Amanda MacInnis (AKA ‘Cheese-Wearing Theology’) puts together an biblioblog carnival organised by Babylon 5 quotes and themes. See

Biblioblog Carnival February 2012 « Cheese-Wearing Theology.

Hat tip to James McGrath – The Biblical Studies Carnival: The Last, Best Hope for Biblioblogdom.

Yep, this works for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg

(with John Barrowman, Catherine Tate and David Tennant)

Hat tip to: Dr Who – Maggi Dawn.

(See also – Doctor Who – Cast & Crew Special – YouTube)

I love Star Trek, and have a soft spot for the Legion of Superheroes, but this could go horribly, horribly wrong.

How will the Legion of Superheroes meet the crew of the Starship Enterprise? Author Chris Roberson fills us in.

It’s the 45th birthday of Star Trek so a couple of links from io9 are in order:

• Relive 45 years of Star Trek in one handy timeline
• Celebrate Star Trek’s 45th anniversary by baking your very own character cookies

Sentient Developments posts the trailer for the upcoming “transhuman” series from Brian Singer. See Sentient Developments: Trailer for “H+” web series

More details over at Bryan Singer’s Post-Apoc, Webjacked Web Series ‘H+’ Debuts at Comic-Con | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

See also: Bryan Singer beams the internet straight into your brain, in the trailer for H+.

After waiting for somewhere over 30 years I finally got to see a Green Lantern movie on the big screen. And as a fanboy of longstanding I have to say my feelings about it were pretty mixed.

On one hand I think they got some things right – the aloofness of the Guardians, Sinestro’s focus at bringing order at all costs, the diversity of the Corps, Jordan’s confidence tempered by his father’s death, the alieness of Oa, and even Carol Ferris. Plus I think some of the CGI worked well. And the little things for the fanboys and girls – like Carol’s ‘Sapphire’ call sign, the green boxing glove construct, and Sinestro’s yellow ring.

What didn’t work so well was that it felt like two movies joined together – the space focus is a key point of the GL mythos, but it felt like they didn’t really think they could take it off Earth for most of the movie. So we ended up oscillating badly between the two. Secondly, the ‘training’ sequence was so abrupt it didn’t make sense at all – in the comic books it takes several months at least – which would make Kilowog’s comment at the end of the movie about training more real. Two villains didn’t work – either could have worked, but Parallax really should have been embodied in some way (like the big yellow insect thing in the comics). And marketed really badly too.

Interestingly, I’ve recently rewatched the first DVD animated Green Lantern film – Green Lantern: First Flight – and I have to say I think it works better in terms of the plot than the new movie. I also watched the new animated film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights which came out a week to two back. That too caught the spirit of the comic books, though not all of the stories in it were as strong as each other.

I’ll buy the DVD when it comes out, and in the meantime hope that if they ever make a sequel they get back out into space more and give Kilowog and Sinestro way more screen time.

In the meantime, here are some links from the GL universe:

• DC Comics Green Lantern Secret Origin (PDF) : Shorter origin story over here.
• List of Green Lanterns in the DC Universe including Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner, plus Kilowog and Sinestro. No mention of Alan Scott though – but a good write up on him at Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.: Alan Scott, Earth’s First Green Lantern!.
• io9′s ‘A beginner’s guide to Green Lantern’
• Green Lantern: First Flight (Official Site)
• Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (Official Site)
• Reviews over at Political Jesus: Review of Green Lantern: A fan’s perspective | Political Jesus; Movie Review Tri-Blog (Rod)- Green Lantern | Political Jesus; and Sunday Funnies: The Real Reason I Went And Saw Green Lantern | Political Jesus
• Newsarama.com : Review: GREEN LANTERN Avoids Cheese and Charm in Film Debut
• Newsarama.com : Infographic: Science Fiction Superhero – GREEN LANTERN
• Newsarama.com : Why They Endure: GREEN LANTERN’s Everlasting Light
• The moral power of Green Lantern – The Globe and Mail and Green Lantern and the Psychology of Willpower | Political Jesus.

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  "Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)" (Wiley)

We don’t get Netflix in NZ, but the chart is still helpful for picking a science fiction DVD set to watch

See Handy flowchart helps you decide which science fiction series to watch next on Netflix

Gabriel Mckee over at SF Gospel has a link through to the Eric James Stone’s “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made,” published in the September 2010 issue of Analog. I went downtown in September/October to find a copy of this issue after seeing a note about it a blog somewhere. Didn’t end up finding the issue, so I’m glad I can read the story here for a while.

(Found the blog link over at io9 – The key to presenting religion in science fiction)

Having spent the last few months immersed in pop culture related to angels, vampires and wizards (see below), it’s time to return to the superhero and space opera genres. (If I have time later this year, then I’d been keen to whip out a paper on the theologies found in angel fiction).

Looks good. I may order the poster for my office.

Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica’s Twelve Colonies