Posted on 05/08/2011 11:13:28 AM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (5/08/11)
Mon:
9/8 -- SGU -- SyFy
10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy
Fri:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
Sat:
9/8 -- Dr Who -- BBC America
Universe started off too downbeat: nothing worked, everything was a disaster. By the time they had morphed into a positive attitude they had lost their audience. The second series was/is far better than the first, but too late I fear!
“Trying to get back home” shows almost always do worse than “exploration” or “space battle” shows.
I like all well-written and acted sci-fi but I wounder why they keep trying to do these type of shows.
People like going forward not backwards.
“Trying to get back home” shows almost always do worse than “exploration” or “space battle” shows.
I like all well-written and acted sci-fi but I wounder why they keep trying to do these type of shows.
People like going forward not backwards.
I think you are right.. This was a bad case of them trying to copying another show.
Yes.. Due to money problems... I think that Stargate will be picked up another studio my guess is Sony..
Make sure you watch the Neil Gaiman episode.
Star Blazers airs Friday morning (Thurs overnight) at 2am. Two episodes.
It started a few weeks ago, so I missed the first six episodes or so.
I haven’t watched SyFy in ages and had no idea. I will try to set the DVR to capture.
Would that other show by any chance be SyFy's own Battlestar Galactica?
When BSG first premiered, and after its first few episodes, I thought that it might well become the best SF program on TV. By the time it had ended, I was sick of the continual depressive atmosphere of the show, the moral darkness and ambiguity, and the general sense of doom (not to mention the contortions of plot and the general sense of having been narratively screwed).
The producers of Stargate Universe wanted them a "grown-up" Stargate series (meaning morally ambiguous, depressive, generally despondent--BSG-flavored, in other words)--and completely contrary to the bright, sunny, fun world of every other Stargate incarnation--which was one of the major reasons that most of us loved the series that came before SG:U.
Did not follow SG:U beyond the first season, for the same reasons that friends and fellow Stargate fans that I knew quit: it was a betrayal of everything that Stargate was about.
Cannot but be relieved at SG:U's demise--apologies to those who liked the thing.
Stargate : Perverts in Space will be back?
I can watch Dr Who indefinitely, but I managed only 3 episodes of Perverts in Space.
I thought it was an above average epi. Easy-on-the-eyes Karen Gillan
trying to be Kiera Knightley. A predictably sappy ending,
complete with heightened music. A ripped off scene of some
forgotten USO themed movie, iirc.
Plenty of holes to be sure, but overall, it was a 6/10.
Did Fringe just "jump the shark"?
I'd love reaction to that episode.
The once great Dr. Who: Sappy knock on Nixon, and yuch promo for homofagual “marriage”.
You’re too hard on SGU — in their alt time path everybody gets NORMALLY married and hath kiddies.
Obviously a quite sharp play on words!
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