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Sunday night, I suggested names for sequels to Sharknado…and this was one of them!

sharkcano

Looks awesome. Although, I have to confess that my favorite at that link was “Sharknado 2: Aftersharks”. Heh. Aftersharks. Get it?

(Please, Syfy, don’t make any of these. It’s just a joke. Someday I’d like to see some intelligent science fiction on the television, and you aren’t helping.)

Comments

  1. says

    Seeing that big damn volcano make me think that you could get Tom Cruise and Will Smith together for this and sell them a screenplay for quite a bit of cash :P

    As an aside: Considering the current social climate, I’m surprised we’re not seeing a resurgence of cyberpunk & transhuman fiction. Unless, of course, I’m missing it, somehow.

  2. pacal says

    In fairness Asylum who makes films like Sharknado seem to have tongue most firmly in cheek and besides the films are so idiotic that their hilarious. Whereas Hollywood produces huge big budget Sci-Fi films which are as stupid as Sharknado but no where near as hilarious. I am thinking about films like Independence Day, which is scientifically at least as dumb has Sharknado but no where near as funny.

  3. chigau (違う) says

    I liked the one about setting off a nuke to re-start the earth’s core rotating…
    or something

  4. thebookofdave says

    Okay, I think I figured out what makes body thetans so dangerous. Do I get to advance to OT VIII, or will I still have to fight the boss on this level?

  5. David Marjanović says

    or will I still have to fight the boss on this level

    O hai! I maded you an Internetz, and I did not eated it.

  6. kevinalexander says

    Sharknado 3 Octopation Alien cephalopods rush to finalize their billion year old plan for world domination by using the Obama weather control satellites to send, first sharks then giant hyper intelligent eight armed monstrosities via waterspouts as far inland as Minnesota where they have already mind controlled at least one liberal professor.
    Hey, if six tiny helicopters can lift a three hundred foot tall robot out to fight monsters erupting from a hole in the bottom of the sea then anything is possible.

  7. Thomathy, Gay Where it Counts says

    I thought the point was that they’re meant to be ridiculous? I mean, Netflix is basically ordering these b-monster movies by the dozen. We’re not going to get ‘intelligent science fiction’ on television; these movies are categorically different from that genre and for whatever reason Netflix and Hulu (or whatever it is) and the rest of these content portals are essentially funding these …films.

  8. Beatrice, an amateur cynic looking for a happy thought says

    Sharks on Planes

    Now, be realistic.

    Sharks on a Submarine.

  9. yazikus says

    Sharks on a Submarine.

    I believe that was covered by Deep Blue Sea. Poor LL Cool J. Poor parrot.

  10. Beatrice, an amateur cynic looking for a happy thought says

    yazikus,

    Damn, and I’ve actually watched that one.

  11. CompulsoryAccount7746, Sky Captain says

    @Marcus Ranum #11:

    Sharks on Planes

    C’mon. It’s gotta happen.

    Video: Already been done.

  12. gregpeterson says

    If you want intelligent sci-fi, for love of all that makes sense, skip “Pacific Rim.” In a long list of egregious groaners, they had Kaiju monsters with identical genotypes but wildly different phenotypes. I was trying to think if there is ANY way that could be possible, and the only thing I could come up with is a ginormous genome that included all of the DNA to make each individual monster type (or monster “kind” as our creationist friends call them–prolly) but where only the genes required to make an individual monster are expressed. But that doesn’t make any goddamn sense, either. Would it KILL screenwriters and directors to at least TRY to gin up something plausible? I was all ready to suspend disbelief to watch Godzilla versus Transformers, and then the biology was such shit I could barely pay attention.

  13. stevem says

    re Douglas @1:

    I’m surprised we’re not seeing a resurgence of cyberpunk & transhuman fiction.[emphasis added]

    Get yourself BBCAmerica. The recent (and ongoing) sci-fi series on BBCA Orphan Black is doing quite a “take-down” on the whole “transhumanism movement”. Probably not what you were visualizing but they paint ‘transhumanism’ as the “bad-guy”. Not a “paid shill”, but a major fan of Orphan Black. BBCA really puts Syfy to shame for “plausible” sci-fi stories. [I hate “sci-fi”; prefer “SF” as the acronym for ‘science fiction’]

  14. Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says

    I hope the six year old they have writing these has parents who will take good care of his salary until he;s an adult

    Worst case scenario, they’ll have the royalties from college “fight songs.”

  15. says

    @Douglas McAuliffe:

    Considering the current social climate, I’m surprised we’re not seeing a resurgence of cyberpunk & transhuman fiction. Unless, of course, I’m missing it, somehow.

    Those themes have never gone away in the print market (although there are many works that blur the boundaries of cyberpunk or focus on different technologies – hence terms like “postcyberpunk”, “biopunk”, and “nanopunk”). And there is good science fiction being written in other sub-genres too.
    _
    But, as PZ says, SyFy is far more a source of bad science fiction than of good science fiction.

  16. Thomathy, Gay Where it Counts says

    sci-fi series on BBCA Orphan Black

    Hey! That’s a Canadian series, by Space (Bell Media). It’s also filmed in Toronto. BBCA is a co-producer.

    Give credit where it’s due. BBCA didn’t come up with the show, they help to produce it; it’s a Canadian venture, even the creators are Canadian.

    It’s rare enough for Canada to produce such good content (other than children’s tv) disseminate outside of the country, so it stings to have BBCA credited with the show just cause they co-produce and air it.

    Space and the Canadian creators are the ones putting Syfy to shame, not BBCA.

