Friday, August 18, 2006
Worst. SciFi. Ever.
The movie studio at Sci-Fi doesn't even try anymore.Submitted for your approval - Savage Planet. A group of expolorerstravelto a genetically engineered planet designed to be the new home for refugees from Earth, which istoo polluted for people to remain upon. Despite being the future, everyone dresses just as they would for a camping trip this weekend. One by one, the explorers are picked off by cunning predators of the new world (more on them in a minute). So, in the span of a few minutes, we went from a promising science fiction concept, the challenges of adapting to a new ecosystem, to the normal staple of the Sci-Fi Channel - murderous monster of the week on a rampage.
I tuned in halfway through, to this choice dialogue:
"The planet is evolving exponentially. It will soon implode. Even worse, the genetically enhanced bears are more stronger or cunning than anything encountered on Earth."So it turns out Colbert was right. They are godless killing machines.
My schadenfreude bade me to continue to watching, but the next lapse of judgment led me to abandon this tripe. The antagonist reveals that the planet produces an ooze that regenerates destroyed or dying tissue. In a flashback we see hoiw it will grow backa missing hand, and that it is in a cave just a few miles from our intrepid group. Just after the flashback, the wounded guy is carried and mauled by bears, quite severely. Missing an arm and a leg,m and eviscerated, he bades the lead character to kill him quickly, which hedoes with no hesitation.
I would think that in this situation, rather than ask someone to kill me, I'd ask to be dropped into the liquid goo where I'll be restored to good health. And, if I'm in too much pain to think of it, I'd hope my firends would think of it before deciding to off me. Just saying.
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