blackadder+neuromancer

blackadder is funny as fuck! rowan atkinson master of dry delivery.......

neuromancer, id forgotten just how brilliant this book is....

how are count zero and mona lisa overdrive btw?

imagine that... A post about my favorite book, and one of my all-time favorite TV shows (Dr. Who is #1 in my book). And check the new sig, i added it just yesterday actually. heh.

Rowan is indeed a genius. I just love how weasely and slimy he is in the first series.

I thought count zero and mona lisa overdrive were very good as well, but perhaps not as good as neuromancer. Definately explores some of the themes that only got started in the first book.

I just re-read Idoru as this week, its quite good as well. now on to Pattern recognition and All Tomorrows Parties.

beelzebubble said:

blackadder is funny as fuck! rowan atkinson master of dry delivery.......

neuromancer, id forgotten just how brilliant this book is....

how are count zero and mona lisa overdrive btw?

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NEUROMANCER to this day OWNZ most of Hollywood's shitted out SFX laden flicks to this day. *Gibson's descriptions of what was going to be, {that is now} only more powerful, interactive and downright a lot "cooler" just put to shame anything copied since. *COUNT ZERO and MONA LISA OVERDRIVE won't dissapoint you man... go out and read them.

It's too bad that Seven Arts Pictures and Chris Cunningham were never able to get the movie of "Neuromancer" off the ground, because from the Script I own it would have put the Watchowski's back in the closet where they fuckin' belong. Never heard of Black Adder though.

Rassilon said:

I just re-read Idoru as this week, its quite good as well. now on to Pattern recognition and All Tomorrows Parties.

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I never really cared for his "Post Sprawl Trilogy" books, but Virtual Light and IDORU were the best IMO. To me All Tomorrow's Parties just wasn't engaging enough for me, and Pattern Recognition proved to me that when you become a sub culture icon and sell enough books ANYTHING can be published by you, because while the book is IN THE ZONE no doubt, it's the hardest to read of all his works. When I read Neuromancer and it's follow ups there was no such thing as The Internet, V.R. was a technical buzz word for future military use and thus some of that was confusing, but it made sense even more when movies like "Johnny Mnemonic" had the visual part of it showcased. *Pattern Recognition might as well be about the pattern of Gibson having lost his more imaginative EDGE and machine gun agnst than anything else. I still actually care about what happend to Molly Millions... what happend after DOG SOLITUDE? I still want to know more about Angela Mitchell and Automatic Jack from "Burning Chrome"... I couldn't feel emotion one about the protagonist of P.R. though.


MERCENARY X99

Never heard of Black Adder though.

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suprnova up the 2nd season... im pretty sure youll dig it. while you are at it get "the office" probably some of the best comedy ive ever seen.

beelzebubble said:

suprnova up the 2nd season... im pretty sure youll dig it. while you are at it get "the office" probably some of the best comedy ive ever seen.

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The second series if definitely the best. The first series is cool, but quite different, its much darker than the other 3. It was before Ben Elton became co-writer I think.

beelzebubble said:

blackadder is funny as fuck! rowan atkinson master of dry delivery.......

neuromancer, id forgotten just how brilliant this book is....

how are count zero and mona lisa overdrive btw?

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Man, I grew up with Blackadder! I fact, we actually performed several episodes on stage back in High school. We would change up who played Edmund and such to make it interesting. I remember we did Beer from 2, Sense and Senility from 3, and Private plane from 4. I played Edmund in Beer, one of the actors in Sense and Senility, and Lord flashheart on Private plane.

Personally, Blackadder 2 and 3 are my faves, but they all have great amounts of goodness to them!

I liked the first series the best, but they are all fantastic.
edmund (or edgar as the king would say) was much more of an evil but incompetent scumbag.
Plus, Brian Blessed is one of my favorite actors, and he is brilliant as the king.
I did sort-of miss percy in the 3rd.. hes such a prat.

Quick trivia: What part did Lord Flash have in the first series?

The Sprawl trilogy...shouldn't be a trilogy, enough said. Neuromancer is miles ahead the Mona and Count Zero, much tighter, innovative and simply better written. Not that the other two are crap, but the idea of splitting the story in 2-3 twin segments clashing in the end just isn't my cup of tea, and makes things more superficial. I prefer watching at them as spoofs, at least the purity of Neuro is safe in my mind. Even the 'astonishing' last revelation at the end of Count Zero sounds quite goofy after all.
But seeing Molly Milion back in action is cool nevertheless.

The only other masterpiece by Gibson is Burning Chrome. Great short novels, and Dog Fight is definitely in my personal top 10 of more moving stories ever read. No need to say, Johnny Mnemonic is where Neuromancer all came from.

Yeah series 2 is the best followed by 4. I didnt like the millenium special tho. The series ran from 1983 to 89. After it Atkinson concentrated on Mr Bean. By the way
Rowan lives 5 miles from my home in england.