OT: Dr. Who

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 7/26/2010 4:00 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>>> Thanks Bill.
>>> This tells me to actually tune in though the SciFi channel lots more!.
>>
>> I would be happier if it was the SF channel as pedantic curmudgean that I
>> am, I hate the SciFi designation :-).
> [...]
>
> You do know that it's "SyFy" now, don't you?

Yeah :-(.

I don't watch much on that, and what I do is normally when my
wife is watching and I'm in the room (which describes the vast
majority of my TV viewing other than Top Gear and the book shows
on CSPAN2 weekends and holidays :-).

There aren't many movies that I consider true SF, as opposed to
cowboys and indians set in the future.  The two I can think of
offhand are ``Blade Runner'' and ``Enemy Mine''.  The worst SF
movie of all time is probably ``Starship Troopers'', but then
expecting most Hollywood types to understand Heinlein's political
views be a bit much.  I would hate to see what they could do with
``Moon is a Harsh Mistress'' or Farnham's Freehold.

Bill
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