5th Annual Summer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Challenge Discussion Thread
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Anyone know what they might start with for the challenge? Not positive yet, but I am thinking that I may start with The Time Tunnel.
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I have a bunch of sci-fi shows I'd like to watch but they're stuff I want to watch with my family and they're gone for the challenge, which somewhat limits me to movies. For me, it's easier to get burned out trying to do a day of movies compared to tv. Then I find myself spending an hour or two doing something after a movie, while also being stumped on what I want to watch next. In turn, I get depressed that I wasted so much time trying to decide that if I had just picked something at random, I would have been almost done with it.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
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I have a bunch of sci-fi shows I'd like to watch but they're stuff I want to watch with my family and they're gone for the challenge, which somewhat limits me to movies. For me, it's easier to get burned out trying to do a day of movies compared to tv. Then I find myself spending an hour or two doing something after a movie, while also being stumped on what I want to watch next. In turn, I get depressed that I wasted so much time trying to decide that if I had just picked something at random, I would have been almost done with it.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
im starting my challenge off with a 24 hr challenge or as close to one as i can to knock out some movies before going back to work. Im gonna try to marathon the lotr movies and aliens
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I have a bunch of sci-fi shows I'd like to watch but they're stuff I want to watch with my family and they're gone for the challenge, which somewhat limits me to movies. For me, it's easier to get burned out trying to do a day of movies compared to tv. Then I find myself spending an hour or two doing something after a movie, while also being stumped on what I want to watch next. In turn, I get depressed that I wasted so much time trying to decide that if I had just picked something at random, I would have been almost done with it.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
That's me in pretty much any challenge.
And it'll be about an hour before I finally just pick one. I also feel guilty sometimes watching something I've already seen before when I have so many I haven't watched yet. So part of that time is convincing myself it's ok to watch my old favorite rather than something new.
But I think I've already decided what I'm watching first. I've read horrible reviews on it, but I picked up Witches of Oz not to long ago. I'm a huge Oz fan (I even just went to the Oz museum in Kansas two weeks ago) so I'm hoping I can find something redeemable in it.
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Doing a "double qualifier" by watching S1 of Ancient Aliens. It'll finish off the Historical Appreciation while starting the Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I've not seen any episodes yet and am hoping for lots of cheese!
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Once again, I am going to TRY to partake in this challenge. Got lots of classic Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Prisoner episodes that I want to check out.
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I'm doing that too but I'm dreading that it'll end up being the most boring thing in the world. It's been on for awhile, so maybe it's crazy enough to be fun.
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I'm trying to finish Season 2 of Voyager in the next couple days so I can start S3 for the Challenge.
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The first 3 have sci-fi tags at imdb. Outbreak has a sci-fi tag at allmovie. The Crazies(original), is listed as sci-fi at wikipedia but the remake is listed as horror. Since it's a remake, I'd say that's good enough to count as sci-fi.
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I checked out the episode summaries over at wikipedia and they do sound like they might be fun and completely unlike the few UFO shows I've caught on the Discovery Channel. I used to read UFO/Bigfoot/Loch Ness Monster type books from grade school through high school and remember reading Erich's book a few times. I remember being surprised finding that one book on Mothman after reading a few books that talked about him a bit.
Does anyone else remember commercials years ago when Time Life had their book series, Mysteries of the Unknown, which had UFOs and other related stuff? You got the first book, really cheap, or free but then every month, or whatever, they'd send you a new book? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4zBYh2PUyk
They released a book containing a bunch of the books in the series that's pretty good and cheap http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Unkn...of+the+unknown I picked one up a few years ago and it was pretty good and covered a decent amount of topics.
Does anyone else remember commercials years ago when Time Life had their book series, Mysteries of the Unknown, which had UFOs and other related stuff? You got the first book, really cheap, or free but then every month, or whatever, they'd send you a new book? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4zBYh2PUyk
They released a book containing a bunch of the books in the series that's pretty good and cheap http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Unkn...of+the+unknown I picked one up a few years ago and it was pretty good and covered a decent amount of topics.
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Something Weird Video just let me know they want to be a sponsor. Once details are worked out, I'll list the additional prizes.
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i broke down and started watching fringe season 1 since iv had em for awhile and have yet to watch.
im weak
im weak
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I thought I'd post this list of Netflix Sci-fi Blu-ray rentals. Illustrating how sparse their collection of catalog titles is, here they all are, through the 70's*:
Spoiler:
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How have I never heard of Circle of Iron before?
Full Moon is having a 4th of July sale next week, giving out gift cards based on your order total. There's a bunch of qualifying titles for this challenge as well as the horror challenge, for anyone interested.
http://fullmoonhorror.com/2012/06/26...ee-gift-cards/
Full Moon is having a 4th of July sale next week, giving out gift cards based on your order total. There's a bunch of qualifying titles for this challenge as well as the horror challenge, for anyone interested.
http://fullmoonhorror.com/2012/06/26...ee-gift-cards/
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I'd say it's a good example of a wild card but if imdb lists it as sci-fi, it counts. I watched it a couple of horror challenges back and thought it was pretty good. If I knew it was that good, I wouldn't have let it sit unwatched on my shelf for almost a decade.