Stargate Universe – Time – For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.. BEST EPISODE YET OF SGU!! November 14, 2009
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We’ve had our doubts about SGU over the first 7 episodes, and to borrow a line from this episode, ..for a few moments there I thought we were in trouble.
Episode 8, titled Time
We’ve got a time loop within a timeloop within a timeloop.
Everyone dies, twice.
How frakking cool is that?
Sure Lt. Scott is the mega hero making sure the Keno gets back in all timelines, but it’s still cool.
The layer upon layer of complexity in this episode is what great science fiction is all about. Decent characters (though a little cheese with Eli and Chloe), aliens ripping out human guts and oh yeah some SCIENCE FICTION(with the multiple time loops) as opposed to bogus pulp.
Fringe – The Tyler mind control experiment November 13, 2009
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Until the very end of this episode i had no idea that Massive Dynamic was the real bad guy…though i suppose it really shouldn’t be a surprise.
Massive Dynamic is the bad guy for the show PERIOD.
Interesting idea though on the multiple tyler clones though…
And it was neat that Walter finally visited Massive Dynamic too.
FlashForward – Who is Jericho? What’s up with the rings? November 12, 2009
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Our choices matter now more than ever…
Ok after last week’s big episode Tracy is back and we find out that she was chased by Jericho – sorta like blackwater i guess.
But how did she get out of Afghanistan? And
Who is Jericho? and how are they related to the black outs?
And what’s up with the rings? Do they offer the wearers immunity from whatever it is that triggers the black outs?
Clash of the Titans 2010 looks like 300 November 11, 2009
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The first trailer for the remake of the 1981 cult classic Clash of the Titans is now available …and it sure seems to borrow alot of its tone from 300.
Yeaah Medussa is in there and oh yeah the Cracken too
I don’t see Pegasus, but Perseus, Zeus and Cassiopeia are all present and rocking out to a heavy metal sound track too.
Dollhouse Cancelled. FOX Fraks SciFi Fans AGAIN. November 11, 2009
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It’s official. FOX is cancelling Dollhouse.
Is anyone surprised?
This is FOX after all, they canceled Firefly and from the very first episode (which was awesome), we knew the FRAKKERS at FOX had their fingers on the button to kill this show.
It’s bad enough the show is on hiatus for the whole month of November too, but the plan is have the full 13 episode second season.
Yeaah we’re pissed.
Then again, Joss Whedon kinda screwed us all over with Season Two so far hasn’t he?
Where is Alpha??? what the frak happened btwn the last episode of Season One and the Season Two episodes. Sure as standalone episode a few of them have been great, but continuity is a problem.
Maybe we’re wrong for blaming FOX, maybe we should blame Joss for not executing on the full vision and giving us the show his fans deserve.
V – Will Erica Lead the Resistance? November 10, 2009
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The second episode of ABC’s V was another really great episode.
The key character is really shaping up to be FBI Agent Erica Evans played by actress Elizabeth Mitchell.
She’s strong, tough and saavy. And how about that shower scene? No nudity. And that’s a good thing. It means she’s serious and the shows producers are not treating her as some kind of sex object. She’s a hero.
We think that Agent Erica will end up leading the human resistance overall, she’s got what it takes. In many respects, we think she’ll take on the role that Michael Ironside had in the original V series as the tough no-nonsense military leader of the Resistance.
Overall, the sophistication of the series so far is superb. There are so many layers to the plot that it’s clear this show has legs — so long as ABC doesn’t cut this show off at the knees.
Iain M Banks : Look to Windward : Review : Culture Special Circumstances are everywhere November 9, 2009
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Look to Windward is another of Iain M. Banks Culture novels…for us it’s the third one we’ve read behind Consider Phelbas and Use of Weapons, both which were superior books to this one.
Yes the basic premise of this book was interesting – the light from one of the last great battles of the Idiran war from Consider Phelbas is just reaching the Masaq Orbital some 800 years after the fact – that’s kinda neat
the core story though is about the Chel (another alien race), the composer that lives among the culture and the Chel agent come to get him and destroy the orbital.
