Sci-Fi Media: Films, Books and Television

[CasperParks]

Revolution picks up right where it left off.
No "6-months later" gimmick.
The story lines are tight & action packed (no spoilers)
But there did seem to be a LARGE amount of commercials. :p

I read an interview with cast member Billy Burke...

Click here to read at today dot com (http://www.today.com/entertainment/revolution-very-weird-show-now-says-star-billy-burke-2D11870022)

[CasperParks]

re: short films..

The Flying Man: Looks good, would watch on DVD.

Underland: Did peak my interest, would likely rent as a DVD.

Worlds Apart, very good.

[norenrad]

I'll have to watch more of them, now that I know about them... I'm kinda' artsy-fartsy that way.

[CasperParks]

Walking Dead cast having fun.

Nick Santonastasso zombie pranks Norman Reedus (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEm-qq8ye_9zBgZZsP7ICA/videos)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDzM4CyWa8

Published on Jan 16, 2014

Nick Santonastasso zombie pranks Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead in Tokyo with the help of Andrew Lincoln and Greg Nicotero.

[CasperParks]

Riddick Trailer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTw4OHsh9so

Just came out in DVD / Blue Ray this month.

:thumbup:

[norenrad]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but here it is:

RoboCop - Official Trailer (2014)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8

RoboCop - Official Trailer #2 - In Theaters 2/12/14


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPLSpmAtc1Q

[calikid]

Riddick Trailer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTw4OHsh9so

Just came out in DVD / Blue Ray this month.

:thumbup:

Watched Riddick yesterday.
Sad Karl Urban (McCoy in new Star Trek) as Vakko didn't play a bigger role (a cameo really).
Nice to see Katie Sackoff, she is a good actor used well in a supporting role.
The story line seems to harken back to the original "Pitch Black" theme (not much under-verse).
The CGI doggie was a nice touch.
Some of the dialog was a bit tired/cheesy, but overall worth the rental.

[calikid]

Mid season premier of Walking Dead last night.
Looks like Carl's all grown up!

[atmjjc]

For those of you who like to view quality sci fi movies,than the movie 'Mr. Nobody' should be on your must see list.

I seen this movie a few years ago on the internet (pirated) and always wondered why it was never released until recently. It's a high quality film which to this day I am still mesmerized by it...

"The last mortal in a world of immortals, Nemo Nobody begins reviewing his life at the age of 120, trying to determine if he made the right decisions. Potential choices during a pivotal moment on a train platform lead to several possible lives."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAP8q_iPOw

Netflix will be releasing the movie on 2-25-14.

[calikid]

Hanger1
The UFO files
Series premier Feb 28
10PM Eastern Time
Channel: History2

New series, not much info yet.

[calikid]

MUFON email I received today, about tonights premier.



'Hangar 1' is MUFON's TV debut


Picture
Announcing the MUFON-based TV series on The History Channel's H2 network entitled "HANGAR 1: THE UFO FILES" premiering on February 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm EST/7:00 pm PST.

The series features interviews with Jan Harzan, John Ventre and Jeremy Ray of MUFON and Jason McClellan of "Open Minds" radio along with other experts including Richard Dolan, Grant Cameron, Leslie Kean, and Michael Schratt.
In cinematic history, 60 years ago was the release of the movie "War of the Worlds." This is actually a significant movie since the Brookings Institute and our government based its policy regarding UFOs on the panic that followed the original Orson Wells Panic Broadcast on radio in 1938. The policies regarding the implications of extraterrestrial contact are that we cannot tell the public the truth regarding ETs out of fear of riots and a breakdown of the religious and scientific communities. Our guess is that it has more to do with the control of technology.

Twenty years ago, we had another cinematic anniversary with the premiere of the TV show, the "X-Files." This show featured two FBI agents investigating bizarre events with an underlying conspiracy as one agent was a believer and the other a semi skeptic. The X-Files also influenced a generation of baby boomers as did "Star Trek" almost 30 years prior to the "X-Files." In the UFO genre, it appears that a classic show comes around every 20-30 years.

