[  Mood: Cool ]
The first promo for the show about the King of the Impossible, Savior of the Universe, is now online. Sci-Fi’s Flash Gordon series which hopefully will be better than Painkiller Jane.

Flash! AHH AHHHH!

You have to sit through a commercial to see the ten second bit, but they’ve got a cool logo for the show, and wisely used the best part of the 1980 movie, the Queen soundtrack. If they could only get Brian Blessed and his booming voice again.

I’m just hoping that this time Flash’s hero-cred is something a little more than being a quarterback. And if Ming doesn’t have a Van Dyke, I’m going on strike. Nothing says sinsiter master villain like a Van Dyke.

Oh, and hot General lady in tight black leather, like Kala was last time, would be nice. That would counter-balance the lack of a Van Dyke.

[  Mood: Amused ]
[  Currently: Listening to My Chemical Romance – This is How I Dissapear ]
I was reading Fark the other day, and they had a link to yet another "why I hate Star Trek" list. And as we all know, everything is better in a simple bullet-point format.

Anyway, it was the usual slams that have been tossed at the show since Next Gen was at its height. In other words, nothing special, but it ignited the usual geek flame war.

But one of the points was the "no seat belts" trope. And, that actually got me to thinking. I know why we have yet to have flying cars, and aren’t zipping around the universe in our hyperspace craft. It has to do with seat belts, because they reminded me of a flaw in another galaxy far, far away: no handrails.

The Federation, or any of the other races in that milieu, does not have seat belts. In Star Wars, they have no handrails and their doors slam down at toe-removing speeds. It was thinking about this, and the correlation between these two points, that set off the light bulb in my head.

See in our "real" world, we’re too worried about little things like personal safety and negligence lawsuits, so instead of coming up with warp drives and Death Star’s, we’re making airbags and safety regulations. And really, what’s a few measly deaths compared to the coolness of the lightsaber? I mean, come on, you don’t think those babies are OSHA approved, do you?

If we spent less time worried about a few accidental plummetings to the bottom of 1,000 foot shafts, we’d be moisture farming on Mars by now. Instead, we’re developing Handrail technology.

And that’s why we’re stuck here, and aren’t out battling Stormtroopers while firing photon torpedoes.

[  Mood: Happy ]
[  Currently: Listening to Maybe by The Inkspots ]
Okay, first we get the teaser movie for the new Starcraft game. I can handle that. I loved Starcraft, but I wasn’t a rabid Blizzard fanboy like a lot of people.

But this…oh, sweet merciful Lord…this made my geek center explode with joy: Fallout 3 is coming, and here’s the teaser trailer.

I lived and breathed for Fallout. I read the message boards. I downloaded one of the game designer’s world "bibles". I have the music from the first two games as MP3s. I completed the first and second games, multiple times. I still play them both on a semi-annual basis.

I even ran one table-top RPG in this setting, and would willingly run another.

There is no other computer game I love more. The only one that even comes close is X-Com, and I can’t get it to run anymore.

But I’m getting off track. This teaser is great. First off, it has the song by The Inkspots that the game studio wanted to use for the first Fallout, but they couldn’t get the rights.

It is supposedly done with the in-game engine, and it looks sweet. But really, that’s a given these days.

The trailer also has the feel of the first game’s opening movie, which also pulled back to show a post-nuke apocalypse city. The power armor on the guy at the end of the teaser looks a lot like the armor from the first game as well. So I’m wondering if they’re just going to do a "reboot" of the first game, a la Doom 3. While I wouldn’t be adverse to that, if they managed to get all the original voice cast back, but I’d much rather have new adventures in the post-nuke wasteland.

But no matter what the storyline is, I’ll be one of the first in line for Fallout 3. I just need to get a new PC before then.

Oh, and one last thing…2008? MOTHERFILKER! Why is everything giving us such long teaser lead times these days?!

First there was Darth Tater. Then there was the Spud Trooper. But now, he’s branching out into other shows.

I present OPTIMASH PRIME!

It’s his coming with a little mustache that weirds me out about it.

"We will deal with Megatron, right after I shave. And I brought my angry eyes!"