Invasion, Supernatural, Threshold

If you haven't watched these shows, you won't know what the hell I'm talking about. I don't do synopsis. I was nice enough to include links though.

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---->New Shows<----
ABC - Invasion:
On the eve of a destructive Hurricane and a mass exodus of a million people on the Gulf Coast, Invasion premieres to make people even more paranoid about "riding out" the storm. Nice going. The episode was good but the timing was silly... or maybe a little too perfect. I still liked it though. I'll keep watching.
So is this Invasion of the Bodysnatchers?

WB - Supernatural:
It's like we got Buffy back! I bet these guys are chosen or cursed like her. I totally bet they do a vampire episode.
I'm also betting that the dad is already dead but Dean hasn't had the heart to tell Sam.
This show reminds me of Buffy, The X-Files and Poltergeist: The Legacy all rolled into one... in a round about way. I like Jensen Ackles from Smallville, he's all rogue and not whiny. I guess not being in the presence of Lana Lang has it's benefits.
"Hey, no chick flick moments."
I love it!

CBS - Threshold:
So this is what the big Braga is doing these days. Not bad. I'm in for now.
Brent Spiner. YAY!!! A really good move. I'm happy to see him.
This show looks like another Bodysnatcher theme. I like that it's a bit science heavy. I need my weekly fill of technobabble now that there's no Trek. The alien fractal signal is a bit of a stretch though. I'm going to give it a few more episodes and see where it takes us.


---->Still Waiting<----
WB - Smallville Thur. Sept 29
WB - Charmed Sun. Oct 2
CBS - CSI: NY - Wed. Sept 28
Triangle - Anyone have any info on this one?
BBC - Dr. Who
Is it Christmas yet? Is it Christmas yet? Is it Christmas yet? Is it Christmas yet? Is it Christmas yet? Is it Christmas yet?

Is Reality TV dead??!?!?!!?
I think so! I think I may take to the streets in celebration.

SG1, Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica

If you haven't watched these shows, you won't know what the hell I'm talking about. I don't do synopsis. I was nice enough to include links though.

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---->Mid-Season Finales<-----
SCIFI - Stargate: Atlantis:
Aurora
Episodes like this is why I love science fiction. I loved the look of the episode and the premise. Too bad there wasn't more time to learn from them.
The Lost Boys
I actually thought that Ford was going to find a planet where everyone figured out the wraith enzyme thing. I didn't think that he was going to create a team. I the drug may be useful in starving the wraith because I think that they can't feed on anyone with the wraith enzyme. I want someone to fix Ford's face. Heal that please. I liked the talk Ford had with Ronan. Side- by- side, it doesn't look like Ford would have a fighting chance with Ronan but when they fought a few episodes back, Ford gave Ronan a run for his money.

SCIFI - Stargate: SG1:
Prototype
I think I missed some episodes somewhere along the way because I honestly don't remember Anubis being killed. We've seen this type of episode on SG1 before. I was kinda bored with it. I was hoping we'd get to see Vala again.
Fourth Horseman
Stargate has been doing a lot of social commentary lately. The finale was intriguing. I liked the dialogue about how faith and belief was the energy that the Ori needed in order to drain people of their will. It's a very touchy subject and I'm surprised that no one has been protesting the show. I guess you'd have to watch and interpret for that and well....
I'm glad Gerak grew some balls in the end but that only made things worse because now he is an Ori.
A viral outbreak on Earth. How much longer can they keep the Stargate a secret. The last time only an Ori could cure everyone. This wouldn't go over well on Earth. This would mean everyone would have to be educated about the Ori, where they came from and convert to their religion if they wanted to live. Given our history, this would not go over well on Earth.

SCIFI - Battlestar Galactica:
Flight of the Phoenix
Love the new ship and I thought it was about time that someone started thinking about replacing some of the ships. The fight between the Chief and Helo was brewing. I'm glad they go it out of the way. Such man love!
I cried like a little girl when they named the ship "Laura" in honour of the president. Awesome!
Another Cylon virus? Yawn! I don't want to see another virus episode for two seasons. It was paced well but it was so "Oh... another virus." Too bad that Sharon can't earn any trust back, she did good.
Pegasus
Why is it that someone with a ship named Pegasus always wants to come in and start throwing their weight around? Cloaking technology aside, I was excited to see Michelle Forbes again. Too bad she came in starting trouble. I don't care if she was higher in rank, you just don't come in and start changing a stable command structure in a situation like this.
...and who ever tailored her uniform should be fired. It puckered where it wasn't supposed to and made her look bad. No one else was having that problem with their uniform not even the overweight male officers. I had to assume they did it on purpose but it was distracting and should be fixed.
OK, back on track... I loved this episode. Though I didn't like Captain Cole's approach, she brought up valid points in regards to Adama's crew. I didn't like it but her points we valid. The Cheif and Helo were out of line but the guys that were getting ready to rape Toaster Sharon were WAY OUT OF LINE! What they did to #6 was disgraceful.

