Closet Sci-Fi Geek

Lost is going to get split up in scheduling next season (ABC is so bizarre with scheduling), and a CBS exec says some stupid things about serial TV shows getting canceled and leaving viewers in the lurch. Then she recants.

July 19th, 2006 | Category: News, Television | Comments (3)

I’m belatedly getting around to watching The 4400 on DVD. I’m actually surprised at how good the show is so far (but I’ve only watched two episodes). One niggling plot annoyance: I hardly think that any father would be able to file a successful restraining order against the mother of his child. I don’t care [...]

July 19th, 2006 | Category: Television | Leave a comment

Eureka will premiere on the Sci Fi channel tomorrow night, Tuesday, July 18, and will be repeated several times throughout the week. This is either going to suck big-time or be really good, due to the time period it’s set in. Since it’s set in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, I’ll be happy [...]

July 17th, 2006 | Category: News, Television | Comments (4)

One of my visitors here recently linked to her blogs, one of which is Speculative Faith, for Christians who want to bring God into sci-fi. While that’s not my thing, I think it’s a great idea..I’m sure there’s a huge market for it.
For myself, I’m working on writing new agey humorous speculative fiction. We’ll [...]

July 17th, 2006 | Category: Books | Comments (4)

I just watched Gremlins again for the first time since, oh, the 1980s. That movie was a huge, massive hit! But geez oh pete – I forgot how stupidly violent the film is. To whit:
Mom grinds up a gremlin in a mixer bowl, splattering black Gremlin goop all over the kitchen walls.
Mom throws gremlin into [...]

July 16th, 2006 | Category: Movies | Comments (2)

Thank the Klingon gods, it appears that Sci Fi is moving away from reality television. Phew! Some new stuff coming up includes:
Outpost, a miniseries, “which centers on a group of space explorers in the near future who discover an ancient artifact buried beneath the surface of an alien planet.”

Devil’s Advocate, “a one-hour conspiracy thriller from [...]

July 14th, 2006 | Category: News, Television | Comments (1)

Here’s something fun to take with you on your next road trip: a sci-fi audiobook read by Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie (”Q” on Star Trek: The Next Generation). H.G. Well’s book The Time Machine is a classic science fiction story of a time traveler who visits a faraway future where humans have evolved [...]

July 13th, 2006 | Category: Books | Leave a comment

The finale of the second season of Doctor Who aired in the UK recently, and Rose Tyler was given an appropriately sappy sendoff. Taking her place will be Martha Jones, played by a newcomer, Freema Agyeman. Agyeman had a small part in the season finale as a different character, but I won’t give away what [...]

July 12th, 2006 | Category: News, Television | Comments (4)

It’s not quite sci-fi, but enough elements of fantasy prop it up to make me feel that the second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean is worthy of a review here. The film is already a huge success, and has beaten Spider-Man 2 for the biggest opening-weekend record at $132 million. (In contrast, Superman Returns, [...]

July 10th, 2006 | Category: Movies | Comments (1)