ScienceFiction-related stories
Posted Oct 30th 2009 11:01AM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free, V
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To prepare for next week's debut of the remake of
V, I picked up the
V: The Complete Series DVD of the weekly 1984/85 series that followed the original two mini-series,
V and
V: The Final Battle. I remember loving the original as a kid, sparking my imagination that anyone I saw could be an alien lizard making plans to haul my carcass to a warehouse for storage.
I tore the plastic off of the package with a bit of trepidation. Not everything you loved as a kid holds up to your scrutiny, or even your tastes, when you watch it all grown up. Which is why I'm sure some people cringed when they heard about the remake.
Would it stink? Would it be just as good as I remembered it? Should I have left well enough alone and saved my fifteen bucks?
Continue reading A quick look back at the original V franchise
Posted Oct 24th 2009 10:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
You have to admire the tenacity of writer
Harlan Ellison. He filed a
lawsuit against CBS Paramount accusing the company of not paying him for all the ancillary income the company earned from the episode of
Star Trek he wrote in 1967, "City on the Edge of Forever." Yesterday,
Ellison announced on his web site that he had settled with CBS Paramount and he was very, very pleased. He didn't reveal how much money he made, but he probably did quite well.
After all, CBS Paramount has done very, very well with that original
Star Trek episode. It's regarded as -- and is -- the all-time best show in the entire original
ST canon. Ironically, Ellison never liked what Roddenberry and company had done with his script.
Continue reading Harlan Ellison bests CBS Paramount over 42 year-old Star Trek episode
Posted Jul 21st 2009 10:03AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series, Comic-Con
CBS/Paramount is inviting attendees of San Diego's Comic-Con to get into some trouble with Tribbles -- and to take photos of the fur flying for all the world to see.
Announced by David Gerrold, Tribble inventor (not a title you hear every day) and writer of the fan-favorite "The Trouble with Tribbles," the
Star Trek Comic-Con booth is offering a limited number of Tribbles for fans to steal away with into the San Diego night.
Fans are then asked to take creative photographs with their Tribbles and to post them at
CBS-BDLive.com.
Continue reading Troublesome Tribbles set to invade Comic-Con
Posted Jul 12th 2009 11:38AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free, British TV
The
Doctor Who franchise is jumping to a U.S. publisher for a new regularly scheduled comic book due to arrive in stores this week.
IDW Publishing, also the home for
Star Trek,
G.I. Joe,
The Transformers and
Angel comics, isn't the first American company to publish
Who .
Marvel was the home of Fourth Doctor Tom Baker's two-dimenstional adventures in the 1970s.
But those Marvel titles were written by Brits (including Alan Moore) for Brits. In a testament to
Who's rebirth and international popularity, IDW's titles will be printed in the U.S. for an eager American audience -- while additional
Who comics run in the U.K.
Continue reading Doctor Who jumps to regular U.S. comics gig
Posted Jul 18th 2008 11:24AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
And when I say Sci Fi, I mean the network, not necessarily the content. I'm sure we could easily open up that oldie, but goodie, about what is science fiction and why certain things are ending up on the channel. We'll save that for another time though, as right now we should talk about JAG, with swords. Elliott (JAG) is set to star in Mirabilis. The four-hour mini tells the story of four knights who must come together to save their land, the titular town.
Elliott plays John, a knight seeking vengeance after his family was killed. He'll be joined by Natassia Malthe (DOA: Dead Or Alive. Yes, I watched it) as another of the knights, Perfidia. Perfidia is also John's love interest. The script is by Sam Egan (Jeremiah) and is being produced by Reunion Pictures. If you are wondering about the quality of production, I'll add that RHI Entertainment is involved and they are responsible for such Sci Fi treats as The Lost Empire. To be fair though, they also had a hand in Tin Man, so it could go either way. I'll watch it, but then I'm kind of the Mikey of bad sci fi. I'll watch anything, even SS Doomtrooper. It had Corin Nemec!
Posted May 31st 2008 12:32AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E08) After two weeks of waiting, and through several other shows having their season finales, we're back for more frakking
BSG, baby. And speaking of season finales, after watching
Lost last night with all of its flashbacks and flash-forwards, it almost seemed as though we may be seeing a bit of flashbackery next week to explain what happened to Roslin and the others aboard the hijacked Base Star.
In case you're wondering what the title means, it's a
latin legal term, of course.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Sine Qua Non - VIDEO
Posted May 23rd 2008 3:20PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Awards, TV Squad Awards
The final award we're calling for considerations for is one I'm most excited about. The Most Real Unreal Award goes to the show that, during the 2007-2008 television season, displayed the most impressive and realistic example of special effects.
Now, before you go assuming we're limiting this to purely science fiction shows, step back for a moment and consider some non-scifi shows that might be fit for such an award.
Lost, though with its scifi elements, is considered a drama series, though it's shown some impressive effects this season.
