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I was thinking today that maybe 'cause I've read so many scifi and fantasy books in my life that I'm questing for something really out there. I say, go over my head writers, I want a challenge. Give me something that's not about the recent future of cutting edge technology or about current politics in a scifi setting.

I think they're trying to undermine the Spartan II program to make way for characters with faces for TV and Film. MC is a video game character. He doesn't translate well to film because you never see his face and he barely talks. He's perfect in a game where you become him and it's all about the action anyway. For film, or this upcoming Speilberg TV show (if it happens), he's too distant and annonymous. They're going to throw MC and Halsey and the whole Spartan IIs out the window and try and foist on us new characters we can see and respond to. It's wholly un-game-like (need a new word for this). 

Basically, I see Halo as an action movie with a stoic hero who quips one liners and blows stuff up. They could just do that, but instead they will probably do something like Star Trek Next Gen or Battlestar Gallactica to try and capture a wider audience. For my money, there's too much talking and romance in those shows for my taste.

I remember being the passenger seat of a moving car while trying to play LocoRoco and getting really nauseus and laughing about it. I had to stop eventually 'cause I thought I was going to barf. Maybe it was the combination of the moving car and playing the game?

Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to add inFamous to my backloggery page. Now maybe it'll come up next time I choose a game at random to play.

Yes, it was the same one. That Target app sounds cool. I'll remember that when Behemoth's Satanist album comes out next month.

I got serious motion sickness playing LocoRoco on PSP. It was hilarious. The shifting horizon lines in the game must've done it. Funny though, I don't get sea sick and apparently you get that from the same thing, shifting horizon lines.

Project M... researching... oh cool!

It's just when you see really obvious current events weaved into the scifi story that annoys me. I'm not opposed to it really, it's just I've seen it used too much as of late. One in particular that I've noticed in movies over and over and over again is the water boarding thing and interrogation. It's like in every darn movie now. What gives with that? I thought all that stuff was condemned by the public. Do movie makers think we want to see it, or support it in some way?

I was just thinking of how many computers I've had since 2000. It's four, two towers, and two laptops. That's like one every three years or so. I'm just passing three years on my present laptop. It runs great but I'm thinking of replacing it with a tablet.

Don't worry, I'll find them. Heck, I might even write one myself.

I agree. It's just that I'm tired of seeing the news recycled in various forms of entertainment media. It seems to be a method to keep things feeling familiar. I look to speculative fiction for something more - something outside the box. I would ask a writer to try and avoid appealing to me in any way. Challenge me.

I reread Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Asimov's first Foundation book last year. The only other modern scifi I read aside from Halo: Silentium was Farside by Ben Bova about Moon colonies and their struggle for independence from Earth. That one was pretty cool with lots of recent stuff about nanotech in it. I mix it up, old and new. 

I, Frankenstein wasn't bad, but it seems to me perhaps more of a rental type flick than a movie theater one; although, I was pretty wowed by the special effects in the IMAX 3D theater. There's not a lot more to it however. It really seems to channel today's conflicts between economics, religion and science and personify them in the main characters. Acting wasn't as bad as I was fearing and the dialog wasn't as laughable either. but... nothing really stands out strongly in the film. It was just fun and that was it.