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Rogue Dwarf Stars, Crazy Gravity, And Dropped Calls!! Can The Guy From JAG Save Us??
Merrick here...
JAG's David James Elliott has signed onto an epic science fiction miniseries called IMPACT.
the effects-heavy "Impact" chronicles the aftermath of a meteor shower during which a piece of a dwarf star lodges itself in the moon. That triggers a series of anomalies on Earth, including cell phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic weightlessness. Astrophysicist Alex Kinter (Elliott), with a help of a female astronomer, discover that the moon has been dislodged from its orbit and is on a collision course with Earth.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
So that's why I've been experiencing sporadic weightlessness!?!?
The moon hitting Earth? That would kinda suck. But cell phones not working? That's a superbitch.
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oh yes
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Second! Also, will only watch this if Catherine Bell turns up in the recurring role of a bikini-clad nymphomaniac astronaut...
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You know Black POTUS Morgan Freeman fucked shit up the first time.
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hopefully nick fury shows up
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??? that kid got eaten by a shark in '75....
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What I meant to say was
"As long as the internet still works...
cause once you see japanese girls puking in each other's mouths, its kinda hard to go back to playboy" -
A comet hit the moon and broke it in half, and the larger half was slowly drifting toward the earth, getting bigger in the sky with each passing day. The dream was mainly about society's collapse and my own struggle to come to terms with the fact I was going to die.
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Apr 18, 2008 9:55:41 AM CDT
Wow, and how the hell do they plan of FIXING the problem?
by skidmarkedundies
Or is this a show that's ending is pretty much bleak and useless?
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They really need an edit button. Oh wait . . . that's why they have the ZONE. My bad.
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... to the moon to carve that white dwarf fracment into a lens, incorporate resulting lens into a shrink-ray, then blast off back ...into space to shrink the hurtling moon down to baseball size so astronauts can just nab it with a catcher's mitt and put it back into its proper orbit by hand before Palmer zaps it back to moon-size. Problem solved!
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What will people do when they're driving or shopping or walking down the street????!! Oh, the Humanity!!
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... that or you went to bed after a marathon session of watching the Thundarr the Barbarian DVD box set.
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...Yeah... god forbid I have to go anywhere without having to hear teenage girls loudly having the following apparently one-sided conversation, "So then she's like, bitch!... Can you even believe it?... Yeah...So then I'm like, no, you're the bitch, bitch! Oh yeah I did! Then she's like, who're you calling bitch, you bitch and I'm like, you're the bitch, whoredog..." Yeah, I'd really miss that....
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This will cause the birth of Thundar the Barbarian and his mighty Sun Swoard.
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as another false flag 'terrorist' act?
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...until I realized it WASN'T my long dreamt-about 'Thundarr the Barbarian' adaptation. God I loved that cartoon.
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Coming soon on another network. NCIS' Mark Harmon stars in 'Maggeddon' about another meteor shower affecting earth. -
I actually would love to see one of the "end of the world" movies actually have the world end. Both "Deep Impact" (good) and Armageddon (bad) pussied out. The best of these films is still "When Worlds Collide" (which they actually optioned when they made "Deep Impact") in which, as predicted, the world actually gets destroyed. The genius of the plotting allowed for a first near miss by one rogue planet, causing all sorts of great special effects mayhem, and the second rogue planet smashing right into us and destroying the world alltogether. Admittedly, there was a core group of people who were able to make it to the first planet, and to presumably build a new civilization, but at least the world actually ended. It would be great if someone adapted T.C. Boyle's "Friend of the Earth" or Margaret Attwood's "Oryx and Crake", or the absolutely awesome "Brief History of the Dead" from last year. This was a great book, in which the world is destroyed by a virus. In the book, we exist in an afterlife city only so long as someone on earth remembers us. As the world dies off, the city is first filled, and then quickly emptied, as those on earth who could remember also die. The last person on earth is a woman who has been in the Artic at a research station. As the book progresses, only those people that she remembers, sometimes only as little as a single brief meeting, remain in the post life city. Great book.
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Will they then send the moon flying through the universe and have wacky space adventures?
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I can't hear you now.
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Aftershock, humanity's loss! Aftershock, all is destroyed! Aftershock, have no remorse! Aftershock, into the void! (Give it up for Anthrax, bitches.)
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...Not if Grant Morrison and his lawyer have anything to say about it, he doesn't. That dude from NCIS'll have to come up with another title. (Yeah, I admit it... late 90's JLA comics are a guilty pleasure of mine!)
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Hellz NAW! A white dwarf just stole my cell phone!
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... or, as Ookla the Mok would say, "GAAaarrrrghghh!"
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a rather interesting young adult book told from the POV of a 16 year old girl's diary after a meteor hits the moon bringing it twice as close to Earth and SHIT GOES DOWN....willing to bet that reading this book again (meant for teenagers) will be better than this show.
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The other day I was coming out of the elevator and as the door opened there was a woman on her cell phone.She visibly JUMPED when she saw me and I said "Yeah, another human being."Really though, I find it amazing that I can walk to the Coffee Bean, buy a latte and walk back to my place without talking to ANYONE if I want to.what would our grandparents think of that!?!?
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The premise sounds cool, but it will all depend on the network. Sci-fi? Never gonna watch it? NBC or Fox? Meh, maybe depending on what the ads look like. HBO or Showtime? It would never happen but hell yeah how awesome would that be. I like the fact that it's an "epic miniseries" instead of a 2 1/2 hour "movie event" that is filled with an hour's worth of commercials. Maybe if it's 8 - 10 hours they can actually get a good story and decent characters in there.
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Sci-fi? Never gonna watch it.
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This could be a Gerry Andersen series.
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Since when did science fiction films and TV have to omit the "science" part in order to be made? For every semi realistic BSG we get this turd-blossom.A part of a dwarf star? You mean like hydrogen? Helium? Maybe some iron?"Discovered" that the moon became dislodged from orbit? Like when you discover a lump in your sack?ugh.
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brought to you by Sprint, Motorola, Verizon and all other phone companies that appear fucked up in the miniseries-- can you hear me now?
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or Barbara Bain make a cameo?
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I could stand to lose some weight.
Though I'm pretty sure a piece of white dwarf lodged in the moon would have far more devastating effects, at least this is a relatively new idea for an SF series. -
Moon on a collision course for earth? Who is playing Link and who is voicing Majora?
Personally, I would have adapted Ocarina of Time first, but beggars can't be choosers. -
She makes my glands swell. :0
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[flipping the bird] "I hope he can see this 'cause I'm doing it as hard as I can."
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I mean, I'm completely ignorant in these things--I figured a network would have to sign on for this before they started shooting it. They're just going to make it and THEN sell it to someone?
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if Moon out of orbit.
The stupid bitches of TV business "think" they're doing science fiction with more lamo feeb crap.
Don't forget to put a dog in it. -
"people like to say, oh you just don't get british humour, but they don't either they just pretend to to come off more sophisticated"mate, we Brits *try* not to believe that *all* Yanks are knuckle-dragging Bush-voters who think that Europe is in London - because, you know: we *know* that's not true - but comments like yours don't help.you don't "get" Red Dwarf? um... what's not to get? it's uncomplicated and bloody funny.would the addition of a laughter track help?
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Bow-chicka Bow-Bow!!!!
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You know what we did back then? PLANNED AHEAD!
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Now THAT would be a reason to watch this--otherwise it sounds pretty stupid.
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