I love mecha, I really do! I’ve longed to wake up and find out that I am a pilot of a Veritech fighter and can fly around and transform at will and kick some Zentradi ass! I’d even be happy to control a Gundam. I’ve hoped and wondered how would that even look on the big screen? We did have a glimps of that in the B movie Robot Jox and it was about as good as you could get with a B movie budget in the 80’s. So it was back to anime. But, decades later, we got our bigass robots fighting bigass monsters… and not the cheesy Power Rangers kind, either! We got 2 and 3 person controlled Jaegers, or hunters, who moved and fought with finesse – it was the mecha we had been waiting for for so long! Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Pacific Rim and Mecha
Tag Archives: sci-fi
She Geek Critique – High Tech Monsters
If you’re a regular reader of this blog (or a Geek Watch One listener), you know by now that I’m a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy, be it in books or on tv or in film. You probably also know that I enjoy anthology series. The thing is, as much as I love reading, I’m not that into short story collections. Despite that, I gave Guardian Angels & Other Monsters a try, mainly due to the sci-fi angle. Continue reading She Geek Critique – High Tech Monsters
She Geek Critique – Missing a Day
A dystopian near-future, over population destroying the environment, scientific advancements creating super crops and a surge of multiple-child births requiring single-child laws. This is the not-as-compicated-as-it-sounds premise for What Happened to Monday, a 2017 Netflix action thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close. Continue reading She Geek Critique – Missing a Day
Best Geeky Finds – They’re All Dead Dave!
It’s not often that a series about the aftermath of a large-scale death not only lasts long without zombies, but reaches 12 seasons in less than 30 years. Yet for followers of the British cable series Red Dwarf, the four main characters have not only done this, but continue to be topical in the future. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – They’re All Dead Dave!
Best Geeky Finds – Are We Not Men? Maybe Not
As we near the end of the year I’ve been in a bit of a holiday slump, not feeling like doing much but sleeping and watching television. Not a great few weeks. One good thing about that though is that it has allowed me to catch up on some shows I hadn’t gotten to watch previously. One such show I binge-watched this week was Westworld. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – Are We Not Men? Maybe Not