We now have the MUFON-based TV series on The History Channel's H2 network entitled "HANGAR 1: THE UFO FILES" premiering on February 28, 2014.

The premise of each episode is to examine a number of MUFON cases, looking for patterns that tie in to historic UFO events. Actual footage and recreations will be used along with expert testimony. The "HANGAR 1" title comes from the actual Hangar 1 where the vast archive of 75,000 MUFON case files and evidence are stored. The show will showcase MUFON's mission to educate the public about the UFO phenomenon.

Stay tuned because the "truth is out there" or shall we say, it's actually in "HANGAR 1."

[Dragonfire]

Watching it now. Seems pretty good so far....... we shall see as it goes forward.

[Pandora'sParadox]

Getting ready to watch it... :biggrin2:

\ \/ /

[Pandora'sParadox]

Just got finished...btw, I have aquired some MUFON magazines. Just a few... 1967-2008. I have some reading to do...:p

This 1st episode kind of puts icing on my cake of "How things really played out". After the Eisenhower part, I said, "Told ya so!" LoL.
I'm happy to see that this information is slowly surfacing...but I have concerns.
What was told to Jimmy Carter that caused said meltdown at his desk?
After JFK, how was Nixon able to "willy nilly" stroll a civilian into a secret government area containing alien remains?
Where the hell is the part on the Yellow Cube damnit!?!

P.S. It is my thinking, that JFK didn't stumble onto some ufo secret, he did have a lot of thing going on, but he also pissed off the "Bank". That is who I believe to have been behind it. Think about it... Shot twice, diff angles, and the autopsy was tampered with before anyone was aloud near the room. (Including Mrs. JFK O_o)
As Grandpa once said, "Listen boy and use your head. How good of a shot do you have to be, to defy physics?"
There were 2 well trained marksmen, most likely military. The second was a back up in case the first missed, and his shot was approx what...6inches low? So the back up finished the job...but to hit a moving target like that...is no simple task.

[calikid]

I liked it too.

"The following incidents are from real case files.

These are actual UFO investigations."

[CasperParks]

MUFON email I received today, about tonights premier.


'Hangar 1' is MUFON's TV debut

Picture
Announcing the MUFON-based TV series on The History Channel's H2 network entitled "HANGAR 1: THE UFO FILES" premiering on February 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm EST/7:00 pm PST.

The series features interviews with Jan Harzan, John Ventre and Jeremy Ray of MUFON and Jason McClellan of "Open Minds" radio along with other experts including Richard Dolan, Grant Cameron, Leslie Kean, and Michael Schratt.
In cinematic history, 60 years ago was the release of the movie "War of the Worlds." This is actually a significant movie since the Brookings Institute and our government based its policy regarding UFOs on the panic that followed the original Orson Wells Panic Broadcast on radio in 1938. The policies regarding the implications of extraterrestrial contact are that we cannot tell the public the truth regarding ETs out of fear of riots and a breakdown of the religious and scientific communities. Our guess is that it has more to do with the control of technology.

Twenty years ago, we had another cinematic anniversary with the premiere of the TV show, the "X-Files." This show featured two FBI agents investigating bizarre events with an underlying conspiracy as one agent was a believer and the other a semi skeptic. The X-Files also influenced a generation of baby boomers as did "Star Trek" almost 30 years prior to the "X-Files." In the UFO genre, it appears that a classic show comes around every 20-30 years.

We now have the MUFON-based TV series on The History Channel's H2 network entitled "HANGAR 1: THE UFO FILES" premiering on February 28, 2014.

The premise of each episode is to examine a number of MUFON cases, looking for patterns that tie in to historic UFO events. Actual footage and recreations will be used along with expert testimony. The "HANGAR 1" title comes from the actual Hangar 1 where the vast archive of 75,000 MUFON case files and evidence are stored. The show will showcase MUFON's mission to educate the public about the UFO phenomenon.

