Every once in a while, I like to pop over to the Battlestar Wiki site to see how Joe Beaudoin and crew are doing. Not only is the Battlestar Wiki a great resource on everything you ever wanted to know about "Battlestar Galactica," but I've known Joe online here for many, many years, dating back to o ...
Read MoreThe following contains MODERATE SPOILERS for "To The Last Man," the third episode of the second season of BBCs "Torchwood." The Torchwood Institute was originally formed by Queen Victoria after her encounter with a werewolf and a wandering Time Lord. Since then, however, it has grown into a national ...
Read MoreI'm not sure if any of you remember me, but last year, there was an ion storm near the junction of Google.com and MSN.com that somehow allowed my column from a "mirror universe" to end up here. Of course, I say it's from a mirror universe, but in reality, it's you people who are in a mirror universe ...
Read MoreThere have been numerous episodes of "Star Trek" -- especially in the original series and "The Next Generation" -- dealing with androids or cyborgs, and the human-cyborg hybrids call the Borg. Many of them, especially stories around android Data in TNG, deal with the sentience and the rights of arti ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Harmony" episode of "Stargate: Atlantis." ...
Read MoreIt's very easy to see actors who have died young and feel that it must be real rough to be an actor. These are people like Chris Farley, John Belushi, River Phoenix, and more recently actors such as Brad Renfro, and of course, Heath Ledger. Of course, people die young all the time, and sometimes thr ...
Read MoreThe following contains MODERATE SPOILERS for "Sleepers," the second episode of the second season of BBCs "Torchwood." "Torchwood" was always marketed as a science-fiction series for grown-ups. Whereas other shows were forced to contend with the banalities of pleasing the masses and censorship, the B ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Turk," the latest episode from "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." It hit me during "The Turk" just who the main three characters in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" remind me of. Sarah is Captain Kirk (deciding who lives and dies, what ...
Read MoreIn 2007, viewers endured the end of the world by a misguided cure for cancer (I am Legend), nuclear attack (Jericho), viruses (28 Weeks Later and Heroes), zombies (Planet Terror and Resident Evil: Extinction) and religious phenomena (The Reaping). Directors love to destroy the world. And theyre not ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Mortal Cure," the latest episode from the CBS show, "Moonlight." "The Mortal Cure," the final pre-strike installment of fledgling vampire show "Moonlight," managed to bring the series to a new height, where we find quite a cliff to hang on to until the ...
Read More"Battlestar Galactica" Series 1 action figures from Diamond Select Toys, the first in the line of "Battlestar Galactica" action figures, were released last October and include three regular case figures and four retailer exclusives. The regular case figures are Lee "Apollo" Adama in a Viper pilot fl ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Quarantine," the latest episode of the SciFi Channel series, "Stargate: Atlantis." But wait, werent there other numbers? - Teyla 42 - Sheppard And what is that? - Teyla Its the ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything. - Sh ...
Read MoreThe following contains MODERATE SPOILERS for "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," the second season premiere for the BBC series "Torchwood." Outside the Government and beyond the Police, the Cardiff branch Torchwood are back for another season : and this time they are joined by the incredible James Marsters who ...
Read MoreSci-Fi fans are a curious breed. We take to the Internet and basically beg the networks, big and small, to give us more genre programming. We say it can be done inexpensively, and that as long as the writing is good, we'll watch. And what happens when the networks listen, and give us what we ask for ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Gnothi Seauton," the second episode of the Fox show "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Unlike our esteemed site coordinator, I loved this show's pilot episode -- particularly the "chase and hunting" parts. Personally, and I've stated this in my colu ...
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