Stargate Atlantis Vegas : SO5E19 January 4, 2009
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Wow what a great episode – and sadly the second last ever for Stargate Atlantis.
From beginning to end this episode had a real CSI feel – and that duelling metal and Johhny Cash Solitary Man soundtracks were just magnificient.
What if John Sheppard’s life had gone just a little different? This episode with him as a down on his luck Vegas cop tracking a killer (aka Wraith) fit perfectly. It’s still Sheppard – just a down on his luck version.
The Wraith with the makeup making his way in Vegas was also awesome – i’ll be doing a double take next time i’m in Vegas to make sure i’m not playing poker against a Wraith.
The funniest line? From McKay when he says well he’s not a Klingon at the Star Trek Experience – cause that closed down a few months ago!!
Sure there are those that will argue that for the second last episode of Stargate Atlantis we should’ve seen a more plot focussed story – I disagree.
This tangent to a parallel universe proves once again that Stargate Atlantis was not a copy of SG-1. Atlantis stands on its own merits. The brilliant story telling of this episode may not necessarily advance the mainline Atlantis story but it is a story that was incredibly entertaining and one of the best episodes in the entire five year run of Stargate Atlantis.
Talk about saving the best for last.
Now all we’ve got left is the final episode –
New Krypton #7 Action Comics #872 Supergirl’s Dad Dies January 4, 2009
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Shocking. And Shockingly good comic too.
We’ve become big Fans of the New Krypton series – it’s clearly not just business as usual for the man of steel.
The Kryptonian’s have killed humans and that’s a No No – but for some reason Alura (supergirl’s mom) doesn’t seem to care…
But the biggest plot twist of course is the Death of Zor-El – Supergirl’s father. It just seemed so sudden and brutal.
It’s the kind of quick twist that makes this New Krypton series easily one of the best Superman plot line in the last 30 years.
Matt Smith Named as Doctor Who successor to David Tennant January 3, 2009
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Matt who??? That’s exactly what we said. The BBC has named a virtual nobody to be the next Doctor Who and the 11th Time Lord in the history of the show.
Matt Smith will be the youngest looking Doctor Who ever too.
“David Tennant has made the role his own, brilliantly with grace, talent and persistent dedication,” Smith said in a BBC press release. ” I hope to learn from the standards set by him. The challenge for me is to do justice to the show’s illustrious past, my predecessors and most importantly to those who watch it. I really cannot wait.”
Here’s the full video announcement from the BBC.
Star Trek Phase II : EPISODE 4 :BLOOD AND FIRE – PART 1 December 27, 2008
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We’ve been excited about the Blood and Fire episode of the fan produced Star Trek Phase II series for months. It’s now available – though only if you download it (as of Dec 27, 2008 at least) without an option for a streaming web version – yet *UPDATE** It’s on YouTube we’ve linked the episodes below!!.
Yet though this episode has some of the best special effects EVER for a fan made Star Trek flick – some of the early chatter has been about the 3.5 minute homo-erotic scene. While it’s not my own particular preference – it’s fair to have this considering that the original Trek was full of its own gratuitous scenes and no one can argue that Jeri Ryan’s super-tight outfit on Voyager served any practicial purpose other than to stimulate males of all ages. (That said I wonder if the Star Trek New Voyages ppl could line up someone that would agree to a skin tight Jeri Ryan outfit...)
That small scene aside – this is an AWESOME first part of an episode that is superior to anything i’ve seen yet from Star Trek XI. Too bad this is set for the big screen. Best line – Kirk’s nephew is a ‘red’ shirt – so Scotty say – ‘Relax Jim we don’t put bullseyes on the red shirts anymore!”
OHH and it looks like it’s now on YouTube – so here ya go – enjoy
part 1
part 2
part 3
BattleStar Galactica Season 4.5 (really Season 5) Trailers December 22, 2008
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Oh my – there have been a FRAKKING awesome set of Battlestar Galactica trailer in the last little while.
We decided to save you our good readers some of the effort of tracking them all down and have collected them here.
1:30 second Season 4.5 Trailer:
0:15 Kara Thrace You Will Know the Truth:
0:15 You Will Know the Truth alternate trailer:
Buck Rogers Movie Coming Thanks to Frank Miller December 19, 2008
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It’s not Sin to love Buck Rogers – is it?
Sin City director Frank Miller (he also did 300) is apparently set to write and direct a new movie version of Buck Rogers. I remember the 80’s TV show with Gil Gerrard fondly (remember Hawk?)
How could you not love Erin Gray’s spandex-clad Wilma Deering?
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Miller will write and direct his own big-screen take on the comic serial; while the creator has only begun to sketch ideas, it’s expected to be a darker take, with many of Miller’s signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption.
