The fall 2007-08 television season started with quite a line-up: in addition to the existing TV series such as ?Stargate: Atlantis,? ?Heroes? and ?Battlestar Galactica,? viewers received an impressive assortment of new shows to whet their science-fiction appetites. Unfortunately however, the vast ma ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "There's No Place Like Home: Part 3," the season finale from the fourth season of ABC's "Lost." The season one finale of "Lost" pretty much set a new standard for disappointment despite hype. Having Jack, Locke, and Kate peering down the hatch was both anti- ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "There's No Place Like Home: Part 2," the thirteenth episode from the fourth season of ABC's "Lost." Wow. Before I say another word, anyone who has not watched this episode, stop reading now. It is going to be impossible to discuss this episode without reve ...
Read MoreWhile I get ready for my appearance on your so-called SyFy Radio Wednesday night, I wanted to take a minute to mark this week, because it's a very special week in my universe. It's the eighth anniversary of the "Star Trek: Voyager's" third Emmy win for Best Military Series. It cemented the Star Trek ...
Read MoreWay back in 1998 and 1999, one of my great ideas on how to make SyFy World (the forerunner to today's Airlock Alpha) was by putting together what I felt was going to be a groundbreaking convention in the Tampa Bay area that would be unlike any other convention. There would be fascinating, thought-pr ...
Read MoreThere have been a lot of them, and much discussion of this issue and most of these series, but the painful cancellation of "Moonlight" just opens up old wounds from previously unjustly cancelled series. I think science-fiction and fantasy genre fans must have their hearts broken more often than fans ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Unicorn And The Wasp," the seventh episode from the fourth season of BBC?s "Doctor Who." Murder, mystery, aliens and a legendary author ... just the right ingredients for a 1920?s adventure. As a period piece, ?The Unicorn and the Wasp? illustrates a r ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Sonata," the season finale for the CBS show, "Moonlight." The collective cry of millions of "Moonlight" fans everywhere could be heard at the end of this episode, the premature end of the series, and there is a lot to decry over losing in this series. The f ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Guess What's Coming to Dinner: Part 1", the seventh episode of the final season of "Battlestar Galactica." Another "Part One" episode. Come on guys, this is a serialized drama. Everything is "to be continued". Despite that minor gripe, this was a fine yet ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Arctic," the seventh season finale of The CW's "Smallville." "Arctic? makes an impressive opening with a full recap of the major events of the seventh season with an epic-toned score from Mark Snow and a ghostly message from beyond the grave by Lionel Lutho ...
Read MoreThe amazing Ed Left, who not only runs his own Web site called Sci-Fi On TV but also writes a popular column here on Airlock Alpha by the same name, has been a busy guy. As a member of the SyFy Genre Awards Nominating Committee -- an international group of people brought together to pick five nomine ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "There's No Place Like Home: Part 1," the twelfth episode from the fourth season of ABC's "Lost." Now this is what I call an excellent setup episode. Fast pace, important revelations, and nearly a full utilization of the cast made this episode stand out. Thi ...
Read MoreLife has been hectic the last few weeks, so this installment is going to be a shrunken down version. Please forgive me ... no gypsy or Native American curses please.ACT I Creator ownership can be a tricky beast. In some media, the ownership of the intellectual property is pretty clear. Books? The st ...
Read MoreI became a sociologist because of "Star Trek." For the past 20-plus years, I have been teaching sociology courses for most of the colleges and universities in my area. Even though I thought sociology was fascinating since I was about 13, all my best friends? parents were either sociology or physics ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Quest," the nineteenth episode of the seventh season of The CW?s "Smallville." For every beacon of light in the universe, there is a pit of darkness. And with Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) now firmly placed in his own shadow, he's tiptoeing a little bit closer to ...
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