Quand mes potes sur facebook débattent de la situation la plus pourrie entre fonction publique et privé, et que chacun joue de son cliché, entre le “tu as plein de vacances”, “mais toi dans ton entreprise, tu as un super CE et plein d’avantages” ou encore le classique “vous connaissez pas le chômage dans le public, faut arrêter un peu” …
Last month Austin hosted the American Astronomical Society meeting and the Women in Astronomy meeting back to back. To take advantage of the influx of astronomers into the city, I assembled a crack team of super-nerds to nitpick the science of the historical document Galaxy Quest. This is the discussion that took place after the screening of the movie at the Alamo Drafthouse cinema.
And now, back again after 18 years, the new adventures of Galaxy Quest!
There’s a documentary on Amazon Prime I’ve yet to watch about how this movie helped revitalize the SciFi genre or something, and I can totally agree with that. It’s more slept on than Megamind or Clue or even Logan Lucky.
I think this sums up what it did pretty well
I had originally not wanted to see [Galaxy Quest] because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said “You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.” And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant. No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.
— Patrick Stewart
Reminded some of the people making the movies and shows who they were doing it for.
I know, I know, I’ve been SO bold this month but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even had time to read, let alone blog or vlog. Apologies.
So what have I been doing? Well, freelancing. A lot of freelancing. And yes, I was doing it all at RadioTimes.com as per usual. I do rather enjoy working with the fantastic team and relish the creative freedom they afford me.
“I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek, and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said ‘You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.’ And I did, and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant. No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.”
“I’m not even supposed to be here. I’m just Crewman Number Six. I’m expendable. I’m the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I’ve gotta get outta here.”
Head sketch while watching a fav: Galaxy Quest!! Can’t believe this movie is almost 20 years old and ohhhh how I miss Alan Rickman. I’ll be doing sketches/commissions like this for the upcoming Emerald City Comic Con
