Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/08/12)

04/08/12 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/08/12)
Friday:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox

[KevinDavis]

Next week:

Final season of Eureka starts...

Also a Top Gear live thread starts..

[KevinDavis]

[greyfoxx39]

Is “The Killing” considered SF? New season starts tonight.

[LibertarianLiz]

I believe the new season of The Killing started last week. I had no interest in watching that thing again after last year. I gave up on it about 2/3s thru, tried to watch one ep after that and they spent the entire episode (which was the third to the last, close to finding out the killer, oh, wait...) searching for her missing teenage son. I felt like I was watching a "group" session or something.

First, I thought it might be intriguing, then, I was just so bored with it, then -- I tuned in to the last episode simply to find out who killed the girl; but, they decided to get cute and not tell you.

The ratings have gone down quite a bit from last year's, so I'm pretty sure a lot of people felt the same way I did.

[BitWielder1]

I thought Eureka never lived up to its potential.
They fell short of real science, or any genuinely interesting what-if-this-was-real science stories.
Instead, all I saw was a Hollywood-science-spoof comedy.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Have you seen this new teaser trailer for season seven of Doctor Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iwoRA2Cas

From what I have read the season won’t start until late 2012 and will have six episodes plus the Christmas special. That probably means late October or early November.

[wally_bert]

I liked Eureka early on but it never took a real hold with me. It got so predictable. I would have liked more real science based stuff instead of the outlandish techno-babble that rivaled Star Trek TNG.

[wally_bert]

I’m looking forward to the next round of the Doctor!

[GreenLanternCorps]

Been watching Fringe on Netflix. LOVE IT. Should have watched from the start.

Since this is a slow week for Science Fiction on TV, I thought I would share a few pictures I found on the web:

Here's an idea for a new Star Trek cast...

And an idea to replace the cast of Firefly...

Another Star Trek Cast proposal...

Firefly, featuring Good Ol' Malcolm Reynolds, By Charles M. Schulz:

And finally, Like Father, Like Daughter...

[skinkinthegrass]

the "new" star trek (firefly ed. :) looks interesting...
battle with the fernigi over acquired items..

Lucy as an orion slave girl.
Charlie Brown as Captain
Linus as chief science officer
Lucy (the dr. is in :) as the chief medical officer
shroder as the chief engineer officer.

[skinkinthegrass]

LOL!or the good 'ol Malcolm; is great, too.

[Vince Ferrer]

Anyone looking forward to the new Total Recall?

[Sawdring]

Only if they have the gal with the three mammary glands.

[SevenofNine]

Also Borgias and Deadliest Catch LOL!

[TomGuy]

I watched a couple of The Killing episodes. By they time they were on their 3rd person accused, I gave up. It seems they were making it up as they went, and kept getting side tracked on irrelevant subjects.

There isn’t much SciFi on any more.

I noticed via On Demand that a few major motion pictures of the scifi variety are coming later this spring.

Project Prometheus (IIRC) is one.

[Krankor]

[verga]

Anyone looking forward to the new Total Recall?

I may get smacked for saying this but I was not to thrilled with the first one. The special effects were adequate but the story seemed unevenly paced with no real depth to the characters

[Vince Ferrer]

It was a good movie, but it was not great, I agree. If you want to think about its potential and what it could have been, look no further than Blade Runner, both of which sprung from Philip Dick's works. Both of them blur the boundary between what is real and what is not, to the point whaere the characters can't trust their own memories or know who is real or not.

But Blade Runner takes on themes of life and death and reality, and make the viewer think about them. While Blade Runner endures and has grown into being considered a classic, Total Recall was a big budget drive in movie.

The trailer for the new Total Recall actually looks more like Blade Runner than the original Total Recall.

[PzLdr]

Any reason “Being Human”, “Lost Girl” and “Grimm” aren’t on this list?

[Rainwave]

How about “Soylent Green”? “Mysterious Island”? “Abyss”? “Robinson Caruso on Mars”?...”Silent Running?...wait, that would be to easy, boring and predictable. Besides, they couldn’t find any one who could come close to Bruce Dern’s performance....”Forbidden Planet’ would be a good one to think about.