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Quick, name a sci-fi movie with an aesthetic you can actually see happening!

I'm willing to bet Star Trek didn't pop up immediately, huh? (Sorry Linkara).

See there's two competing schools of thought in how to portray a 'future' world legitimately and believably.  School 1 is the iPod future, best typified by the J.J Abrahms Star Trek feature.  Everything is shiny, antiseptic and beautiful.  All sleek lines, soft curves and the feeling that the Apple corporation became frighteningly more powerful in the intervening years.

The problem with this future is, let's face it, its not something we can really believe is attainable.  Did you ever watch an episode of Star Trek and say to yourself "Yeah!  That's exactly how its gonna be!"?  While some of you did, I'm betting more saw it as just as fantastic as the more mystical elements of Star Wars.  As a movie watcher, the aesthetics of Star Trek always seemed too...clean to me.  It came across as beautiful, yes, but not practical.  Now you may answer this with a retort of "But its the future!  How will you know what things look like x years from now?!" I don't, but I'm willing to bet it won't look like Star Trek.  The other main gripe I had with iPod future is honestly, it never looks like anyone's meant to actually LIVE there.  It all gives the impression of beautiful set pieces and model homes, but nothing relates the feeling of someone actually having raised a family in any of the houses or skyscrapers.

Contrasted with this, and a setting I find much more belivable is the Used Future setting.  I made a previous post about Alien, but I'm going to bring it up again.  Along with Star Wars, Alien showed a future you could actually believe would happen.

Ahh Aliens....

Is there any other series that has risen so high and fallen so far in the eyes of critics and film-goers alike?

Let's start with a brief overview of the series and why my hopes are pinned on Prometheus being good.

Alien

The one that started it all.  Alien was a stark departure from the normal sci-fi films of its time.  Instead of a glistening, anti-septic future that had fantastic technology that enabled faster than light travel and a plethora of sentient races, the future of Alien was actually beliveable.  The characters were essentially space miners and truckers on a giant automated ore processing ship.  They argued about getting better shares with the Company, fretted over getting back home and acted like -normal- humans.  

What do you get when you mix hippies, LSD and Lana Turner?

You get a Lana Turner movie with hippies and LSD in it. Duh!

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I'll be honest. I remember little to nothing of season two of Glee. I watched the first...half, maybe? I'm not even sure of that. Looking at an episode list, I realized that there are some I rpobably should have watched, but it was too late to see them on TV or on Hulu by the time I started to give a shit again.

Let's start with what I do know.

1. Girl who got pregnant in season one, thus prompting a storyline about how she became less of a bitch? She's a bitch again.

Seriously. She goes back to being a cheerleader and betrays a girl who was supposed to be her friend (even though she's a bitch too, but for some reason I like her -- she speaks in nothing but snarks and some of it is pretty clever) by telling the coach she had a boob job so she could be head cheerleader again.

Episode 1 - Skyrim

Keeping score of the soundtracks of video games.

Today on Gaming With Killatia we take a look at House of the Dead 4. While originally released in the arcades back in 2005 it later found itself ported to the ps3 through psn in 2012. Is this port worth pulling out the PS move you have lying in your closet or does other on-rail shooters like House of the Dead Overkill and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles leave this game in the dust? Watch to find out!

Alan Wake American Nightmare Review up now on gotgame.com

Hello!

In this episode me and Eddie complete Chapter 2. This is the first part, so watch out for the second one when that comes out, and I hope you enjoy this part. 

Episode 1: http://youtu.be/2sZclsVhkwU

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An Analytical Episode Guide to:

And here we go with another House of Love!

And that's yer lot for today. And I'm not here next week, as I'm getting ready for a Play in June. See ya in 14, folks!

Micheal,Dawsey and Stephen are joined by sometimes regular host Billy and Speical Guest (not a wrestling fan)Andrew aka Khronic.We talk about the the 2nd open fight night,So Check it out to see who is the next possible TNA wrestler and whether Bobby Roode is the  longest reigning TNA Champ.

Also Michael flys Solo and Reviews Todays Smackdown.Lets see who will be Sheamus's opponent will be at Over The Limit.