Caprica – End of Line for Season 1, Amanda Greystone and Maybe the Series? April 5, 2010
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The final episode of Caprica Season 1 before its mid-season break was easily one of the best episodes — if not the best episode – of Caprica so far.
Too bad the rest of the season has been sooo slow. It has been so slow that we taped this episode a week ago but only bothered to watch it now.
Big stuff happening all around in this episode – Amanda Greystone commits suicide – that was a shocker.
Joseph Adama’s assistant – the former doctor from Stargate SG-1 – turns out to be his helper in V-world and trick his daughter into killing him off. That was powerful too.
Then there is the Cylon killing poor lab boy – another swift shocker.
All this going on with the backdrop of Greystone loosing the military contract. Great stuff all around, no shortage of drama and action.
Let’s hope that Caprica does come back and SOON. Currently the plan as we understand it is not to have Caprica return until the end of the year. That’s frakking nuts in our opinion. This show has just now started to gain real traction and we want more – alot more.
Stargate Universe’s Lt. Scott (Brian J. Smith) IS amazed at how Rush makes it back and angry with season 1 finale March 17, 2010
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Really solid interview with Brian J Smith the actor that plays Lt Scott in Stargate Universe.
He basically reveals that how Rush gets back to the ship will shock us and oh yeah he was angry with the season 1 finale (to come).
Check out the full interview below:
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Buck Rogers Takes on the Airlords of Han March 16, 2010
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Yeaah we’re fans of the new Dynamite Buck Rogers series.
The latest issue #9 starts off a new story arc where we get more insight into the status of Earth.
You see in this version of Buck Rogers, Earth isn’t ruled by just one unified group. There are rulers of the ground, the underground (the weirdos with Nukes that Buck destroyed last issue) and the airlords of Han.
Our sister site, ShowMeSciFiComics.com has a review of the issue #9 up now.
Star Trek Mirror Universe : The Sorrows of Empire – This is the REAL sequel to Mirror Mirror and yes its Awesome! February 17, 2010
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Our favorite Star Trek TOS episode has always been Mirror Mirror – where the Federation doesn’t exist and instead the Terran Empire reigns supreme and humans act more like the Klingons.
At the end of that greatest of all Star Trek episodes (Frak you Tribbles!!!) the Kirk from the ‘regular’ universe’ tell the Spock from the Mirror universe that he can make a difference.
Over the last 40 years we’ve seen small glimpses of that difference that Mirror Spock made — but we never got the full novel length story — until now.
The Sorrows of Empire is a the TRUE sequel to Mirror Mirror (Star Trek: The Original Series – Season Two [Blu-ray]
The end – well we all knew how it would end – with the end of the Terran Empire – but how it got there and what Emperor Spock did – well that’s what this MOST AWESOME book is all about.
The end is a little shorter than i might have liked, but it works with the Klingon/Cardassian alliance smashing Terra and killing Spock and his poor wife — who get a lot of time in this book usually about her angst about not having a baby with Spock.
The weaving of Dr. Carol Marcus and David Marcus as well as Curzon Dax and Saavik is also brilliant. The Mirror Universe version of the Kobyashi Maru training simulation — another brilliant scene.
Did we like this book? HELL YES. And if you’re a fan classic Trek (and Mirror Mirror) so will you.
Fringe’s Olivia Dunham – Anna Torv- like you’ve never seen before (topless wearing mens thermal underwear) February 10, 2010
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I don’t know what’s up with this trend for having women from SciFi shows posing in risque positions for men’s magazines.
The latest actress is Fringe’s Agent Olivia Dunham – played by actress Anna Torv.
In this month’s esquire she got a whole spread of topless pics – while wearing mens thermal underwear.
Why? is it really that cold on the set of Fringe?
We don’t know – but if you’re interested –
Here’s the link at Esquire to see the whole thing.
