This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (07/20/08)

07/20/08 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (07/20/08)

Fri:
9/8 - Dr Who - SciFi
10/9 - Stargate Alantis - SciFi

[KevinDavis]

Dr Who: Good episode....

Stargate Atlantis: Not bad for a microbe episode. I'm going to give the Woosley character a chance.

Here is something that I found off the Battlestar Wiki:

Stories for Season Two of the Original Battlestar Galactica

[KevinDavis]

This is the Sci-Fi Ping List! Let me know if you want on or off this list!

[jalisco555]

I seem to have fallen off the ping list. Could you re-instate me please? I promise I’ll be good.

[brivette]

Please put me on your list.

[TomGuy]

Medieval, the production company, has released pre-airs of the first episodes of some new fall programs: Life on Mars (US version), The Mentalist, True Blood, and Fringe.

Life on Mars has potential. It seems to follow the original UK script. It is semi-sci-fi, as the main character is in an accident and wakes up 30 years earlier.

The Mentalist is a more dramatic version of USA's Psych. The main character used to be a fake psychic who now helps police solve crimes.

True Blood is a vampire series coming to HBO. [I don't know much about it. CBS's Moonstruck didn't last, even though they kept revising it and trying to get an audience. I'm not much into the vampire/undead stuff and I don't have HBO, so I didn't bother to download and watch it.]

Fringe is sort of a new rendition of the X-files. The pre-air is movie length, abt 1 hr and 20 minutes. The movie ends with an interesting twist.

These are available via many of the torrent sites. Google medieval+preair for more information.

[maclay]

Fringe is great. Life on Mars is quite good as well. Reminds me of Open Your Eyes/Vanilla Sky

[BuffaloJack]

What the blazes is “Joan of Arcadia” doing on the SciFi channel? It certainly isn’t SciFi. For that matter why do they bother with “Ghost Hunters” and some of those other NON-scifi series? Real SciFi enthusiasts just don’t watch them.

[Tanniker Smith]

The Donna-centric episode beat the pants of the Doctor-centric episode the week before, although I didn't quite catch everything that was going on with the buggy thing because I was watching on a TV that didn't have close-captioning (or at least, didn't have it where I could figure how to turn it on).

I tend to tape them on the PVR and replay them and pause and rewind to read some of the dialogue. I can't catch it all with the accent. Especially if they whisper or there's background noise.

[fatima]

You saw these already?Where did they air.

[BenLurkin]

Stories for Season Two of the Original Battlestar Galactica

Very cool!

[Duke Nukum]

Life on Mars was on BBC America in 2006 and season two I think was either late in 2007 or January 2008.

It is really good, if the American producers do something like the American version of Touching Evil it may not be too bad.

[fatima]

It’s time to get sometime fun.TV has been boring.So it is coming ?We have HBO now.

[maclay]

I downloaded them from various torrent sites.

[fatima]

OHHH Gotcha,Thanks maclay.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Off-topic note: Second female Cylon (Grace Park — Sharon Valerii and other number eights) is on a new show, the rather strange ‘The Cleaner’ starring Benjamin Bratt.

[Hyzenthlay]

I'm really psyched about Fringe, cause it looks SO creepy. Granted, the X-Files was good, and I think it would be hard to do something similar that was equally good, but I think JJ Abrams is one of the people who could pull it off. He can handle paranormal sci-fi quite well. But, the show I'm looking forward to most is Dollhouse. Joss Whedon is possibly my favorite TV writer/producer ever, and the girl who's the main character (I forget the actress' name, but she played Faith in Buffy and Angel). Anyways, back to Fringe, since you used the word 'released' instead of 'leaked', I'm assuming there's a legitimate way to watch these, maybe online or on TV or through Netflix? I'm not as concerned with the copyright laws as I am with the fact that my modem can't handle torrents and tends to shut down every half-hour or so when I do try to torrent stuff.