We've watched the kickoff movie of Battlestar Galactica, and I thought it was pretty good. I was very impressed by the battle scenes and the look of everything. I didn't see the pilot (or don't remember it) of the original series, but this looks like a pretty good variant of the story. Lots of nods to the original series with some new twists thrown in. We've still got the first two hour episode of the series to watch.
Oh, and I've been meaning to do this for a while since the LOTR trivia, but here's something I'm a real expert at. Seinfeld trivia (answers in comments):
1) What are the first names of Kramer and his mother?
2) Who *really* spit on Kramer and Newman after the Mets game?
3) What was featured on the cover of Elaine's first J. Peterman catalog?
4) What are the names of Jerry's parents?
5) What is the name of the guy from Florida who gives Jerry his space pen?
6) What vegetable does Newman call a "vile weed"?
7) As Jerry predicts, who gets eliminated first from "the contest"?
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Here are the answers to the trivia questions for those who are interested. See how many you got right:
1) Cosmo and Babs
2) Roger McDowell
3) The Urban Sombrero
4) Morty and Helen
5) Jack Klompas
6) Broccoli
7) Kramer
Among my notable achievements is that I have never watched a single epispode of Seinfeld. None. Never watched more than 3 minutes of it at a stretch, in fact. I've wasted a lot of synapses on worthless crap, but Seinfeld, thankfully, is not included in that. I intend to keep it that way forever, barring whatever degradations and torments are slated for my eternity in the Inferno.
Posted by: Feff on January 19, 2005 04:36 PMOne of the potential issues is that one of the torments may be a session straight out of A Clockwork Orange with Seinfeld and Vangelis substituted appropriately.
Posted by: Seattle Astronomer on January 19, 2005 05:53 PMWatching Seinfeld isn't a torment, it's dang funny.
Well, only if you like ludicrous.
Posted by: Humbaba on January 19, 2005 11:47 PMHey, I like Vangelis. Well, the stuff he did in the 70's, at least.
And from what I've been able to gather from pure diffusion, Seinfeld doesn't seem that bad. Nothing like prime-time soaps or other chick shows. That's where the Clockwork Orange torments in Hell will be for me. Hell, I can't even watch Buffy without the teenage angst hitting my redline limit before they reach a fight scene.
Posted by: Feff on January 20, 2005 09:37 AMRemember, Feff, that was the case in A Clockwork as well...
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Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you're keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.
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So maybe in your case it should be soaps and Vangelis.
Posted by: Seattle Astronomer on January 20, 2005 11:28 AMHmm. There was that terrible night on the telescope (this was before remote observing, so I was in the dome all night alone) when the song I woke up with in my head and couldn't get rid of was ... I kid you not ... "Good Ship Lollipop". Man, that was a long, awful night.
Posted by: Feff on January 20, 2005 05:36 PM