Please let it be good

[lydy]

So, it's always possible that I will regret this, but I just backed "ConMan" on Indigogo. It's a project by Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion. Here's a link:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/con-man/x/10238173

It will either be very, very funny, or _Bimbos of the Death Sun_." I fear the latter, but what I'm hoping for is "Galaxy Quest."

The set up is that an actor from a show not completely and exactly like "Firefly" interacts with the scifi convention circuit, encountering weird organizers and marvelous fans. Or something like that. There are a number of actors involved that I very much like. The videos that consented to stream on my poor little computer were funny. While the media scifi convention community is closely related to mine, it's not my community, so I worry that I will either not get the jokes, or that I won't know if they're being authentic or jerks. _Bimbos of the Death Sun_ was about my community, and man, was it awful. Lords know, there is an infinite amount of material to make fun of me and mine. Unfortunately, she ignored all our real foibles and shibboleths and made fun of us in a mean-spirited-never-really-met-an-actual-science-fiction-fan sort of way. On the other hand, "Galaxy Quest" got me and mine, and made fun of us for the things that are funny, and still made me feel like they understood why we are who and what we are.

So, GQ or BOTDS. We shall see. Mean time, I gave them money to try.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

I watched the teaser and it looked very very VERY much in the spirit of Galaxy Quest.

I backed it, too. I loved Galaxy Quest. I loved Firefly. They definitely are trying to make Galaxy Quest. Why not.

[pameladean]

Galaxy Quest is not mean-spirited; Bimboes of the Death Sun totally is. So, I live in hope.

P.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

The teaser makes me hopeful. I hear they've achieved their funding goal, so I'm looking forward with optimism to see what they produce.

[j2hess.livejournal.com]

so my wife asked me if I knew anybody in Minnesota, and I said not anybody I'd seen for 25 years. And Pascale my wife is wondering because she's researching a property and it's titles, and I said one of them used to work for a title abstract company - so what the hey? And here you are. It's good to read your posts and imagine you delivering them in person.

Jim Hess
j2hess@sbcglobal.net