Sci-Fi News and Reviews

Sure, everyone's entitled to their opinions. But those who didn't like the Doctor Who of old should be fed lima beans with a stash of rabbit lettuce on the side.

The thing that bothers me most is that special effects matter most to viewers. This leaves little for the imagination. The old Doctor Who series managed to take stories as a priority. This, thankfully, continues well into the new series airing on the Sci-Fi Channel. (I still can't stand that abbreviation, sci-fi).

Everyone seems to make fun as the poke at the old shows. They say it's cheesy, whatever that means. They complain about "wobbly" sets. I've seen every single show and have most on DVD and tape. I never saw a wobbly set. Cheap, yes. But not wobbly.

I look foward to seeing the new series on Sci-Fi and it feels like they're giving the series a pretty good chance. Even though I've seen the shows already on DVD. Very, very few shows center on a character who has a dislike for using weapsons. That is a nice change instead of those bumbling idiots who think everything should be resolved by shooting up the storm with big guns.

For the record, Battlestar Galactica and Stargate of today are some of the most godawful shows on TV.

Yum! Lima beans!

Ok. I'll bite, what ARE a few good sci-fi shows currently on TV, then?

That's a pretty good question. Not much comes to mind. TV is like a vast wastland for science-fictions ideas. It's a very empty space. I'm still wracking my head over this one.
I'm tempted to say Carnivale, but that's more like horror/fantasy. Plus it's currently not on TV anymore.
I'd like to add The Eleventh Hour with Patrick Stewart that was shown in England. But that was cancelled already. And I haven't seen it yet. It's based more on science-fact. Like X-Files without the weirdness.
Science-fiction hasn't had very many good outings on television: S-F and TV has long enjoyed a bad relationship together. If it were movies, then I'd say Seconds and Brazil were excellent forway into the S-F realm.
Watching TV is like sticking your finger in a light socket. You know you're going to get a bad buzz out of it.

I liked the scarf!

Heh. Don't really agree about the sci-fi on TV, but I LOVE the analogy! The buzz - bad or otherwise - is true. I love horror for the roller coaster factor, so why not?

If there's something you think is hot that I should report on, please let me know! I'm always looking for new stuff to fodder.

And the scarf... ok, maybe it was the hair I didn't like. Now that I'm back in a cold climate I appreciate scarves more. ;)

For those interested in the Doctor Who series, there is a full box set version coming to the likes of Best Buy stores on July 4 this year.

I do feel like a smug bastard when I see it on Sci-Fi Channel already. I shouldn't. But I do.

This might surprise, but I am doing something very similar to you. I do blogs on everything science fiction for the newspaper I write for. But I'd like to figure out how to place pictures on the blog the same way you do.

Now, I must going back to my Police Call Box for a bit of a timetravel spin back to 1979 to see the punk revolution in its peak.