Star Wars Rebellion #11 Small Victories (lame comics) February 27, 2008
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Star Wars Rebellion is a misplaced comic book series in the new Dark Horse Star Wars lineup.
It lacks the drama and direction of Knights of the Old Republic, the awesomeness of Legacy and the darkness of Dark Times.
It’s just basic PULP comic stuff.
The ridiculous amount of time between issues also makes this a stoopid series to even try and follow (but we do, not sure what that says about us).
Basic story in this issue, transparent 2D cardboard cutout characters and pedestrian art.
If you’re looking for pulp Star Wars ..here ya go!
Starship Troopers 3 Maurader : Let’s crack a planet February 26, 2008
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The first Starship Troopers is CLASSIC Sci Fi. Yes it was cheesy but it good cheese.
Starship Troopers 2 was unwatchable it was so horrible. Hard to know if the Starship Trooper 3 will be anything better. It’s a direct to DVD release..and yes Johnny Rico is back and he’s still blasting bugs.
Terminator 4 : Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins Open May 22, 2009 February 26, 2008
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May 22, 2009 is now set as the release date for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
If that date sounds familiar..you’re right ShowMeSciFi.com fans.
That’s right! It’s just about the same time as Star Trek XI.
So it’ll be a SciFi shootout Memorial Day Weekend in 2009.
T4 begins two months of production in New Mexico on May 5.
Star Wars Dark Times #9 Parallels part 4 February 26, 2008
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Another solid issue that moves the plot along nicely. Reading this story arc issue by issue is a bit painful though and if I had a choice I likely would have prefered to just buy a trade paperback (but hey that could be months!).
We continue to learn about Bomo and what he is willing/able to do. And on the parallel side the Jedi younglings are under attack. Overall a nice balance of the two stories.
The real ‘magic’ though of course will come in the next issue when the Parallels will finally be brought together somehow – or not.
I just hope that no one else gets eaten.
Star Wars Legacy of the Force Revelation OUT TODAY! February 26, 2008
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The Eighth book in this awesome series – Star Wars Legacy of the Force : Revelation is OUT TODAY!!
We got our copy at about Noon and what a glorious event it was.
The local bookshop had just set up a whole display of Star Wars Legacy of the Force Revelation in the Bestsellers area in the front of the store. They also had a few dozen copies in the regular SciFi section.
I guess we’re not the only ones who read this stuff.
As always we tend to read these a bit slowly (a week or so) to savor every page. True this is Karen Travis the SUCKIEST AUTHOR IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE KILLER OF MARA JADE – but hey it’s the second to last book in the serious , how badly could she screw this up?
We’ve been waiting for this book for months and it’s great to finally see it on the shelf (and now in our hands!!)
Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles 1×7 Ballerina February 25, 2008
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Nice. We get a rehash of more Terminator 2 stuff with a new Dr. Silverman (this one isn’t nearly a neurotic).
Did Sarah actually save the FBI agent? That sure was some ‘weird’ cinematography there wasn’t it?
And Cameron?? Man oh man is she one scary Terminator …now she’s a ballerina too.
All told yet another really solid episode of Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles. Our only complaint is that next week is the season finale?! How does that happen??? Since when does episodes make a season? I know we had the writers strike to deal with but still..8 episodes is NOT A FULL SEASON!
Stargate Atlantis 4 x 18 Kindred : Dr Beckett RETURNS!!! February 23, 2008
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And we thought Midway was a great episode.
Here we get both of our Wraith ‘friends’ Todd and Michael
Tayla gets abducted but the biggest surprise of all in the last scene.
wow. what a totally unexpected surprise. How did Beckett get there? He’s dead!!
We know Beckett helped to ‘create’ Michael so maybe Michael had some of his DNA and cloned him?
Or maybe Beckett never really died and was actually beamed off Atlantis by Michael when the explosion happened with the body replaced by a clone?
Whatever the case Stargate Atlantis Season 4 just keeps getting better and better..too bad we’ve only one episode left and then Season 4 is done!!
Star Trek Phase II Set for a New Voyage February 19, 2008
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Looks like Star Trek New Voyages (the awesome fan produces classic trek stuff) is changing its name to Star Trek Phase II.
Now for me personally Star Trek Phase II holds a lot of meaning. I’ve had a copy of Star Trek Phase II on my shelf for many years.
In 1977 Star Trek Phase II would have brought back Star Trek to network TV.
A footnote in Star Trek history, few people realize how close Star Trek Phase II came to full-scale production.