Chad Vader Season 3 Kicks Off with the Death Star Cam February 9, 2010
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Chad Vader is Back for Season 3!!
The first episode is ok – funny but not ROFL funny. Chad needs to pick a day shift manager for the day and can’t decide.
So he installs a surveillance cam – that looks like a Death Star with a feed that goes directly to his helmet – good fun.
Star Trek Online Now Online – but it’ll cost you $150 a year to play! February 3, 2010
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Star Trek Online
Amazon has the game for just under $50 -which is not bad BUT be warned fellow MMORG newbies – you need to pay a monthly fee too.
In all that monthly fee – even at the best current rate will still cost you over $150 a year – which means if you want to play Star Trek Online for the next twelve months it will actually cost you at least $200 ($50 for the game and $150 for the online subscription).
We’re not fans of monthly subscriptions. We are fans of star trek. Atari must be run by the Ferengi or something.
Gameplay though looks awesome – and Zachary Quinto (aka New Spock) is in the game too – though watch the video below where he explains his role -and how he’s not really a gamer himself since he has a life.
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Final Episode of Dollhouse (Epitaph 2) SUCKED !! January 30, 2010
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The last three or four final episode of Dollhouse have been awesome — the second last episode – (The Hollow Men
The FINAL episode – in very stark contrast – TOTALLY SUCKED.
This is one of the worst episodes, if no the worst episode in the whole two year history of Dollhouse. WTF was Joss thinking?
Yeeah cool to see the future world where everyone has been wiped –but there was little action and even less drama or plot in this episode. The only thing mildly interesting was the shockingly quick death of Agent Paul Ballard.
Beyond that this made no sense – Alpha as the keeper of the dollhouse? huh? the whole thing with Victor and Pria was overdone – Is it Caroline or Echo? and what was Neuropolis?
Some questions for sure — but the overall pacing was wrong and this was a major disappointment for us. After the fantastic second-last episode where Boyd is revealed (and blown up), this was a major let down.
Overall, Dollhouse was a brilliant concept show with some very intriguing episodes and some memorable characters. It did however have more holes in it than swiss cheese and this final episode has left us with a really foul taste in our mouth.
Stargate Universe Needs Our Help to Improve the Show January 28, 2010
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SGU Producer Joe Mallozzi WANTS our opinion – the opinion of the fans for what we want to see.
So, as we prep for the show’s second season – and keeping in mind you haven’t seen the more action-oriented back half of season one – I’d like to know:
1. Which character would you like to see explored more?
2. What aspect of the show would you like to see exploited more?
3. What aspect of the show would prefer to see minimized?
4. What was your favorite “story moment” from the first half of SGU’s first season?
5. What element (I’m leaving this one wide open) would you like to see added to the series as a whole?
K so here’s our ideas:
1. Which character would you like to see explored more? Eli! he’s the best character on the show. Though it might be fun to see a minor character a person that we’ve never seen before emerge to be interesting too – a wrong person, wrong place thing.
2. What aspect of the show would you like to see exploited more?
-The ship! we’ve barely seen the ship so far.
3. What aspect of the show would prefer to see minimized?
-the stones and the trips back to Earth – it was fun for a bit – now it’s just dumb.
4. What was your favorite “story moment” from the first half of SGU’s first season?
-fav story moment was in the loop episode where the crew realize that everything has already happened and will happen again.
5. What element (I’m leaving this one wide open) would you like to see added to the series as a whole?
-G’hould! Wraith! some familiar enemy
Caprica – trailer – Rebirth – first real Caprica episode coming this week January 25, 2010
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alrighty the pilot – which has been available for months on DVD has now aired on SyFy — so finally this week we can get down to the business of some NEW Caprica episodes
The first one is called Rebirth and SyFy now as an early sneak peek avail – looks Frakkin fine to us!
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Fringe is really starting to suck January 22, 2010
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Last night’s Fringe was much like the one the week before it…mediocre.
