rob_t_firefly

I feel like no matter what happened, the chances are pretty low you'll ever be the weirdest thing a bunch of professional butthole-looking specialists have ever experienced on the job.

Congrats on being done with it!

And when blue LEDs just started being available prop designers for scifi loved them because LEDs work much better on screen than incandescent bulbs, and as blue lights were something people didn't have yet in their household objects they looked new and interesting. Look at the Doctor Who and Torchwood props from the mid 2000s, everything from the iconic Sonic Screwdriver to alien zappers and bleepers and greebles of all kinds were full of tiny blue lights because it screamed "scifi" to the viewer.

Very quickly, though, blue LEDs got cheap enough for everyday junk and manufacturers immediately shoved them into every consumer product because they were new and interesting and, thanks in part to the scifi trend, made stuff look like scifi future tech you could have in real life.

Now, a couple decades on, we're still kind of stuck there.

The game Portal genuinely lived up to the slogan "now you're thinking with portals." Soon after I started playing I'd be walking around in real life and thinking "if I put portals there and there, I could get from here to that building rooftop there and on to over there..."

I still regularly replay those games.

I knew someone who did that at a rave in the 90s. I had to make sure they stayed really hydrated for the rest of the night.

Good luck with your colonoscopy. The prep is fucking miserable, but it's definitely worth it in the end.

(Don't use foaming oven cleaner for that.)

Just as they say Starbucks coffee is coffee for people who don't like coffee, I've concluded that Prometheus was an Alien film for people who don't like Alien films.

It's a bit odd to claim the guy who reedited and remixed an entire existing kung fu film never watched a kung fu film. Like his work or not, he pretty evidently saw the thing.

The novel Jumper by Steven Gould, on which the film Jumper was based, spawned a continuing series that went on for a while and kept being pretty good. For the hell of it the author also wrote Jumper: Griffin's Story which wasn't part of his novels' continuity, instead it was a prequel to the movie.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/49082-jumper

Writing duo Samit and Hernandez are best known for their work as screenwriters for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” “Addams Family 2,” and the upcoming Disney+/Lucasfilm special “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy.”

Hooooo boy.

The 1981 TV series did a fine job, likely in no small part thanks to having Adams himself around and involved.

I feel like any future HHG adaptation would need to be TV rather than theatrical film. That universe is just too full to condense meaningfully into a 90-minute blockbuster meant to keep the Hollywood lowest common denominator in their seats. You need room for all the multilayered apparently-random stuff interacting with each other in the particularly bizarre ways Adams was so good at pulling off, and it needs to capture the whimsy of the source material without devolving into the unremarkable formulaic stuff the latest attempt to do Dirk Gently on TV turned out to be.

I still have my original "DON'T PANIC" button which came in the box with the game.

It also depends on your ability to not leave when Rob Schneider shows up and starts Rob Schneidering all over the damn screen.