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19 Jun 2017, 5:50 am

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^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.

:)

unfortunately, it was only released in PAL format region 2, not for north America. :(


Darn. I hate all this region bulls**t. You would have loved it. :(

yeh, i'm sure I woulda. prolly at least as much as "sliders."


I loved that show! :D

it's been decades since I saw it on tv.


Same. I think I've seen the lead actor somewhere though in one of those TV dramas maybe. Bah - memory's too bad. Youtube, here I come... :?


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19 Jun 2017, 9:18 am

I like cyberpunk (Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner) and post-apocalyptic (Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, The Road by Cormac McCarthy).



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19 Jun 2017, 10:15 am

Time travel has always been my favorite.

And occasionally vintage "space cowboy" stories with lurid covers. I just found a first-edition of Year 2018! written in 1957.



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19 Jun 2017, 10:17 am

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Mine is Space Opera.

Have you read "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet"? I loved it.



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19 Jun 2017, 11:41 am

Yeah, I really like post-apocalyptic, as well----if the T.V. show "Revolution", would be considered that; I really liked that show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1










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27 Jun 2017, 6:46 pm

I don't have one favorite type of SF, but i can at least narrow it down to these:
-Hard science fiction
-Robot fiction
-Space opera
-Cyberpunk
-Time Travel
-Parallel Worlds


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28 Jun 2017, 10:25 pm

auntblabby wrote:
^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.


Hi Aunt Blabby The Girl from tomorrow might still be on Youtube it was a great series.



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28 Jun 2017, 10:44 pm

My favorite type of science fiction is sci-fi that tells a story completely separate from the sci-fi aspect. Examples: Pleasantville, The Truman Show, Cocoon, and so on. I'm tired of the CGI explosions and post-apocalyptic stuff.


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29 Jun 2017, 12:21 am

Aprilviolets wrote:
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^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.


Hi Aunt Blabby The Girl from tomorrow might still be on Youtube it was a great series.

thank you for that info :idea: i'll have to youtube-surf to see if it is findable.



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29 Jun 2017, 3:31 am

auntblabby wrote:
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^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.


Hi Aunt Blabby The Girl from tomorrow might still be on Youtube it was a great series.

thank you for that info :idea: i'll have to youtube-surf to see if it is findable.



I just looked on youtube yes The Girl from tomorrow is still on, there's also the second series Tomorrows end as well.



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29 Jun 2017, 6:22 am

I was expecting it to be blocked here, as the DVDs are blocked here, but youtube seems to be showing it here as well. thank god for small favors :)



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29 Jun 2017, 1:52 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Alita wrote:
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^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.

:)

unfortunately, it was only released in PAL format region 2, not for north America. :(

Do you mean the DVDs? I remember seen it in french (Alana ou le futur imparfait) on Quebec television which is in NTSC.


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30 Jun 2017, 4:03 am

Tollorin wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Alita wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^^^ girl from tomorrow, eh? i'll have to see if it ever was released on NTSC format.

:)

unfortunately, it was only released in PAL format region 2, not for north America. :(

Do you mean the DVDs? I remember seen it in french (Alana ou le futur imparfait) on Quebec television which is in NTSC.

DVDs have regions where they are playable on the machines for sale in each country. in north/south America, that is region 1, region 2 is north/south Europe, region 3 is everywhere else, region 0 is universal. but even universal discs of the wrong encoding type [NTSC versus PAL] will not universally play outside of their region unless your country uses the same kind of video broadcast encoding format.