My focus, on Saturday, on Star Wars and Star Trek led me to try to think of how many sci-fi series, movies, or books I could think of that had nothing to do with either of those things... Off The Top Of My Head:
1. Ringworld, Larry Niven.
2. The Integral Trees, Larry Niven.
3. Footfall, Larry Niven.
4. The Last Starfighter
5. Battlestar Galactica (original and remake)
6. That one cartoon series when I was a kid in which they made ordinary battleships into space cruisers, only I can't find any records of it anywhere.
7. Space: 1999.
8. Logan's Run.
9. The Black Hole.
10. Flash Gordon.
11. The Mote In God's Eye.
12. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
...
And I'm out.
2 comments:
The top of my list would have been "V" (the original not the reboot I never watched) followed by Robotech (or Macross in Japan) and "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. And Transformers if that counts--there was a TV series, several actually.
What was "The Black Hole"? There was a "Robot Chicken" skit about a new Special Edition of The Black Hole and they just keep showing one of the stupid little robots like in the poster going down this corridor. "Action!!!" the announcer says, trying to make it sound exciting, which I take it it's not. Though when I think of that I think of that "Silent Running" movie where some guy was on board a spaceship with some plants and a couple of robots. Why hasn't anyone rebooted that yet? Oh right because we only care about rebooting stupid '80s movies, not stupid '70s movies. Then after I think of "Silent Running" the movie I think of the song "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics that has nothing to do with the movie and actually sounds more like it should have been the theme song for "Red Dawn," the remake of which was made in Michigan and is due out at some point, or maybe it already came out and flopped. I have no idea.
When I get really bored at work I launch into these stream of consciousness comments.
I loved Logan's Run (the book not the movie and yes I did read it). Also Larry Niven's Ringworld is pretty amazing stuff.
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