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shadowkat1. Okay, if you can access this, do, because it is hilarious...
The Rice Truck Saga
Shiv Ramdas Is On Temp Hiatus To Finish This Novel
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OMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao
Read the entire thread. It's posted from India. Apparently the writer's mother is carrying the phone back and forth and providing live-updates to her son from Lucknow.
2. Season 2 of the Witcher is premiering on Netflix on December 2.
3. Casting and Release dates for Bridgerton S2 - and they are sticking with the interracial casting
Oh and..Bridgerton tops Netflix's most watched list. I was surprised by that.
4.Bab5 Reboot on CW
Described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of the original, the script for a new potential version of the former syndicated drama from Warner Bros. TV will be penned by Straczynski. The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.
All this does is make me want to re-watch the original again. If I can locate it on a streaming service. I loved the original and still remember some of it vividly.
Actually favorite sci-fi series?
* Farscape
* Babylon 5
* Star Trek Next Generation
* BattleStar Galatica v.2 (I also loved the original)
* Voyager
* Doctor Who
* Firefly
5. Realized after reading a review of Titane - that among my least favorite form of horror is "body horror" - I can't watch it. It's gruesome. I don't do gore well - I've a visual memory and I can't get the images out of my brain afterwards.
This film is about a sociopath who kills people in gruesome ways, and has sex with cars, literally.
I'll pass.
Other horror that doesn't work for me? Zombies (not my trope), Cannibalism (see Zombies), Body Horror, Torture Porn, and Metamphorsis (although this fascinates me to no end, and I'm oddly attracted to it). Also, I don't do anything with giant insects, spiders, or rats.
I rather like ghost stories. Also vampires. Mainly prefer psychological horror though.
The Rice Truck Saga
Shiv Ramdas Is On Temp Hiatus To Finish This Novel
nameshivOMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao
Read the entire thread. It's posted from India. Apparently the writer's mother is carrying the phone back and forth and providing live-updates to her son from Lucknow.
2. Season 2 of the Witcher is premiering on Netflix on December 2.
3. Casting and Release dates for Bridgerton S2 - and they are sticking with the interracial casting
Oh and..Bridgerton tops Netflix's most watched list. I was surprised by that.
4.Bab5 Reboot on CW
Described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of the original, the script for a new potential version of the former syndicated drama from Warner Bros. TV will be penned by Straczynski. The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.
All this does is make me want to re-watch the original again. If I can locate it on a streaming service. I loved the original and still remember some of it vividly.
Actually favorite sci-fi series?
* Farscape
* Babylon 5
* Star Trek Next Generation
* BattleStar Galatica v.2 (I also loved the original)
* Voyager
* Doctor Who
* Firefly
5. Realized after reading a review of Titane - that among my least favorite form of horror is "body horror" - I can't watch it. It's gruesome. I don't do gore well - I've a visual memory and I can't get the images out of my brain afterwards.
This film is about a sociopath who kills people in gruesome ways, and has sex with cars, literally.
I'll pass.
Other horror that doesn't work for me? Zombies (not my trope), Cannibalism (see Zombies), Body Horror, Torture Porn, and Metamphorsis (although this fascinates me to no end, and I'm oddly attracted to it). Also, I don't do anything with giant insects, spiders, or rats.
I rather like ghost stories. Also vampires. Mainly prefer psychological horror though.
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Date: 2021-09-30 05:44 am (UTC)* Westworld +++
* His Dark Materials +++
* Orphan Black +++
* Frequency
* Fringe
* Revolution
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles +++
* Firefly +++
* Lost +++ ( didn't care for the ending, but otherwise, innovative and brilliant )
* Battlestar Galactica (reboot) +++
* Farscape +++
* Futurama (yes, it's a cartoon, but still excellent and wicked funny )
* Journeyman ( only made it one season before being cancelled, which was a shame )
* Max Headroom
* Star Trek Discovery
* Star Trek TNG
* Original Trek +++
* Original Twilight Zone
*******
Mainly prefer psychological horror though.
Mm, does this fit?
;-)
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Date: 2021-09-30 01:25 pm (UTC)I only went with what I remembered...
Sigh, yes, they appear to be trying everything now with the vaccines.
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Date: 2021-09-30 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-30 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-30 05:20 pm (UTC)HBO Max. Hands-down the worst interface of any streaming service I've come across, but they also have Teen Titans.
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Date: 2021-10-01 12:08 am (UTC)I agree - it has the worst interface on the planet. It is really hard to watch episodes in order on that thing. Or stream at all.
I was really really hoping Bab5 was streaming on Amazon Prime. Oh well, I may resubscribe to HBO Max in the not to distant future. I may need to - to see Dune, although I'm thinking Dune's something I'll have to brave the movie theaters for.
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Date: 2021-10-01 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-01 11:53 am (UTC)At any rate the images didn't stick with me after. Very odd.