“Hey!” I said to the TV, “It’s a Stargate Atlantis Marathon! Yay!”
I work from home. Usually I have one of the cable news stations on, serenading me all day long with info and babble. I love it.
However, it’s gets a little … redundant.
I like to mix it up from time to time, thus the excitment over a Stargate Marathon.
Here’s the thing, it’s the same episodes they did in the last THREE marathons. The series comes to a close in a week, and they give me Season One, again and again and again.
Look, Sci-Fi, I’ll buy the damn box-sets. I will. I just want something new from time to time. What do you say? If you can’t help me out here … how about a shot at writing / directing one of those Sci-Fi Original Movies you play on the weekends?
You could definitely write one of those made-for-SciFi movies:
“I’m telling you, Mayor, if you don’t cancel this festival, a giant squid/dinotaur/anaconda is going to have your town for lunch!”
or
“Who is this clown?”
“This is the man who figured out that Iowa is under water because of moon vibrations, Mr. President.”
“You’ve got guts, Mister. It’s all up to you now…”
Actually, I think they don’t write those scripts. I think they use one of those “story generators,” where you plug in cyclops or alligator and the name of the random town it will be terrorizing.