Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!

In the wake of the last preachy, square-peg-in-round-hole blog post here's a return to harmless nerd-dom.

Sneaking between genres like a metaphor hunting ninja, I will today look at the perception of the organic and natureness in the world of popular movies.

Star Wars, Shrek, Predator, Apocalypse Now

The Enemy

You may have noticed (but probably haven't) that there hasn't been a new post on this blog for a while. I can assure you that there have been a couple of drafts lurking behind the curtain, but they're so damn ugly they'll never see the light of day without Sharon Osborne's surgeon. This one's had a face lift so here she is.

God games and strategy - saving the virtual world

Do you remember when magazines could go on big diatribes about random gumpf because their readers had an attention span greater than an Alzheimic goldfish?... of course not, I'm just being old. I was just reading about the demise of PC Zone magazine (anyone ever buy that?) and lamenting the loss of it’s type of 90’s journalism, did you know Charlie Brooker started out writing for them? Anyway, it made me think, what about computer games!

Silent Running - the blog mixing pot!

I realised what a sad character I am when this opportunity arose. A chance to combine multiple elements of blog posts featured in a single movie discussion! Ohhhhhhhhhh yeah

Collapse and The Road

Fighting over resources is at the crux of all human conflict, food, water, oil, land, women, men, children, time (bit too abstract?).

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

In this post a number of questions will be explored. The title question will not be among them and none will really be answered. Great start. However the novel 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?’ from the mack daddy of Sci-fi, Philip K Dick (A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Ubik), will be a central work of discussion.

Overall this is an analysis of novels and films in which positive human relationships with animals are a major theme (not those akin to Old Yeller, Skippy or Alaska!).

Graphic Novel Environmentalism

This was an area I had neglected to think about but although my knowledge of this format is limited and esoteric, I am a big fan of comic books and think they are ideally placed for tackling big issues. Why? You might ask. 
As the western graphic novel tradition is based in Sci-fi Fantasy, pretty much anything can happen. This means that nature isn't restricted to abstract personification, it can actually become incarnate as a... swamp... thing.  The examples that stuck out in my mind immediately were Swamp Thing (Alan Moore's version) and the Silver Surfer.