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Posted on 07/26/2009 9:00:35 AM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/26/09)
This week in Scifi:
Sun:
8/7 -- Dr Who: Planet of the Dead -- BBC America 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC
Tue:
9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy
Fri:
9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy
9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America
Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com
What happened to ‘Enterprise’ on scifi or syfy or whatever their flavor of the month is.....
It’s my favorite star trek, do to its general lack of PC and prime directive crap, since the TOS (voyager being the worst...with the exception of 7 of 9).
Back on.. I swear that Sybil runs the scheduling department on the “SyFy” channel..
The Dr. Who is going to be wonderful. Am washing and waxing my Tardis.
On another subject: a few threads back, I mentioned seeing the same two character actors pop up on reruns of Poltergeist the Legacy and Stargate: SG-1 within days of each other, and something similar happened a couple days ago.
I finished an episode of Poltergeist on the DVR, and when it ended, the Syfy (ick) channel popped up. There was a marathon of "The Outer Limits", which I've only seen a couple of episodes. Anyway, it was the first scene, so I figured I'd watch until the opening credits. Two people running from soldiers in the woods, one throws a knife at a soldier, infects him somehow and he starts to die horribly. An officer arrives and looks at him, apologizes and shoots him. That officer was Derek de Lint from Poltergeist. I've never seen him in anything else (that I've noticed, at any rate).
Okay, so I watch after the break, first thing I see is Nathan Fillion who owns a coffee bar. Okay, I'm interested. Next, is his assistant, played by Robbi Chong, also of "Poltergeist", and also someone that I've never seen in anything else. Hello? Okay, now I had to watch just to see them in other parts.
There was a logical reason why these two turned up together: the director was Helen Shaver, also of Poltergeist.
Anyway, the episode was "Star Crossed", and it was sort of a remake of Casablanca with humanoid aliens in place of Nazis, and a Russian woman in place of Claude Reins who didn't seem "Shocked" at all. Not terrible, but I'm glad they didn't write the original.
I haven’t seen Warehouse 13 yet. Thinking about getting the episodes from Itunes to catch up. Is it worth it?
I'd love to organize a Best Of DVD for Voyager. I could cull together 6-10 hours of great television, but I'd probably have to include the pilot and finales to make sense.
Hey, anyone remember that time that they had TWO great episodes IN A ROW!
anyone else notice that Eve Myles has packed on a few pounds? I mean she was never Billie Piper, but she was cute in a Welsh DHH kind of way.
Although not Sci-Fi, I really enjoy NBC’s KINGS. An updated look at the story of David.
I saw that episode a couple of days ago also.
She had a nice voice.
Voyager...
hey whatever became of that ‘vulcan from another planet’....Tuvac Shakur, I think his name was....?
Neelix and Kes had to be the worst aliens ever...(the tradoff of Kes with 7 of 9 was, however brilliant...at least in the eye candy department...’rack of 9’ she was known as amongst me and my budds....)
you had to hate Captain Janeway and her estrogen-flaming-beeyotch style of command...
the show would have been unwatchable except there was nothin’ else on and you kind of hoped there would be a good episode slipped past the producers...
I googled Sybil...no luck....who is sybil?
I think it will be in the long run. Nothing astonishing has happened yet to prevent you from jumping in if you only have a synopsis of the plot. It’s been mostly episodic in nature up until now, so there shouldn’t be anything in this week’s episode that spoils anything previously.
Walking past my living room door last week, I heard his voice. He was a door man on one of those kids/teen shows on Nick or Disney or somewhere.
Kes was bad, Neelix I could deal with -- he got me to wondering if Robert Guilliame or anyone else from the cast of Benson was going to become an alien. The biggest problem was recurring villains -- if you're two years closer to home and you're still in the same race's space, they would have to have a big frickin' empire. Even if it were fractured, it'd still have to be pretty damned big.
They showed a nine-minute preview of “The Prisoner” at Comic-Con on Friday. I never heard of the original, but this new preview looks pretty good. Cast members were there to talk about it. Here’s a link to the preview we saw:
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00025950.html
For those fans of the original, how does this compare?
I thought Children of Earth is exactly what I was hoping from the so-called “watershed” series when I first heard about Torchwood. I think Children dealt with a tough issue in an adult way and was insightful in the way government officials might handle such a crisis.
I actually found the 4th episode to be the most depressing.
Even Gwen was less annoying this time out.
Overall, this is what I expect and hope for from speculative fiction. Bravo!
Sybil was a famous multiple personality disorder patient. There was a book and a couple of movies about her and she had something like 16 different personalities.
< sigh > God, I feel old!
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