'Ariel'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Dune was one of the handful of movies we saw in a theatre when I was a kid. Some sort of benefit thing. I'm sketchy on the details. Though I think we'd have gone anyway, it being sci fi.
It's safe to say that almost ALL the things we saw in theatres as kids were sci fi/fantasy. Krull, Flash Gordon, Star.*.
My father is, at times, predictable.
It seems that way for me too, Plei. I wonder if it's because most of the movies aimed at kids were scifi/fantasy genre.
Could be a LOT worse. In my day, they were all by Disney.
Although I still miss Fighting Prince of Donegal.
I watched Dune four times over one weekend.
Just watching it once felt like watching it four times over a weekend. Perhaps longer.
The book? A lifetime.
See, Wolfram, there could have been kids movies about anything else, and STILL all we'd have seen was SciFi. My dad's a SciFi buff, had a sub to Analog until the early 90s, and back issues floating all over the house. (When I was 12, I went on a binge and read about a decade and a half's worth of them in a week or two.) TV meant Star Wars reruns, Blake's 7, or Dr Who. There was no escaping it.
(My mother's mainly a non-fiction reader, which means most of my early fiction reading? Also Sci-fi. I think I hit the RAH stack at about 10/11.)
I imagine that the psychological effect Dune has on me is what ADD must be like.
Loved the books, though. When I was a freshman in high school, my mom's boyfriend gave me a bunch of books for my birthday that I probably wouldn't have found for ages otherwise: Dune, Zelazny, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Good times.
I'm the only scifi fan in my immediate family. Which supports my theory that as a baby I was beamed through a wormhole from an alternate universe.
Going back to a much earlier question...
When is this mystery new show to air?
It looks like it will be March-ish.
March-ish.
My view of the season half-way point is now skewed all to hell with new shows starting in January. Is this going to be a "mid-season replacement?"
Is there an Attention Surplus Disorder?
I could have used one to finish Dune.