Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/19/09)

07/19/09 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

This week in Scifi:

Sun:

8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC
9/10 -- Meteor -- NBC


Mon:
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America


Tue:
9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America


Wed:
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America


Thurs:
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America


Fri:
9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America


Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

[discostu]

Sort of, the main characters from legend are teenagers, but the intended audience is grown-ups. They messed around with the time line and back story a lot, so Arthur actually knows his father is king and is growing up in Camelot (at least for now, who. So it’s not for purists, but it’s a British production so the armor is awesome, and it’s entertaining.

[KevinDavis]

Owen, I’m not going to miss.. Tosh yes..

[wally_bert]

Tosh is the bigger loss in many respects.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I am no purist, but Arthur growing up in Camelot is pretty disconcerting IMHO!

[donna]

LOL! Now that is interesting! Thanks.

[BenLurkin]

There was a show on a couple weeks back that looked like a first episode of a Sci-Fi series.

It featured a small group of people, some married some not, who were headed off on a long space voyage.

The computers were acting up and had killed one character.

Any idea if that was just a pilot or where and when to catch more of it?

[Hot Tabasco]

What idi anybody think of Hangar 13? I’m having a hard time watching it.

Just junk sy-fy along with Eureka and Primevil........I record them tho and watch them on lazy afternoons. They're entertaining and beat any of the crap on the major channels..........

I'm not looking for high intellectual stuff, just something to keep me from listening to talk radio or reading politics here.

[BigCinBigD]

I'm waiting for Caprica and Star gate Universe. Warehouse 13 has potential. But I keep expecting Indiana Jones to pop up at any moment.

[Nipplemancer]

i couldn’t wait for them to air on BBCAmerica so I acquired them off the interwebs a few hours after the original airings.
the mini-series was great, but knowing it’s the only Torchwood until 2010 made it too much of a tease, same thing with the Dr. Who specials planned this year. 10 hours of television for both series. what a shame.

[BenLurkin]

BTW Katie Sackhoff part of Season 8 of “24”?

[Captain Beyond]

Yeah I hate that got canceled. I really enjoy her acting. She has the robot/cyborg thing down pat and better than Arnold in the later ones for sure. Plus her Firefly character was really good also. I hated to see Bryan Austin Green get offed in the series. He has really come along ways since 90120 his character was really spot on and believable. Also the Cromartie and the John Henery robots were really interesting characters that were well played. Shirley Manson's character was getting really interesting also to bad it ended.

Hopefully SciFi eerr the sissy SYFY(I hate the new logo) or maybe the CW will pick it up and do something with it.

[Captain Beyond]

I finally got to see WH-13. Not bad idea a play on the Indiana Jones warehouse concept hopefully it gets better.

I see they are going to bring back Sanctuary back great concept hopefully they will start taking advantage of it get more SciFi with it and kick up the action a bit. Maybe invent a CG character to help them out and better CG badguys.

[Hyzenthlay]

Yeah, I’m just recording Torchwood, cause I’ll be out of town on Friday night, and a couple friends and I are gonna get together sometime later and watch it all... then I’ll watch whatever else when it airs. I like my DVR =)

[Scythian]

You're right, here's what I found in warehouse 23

A small notecard with the inscription: "Perpetual Motion Machine: To start, flip card over." The reverse side has the same inscription.

[discostu]

Think of it like those non-soundtrack albums, you know “music inspired by the movie”. This is a TV show inspired by Arthurian legend.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

BTW Katie Sackhoff part of Season 8 of “24”?

Heck of an improvement on Garofalo!

[wally_bert]

I will miss Primeval when it goes away. Eureka is good lighthearted fun.

[wally_bert]

Slightly OT but Captain Jack related, has anyone watched “A Problem Called Maria?”. John B. is one of the judges and pretty entertaining. I liked Captain Jack a lot in Who and love Torchwood. Looking forward to the mini-series.

[Hot Tabasco]

Yeah, I’m just recording Torchwood,

I haven't seen any listings for Torchwood, what channel (SciFi?) and what day and time?

[Duke Nukum]

I like Hanger 13. Nice characters. Good actors. Entertaining. But it’s not like it’s my favorite show but I can get into it a lot better than that Amanda Tapping vehicle they launched last year. And way better than Torchwood which has yet to find some reason to still be on the air. Maybe the Children mini-series will be good.

I daresay, what Torchwood needs is a cracking good writer like Garth Marenghi to breath some life into the series.