Posted on 04/12/2009 2:27:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis
This week in Scifi:
Mon:
8/7 -- CHUCK -- NBC
9/8 -- Heroes -- NBC
Tues:
10/9 -- Fringe -- Fox
Wed:
8/7 -- Lost -- ABC
Fri:
9/8 -- The Dollhouse -- Fox
10/9 -- Primeval -- SciFi
Sat:
8/7 -- Kings -- NBC
I am still irate at Fox for pulling Drive in the middle of the series, and then promising to air the remaining 2-3 episodes that following summer — which they never did.
And then these networks wonder why viewers don’t flock to ‘continuing series’ programs.
I loved Journeyman as well. Time travel was done carefully, and actors did a superb job.
My hope for Stargate Universe is that they have no replicator or prior plots.
With BSG finished, the only TV show I make a point of watching is “Dollhouse.”
If it’s canceled, I’ll be pissed off, and let Fox know that I won’t bother with any more of their TV shows.
Mark
Fire Fly was very good. Serenity was excellent.
SAAB nailed it because it was about the people...not the special effects. Very similar to Battlestar, which made it way before it’s time.
Battlestar... this show is now the pinnacle of TV SciFi. That it had to end is regretful. That the writers/producers understood that it’s excellence lie in the fact that it had to have a natural, storyline ending rather than a ratings ending is one of the most commendable, brilliant acts in TV SciFi history.
What! It’s not coming back? Say it ain’t so!
Nothing could have helped Slater’s show.
I finally managed to watched the two Stargate movies from the past couple weeks and I have about 4 hours of Dark Shadows to watch. The 1990 series was shown on Chiller about a week or so ago. I taped the 18th century episodes. I watched most of that series the first time around, but I didn't see the end of that sequence. (I have since seen most of the original series on SF).
My understanding is that it basically begins with most of them in Star Fleet Academy, so there is some timeline/age continuity going on. Don’t, however, expect every detail to match up with the original TV show. The fact that the trailer shows a ‘60s era ‘vette going over a cliff is no accident...all pun intended.
Most of the reviews I’ve read have been very positive, so I am hopeful. I personally have no problem with them reinventing the concept IF they do a good job with it.
It’s my impression that the plot involves time-travel-related tampering with the history we know to explain the differences — you can even see a hint of this in one of the trailers, where the villain says “James T. Kirk was a great man — but that was another life.”
Ah..man... I hate the time-travel shi’ite. They’ve done it to death. However, if they use it as a simple plot device it might be OK. But if it is central to the plot, forget it.
Enterprise was the biggest lost opportunity in SciFi. The whole thing should have been about the newness of warp travel, being scared and stunned by new worlds and civilizations. The crew making wondrous discoveries and ACTING amazed, or thrilled, or scared, or curious. ANYTHING human. Instead it was a like they had been traveling in space all their lives. “Ho hummmn... Another new species. Log it and move on.” Idiots.
And the way they played with the time line was too much.The Zindi story line did it,thats when I stopped watching.Kirk never mentioned the Zindi,you`d think that would have made a lasting impression.
I heard the main bad guys were Goa'uld in Wraith bodies, led by a triumvirate of Harry Maybourne, Lt. Aiden Ford, and Apophis.
I also wish they’d go back to a “boldly go where no man has gone before” model, which is when both Stargate series were at their best. Leave the revisiting of past characters and villains, again and again and again and again, to fanfic where it belongs.
The most realistic looking spacecraft in sci-fi TV until the the remade BSG.
Indeed. Checkov's role in "The Wrath of Khan" is an excellent example of this. There have been a few attempts to explain the inconsistency with that one. (such as he was on the ship at the time, but on the "night" shift and didn't work with Kirk, Spock and the other main characters at the time.)
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