Lost

If you haven't watched these shows, you won't know what the hell I'm talking about. I don't do synopsis. I was nice enough to include links though.

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---->Premieres<----
ABC - LOST:
That's almost the biggest mind-frak since "Who Shot JR?". I totally thought this was a flashback. When I realized it was current, I was cheered. I love that direction, it was phenomenal. I'M SO CONFUSED!!!! But I like it.
The ending, where the guy in the stadium was the guy in the hatch, was anticlimactic because it was predictable.
Now we have to figure out why the those nautical Deliverance guys took Walt. What's up with 70's Timecapsule Hatch guy? Was Shannon seeing dead people (Walt)?
Will we ever know what the hell is going on?


---->Other Shows<-----
FOX - House MD:
The episode about the cancer girl seemed so much like science fiction that I had to mention it. Awesome seat of the pants action there. This show will have to push those limits every week in order to keep viewers. I'm waiting on an episode where they have to operate on someone in the vacuum of space.

FOX - Bones:
I don't care for it but OTHER PEOPLE have to watch it live and make me TiVo Supernatural. Grrrrr.

CBS - CSI: Miami:
Not gripping but good. A pretty lackluster premiere.

CBS - CSI:
Same. The most interesting thing was Warrick getting married and Katherine admitting that she fantasized about him. Pretty spicy.

4 minutes into LOST and

WTF????

More later...

Lookie! Stargate Fan Show

It's called Stargate SG-2.
The trailer looks more like a promo for a Saving Private Ryan fan film and the footage is worse than a SciFi Original BUT they don't have a budget or studio backing. Even with the low quality, I love it! The fact that they are doing it is killer. The website makes me want to keep checking for more. I wish these guys good luck.

Blue Smoke Studios

I saw it first on Planet Fandom.

When More Doctor Who?

I know I could Google that and find out but I'm too lazy for that right now.

I'm really jonesing for some more Doctor Who!

Man With The Screaming Brain aka Just Make It Stop

I tried to like it.
Honestly, I thought Alien Apocalypse was better.

When I watch something with Bruce Campbell in it, I watch it because he always play someone who wisecracks. It's his voice and his deliver or something. MWTSB needed more Bruce and less of everything else. In fact, he should have just released a stand-up comedy act to film.

I know the point of the movie was that I was supposed to be bad. Usually these types of movies have charm and makes me want to watch them over and over. This one just didn't do it for me. I watched it twice just to be sure.

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Man With The Screaming Brain tried to have a plot or something. Maybe it was the other actors. The crazy gypsy lady was just bizarre. She managed to be ugly and pretty at the same time. That was very distracting and confusing.
Ted Raimi was hilarious but white guys rapping is not funny anymore. Not even with a Russian accent.
That robot was perfect! Does anyone know who was in the robot suit. It reminded me of the 80's. The walk was perfect.

I guess I didn't like Bruce Campbell as William Cole. I really didn't relate to the whole Bulgaria setting. There's a lot of ways this movie could have been done differently and been a MST3K type classic. ... I actually think it is anyway.

I don't know. It's not Army of Darkness, It's not Brisco County Jr. I love you Bruce but I'm not into Man With The Screaming Brain.

Dracula 3000?... C'Mon!

SciFi Pictures Inflicts...
Dracula 3000
Tagline: In space, the sun never rises. YIKES!!!!
It has Coolio in it and his name is 187. OUCH!!!!!!!

SciFriday... last Friday (Sept 9, 2005)

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SciFriday started off perfectly with my favorite episode of Firefly, Jaynestown. It was this episode that sold me on the whole show.
Is it September 30th yet?

While I enjoyed the shows last week, each show reminded me of a show that I've seen in another series.

Stargate: SG1 - Babylon
It wasn't hard to figure out which show this episode "borrowed" from, Star Trek: The Original Series - Amok Time.
Aside from that, Babylon was a delightful enough episode. If for no other two reasons, Tony Todd and William B. Davis (who had no lines). Tony Todd is always a treat. William B Davis will always make me want to smoke...
I like the idea of the Sodan warriors. It was a bit of a change from the normal Jaffa. It would be cool to run across a planet of Jaffa who have advanced technology or at least know how to party. Also, the two Jaffa brothers (the Mr Miyagi one and the one that got treated back at Stargate command)... were hot! Wait, that's not what I wanted to say... but really they were.... no but.... I don't know how this sounds but I kept getting them confused because they looked a lot alike. I didn't feel bad for thinking that because those guys are brothers in real life. Crichton... Mitchell... Ben Browder got in some well placed one liners. He's still a little to restrained.

Stargate: Atlantis - Conversion
Dude! What does Teyla do exactly?
No... I'm going to save that rant for another time.
This week Atlantis reminded me of itself. Didn't we just see an episode where Lt. Ford transformed to a superhuman thing? Yes, Sheppard's situation is SLIGHLTY different but we got the same episode in the same season. That's gotta be some sort of record. The coolest thing about Sheppard that when he was truly transformed, he was like The Fly, The Borg, Spiderman, a Jem'Hadar and Lt.Ford all in one. It was a latex mask pot luck. I actually wish they would keep Sheppard like this, he's more interesting.... seems more complex somehow. His transformation made me feel like he's been underachieving by mucking about on the station and Wraith shoot 'em up missions.
It also seems like Rodney was a tad sore that he didn't get to WOW us with his knowledge. He did spit out one of the funniest one liners yet.... the one where he complimented Beckett on raising medicine to an actual science. That line was deliciously arrogant.

