116. Zed: May I ask you why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?[
118. And the follow up to that:
[Jay explains that she was in the hood after dark carrying a textbook way above her grade level...]
Zed: [just stares.]
Jay: ...Or do I owe her an apology?
"There are five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"FOUR."
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four daleks?"
"WE WOULD DESTROY THE CYBERMEN WITH ONE DALEK."
My wife loves this line so much, she is currently trying to learn a program that grabs audio and turns it into ringtones, so that she can be gloated at by a Dalek on a daily basis.
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My wife loves this line so much, she is currently trying to learn a program that grabs audio and turns it into ringtones, so that she can be gloated at by a Dalek on a daily basis."There are five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"FOUR."
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four daleks?"
"WE WOULD DESTROY THE CYBERMEN WITH ONE DALEK."
For trashcans with a plunger for a weapon those boys got some spunk in them.
Okay, since we've mentioned a few B5 moments now, I have to add one of my personal favorites. Vir looking up at Morden's head on a pike and doing that little smile and wave.My absolute favorite pair of moments - with the payoff TWO SEASONS LATER - in the whole run of the show.
"What would I like, Mr. Morden? I'd like to see your head, on a pike, as a symbol for the next 10 generations that some favors come at too high a price. And I'd look up into your lifeless eyes, and I'd wave... like this [waggles fingers]. Do you think your 'associates' could arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
Love it. Love love love it. In fact, I just watched this clip on youtube like a day or two ago.
We want a damn link, please! ~grins~ One of my friends is borrowing B5 right now and I can't see that clip.
We want a damn link, please! ~grins~ One of my friends is borrowing B5 right now and I can't see that clip.
1**: "There be whales here!" -Scotty (ST IV:Voyage Home)
1**: Blowing up Z'ha'dum.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games
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We want a damn link, please! ~grins~ One of my friends is borrowing B5 right now and I can't see that clip.Okay, since we've mentioned a few B5 moments now, I have to add one of my personal favorites. Vir looking up at Morden's head on a pike and doing that little smile and wave.My absolute favorite pair of moments - with the payoff TWO SEASONS LATER - in the whole run of the show.
"What would I like, Mr. Morden? I'd like to see your head, on a pike, as a symbol for the next 10 generations that some favors come at too high a price. And I'd look up into your lifeless eyes, and I'd wave... like this [waggles fingers]. Do you think your 'associates' could arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
Love it. Love love love it. In fact, I just watched this clip on youtube like a day or two ago.
Your wish is my command: Season 2 and the oh-so-delicious comeback in Season 4.
Enjoy.
Thanks you two! Now I know what I will be doing once I get home. ~thinks~ After I take the mutt for her walk, that is!
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143. Jules Gabriel Verne: "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (written in 1864) - when the boy calculates the theoretical change in temperature as he descends, and realizes all the scientists are wrong!
That would be the Vernian version of an alien erasing the chalk board filled with the genius's equations and writing one of his own thats 'better'. I can tell you based on personal experience that it never works out with the 'genius' displaying rational consideration of what you have done to his life work and defering to your superior 'alien' intellect...he screams at you like you have violated his sister on the altar in his church and then burned down his church. The Phrase "You're f...ing insane!" seems very popular with the more brilliant geniuses.
That would be the Vernian version of an alien erasing the chalk board filled with the genius's equations and writing one of his own thats 'better'. I can tell you based on personal experience that it never works out with the 'genius' displaying rational consideration of what you have done to his life work and defering to your superior 'alien' intellect...he screams at you like you have violated his sister on the altar in his church and then burned down his church. The Phrase "You're f...ing insane!" seems very popular with the more brilliant geniuses.143. Jules Gabriel Verne: "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (written in 1864) - when the boy calculates the theoretical change in temperature as he descends, and realizes all the scientists are wrong!
The boy, having read & studied previous 'geological' scientist's work enthusiastically, realized by direct observation that what his elders had taught him, and believed, was not supported by direct experimental evidence.
This is an example of how much Verne really knew about doing real science. Combined with his writing prowess, he is an author whose works need to be read, and whose methods need to be studied.
The only way to test an equation is with experimental evidence. The boy is taking data as he walks. He did not pull an equation out of the air, and demand his was better than other equations.
The scientists before him only had conjectures to work with, as they were unable to have the experience of going to the center of the earth. This doesn't in anyway imply they were stupid for proposing theory that was later invalidated by experimental evidence. Take Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom as an example. Completely invalidated by later experimental evidence, but still studied as an example of 'how to do theory work'.
