Posted on 05/13/2012 4:22:57 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (05/13/12)
Monday:
9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy
meager helpings
I would too, he's a real Richard!
That being said, I enjoy Eureka, it's just fun stuff..........I hope it continues.
Fringe on the other hand is really jumping the shark now with Bell and that third alternative universe.......I'm losing interest really fast.
"Touch" with Kiefer Sutherland, is really good too, I just wish he would stop talking like he just finished running a marathon and talk like a normal person.......
How did e get to be a semi-regular at the expense of other characters?
Touch has been renewed for a 2nd season. [I have gotten aggravated at Jack Bauer running around asking, whining, ‘what do you want me to do, Jake?’ ‘Is this what I’m supposed to be doing, Jake?’ ‘Help me, Jake’.
Awake takes the dirt nap.
Supernatural goes for an 8th season [it just barely survived, was nearly cancelled after season 1; now, it is one of the few CW ‘success’ stories].
Once Upon a Time and Grimm have both been renewed for a 2nd season. [They are fun to watch. OUAT took some getting used to as it switched from past to present to past. Grimm is an interesting take on the family Grimm and encounters with strange creatures.]
Syfy Saturday has a made-for-TV movie, American Warships. Syfy has a history of making bad movies with names and themes very similar to theater releases.
MTV’s Teen Wolf is scheduled for a season 2 later this summer.
Folks this may be off subject but it’s one of those things that stick in the mind.
Does anyone remember a book, or a series, about warriors that came from a planet where they had to carry a gun with them at all times because everything on the planet would attack a human?
Made them great warriors for hire. I can’t remember who wrote it or what its called.
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Well don't forget, he's a graduate of the Star Fleet Academy and his mom was the Chief Medical Officer on the USS Enterprise-D and it's successor ship the USS Enterprise-E.
It helps to have parents in high places.........
I don’t think it’s the one you’re thinking of but...
The Dorsai stories by Gordon R Dickson is a great sci/fi series in that vein.
Harry Harrison’s trilogy: Death World; Death World II/The Ethical Engineer; Death World III/The Horse Barbarians. Planet was named Pyrrus, and *everything* on it had human on its menu.
Read them originally as they came out as 3-part serials in Astounding/Analog.
I’m watching Dances with smurfs on FX now. Its really too bad they went with the anti military anti corporate angle. It could have been a great movie if they had made them allies fighting a common enemy.
That is why I didn’t watch it..
Harry Harrison’s Deathworld trilogy.
Visually stunning but otherwise crap. Ideal for muting and turning on some music. Maybe giving it the MST3K treatment.
Fox renews ‘Touch,’ cancels ‘The Finder,’ ‘Alcatraz’
...the network renewed its Kiefer Sutherland-led drama “Touch” and canned “Alcatraz” and “Bones” spinoff “The Finder.”
Touch Sucks...unless you are a numerologist, I suppose...and unless 4 digit numbers written by autistic boys connecting 3-4 world shaking events each week is your cup of tea....
Alcatraz (not my favorite but ok) needed some closure...5-6 more episodes to explain what the heck was actually going on.....
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