- From: my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Anyone See Masters of Science Fiction?
Fondly Fahrenheit is about a labor robot that begins killing people when the temperature is too high. Its owner, who makes his living on the sweat of the 'bot's brow, tries to cover up the crimes and fix the thing on his own. His repair work keeps the bot from killing in warm temps, but when the owner takes it to a cold planet... Beep is one of my all-time faves. It's about a future where a new comm technology, based on Dirac theory, allows people across the Galaxy to communicate with each other instantly. The system works like a charm, save for this annoying, loud BEEP at the beginning of each transmission. A scientist sets out to try to remove the beep from the transmission, only to learn that the beep is, in actuality, the aggregation of *every signal the system has or will ever send*. The perfect spy tool-slash-time machine... Anderson's TIme Patrol stories are just that, a group of people who keep Time safe from all sorts of miscreants. Piper's Paratime does that for all known worldlines. Nightfall is the tale of a civilization that lives in perpetual paradise, save for the one night every ten thousand years when the sun goes down. Talk about folk being afraid of the dark... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are those about, i haven't read any of them. -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that they were trying to introduce the old classics to a newer generation. I've read most of the stories the eps were based on, but I can't really say that I liked any of them. Some great ones I would've liked to have seen, which I think could've translated over well, are Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester, Beep by James Blish, any one of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories or H Beam Piper's Paratime stories and the classic Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. my_current_identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw two of them: Jerry Was a Man and The Discarded. I think that I will agree with one of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame that they picked such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed by SF and there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the stories had no sense- of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi channel monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much. If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see a good anthology show again. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about this. Did anyone catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some series hanging on (Herores, Battlestar), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology shows. I miss the days of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, even Night Gallgery, where you had lots of different stories and guest stars. How was it? There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