The story is waaaay to drawn out and at multiple points I was ready to give up. But we know that Banks finishes strongly so we struggled on.
And a struggle it is. Whole chapters make no sense and add little to the plot development.
But the end is a surprise, much like Use of Weapons, it’s an ending that we didn’t see coming at all and changes the way the whole book feels.
I didn’t expect Huyler to be Special Circumstances that was a shocker and the sub-plot with the Culture citizen on the Yolaeus not making it back to warn the Mind was also interesting in its connection.
So no, we didn’t enjoy most of this book while reading it first time through, but with another brilliant conclusion, Banks redeems this book.
Yeaaah we’ll keep reading Banks, the Culture is interesting enough that we want more, but Banks just doesn’t have a consistent quality of writing so hopefully the next book we get will more of a hit than a miss.
Stargate Universe – Episode 7 Earth – Eli is Phillip ‘Futurama’ Fry – and Is Col. Telford screwing Col. Young’s Ex-Wife? November 8, 2009
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That was one strange episode – in that it was all about personal relationships. SGU episode 7 Earth
Col Young getting back together with his ex – while inside of Telford’s body was kinda freaky – especially when the communication between the stones was interrupted.
But how about that ending ? With the REAL Telford showing up at Young’s Ex’s door? Are they having their own clandestine relationship that Young didn’t know about?
Weird.
And poor Eli — shafted by Chloe yet again.
But Eli had the best lines in the whole show introducing himself as Phillip Fry – (a clear Futurama reference). Bender would be proud.
Fringe – the Cosmonaut and the sandman November 6, 2009
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Great to have Fringe back, and another fine episode.
So now we know the CIA and Russians have a play in the pattern too.
Somehow the cosmonaut that Broils shot is still alive and now in space somewhere with the ‘shadow’ with him – a really neat idea overall.
Is the Shadow related to the watcher? We’ll see.
Also really neat to see Broils on the family side, he always comes off as such a hard a$$, good to know he might not always have been that way.
FlashForward AlreadyGhosts.com – You can Change the future! November 5, 2009
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alreadyghosts.com the blue hand WOW what a fantastic episode.
The future is not written and now we know for sure.
The death of agent Gough – jumping off the building to change the future and save a mom of two boys was just so startling, we’re still in shock.
But that was nothing in comparison to what Aaron saw was it?
Another shocker.
One of the teases in this episode was the AlreadyGhosts.com website where those that don’t have flash forward come. That site doesn’t actually exist it just re-directs to the ABC site – a shame really. ABC could have built a real viral site there for the show – a missed opportunity for sure.
Overall this show is getting better week by week, the twists and turns in this episode made it the best yet – the new revelation that the future is not definite changes everything too.
Wil ‘Ensign Crusher’ Wheaton WAS IN Star Trek 09?! He did voice work!! November 5, 2009
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Wow – somehow until today no one knew that Wil Wheaton – best known to Star Trek Fans for his work on Next Generation as Ensign Wesley Crusher – was actually in J J Abrams star trek 2009.
Wheaton did the voice over work for the Romulans on Nero’s ship.
Listen in to this clip below to the voice that says, “”Sir, if you ignite the Red Matter now … ”
Star Trek (2009) out on DVD Nov 17th including a few nifty extra November 4, 2009
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J J Abrams Star Trek makes it to the ‘little’ screen on Nov. 17th.
Alongside the movie itself the DVD release will include a few notable outtakes including the deleted Klingon Scene. They don’t quite look like regular klingons to us, but hey close enough. We’ve included the clip below which aired on the Scream 2009 awards a few weeks back.
The other big thing is a featurette called “The Shatner Conundrum” which is all about why Will Shatner didn’t make it into the movie. It’s still the biggest travesty in my opinion and the featurette doesn’t make it any better
V remake not great, but not bad November 3, 2009
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The ABC remake of V kicked off tonight.
No there is no Diana – instead the head of the Vistors is Anna (a Scifi veteran of both Stargate SG-1 and Firefly).