Stay tuned because the "truth is out there" or shall we say, it's actually in "HANGAR 1."

:thumbup:

Worth watching...

[calikid]

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Premiers tonight on NatGeo & Foxx
13 part program hosted by Neil Tyson.

[Garuda]

I just watched this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXeZQzfQsM

Battlestar Galactica being discussed at the UN. With David Eick, Ron D. Moore, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos in the panel; moderated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Quite interesting.

[Pandora'sParadox]

Epic find!!!

[CasperParks]

Rumor going around, Star Wars VII will take place 30 years after VI.

[calikid]

Rumor going around, Star Wars VII will take place 30 years after VI.


Any casting hints?
Mark Hamel as emperor maybe?

Shia Labluff as Indy Solo Jr.?
Brian Griffin as Chewbacca?

[calikid]

The Walking Dead
S04E16 season 4 finale "A"

Rick: They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.

Sgt. Abraham Ford: When they find out what?

Rick: They're screwing with the wrong people.

[Doc]

The Walking Dead Dead
S04E16 season 4 finale

Rick: They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.

When they find out what?

Rick: They're screwing with the wrong people.

Miss August says I called what the people really were last week. I don't remember it. Great. I'm a genius TV show guesser. But I have lost my memory.

[calikid]

Miss August says I called what the people really were last week. I don't remember it. Great. I'm a genius TV show guesser. But I have lost my memory.

Cannibals?

[Doc]

Cannibals?

Yep. Munch. Yum.

[calikid]

Yep. Munch. Yum.
The Walking Dead
S04E15 "Us"

I knew something was up when Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar of ST:TNG fame) greeted them at Terminus saying "Nice to Meat you". :lmao:

[Doc]

The Walking Dead
S04E15 "Us"

I knew something was up when Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar of ST:TNG fame) greeted them at Terminus saying "Nice to Meat you". :lmao:

I'm a little embarrassed to say I didn't spot Denise with that red hair. I knew something was wrong. No people around, no noise, should have been a ragged-ass crowd or something indicating refugees like lines of laundry, bins of clothes and shoes. Denise Crosby, had I recognized her, would have thrown me way off.

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cKdDkkIYY

:w00t:
I enjoyed the film, it was well done.

If Kung Fu TV series was ever redone into a feature film, Keanu Reeves would be perfect for the role.

[Doc]

Casper: From the trailers I've seen it looks like the kind of film I would enjoy. Thanks for the endorsement. :o

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvYKl1fjBI

Watched it prior, bought a blue-ray player and had to watch it again.
:thumbup:

[calikid]

<snip> video

Watched it prior, bought a blue-ray player and had to watch it again.
:thumbup:

Grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, etc.
Back in the day, one of my fav pulp fiction authors.... Classics.
Movie was punched up a bit, but what Hollywood treatment isn't ;)

How did you compare this Disney production to prior renditions?
Like the one featuring Tracy Lords?

[CasperParks]

Grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, etc.
Back in the day, one of my fav pulp fiction authors.... Classics.
Movie was punched up a bit, but what Hollywood treatment isn't ;)

How did you compare this Disney production to prior renditions?
Like the one featuring Tracy Lords?

Long time ago, I did watch the one that Traci Lords was in. I found the John Carter of Mars Disney version more enjoyable.

It was 50 years after an author's death his / her books became free domain with limitations. There was an effort to change that. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and i-Tunes list a number of his e-books as free. The Edgar Rice Burroughs website (http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/) is endorsing a new animated Tarzan film.

Going the Inc route... / Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. may offer the estate some protection against infringement. We don't see Tarzan, John Carter, Carson and so-on endorsing a car, soap, chips or whatever product.

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haSB5DQvrpo

[Doc]

John Carter was a marketing failure, released at the wrong moment, and could have used editing to do something else than what they did with the lengthy back-story. The source material is a good, solid plot with interesting characters and was a natural for a series of films. Too bad it went the way it did.