Battlestar Galactica - Final Cut
This episode of Battlestar Galactica reminded me of And Now For A Word from Babylon 5. They even had someone addicted to "stems".
Mind you, I'm not upset about this. It's just an observation. While we are on the topic of observations, this was a good perspective show. It made me really think about what our soldiers go through everyday in real life. Final Cut was so jammed packed with reflection of war, the assassination plot, the delivery of the baby, the well placed cylon attack to upload the footage.... This show is a gift EVERY WEEK!
The well placed original Battlestar Galactica theme at the end was an AWESOME touch!

Ever been up really late at night...

or really early in the morning and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World was the only thing on TV?
... and you watched the entire episode?
... willingly?

I'm ashamed to say that I had one of those mornings this morning. I felt dirty, like when I watched Charmed all last season -dirty. I guess I feel that way because I actually liked the episode.
The episode I caught was Absolute Power. Check out this episode synopsis:

Our adventurers find the ruins of an ancient temple and at its center, Challenger is amazed to find the crude etching of an atom. Searching to unlock the mystery, Challenger places a nearby crystal sphere into the "keyhole" of the atom. Suddenly a blinding white light engulfs Challenger, leaving him near death. As Challenger's friends fight to save his life, we see an alternate reality, where Challenger emerges from the light unscathed and with extraordinary powers. When the vicious Dirkon and his band of Slavers kidnap Veronica, Challenger easily defeats them. Unfortunately, after this Challenger's arrogance increases tenfold with his powers with murderous results. With Challenger near death in one world, and his friends dying in the other, the two worlds begin a collision course with destiny.

This episode was good in a Lexx meets Mutant X but not really way. This show is like sour candy.

Watch the ENTIRE First Episode of Supernatural Online... Now

Supernatural

In this Yahoo! TV Exclusive, watch the entire first episode of the new series 'Supernatural' before it airs on The WB. From the network that brought you 'Buffy,' 'Charmed' and 'Smallville,' brace yourself for a new kind of paranormal thriller.
Premieres Tuesday, September 13, at 9/8C on The WB.

I haven't downloaded/streamed it yet but it looks interesting. The description mentions Buffy, Charmed and Smallville so I guess they're saying that if we liked those shows that we'll like this one.

Synopsis:
Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) has done his best to escape his family's eerie history. Unlike his older brother, Dean (Jensen Ackles), Sam rejected their father's obsessive quest to uncover the evil forces that claimed the life of the boys' mother, Mary. Putting as much distance as possible between himself and his family, Sam left home and went away to college. His new life includes a beautiful girlfriend, Jessica, and law school. Dean, however, took a very different path, following their father, John, into the "family business." When Dean arrives on Sam's doorstep with the news that their father has vanished, Sam has no choice but to put his personal plans on hold and join Dean on the road.
After four years apart, the reunited brothers are getting to know each other again, and their familiar sibling rivalries soon resurface. Despite the strange childhood they shared, these boys grew up to have very different views of the world. Dean idolizes their father John and is haunted by memories of his mother's violent death. Sam was too young to remember the night Mary died and has never fully accepted the frightening path his father and brother have followed.

Every Ancient Alien Needs to be Bitch Slapped?

Every hero needs a mission.
Every geek needs a puzzle.
And every ancient alien needs to be bitch slapped.

That's the promo dialogue for SpikeTV's commercial for their airing Stargate (The 1994 Movie). Hilarious!

You have two chances to catch it, if you don't already own it.

Stargate (1994)
Sep 11 8:00 PM
Sep 11 10:30 PM


My favorite quote from the movie is "Must have used Budge. I don't know why they keep reprinting his books." I watch it over and over for that scene.
Yes...
I've read enough books in my day to know why that's funny.

Finally! More Fall 2005 Premiere Dates

Tuesday, September 13
9 pm | Supernatural (WB)

Friday, September 16
9 pm | Threshold (CBS)

Monday, September 19
8 pm | Surface (NBC)
10 pm | Medium (NBC)

Wednesday, September 21
9 pm | Lost (ABC)
10 pm | Invasion (ABC)

Friday, September 23
8 pm | Ghost Whisperer (CBS)

Sunday, September 25
8 pm | Charmed (WB)

Thursday, September 29
8 pm | Alias (ABC)
Smallville (WB)
9 pm | Night Stalker (ABC)

Special Lost TV Guide with CD

It's on your newsstands now. This issues is all about LOST. It has a first season episode guide and a spoiler sectiond (that I didn't reas). I really bought this magazine because it had a CD taped on the cover with LOST stuff on it. I'm going through the CD now.