Stargate SG-1 10×12 Bounty May 11, 2007
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This was a neat but kind of strange episode…who cares about the ‘lucian’ (?) alliance anyways right?
The real fight is Orii…or maybe I’ve got it wrong..and the alliance is helping the Orii??
IN any event a neat on Earth episode where we see Col Mitchell’s Kansas hometown..and for plot dev purposes…also shows us his future love interest and the future of the lucian alliance.
I wonder why these strong Stargate Military types always have to be from Rural areas…doesn’t anyone live in New York?
Knights of the Old Republic issue # 16 May 11, 2007
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Alrighty finally a brand new story arc..maybe this one won’t totally SUCK.
(or maybe it will).
The cover would make you think that this issue at LONG FREAKING LAST is about Zayne and that original incident with the deaths of his fellow padawans. no such luck though..we get a few measly pages of a dream sequence and that’s it.
The rest of this issue is about Jarael and her quest to figure out what’s wrong with Camper.
What’s wrong with Camper is that he’s a lame character!
This issue also has a low page count and a tonne of ads. Dark Horse should be paying readers to take this from their comic book retailers and not the other way around.
Battlestar Galactica Season 4 will be the last season ! May 11, 2007
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THAT’S IT!
Season 4 which is still 7 months away..WILL BE THE LAST for Battlestar Galactica.
Olmos says “This will probably be the most extraordinary season of ‘Battlestar’. It’s the final season, so it’s definitely going to be the most vicious. As far as we know, in respects of the way we have this show constructed, this is the final season.”
Sackhoff says “I think part of the problem is that it’s an expensive show. It is [a great show], but we don’t have the viewership that a great show should get.”
FRAK!!!!!!!!
Ultimately it’s the not the viewership that is killing BSG – It’s SciFi Channel and that is where ALL THE FRAKKING BLAME should go.
How the frak can you have an 8 month layoff between seasons?
How can you put a tier 1 show on at 10 pm on a Sunday night and expect ratings?
Sure it’ll be a great season knowing that all the loose ends need to be tied up..but it’s sad knowing that SciFi totally mismanaged this awesome show.
Terminator 4 Won’t Star the Governator May 10, 2007
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Looks like MORE Terminator movies are on the way. According to DarkHorizons Halycyon Co has acquired the rights and is already intending on making a Terminator 4 set for a Summer 2009 release.
Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project, which picks up with John Connor in his 30s leading what’s left of the human race against the machines.
Terminator 1 was an awesome movie. T2 was fantastic. T3 SUCKED.
There are some really great Terminator books out there too but they don’t follow into the T3 cannon so there is a divergent set of stories and histories. Will T4 FOLLOW the T3 CANNON? Who knows.
Will the new Dynamite Entertainment Terminator comic book series be related? again unknown.
For a film franchise that started so well with a solid time travel loop story it has gone from Science Fiction to Science NonSense.
Beyond T4 – don’t forget the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV spinoff series is also under development. Again it is unknown if/how it will relate or tie into T4.
Battlestar Galactica Season Zero Issue Zero – The Most Popular BSG comic of all time??? May 9, 2007
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The series has barely begun but Battlestar Galactica Season Zero can already lay claim to being the most popular BSG comic book of all time.
How can that be??? It’s only at issue Zero.
EASY.
Dynamite gave issue Zero away.
On Free Comic Book Day.
They gave away …drum roll please…
….
100,000 COPIES
Is it any good? Not really. It’s a pre TV movie era prequel that likely won’t ever be considered to be canon. Adama crosses into Cylon space to rescue a lost expedition and run into..surprise surprise – CYLONS.
Kinda reminds me of the bulldog episode.
Artwork is crap and the story is real baseline. But hey it was FREE.
2 New Star Wars Live Action Movies in the Works!!! May 9, 2007
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No it’s not a joke.
George Lucas told a FoxNews reporter that he will make two more live-action films based in the “Star Wars” era.
“But they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters,” he said. “They will be other people of that milieu.”
The two extra films will also be made for TV and probably be an hour long each. But, like “Clone Wars,” Lucas doesn’t know where on TV they will land.
WOOHOO!
USPSjedimaster.com With 18 Days To Go Yoda Rules! May 6, 2007
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With only 18 days to go..Yoda is winning in the poll at USPSjedimaster.com..over Darth Vader! This is the contest that’s been running for the last six weeks or so.
Hard to believe..but it’s not over yet..you can vote up to once a day and it’ll be interesting to see who ultimately wins. Not that it really matters though does it?
The US Postal Service will print both Yoda and Vader stamps in the end…but it’s all good fun nonetheless.
Stargate Atlantis 3×14 The Tao of Rodney May 4, 2007
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Stargate Atlantis Season 3 episode 14 The Tao of Rodney – is another one of those where a Stargate character gets super-human powers and must get rid of them or will die.
