
Science Fiction
I love SF and Fantasy. Here are some of my favourites...
My top 10 favourite films:
- The Matrix
Morpheus: "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
- Alien/Aliens
Ripley: "Get away from her you bitch!"
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Gimli: "NO! Not the beard!"
- Shrek
Donkey: "Like I hate it when you've got somebody in your face, and you're trying to give them a hint but they won't leave, and then you have that big ackward silence you know..." [Big awkward silence]
- Star Trek: First Contact
The Doctor: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hal: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
- Spaceballs
Dark Helmet: "Before you die, there is something you should know about us, Lone Starr."
Lone Starr: "What?"
Dark Helmet: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate."
Lone Starr: "What's that make us?"
Dark Helmet: "Absolutely nothing."
- Donnie Darko
Kitty Farmer: "[Tearfully to Rose Darko] Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Terminator: "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
- Barbarella
Barbarella: "You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?"
My top 10 favourite series:
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
Locutus: "I am Locutus, of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service .. us."
- Stargate SG-1
Jack: "If it wasn't for SG1, you would be sitting there with a snake in your head instead of your head up your ass !"
- Red Dwarf
Lister: "I tell you one thing. I've been to a parallel universe, I've seen time running backwards, I've played pool with planets, and I've given birth to twins, but I never thought in my entire life I'd taste an edible Pot Noodle." "
- Battlestar Galactica (the new one!)
[Starbuck's in the brig]
Apollo: "What's the charge this time?"
Starbuck: "Striking a superior asshole."
- Lexx (series 1 only... it had such promise)
Stan: "May his merciful shadow fall upon... me preferably."
- Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Odo: "I heard an interesting rumor today."
Quark: "Only one? I started twelve!"
- Babylon 5
Ivanova: "There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right."
- X-Files
Scully: "So you've been seeing elves all your life?"
Mulder: "No, in my case Little Green Men."
- Outer Limits
"You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits"
- Futurama
Leela: "Now strip naked and get on the probulator."
My top 10 favourite books:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the whole trilogy in its 5 parts!) by Douglas Adams
- Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Earth by David Brin
- Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit by Leah Rewolinski