It’s likely to be a priority project for Miller, though he has been mulling a “Sin City” sequel.
Goodbye Majel Barrett Roddenberry December 18, 2008
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Majel Barrett Roddenberry – wife of the Star Trek Creator, voice of Star Trek ships old and new, mother of Deanna Troy – has passed away at the age of 76.
According to reports Majel Barrett Roddenberry died Thursday of leukemia at her home in Bel-Air, Calif.
No other person has been involved with Star Trek from its inception in the 60’s all the way to 2009 and the Star Trek XI movie where Majel’s voice will be the voice of the Enterprise yet again.
While nurse chappel was cute it was as Lwaxana Troi that we think she showed her true comedic genious. Everyone that has ever seen Star Trek the Next Generation has a favorite Lwaxana Troi moment. I still crack a grin everytime i think of her calling Worf – Mr Woof.
Philip K . Dick would have been 80 today December 16, 2008
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Legendary SF author Philip K. Dick would have been 80 today (were he alive). Philip Kindred Dick born December 16, 1928 died on March 2, 1982.
Our fav Philip K. Dick novel remains the Man in the High Castle, but there really are so many others that are worthy aren’t there?
Dick was different than what we were used to – and took a dark twisted look at reality that in our view has yet to be replicated in SciFi by any other author.
Sarah Connor Chronicles – Season 2 mid-season finale was TERRIBLE December 15, 2008
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What the frak was that? Ok sure we said last week that Sarah Connor Chronicles was a bad show but, this was the mid-season finale this week. Some early buzz said it would be a neat episode.
Yeaah neat to see a Skynet machine (what was it an HK?) from the future but again..this show is so poorly constructed from a proper dramatic narrative flow viewpoint it’s not funny.
Instead of focusing on the ‘ship’ we see Sarah’s face for most of the time..instead of action or dialogue even this show focusses on ‘dramatic pauses of nothingness’.
There are some fine actors in this show – LET THEM ACT. As it is this show is difficult to watch and impossible to follow.
It’s in the same timeslot at Big Bang Theory – which this week by the way was a great episode…and funny in a good way.
Star Wars Clone Wars S01E10 – Lair of Grievous and Fisto the Rastaman December 14, 2008
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Awesome Grievous episode – with some ridiculously cool lightsaber action –
Sure a little saad Grievous killed the Mon Cal Jedi but hey it’s Grievous and he’s got four arms.
Great to see his lair and great to see the Dooku trick too.
But perhaps the most interesting part was Fisto himself – played by a voice actor that sounded Jamaican Rastaman to me. Sure his ‘hair’ fits the bill but i never though of Fisto that way…
Stargate Atlantis SO5E18 Keller the Thief December 14, 2008
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Considering that there are only TWO EPISODES LEFT of Stargate Atlantis – this was a really lame episode.
We’ve seen the body transfer thing a dozen or more times already – this one was not nearly as good as the SG-1 episode when Daniel Jackson and Vala got transfered – remember they almost got burned at the stake!
Still basicly good fun – it’s just we really wish that we’d get something MORE seeing as this series is capable of MORE and we’re almost done.
If I had written the final three or four episodes of Atlantis you can bet your Wraith hating soul that it would be a massively engaging four part cycle that engaged everything we all know and love about Atlantis. If the last two episodes are anything like this one – the show will go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
Ron Moore’s Virtuality gets backburnered December 12, 2008
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Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica days may be numbered but it doesn’t look like he’s a golden boy for everything.
FOX apparently is pushing back on Moore’s Virtuality show that we first wrote about back in April. Basically its a ship in long duration flight – with a crew have virtual reality experiences throughout the journey.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
The two-hour backdoor sci-fi pilot “Virtuality,” might stay in consideration for May and be reworked as a more mainstream drama.
Remember friends – this is FOX. The same network that killed Firefly and is now butchering Sarah Connor Chronicles…so i suppose we didn’t have much cause to be hopeful in the first place.
SCI Fi Channel Shows Off Starbuck’s Chest December 11, 2008
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Starbuck (aka not a cylon) is our fav character on Battlestar Galactica.
Apparently Sci Fi Channel wants viewers to look at her chest –
that is if this new teaser add for the new season is any indication.
New season starts in two week – and the webisodes start tomorrow (Dec 12th) at Noon ET on SciFi.com!!
Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles : Alpine Fields Suck December 8, 2008
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Ok it’s official as far as we’re concerned. Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles sucks.
Tonight’s episode was total garbage. There was more dead air (and not the shooting kind) than dialogue or actual action.
The show was so bad to be honest we could NOT watch it end to end -we watched much of it in PIP window while watching The Big Bang Theory – and switching to see when something looked like it might be happening.