In this episode the ‘victim’ is Rodney and the ‘twist’ is that the super-powers come from an ancient ascension machine…problem is Rodney is neither willing (or apparently able) to ascend.
Sure this kind of thing happens all the time on Stargate (SG-1 or Atlantis), but it’s still decent fun, though not an episode that I’ll likely care to see more than once.
Stargate SG-1 10 x17 The Shroud May 4, 2007
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Wow solid episode.
The whole time it has you hanging and second guessing – Is Daniel an Orii lackey or is he telling the truth?
Is disablling the wormhole blocking the supergate a good thing or not?
Is Daniel ‘involved’ with the Orisii Adria?
Much much better than the last bunch of Stargate SG-1 Episodes and one that definately engaged me from beginning till the end…
Not much farther to go…
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell #1 May 2, 2007
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I finally got my hands on the first issue of Star Trek Klingons Blood Will Tell … i wimped out and bought the English language version – as opposed to the Klingon version and was laughed at for being a newbie by my ‘friendly’ TARG of a comics retailer.. The story in English at least is quite basic and attempt to chronicle a sort of history of the Klingons just ahead of the peace treaty that Kirk helps get negotiated in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country.
Sure i’ll keep buying this series just to see what happens and how they attempt to fill in the blanks..but we all know how it ends up. Klingons and Federation as allies and not heinous enemies. Art in this book is decent here’s a few cells from the Klingon language version. Though it’s in Klingon – the Klingon is transliterated into English. SOOO to prove my warriors mettle..following is a Klingon language translations of this blog post.
Flash Gordon Set to Premiere on August 10th May 1, 2007
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Filming on the new Flash Gordon show started today in Vancouver BC and apparently SciFi channel is targeting an August 10th air date.
I doubt very much they can film 22 episodes inside of August 10th so i assume they’re only working on the first few episodes at this point.
We also should already have an indiciation as to what Flash Gordon should look like. SciFi’s upcoming Tin Man series will share the same sets as Flash Gordon for the planet Mongo.
Guess that means that Flash Gordon will look like the Wizard of Oz in outer space then.
Iron Man Live Action Movie set for May 2008 April 30, 2007
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Director Jon Favreau confirmed on his blog that the Iron Man movie is going well with at least two Iron Man suits in production for the movie.
The first teaser trailer for the movie could come as soon as the San Diego Comic Con which Favreau will be at.
No doubt Marvel and Favreau and banking on MASSIVE bucks from Spiderman to keep the demand for comic character movies hot. I really REALLY hope they don’t screw it up like Ghost Rider. Iron Man is an awesome character and if this movie is done right with the right plot and real understanding of who/what Iron Man is all about it, we could have another motion picture comic book hero franchise to cheer for.
New Flash Gordon Actor Not a Flash Gordon Fan April 30, 2007
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You would think that a character like Flash Gordon that’s been around for more than 70 years would have a large and loyal fan base.
Apparently Eric Johnson the smallville actor that SciFi has tapped to play Flash Gordon in the new series, only knew the name Flash Gordon and nothing about the character before he started preparing for the show. As reported by ShowMeSciFi in February SciFi is bringing back Flash Gordon for at least 22 episodes in a re-imagined series.
What kind of an idiotic move is this??! I mean COME ON! Who hasn’t seen the the 80’s Flash Gordon? It’s a cult freakin classic after all.
“I didn’t know much more than the name Flash Gordon, but the Internet helped me a lot, and people sent me links,” Johnson said in an interview . “There was this Biography Channel bio on Flash Gordon that talked about the mythology and the writers and the actors. Then it was interesting just finding out what other people knew.” Johnson’s own grandmother was a reader of the original newspaper comic strip, which was created in 1934 by legendary comic-strip artist Alex Raymond and is still distributed internationally by King Features Syndicate.
Though the new Flash series has found it’s Flash (who doesn’t know Flash) it has yet to cast for Dr. Hans Zarkov and Dale Arden, Flash’s love interest. It is unknown as to who is cast as Ming the Merciless but here’s hoping he’s a Flash Gordon fan and not some washed up reject.
Battlestar Galatica Zarek issue # 4 The Circle Is Complete April 29, 2007
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Zarek isn’t just a freedom fighter, he’s also a hero that saved lives when the Cylon invasion happened.
What’s more he returned to the prison barge that was transferring him to a parole hearing once he saved people from the Cylons.
AMAZing.
I’m not sure if this Battlestar Galactica Zarek series is considered to be BSG canon, but it should be.
From the first issue all the way to this last one, Zarek has held
my attention with solid action, plot and character development of Zarek.
Zarek is a somewhat misunderstood BSG character, piece by piece in the SciFi show they’ve pulled out tidbits of his backstory…BUT this comic book series IS the backstory.
If you missed individual issues at your local retailer, you’re still in luck. A tradepaperback version of the collected four issue set will be out in July.
