Plot: after thousands of years of travel, the surviving 1% of the ships crew (not killed in stasis from high-speed collisions with particles, radiation, equipment malfunction; etc) finally land on the destination planet and collapse upon disembarking due to poor health and high gravity. They are unable to move. They slowly starve to death.
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 January 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
215. Ships' artificial gravity works at right angles to the direction of thrust rather than with it, as would make far more sense.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
if i'm getting what you mean i think that's a corollary of 216. despite there being no ground by which they need to orient themselves, large spaceships manoeuvre through space pretty much like boats, small spaceships like planes.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
217. museums of the 20th century w CRT TVs, parts from automobiles, and copies of Playboy
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
217a. Characters watching grainy early C20th classic movies.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
218. Holograms always kinda suck -- blue or green tint and sorta bendy and static-y.
― Øystein, Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
219. impractical hats
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
220. Some hippies trippin in the desert riding a bike or a wind-powered vehicle designed to look like the spaceship
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
221. Completely implausible alien design that wouldn't fit into its own planets ecosystem at all. ie aliens with tentacles coming out of their face for no ecological reason whatsoever
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
222. Someone is having a game of chess (possibly with a future/space twist).
― DavidM, Thursday, 10 January 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
223. "Oh, my true form would be too strange for your human eyes. What you see now is mere illusion... I can take any form. Perhaps you might prefer ~this~ one. Or maybe ~this~... is more to your liking...?"
― Chris S, Friday, 11 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
loved when South Park parodied that one in their Walmart episode, with that man they had embodying 'the Heart of Walmart' simply changing hats
― Chris S, Friday, 11 January 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
BEMBTE
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
85. city of the future resembles 20th century community college campus designed in the brutalist style
― slugbuggy, Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love love love this one, keep idly kicking it around as a pretense for a dissertation after watching "Warrior of the Lost World," shot largely in Rome's suburban Corviale housing complex which was still under construction at the time. (Plus some scattered office buildings and stuff.) Would love to know more of the story behind that. When they got permission, were the authorities like, "sure, we'd love to see our bright new social-democratic mega-project represented as a dystopian nightmare-scape occupied by faceless uniformed techno-fascists! And Donald Pleasance!"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"- the fourth one, I think- shot in a section of Century City, LA that looked like that?
137. A character cites three historical examples, two of which are from real history, followed by a made-up one from our hypothetical future.― abanana, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:49 (5 hours ago) Permalink^good one!Classic example is the original Star Trek ep "Court Martial" where Kirk is on trial. His lawyer's closing statement goes on about human laws and rights throughout the ages: the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the US constitution, the Martian declaration of independence and the "Statutes of Alpha 3"
― abanana, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:49 (5 hours ago) Permalink
^good one!
Classic example is the original Star Trek ep "Court Martial" where Kirk is on trial. His lawyer's closing statement goes on about human laws and rights throughout the ages: the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the US constitution, the Martian declaration of independence and the "Statutes of Alpha 3"
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
"The Savage Curtain. " It was Colonel Green, and Kahless the Klingon, not Attila.
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
First episode of TOS I ever remember seeing.
― Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
Oh, good find on Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! UC Irvine campus, apparently.
http://ucisca.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/s01585_007.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
And didn't Logan's Run use the Dallas city hall as the above-ground world?
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/dallas/cityhall/angledistant.jpg
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
224. Atmospheric report deems planet's air conveniently Earth-like, breathable.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 October 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link
137. A character cites three historical examples, two of which are from real history, followed by a made-up one from our hypothetical future.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamousFamousFictional
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 October 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
225. Helmets and the taking off of them
― I like to tackle hard and am crazy (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 October 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
Thought this thread revival was for this twitter:https://twitter.com/HardSciFiMovies
(the SF film equivalent of Make a Song Title More Reasonable )
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 11 October 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
― Gallucci Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Watching wing commander, came here to post "unguided hyperspace jumps" and it's the first post in the thread! What a terrible movie.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
* heroes sentenced to work in hellish outer-space mines* planet-overthrowing rebellion consists, as far as we can see, of eight (8) people in random mad-max getup living in one (1) cave* life-sucking/parasitic/zombie creature that scientists gradually realize is composed of pure energy
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
A+
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
lolMaybe also the triumph of humans vs said protean energy entity (HAL?) vis a vis man’s “humanity,” emotion, instincts, perseverance
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
Right. AlsoStrategic location of and destruction of alien power supply unveils these pretentious, often toga-wearing interstellar intellectuals to be in fact some kind of puny, looked-down-upon life form, some sort of street pigeons of space.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Earlier tonight overheard my girlfriend, an addictive consumer of junk sci fi, angrily exclaim from the next room:“Come ON! Why is it always a HIVE mind??”
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
You want maybe a Hadoop Mind?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
226 alien looking exactly like a human except with e.g. blue or orange skin
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
227 puzzle, code, language or devastating situation barely solvable using current Earth technology within 1-24 hours
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:13 (four years ago) link
232. As plot is stalling out, supporting scientist character pops in to report that they've finished running some tests on the creature, comatose survivor, mysterious signal, or strange energy pulse they picked up from the spaceship earlier. They don't quite know what to make of it, but the heroes had better come take a look.232a. The comatose survivor has finally woken up and is acting very strangely...
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
233. Breathless back-of-envelope calculations of how quickly a creature that multiplies at this rate could spread to cover the planet.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
234 Female 'other' (alien, robot, whatever) turns out to be evil.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link