All of the actors were signed except Leonard Nimoy, whose Spock character would have been replaced by a young Vulcan, Xon. Sets and props were designed and constructed. New models, including a never seen model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, were built. A special effects company was hired, and scripts were written, including a two-hour teleplay that would have been the pilot for the series. But, the plans for the network were canceled, and Paramount decided to shift gears to feature film production, shutting down the television series — less than two weeks before the beginning of principal photography. The result of this decision was Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
This is the story of the lost Star Trek series. Including full behind-the-series information on the show that almost-but didn’t-happen. Full of never-before-seen color artwork, storyboards, blueprints, technical information and photos: Star Trek Phase II reveals the vision behind Gene Roddenberry’s lost glimpse of the future.
So will New Voyages recreate what Star Trek Phase II might have been? We can only hope…
Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles 1 x 6 : Dungeons and Dragons February 18, 2008
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WOW. What a great episode, easily the best yet for Sarah Connor Chronicles.
We finally get a glimpse of the future. Even better the series is now woven tightly in with the narrative from the first Terminator with Kyle having a pic of Sarah (not Linda Hamilton though). And we get another vantage on that pivotal move of Kyle Reese and what happened to him before being sent back.
Now his brother…what happened in that room with the music? Is he a sleeper skynet agent now?
New Knight Rider – SUCKS February 17, 2008
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KITT had it right when he said, “Yes that Sucks.”
Not that the original Knight Rider was superb TV..but the new Knight Rider is just plain awful.
Weak plot, pathetic acting and worst of all…the voice of KITT was totally disjointed. The audio didn’t seem to come from the car but almost came of as a narrators voice. At least in the original the car and voice were connected. In this lame excuse for a TV show the voice is just there and not properly connected to the car.
That’s just poor production.
Yes the Mustang itself is cool, but beyond that there are no redeeming qualities to this show whatsoever.
Stargate Atlantis 4 x 17 Midway February 17, 2008
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INDEED.
Indeed this was a fine episode. At last Teal’c makes his cameo coming face to face with his Atlantis counterpart Ronon.
What a great episode. Great cause Teal’C rocks and so does Ronon. Great because the Wraith attacking Midway is a great plot. And great because of the AWESOME amount of action in this episode – wraith bashing all the way.
And of course MARVELOUS dialogue.
INDEED
Star Trek XI DELAYED !! Until May of 2009 February 14, 2008
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Star Trek XI which had been scheduled for an Xmas 2008 release has been DELAYED by at least five months pushing the release date back to May of 2009.
So first Paramount get the fans excited.
Then they push us around, testing our patience. NICE. Paramount sure knows how to treat its fan base. Apparently they wanted to get a better opening weekend…TOTAL BS. Xmas weekend is a fine time to launch a movie. Abrams and crew just aren’t ready.
But hey..maybe with this delay and the writers back…Shatner can finally land a part!
Tripping the Rift – The Movie? February 13, 2008
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Apparently there is a Tripping the Rift Movie — or at least there is a trailer for one. We haven’t written about Tripping the Rift much here on ShowMeSciFi.com. It’s a quirky show and you know what? We LIKE IT.
CHODE – the captain..and no we don’t know what species he is…is hiliarous
Darth Bobbo and the dark clowns are awesome
And SIX? WELL that’s the gratuitous part.
Unfortunately the trailer for the movie is not that great…but trust us..the show typically is.
Star Wars Dark Times #8 Parallels part 3 February 13, 2008
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I dunno. Dark Times isn’t bad..but without Wheatley’s art this series isn’t great either.
So we’ve got some kind of double cross here and our two plot lines are coming together.
Not particularly memorable stuff..but it does move the plot along. If you’re not already into this series don’t start here, wait till Vector hits it in a few months.
Star Wars Clone Wars THE MOVIE opens August 15th!! February 12, 2008
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BIG BIG BIG BIG NEWS FROM LUCAS!!
The new Star Wars Clone Wars animated series will first be a FEATURE FILM that will hit theaters on Friday August 15th!! (let the lineups for the midnight showings begin!!!)
We’ve been writing about the new Star Wars Clone Wars for months…always thinking that it would just be a new TV series on the Cartoon Network so this news comes as a very very NICE SURPRISE.
“I felt there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell,” said George Lucas, executive producer of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in a statement. “I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the art of animation forward.”
Then in the fall the TV series itself will start with apparently some 30 episodes already in the can. It also looks like Anakin’s new apprentice Ahsoka Tano. will play a major role too.
