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The evidence is clear:

I was utterly unimpressed with the last Riverworld project that appeared on the SciFi channel. This clip gives me the impression the channel’s second attempt will be a little more faithful to the spirit of the series of science fiction novels written by Peoria’s own Philip Jose Farmer:

Cross posted to Peoria Pundit.

Apparently, there’s two nice homages to RAH in the upcoming animated movie, Monsters Versus Aliens:

At first glance, Total Conspiracy [a viral site in support of the movie] is just a hilariously awesome conspiracy site, including pictures of flying dogs, alien coins (from the U.S. Treasury), and alien-influenced mathematicians. It’s chock full of weird ranty videos by sitemaster Jeffrey Freedman, and essays on things like flu vaccines as an alien scheme to weaken us. (And I love the whole thing in the video, where he demands to know if the government had anything to do with the death of Robert Heinlein.)

But eagle-eyed reader James pointed me to the science fiction book covers in the latest video, posted above. Not only do they have great parody titles like Weirdo In A Weird Land, Probed: A Love Story, Scales Of Fear, The Boy Who Forgot The Time, Welcome To Our New Mechanical Overlords, My Big Fat GIant Revenge, and I Have No Brain And I Must Yell. But they also feature MVA characters like Bob (the blob), Dr. Cockroach PhD, Ginormica and a couple others.

Well, I did hear that RAH was on the verge of blowing the whistle on the Phildelphia Experiment incident.

So, I was watching the Star Trek episode “Who Mourns for Adonais”  tonight and fell in love again with the lovely Leslie Parrish.

Here is an early publicity still:

And here is one of her wearing that crazy outfit from the show:

It’s my second favorite Star Trek costume. First favorite: Yvonne Craig’s Orion slave girl costume.

I offer no apologies. Robert Heinlein was fond of Star Trek. And this site is about science fiction in general, and RAH in general. So here’s a HD version of the latest trailer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek prequel. Woo Hoo!

And the New York Times has a pretty good article about the trailer and four scenes that Abrams is showing to select audiences.

What I learned from the clip and descriptions of the scenes is that in some respects, Abrams isn’t exactly following cannon in the strict sense of the word. We’ll see how much this makes it hard for me to enjoy it. I am such a fanboy.

If you didn’t want to to slug Casper Van Dien before for just being in the cast of the first Starship Troopers, you’ll change your mind with this quote:

“Ed has a dark, sick sense of humor that is absolutely wonderful and just delicious. If you’re sick,” he continues with a laugh. “I love that sense of humor, I love the way he writes. I love that most people miss stuff when they watch his films or even read them. They go ‘Wait a minute, was that supposed to be like that? Because it’s really pissing me off.’ Starship Troopers had a sense of humor, Robocop had a sense of humor and this new Starship Troopers has the political fascism like the first one – and then some – it also has a religious twist that I think only Ed can do really well.”

Ugh.

So, I’m flipping through channels last night, and I landed on TBS and they’re playing that God-awful movie.

The bugs are shooting plasma out of their asses at the orbiting starships. The captain of the Rodger Young issues this helpful order “Evasive maneuvers.”

One of many reasons to hate this movie.

But then, how many times did they use “attack pattern delta” or some such tripe in Star Trek?

Feh.

Is Hollywood capable to doing an accurate representation of a Heinlein novel?

Leave Robert Heinlein Alone. Please stop making crappy as Starship Troopers Movies. Please quit bleeding the legacy of a perfectly good novel. Please, Just Leave Robert Heinlein Alone!

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I dunno. Hollywood really mucked up “The Puppet Masters,” a novel I think would work really well as a mini-series. But that’s nothing considered the campy, poorly acted farce that was “Starship Troopers.”

[tags]Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein[/tags]

Globe and Mail discusses ‘Masters of Science Fiction’:

Though six episodes were produced, just four of the hour-long adaptations of sci-fi stories ran, including Robert A. Heinlein's Jerry Was a Man and Harlan … …

Not much to it really.

Original post by Robert Heinlein – Google News

[tag]Jolene Blalock[/tag] (right), who was the hot Vulcan in the skin-tight catsuit on Enterprise (how telling is it that I cannot even remember her character’s name) will be a lead character in the third Starship Troopers movie.

Yeah. Me too.

Anyway, this blogger is about as enthused about it as I am.

When I was growing up I read [tag]Robert Heinlein[/tag]’s [tag]Starship Troopers[/tag] novel many, many times and was pretty thrilled to actually get to work on the first movie. I was less thrilled with how it came out and the direct-to-video sequel left me even colder, with little hope for the franchise — at least in movie form. Sadly, this third go-around doesn’t do much to change my perception, even with the inclusion of Blalock. I guess we’ll find out one way or another when the film comes to the local Blockbuster later this year.

It’s going to take more than a hot Vulcan chick to get me to watch anything derived from that horrid monstrosity of a movie.