So I’ve got to say I’m replying mid-cast, which is a first for me, we’ll see how the last bit goes. I’ve got to pull out my thoughts and get them down before I forget them, so, that aside.
Sean: I would love to see a Halo movie, and I agree, only if they do it right. I am terribly scared they won’t from where I poked around a while back, because I remember a lot of talking saying you can’t focus the movie on a ‘faceless’ character like Master Chief. That, and I wouldn’t want to just see a rehashing of the video game. Maybe if they took the book about Reach and the Spartan training program, and cap it off with something that leads in well to the games (current or when Fall of Reach comes out). But they have to go all the way.
Quoth Frodo “It is also said, do not go to the elves for advice, for they say both yes and no.” That popped through my head during the Picard discussion when he talks with his brother and advice. (and as a complete aside, I tend to say yes and no when somebody corners me into advice)
Speaking of Picard, I realized a week or so ago that all the Picard to Ahab references in the borg movie (I can’t for the life of me remember the name) are ironic in a whole other sense. Patrick Stewart played Ahab in a movie version of Moby Dick. Quite possibly said before, but I haven’t read on the forums since the meetup.
As to Caprica, (which is almost an anagram of Picard, just an extra c and a and minus a d-I’m random) I doubt I’ll pick it up when I get back home. I was watching (and enjoying BSG) until I went to college in the middle of the mountains where there was no sci-fi channel and missed out on most of it for four years, then came back in time to catch the ending episodes. I just couldn’t pick it up again at the end-dark isn’t for me.
But, by what you guys have said on the 'cast, I’ll make the following comparison on Caprica (complete full of hot air and without having watched it). Some of what was said reminds me of when I tried to read Tolstoy: brilliant characters, incredibly realistic, art in its own sense, and pretty damn hard to get through. I still have hopes for War and Peace, and maybe someday I’ll watch Caprica, but I’ll probably make my way through the second two arcs of Robotech first.
