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dreadgeek · 12-30-2009, 03:37 PM

I haven't seen Avatar yet. Probably this weekend.

Love the first three Star Wars movies but, I have to say, the second trilogy just didn't do it for me. Belly and I did the first trilogy again a couple of weekends ago when we both were just not going to leave the house and even after seeing each of the first three *at least* 75 times each (I lost count with Ep IV at 100 which I'd easily done by my mid-twenties) I still get a thrill at the end of them. While Ep 1, 2 and 3 all had things to recommend them, I wish Lucas had made them back in the early 90's when the technology was not quite sufficient to give him precisely the scene he wanted and so he was forced to tell us a great story.

The reason I say it's funny that someone should mention sci-fi is that I got a Kindle for X-mas ('cuz my honey loves me) and the very first book I bought was an old (25 years old now) sci-fi novel titled Neuromancer by William Gibson. It's the first real cyberpunk book and it was cyberpunk that reinvigorated my love for science fiction that *wasn't* Star Wars or Star Trek. I've read this novel at least a dozen times before but it's been a decade since I've read it. It is, without a doubt, my favorite sci-fi novel and the impact of it has stayed with me because it was Neuromancer that made me decide that I wanted to write science fiction and it was that desire to write really good that made me want to study science.

Cheers
Aj

12-30-2009, 03:37 PM	#8
dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,841 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Funny that someone should mention sci-fi I haven't seen Avatar yet. Probably this weekend. Love the first three Star Wars movies but, I have to say, the second trilogy just didn't do it for me. Belly and I did the first trilogy again a couple of weekends ago when we both were just not going to leave the house and even after seeing each of the first three at least 75 times each (I lost count with Ep IV at 100 which I'd easily done by my mid-twenties) I still get a thrill at the end of them. While Ep 1, 2 and 3 all had things to recommend them, I wish Lucas had made them back in the early 90's when the technology was not quite sufficient to give him precisely the scene he wanted and so he was forced to tell us a great story. The reason I say it's funny that someone should mention sci-fi is that I got a Kindle for X-mas ('cuz my honey loves me) and the very first book I bought was an old (25 years old now) sci-fi novel titled Neuromancer by William Gibson. It's the first real cyberpunk book and it was cyberpunk that reinvigorated my love for science fiction that wasn't Star Wars or Star Trek. I've read this novel at least a dozen times before but it's been a decade since I've read it. It is, without a doubt, my favorite sci-fi novel and the impact of it has stayed with me because it was Neuromancer that made me decide that I wanted to write science fiction and it was that desire to write really good that made me want to study science. Cheers Aj __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community. "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)