Chuck is on my Netflix also. Nerd goodness, but not scifi, right? I have such a long list, but I love how TV has evolved into this thing where you can do all of it as you're ready. I also think that TV is at a place where it is much, much better than the movies in general. The level of skill, storytelling, all that, is just so far above what you get at the movies.

BSG, the new one, is just amazing. There are slow moments, nothing's perfect, but wow. Firefly had enough good moments to keep me going through the whole series, and I really enjoyed it, and Nathan Fillion is my crush, but I can still see why it got cancelled. It just wasn't quite tight enough or something.

I don't know about the new Dune that you reference, but I have gathered that it spawned lots of follow-ups. You know me, I'm a bit purist, so I'm starting at the beginning with originals. I can tell you that the original book is good and I look forward to picking it up every time.

I try not to read much about Dune online until I'm done with it, but I came across some people who think that Star Wars is a ripoff, more than just influenced by Dune, and I can see what they're saying, but it still is totally a different story, and Lucas still had to come up with the characters and everything. It's more like the setting is the same with different names. The tones are different as well. I was a little disappointed that the Star Wars universe itself isn't original, since that's the backbone of a sci fi piece to me, but still, SW has its own merits.

Television Nerdhood/Greatness

Ok, I haven’t really done Battlestar Galactica yet, but Frankie knows the old one. Love Lost, watched a few episodes of Firefly back when it was on (liked it). I was okay with Buffy, but we both really liked Angel. I remember watching Threshold back in the day. (I had a “wishlist” on my Tivo that recorded anything with Brent Spiner in it.) I watched the occasional Stargate, but remember loving the movie. I know absolutely nothing about Babylon 5, though.

I watched the new Dune a few years ago, but wasn’t too into it. (I was watching it with/for Frankie) I had no idea it was related to Star Wars, but now that I google it, I see that Lucas acknowledged it’s influence on his work. Good to know.

I also don’t know too much about comics. I know about the movies and Frankie fills me in on the connections that are hinted at or behind the scenes in movies. In that vein, though, we really love Chuck. It’s nerd/spy goodness: Chuck embodies a lot of the things that Frankie is/loves. It’s good times.

SciFi Goodness

I knew, I was joking!

Yes, I totally remember! I still pull the Starfleet Academy tee out of my closet every so often, but it's not working at my current weight. I'm saving it in case. Remember when I called that my Saturday shirt, though? I wore it all the time there for a while.

Dude, that would be fun! I started looking for conventions in Texas, and there are some cool things that happen. They're more combo conventions with lots of scifi stuff, but that would be cool. And I don't know about celeb appearances at those. I've started to embrace scifi more, and I'm finding that there are more things I really like. LOVE Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining), Lost, Firefly was good, and that has led me to check out Buffy (Joss Whedon), but I haven't jumped off into that. I have some other things lined up, Threshold (Brent Spiner), the Stargate universe, maybe some Babylon 5, we'll see. My list is long!

I'm reading Dune right now, and I'm absolutely amazed. It's very good, and I just read about 10-20 pages at night before I go to sleep. Plan to watch the movie when I'm done. I've always heard of Dune, but I didn't realize that the Star Wars universe is taken from Dune, based on Dune, whatever. Star Wars takes place far in the past, though, right? Dune is far into the future, but that's a small point really. Are the Star Wars humans supposed to be related to us?

What about comic books, though? People who like the movies/TV that I like seem to be really into that, too, and I haven't found an interest yet. Is there something really good that I should start with? Have you read any?

I'm so into entertainment. Is that wrong?

I meant that I didn’t have words for how funny that was.

When we got that free trip to Vegas a couple of years ago, I purposely scheduled it for the week of the convention. We didn’t go to any of the “convention” things but we went to the casino that hosted it & there was Quark’s bar & lots of people dressed up & a shop. Remember? I bought myself (and you?) a Starfleet Academy tshirt.

Aaah! I used to look at this site all the time and haven't in forever now. Okay, I love Star Trek, but I would just know better than to do that.

My boss is going to a Star Trek convention in Vegas this fall, and he totally buys the photo ops, too. He already has pictures of himself with several of them, and he's filling in a couple of gaps this year. He keeps telling me, you and Wesley should just go. Just take a few days and go. Then, I actually looked into it, and it really isn't nearly as expensive as I thought it would be, but still, Wesley would never go for it. And it still would be several hundreds of dollars. I'd like to do that someday, but it's one of those things where I can imagine lots of other things to do with the money, too.

I guess I did have words, ha.

Funny Link

No words.

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This jewelry seems literary to me, so it fits here, I think. :)

Had to share with you!