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Post by stork on Jun 26, 2017 19:20:03 GMT -8
Land of the Lost, the original TV show, not that god-awful Will Farrel drek that I don't even acknowledge. What Will Farrel drek? There was no Land of the Lost movie! LotL is mostly remembered for its corny special effects and acting, but it really was a show ahead of its time, and one that introduced some pretty damn deep concepts for children's entertainment. Especially in the 70s. Alternate universes, time/space anomalies, creepy talking skulls, invisible roaring angry gods, cosmic entities, strange technology that controls all aspects of a pocket dimension, recursive dimensional space (the characters once climbed a mountain to try to escape the Land, and, through a telescope, saw their own backs on a mountaintop across the valley!). And then there's the whole story with Enik, the intelligent sleestak. He was out of his time as well, and was convinced that the monstrous sleestaks where his evolutionary ancestors. Then he finds out that HE is the ancestor. The horrible degenerates were his future. That's powerful stuff in a kid's show, IMO. The writers even made up a language for the ape-like Pakuni. Everything Cha-Ka and his family said meant something. It wasn't a complete language, they didn't go Tolkien on it, but it was complete enough to write dialog with. Also, big names in sci-fi contributed stories... Walter Koenig, D. C. Fontana, Larry Niven, Ben Bova... even Harlan Ellison wrote a script that was ultimately not produced... HARLAN FREAKIN' ELLISON wrote stories for a kid's sci-fi/fantasy show!! Honestly, I attribute LotL for making me the geek I am today. Yeah, the special effects and the acting were corny as hell, and almost unwatchable by today's standards, but it made my little mind warp in ways that affect me even today! That movie was a damn disgrace. Land of the Lost deserved SO much better. Years ago I read an article in Smithsonian Magazine (when magazines were a thing) talking about this Evolved Dinosaurs Though I couldn't find the original article, It does sum up many of the points I remember. Do these guys look familiar?
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Post by sbloyd on Jun 27, 2017 6:01:13 GMT -8
I think National Geographic ran a similar article, about evolved troodonts.
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Post by sbloyd on Jun 27, 2017 6:02:41 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2017 21:18:55 GMT -8
TV? I'd go with Supernatural. I don't really follow much TV anymore - TiVo has made it too easy to record something and then put it off indefinitely... but my wife and I still watch Supernatural regularly. (Although after this most recent season-end, maybe not.) I watched Supernatural and loved seasons 2 through 5. It seemed like the creators were fine with wrapping it up on s5, and it really ended well, so I set it aside after that. Recently Japan Amazon Prime streaming video offered it, so I picked it up again. I thought the Leviathan stuff was straight garbage, but it was fun to watch the brothers and Castiel do their thang. Now I'm up to season 9, and enjoying the character interaction more than ever. I'm up to season 12. God save Netflix and download play.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Jun 29, 2017 13:23:45 GMT -8
Guilty pleasure music?
If I'm alone in the car, I'll sing along at the top of my lungs to Total Eclipse of the Heart. I have Pandora channels for Kenny Rogers, Neil Diamond, and Air Supply.
For TV, I own the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series on DVD. The whole thing. I'm a sucker for oddball reality TV game shows. When it was on, Total Blackout was fuckin' awesome. I never miss an episode of Face Off. I recorded the entire run of Drone Racing League on Disney XD. And anything where robots are fighting in the arena? I eat that shit up.
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Post by EricaOdd on Jul 21, 2017 10:15:47 GMT -8
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Post by Kainguru on Jul 21, 2017 11:31:15 GMT -8
Classic Tull - anytime, anywhere Aaron
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Post by uncommonman on Jul 21, 2017 11:48:03 GMT -8
Classic Tull - anytime, anywhere Aaron We had this on vinyl and it had a scratch that added a "drum beat" for the first half of the song. I was really surprised and a bit disappointed when I heard the song later and missed the drum beat.
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Post by weaselcreature on Jul 21, 2017 13:12:13 GMT -8
Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and CW McCall's "Convoy."
I hate country (few exceptions), but these two hold a special place in my heart from when I was younger.
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Post by uncommonman on Jul 21, 2017 13:34:15 GMT -8
Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and CW McCall's "Convoy." I hate country (few exceptions), but these two hold a special place in my heart from when I was younger. And this:
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Post by uncommonman on Jul 21, 2017 15:53:19 GMT -8
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Post by Forresst on Jul 21, 2017 17:37:59 GMT -8
My guilty pleasures are: Pitbull, DMX, and Garth Brooks.
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Post by EricaOdd on Jul 24, 2017 10:45:58 GMT -8
For fast food? Taco Bell.
Yeah I know their "beef" is made from wood pulp, ground maggots, and the bitter tears of orphaned children, but that doesn't deter me!
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Post by Probie Tim on Jul 24, 2017 11:12:27 GMT -8
For fast food? Taco Bell. I think I have you beat, there: Jack in the Box tacos. Is there anything better, really?
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Post by flyingjackelope on Jul 24, 2017 15:28:12 GMT -8
First thing that came to mind for me was the Comic Book "Empowered". It's about a struggling super heroine who's really sweet and tries so hard to be a super heroine. She has a super suit that gives her some great powers, but: - it's super clingy, so she can't wear anything underneath
- even though it makes her nigh-invulnerable, the suit itself is really fragile
- as the suit rips away, so do her powers
Adding on to this, all the villains knows about her weakness, so they exploit it. They also got into the habit of tying her up. It also doesn't help that her super hero group, The Super Homeys, hate her and treat her as a joke.
All in all, she's basically Spider man, but with body image issues. The reason it's a guilty pleasure? I guess cause any time I see it mentioned it's considered hyper soft-core porn. I still think it's a great read, but that's probably just me.
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