  17. says

    Canadian sci fi puts Syfy to shame! Orphan Black, as others have mentioned, is fantastic. So is Continuum. Both shows make me think much harder and on deeper levels than most current tv.

  18. rrhain says

    I can’t take credit, but someone had the Australian version for the sequel: Hurricangaroo.

    And to gregpeterson (#18), you should do some checking up on how organisms reproduce. It isn’t such a bizarre concept. In bees, sex is (ostensibly) determined by the number of chromosomes you have as there is no sex chromosome. Unfertilized (haploid) eggs hatch into males. Fertilized (diploid) eggs hatch into females. (There is evidence that it is more complicated than that…rather there is an allele where if you have only one copy, you’re male, if you have two different copies, you’re female. Thus, since haploid individuals only have one copy, they’re necessarily male. Females generally have two different copies. There are cases under inbreeding where two identical copies are present and develop into males.)

    In some reptile species, sex is determined by the temperature in which the brood is incubated.

    Thus, it is not completely inconceivable that a species might have a single genome for all individuals where environmental and epigenetic factors account for variations in morphology.

    So if you can suspend your disbelief that something the size of a skyscraper can wander around with impunity, ignoring physics and biochemistry, then surely you can suspend your disbelief for some genetics.

  19. prae says

    Next one will be World War Shark. A virus turns people into sharks. They suffocate, die, and become zombie sharks. Which grow machine guns for some reason. Also, one of them becomes Hitler. And then, Axe Cop arrives.

  20. stevem says

    re Thomathy @22:

    Hey! That’s a Canadian series, by Space (Bell Media). It’s also filmed in Toronto. BBCA is a co-producer.

    APOLOGIES! slip of the tongue keyboard. I did NOT mean to imply BBCA was producing the series, just that BBCA is where to see it. Just carelessness, on my part, to assume my poorly phrased wording would be understood exactly as I intended. Me bad.

    I agree about Continuum, excellent sci-fi SF. And even though it can be seen on SyFy, it is clearly NOT produced by SyFy.

  21. michaelvieths says

    I eagerly await Sharknado vs. Cyclonetopus, pitting the deadliest weather and ocean phenomena against one another with humanity caught in between.

  22. Dr Pepper says

    Tsharknaumi: The Great Wipeout. When a tidal wave approaches La Jolla, everyone evacuates. Except of course the hardcore surfers who decide to hold the mother of all safaris. Unfortunately the wave turns out to be full of giant mutant sharks.

  23. Dr Pepper says

    I refer to the SyFy Channel as The Network That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It’s obviously been taken over by a bunch of mundanes who have no idea what scifi really is.

  24. says

    @27 stevem:

    I agree about Continuum, excellent sci-fi SF.

    You caught my misuse of science fiction lingo. Apologies to all SF fans out there who are clearly much better fans than I am. heh heh

  25. says

    Moggie:
    Ha ha! They should nickname one of the sharks The Fonz.

    ****
    stevem:
    It is ok.
    Here, ye be with friends.
    Ye can profess thy love for…SyFy.

    ****

    I have not heard of these good SyFy shows you folks speak of.

  26. Akira MacKenzie says

    Someday I’d like to see some intelligent science fiction on the television, and you aren’t helping.

    I’d kill a man, in front of his own mother, for a descent TV space opera, I haven’t seen one of those since Firefly. No, BattleLOST Galactica doesn’t count. However, that costs money and while capitalists love to make, they also like to spend as little of it as possible. X-Files-rip-offs and New-Age-Navel-Gazings are cheaper to make.

    Douglas @ 1

    I’m surprised we’re not seeing a resurgence of cyberpunk & transhuman fiction.[emphasis added]

    I few weeks back I finished Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon. Awesome novel, the best “noir” sci-fi I’ve experienced since Blade Runner, and plenty of the the dystopian, cyberpunk/transhumanist elements you’re looking for. I had heard that it had been optioned for the silver screen, but it appears to be in development limbo. Second book, Broken Angels was OK, but I was expecting another dectective-style story rather than a military sci-fi piece. I hope Woken Furies is better.

  27. prae says

    Hm, Firefly wasn’t bad, but there were still some things (like the Reapers) which didn’t make any sense.

  28. Dr Pepper says

    31 cathynewman

    @27 stevem:

    I agree about Continuum, excellent sci-fi SF.

    You caught my misuse of science fiction lingo. Apologies to all SF fans out there who are clearly much better fans than I am. heh heh

    Don’t apologize. There are plenty of us that are proud to call it scifi.

  29. davidnangle says

    Funniest thing I’ve seen was on a screeny from Facebook. “Shih Tzunami!” a devastating wave of toy dogs.

  30. howard says

    @34

    Hm, Firefly wasn’t bad, but there were still some things (like the Reapers) which didn’t make any sense.

    Reavers. Reapers are more a Supernatural thing.

  31. Thomathy, Gay Where it Counts says

    It’s okay stevem.

    Continuum is another great show, cathynewman.

  32. David Marjanović says

    In some reptile species, sex is determined by the temperature in which the brood is incubated.

    All crocodiles, many turtles, many squamates.

    Hm, Firefly wasn’t bad, but there were still some things (like the Reapers) which didn’t make any sense.

    And if you were lucky, they didn’t make sense in that order.

  33. StevoR : Free West Papua, free Tibet, let the Chagossians return! says

    @34. prae :

    Hm, Firefly wasn’t bad, but there were still some things (like the Reapers) which didn’t make any sense.

    Have you seen the Serenity movie? That explains them – or at least their origin .