Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (8/07/11)

08/07/11 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (8/07/11)


Sun:
10/9 -- Falling Skies -- TNT (Season Finale)

Mon:
8/7 -- Eureka -- SyFy
9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy
10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy

Thurs:
10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Fri:
10/9 -- Haven -- SyFy
10/9 -- Torchwood Miracle Day -- Starz

[KevinDavis]

Very good Torchwood, Falling Skies, and Eureka.. Looks like Tochwood is much darker than last season and I like Eureka science this past season..

[KevinDavis]

[TomGuy]

Falling Skies is a double episode/season finale tonight, starting at 8:00 CT

[Liberty Valance]

We’ll be watching the Falling Skies finale.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Gonna pick up “Flashback” by Dan Simmons this week.

[wally_bert]

I guess new Torchwood will be on netflix sometime unless there is a good torrent to pull it from.

[TomGuy]

Not sure. Netflix and Starz have been having negotiation problems, in general. Starz and several premium and networks are mandating delays before their programs are available.

Do you use Usenet?

[LibertarianLiz]

Very good Torchwood, Falling Skies, and Eureka.. Looks like Tochwood is much darker than last season and I like Eureka science this past season..

I am really looking forward to the final two episodes of Falling Skies tonight.

Okay, you think Torchwood is darker than last season, when some aliens were using our children to maintain a "high"??? It is dark, but the concept last year was very disturbing for me. However, I will admit that the "torching" of one of the characters on Friday did make an impact on me. What do you think of the "we are now angels" turn that Danes has taken?

[KevinDavis]

Both the same, however, torching people just is genocide but I agree using Children to maintain a "high" is just as dark.

Something about Danes I don't trust.

[LibertarianLiz]

Something about Danes I don't trust.

Pretty much everything about Danes I don't trust. I keep wondering when he will snap and kill that PR woman.

[KevinDavis]

I think it is a matter of time that she gets killed. I think Bill Pullman deserves an award for his acting in this show.

[wally_bert]

I did at one time a few years back. I guess I need a client like newsbin or some such.

[Publius6961]

Looking forward to all of those, except Torchwood: Gay and Lesbian Day

[LibertarianLiz]

I think Bill Pullman deserves an award for his acting in this show.

Absolutely. I was thinking the same thing.

[ApplegateRanch]

So, is anyone else going to not clamor for second season of Outcasts?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Meantime, on BBC America, Commander Adama was just shot by Sharon.

[KevinDavis]

There will not be a second season.. BBC Cancelled Outcasts.

[ApplegateRanch]

I know; as I said, not clamor for. I couldn't help wondering if they put it on BBC-America to see if Yanks would want it back enough to create a viable market for a second season. NO.

Had I not know that there were only 8 episodes total, I wouldn't have stuck it out to watch the last 3 or 4 of them. Train wreck involving just a handcar, rather than a train.

Bad acting; bad execution of what could have been a decent story; not written nearly tight enough by more than half; too many totally extraneous threads; too many deadheads getting away with way too much for the situation; failure to communicate enough basic background information in the initial setup; I could go on, but....

Oh, and why on any planet, in any sane universe, would they try, time after time, to physically land ungainly deep-space craft, instead of orbiting & using shuttles...like CT-10 finally did?

I will not miss that show.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Nothing like a major plot change in the last minute of the last episode of the season on ‘Falling Skies’.

[Vanders9]

Outcasts was shoved to the back of the schedules half way through its run here in the UK. That's a very bad sign. The series was far too derivative anyway, and as Applegate said, very badly executed.

Rumour hath it that there are problems behind the scenes with Doctor Who too. A season in 2012 is looking unlikely.