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NUMBER 272 • MARCH 2000 THE SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE INSIDE THIS ISSUE 22 AMONG THE OTHERS On this set, they know where all the bodies are buried 27 FREQUENT FLYERS Clen Morgan & James Wong head to a Final Destination 32 FAIRY TALE SCRIBE r Writer Simon Moore travels to fantasylands new & old 38 PARANORMAL PATRIARCH Bill Cobbs believes the medium is the message 43 MUSEUM PIECE Enter through this gate into science fiction & fantasy 47 PITCH BLACK VIEWS in the darkness, really nasty creatures dwell & dine Savor the mystery of 51 NIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION Jayne Heitmeyer and Director David Twohy makes this nightmare Pitch Black her role in Gene Roddenberry's 57 MY FAIR CYCLOPS Earth: Final Conflict (see page As Leela, Katey Sagal has one eye on—well, she would 65). 60 THE SLAVE OF LOVE On board Lexx, Xenia Seeberg desperately seeks romance 65 ENIGMATIC LADY Jayne Heitmeyer adds mystery to Earth: Final Conflict NEXT ISSUE ON SALE 70 FUTURE HEROINE MARCH 7 Ex-Nebula Cina Torres finds adventure on Cleopatra 2525 74 BEASTMASTER SIDEKICK Jackson Raine fondly recalls conversations with ferrets 78 THE LAW IN ROSWELL William Sadler is the man who wears the star 84 TEEN ALIEN Jason Behr searches for his extraterrestrial heritage 88 LORD OF DARKNESS John Bartley shoots & scores with eerie cinematography 92 TIME LORD'S MASTER Sydney Newman created The Avengers & Doctor Who STARLOC: The Science Fiction Universe is published monthly by STARLOC CROUP, INC., 475 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. 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President/Publisher Jar Jar Binks was clearly a waste of time and NORMAN JACOBS effort, and it speaks volumes for George Lucas' Executive Vice President "vision." Frankly, after seeing this movie, I won't be RITA EISENSTEIN holding my breath for the sequels—especially not to see any more of characters like Jar Jar Binks. Associate Publisher MILBURN SMITH Chris Krieg Via the Internet V.P./Circulation Director ART SCHULKIN HAIL, TROOPERS Executive Art Director Mail cannot be forwarded. Other fans and advertisers ...Thank you, STARLOG, for Bill Warren's intelligent W.R. MOHALLEY sometimes contact readers whose letters are printed here. and insightful coverage of Roughnecks: Starship To avoid this, mark your letter "Please Withhold My Editor Trooper Chronicles (#269). Like Roughnecks produc- Address." Otherwise, we retain the option to print it. DAVID MCDONNELL Write: STARLOG COMMLOG er Jeff Kline, I was disappointed with Paul Verho- Managing Editor even's film adaptation of Starship Troopers. The 475 Park Avenue South, KEITH OLEXA 8th Floor movie's subversive wit kept LITTLE - KNOWN STAR FACT New York, NY 10016 A WARS undermining any emotional Special fx Editor DAVID HUTCHISON or E-mail: impact during the dramatic and communications starlog- @ battle scenes. Roughnecks doesn't Contributing Editors group.com have that problem, since each ANTHONY TIMPONE MICHAEL CINCOLD episode is a straight SF action TOM WEAVER ALAS, JAR JAR adventure story just like Robert A. IAN SPELLING Heinlein's novel. Hence, the mili- ...Ahmed Best (STARLOG Consultant tary tactics and hardware in the KERRY O'QUINN #269) misses the whole point animated series are more believ- in the condemnation of the Senior Art Director able. character he played in The JIM MCLERNON Razak's Phantom Menace when he You'll never see Art Roughnecks charge into battle Director says that Jar Jar Binks was RICK TENC against the savage and virtually one of the most complicated infinite Bug forces armed only West