Stargate SG-1 10×15 The Road Not Taken April 28, 2007
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Parallel Mirror Universe stuff is no stranger to SciFi or Stargate.
Stargate SG-1 Season Ten episode 15 The Road Not Taken is not the best parallel universe episode to ever appear on Stargate SG-1 but it certainly was entertaining.
I tend to prefer mirror universes where the good guys are evil – in this case Landry as President of the US is just a bit evil but still..
All told a solid episode..but again one that doesn’t particularly advance the overall grand plot in the battle against the ori…
Only a few more episodes left and then that’s it for US broadcast TV’s run for Stargate SG-1.
Battlestar Galatica Zarek issue # 3 April 27, 2007
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Continuing from the first two issues in this series (which ShowMeSciFi reviewed here), this third issue take us into Zarek’s life behind bars.
Zarek is of course a beloved character because of Richard Hatch and the classic BSG attachment BUT this comic book series takes it to another level.
Out in the public Zarek’s story was definitely interesting, behind bars its even better. What kind of genius is this dude? A real methodical and well organized one.
It’s too bad this is only a four issue series but then again, it is only filling in a very specific gap.Who is Tom Zarek and how did he end up on the prison barge?
Blade Runner – REDONE? (again?!) April 26, 2007
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Looks like a special 25th anniversary edition of Blade Runner is in the works.
BEST PART? Scene RESHOOTS!!
We’re not talking about Director’s Cut here where all they do is take out the bogus voice over narration. We’re talking about NEW footage.
At this stage we know only about one of the reshot pieces. Joanna Cassidy who played Zhora, one of the movie’s “replicants,” or androids confirmed on a blog post that she’s done a reshoot.
ZHORA of course has the awesome scene where Decker (Harrison Ford) shoots her and she goes crashing through all the retail windows.
No word yet on whether Harrison Ford is reshooting scenes too..but here’s hoping he is (and that this time the movie shows him to be the REPLICANT we all know he is!).
Just in case you don’t remember the scene….here it is:
Babylon 5 Lost Tales – Already in top 10 Amazon bestsellers and its not out till July! April 26, 2007
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ShowMeSciFi has written before about Babylon 5 The Lost Tales.
It is one most anticipated SciFi releases of the year and finally FINALLY brings back one of the greatest (if not the greatest) SciFi TV franchise of all time in a direct to DVD movie.
The DVD has a running time of 75 minutes. Basic timeline is that it’s the tenth anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance, and President Sheridan is on his way to Babylon 5 for the celebration.
Officially Babylon 5: The Lost Tales” will be released on July 31, 2007 but Amazon.com already is doing pre-orders.
Apparently it’s already in HUGE demand. Babylon 5 The Lost Tales is already the number 6 bestseller on Amazon’s DVD list.
It’ll be interesting to see just how popular this DVD becomes before its release.
Earth-like Planet Found? I don’t think so April 25, 2007
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Mainstream media has been keen to pick up on the apparent discovery of the most earth like exoplanet yet discovered.
Problem is they’re wrong.
Apparently astronomers were researching two Jupiter-size planets with the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, when they noticed a wobble that could not be accounted for by the two-planet model they used. Doppler measurements revealed an inner planet. It orbits Gliese 876, an M dwarf star about one-third of the Sun’s mass.
“This planet answers an ancient question,” says team leader Geoffrey Marcy. “Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Epicurus argued about whether there were other earthlike planets. Now, for the first time, we have evidence for a rocky planet around a normal star.”
Now I don’t know about you but I don’t consider a Red Dwarf to be normal or Earth-like. Maybe more like Superman’s homeworld of Krypton.
Our Sun is not a red dwarf and has some very specific radiation and magnetic characteristics that are key to the existence of life in this Solar system.
Does a Red Dwarf have such characteristics?
There are undoubtably Earth-like planets out there. I suspect that that they orbit Earth-like stars.
If I were a betting man i’d say they orbit the two closest Earth-like stars: Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti.
Stargate Atlantis Season 3 x 13 Irresponsible April 23, 2007
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KOLYA!!!!!!!!
Jenai strongman Kolya and Sheppard have had a serious hate on since the first time they met.
FINALLY – in this episode they settle their score (or so we hope).
When the Atlantis team finds Lucius Luvin up to his old tricks again, they try to blow the whistle on his scamming ways — but their well-intentioned intervention leads to a showdown with their old adversary Acustus Kolya
The Lucius angle in this episode is terribly cheesy and actually works quite well to setup the final Jenai Kolya showdown.
If I had shot this episode, I likely would have stretched out the final shootout just a bit..but as it is, it’s great stuff.
Sheppard stares down Kolya..offers him the chance to surrender…both men’s hands angle towards their respective firearms.
Shootout in the Pegasus Galaxy. GREAT stuff overall.
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