Doctor Who Season 7 Exterminates BBC Records September 6, 2012
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by all account is a massive win for the Doctor Who franchise.
According to Entertainment Weekly:
The Saturday telecast was seen by 1.6 million viewers, which is both a time period high and a series best for the show since it started airing on the network in 2009.
Always a good sign when a new season starts off well…
Is Looper the next big SciFi Classic? September 6, 2012
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We’re big fans of Bruce Willis in SciFi flicks here on ShowMeSciFi.
We loved the Fifth Element, Armageddon and 12 Monkeys ..and know it looks like he’s set to star in an instant classic.
Time travel is always a solid SciFi concept, but one that is rarely executed properly. So far as we can tell, the concept behind Looper is a solid one. Time traveling hit men who go back in time to erase their victims from history. But what happens when that victim is supposed to be your future self?
Great idea, great premise and we can’t hardly wait for the official opening on Se
Star Trek 2 (new canon) Opens May 17 2013 and it should be massive September 5, 2012
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No we don’t know the full plot yet for Star Trek 2 of the new canon..
but Chris Pine – aka the Kirk that is not Shatner – has started to do some media interviews.
In one published this week in UK pub total force he said:
“The force [the Enterprise crew] are met with is much more frightening. It’s relentlessly action-packed and in terms of character development it goes places you’d never expect. The arc is huge for all the characters. It’s a really big story – I can’t hype it enough!”
Places you’d never expect hmm…well we’re still hoping to see some frakkign Klingons and we sure hope to see Kronos too.
Hugo Awards 2012 Winners – Doctor Who WINS For those of us that missed the live streaming.. September 5, 2012
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The Hugo Awards were given out over the weekend – and no we didn’t catch the show live…live thousands of others we were cut off by the morons that alleged copyright infringement (that never happened).
Somehow the Hugo Awards gave an award to Game of Thrones (that’s fantasy not scifi dumb asses!!), but they did give one for one of the best Doctor Who episodes in a generation – *The Doctor’s Wife [HD]
Anyways the full list of 2012 winners are:
BEST NOVEL
Among Others
(Tor)
BEST NOVELLA
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, September/October 2011)
BEST NOVELETTE
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011)
BEST RELATED WORK
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM
Game of Thrones (Season 1) (HBO)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
“The Doctor’s Wife” (Doctor Who) (BBC Wales)
BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM
Sheila Williams
BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM
Betsy Wollheim
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
John Picacio
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.
BEST FANZINE
SF Signal, edited by John DeNardo
BEST FAN WRITER
Jim C. Hines
BEST FAN ARTIST
Maurine Starkey
BEST FANCAST
SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer
of 2009 or 2010, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).
E. Lily Yu
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn – One of the Best Trek Books in Years September 4, 2012
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Ok we thought the first book in this series – Plagues of Night – was a little slow. This book is wall to wall, cover to cover excitement making this an awesome read.
DS9 as we know it is no more.
WOW.
The head of the Tal Shi’ar imprisoned and the Alpha Quadrant cutoff from the Gamma.
WOW.
The pure size of the plot shifts that happen in this book are massive and a delight to this Star Trek fan. No shortage of action or drama in this brilliantly crafted and written book – Highly recommended (but read Plagues of Night first!)
Star Trek Typhon Pact Plagues of Night – SLOW start, Awesome finish September 4, 2012
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This books was difficult to read – well at least the first two thirds of it.
Then the action kicked in.
If you can get through the ridiculously long and overdone setup in this book you’re in for a real treat.
The big finale that this book leads to reshapes the Star Trek canon as we know it. It is a must read for all Star Trek fans that are following this continuing saga…word of warning though…this book won’t make any sense unless you’ve read the Destiny series or the previous 4 Typhon Pact books.
Chad Vader Season 4 Starts on June 12th June 4, 2012
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We used to love Chad Vader.
The first season was pure awesome – as our Fav Sith’s (brother?) made his way through life as the night shift manager at Empire Food Market.
second season was also fun.
third season mostly sucked – and that was almost two years ago. since then – no chad vader.
Guess What? Chad is coming back. After a two year hiatus Blame Society Films is bringing him back starting on June 12th for a five episode run. We couldn’t be more excited.
And just for old times sake – here’s a link from our fav Chad Vader episode – Episode 6 from all the way back in 2007.
Star Wars: Blood Ties—Boba Fett is Dead #2 – oh wait no he’s not. June 4, 2012
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After that first issue we *almost* thought that Boba rly did get toasted.
