I've now seen Serenity, about which I'm maintaining a discrete silence in the interests of blogetic harmony, but those who rate Serenity and its companions Angel, and Firefly will be excited to hear that Tim Minear, executive producer for the latter two series, is writing a screenplay for Robert Heinlein's story of libertarian revolution, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and according to some in the know, he 'gets it.'BK Marcus is one who reckons Minear gets it; he also has the story onwho exactly Heinlein's character Professor Bernardo de la Paz was based. [Hat tip Wally Conger]
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Hmmm, well he wouldn't have to try hard to improve on the last Heinlein book to be adapted to the screen... Starship Troopers was bloody awful - except for the co-ed shower sceen, so long as you turned the sound down to blot out the inane dialogue...
Yeah, that film was worse than embarrassing. Makes me shudder to think about it. Less said, the better.:-/
But to be fair, most SF films are embarrassing IMO.
Oh I thought Starship Troopers was funny - as in funny like Team America World Police. But yes I realise that it wasn't meant to be - unlike TAWP.
It's not so much about hacking the computer system, but befriending it as it develops it's own AI and having the computer on your side, during the revolution. That will certainly work as in film in today's age.
(showing geekeness, again ;-)
Aha, but even so: being self-aware, Mycroft would know how to hide from the administration whatever he need to hide. :-)
Now I'm going to have to rat through all the boxes from the last move and find the book!
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