While I'll happily sit and watch a movie or catch an episode of a show I like, I really favour my scifi in marathon doses. Some of the best geeking I've done has involved some friends and a whole bunch of hours of one show or another.
Well, this has been a great week for new media. To go along with the new DVD player [the old one worked...sometimes], we acquired all three X-Men movies, BSG season 2.5, and the complete Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. That last isn't exactly scifi, but it does have strange otherwordly devices, exciting "new" inventions [the show takes place in the 1890s] and even some time travel. In a funny little coincidence, the actor John Pyper-Ferguson appears in all three, as the Pegasus CAG on BSG, recurring baddie Pete Hutter in Brisco County, and as the dad driving a minivan toward the end of X III [on screen for all of a few seconds].
Now I'm ready for some serious marathon viewing!
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I definitly go with the marathon approach for real immersion in the alternateness of it all. Episodes are like email from mars, seasons at one sitting are being there, baby. Go for it.
Glad to see you put up your auto filter. Get a few spam bombs, did you?
Spam!spam!spam!spam!spam! Just one spam message, but that was enough for me.
On a related note, I recently learned that Spam [the canned meat product] was developed as a way to efficiently use & market the shoulder meat that was left over after the hams were removed from the pig. While it was a big hit for awhile after it first came out, it lost its luster and fell into disfavour with many people, except the Hawaiians, who apparently are crazy about it. It is commonly served fried, with ramen noodles. Tom Robbins also finds it inoffensive, and he eats it once a year, on his birthday.
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