Friday, October 29, 2010

Details On “The Captains of the Final Frontier” Bio Channel Documentary Airing Next Week

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Patrick Stewart On Gene Roddenberry & How Star Trek Changed His Life

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Texas Supreme Court cites Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

"Fascinating" pretty much sums it up.

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Some answers from Syfy about Caprica - Sci-Fi Storm

My personal take on Caprica is they tried to pull in the same audience as BattleStar Galactica. However, we knew from the start they were different kind of shows.

1. BSG was a fast paced, action oriented drama. Caprica was a soap opera; it moved like pond water compared to BSG.

2. BSG had one central theme - the survival of 50,000+ people living aboard spaceships with no home planet to go back to while being chased by the same enemy that destroyed their 12 planets. Caprica had many threads, much light a soap opera, and very little relates to another. You have the bombing, the technology, the religious sects, the filthy rich businesses, the mafia, and a culture that is so caught up in technology, crime, and corruption; so full of themselves they make Earth look like a friendly place. BSG had many threads, however, at the end of the an episode it was all about their survival.

3, If you knew the basic premise of the BSG story, you could miss an episode and not feel lost. It was not very difficult for new viewers to watch an episode and peak their interest. With Caprica, you needed to see all the episodes, in order, or else you may not understand what's happened or what it meant. Caprica committed a fatal mistake, one that many shows especially science fiction, it was too complicated.

4. The fans waited each week for the story to connect the dots with BSG. Of the entire story, the only pieces they gave to relate the two stories was the 12 Colonies, Willie and Joseph Adama, and a Cylon. The rest of the air time was spent exploring the deep dark religious discord that was the catalyst for their underground, the bombing, their business and ethical corruption, and much of their out-of-control culture. Did I mention their fascination with multi-partner marriages?

In the end, they failed to tell the story. Maybe they'll learn from their mistakes and make the next prequel worth watching. Think Star Trek: TNG Vs Enterprise.

I also disagreed with SyFy's decision to move the show to Tuesday night from Friday night. Clearly a mistake. Us working stiffs need to looking for sleep at 10PM on a Tuesday night; Friday night we can stay up. So when they say they moved it to Tuesday because it's their "most successful night", they are admitting the rest of their programming is worse. Syfy needs to stick to SCIENCE FICTION; it's what made them successful. True scifi fans are more than willing to watch reruns of Stargate, Star Trek, BSG, Jake 2.0, Babylon 5, The X-Files, etc instead of those Wrestling and Reality shows.

Just my opinion...

Some answers from Syfy about Caprica - Sci-Fi Storm

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dear Syfy: Show Us How 'Caprica' Ends ... Now

the hand-writing was on the wall. It's no surpise, but nonetheless disheartening. What's gotten into those people at the Syfy channel? They don't have ONE really good (original) scifi show, with minor exception is Stargate Universe. Maybe they're getting too much pressure from NBC Universal to span out into non-scifi programming. Either way, I tune into the Syfy channel less often with each passing day. This idea of putting off teh last 5 episodes until 2011 is just another indicators they are out of touch with their fan base, and what they want to see. Wrestling, Anime, Ghost Hunters, Destination Truth are all on the wrong channel. The Syfy channel needs to take a step back and look at where they came from and what made them a market competitor.


Dear Syfy: Show Us How 'Caprica' Ends ... Now | AirlockAlpha.com

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Caprica has been canceled - Sci-Fi Storm

Caprica - R.I.P

Caprica has been canceled - Sci-Fi Storm

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Jennifer Love Hewitt's teary Ghost Whisperer goodbye

I really liked the show, but thought it'd already gone off the air. Can still catch it in re-runs on ION, WE, and SyFy.


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Breaking: Syfy orders new Galactica prequel pilot

Another prequel? Lets hope it's a few years down the road. This Caprica story is taking forever to unfold. So unless they start connecting the dots soon, they're gonna lose all their fans. BSG fans were used to action. Caprica's a soap opera. If Syfy pulls the plug on Caprica, they may have even more untold story in the next series.


Breaking: Syfy orders new Galactica prequel pilot - Sci-Fi Storm

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Karl Urban On How Bones Changed His Career & Star Trek Sequel

Karl Urban On How Bones Changed His Career and Star Trek Sequel | TrekMovie.com

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14 sci-fi shows and their spin-offs compared by number of episodes

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Anna Torv spills 8 secrets about Fringe (and playing TWO Olivias)

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Luc Besson's next film is “The Fifth Element to the power of ten”

Luc Besson's next film is “The Fifth Element to the power of ten”

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Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

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Eliza Dushku on what Dollhouse taught her, and what it can teach us

Eliza Dushku on what Dollhouse taught her, and what it can teach us

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