Silly arsed Sci-Fi Ideas

[jeriendhal]

"Silent Star Wars" - A remaking of Episode IV, but done in the style of a silent movie. B&W, grainy and scratched film stock, dialog up on title cards, dogfights portrayed with X-wings and TIE fighters swinging on fishing lines, the cast in pancake makeup, pantomining wildly. Oh, and the entire score done on a tinny piano.

"1950's X-Com" - Just what it says. A typical GURPS Atomic Horror, but focusing on the Blow Stuff Up parts of the genre, and with clunkier tech and sleeker rocketships. Mostly inspired, I'll admit, by playing Destroy All Humans constantly for the past week. (Good game, and fairly well balanced if you can get the hang of the HoloBob disguise).

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[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Back when IV was the ONLY SWars, our Trek club put together a play (written mainly by moi) for the yearly convention (StarCon in Denver) called Stark Wars, or Star Wars on a $50 budget. I was the Fearless Rebel Director, presiding over such scenes as a massive paper airplane battle over the Death Star (a large balloon). Chewie was, I believe, a stuffed monkey riding on Han's back.

Before my picture collection got ruined in a basement flood, I had a picture of our GoH George Takei laughing so hard with his head thrown back that you could use it for a reasonably complete dental exam.

Man, those were the days....