[calikid]

John Carter was a marketing failure, released at the wrong moment, and could have used editing to do something else than what they did with the lengthy back-story. The source material is a good, solid plot with interesting characters and was a natural for a series of films. Too bad it went the way it did.

Disney is a family movie company.
IMHO they took the adult content (sex&violence) down a notch to far to get the PG-13 rating, and the film suffered because of it.
Not looking for a gore-fest or porno, but something more graphic visually would have been more entertaining.
The Mars/Barsoom Princess was hot, maybe a more alluring costume? A bit more intimate contact between her and our hero?
Plenty of battle scenes, but they seemed almost bloodless...
Props to Disney for attempting to get outside their comfort zone, better luck next time.
I did enjoy the animated characters (as expected, Disney's strong suite)
A good movie, that could have been great.

[Doc]

Off-topic a bit but one of my favorite shows, 24, is coming back next month on Fox in a two-hour 'event' the details of which I haven't researched yet. I've missed Jack Bauer's derring-do and fabulous dialogue like "Did he say anything?" "No, he just shot everybody and left!" :das

[Doc]

Last night and this morning SyFy is showing "The Mothman Prophecies" which is not a great picture but is a very good picture, principally for the direction and the stars, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, and Alan Bates. The story is taken form John Keels' book about his investigation of the Mothman sightings in West Virginia and ends with the collapse of the Silver Bridge, a real event. John Keel was a freelancer from childhood and was a regular in Fate magazine when I used to buy all of the paranormal magazines at the bookstore every month in the 1970s and 1980s. I always thought that Keel's particular genius was to take something out of the ordinary and make it seem extraordinary without going too far. (Your estimate of Keel may vary.) The script takes Keel's prose to a new level with strange but not outlandish subplots and sympathetic characters

Richard Gere, who I am usually luke-warm about, does a great job as the puzzled reporter trying to make sense out of the weird sightings and his own very strange experiences. Laura Linney, an acknowledged great actress who adds to anything she is in, doesn't let anyone down as the warm but businesslike, adorable sheriff's deputy with her long blonde hair under that furry police cap and the way she gradually gets herself enmeshed with Gere's character. By the end of the film, the male viewer is thinking, "Forget the Mothman and go after that cute deputy. She likes you!" Will Patton ("Falling Skies"'scruffy militia commander) does his patented Will Patton character actor job, which is no knock on him, he has become one of the best character actors of his era, which is quite an accomplishment with all the competition and bland, weakish leading men in the field.

The film was a modest success and gets five out of ten stars under most popular systems. I find it watchable any time it is on for Gere and Linney's presence in a modest plotted, well-directed mystery. If you haven't seen "The Mothman Prophecies", give it a look. If you have seen it and don't see what I have described, give it another look and see if I am all wrong or what? Maybe I'm crazy but I'd watch Laura Linney read names out of a phone book. To herself. :bleh:

[CasperParks]

Last night and this morning SyFy is showing "The Mothman Prophecies" which is not a great picture but is a very good picture, principally for the direction and the stars, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, and Alan Bates. The story is taken form John Keels' book about his investigation of the Mothman sightings in West Virginia and ends with the collapse of the Silver Bridge, a real event. John Keel was a freelancer from childhood and was a regular in Fate magazine when I used to buy all of the paranormal magazines at the bookstore every month in the 1970s and 1980s. I always thought that Keel's particular genius was to take something out of the ordinary and make it seem extraordinary without going too far. (Your estimate of Keel may vary.) The script takes Keel's prose to a new level with strange but not outlandish subplots and sympathetic characters

Richard Gere, who I am usually luke-warm about, does a great job as the puzzled reporter trying to make sense out of the weird sightings and his own very strange experiences. Laura Linney, an acknowledged great actress who adds to anything she is in, doesn't let anyone down as the warm but businesslike, adorable sheriff's deputy with her long blonde hair under that furry police cap and the way she gradually gets herself enmeshed with Gere's character. By the end of the film, the male viewer is thinking, "Forget the Mothman and go after that cute deputy. She likes you!" Will Patton ("Falling Skies"'scruffy militia commander) does his patented Will Patton character actor job, which is no knock on him, he has become one of the best character actors of his era, which is quite an accomplishment with all the competition and bland, weakish leading men in the field.