Are we excited? YOU BET WE ARE!
Star Wars Legacy #19 Claws of the Dragon Part 6 (of 6) February 11, 2008
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Wow. What an ending.
This is the story arc that we had been waiting for ever since Legacy first hit the stand and boy did it deliver.
Cade face to face with Darth Krayt (whose identity is finally revealed) as the last Skywalker decides whether or not he will follow Vader to the Dark side.
Finally his friends come to the rescue and for the first time in more than 6 issues, Cade is back on the Mynock.
WOW.
All this time though we have been missing out on the other goings on in the new Legacy universe…so while this story arc has been one of the most impressive Star Wars storylines of all time…we’re eager for a bit of a break..and see what everyone else is up too…
Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles 1×5 The Queen’s Gambit February 11, 2008
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Kyle Reese had a brother.
NEAT.
Sarah gets back together with her former boyfriend the medic.
VERY NEAT.
Sarah does the pullup thing that Linda Hamilton did so very effectively in T2 (while in the mental facility) – that wasn’t so cool. Lena Headey just isn’t as buff.
Summer Glau’s Terminator continues her cardboard performance..though she at least had a funny line in this episode. Sarah calls shotgun (for the front of the jeep) and Cameron call ‘9 millimeter’.
All told a solid episode though that will help to add even more plot complexity to this show.
Star Wars Darth Bane The Rule of Two (Review) February 10, 2008
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Darth Bane the Rule of Two is easily the best Star Wars book we’ve read all year (mind you we’re only 5 weeks into 2008 at this point).
Drew Karpyshyn continues the tale he began in Darth Bane Path of Destruction . Whereas the first book had some basis in well known Star Wars canon and Dark Horse comic books – this book really carves out some very new and unkown territory.
Karpyshyn is a gifted writer and his prose is smooth – leading to an incredibly satisfying page turning experience. Bane is still the dark brooding Sith lord as always, but now we get insight into his apprentice Darth Zannah.
As opposed to most other Star Wars tales where the Jedi are the heroes — here the Sith are the ‘heroes’. The Jedi are seen as weak. Their lightsaber skills inferior. Their command of the Force – incomplete.
The final confrontation in the end of this book (without giving away too much) is AWESOME. But also dissapointing in some ways too. At some points in the story we get the story told from the Jedi point of view. But when it comes to the final battle – it’s very one sided — in more ways than one.
The first book Darth Bane Path of Destruction is still a superior book to this one – the plot in that book is richer, the Sith more complete and Darth Bane’s transformation is among the best Star Wars tales ever told…as such this book Rule of Two had a tough act to follow.
That said..Rule of Two is a MUST READ for all Star Wars fans. It expands the expanded universe in a critical era and most importantly…it’s a great read.
Stargate Atlantis 4×16 Trio (aka Keller wants to get busy with McKay) February 9, 2008
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Basic cliched Stargate episode where the team is trapped and they need to get out.
Where the cliches break down though is with Dr. Keller (Jewel Staite).
She’s one BUSY woman…
First she hooks up with Ronon know she’s interested in McKay.
Who’s next??
Lots of Loose Star Trek Action Figures February 8, 2008
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‘Lots’ of Star Trek Action Figures (nice pun isn’t it?)
We’re always looking for innovative ways to acquire Star Trek toys. If you actually want to play with the toys (as opposed to just displaying them) – you really need to buy loose figures. They’re usually cheaper and you won’t have to crack open a box to play with them or display them on their own. Buying ‘lots’ is the best way to buy cause you get a bunch of figures at the same time (usually at a lower price than buying figures individually)
This weekend there are a few internet Lots of Loose Star Trek action figures. Here are the interesting ones:
34 figures from Playmates’ Star Trek & Star Trek: The Next Generation line. wow.Bidding only started at $5.99 BUT i figure this one will end up a whole lot higher.
Star Trek TOS & TNG Loose Figure Lot (34 FIGURES!)
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Here’s another one for 15 figures in a mix lot of classic and Next Generation figures. This one also started off at $5.
I would also expect that this one will end up a little higher than $5 but we’ll see. An interesting mix of figures for sure.
1992 LOT STAR TREK LOOSE FIGURES
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Some sellers are starting their loose lots at a higher $$ value. This seller is selling only 8 figures but is starting their auction at $15.
lot of 8 Star Trek Action Figures
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There always seem to a bunch of loose star trek lots..though quality and pricing (as always) vary from week to week. We’ve created a few simple links to help you (and ourselves too) out for finding this stuff:
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