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115b. "There are five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"FOUR."
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four daleks?"
"WE WOULD DESTROY THE CYBERMEN WITH ONE DALEK."
Aw, but you left out the perfect ending to that exchange!
Dalek: YOU ARE SUPERIOR IN ONLY ONE RESPECT.
Cyberleader: What is that?
Dalek: YOU ARE BETTER AT DYING.
1**a:{neuromancer} Molly Millions.
1**b:{neuromancer} Molly Millions dressed in panther modern suit making mince meat out of corperate guards on the first run in Neuromancer.
1**:{neuromancer} The villa straylight
1**:{neuromancer} The turing police and their discussion about true names with case.
1**:{neuromancer} rightous zion dub and observations about molly being steppin' razor.
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...he screams at you like you have violated his sister on the altar in his church and then burned down his church.How exactly does someone scream when you have violated their sister on the alter in his church and then burned down the church? I've never tried.
QUICK EXPERIMENT:
"Maths is Irrelevent on the grounds that it is a limit, not a Solution."
Your Conclusion?
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143. Jules Gabriel Verne: "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (written in 1864) - when the boy calculates the theoretical change in temperature as he descends, and realizes all the scientists are wrong! <<snip>>
I can tell you based on personal experience that it never works out with the 'genius' displaying rational consideration of what you have done to his life work and defering to your superior 'alien' intellect...
<<snip>>
Never? I beg to differ. In Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins describes how a speaker at a departmental seminar at Oxford gave a talk that basically shot down the department chair's pet theory. Talk ends, the department chair gets up, shakes the speaker's hand, and thanks him for the correction. I'll grant it doesn't happen that way as often as it should, but it does happen that way sometimes.
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153. Blake's 7: Power
Gunn-Sar: I am Gunn-Sar. I rule by right of challenge.
Gunn-Sar: What’s the tally of challenges?
Cato: Twenty five dead and one missing, sir.
Gunn-Sar: Oh come on Cato don’t quibble. Marquin fell backward off the cliff.
Cato: Yes sir.
Gunn-Sar: So he’s dead. Like you can’t say someone’s missing as such. Not when they’ve taken a dive into a bottomless gorge.
Cato: No Sir.
Gunn-Sar: So its twenty six dead.
Cato: The Council ruled it was twenty five Sir and one missing.
Gunn-Sar: Twenty five men lie dead who tried to stand against me, and one if he’s not still falling is no more than a greasy spot on the rocks, right?
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154. A Canticle For Liebowitz in the first section where a set of actual blueprints are found in the rubble of an ancient destroyed building's bomb shelter and the monks realize the blueprints from before the holocaust they had been so carefully duplicating were actually the blueprint 'negatives'.
155. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes and hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't." (sorry if your intestines are now exploding)
And to continue the B5 vein:
Girabaldi: Come to my quarters later and I'll show you my favorite thing in the galaxy ... ok, my second favorite thing.
We are going to write a sci-fi by harvesting the 100 best ideas from every Scifi ...
How is it going?
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We are going to write a sci-fi by harvesting the 100 best ideas from every Scifi ...How is it going?
Oops! Got distracted by the whole didnt end at 100 ideas thing...ANy Ideas on which are the best 100 ideas?
I like the 'Lottery to determine who gets to be the Genestock for Luck' Idea.
156. Having read the play from which every robot scifi (Rossum's Universal Robots) has been ripped off, I like the Idea of a Megacorp producing Amost Human BioSlaves.
Once the count hits 200 Best Ideas, I think we will start on the Culling Process.
157.
Saavik: Permission to speak freely, sir?
Kirk: Granted.
Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities.
Kirk: And why not?
Saavik: Because... there was no way to win.
Kirk: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you?
Saavik: No, sir, it has not.
Kirk: And how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
Saavik: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
Kirk: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
Later
Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
Kirk: What's on your mind, Lieutenant?
Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
Kirk: Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?
Saavik: On the test, sir... will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.
McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
Saavik: How?
Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
Saavik: What?
David Marcus: He cheated.
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose.
Saavik: Then you never faced that situation... faced death.
Kirk: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
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Working on Story Background:
The Enhanced Men Union (E.M.U.): The Future is a Solarsystem ruled by the Enhanced Men. For five hundred Years cloning has worked to weed out the undesired traits and produce the Ideal Enhanced Man. The inferior have been pushed into isolation and Extinction at the very fringes of that Civilization.
