Stop the Sci-Fi Insanity
While I am a fan of such great Sci-Fi series such as Stargate-SG1, I feel that some of their original movies suck the big one. And I mean HUUUUUUGE. I just wasted two hours of my evenin watching Dark Light and I want to send a nasty letter to the execs. It has the typical sci-fi bad, schlocky, predictable writing but an interesting idea. The premise?
Her true nature concealed by a powerful spell, Lilith lives as a 24-year-old woman with no memory of her ageless past — until William Shaw of The Faith recruits her to help him stop the Demonicos, a rampaging monster that is spreading a lethal plague across the Earth and whose only vulnerability is to Lilith's unique mystical power, known as Darklight.
For those who don't know, Lilith was the first woman in creation. Despite some bible-thumping mongers, Eve was not in fact the first one. In fact, Adam and Eve were both not the first creation. If you look at the first opening pages of the Bible (any version) you can see that God did in fact have many versions before he finally got it right. So much for divine omnipotence, right? Lilith is also the first feminist because she found Adam unworthy and told him to bugger off. For that, she was cast out. Now this little biblical anecdote has NOTHING to do with the movie in which Lilith is an immortal who is turned into a human-killing demon then thousands of years later defeated with a piece of wood from the Garden of Eden, has her memory erased, then is reawakened to battle this demon. All the while....she is being controlled by men (go ahead Sara...scream). I want to run screaming into the night at this awful attempt to make a movie.
However, I feel that Sci-Fi could POSSIBLY redeem itself with the miniseries of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea. I admit I have not read her books, but find the premis fascinating and want to get the books. Apparently, she and her works are right up there with Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. The cast looks promising; however, one look at the discussion boards and bibliophiles are rabidly chomping at the bits at how badly the adaptation is and will be. Then again, many purists poo-poo'ed the LTR movies and look how amazingly well they turned out. Yeah, they played with the sotry and left stuff out and such, but considering the scope and the final product, it was an amazing adaptation. Notice the keyword "adaptation." Pretty tough to literally translate a book onto the screen. Will purile and futile bitching never cease.
While I am a fan of such great Sci-Fi series such as Stargate-SG1, I feel that some of their original movies suck the big one. And I mean HUUUUUUGE. I just wasted two hours of my evenin watching Dark Light and I want to send a nasty letter to the execs. It has the typical sci-fi bad, schlocky, predictable writing but an interesting idea. The premise?
Her true nature concealed by a powerful spell, Lilith lives as a 24-year-old woman with no memory of her ageless past — until William Shaw of The Faith recruits her to help him stop the Demonicos, a rampaging monster that is spreading a lethal plague across the Earth and whose only vulnerability is to Lilith's unique mystical power, known as Darklight.
For those who don't know, Lilith was the first woman in creation. Despite some bible-thumping mongers, Eve was not in fact the first one. In fact, Adam and Eve were both not the first creation. If you look at the first opening pages of the Bible (any version) you can see that God did in fact have many versions before he finally got it right. So much for divine omnipotence, right? Lilith is also the first feminist because she found Adam unworthy and told him to bugger off. For that, she was cast out. Now this little biblical anecdote has NOTHING to do with the movie in which Lilith is an immortal who is turned into a human-killing demon then thousands of years later defeated with a piece of wood from the Garden of Eden, has her memory erased, then is reawakened to battle this demon. All the while....she is being controlled by men (go ahead Sara...scream). I want to run screaming into the night at this awful attempt to make a movie.
However, I feel that Sci-Fi could POSSIBLY redeem itself with the miniseries of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea. I admit I have not read her books, but find the premis fascinating and want to get the books. Apparently, she and her works are right up there with Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. The cast looks promising; however, one look at the discussion boards and bibliophiles are rabidly chomping at the bits at how badly the adaptation is and will be. Then again, many purists poo-poo'ed the LTR movies and look how amazingly well they turned out. Yeah, they played with the sotry and left stuff out and such, but considering the scope and the final product, it was an amazing adaptation. Notice the keyword "adaptation." Pretty tough to literally translate a book onto the screen. Will purile and futile bitching never cease.
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