Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/13/11)

11/13/11 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/1311)


Monday:
8/7 -- Terra Nova -- Fox

Wednesday:
9/8 -- Prophets of Science Fiction -- Science Channel

Friday:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy

[KevinDavis]

Very good prophets of Science Fiction.. I think the tale of Frankenstein is not anti science, but be careful in what we create.

[KevinDavis]

[JRandomFreeper]

Has Terra Barfo gotten any better? Or is it still a dope opera?

I've missed even good 'B' grade on-screen sci-fi since the loss of 'Serenity'.

Terror Nova isn't even a 'B' show. I'm willing to give it a chance if it gets better. I want to believe stupid libs can write and produce good sci-fi.

/johnny

[wastedyears]

I just finished listening to the Larry Niven Ringworld audio books (helps work go by much faster). Definitely very interesting stuff and I enjoyed them greatly.

[wastedyears]

I watched that and I thought to myself, ‘since they found a rip in time and went back to the dinosaur age, what does that mean about the asteroid that wiped them out’?

Something as big and simple as that should cause a lot of people to not watch it. It’s the leading theory on the extinction, and I heard nothing about it when I watched the pilot episode.

[sten]

terra nova is not sci fi. it’s liberal social bs with dinosaur dressing

not even worth the download

[TomGuy]

SyFy has 3 scripted shows in development

UNT. ROBERT H. WOLFE PROJECT
Universal Cable Productions
Robert H. Wolfe — Executive Producer/Writer

After decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring Law And Order.

SEEING THINGS (working title)
Fox Television Studios
David Slack — Executive Producer
Scott Rosenberg and Robert Cort — Co-Executive Producers
David Slack and Gabrielle Stanton — Writers

A cop becomes a ghost after his violent death and the only person who can help close his last case is a socially Awkward man who realizes that the hallucinations he’s had all his life may not be a figment of his imagination.

GHOST PROJEKT
Oni Press
CBS TV Studios
Brett Matthews — Executive Producer/Writer
Andy Bourne, Eric Gitter — Executive Producer

Based on the popular comic series, a female KGB agent and male American weapons inspector form an unlikely partnership when a deadly force is unwittingly unleashed from a Siberian research facility.

==

The first one sounds like a regular 'space opera' and might have potential. The other two sound like -- been there, seen that.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Saw "Arctic Predator" a made for TV movie on the Tube last night. The story was naggingly familiar and then it hit me, this was Dan Simmons "The Terror" transposed to the other end of the planet and rather badly mangled.

The Terror is notable for being based on a true story of a British Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The two ships in the expedition ended up frozen in the ice for two years until they finally were broken up by the compression forces. Surviving crewmen walked to shore where they later died. The ship's logs and a couple of crew diaries were recovered. Dan Simmons throws in one speculative element to this historical mix and it is off to the races.

I highly recommend the book, the movie less so but it is a bit of fun.

[Krankor]

[airedale]

Where did you find the picture of a leading Feminazi or perhaps Princess Nancy

[Krankor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E9tRKC9_I5s#t=0s

[Vaquero]

‘since they found a rip in time and went back to the dinosaur age, what does that mean about the asteroid that wiped them out’?

first off, it is an alternate earth...at least from the moment that the first humans ‘changed’ the future by their presence....they talked about that in the first episode....
it is 85 million years ago..so it is 20 million years before the ‘Chicxulub’ event of which you speak.

and many paleontologist....notably Bob Bakker, do NOT believe the event was the extinction event...he does not see ANY dino remains for many millennium BEFORE the KT boundry, and postulates a combination of factors, primarily disease from dino migration across land bridges, was the primary cause....another possible cause being the Deccan Traps volcanic event in what is now India, some 65+ million years BP.

just my $0.02

[Vaquero]

you missed one....

A History Channel Thanksgiving...on South Park...
believe me when I say it is SciFi.

all disclaimers apply....(can be very RAW)

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving

[Tanniker Smith]

Primeval is back on. The DVR picked it up, I haven’t seen it yet.

[wally_bert]

Good episode. I look forward to the next one.

[TomGuy]

Primeval is back on. The DVR picked it up, I haven’t seen it yet.

I think you are going to be disappointed.

I saw Primeval listed in the online TV guide and had a momentary surge of excitement, thinking the British Primeval series was back. On reading the brief description, however, it was the wrong show. The one in the TV guide is a made-for-SyFy(IIRC) movie.

[TomGuy]

According to internet reports, Primeval season 5 (6 episodes) were made and broadcast as the series finale (June 2011).

June 27, 2011: Primeval’s co-creator Adrian Hodges has explained that the future of the show is uncertain, but he would definitely like it to continue to Series 6.

Hodges indicated that the finale of Series 5 will serve as an ending, but if the show does get a sixth series, it is unlikely to air until 2013.

Per Wikipedia, "A Canadian spin-off, titled Primeval: New World, was announced on 15 September 2011, with production beginning in the winter."

[BenLurkin]

Mrs. Lurkin likes Terra Nova. She appreciates that it is still a “family show”. I find it watchable.

[JRandomFreeper]

'Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints' (Kipling).

Good for her, but I was looking for something a little less like 'Days of our Lives' and more like '1632' by Flint.

/johnny

[BenLurkin]

Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring Law And Order.

Inter-stellar Sharia?