Another virus type thing..ppl get sick and Walter has to save the day.
hooray.
Where is the pattern?
Where is the multi-verse and warriors from the other side?
Where is the drama that actually made us like this show?
And Another Thing – Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Book Six – one Word Review – Froody January 18, 2010
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And Another Thing Review – Froody
We’re big fans of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy here at ShowMeSciFi.com – and we’ve been hesitant to pick up book six – And Another Thing…
As it turns out – and another thing – is feckin Froody.
No it’s not a Douglas Adams masterpiece, but it is good fun and an enjoyable read.
The story picks up where the last one left off, with the destruction of the Earth (yet again). And yeaah Zaphod, yet again helps Arthur and Ford out.
The characters are much the same as Adams left them and Eoin Colfer does an admirable job of keeping them alive – even as the Vogons try and eliminate them.
The return of Wowbager – the alien that goes around insulting people is neat – but wowbagger just doesn’t have the same edge he did under Adams authorship — but then again it’s still fun.
We see Thor – the Thunder God – return and a really fun visit by Zaphod to the Aesir that we laughed our way through. The ‘second Earth’ Nano plotline in this book was also alot of fun and well written.
Throughout it all, we – and Arthur – miss his beloved Fennchurch – but she keeps popping up in …different way. Especially at the end, which in our view was a stroke of complete brillance.
That’s the good – the bad – which does exist in this book – comes in the form of the guide entries – which aren’t written like Guide entries – and just come off as being ..well..STOOPID. After the third or fourth guide entry that appears in this book, we actually started to just skip them altogether –which in our view made the book better and more enjoyable to read.
hitchhikers books have never been known for keeping consistent plotlines – but there are a few things that we would have liked to have seen. For one, the new MarkII Guide makes an appearance at the beginning of the book and then just goes away…that’s dumb.
The Guide itself has been taken over by Vogons (from the last book) but somehow Ford is still writing for them and little if any mention is made of how the Vogons have changed the book – that’s a real flaw in our view.
All in all though, this is a fun book and we’re glad that we had the opporunity to read it. It brings us back to that FROODY universe that Douglas Adams introduced us too 30 years ago and reminds us why we miss him so very much.
Dollhouse – Rossum/Boyd is Dead – one episode to go January 17, 2010
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After last week’s revelation that Boyd – flipping Boyd!! – is the head of Rossum – we knew that this week’s episode (The Hollow Men
What an amazing episode – as all the major characters come to realize how Boyd played EVERYONE (including us the fans). What a total shocker.
The way he manipulated Topher to fix the automatic imprinter was also amazing..
And of course the sheer irony of the end of Boyd and Rossum – destroyed by the very tech they manipulated Topher to fix.
“Did I fall asleep?” Boyd asked Echo…that was great wasn’t it?
“I always try and be my best” Boyd said with the grenade in hand. How brilliantly ironic a final stroke was that??
If this had been the last episode of Dollhouse – it might have been enough for us. Rossum is done, Dollhouse is destroyed..
But wait it’s not…
We’ve got the finale still to come – the Epitaph.
Alpha is also still running wild and oh yeah all the other dollhouses and copies of the Rossum founders too.
What is amazing is how Dollhouse has come full circle from the first episode in what has become a really complete series. Sure we would have like to have seen Dollhouse continue on for a few years more, but the way that Whedon has managed to tie things together, surprise us and amaze us is totally outstanding.
Fringe is Back and this time the freaks are hidden by …sound waves? January 15, 2010
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Johari Window
freaks hidden behind sound waves? interesting idea..
and really interesting to see how Walter has developed a friendship with Astrid too.
Agent Broiles also isnt’ the hard nosed cop he appears to be – he’s clearly willing to help people too.
Now what does any of this have to do with the pattern and or the trans-dimensional rift?
