Birthday Party - The Second Coming
Oct. 7th, 2012 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartAs you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.
However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!
The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.
Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)
However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!
The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.
Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)
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Date: 2012-10-08 10:32 am (UTC)In any case, the only things I'm currently watching on German TV are the old Star Trek re-runs. Tele5 has been on a sci-fi feast for months by now, showing old episodes of TNG, DS9, Voyager and Stargate and SGA, respectively, over and over again. It's a nice thing to realise that I still like them. :)
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Date: 2012-10-08 12:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 01:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 04:29 pm (UTC)dvd: currently rewatching The West Wing and watching (for the first time-ish) ST:TNG (as in I've seen a lot of the episodes, but not all and not in the right order)
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Date: 2012-10-08 05:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 05:47 pm (UTC)Also, they've started to rerun "The Adventures of Pirx the Pilot", which was about the first Hungarian sci-fi series, based on the short stories of Polish sci-fi genius Stanislaw Lem. This was also the first time when a director (András Rajnai, to name him) experimented with the ten-newest achievements of filmography, just one step before computer-generated stuff and blue and green screens came around.
Of course, he had a very little budget, which he spent on the cool stuff, so that the physical sets turned out really hilarious. For example, the rocket spaceships were actually dismantled coffee machines, with the most obvious parts removed - but everyone recognized them anyway.
It's an old show that first run when I was in upper primary or the early years of secundary school, but it still has its unique charm.
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Date: 2012-10-08 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 06:15 pm (UTC)That sounds like a fun series - old shows have far more interesting props, but often have far more interesting stories as they are less distracted b blowing things up
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Date: 2012-10-09 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 08:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 05:43 pm (UTC)Lem is a genius. One of the greatest sci-fi writers of the 20th century. It's very interesting to watch how he develops away from the obligatory happy-go-to-the-future socialist world view to darker, more complex themes. His last works are great, but also absolutely depressing.
There is a series of short stories, though, describing the adventures of two robotic engineers, Trurl and Klapantius, which is absolutely hilarious. All stoires are written from the POV of robots, and humans, if mentioned at all, are described as ugly, disgusting and treacherous creatures. Kyberiada is the title, if I'm not mistaken, although I'm not sure about the English spelling.
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 05:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 09:47 pm (UTC)One particularly fun discovery was when, a year or so ago, I found a couple episodes of a show we used to watch in New Zealand when I was a kid. "Warship" was a fictional show about the captain and crew of a modern frigate in the British Royal Navy. Much of it was actually filmed on a Royal Navy ship, and it was good fun. The BBC has never released it on video/DVD, so that's all I can find for now.
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Date: 2012-10-08 10:05 pm (UTC)New shows, I enjoyed the just finished Dr Who season, very effective ending I though, nicely wrenching. I watched the first two eps of Elementary (on line though). It's not bad, I'll watch again on line if I remember ;). Someone told me to check out Person of Interest, which is on-line here in the US too so I might. My TV habits are very on and off.
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Date: 2012-10-09 05:46 pm (UTC)I love to re-watch old favourites. Strangely enough, I like to re-watch them in live TV more than from videoutape, even if I have the original tape/DVD/whatever. No idea why.
MFU - that's a show I never saw but would love to.
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Date: 2012-10-09 06:07 pm (UTC)There used to be a few episodes of MFU on youtube, but they've been removed. It's fun. And it has Illya which is pretty much all you need to know :D