Coast Correspondents and expensive characters in MARC SHAPIRO with light body armor and a gun! movie history. Jar Jar was the BILL WARREN These troopers rely on more for- dumbest characters in of Financial Director: Joan Baetz midable weapons like the heavily which to invest all that time, Marketing Director: Daniel Sierra armed Marauder power suits Circulation Manager: Maria Damlani energy and money. I'm not Art Staff: Jang, John Dins- mentioned in the novel. The ani- Yvonne trying to disrespect the actor dale, Dmltriy Ostrovskiy, May Yung, mated series also includes a few who played him—I'm sure Ivette Zapata. ideas that aren't in the novel, but Staff: Debbie Irwin, Dee Erwine, Jose he did his best—but Jar Jar Soto, Sunny Witchel, Shane French, make tactical sense, like attack himself was quite possibly correspondents: (West Coast) Kyle fighters that can maneuver Counts, Pat Jankiewicz; (NYC) Mike the silliest character ever cre- McAvennle, Maureen McTigue, Joe through the narrow, twisting ated for a movie trilogy. Nazzaro, Steve Swires, Dan Yakir; canyons on Pluto. Or skimmer (Boston) Will Murray; (Chicago) Kim Many Star Wars fans Howard Johnson; (The West) Bill Flo- transports and well-armed jet skis such as myself had extreme- rence, Jo Beth Taylor; (D.c.) Lynne that enable M.I.s to be more com- ly high expectations, but Stephens; (Florida) Bill Wilson; (Cana- bat-effective on aquatic worlds da) Peter Bloch-Hansen, Mark Phantom Menace was a dis- Phillips; (Booklog) Penny Kenny, like Hydora. appointment. I blame it Jean-Marc Lofficier, Scott Schumack, Furthermore, as a CGI animat- Michael Wolff; (Cartoons) Kev squarely Jar Binks, on Jar Brockschmidt, Alain Chaperon, Mike ed series, Roughnecks simply can who was clearly on a mis- Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob Muleady, pull off some shots that are cooler Jason Yungbluth. sion to ruin this movie. Who and more imaginative than those Thanks: John Bartley, Jason Behr, doesn't groan over the char- John Blllingsley, Kathryn Boxberger, ..WILL ULTIMATELY INFLUENCE in a live-action film. It's much acter of Tybo the carrot crea- John Brancato, Tye Burdony, David PRINCESS LEIA more fun watching Razak's Carson, Bill Cobbs, Gloria Davies, ture from Lost in Space's in HER CHOICE OF A Hope Diamond, Mick carris, Jayne Roughnecks use drop suits and jet third season show "The CINNAMON-BUN HAIRDOI Heitmeyer, Diane Herzog, Lana Kim, packs to land of a planet's surface. Leah Krantzler, Jaci Kucharski, Monica Vegetable Rebellion" Great Lewis, Caroline Mendoza, Anna Roughnecks can be surpris- Miranda, Simon Moore, Glen Morgan, conscious even though it eschews the Morrison, Nazar, Paul (j^eorge Lucas has said that Star Wars: Episode II ingly socially Pam Marie Newitt, Steve Newman, Sydney New- will be the "romantic" episode. Hmmm... novel's neo-fascist themes. For instance, "No Substi- man, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jackson tute" is an episode inspired by the brief mention in Raine, William Sadler, Katey Sagal, the novel of the Skinnies turning against their Bug Xenia Seeberg, Karl Shook, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Cina Torres, David allies Earth. and aligning themselves with However, Twohy, James van Hise, Jeff Walker, as part of a TV series, "No Substitiute" can really Crystal Warren, James Wong, cover images: Pitch Black: ©1999, explore how the title characters must face their 2000 universal Studios; Torres: ©1999, deeply seated fears and prejudices upon learning 2000 Studios USA Television Distribu- tion LLC; Heitmeyer: ©1999, 2000 Tri- their newest recruit is a hated Skinny! On a deeper bune Entertainment.