Oolite Bulletins

While we try to figure that mess out... can anyone beat this example of things that came true sooner than you expected them to ? I recently saw the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen for the first time. I'd seen the series at the time it was first broadcast, but to the best of my recollection, not th...

How many do we have now?

and later added the "oops, we destroyed the Earth" ending as an omake at the end of the story. Is that a .. Japanese manga ?? term? I think so - in fanfic it's used for alternative ideas/plotlines/outtakes that weren't actually used in the story but might amuse the readers. https://en.wik...

Have another one - in 2010 Odyssey 2 (novel by Arthur C. Clarke 1982, filmed 1984) alien monoliths in Jupiter's atmosphere start to multiply, apparently by converting atmospheric gases into solid monolith material, forming an expanding black spot which eventually implodes as a short-lived black hole...

The Heechee series by Frederic Pohl ( Gateway and sequels). The big mystery of the first part of the series is what actually happened to the long-vanished Heechee aliens - it turns out that they are hiding in the black hole at the centre of the galaxy, hoping that humans and other primitive life-for...

low hanging fruit. Spock... startrek movie something ( ok its 2,Wrath of Khan ) . dies at the end , genesis devise get shot at nebula. creates aplanet and Spocks body is launched at it... Star Trek 3 Spock body resurected and reunited with his "spirit"trapped on McCoy... Almost completely...

Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who/Torchwood. Really just an imitation of Captain Scarlet, but... well, there's no "but" really, I just feel the need to write a few words more. That's enough. :) And we have our fifth answer! Have a MBP for giving me the other one I thought of when I wa...

The eponymous Captain Scarlet, of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons fame...? Definitely, and have a MBP for choosing the first one I thought of when I set the question! Though he isn't exactly his old self given that he's now x-ray opaque and regenerates... low hanging fruit. Spock... startrek movi...

Nite Owl wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 12:47 am

Marvel Comics are full of such things.

Perhaps the best example is Jean Grey of the X-Men.

Yes, that's another good one, and gets Marvel out of the way before we start arguing about Bucky Barnes so have an MBP for that! Three to go, and no more Mass Effect or Marvel.

Bringing in (from the previous dead attempt, heh) Mass Effect quickly: in Mass Effect 2, in the opening scene, commander Sheppard dies as a result of an attack on his* ship, and a very appealing cinematic. His remains are recovered, and he is resurrected by Cerberus. * I designate a male commander ...

OK... given the lack of response and general apathy that seems to have set in I'm going to halt this round here and set another question - apologies that I picked a theme that people didn't like. The answers to the clues I gave TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The las...

spud42 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:02 am

the last few questions about killing and assinations is a bit off... i think we have done enough of that...

Good point - anyone else like to switch to something else? Or object to it?

SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American. The pilot episode is most relevant, and uncannily parallels one of the incidents from a Tom Clancy novel published only four years earlier (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Some alien technology is involved. Sorry, I was remembering the plot of this one wrong, it's ...

Meanwhile, does anyone have any more answers? Let's expand the remaining clues again... TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The last word of the title is the name of a historically important figure. TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history. ...

TIWUaSMwT - Film (a reversal of this plot, trying to keep someone alive who was historically killed) - 1970s, Not English language, humour How did this get a 7.1/10 rating on IMDB? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/ Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea it took a while to find this and...