The film was a modest success and gets five out of ten stars under most popular systems. I find it watchable any time it is on for Gere and Linney's presence in a modest plotted, well-directed mystery. If you haven't seen "The Mothman Prophecies", give it a look. If you have seen it and don't see what I have described, give it another look and see if I am all wrong or what? Maybe I'm crazy but I'd watch Laura Linney read names out of a phone book. To herself. :bleh:

The Mothman Prophecies was okay, worth a dollar rental at the local video store. Been a long time since watching it. Couple of weeks ago, I bought a HDTV and blue-ray player. Using cloud services is not appealing to me. I like owning a hard-copy of whatever. Instead of buying a tablet, picked up laptop computer and jacked it into the HDTV. Using the laptop to watch hulu, MUFON Hanger 1, Vikings and so-on.

Keeping an eye out for discounted blue-ray disks. Picked up used blue-rays at the video store and discount bin at another store: 10,000 BC. Prometheus (Prometheus 2 is underway, working title rumored Paradise). Star Trek: Into Darkness. Battle Ship. Used ones I watch within a day or two, in case there are any issues that prevent it from playing.

[newyorklily]

I really enjoyed "The Mothman Prophecies" and own a DVD of it. I bought and read John Keel's book in the '70s. I also have a hard cover copy of "The Silver Bridge" by Gray Barker. Those two authors and Brad Steiger, introduced me to the MIB phenomenon which fascinated me throughout my teen years.

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[Doc]

I really enjoyed "The Mothman Prophecies" and own a DVD of it. I bought and read John Keel's book in the '70s. I also have a hard cover copy of "The Silver Bridge" by Gray Barker. Those two authors and Brad Steiger, introduced me to the MIB phenomenon which fascinated me throughout my teen years.

Sent from my VM670 using Tapatalk 2

That was a time of a robust magazine selection of all kinds of topics. I read all the science fiction I could get my hands on and later discovered publications like Fate and the UFO mags. I was inspired, lost interest for a decade or more then got inspired all over again. :)

[Doc]

The Mothman Prophecies was okay, worth a dollar rental at the local video store. Been a long time since watching it. Couple of weeks ago, I bought a HDTV and blue-ray player. Using cloud services is not appealing to me. I like owning a hard-copy of whatever. Instead of buying a tablet, picked up laptop computer and jacked it into the HDTV. Using the laptop to watch hulu, MUFON Hanger 1, Vikings and so-on.

Keeping an eye out for discounted blue-ray disks. Picked up used blue-rays at the video store and discount bin at another store: 10,000 BC. Prometheus (Prometheus 2 is underway, working title rumored Paradise). Star Trek: Into Darkness. Battle Ship. Used ones I watch within a day or two, in case there are any issues that prevent it from playing.

I use a cable from my laptop to the TV and prefer a hard copy of films as well--but the last two or three years I find that very few films are memorable enough that I want to own them and many of the old, classic films I have watched too many times and have to wait for a long time to feel like watching them again. In a whole other category, I haven't bought a CD of new music in years. I've filled in spots in my Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Christmas collections but no new music is worth paying for to me--heck, some I wouldn't want as a gift!

[Redbone]

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2014/04/10/linda-hamilton-comes-to-defiance/

Linda Hamilton of the original 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Terminator' fame is joining the cast of Sy-Fy's Defiance for the second season starting June 19th, 2014. I watched the first season and became a fan. Looking forward to the second. Linda will certainly be a big plus for the series. She is a very talented actress.