It’s a darn shame – we really had high hopes for this show in the beginning – the new season looked like it good be a good one too – but it’s not. I’ts just a waste of time at this point and I doubt we’ll bother to watch another live episode again – much easier to record and then fast forward through the garbage….which is most of the show.
Doctor Who 4×12 Stolen Earth Davros Returns December 7, 2008
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Doctor Who Series 4 is easily one of the best seasons of Doctor Who in a long long long time.
The return of the Daleks in this episode is fantastic – and it sure is great to see Davros once again (btw where is the MASTER?).
Having all of the Doctor’s friends and companions aligned in this episode is also great – with the funniest easily being the ex prime minister – with the Daleks noting that they know who she is.
For year Doctor Who fans have called the Daleks the most fearsome of all the Doctor’s enemies – I still have a problem with them though…they are basically rolling trash cans with limited mobility. Yes i know they can hover now but come one i would expect that the human commandoes would be quicker than the Dalek army and able to take them out.
Star Wars Clone Wars S1E09 December 6, 2008
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Asaaj Ventress is awesome! We knew that Gunray would get rescued but that was great.
And Senate Commandoes? Guess those are the predessecors to the Red Imperial Guards.
All told a tonne of action for a 30 min episode – there was hardly a 3 minutes sequence without some kind of intense action.
That’s what makes this new animated series superb – decent stories- evil villans and non-stop action
Stargate Atlantis S05E17 Hello Todd December 6, 2008
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The ship got sick! Great stuff…and great to see Wraith drone warriors without their masks on too.
Darn shame the treatment doesn’t work to help the Wraith…but
Ultimately this episode was about Sheppard and Todd and the bond between the two.
It’s a bond that we’ll see again – hopefully before the series ends in three more episodes…it totally sucks that SciFi Channel has cancelled the show.
Fringe – The Safe is a Teleporter December 3, 2008
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I did not see that one coming – first of all . Walter is the root of all technology in the show – good or bad. It’s a neat concept but what that is really starting to get very tired.
So he built a teleporter – not a time machine – that took the ‘gentleman’ to the little hill.
neat.
Bad guys passing through wall – like the phase inverter that stranded one of Riker’s ships on Star Trek (remember the show with the Teleporter..). Ok maybe not a totally unique idea. but still fun.
A fun episode overall though – and it will be interesting to see how AGent Dunham is rescued and by whom – i’ll put an early guess that it will be Massive!
Battlestar Galactica Caprica gets Ordered by Sci Fi Channel December 3, 2008
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Ok so maybe we were a little hasty in calling Caprica dead the other week.
Sci Fi channel has now ordered 20 hours of the Battlestar Galactica prequel. Originally it was supposed to have a pilot this month but now it looks like that pilot will show up sometime in 2009 with the full series likely to debut in 2010.
The pilot trailer looks like frakking crap to me – but hey with 20 hours now booked – maybe they can build this up and actually make this as cool as BSG itself.
Set 50 years before “Battlestar Galactica,” “Caprica” follows two rival families — the Graystones and the Adamas — as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies, a society recognizably close to our own. Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics. “Caprica” will deliver all of the passion, intrigue, political backbiting and family conflict in television’s first science fiction family saga. As the series begins, a startling development is about to occur — the creation of the first cybernetic life-form node or “Cylon” — the ability to marry artificial intelligence with mechanical bodies. Joseph Adama (Morales) — father of future “Battlestar” commander William Adama (Najafi) — a renowned civil liberties lawyer, becomes an opponent of the experiments undertaken by the Graystones (Stoltz), owners of a large computer corporation that is spearheading the development of these living robots: the Cylons.
Superman New Krypton December 3, 2008
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To be honest we haven’t been regular Superman collectors in years – but that
changed with this new storyline – Superman New Krypton – a nine issue cross-over event.
The basic story is simple – Braniac years ago captured a Kryptonian city – Kandor –
(saving it in the process) and now Superman has saved the city and 100,000 Kryptonian’s are now living on Earth.
It’s a great premise and one that challenges the notion of Superman being special (supergirl aside) – since there are now 100,000 people just like him flying around Earth.
It started off in a one issue special edition – then moved over to Superman #681 – and then over to Action
Comics #871 where we get to see more of what Kryptonian’s are really up to –
from there to Supergirl (didn’t care for that issue).
The latest issue is Superman #681 New Krypton part 6. The Kryptonian’s now actually kill humans and this is clearly a turning point. General Zod (remember him from the Superman II movie ?) still has followers loyal to him and they seem to be stirring up some trouble.
Oh and remember the Phantom Zone ? Yeaaah it’s back too.
So for this comic book fan – after years and years of not reading Superman regularly – here I am back reading Superman again thanks to this New Krypton storyline. It’s great that anew issue is out every week – which sure makes a big difference too.
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