Film opens with an Enhanced Man 'Brand Kirk' fighting in a cage fight in the Antartic Gulags where regular 'Backbirths' survive after a 'mutiny on his ship' when the real Captain finds Brand Kirk in the captains chair, drinking his Booze and fondling his concubine.
"What's Mine is yours right?"
The Captain stuffs the troublemaking bastard in a lifepod and ejects him.
Brank Kirk is seen screaming something insulting through the glassteel porthole of the life pod but it cant be heard.
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158. New Startrek Film: Captain Spock ejects the annoying Kirk in a life pod and leaves him on an abandoned ice planet. Kirk Emerges from the Pod and screams: "You Green Blooded Bastard!"
159. Mal Reynolds is left in the Desert Naked by Yolanda Saffron Bridgette Reynolds and Screams: "You Whore! You Dirty Dirty Whore!" as she flies off in his shuttle.
I see a correlation.
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WORKING TITLE: MR FIBBLE GOES DOWN
TEXT SCROLLS UP SCREEN: It has been five hundred years since the establishment of the Enhanced Man Union (E.M.U.). Mans dream of an empire built on the backs of a Genetically Modified Clone underclass has been shattered in a bloody reprisal abandoning Homo sapiens on the verge of extinction.
The only humans left fight for scraps of Penguin meat in the Gulags of Antarctica.
INTRODUCTORY SCENE ONE: The Bridge of the Enhanced Man Union Deep Space Gunship Philadelphia. The only light source is the three vertical poster view-screen ‘windows’ that reveal the stars past the curve of the planet Earth. In the Darkness, sounds of sexual gratification can be heard from the human sized shadow straddling the Captain’s chair.
“Jessica-six!” Captain Jessica-one is standing at the entrance to the Bridge flanked by six lesser ranked clones armed with heavy assault Weapons as the lights flip on. Jessica-six is sitting in the Captain’s chair with a socked-hand between her thighs.
“Captain?” Jessica-six seems distracted by something.
“What the hell is going on here Jessica-six?” Jessica-one advances on Jessica-six with her guards. The Socked hand looks downcast and ashamed as the hand-puppet stands upright next to the blue haired Jessica-six clone.
“Mr Fibble and I have been having…an affair.” Jessica-six smiles defiantly.
“How long has this ‘relationship’ been going on?” Jessica-one points a pistol at the sock puppet.
“Six hours…Mr Fibble is very talented.” Jessica-six stops blurting out her confession as the Sock puppet acts all smug.
“Six hours…” Jessica-one raises her voice to a scream,”…WITH MY SOCK?”
INTRODUCTORY SCENE TWO: Jessica-six is in the single crew eject-pod behind a round glass porthole. She can no longer be heard.
Captain Jessica-one lowers ‘Mr Fibble’ into a zip-lock plastic bag held open by one of her officers and seals it herself. Jessica-six can be seen through the porthole crying for ‘Mr Fibble’s’ embrace.
“Wash this…repeatedly.” Jessica-one hands the bagged sock back to her subordinate officer before looking back at Jessica-six. Jessica-six is now staring at her like a hungry predator, face up against the glass, her target decided.
“I don’t think so Jessica-six.” Jessica-one flips the red switch to manual eject the eject-pod. An orange light begins to blink in warning.
Jessica-six is joined behind the porthole by a sock on each hand (Mr Fibble and his evil twin) – one holding a sex toy. Mr Fibble, holding the Captain’s favourite sex toy, goes down on Jessica-six to her gratification. He is followed by his evil twin. Jessica-six throws a naked hand against porthole glass as the eject-pod launches.
Jessica-one looks around to find her crew incapacitated and the zip-lock bag empty.
From the view of the eject-pod porthole Jessica-one can be seen to scream “You Whore! You Dirty, Dirty Whore!” as the rebellious trio are catapulted toward Antarctica through the Atmosphere from High Earth Orbit.
ACT ONE: The eject-pod has come down in Antarctica. From a view inside the eject-pod, Jessica-six can be seen walking through the snow and ice away from the pod wearing a Silver Hostile Environment Suit with a Fishbowl helmet. Mr Fibble, armed with the Captain’s sex toy seems to fall against the inside of the porthole glass. Mr Fibble’s ‘twin’ is impaled on the sex toy ‘up the hole’.
WORKING TITLE: ‘E.M.U.: MR FIBBLE GOES DOWN.’