I don’t recall the Visitors in the original series being called the ‘V’s, I also specifically remember the graphitti tagging of V was done by the resistance.
V for victory.
That aside, the visitors are still Lizards, they’re still evil and I figure they’ll still eat human.
The FBI mom Erica is a great character and she puts a strong female face on the resistance. Overall pacing of the show was a little slow and jittery. It lacked a proper flow, the background ambient music was wrong and all the characters at this point are a little stiff.
Still, there is hope for this show, it’s got a bit of a twist on the original, enough to keep us interested. NO this is not a Battlestar Galactica class of re-imagining, but it’ll do for now.
Stargate Universe Episode 6 Water – What was that alien sand man? October 31, 2009
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Another decent, but not great episode. Water
The Destiny loses half of its water and the command staff is checking the crew to see who has taken ..what??
That was dumb. What did Lt. Scott see on ice world (Hoth as Eli called it) when he saw the sand-man? what was that?
dumb.
But how about Choloe and Lt. Scott still shaggin? and then Lt. Vanessa ‘hooters’ James had a nice moment ..but still cheesy. In the first episode she was with Scott in the cleaning room after all..seems kinda dumb.
BUT
This episode did have better pacing than prior episode and the dual plot lines kept up engaged. That said, this show sooner rather than later does need to pick up the pace.
We can’t have every episode as the search for something they’re missing. We can’t have every episode about Chloe and Lt. Scott. We need to see more of Destiny too.
In Stargate Atlantis it too a while for the base team to explore the whole ship. How come they haven’t explored Destiny yet? There has got to be some cool stuff on that ship that we haven’t seen yet.
Second Avatar Trailer looks Sweeet October 30, 2009
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ok we’re now officially excited about Avatar.
Yeaaah the basic premise – good guy on the wrong side – is a little tired but the added concept of good guy not in his own body is kinda cool
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Drunk Ewoks Take Over the Today Show October 30, 2009
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Who doesn’t love ewoks?
It has been 25 years since we saw them in Return of the Jedi and they’ve never been in any other Star Wars movie..but they’re still as popular as ever..
especially when they’re moonwalking (endor-style) drunk
Flashforward – Who is Suspect zero? How about Simon? October 29, 2009
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Interesting episode – Lloyd Simcoe finally realizes who Olivia is and the benford’s start to fall apart.
Real big inclusion is the Simon character and our bet is that he’s suspect zero – the guy in the stadium.
We also think that we was talking to Lloyd – suspect 1 during the blackout.
Clearly Lloyd is part of the conspiracy – but we knew that – so the only question is which suspect he is and how many suspect in total there actually will be.
Stargate Universe Light – Did Rush Know About Destiny’s Solar Collectors? October 24, 2009
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Episode of Stargate Universe – Light
Yes it SUCKS that Chole didn’t hook up with Eli.
BUT the whole thing with Destiny going through the Corona of a star to recharge was kinda neat – and also obvious.
What bothered us about this episode was how most of the crew just seemed so hopeless. No one was really doing anything. How come no one went to investigate the power source of the Destiny?
More importantly did Rush know?
We think he did.
Know with full solar power again in the Destiny doesn’t that mean the ship’s stargate has enough power to dial Earth?
It makes sense the Destiny can self-replenish its own power, after all the ship has been flying for millions of years. It makes no sense that no one asked the question about what powers Destiny before.
Dollhouse Belonging – Directed by Riker (aka Jonathan Frakes) – The Best Episode Yet October 24, 2009
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What a great episode – Belonging
No that party was freaky and disturbing.
When they returned her to the creep, I though ok this is a sad sack ending. But then having Prija/Sierra kick the dudes butt? That was great.
How/why Sierra ended back in the dollhouse after that is a little bit iffy though. I mean why not just set her free? Then again she’s probably not equipped to live in society anymore – at not until Topher can set her totally free.
Overall a brilliantly written, plotted, acted and directed episode that had a great mix of flashback and current action. We were on the edge of our seat until the end. BRAVO!
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