What DVD's are we Watching?

wolf · 05-25-2006, 01:25 PM

Wild Palms

A TV miniseries by Oliver Stone that showed up in 1993, ran once, and disappeared. Until now.

It's still pretty cool, but as usual for moderately sci-fi settings, they didn't move the timeline forward enough ... it's set in 2007, and technology hasn't caught up to the needs of the storyline.

The cameo appearance by William Gibson is mucho forced ... you shouldn't have to explain the punchline, you know? There was some pointless exposition regarding his coining of the term "Cyberpunk."

It's basically a goodguys/badguys tale, where the badguys are clearly bad and the goodguys bad, but with a noble cause. There's a clear dig at Scientology.

05-25-2006, 01:25 PM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Wild Palms A TV miniseries by Oliver Stone that showed up in 1993, ran once, and disappeared. Until now. It's still pretty cool, but as usual for moderately sci-fi settings, they didn't move the timeline forward enough ... it's set in 2007, and technology hasn't caught up to the needs of the storyline. The cameo appearance by William Gibson is mucho forced ... you shouldn't have to explain the punchline, you know? There was some pointless exposition regarding his coining of the term "Cyberpunk." It's basically a goodguys/badguys tale, where the badguys are clearly bad and the goodguys bad, but with a noble cause. There's a clear dig at Scientology. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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