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This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (09/14/08)
09/14/08 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 09/14/2008 8:06:53 PM PDT by KevinDavis

This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (09/14/08):

Mon:
8/7 - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- Fox

Tues:
8/7 - Fringe -- Fox
8/9 - Eureka -- SciFi


Fri:
10/9 - Stargate Atlantis -- SciFi


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: atlantis; scifi
As for Terminator: it was a good episode..

Fringe: Boring.. Not my type of show...

Eureka: Lose the hippie sister (even though she is good looking)

Stargate Atlantis: Typical episode with Todd.. I really like Teyla.. She can sing, she is good looking, and she can kick butt.


Well on September 17th the original Battlestar Galactica first aired.. To me it is first sci-fi show.. I never heard of Star Trek until the movie. I also had the first tv crush Maren Jensen. To me it was the first Sci-Fi on tv that dealt with good and evil. It was also the first Sci-Fi that introduced us to "ascended" beings (before SG1 dealt with the ancients) with the Ship of Lights.. It also had the best endings (Showing the Apollo 11 moon landing), except for Babylon 5 Sleeping in Light (when the station blew up). Granted Star Trek started Sci-Fi on tv, but I think the old Battlestar Galactica started modern Sci-Fi.. On a side note George Lucas tried shut down BSG, claiming that the show copied Star Wars...
1 posted on 09/14/2008 8:06:54 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 09/14/2008 8:08:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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The most important thing to me is that SciFi will be showing Season 10 of Stargate SG1. Finally.

I've had the cliffhanger for season nine on the DVR for a while. It's been on twice, in fact.

Then, last week, they had a marathon of Season 10 episodes. But they DIDN'T start with the season opener!
I only watched the 199th and 200th episodes. The rest are still saved and waiting.

3 posted on 09/14/2008 8:13:27 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Tanniker Smith; All

This past weekend was the last time SG1 aired in Syndication..


4 posted on 09/14/2008 8:17:21 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: KevinDavis
Terminator - Awesome. Loved it. This show is gonna work. I just hope it stays around for a while.

Fringe - Decent show, but it was REALLY boring. They took a half-hour Twighlight Zone and made it into a movie. Waaayyyy too long. The future episodes should be better, since they will be 40 minutes instead of 1:15.

Eureka - Not as good as last season, plus they killed off one of the best characters. The hippie chick is VERY irritating. I guess that is mostly my conservative bias showing, though.

Atlantis is officially cancelled. No idea how many more eps we are going to get. Too bad, too. It was getting good.

5 posted on 09/14/2008 9:57:51 PM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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To: KevinDavis

I kind of liked Fringe...Broyles reminds me of a friend from awhile back, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more of him. A very promising character.


6 posted on 09/15/2008 1:26:00 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (They're penguins! Just wipe the oil off the white parts and toss 'em back!!)
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To: KevinDavis
Should mention "Lost" starts airing on the scifi channel at 7 ET for a block of four shows from the series beginning... Starting tomorrow (Monday) night.

I never watched it in syndication but hear it's a good show...

7 posted on 09/15/2008 1:52:22 AM PDT by JDoutrider (Pray for our side!)
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To: America_Right

The hippie chick is going to cost viewers I have been hanging in there since her appearance, but much more of this character and I am going to pass on Eureka.


8 posted on 09/15/2008 4:40:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: KevinDavis
8/7 - Fringe -- Fox

The biggest problem I have with getting involved in a new series is that most of them get discontinued before a legitimate ending.

Kinda like reading a good novel then discovering that the last 75 pages are missing........

9 posted on 09/15/2008 4:54:23 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Polar bears who suffer depression and anxiety due to the global warming threat are bi-polar bears)
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HEROES.....7 days and counting..........


10 posted on 09/15/2008 6:46:43 AM PDT by TheRobb7 (Has "Movement Conservatism" FINALLY been reborn?)
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To: KevinDavis

I actually liked Fringe... it could become really good or really awful, and I think it’s going to go one way or the other really fast, but so far it was fun to watch for the special effects and explosions, and it had a halfway decent plot, but super-lame dialogue and acting. Why they even advertised the fact that it was scripted by ‘the writers of Transformers’ was beyond me, cause as far as I could tell, the writing in Transformers could have been done by giving an 8-year-old some action figures and writing down the results. Beyond that, it really looks like my type of show.

I haven’t seen last weekend’s Stargate Atlantis yet cause I still haven’t got DVR, but the one before it, “Whispers” was really good. I’ve been missing that kind of TV since the X-Files and Buffy went off the air =( Although, I agree with you on Teyla. The one thing about the Stargate franchise that always appealed to me the most was that there were cool female characters that were more than just completely useless eye candy (although I NEED Teyla’s clothes. She’s the best-dressed female character currently on TV, IMO.)


11 posted on 09/15/2008 12:22:54 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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I never watched (Lost) in syndication but hear it's a good show...

If you have broadband you can watch every season of Lost on ABC TV in high-def. Lost is my personal favorite TV show of all-time. I think it's riveting. And I just turned 50 so I'm no "kid". :)

12 posted on 09/15/2008 4:10:10 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy voting McCain/Palin)
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To: America_Right; KevinDavis

Terminator - Still works well, but I’m afraid they are about to go on some strange plot tangent

Fringe - Idea is good, execution is ridiculous. Needed another 2-3 plot points to hold the time it was given for the pilot, and a slightly more believable basis. “Basement of Harvard” may have sounded good in the writing room, but unless some explanation was cut out, it was too unbelievable for the audience.

Eureka - Average show, and I have to go against the flow and say I like the sister being there as a foil/problem causer. Stark was getting too 1-dimensional and any character growth was cut off because the writers could not allow him to marry Blake. It would be nice to see some of the scientists be put off with her rather than wanting to date her though.

Atlantis - The Wraith have to die or be cast off quick for a new enemy. My dream would be for them to discover “ascension” isn’t just some Buddhist thing and that the Ancients and human evolution are not the only path to some “heaven” existence. Of course, if they could explore that, then they wouldn’t be getting cancelled.


13 posted on 09/15/2008 4:41:53 PM PDT by dan1123 (If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
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To: TheRobb7
HEROES.....7 days and counting..........

I would be more excited if season 2 didn't almost completely ruin the show.

14 posted on 09/15/2008 4:43:45 PM PDT by dan1123 (If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
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I liked Whispers cause of Nicole Deboer. The about Stargate is that they made smart look sexy..


15 posted on 09/15/2008 5:49:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: KevinDavis
Does HBO's "True Blood" count as Sci-Fi?

BTW, I was watching the second episode and I was pretty darned certain that Data [Brent Spiner] had a bit part as the county coroner, although I can't find credits for it anywhere.

If true, then oh, how the might have fallen.

16 posted on 09/15/2008 10:02:44 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Does HBO's "True Blood" count as Sci-Fi?

I don’t know if it counts as Sci-Fi but after watching the first two episodes, I’m hooked ;) <,
17 posted on 09/15/2008 10:23:04 PM PDT by Caramelgal (a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer except that you have actual responsibilies)
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Is it me or is Terminator the most “Christian” Sci-Fi??


18 posted on 09/16/2008 7:03:15 AM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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