# Did anyone catch the Sci-fi stuff after ''The Thing'' last night on TCM? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293 "2005-07-06T15:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/1 "2005-07-06T15:00:53Z")
At least I think it was TCM. Anyway, when they were talking about “Forbidden Planet,” they used some Shakespearean (I assume) quote about “power” and “sleep.” I didn’t find it in “The Tempest,” so did anyone catch that–and if so what was the quote and its source? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/2 "2005-07-06T15:08:17Z")
Caught the first 1/2 hour of the special (swityched to the news after that), but missed the quote. Try a Shakespeare quotation dictionary. Heck, there’s probably one on the Web. From what I saw, a pretty good treatment – for once the people who put it together really did know science fiction _and_ film. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/3 "2005-07-06T15:12:32Z")
I thought I read somewhere that Richard Schickel was involved (for he does truly know his stuff). Missed the show but it replays on the 17th & 25th of this month. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/4 "2005-07-06T15:16:22Z")
This site lets you search quotations: [http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william\_shakespeare](http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_shakespeare) I tried _Shakespeare power sleep_ and got no results. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/5 "2005-07-06T15:19:38Z")
You mean the documentary [Watch the Skies](http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,95551,00.html)? I wasn’t impressed. Hardly anything substantial on the Atom Bomb or McCarthy; mostly directors talking about “how cool” their favorite movies were, and long plugs for the new _War of the Worlds_. Schickel’s usually better than that. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/6 "2005-07-06T15:36:42Z")
I watched it last night. Toward the end, my exclaimation of “I’ve been suckered into watching a promo for _War of the Worlds_!” woke my sleeping Significant Other. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/7 "2005-07-06T16:41:45Z")
Yeah, Schickel pretty much skipped everything from the early 60s to Speilberg’s War of the Worlds. He interviewed Ridley Scott, and included nothing from the scariest alien horror movie ever, just to spend like ten minutes on the minutea of a film that opened a week ago? Feh. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/8 "2005-07-06T16:45:57Z")
Sounds like it’s a good thing I missed the end – there wasn’t much about Spielberg’s WotW in the first half. And I reluctantly gotta disagree with **Eve** – there was quite a bit of discussion abnout The Bomb. There wasn’t much about McCarthy, I’ll grant you, but McCarthy is pretty irrelevant to science fiction film of the 1950s, although paranoia (especially about communist or otherwise unnamed baddies) is very relevant, and was discussed. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/9 "2005-07-06T16:50:19Z")
For the OP: The most commonly quoted sleep passage from Shakespeare is from Hamlet: > [@](#): > > To die, to sleep - > To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub, > For in that sleep of death what dreams may come > When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, > Must give us pause; there’s the respect > That makes calamity of so long life… Was that it? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/10 "2005-07-06T17:36:01Z")
Caliban from The Tempest: > [@](#): > > Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, > Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. > Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments > Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices > That, if I then had waked after long sleep, > Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming, > The clouds methought would open and show riches > Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked > I cried to dream again. Or maybe this? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/11 "2005-07-06T17:44:38Z")
Nope. Neither one of those. I’ll tape it when it’s on next, and see what the exact quote is. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/12 "2005-07-17T21:47:11Z")
[Translated][The sleep of reason brings forth monsters](http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/images/etching_goya.sleepr.lg.jpg) by Goya ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-catch-the-sci-fi-stuff-after-the-thing-last-night-on-tcm/311293/13 "2005-07-17T22:22:24Z")
Hmmm…I like it!