{"id":3499,"date":"2006-04-28T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/04\/28\/3499.html"},"modified":"2006-04-28T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T08:20:31","slug":"fiveminute-summaries-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/04\/28\/fiveminute-summaries-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-minute summaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter W. pointed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminute.net\/bsg\/comic.php?ep=mini&page=1\">Five-Minute \"Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries\"<\/a> comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels, only with parody dialogue and captions.  Note: it summarizes, and thus contains spoilers for, the entire plot of the miniseries (though not for the ongoing series). (Well, okay, there are a couple of lines that make more sense if you've seen the first couple of episodes of the ongoing series. But nothing really spoilery.)<\/p>\n<p>Very entertaining, very much worth reading.  (The first page is a little weak, but it gets a lot funnier.)  My favorite lines are the extremely apt <cite>Star Wars<\/cite> joke at the end of page 3, and the \"I brought you a present\" joke on page 4.  The latter of which has sparked a running series of related jokes between me and Kam with regard to the ongoing series.  Oh, and I also love the final joke at the end of the comic.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so it turns out that the Five-Minute BSG is just one piece of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminute.net\/\">FiveMinute.net<\/a> site.  The rest of the site has \"five-minute\" parody summaries (text only, no visuals) of dozens of other things: episodes from almost every season of every <cite>Star Trek<\/cite> series; <cite>Andromeda<\/cite>, <cite>B5<\/cite>, <cite>Dr. Who<\/cite>, <cite>Firefly<\/cite>, <cite>Farscape<\/cite>, etc.; <cite>Alien<\/cite>, <cite>LoTR<\/cite>, <cite>Star Wars<\/cite>, and other movies; several video games; and even Shakespeare plays.  I've only looked at a few of them, mostly the first few <cite>Star Trek: TOS<\/cite> episodes; the ones I've seen have varied in quality, but there are some pretty good\/funny ones.  But the <cite>BSG<\/cite> mini-fotonovel is definitely my favorite of the pieces I've looked at there.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute &#8220;Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries&#8221; comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,44,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-speculative-fiction","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}