In 2002, a great science fiction series named Firefly debuted on Fox, won some critical acclaim despite the boneheaded re-scheduling efforts by network bigwigs, and was promptly pulled after 11 episodes. It was probably one of the great science fiction[…]
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X-Files Redux
For various reasons — renting Season 1 from Netflix, reviewing the X-Files: Resist or Serve (Amazon) game for SCI-FI.com, working on my Delta Green campaign — I’ve been spending an awful lot of time thinking about the X-Files, and about what[…]
Read moreAliased
Alias is my kind of show. It’s got a cute, strong-willed female lead (Jennifer Garner), storylines involving shadow wars between rival espionage agencies, and the obligatory James Bond like spy toys. And yet, somehow over the last three years I’ve[…]
Read moreMurky, Boring Underworld Not Worth Fighting Over
Underworld is the story of the secret war between werewolves and vampires, a war that humans have been blissfully unaware of for years, but which now threatens to erupt into our consciousness. It was also the subject of a lawsuit[…]
Read moreHarsh Mistress Coming to Theatres?
SCI-FI.com is reporting that Tim Minear has been hired to do the screenplay adaptation for Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That’s excellent news — the novel’s been in limbo for forever and a day. The weird thing is how SCI-FI describes the book: “The novel deals with a 2076 rebellion on a former penal colony on the moon and has been read as an allegory about libertarianism and its costs.”
Read moreCan Humanity Survive a Draconic Reign of Fire?
A handful of humans struggle to survive in a world ruled by dragons.
Read moreA Desperate New Future for Battlestar Galactica
One of the most divisive issues among science fiction geeks in 2003 (even more than Matrix sequels) was the re-make of Battlestar Galactica. Richard Hatch, Apollo on the original series, had been fighting for years to see Galactica resurrected, and[…]
Read moreThe Battlestar Galactica Blog
News of another science fiction blog’s reached my inbox. Michael Kantor has launched a Battlestar Galactica web log called, simply enough, Battlestar Galactica Blog. You can check it out at www.galacticablog.com. Recent topics include “Mormon influences in ‘The Living Legend’”,[…]
Read moreSurviving Revolutions
I saw The Matrix: Revolutions last Wednesday, and based on some of the reviews I’ve read online (cnn.com, wired.com) I apparently survived a cinematic catastrophe of epic proportions. The sequel (as with its immediate predecessor) was big a failure as[…]
Read moreRediscovering Science Fiction Through Netflix
There have been a lot of changes since the baby came, but one of the biggest is that we rarely, if ever, go to Blockbuster any more. Instead, we rent movies from Netflix. For about $20 a month, we can[…]
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