ACT ONE (continued): As we fade back in from Titles, we find the silver suited Jessica-six is standing on the edge of a mile high glacier overlooking RUR Tower. RUR Tower (a single half-mile high building of black stone and glass with a neon red Rossum’s Universal Robots ‘rams-head’ logo ) is the original site of the first genetically modified clone production factory and has a harbor where ships might have once docked.
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ACT ONE (continued): Jessica-six leaps from the glacier as a Genetically Modified Yeti having come from the white of the blizzard coming up behind her takes a swipe at the air where she was standing. Jessica-six descends in a furious vertical descent with the ice axes that have somehow leapt to her hands from their place of concealment in the sleeves of her silver hostile environment suit.
Above her the Yeti simply looks over the edge to reveal big dark hungry eyes and then drops down toward Jessica-six who is still descending while looking up.
“Oh, Come on!” Jessica-six halts her descent by driving one axe into the glacier wall with force and continues her descent with the remaining ice axe.
The Genetically Modified Yeti barely misses the metal protrusion with its groin and is consequently split open at the belly. It cries like a dying Wookiee as it descends past Jessica-six toward the ice floor, clawed powerful arms thrashing about for justice.
Jessica-six senses an opportunity and rides the dying Yeti to the ground. On impact Jessica-six is no where to be seen. Several minutes go by until a foul, gore covered Jessica-six struggling to emerge, stands up out of the steaming belly cavity, her helmet shattered, and the back of her hand to her mouth trying not to vomit at the foul taste. She is unsuccessful and wretches several times.
Walking a hundred metres, Jessica-six reaches a ventilation hatch from which warm air seems to exit continuously and sits down next to it to rest.
“Yep, that went well!” In the distance a half dozen Yeti can be seen converging on her location from the White as the Blizzard hits R.U.R. Tower like an avalanche wall.
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ACT TWO: Several of the Jessica clones in silver hostile environment suits are inspecting the crashed eject-pod used to bring Jessica-six to Antarctica. Further out from the group, one stands apart from the rest.
“Well?” Jessica-one is looking at the distant Blizzard through infra-blue goggles. The Captain looks back at Jessica-five who is inspecting the eject-pod.
“Look Sir, Two Socks and a Sex toy.” Jessica-five holds up a zip-lock bag with the offending items sealed within. Mr Fibble is looking rather betrayed and abandoned as his evil twin sits in the opposite corner of the polymer sack sulking.
“Shall we return to the ship Captain?”
“No. That b%@** is out here somewhere and I’m going to have her.” Jessica-one looks about without the goggles before turning back to face Jessica-five.
“Contact the ship! I want a Sweep of this grid.”
160: Civilization collapses every 2049 years during the eclipse in Asimov's "Nightfall".
161: The Total Perspective Vortex, from Adam's "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe".
162: Psychohistory from Asimov's "Foundation".
163: Winston Smith learns to love Big Brother.
164: The tripods and the capping, "The White Mountains".
165: "The Long Walk" by Bachman/King.
166: Marvin and the mattress Zem
Too many from Dune and Dune Messiah to single out.
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167 - The Last Question 'THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER' , And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light----
168 - Hyperion Cantos The Shrike, Kassad and Moneta, Sad King Billy, Rachel's 'Merlin Sickness', Brawn and Johnny, Remembering Siri, Meina Gladstone vs the CORE, The Time Tombs, Tree of Pain, The UI, Aenea, Raul Endymion, The Shrike (Again), Nemes, 'Choose Again'
169 - Commonwealth Saga Landing on Mars only to be waved at by a frat boy (trust me, it makes sense), Immortality for everyone, and all that it entails, Paula Myo, the Ultimate Cop, the Dyson Aliens, Humanity going from no ships and little military technology to sending a star nova in a few months and endless questions about just what The Cat actually did..
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ACT TWO (CONTINUED): Jessica-five retreats to the Scout class Hovercraft. Inside, she contacts the E.M.U. Deep Space Gunship Philadelphia: “Stagger! This is Waldo! Send me a Sweep of sector one.”
Jessica-five glanced at the feed before returning to the outside.
“Stagger says there was a hotspot eight clicks to the coast, but it went cold when the blizzard hit it.” Jessica-five looked over at Jessica-one for a command decision.
Jessica-one looked north into the blizzard.
“Get everyone on the Scout. We’re moving out.” Jessica-one follows her crew into the Scout-class hovercraft. The hatch seals as the turbines whine to full power.
The Scout flies across the ice and snow into the edge of the blizzard.
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49. {Iain M. Banks} Everything he wrote
There, fixed that for ya.