Pushing Daisies is another. How about
House or the ill-fated Moonlight?
Take your pick amongst the sci-fi and supernatural shows we cover, and I'm sure any one of them could be a great fit for this category:
Battlestar Galactica,
Eureka,
Stargate. What shows would you like to see nominated and what specific aspects of those shows are the most impressive examples of making the "unreal" look real?
Posted Apr 25th 2008 11:53PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E04) I went on earlier today about how a lot of us were
cut short in the early viewing of tonight's episode, which made me think perhaps something "big" happens later that they didn't want revealed early. With the exception of one "maybe big" moment, I can scratch that theory.
I wouldn't exactly call this a throw-away episode, though with what we saw in the past three episodes it did drag is places.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Escape Velocity - VIDEO
Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Doctor Who
A fellow named Simon White is
selling his Tardis on eBay. Why? Jesus.
Okay, maybe that's not the best way to put it. According to White, he has been a hardcore
Who fan for most of his life, going as far as spending years and years building a K-9, cyberman and Tardis in addition to collecting figurines. After a lot of troubles with bipolar disorder and alcoholism in his adult years, he found God and ceased his self-destructive ways. Despite claiming that his fandom was the only thing holding him together in his rough times, White is now dumping his
Who love and toys, calling it a symbol of the "greatest lie that Satan ever told." He'll be selling his entire collection of goodies, worth an estimated £7000, in magazines and on eBay.
Continue reading Man too good for Doctor Who sells Tardis
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 12:03AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Kyle XY, Episode Reviews
(S02E15) The few people who commented last week seemed to think that episode was pretty disappointing. Man, I hate to think what you thought this week.
It's not that this episode was a stinker, mind you. We did have some advancement with Kyle's and Jessie's powers, which of course could lead to some pretty cool future episodes. But tonight I felt like I was watching more of an after-school special, which is weird unless you're attending night school.
Continue reading Kyle XY: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Posted Nov 24th 2007 11:37PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews
Rather than have you sit through what basically would amount to a more detailed version of the
Early Look post I did about
Razor last month, I wanted to at least make sure you all had a forum of sorts to discuss the movie. I will, however, mention a few points worth mentioning again ...
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:20AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Stargate, Episode Reviews
(
S04E07) So far in season four we've had Ronon, McKay, and Sheppard episodes, so it was high time Teyla got one of her own. If that wasn't enough, she brought along Keller for some much needed screen time and character development. Of course, if Teyla was just heading home for a bit of the slap and tickle with her beau, it wouldn't make for much of an
Atlantis episode. Luckily, for the viewers, it all went to hell and the whole gang got involved by the end.
Continue reading Stargate Atlantis: Missing
Posted Oct 30th 2007 2:19PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Celebrities
(Continued from Part One...)After checking in (and eating my own weight in free press-room pizza), I went down to see what there was worth seeing...
(It should be noted that from this point forward I will only be referring to the actors on
The Office by their character names and not their real names. You could make the argument that this is disrespectful, but I think that it's actually a testimony to how good the actors on this show are. Even when you're in the same room as them, you're not thinking,
wow, look, I'm standing in the same room as Leslie David Baker, you're thinking: hey look, it's
Stanley!)
Continue reading The Office Convention: Part Two -- Things to do in Scranton when you're dead
Posted Oct 26th 2007 9:32AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
Sci FI Channel has
recently announced that they've ordered a new one-hour dramedy entitled
Warehouse 13, described as "part
The X-Files, part
Raiders of the Lost Ark and part
Moonlighting." Word is the show should hit cable/satellite waves next summer. Hm... cable/satellite. Cabelite? I mean, come on, do we really call cable/satellite-only shows as hitting the "air waves" anymore? Sorry, anyway...
Jane Espenson is one of the featured writers for the new show, which no doubt excites the hoards of other
Buffy fans out there like myself. And for
Farscape fans, Rockne S. O'Bannon is also writing for the series.
ComicMix has an
interesting comparison of the
Warehouse 13 idea and a "Warehouse 23" from an RPG companion book. If you ask me,
Warehouse 13 immediately reminded me of the 1980 movie
Hangar 18, though only when I initially incorrectly remembered it as Hangar 13. Oh well.
Continue reading AMC and Sci Fi have new scifi shows planned
Posted Oct 25th 2007 8:50PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, WGA Strike
So, you've been enjoying those
"Razorettes" we've been posting here lately, have you? Good. Good. There will be more of those in the coming weeks. And... AND... then, the
Battlestar Galactica: Razor movie! Woo!
I've also heard some other potentially good news lately regarding our beloved series. It turns out that, due to the looming writers strike and how it could put a halt to new television for a while, there are reports that NBC may consider
airing old episodes of Battlestar Galactica... on NBC!
OK, now for the bad news...
Continue reading Some good and bad Battlestar Galactica news
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