[CasperParks]

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2014/04/10/linda-hamilton-comes-to-defiance/

Linda Hamilton of the original 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Terminator' fame is joining the cast of Sy-Fy's Defiance for the second season starting June 19th, 2014. I watched the first season and became a fan. Looking forward to the second. Linda will certainly be a big plus for the series. She is a very talented actress.

Looking forward to seeing Defiance return.

[Doc]

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2014/04/10/linda-hamilton-comes-to-defiance/

Linda Hamilton of the original 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Terminator' fame is joining the cast of Sy-Fy's Defiance for the second season starting June 19th, 2014. I watched the first season and became a fan. Looking forward to the second. Linda will certainly be a big plus for the series. She is a very talented actress.

I hope the producers and writers give Linda Hamilton something to work with, since they seem to have been writing the show in a strange direction the last few episodes. I hope I am wrong, maybe they just were going for the cliffhanger season-ender. The show was getting very good but shows on SyFy go off the rails more often than I'd like. They made some good shows like Warehouse 13 almost unwatchable.

[calikid]

Looks like they're getting the old band back together! :)


'Star Wars' Episode VII' cast revealed:

Harrison Ford and original stars joined by likes of Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and Andy Serkis
Max von Sydow, Daisy Ridley, Domhall Gleeson and John Boyega are new additions to cast of director J.J. Abrams’ eagerly awaited entry into the sci-fi franchise, but they’ll have great guides in original trilogy vets Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew.
BY Ethan Sacks

There's a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in rapture.

After months of rumors, director J.J. Abrams revealed his cast for "Star Wars: Episode VII" Tuesday - an interesting mix of old and new faces shown off in a photo from the film's first table read posted on Starwars.com.

As expected, original "Star Wars" trilogy stars Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony Daniels (C3P0), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Kenny Baker (R2D2) are back, confirming what had pretty much been the worst kept secret in the universe. Story Continues (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/star-wars-episode-vii-speculation-ignited-actor-sightings-article-1.1772618)


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1772613.1398791563!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/star-wars.jpg

[Redbone]

I hope the producers and writers give Linda Hamilton something to work with, since they seem to have been writing the show in a strange direction the last few episodes. I hope I am wrong, maybe they just were going for the cliffhanger season-ender. The show was getting very good but shows on SyFy go off the rails more often than I'd like. They made some good shows like Warehouse 13 almost unwatchable.

I agree Doc, things were getting a bit strange towards the end of the season. I am hoping that Linda's character will get us back on track. Too often a show starts off really good then goes into a death spiral when the writers get off on some non-whimsical flight only they comprehend. Seen it happen too may times to count. Most series are only good for about 3 seasons before they are butchered beyond repair.

[CasperParks]

Current shows, season ending soon.

Over the airwaves broadcasts

ABC:
Agents of Shield: :thumbup:
Resurrection: Thus far, it is holding my interest.

CBS:
Intelligence: Watched first episode and lost interest.
Person of Interest: :thumbup:
Under the Dome: First season, enjoyed. It is returning this summer.

NBC:
Revolution: Waiting to see what they do for next season if renewed.
The Black List: James Spader is perfect for the role. So far, it is holding my interest.
Grimm: :thumbup:

FOX:
Almost Human: Waiting to see if renewed, and if so - what it does with the "over the wall" stuff.
Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey: Watched first episode - have not watched additional ones. Plan to surf episodes for ones that caught my interest.
Sleepy Hollow: Waiting to see if second season delivers.

CW:
The 100: Found first few episodes interesting. Unsure it will hold my interest.
Arrow: Not of interest for me.
Beauty and The Beast: Not interested.
Star Crossed: Too much romance.
Tomorrow People: Waiting for next season to see where writers, producers and directors take it.
Supernatural: Most recent episode seemed to leave an option for a spin-off, crime families made of monster clans.
Reign: Not interested.

