I got a new ipad for my birthday, and with that new ipad came three free months of Apple + tv. I wouldn't have subscribed on my own - I really have enough streaming services to justify to my budget - , but three free months, why not, and thus I had the chance to marathon Foundation, a tv series loosely based on Isaac Asimov's novels. It was go ( Read more... )

I'm with the APs for Easter, which means very little online time. In briefness, the review:

( When Gaius Baltar is your inner therapist, you know you're in trouble )

Last week I noticed that several of our major news media - the FAZ and the SZ, who are our equivalent to the Washington Post and the New York Times, basically - did major stories about the My Lai Massacre, due to the anniversary. Whereas I didn't see anything in my admittedly limited look at the US media, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, when all things Star Trek were (mostly) the only game in town, the difference between space ship settings and space station settings seemed mostly amount to: a space ship setting lends itself more to episodic tv, meeting new characters and worlds every week, with the episodes being self contained and thus able to be watched in ( Read more... )

Confessions of a Trekker: I really don't like ST VI - The Undiscovered Country. Which is, I've discovered, something of a minority opinion, for at least the vocal part of fandom holds this last cinematic outing of the TOS crew in a fond light. However, now and then the dissent becomes vocal, too, as in this rewatch post about the movie in question ( Read more... )

A happy and a sad one. Today is composer John Williams' birthday, and I can think of no better tribute than this A Capella rendition:

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Sadly, it's also the day we learned Richard Hatch has died. I have no feelings about the original Battlestar Galactica one way or the other, but I thought he was excellent as Tom Zarek in the rebooted BSG, and ( Read more... )

Day 27 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?

Somewhat late, because I was away from any internet yesterday until late at night, but here we go. Well, considering I've already written the crossovers in question, obviously I would cross over Star Trek with Torchwood and Doctor Who, just Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and ( Read more... )

Looking back at BSG with some distance: a couple both remarkable for what they aren't and for what they are, and still very unusual in any fandom. Let's start with what they aren't which will make it clear what I'm getting at. In the original Battlestar Galactica, Baltar is an unambiguous megalomaniac villain, selling humanity out for power to the ( Read more... )

Why Twitter is useful: someoene asked Vince Gilligan whose idea the fantastic Ozymandias promo for Breaking Bad had been, and he replied:

Shelley's "Ozymandias" came up a lot this season, as my writers and I are nerds who never see the sun... However, the idea of cutting the poem into a promo was the idea of the brilliant director Rian Johnson. ( Read more... )

1.) Dr. Who: Where might a body ahem The Christmas Invasion? My usual source is sadly otherwise occupied. And I so want to see Ten in action.

2.) Babylon 5: kangeiko has written a fantastic Centauri story. From a Brakiri pov, no less. ‘Tis good to be a fan these days.

3.) Alias and roleplaying: On the other hand, there are sneaky fellow fen like karabair ( Read more... )