Posted on 08/19/2007 8:59:23 AM PDT by KevinDavis
This week in Sci-Fi:
Sun:
9/8 The 4400 --> USA Network
Tue:
9/8 Eureka --> SciFi Channel
Fri:
8/7 Dr Who --> SciFi Channel
9/8 Flash Gordon --> SciFi Channel
Sat:
10/9 Masters of SciFi --> ABC
You said it-
FLASH .... Uggggh!
I expected a lot more from this reprise. They seem to be trying too hard for ‘campy’, but what comes out is just crappy. Eureka does campy well, and weaves it into an entertaining show.
At least the movie version was better than the tv show....
David Tennant is going to be on the Graham Norton Show next week on BBC America..
Speaking of Dr. Who, does anyone else have trouble understanding the dialog on this show? Posh, Oxford and some other British accents give me no trouble—easy to understand. But some of the ‘dialects’ are so foreign to my ear, that I catch every third or fourth word.
I suspect the Brits have the same problem with some American speech.
Maybe I should watch the show with closed caption turned on.
Well the first season I had trouble understanding.. I’m slowly getting the hang of it.
They could have done a lot with the Flash Gordon series, but it looks like they ran out of steam even before they started. We finally watched the first ep, well, actually about half of it before we decided enough was enough.
Still enjoying Eureka, which probably means they’ll cancel it...
I quit watching after about the third episode last season. It’s just not my kinda show, I guess.
Maybe we expect to much from SciFi......
I have thought the same thing. I have to turn the volume up a bit, but the background music sometimes interferes with that. BSG was worse, though, no accents, of course, but I always had trouble with the dialogue against the sound effects and soundtrack.
Masters of SF was better, but it was Heinlein and supposed to have been fun. It would’ve been a better episode to start the series with. A little slow, and again, a little too long. It might’ve helped if the lawyer had some kind of personality to him. Malcolm McDowell fit in great but the rest of the cast? Eh.
He was the only good cast member in that episode.. I do like the idea of creating Anthropoids of doing manual labor.. That would solve the illegal immigration problem..
Actually, it made me think about a conversation that I had with Nancy Kress at a panel at Lunacon a few years back. Someone on the panel was asking if we could imagine a day when robots (or androids) were so much like people that they might be considered people or granted legal rights (or citizenship was it?). Anyway, almost every hand went up. Almost as an afterthought, he asked if anyone couldn't see giving robots the same rights as humans. I was sitting in the front row by the wall. I politely raised my hand halfway. He was ready to continue with something else, when Ms. Kress interrupted and said, "Wait a minute. I'd be more interested in knowing why this gentleman said 'no'." I wondered if she had thought, like I had, that most of the people in the room had mindlessly raised their hand for 'yes' because they thought that they were supposed to.
Friday’s Doctor Who episode, “Human Nature”, is must see tv. It is the very best episode of the new series of DW. The episode settles the argument among Who fans on whether if the 1996 Fox tv movie, “Doctor Who” starring Paul McGann is canon in the DW mythos. The episode also shows clips from the both the old series and new series. Plus there is a nod to the creators of the Doctor Who, Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert. I give “Human Nature” a grade of A+.
I wonder how much mataerial would be cut since Torchwood is an R-rated program.
Jekyll on BCC America is awesome.
Jekyll already running?
BBC America broadcasts Jekyll on Saturday nights. They are on episode 5. Steven Moffat is a talented writer. He can write comedy and horror.
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