Strange Horizons' Abigail Nussbaum on the Battlestar Galactica finale (thanks to baleanoptera for the link):

'Far worse to my mind than Galactica's ending being anti-science is the fact that it is anti-science fiction. Science fiction is the literature of change. It's about imagining the future--which things get better, which get worse, which stay the same; ( Read more... )

Even on television, you cannot escape the ethnic wail!

Honestly though, the Zimmeresque score by Trevor Morris (Moonlight, The Tudors) was one of the great strengths of NBC's Kings, juxtaposing with the contemporary-looking setting to create a plausible alternate reality that is out-of-our-time. The script already goes a long way to help pull that ( Read more... )

Pilot scripts for a bunch of new shows, including Kings, Ron Moore and Michael Taylor's Virtuality, and David Milch's Last of the Ninth, and pilot drafts for Caprica and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, are online thanks to daet.


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I have seen the pilot for CBS' new procedural The Mentalist. I LOVED IT.

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ITV's The Fixer - La Femme Nikita meets Cracker?

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Sometimes talking about the incomparably powerful and brilliant The Wire can feel a bit like preaching to the converted (and of no majorass religion, either, The Wire fanatics are more like those Tibetan monks folks admire the hell out of and who could probably genteel a non-believer to submission by being all nice and shit). Just how many times ( Read more... )