Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Its time to d-d-d-d-d-d-dune

Dune is an old sci-fi book, like super old. 50 years old, with 5 sequels and nerds at NASA naming features on Titan after things in the book.
The beginning is sooo slow but i heard it gets super cool in the middle, with these plans to destroy a planet by destroying its main export and then a this other cool stuff too.
The main character, Paul, has a condition called "being the chosen one", so now they have to spend the rest of their life saving the world/fulfilling their destiny. Different from "main character syndrome". I would write more but I've been super busy with AP studying and havent had much time to read.
My fancfiction stry is going great though, I did most of it early bc I knew I wouldnt have time. Its a firefly fanfic thats the best one ever written.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA IS THE COOLEST SHOW OF ALL TIME

This was the coolest thing we've seen or read in the class, probably the greatest media I've consumed in my entire life. After we watched that one episode in class I was gripped, and I went to watch some more at home. But I couldn't find it on any websites that didn't give me a free iPhone 5 so after three episodes I had to stop.

The Olypmic Carrier in episode 2 is the greatest thing ever
 The people are being chased by Cylons, and they need to do the jump thing every 33 minutes so that they can stay safe. There's no brakes on the Cylon death train. So for like 4 days they're being chased and hopping through, no sleep or rest, until they finally realize why they were being chased. Another ship, the Olympic carrier, seems to have been compromised. It doesn't respond to calls at all, or something. Its carring about a thousand people, and the Galactica crew has gone for days without rest. The Carrier is starting to get suspicious, especially since they detected nuclear weapons on it. At this point it was kill or be killed. So they killed. Apollo pushes the buttons that end the thousand people and the Carrier, and for the rest of what I saw, he got pretty traumatized from it. Roslin brings up a guy who  sent 15 marines into a mission that went wrong, and  he had a desk where he kept the names of the people who died.  She then takes out a paper from her pocket that says "Olympic carrier" on it. I thought she was going to print out a list with all the names on it so it wasnt a emotional as I thought it was gonna be.

Then in the net episode Boomer starts losing her memory and ending up in weird places so who knows how that turns out.

Also Gaius Baltar is my favorite character in the whole thing, I love how lucky he is, in that he guessed the right guy was the Cylon and that when he needed to inspect the Cylon tech on the ship, and explanation mysteriously showed up for him.

Remember when memes looked like this