Nothing
but it was fun one-off episode
Daily News from Caprica – The Caprican site takes off January 14, 2010
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Do you really want to get into the world of the pre-apocalyptic cylon destroyed Caprica?
well now you can with the new Caprican news site- which looks like a daily newspaper from our favorite planet among the 13 colonies – (frak you picons!)
Yeaaah just all part of the lead up hype for the Caprica series – but still good fun…especially the Google Ads…
I guess the even though Google has been kicked out of China (or will be) the colonies are still a good place for search ads.
Star Trek Captains Log Sulu leads a great week Jan 13th for comics January 13, 2010
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Every Wednesday new comic books ship to stores across North America.
While there are a lot of interesting books for Scifi fans, our sister site – ShowMeSciFiComics.com – has a weekly list looking at the ones that fans are likely to graviate towards.
This week there is a new Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic trade paperback, a Farscape comic, new Doctor Who, new Battlestar Galactica 1980 and oh yeah the debut of STAR TREK CAPTAINS LOG SULU #1 – which gives us a Captain Sulu of the USS Excelsior tale.
Check out the full week in SciFi comics preview here.
Dollhouse – Boyd is Mr. Rossum? Really?? January 10, 2010
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Only two episodes left of Dollhouse and the surprises keep on rolling in don’t they?
Friday’s episode ‘ Getting Close’ had a few total shockers.
First – we alwasys figured Rossum was a British dude and that was that. But it turns out Rossum shifts bodies and is actually..BOYD!!
Unbelievable – so he’s been playing both sides against the middle the whole time? Didn’t anyone else know?
Astounding – we’re now going to go back and re-watch the whole series to see if there were any clues —
Boyd as Rossum changes the show, changes the whole reason why the house was going renegade…
Before that – Dr. Saunders/Whiskey was hiding out with Boyd?? rly?? and of course
Summer Glau got a bullet in the head(AWWWWWW….but will she reboot)?
Dollhouse has been an interesting show since its first episode, then hit a bit of a rough patch, but it sure looks like this show is wrapping up in tremendous fashion.
Star Wars Fate of the Jedi Abyss – The Kesh Sith are Back! December 21, 2009
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Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
As is often the case lately with Star Wars series – each installment has a few interesting development and plots and sub-plots but aren’t standalone stories.
In Abyss, we finally see the Kesh Sith confront the Skywalkers – which was the best part (and the finale) of the book.
The return of the Sith – not Darth Bane’s Sith – but the True Sith that number in the hundreds (thousands?) is perhaps the best underlying plotline in the Fate of the Jedi series.
The subplot of the going ons in Coruscant with Daala is relatively week and she’s not well written in this particular story. Author Troy Denning is best with the Skywalkers and the Sith and that’s where this story excels.
Yes, this is another example of a long drawn out story – but for fans (like us) it’s one that you just don’t want to miss.
Stargate Universe Renewed – Will be back for 20 episodes in Season 2 December 14, 2009
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The good folks at SyFy are so very much unlike the idiots that run Fox – aren’t they?
Today SyFy announced that Stargate Universe is being picked for a second season.
That’s good news.
No Stargate Universe is not the best iteration of Stargate – the first season so far has had an equal share of hits to misses – and it really does seem like Voyager meets 90210.
But it is evolving with each episode and it’s a show that despite some of our first negativity is actually starting to grow on us ..
That’s why a decent scifi show needs at least two – if not 3 or more seasons to mature.
Let’s just hope that Stargate Universe does mature beyond its pre-pubescent approach that we’ve seen so far..
Tron Evolution the video game before Tron Legacy December 14, 2009
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The original Tron movie was all about living inside a video game – and the same will be true for Tron 2 – now known as Tron Legacy.
The first official Tron Legacy game is called Tron Evolution and is set to be out in 2010.
Yeaah it looks like Deadly Disks are back, Solar Surfer too – remember those great intellivision games from the 80’s…we sure do those were the first great Intellivoice games…
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