Sci-Fi Clippings & Video Roundup 7/31

Curated by Carl Slaughter: (1) Reckless Disagreement says Rogue One ruined Star Wars:

(2) In episode 3 of Season 7 of Game of Thrones, Littlefinger delivers to Sansa some classic, poetic advice:

Fight every battle, everywhere, always, in your mind.

Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend.

Every possible series of events is happening, all at once.

Live that way, and nothing will surprise you.

Everything that happens will be something that you’ve seen before.

(3) What Culture ranks the Doctors.

(4) Kit Harington went to his Game of Thrones audition with a black eye.

(5) James Cameron mulling a new Terminator trilogy.

“The question is — has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up?” said the filmmaker. “Can it still have new relevance now where so much of our world is catching up to what was science fiction in the first two films? We live in a world of predator drones, and surveillance, and big data, and emergent AI. So, I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise, and the rights in the U.S. market revert to me under U.S. copyright law in a year-and-a-half, so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it. We’ll put more meat on the bones if we get past the next couple of hurdles as and when we announce that.”

(6) Superhero double team

(7) Superhero fight club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzET7BoALtE#t=267.636335

(8) Superheroes versus Dominators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvTPpP58SaE

(9) Jack O’Neill’s 7 Rules of Gate Travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATb9prQ-BqY

(10) Stargate’s linguistic hilarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0oAI58dsJg

(11) If you’re a peanut, beware of drunken Kryptonians.

(12) Emilia Clarke reads Game of Thrones.

Composer Joel Goldsmith (1958-2012)

Joel Goldsmith, a three-time Emmy nominee for his work on the “Stargate” franchise, died of cancer April 28 at the age of 54.

The son of Oscar-winner Jerry Goldsmith, who contributed to his father’s score for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Joel entered the industry in the late 1970s creating music for Laserblast and The Man With Two Brains.

He worked on over 350 episodes of “Stargate”, receiving Emmy nominations in 1998 for Stargate SG-1, 2005 for the main theme of Stargate Atlantis and 2006 for Stargate Atlantis: Grace Under Pressure.

Here are links to examples of his fine work — the Stargate Season 2 finale [YouTube], Stargate Atlantis Suite [YouTube], and the Ending credits of Sanctuary, Season 2, “Symphony for a Strange World” [YouTube].

[Thanks to David Klaus for the story.]