He is after a clone, and hey lots of his brothers are around.
Now in this issue we get the real story – what happened and how his nice Mando’a helmet had a blaster bolt through it.
No surprise that Boba is going to use his half-brother to help him out, but what was a great surprise was seeing Sintas Vel.
that’s right – Sintas Vel, the woman that Boba Fett (in the books) has a child with. We can’t recall seeing sintas so beautifully drawn – errr painted as she has been in this issue.
Now the real hunt is one as we’ll find out how Boba can track down his own killers. No we don’t really care why they wanted to kill Boba, he is after all a bounty hunter so no doubt he has a lot of marks on his head.
The relationship between Boba and Connor Freeman (his half-brother) is interesting though. As it should be right? That’s what — Blood Ties – is all about.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison. PURE GENIUS June 4, 2012
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We all know Darth Vader to be a menace. But what we get in this new series is something a big …different.
This first issue is pure genius.
We get our young Imperial Officer just graduating as the core character, we see the Empire through his eyes .
And we see Vader through his eyes — and it’s an awesome sight. In the midst of Chaos it is Vader that restores order. In the midst of rebellion it is vader that stands up to put his lightsaber through those that would oppose him.
This is the Dark Lord of the Sith as he should be – as an instrument of the Empire.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic WAR #5. Zayne Goes Home June 4, 2012
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The whole Knights of the Old Republic: War series was interesting for a few reasons.
It was neat to see Jedi aligned with the Mandalorians and it was great to see Zayne Carrick not being the ‘bad guy’.
We got to see a different side of Zayne in this series — Zayne the hero and it was a side that we sure enjoyed.
This final issue was easily the best in this mini-arc as the story came together. Jedi can’t be Mando’a after and
Zayne proved that you
CAN GO HOME AGAIN.
Finally.
Isn’t that what he was just trying to do in the very first issue of this series? go home see his family and his girlfriend?
Star Trek Captain Together For the First Time (Minus Capt Pike) June 4, 2012
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Doesn’t it totally suck that there is no Star Trek on TV anymore (new shows that is). Remember the awesome days when we had both TNG and DS9 on at the same time? those were the days…
Star Wars has made $33 Billion. That’s Almost $1 Billion for Every Year It Has Existed June 4, 2012
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We all know that Star Wars is huge – but did you know that Star Wars has generated at least $33 Billion in revenues over the last 35 years?!
Yeah we were a little shocked too.
Facebook is a $100 Billion IPO and Star Wars isn’t as big? that’s nuts. No wonder Facebook is tanking
Blade Runner Sequel is a Go – but No Harrison Ford in sight May 18, 2012
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Apparently Ridley Scott is have a resurrection of sorts.
Next month we get the Alien Prequel Promtheus and now in a year — or two, we’re getting a Blade Runner sequel.
Is this a world with replicants gone mad? a world with replicant rights? or will we just see a replication defecate on the tomb of Dekker?
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Read the press release below:
LOS ANGELES, CA, MAY 17, 2012—Hampton Fancher is in talks to reunite with his “Blade Runner” director Ridley Scott to develop the idea for the original screenplay for the Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Bud Yorkin produced follow up to the ground-breaking 1982 science fiction classic, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
The filmmakers are also revealing for the first time that the much-anticipated project is intended to be a sequel to the renowned original. The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded.
The three-time Oscar-nominated Scott and his “Blade Runner” collaborator Fancher originally conceived of their 1982 classic as the first in a series of films incorporating the themes and characters featured in Philip K. Dick‘s groundbreaking novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“, from which “Blade Runner” was adapted. Circumstances, however, took Scott into other directions and the project never advanced.
Fancher, although a writer of fiction, was known primarily as an actor at the time Scott enlisted him to adapt the Dick novel for the screen. Fancher followed his “Blade Runner” success with the screenplays, “The Mighty Quinn” (1989) and “The Minus Man” (1999). He has continued to write fiction throughout his career.
Scott also will produce with Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove as well as Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.
The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.
State Kosove and Johnson: “It is a perfect opportunity to reunite Ridley with Hampton on this new project, one in fact inspired by their own personal collaboration, a classic of cinema if there ever was one.”
Released by Warner Bros. almost 30 years ago, “Blade Runner” was adapted by Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick‘s groundbreaking novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and directed by Scott following his landmark “Alien.” The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction). Following the filming of “Blade Runner,” the first of Philip K. Dick’s works to be adapted into a film, many other of Dick’s works were likewise adapted, including “Total Recall,” “A Scanner Darkly,” “Minority Report,” “Paycheck,” and the recent “The Adjustment Bureau,” among others.
