SF dialogue

The worse piece of SF dialogue has to be in ST:NG Datalore, after
a whole hour of being told Data could not handle concatanations and
Lore could, then seeing Lore transported into space. Data tells
Pichard that "I'm alrigth".

I think the problem with Ivonova's quote was that it was out the blue -
in the DW Pyrmind of Mars Sutek has comes out with a few
good monologues (to paraphase) -
"You shall destroy my enemys ,the humans,
birds, beasts, all life is my enemy,
all shall perish under the reign of Sutek,
only Sutek shall live."

"My good is your evil,
I am Sutek the destroyed, where I walk I leave dust,
I find that good..."

This works because you expect it from a evil-demi-god-powre-mad monster -
not from a normal calm person. It all comes down to building a good
character and then keeping him/her behaviouring within it limits.

Daniel

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Why don't we also nominate cool dialogs/monologues from Sci-Fi?

Like, most things spoken by Gul Dukat in ST:DS9. :)

<I sense lots of flames coming...>

Gordan

Worst thought out piece of dialogue.

STTNG Best of Both Worlds-
Commander Shelby(female) 'Data was available, I took him, we came.'

Nuff said.
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On Thursday, January 29, 1998 12:54 PM, Lyth Chris
[SMTP:Chris.C.Lyth@] wrote:
It's brilliant, if you like pun-type humour. :)

Incidentally, was that episode on BBC2 recently? Or has it not been
shown yet this time round...

Gordan

It's brilliant, if you like pun-type humour. :)
about 5 or 6 weeks time I think
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From: Gordan Bobic
Sent: 29 January 1998 15:11
To: 'chat@'
Subject: RE: Sf dialogue

On Thursday, January 29, 1998 12:54 PM, Lyth Chris
[SMTP:Chris.C.Lyth@] wrote:
It's brilliant, if you like pun-type humour. :)

Incidentally, was that episode on BBC2 recently? Or has it not been
shown yet this time round...

Gordan

I disagree that quality of dialogue is *always* inversely proportional
to the quality of the SFX, and to say that it is always true while
*only* citing Independence Day is a little childish. ID4 was basically
a take on all the old-fashioned invasion films - in the 1950s, the
dialogue would probably not have seemed so corny, simply because less
films would have used it by then!

Name some more films, TV etc. where good SFX meant appalling dialogue,
and balance this by naming some films with dreadful SFX but very good
dialogue, and I might be convinced - a start might be Dr.Who - good
dialogue (mainly), but cheapo special SFX (mainly). However, it all
falls down with Event Horizon - you can't say the SFX were rubbish, and
the dialogue was all right! (Wasn't it?) And oh, doesn't everyone's
beloved B5 have good SFX? Does that mean its dialogue is useless?

Basically, stop slagging off ID4! Please. I thought it was an idea
long overdue, anyway. But why no English landmarks getting trashed?
Yes, in case you can't guess, I'm not exactly proud to be English!
Yanko-centrism is a little better than Anglo-arrogance, in my book! (If
anyone can understand that last sentence, please write in...)

D.Chilard

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Chilard D wrote:
Isn't that what corny means?
Yes it is! I love B5, but how often have you sat there playing 'count the
cliche'?
HEY, Hey, hey, slag off England all you like, but NEVER say the Americans
are better. At anything. Except getting fat. At least we don't force our
'Anglo-arrogance' down the throat of every passing nation, despite
observable facts... Like a certain bloated, traitorous colony I could
mention. No, we keep our arrogance at home, bottled up in silly people
with skinheads and knives.

Ben

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Previously, Chilard D wrote:
Yes, but it's not the 1950s any more.
Lost World, Starship Troopers, to name a couple.
I think the point was that many films recently have relied upon flashy
special effects and big explosions to prop up a really poor script.
Probably because the makers thought that the (American) audience would
relate more to American landmarks getting blown into little bitty
pieces, and it would be more of a shock. I think people in the cinema
did cheer when the white house etc got trashed, but I suspect they might
have done so if Big Ben got blown up as well. 'Cos it just looks cool.
And besides, I don't think the English take themselves quite as
seriously as the Americans (now there's flame fodder for you). The
American response to the destruction of all their historical
institutions was gasps of horror, whilst the British response might be
"Cool, so they've flattened the Houses of Parliament." Perhaps.

Later,

Steve :-)
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Chilard D said
long overdue, anyway.

I thought it was an idea long overused myself.

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In relativity, matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter
how to move. The Heart of Gold told space to get knotted...
D. Adams Life, The Universe and Everything

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