Cable / Internet:

I do not have cable TV, so my list is limited.
Orphan Black, Enjoyed first season.
Defiance: Enjoyed first season - waiting to see if it can hold my interest.
Vikings: Not syfy, but so far it is okay.
Doctor Who: Have tried a couple of times, does not catch my interest.

*When not catching my interest, does not mean the show isn't good. Just that it is not something I'd enjoy.

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSaJE2rqxU

Caught an afternoon showing of Noah at a local theater. I was disappointed the film did not keep closer to the biblical account. Hollywood took a lot of creative liberty. As expected, a stellar cast delivered. There are environmental and individual morality messages within the film, and for that I give it credit.

In coming months is it worth a DVD, Blue-Ray or Streaming rental? I'll say yes on that, however do not expect it to follow the biblical account.

[Doc]

Current shows, season ending soon.

Over the airwaves broadcasts

ABC:
Agents of Shield: :thumbup:
Resurrection: Thus far, it is holding my interest.

CBS:
Intelligence: Watched first episode and lost interest.
Person of Interest: :thumbup:
Under the Dome: First season, enjoyed. It is returning this summer.

NBC:
Revolution: Waiting to see what they do for next season if renewed.
The Black List: James Spader is perfect for the role. So far, it is holding my interest.
Grimm: :thumbup:

FOX:
Almost Human: Waiting to see if renewed, and if so - what it does with the "over the wall" stuff.
Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey: Watched first episode - have not watched additional ones. Plan to surf episodes for ones that caught my interest.
Sleepy Hollow: Waiting to see if second season delivers.

CW:
The 100: Found first few episodes interesting. Unsure it will hold my interest.
Arrow: Not of interest for me.
Beauty and The Beast: Not interested.
Star Crossed: Too much romance.
Tomorrow People: Waiting for next season to see where writers, producers and directors take it.
Supernatural: Most recent episode seemed to leave an option for a spin-off, crime families made of monster clans.
Reign: Not interested.

Cable / Internet:

I do not have cable TV, so my list is limited.
Orphan Black, Enjoyed first season.
Defiance: Enjoyed first season - waiting to see if it can hold my interest.
Vikings: Not syfy, but so far it is okay.
Doctor Who: Have tried a couple of times, does not catch my interest.

*When not catching my interest, does not mean the show isn't good. Just that it is not something I'd enjoy.

Your interests and mine are similar, especially the ones you give a thumbs up to! Dr. Who is an acquired taste that grew on me over the years. Sometimes, it is just things like "Eighteen whole minutes to save the World? (Long pause) OK. No problem. I think I can do it in twelve...if nothing goes wrong" that make me smile and keep me coming back. I know something will go wrong and he will still do it in nearly twelve minutes. Some of the shows would catch my interest if they hadn't been done before under another name. Others might catch my interest if the cast were a little different (some people I just don't like and others I will watch in anything). I'm very wary of SyFy Channel series because they so often cancel good shows or botch good shows after a season or two Like Warehouse 13.

[calikid]

Watched CSI the other day. Noticed a credit for a "Cyberpsychologist: Mary Aiken".
New one on me.
Episode featured Patricia Arquette. I smell spinoff

[CasperParks]

Watched CSI the other day. Noticed a credit for a "Cyberpsychologist: Mary Aiken".
New one on me.
Episode featured Patricia Arquette. I smell spinoff

I was thinking the same thing.

[Doc]

Original 'CSI' Trio Reunite for Cyber Crime Spinoff - Variety (http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/original-csi-trio-reunites-for-cyber-crime-spinoff-1201110918/)



variety.com/2014/tv/news/original-csi-trio-reunites-for-cyber...

Feb 18, 2014 · CBS has ordered a pilot for a "CSI" spinoff focused on cyber crime that reunites ... The series revolves around the work of FBI cyber-psychologist Mary Aiken

[CasperParks]

I am not a fan of The Arrow. Flash comes out this Fall Season. I will give the season opener a chance, but it's not catching my attention. Perhaps it will do okay for a younger generation.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0l7iGKh8g#t=312

[Doc]

I gave The Arrow a try but it didn't grab me. I'll go ahead and give The Flash a look too, though.