Actually I'd say the GSV Sleeper Service; The very way the ships are named; The fact that the ships are sentient; the idea of an "Outside Context Problem"; the way said problem is described.....
The whale that is created and instantly hits a planet in THGttG; The pot plant that follows it.
"Man"'s proof that God exists causing God to not exist; The man getting run over on the next Zebra crossing.
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ACT THREE:
We are on the Habitat level of R.U.R. Tower. A group of Humans are gathered around one Man fighting it out in a cage match with a Giant Genetically modified Penguin. “Skeee!” The killing howl of the penguin caused Brand Kirk to leap for a hand hold on the highest part of the Cage.
Brand Kirk: “Come on guys! Enough is enough! Get me out of here…” Brand Kirk Kicks at the Monstrosity, “…before the bastard takes a chunk out of me or something.” Brand Kirk was defiantly looking apologetic.
Hein Solo: “Say it!”
“All right, I’m sorry I let your Yeti out. OK?” The crowd instantly grumble in a crowded uproar and pay up their loosing bets to Hein. Hein collects first before cutting Brand Kirk loose from the Cage.
The Penguin rushes the gate and knocks Brand and Hein aside with the cage door before launching itself at the Obsidian window glass. The ‘Obsidian’ window seems to explode under the force of impact and the penguin slides down the side of the iced up tower. It can be heard howling its cry of fury as it descends.
Hein Solo: “S#&+!” Hein laughs at the event that has unfolded.
Brand Kirk (looking concerned): “Is that supposed to break like that because I always lean against the one in my apartment.” Hein Solo looks at Brand Kirk and laughs at the idea of Brand Kirk following the Penguin out the window.
Brand Kirk also Laughs just to be sociable.
170. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire Series: Trusted Officer reads to Grand Admiral Thrawn that there's a rebellion crash-landed on one distant moon. Grand Admiral instantly gets furious and orders the Star Destroyer that he's on locked down. He then explains to the officer that they recently received a shipment from that moon and the rebellion is there on the Star Destroyer. His shear attention to detail allows him to see things that everyone else would miss.
171. (may have been said) Babylon 5, Final Episode: The destruction of Babylon 5 to the ending of the closing credits. No matter how many times I see it, I still stand to honor a friend. It still brings a tear to my eye. I sit for the last moment about Delenn watching the sun coming up every day. But then I stand again for the final credits. That series is still the greatest television show to date, IM(ns)HO.
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172. "Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win."
"Barrayar", 1991
173. "If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."
"The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
A Civil Campaign, 1999
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
A Civil Campaign, 1999
This thread needs more Heinlein, I suggest starting with the Lady Vivamus
Great thread - some fantastic sci-fi moments... here's my 2 runes worth:
174. Lt. Doolittle space surfing down to the dying planet at the end of Dark Star
175. Dune; Paul Muad'Dib [to the assembled Fedaykin]: Long Live The Fighters!
176 - The end of The Martian Chronicles -
They reached the canal. It was long and straight and cool
and wet and reflective in the night.
"I've always wanted to see a Martian," said Michael.
"Where are they, Dad? You promised."
"There they are," said Dad, and he shifted Michael on
his shoulder and pointed straight down.
The Martians were there. Timothy began to shiver.
The Martians were there--in the canal--reflected in the
water. Timothy and Michael and Robert and Mom and Dad.
The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long
silent time from the rippling water. . . .
177 The Matrix.
After freaky bullet dodging (and some innovative camera work) an agent has Neo down on the roof, and is just about to kill him. Trinity slips in behind. Puts a gun to his head. Says, "dodge this."
178 * A length of fine wire
* A bus token
* A ticket stub
* A green strip of cloth
* A code key
* Half a broken poker chip
* A parcel receipt
In lieu of credit in PKD's "Paycheck".
179 The supercomputer transforming the kid into a blob with no mouth (or chance to end his torment) in Ellison's "I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream".
180 Revok exploding First Scanner's head with just his thoughts in "Scanners".
181 "Abracadabra" from Dreamscape.
182 and Im partial to Eddie short-circuiting out Blaine the Mono's brain with goofy-ass riddles.
183 Bonus Spoiler: Donald Sutherland at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Donal Graeme:
Fakes the carpet bombing of an entire planet
Wals on Air
and Breaks the minds of mortal men
all this and more in Dorsai!
The scene where the proto-humans are given the knowledge of weapons/violence from the obelisk. "2001 a space odyssey".