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  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, February 16, 2020 8:33 PM

Orville started out a shade too tongue-in-cheek (and a bit of touchy-feelie preachy), but settled down into some gritty SF.

Originally on plain old Fox, now all new episodes are on Hulu, who is producing, for now.

Expanse has been gritty SF almost from get-go.  They have some science flubs in there (refer to Scott manel for details on that; and, he is a fan) but, it's good.  SyFy hit this one out of the park in many ways.  It has huge story arcs with a nuber of smaller one intersecting.  It's had trouble "capturing" ratings as something close to 50% of SyFy's audience uses DVR, which don't get "booked."  The series are short, intense, and filled with characters who are only fleshed out over the span of the episodes.  SyFy had picked it up again, but it's not hit my DVR yet.

I have heard it's on Netflix, might be on other streaming services.

Expanse is almost too instense to binge-watch.  Really, after a couple hours, you need a break just to collect your thoughts.

SyFy had another which started out good and gritty, but floundered after a while:  Killjoys.  Which were glactic bounty hunters operating in a troubled galaxy which was under a number of internal and external threats.  The characters were engaging and fleshed out well, if in platoon quantity.  That franchise has finally folded.  Binge watchable.

HBO's Avenue 5 has been pretty good, even if it's hard to tell if it's satire or not (it's definitely satirical in nature, but that does not apper to be its purpose).

Westworld really pushed the boundries, and is decidedly worth a watch (depite unlikely to generate any spaceship models).

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, February 17, 2020 11:24 AM

Thanks Captain! 'The Expanse' is listed on Amazon Prime. Dunno if they have all the episodes but it shows up. It sounds good, almost like my favorite TV series of all time- Babylon Five. 

I'll give the others a look too! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by Greg on Monday, February 17, 2020 12:26 PM

Yes, thanks for the rundown, Cap.

I'm going to check out the Expanse. I haven't gone searching for good sci fi in a while, it sounds good.

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Monday, February 17, 2020 1:04 PM

Thanks for the info Capn. I am alway looking for good Syfy to watch!

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:29 PM

Bakster
If I can trouble you guys to do one more thing--I'd like you to vote. I could certainly pick the winner, but I'd rather this be a group effort.

Contest Update
  
I received 1 PM and unfortunately, it’s not enough to gain a consensus. Thanks to the one that responded!
  
Not to be deterred, mascot made the call…
  
I extend a BIG congratulations to Gamera, Liz, and Tim.  Henceforth, mascot is George Clapper. Tim gets an honorable mention here because Liz and Tim come as a package, but also, Tim pushed through their internet issue to cast a vote. This shows exceptional commitment to fun.
 
Below is your highly coveted, commemorative, limited edition, Icarus, “Name My Ape Award!” Though the folks mentioned get top billing, this award goes to the all of you that participated. Truly, it belongs to all of you for playing along and for not taking life too seriously. You are all winners in my book.
 

Thus, another chapter ends in the Book of Icarus.

Thanks for playing folks.
 
I return you to your regularly scheduled programing.
 
 
 
 

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Posted by Greg on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 8:26 PM

Will Ed McMahon deliver the prize in person?

Stick out tongueYes

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  • From: Douglas AZ
Posted by littletimmy on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 9:47 PM

It's not pronounced  "E  gor " ... it's pronounced  "Eye. Gor "

I  gor gets my vote .

( I love Young Frankenstien...

Or is it fraunkensteen ...??? )

 

EDIT: Oops, I was stuck one page back and missed the final decision...my bad.

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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Posted by littletimmy on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 10:02 PM

BTW: I saw this test pattern every Saturday night at ten o'clock,  when I was a kid.... of course , there were only 4 channels back then ...all in B/W !!!

 
 
 
 

 

 

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:19 PM

Greg

Will Ed McMahon deliver the prize in person?

Stick out tongueYes

 

Greg, that is doubtful but maybe Clapper will. :) You might have to feed him some bananas though.

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:29 PM

littletimmy

It's not pronounced  "E  gor " ... it's pronounced  "Eye. Gor "

I  gor gets my vote .

( I love Young Frankenstien...

Or is it fraunkensteen ...??? )

 

EDIT: Oops, I was stuck one page back and missed the final decision...my bad.

 

You know what Tim? I was partial to Igor too because he is my assistant and he even has a hunchback sort of thing going on. But I tell ya... he was dead set on George Clapper. He loves clapping and he has an uncle named George. So, there's that, and there was no changing his mind. :)

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:32 PM

littletimmy

BTW: I saw this test pattern every Saturday night at ten o'clock,  when I was a kid.... of course , there were only 4 channels back then ...all in B/W !!!

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

Right? Same here except by me it was around 11:00 when they turned on the test pattern. Ah, the good old days.

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  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Friday, February 21, 2020 6:34 PM

littletimmy
It's not pronounced "E gor " ... it's pronounced "Eye. Gor "

But what about Egon?  You don't want to cross the streams, as that would be "Bad."

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:20 PM

CapnMac82

 

 
littletimmy
It's not pronounced "E gor " ... it's pronounced "Eye. Gor "

 

But what about Egon?  You don't want to cross the streams, as that would be "Bad."

 

Lol. 

 

I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, bad?

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Total protonic reversal.

Right! That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

 

 

Update:

I have been working on the sleep chambers and I had one almost done. I didn't care for it though so I am starting over. I crossed the streams... it's total protonic reversal.

 

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Friday, February 28, 2020 9:20 AM

Cool, looking forward to seeing the sleep chamber. 