Alien Prequel Prometheus Trailer is Pure Awesome May 1, 2012
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Boba Fett is Dead. Dark Times out of the Wilderness is over. Crimson Empire III is over too April 25, 2012
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Dark Horse Star Wars overload this week and we couldn’t be more excited
Leading the hit parade this week is STAR WARS BLOOD TIES BOBA FETT IS DEAD #1 (OF 4). YEEAAAh illustrated or should we say PAINTED by Chris Scalf.
This isn’t your regular comic book art – this is
ART.
While a new Blood Ties begins – Crimson Empire III ends with issue # 6 of 6 out this week. It has been a good ride but it’s time for Kir to go now.
STAR WARS CRIMSON EMPIRE III EMPIRE LOST #6 (OF 6)
OOOH but wait Dark Horse has one more awesome ending for us this week with Star Wars: Dark Times-Out of the Wilderness #5 – illustrated by the one and only Douglas Wheatley. Dark Times is an awesome series that has been plagued by publishing delays since the beginning – let’s hope that this final issue is everything we’ve been waiting for!
This post first appeared on our sister side ShowMeSciFiComics.com
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic War #3 Zayne Carrick Is Still a Wimp April 9, 2012
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Zayne Carrick is the hero that we kinda/sorta love to hate.
After all he has no blood lust, he just wants to live his life, he’s not interested in being the hero.
Yet in this issue when force the Mandos to return to the planet from which the Republic drafted him, he helps them take control of a station — in an effort to save lives.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawww.
Then he comes back to help save his Republic friends.
Nice.
But no, we still see no signs of his girlfriend, but for the first time in this series we do see his old ‘boss’ Gryph.
Good fun.
Star Wars Agent of the Empire #4 Jahan Cross Finally Lands on the Iron Eclipse April 9, 2012
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We had some doubts about this series when it first started, but Dark Horse and the GREAT John Ostrander have proven us wrong.
From first page to last, this issue gripped us with action that we couldn’t put down. Jahan Cross beds his enemies sister, then she gets toasted not by her brother as we expect, instead the brother is killed by the robotkilling father.
Nice twist.
Now how are they going to get off the iron eclipse?
Sure Han and Chewie will just swoop in …..
Or will they?
In any event, the addition of Jahan Cross to the Star Wars canon is a great one, he’s a character that we want to see a whole lot more of from Dark Horse in the months and years to come.
Star Wars Fate of the Jedi Apocalypse : THE WORST STAR WARS BOOK EVER WRITTEN?! April 7, 2012
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Fate of the Jedi started out as decent story….the introduction of Vestara Kai and the Lost Tribe of the Sith to the Star Wars cannon are both worthy additions.
That said, this last book was such a total piece of sh*t it makes us sick.
How this book ever got through editorial oversight is beyond us. This book could have been 200 pages shorter and it would have been much better, delivering the key plot points. As it was, this was easily the most painful Star Wars book we’ve read in years. Long, slow drawn out action. Sure action is great to have, this whole book is action and most of it makes no sense at all.
Were this not the last book in a series we’ve read from the beginning, there is no way we would have read this to the end, it’s that bad.
At the beginning of this series Luke leaves Coruscant, then he comes back. Then the Jedi leave, then they come back, Then they all leave again. And in between Abeloth is destroyed and Jaina get married to Fel. And oh yeah Vestara — is she good or evil? who knows…the author of this book totally buthered her character so much so that we just don’t care.
Yes we love Star Wars books, and yes we’ll still buy the next series that comes out — even though at this point it’s clear that the publisher is just abusing readers.
Get Ready of JabbaScript! April 5, 2012
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If you’re a programmer you’ve likely heard of JavaScript. Now there is a Star Wars version for fans of everyone’s favorite sleemo – jabba.
From the article:
JabbaScript, a truly portable, cross-platform language that can be picked up by anyone in a matter of minutes.For example, a simple applet which “lights” buttons as a user looks over them:
{
OnMouseOver=”chisa_kawa_bo_Wookie”;
OnMouseOut=”na_chana_wanga_Solo”;
}
else get “ban_shi_koba,_Jedi!”;
Total Recall REMAKE – Better Effects, but will it be a better movie? March 27, 2012
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The Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell is coming…how this will compare to Arnold’s classic remains to be seen, but the initial teaser trailer points to a darker, bigger world view.
http://comingsoon.springboardplatform.com/mediaplayer/springboard/video/cs008/71/463385/
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