Posts Tagged ‘SciFi’

And The Final Cylon Is…

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Last night was the return of Battlestar Galactica, which picked back up with the final 10 episodes of the season (and series). SciFi Channel has been teasing us for a while that “we will know the truth” and they didn’t disappoint.

The episode last night ran over a about 4 minutes, during which we were given the identity of the final Cylon. And the 5th is… (more…)

Sanctuary Gets 2nd Season

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Sanctuary has somehow managed to snag a 2nd season. SciFi Channel (owned by the NBC bastards) has given the ok for 13 new episodes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Amanda Tapping, but her on-again, off-again awful British accent needs to die. And the green-screen sets need some more digital editing or something to get rid of the fuzzy look that you get in just about every episode.

It looks cheap, sounds cheap, but really isn’t bad if you can get past all of that. Will it make it to a 3rd season? Who knows… I was shocked that SG:A stayed around as long as it did.

My Own Worst Enemy

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

NBC has done it again. They’ve killed another show that I enjoy.

According to SciFi Wire, My Own Worst Enemy will die after it’s 9th episode. I can’t say I’m surprised, as the show wasn’t anything great. However it is better than a lot of the crap that’s on the NBC networks (including SciFi).

I hate you NBC.

Stargate Atlantis (Season 5)

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Stargate: Atlantis returns to the SciFi channel tonight. I must say that when the show first started up I wasn’t a big fan. Matter of fact, I expected it to fail by the 2nd season. Thankfully, it didn’t and now it’s back for it’s 5th season.

Iron Man

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Yesterday I saw Iron Man at the Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18. The movie was one of the best I have seen in a long time, not only was it one of the best Superhero origin movies, it was probably one of Robert Downey Jr.’s best performances. While I was thrilled with the movie, I’ve also got to say that this also happened to be one of the worst movie experiances ever.

I saw the digital showing of Iron Man. Who would pass that up, right? Well, the theater experienced issues with their digital projector causing the movie to skip and studder every couple of minutes. It studdered more than Max Hedroom… though Max was cool. Thankfully, the theater did give everyone a free pass, so I’ll probably go back and see it again later.

For me, this ranked right up there with Batman Begins. RDJ was an awesome Tony Stark, and I’ll love to see Iron Man 2.

I wasn’t the only one there who loved the movie. Despite the studdering, there was a scene that actually caused people to clap while the movie was still playing. I’d wager that they would have clapped afterwards as well if we hadn’t been ready to mob the box office.

Go see it. It’s fracking awesome!

D-War: Dragon Wars

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

For the most part, I’ve always thought that the SciFi Channel Saturday night original movies were absolutely the worst science fiction movies out there. This evening I watched what may be a step down from the SciFi Channel originals, and the sad part is, this movie even made a brief appearance on the big screen.

D-War, otherwise known as Dragon Wars is what happens when you take something that aspires to be a “C grade” (nope, not even a b grade!) monster movie and combine it with fight scenes that look like they were filmed for The Power Rangers. The movie is so cheap that the military vehicles, tanks, choppers, and even uniforms don’t have a distinguishing mark on them. No name tags, no insignias, not even a U.S. flag. I might have been able to overlook those details if the tanks didn’t spit out sparks every time they fired their main cannon.

It looks like the only way for the writers to get around the huge plot holes in the movie was to mix in bad acting with even worse special effects. By the time this one is over with, you’ll be ready to slit your wrists.

Stargate: Atlantis Returns Tonight

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Tonight is the return of Stargate: Atlantis on SciFi. When we left off with episode 10 back on Dec. 7th, the Atlantis team with the help of their duplicate selves had just enabled a way for them to track all Replicator ships in the galaxy.

Anyone remember how many episodes we’re getting for SGA in season four? Is it a full 22 or 24 episodes, or was it a smaller 16 or 18?

Stargate Atlantis Fall Finale

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It’s almost time for the Stargate: Atlantis “Fall Finale”. To be quite honest, I don’t know why I continue to watch this show. For the most part the stories are dull and boring. I was surprised when it lasted past season one, and now that it continues by itself after SG1 went off the air I’m even more surprised. What is it about this show, it just wont die.

Tin Man

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Tonight is the premier of Tin Man on SciFi. This could be a very interesting miniseries, or it could wind up like most SciFi’s recent productions and turn out to be a steaming pile of crap. I’m not sure if we’ll watch it tonight or not, but we do have TiVo set up to record it.

I cannot wait until Todd McFarlane does his Oz rendition!

SciFi Tech Blog Becomes DVICE

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The SciFi Channel’s Technology and Gadget Blog has been reborn. The site is now known as DVICE, and it looks like they are already posting even more that they had been. Personally I think DVICE rates up there with Engadget.

I wonder if this means we’ll see a similar make over for SciFi’s Entertainment News Blog, SciFi Wire.