I brought along my PotA sleeping bag... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 11:39 AM

Gamera

Cool, looking forward to seeing the sleep chamber. 

I brought along my PotA sleeping bag... 

 

 

Laughing. I love it. 

 

Perfect timing too. It's almost time for a mid day nap. 

 

A PotA sleeping bag. How did I miss that one. I had the models, the garbage can, the comics, maybe some spiral ring note pads, but no sleeping bag!

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 11:43 AM

Btw Gam--George C says howdy.

 

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Posted by Gamera on Friday, February 28, 2020 12:09 PM

I'll hold the bag for George. He must be tired from all that clapping. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 1:18 PM

Gamera

I'll hold the bag for George. He must be tired from all that clapping. 

 

Yeah--he deserves a nap for sure. I get tired just watching him.

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  • From: Douglas AZ
Posted by littletimmy on Friday, February 28, 2020 10:33 PM

Gamera
I'll hold the bag for George. He must be tired from all that clapping. 

All that clapping is keeping his roommate up.  ( He's soooooooooo tired. )

Kinda the same response my Wife gives me, when I pick up a tube of glue and "dissapear" into my modeling shed ! 

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 11:09 PM

littletimmy

 

 
Gamera
I'll hold the bag for George. He must be tired from all that clapping. 

 

All that clapping is keeping his roommate up.  ( He's soooooooooo tired. )

Kinda the same response my Wife gives me, when I pick up a tube of glue and "dissapear" into my modeling shed ! 

 

Tim, I think that gag is your best one yet! Perfect. Lol...

Tears.

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 11:27 PM

Oh man! The ending blows my mind!

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Friday, February 28, 2020 11:34 PM

Without further adieu. The one and only, the incomparable...

 

George Clapper!

Thank you! Thank you! Tonight we have a really big show in store for you.

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 8:48 PM

A small update.

Below: Beginnings of my (coffins) sleep chambers. Stick out tongue

As I mentioned before I nearly had one side done and, in the end, nixed it. I didn't like the angles. This time around I approached the assembly differently. Rather than make the overall frame building the chambers into it, I instead built each chamber as a standalone unit. They are basically rectangular enclosures and it makes more sense to build them first, then add everything around it. This should help produce the angles and proportions whilst keeping some dimensional consistency between them. As with most of the interior structures thus far, I used Evergreen Plastics.

These pods are fighting me a bit. I was struggling to get straight cuts using The Chopper. The more I use the tool, the more I realize it is not precise for longer pieces. Or at least, mine isn't. Maybe it is worn out. I resorted to cutting pieces using a metal ruler as a guide. That improved things.

Below: When viewed from end the sleep chambers are basically boxes stacked onto each other. Panels will go on each end. Of course, I need to make the beds and glass doors. I toyed with finding figures but as always it seems, I could not find ones that would work well for me. Probably a good thing because it would add much more work for little payoff.

Little to show for something that took a lot of time. 

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:50 AM

Those look good!!! I'd like to lay down in there and take a nap for the next five hundred years... 

 

Only to find that George is using them for freezers and filled them with bananas... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:56 PM

Gam--you crack me up! I could see GC doing something like that. Indifferent

Btw--last evening I assume the position on my recliner. I flip up the footrest and grab the channel changer. My timing was great because I caught Star Trek as it started. The episode was Space Seed, the one with Khan. The captain beams onto the ship and what do you see? There are rows of sleep chambers. What's my point? If GC messes up my coolers, maybe Khan will rent some of his freezers. Never fear--Smith is here!

It was "cool" to see that episode again.

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  • From: Douglas AZ
Posted by littletimmy on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 9:46 PM

Bakster
I toyed with finding figures but as always it seems, I could not find ones that would work well for me

Ya know , .... The model is just small enough, you could print off a few figures ( to scale of course) and just cut them off of the paper and stick them in the death trap .... err.... "sleep chamber's "

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:34 PM

 


littletimmy

 

 
Bakster
I toyed with finding figures but as always it seems, I could not find ones that would work well for me

 

Ya know , .... The model is just small enough, you could print off a few figures ( to scale of course) and just cut them off of the paper and stick them in the death trap .... err.... "sleep chamber's "

 

Hey Tim, I suppose that might work if I make them in profile. Really, they will be hard to see anyway and what little you might see could be just enough to create the illusion. That is not a bad idea. I will consider it. Good thinking sir.

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, March 5, 2020 7:40 AM

Lol, yeah you could even find a photo of Ricardo Montalban and stick him in the sleep chamber... Wink

 

It's funny, when you brought up whole sleep pod concept my first thought was Khan... 

I mean it's been used on a zillion SF movies and series from '2001' to 'Lost in Space' to 'Alien' but 'Space Seed' somehow sticks in my mind... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by Gamera on Thursday, March 5, 2020 7:42 AM

BTW George says that if Khan had a grove of bananas on Ceti Alpha III he might not have been so cranky when Captain Terrell and Chekov 'rescued' him... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Thursday, March 5, 2020 10:05 AM

Gamera

Lol, yeah you could even find a photo of Ricardo Montalban and stick him in the sleep chamber... Wink

 

It's funny, when you brought up whole sleep pod concept my first thought was Khan... 

I mean it's been used on a zillion SF movies and series from '2001' to 'Lost in Space' to 'Alien' but 'Space Seed' somehow sticks in my mind... 

 

Isn't that odd?  Same here. And it was really odd that I turned the TV on to that episode. That is probably my all time favorite of the series.

Funny about doing the paper Khan. LOL. That would be a hoot.  Stick out tongue

 

You forget Captain, I am the superior human.

Khaaaaan!  

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