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- Those crazy guys behind Adult Swim's Robot Chicken are creating a new series for Adult Swim, called Titan Maximum. As the article says, "Titan is set 100 years in the future, when Saturn's moon Titan is defended by an elite squadron of young, brash pilots whose spaceships combine to form the giant robot Titan Maximum. Because of budget cuts, the team has been disbanded but must hastily reassemble when a former team member turns rogue and tries to conquer the solar system." Sounds like almost every anime show with mechs, ever, and deliberately so. But Titan will show what really happens when a bunch of idiot kids try to save the earth in giant machinery. I'm in!
- Will Ferrell's big screen adaptation of Land of the Lost hits theaters this summer. As you might expect, there will be ancillary stuff released to help promote the film. Like this flash game, Chakker, which might remind you of a certain '80s arcade game. It's not bad, plus it adds some humor be interspersing clips from the film in between levels. And for our readers who have an iPhone or iPod Touch, there is a free game for those devices. You can't be free!
- Mark Holcomb from Las Vegas Weekly has been struggling with the void left behind by the end of Galactica. His partial solution? The BBC Quatermass series, which he says has surprising similarities to Galactica. Any of our British readers able to corroborate this?
- Popular Mechanics takes on spontaneous human combustion, last seen on this week's episode of Fringe.
- If you're lucky, you were able able to see the new Star Trek movie last night. If you didn't, prepare to get in line. In any even, J.J. Abrams seems to have hit the zeitgeist right where it lives, as even non-Trekkie reviewers are reviewing the film positively.
- This past Monday, Charlie Rose interviewed J.J. Abrams. Can you guess what about? If not, you can find out below!
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Posted by JP Frantz at Friday May 08, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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Re: Quatermass/Galactica: only by a very long stretch. I've only seen the first season of BG but I've heard a bucketload about the end of the series online. I grew up with the Hammer movie of Quatermass and the Pit, the second last series from the '50's, and I'm watching that original TV version just now. Pit involves the discovery we're descended from apemen genetically altered by another civilisation on the verge of destruction so that we, the apemen's descendants, carry parts of their gene-code within us. So yes, like the end of BG, it's about our alien ancestors. But apart from that there's zero resemblance, although I would rush in to say that if anybody out there is still under the illusion BG was ever 'intelligent' TV sf, then a) they don't know what they're talking about, and b) they need to see Quatermass, stat.
Posted by Gary Gibson on Saturday May 09, 2009 at 8:41 AM