Posts Tagged ‘Earth’
… Below – takes us to a far far point in space and time when the solar flares have roasted the Earth, and people from different countries have fled in different spaceships. It was quite funny to see Spaceship UK having neon lights in space flashing ESSEX, SURREY etc. And the Doctor trying to explain that to Amy by saying – people living, laughing and shopping (ha!), searching the stars for a new home. Yes, the Doctor and his assistant have already set out for their first adventure (not …
Last night I managed to catch the M. Night Shyamalan film “Signs” on television and whilst watching wondered why I don’t own it already on DVD or Blu-Ray (I don’t own it on Blu-Ray because it’s too bloody expensive on Blu-Ray) because I really love the film.
That’s right, I really love the film Signs.
Yes I know.
Water.
Okay for those of you who have not seen the movie Signs and don’t wish to be spoilt then you should really just go elsewhere right now. Or alternatively you should go rent the film now and watch it then return immediately.
Yes I know that the water is like acid to the aliens is pretty stupid. No actually it’s really stupid, around 70% of the Earth is covered by water. If water is like acid to you why would you go to a planet that is covered in the stuff. Then if you look at the idea that the aliens were harvesting people then why would they want a food source that was 55% to 78% bloody painful to them?
Talking about it on Twitter with the guys from the Geek Tragedy Podcast we likened it to the Xenomorph from Alien with the acid for blood thing. You go to a planet where it rains down acid, three quarters of the planet is under oceans of acid, the plant life is acidic, the main inhabitant sweats out acid?
So yes I am well aware of that fundamental flaw in the storyline and I think it is a remarkable shame as the rest of the film is pretty much awesomeness on toast.
But as my wife and I were discussing last night it never actually says that it is the pure water that does the deed, it’s an assumption that is made and admittedly not helped in the movie as they are vague regarding the defeat anyway. Even when I first saw the film I just imagined it was something in the water rather than the water itself but after hearing the theory over and over from many critics I also adopted the disdain for that aspect of the film.
So now I’m reclaiming the film.
See from now on I’m going to remember that the aliens are probably extraordinarily sensitive to chlorine which is generally added to our drinking water worldwide. I mean chlorine kills bacteria and other nasties so why not aliens? Maybe even the slightest trace amount reacts as it does in the movie with their bodies.
That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it.
I thought to myself, even if this episode is a weak filler like every single episode since the second one I’m going to keep with it, I’m sure at some stage or the other the show will become interesting and live up to some of the promise made in the pilot.
But the I accidental saw some of the one line descriptions of upcoming episodes and a prominent keyword in each of those is ‘flashback’. So I really don’t know if I can do this any more, I mean I’m not even disappointed anymore, I expect the next episode to be crap and frankly they are fulfilling that expectation.
So the other week we highlighted the stupid and exploitative scene where the nerds used a keno to check out the officer with the large breasts (honestly it is so annoying that this is all I’ve got to describe this character – the writers REALLY suck). A guy I work with had a really good point about the scene, the way that Young as the commanding officer handled it, rather than create a non sexist working environment and making sure that the two idiots knew that the behaviour would not be accepted he took on a boys will be boys kind of attitude and let it slide.
It doesn’t surprise me then, when we get to the episode ‘Earth’ so named because the writers are trying to be cool with their episode titles that the characters including Young act in such a morally reprehensible and inappropriate fashion with the borrowed bodies on Earth.
I’m sorry I know it is just a story device but to take someone else’s body and then go and have sex with someone!?!?!? You don’t know anything about that person, what if they have a disease, what if the person you are having sex with has a disease!?! I can’t even articulate the level of inappropriateness of this!
I thought it was bad enough using their bodies to go out drinking, what if they were alcoholics? Or have a condition? What if they just get drunk and fall down?? It’s so stupid.
It’s bad writing.
What did we learn this week?
- Jack O’Neal looks bloody terrible!
- Jack O’Neal sounds bloody terrible!
- Jack O’Neal looks and sounds like he doesn’t want to be there, I know how he feels.
- Oh cool the guy from 24 is there… OMG is this a crossover!?!?! Could Jack Bauer be on soon!!!
- No it is not a 24 crossover.
- You know what this show needs more of? Talking.
- Not.
- You know what else this show needs more of? Communication stones.
- NOT.
- Apparently they DO need some HR directives for people to follow… or BETTER WRITERS!!!
- When someone you work with visits your mother apparently it’s not weird at all and they’ll make cookies!?!?!?
- There is WAY too much back story in these characters maybe we could have some current story??
- Young has become THAT GUY, you know, the awful ex.
- Lou Diamond Phillips’ character is just an unpleasant to watch jerk, I thought the Wraith were lame but sheesh.
- Oh look, they went to a club in Stargate… how much did that cost, maybe next time we don’t go to the expense of building a club set and filling it and we hire better writers.
- I think Eli was driving a Porche? I could be wrong, it doesn’t make any sense… oh that’s right worst writing ever.
- I really enjoy the Eli and Young Big Brother show.
- NOT!!
Seriously does anyone think this show is really good? Better than SG1, hell better than Atlantis?? Because they cancelled Atlantis to produce this lame crap.
