Space Colonists Find Themselves Abandoned Mid-Colonization.

“Who am I?”

“You’re everything.  You’re yourself.”

“Maybe, in the end, we can still design ourselves.”

I love this show.  It’s a production of BBC America, so there’s a nice variety of UK actors along with some Americans.  The delicious quality of this show is probably what led to it’s downfall after just a single season – I’m sure the cost was enormous.  Eight episodes of space colonists duking it out.  Here’s the IMDB synopsis:

With Earth rapidly becoming uninhabitable, pioneers seek to colonize the harsh terrain of the planet Carpathia. 10 years later, the town of Forthaven faces danger as the planet’s dark secrets are revealed.

And there’s clones.

This show actually got terrible reviews, so what.  It seems like I have a taste for poorly-reviewed shows that get cancelled after only a season or two.  Hmmm… I wonder why that is?  Maybe there’s just no place for sci-fi apocalyptic shows anymore?  Well, I’m sure as hell not going to watch The Secret Circle, so I’d better find another cancelled show…

ARGO

This looks pretty tasty.

Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis – the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage.  But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA “exfiltration” specialist named Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.

The Downfall of Imagination in Hollywood: An Apocalypse of the Mind.

Oh, America.  Don’t you wish you could sometimes just hop in Doc Brown‘s DeLorean and go back to when the silver screen was saturated with magical creativity?  If I’m going to spend 10.5 BILLION dollars going to a movie in theaters nowadays, it’s gotta be good.  But it’s so hard to tell what’s going to be decent anymore.  Thank gawd for Rotten Tomatoes for some guiding light, but even the tomato smashers don’t always get it right.

Maybe we’re just spoiled?  Maybe we should just expect all movies to be awful and then occasionally be semi-pleasantly surprised?  That’s the mentality I’ve tried to have as of late – kind of bleak, but what can you do when the imagination of Hollywood’s gone to shit Bleepsville.

This is a graphic I TOTALLY stole from Short of the Week.  It’s kind of depressing, but totally true.

Hunger Games Map!

I must admit, I do like The Hunger Games.  Say what you will, I’m not ashamed.  Here’s a map of the approximate districts, maybe, someone made it, some fooool with design skillz.  Looks good ta me though.

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