[CasperParks]

Sci-Fi television shows getting the axe for the Fall Season.

The Neighbors comedy was on ABC.
(watched a few minutes of first episode and lost interest)

Intelligence action drama was on FOX
(watched half of second episode, no need to watch more)

Almost Human action drama was on FOX
(watched every episode, they had this over the wall thing that wasn't explored)

Revolution action drama was on NBC
(watched ever episode, there is one episode left this season and hopefully they will draw the series to a conclusion. But I expect to be left hanging.)

Believe drama action was on NBC
(never watched)

The Tomorrow People action drama was on CW
(watched every episode, but unsure it was going to hold my interest for next season)

Star-Crossed drama action romance was on CW
(watched one episode, too much romance for my taste)

[Doc]

Thanks for the summary, Casper. It makes me a little sad to see so many sci-fi shows go. I'd rather see them get a chance to find an audience or a winning plot line. I di like how they wrapped up Being Human on SyFy though. Happy ending, too, which surprised me.

[CasperParks]

Escape From Planet Earth is a children's film. Bought a used DVD for grandson, he seemed to enjoy it.
Earth is considered the "Dark Planet", aliens that land on the planet never return!
Anyone familiar with UFO and government cover-up conspiracies will find a number of ha, ha, ha moments.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ShS2yAIRJU

Another great Sci-Fi film worth watching with your children or grandchildren, The Iron Giant.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnu-cGP17w

[calikid]

It was 20 years ago today..... ST: TNG series ended.
Tempus Fugit

'And the Sky's the Limit': The Writers of the 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Series Finale Look Back, 20 Years Later

Twenty years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga faced the TV writer's equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru (that's a no-win scenario, for you non-Trekkers out there): Not only were they tasked with scripting the first TNG movie, 1994's Star Trek: Generations, but they also had to craft a two-hour series finale that would put a bow on Star Trek: TNG's seven-season TV run. And oh yeah, write both scripts at the same time.

The result: "All Good Things…," the immensely satisfying and beloved TNG finale that aired May 23, 1994 — 20 years ago this week. Story Continues (https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/star-trek-the-next-generation-series-finale-all-good-things-20-years-later-ronald-d-moore-brannon-braga-223132059.html)

https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qnL9incjHtPZzTluE.1Qpg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTgwMDtweW9mZj0wO3E9Nz U7dz05NTU-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/TV/yahootv/nearly-two-decades-end-original-series-roddenberry-returned-45893.jpg

Final line of the series, spoken by Picard during the closing scene at a poker game.
"The skies the limit".

[CasperParks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

Re-watched World War Z this weekend. A screenwriter was recently hired to write a sequel.

[CasperParks]

BlueRay and DVD releases for June 2014 that may or may not be of interest.

June 3rd, 2014
Falling Skies the third season.
Robo Cop (remake)
Parts Per Billion (virus and end of the world film, big name cast members)
Mysteries Of Angels And Demons (documentary)

June 10th, 2014
Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey (educational)
Dude Where's My Dog (sfy children comedy, boy's dog becomes invisible)
Adventures of Batman (TV cartoons re-release from ?1967?)

June 24th, 2014
300: Rise of an Empire (historical fantasy)

[calikid]

New season of DEFIANCE being advertised on Syfy channel.
Premiers late June.

[CasperParks]

New season of DEFIANCE being advertised on Syfy channel.
Premiers late June.

Forgot about that one. I watched last season Hulu. Now Hulu wants me to connect through my "local pay TV providers", it keeps getting worse - cannot seem to get around paying Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon money to watch TV any more. Well, I don't pay so there is no watching for me. Perhaps in a few weeks or month or years they will free up episodes.

[calikid]

New show on Syfy called "Dominion" looks promising.
Series premier June 19 2014.

[calikid]

Not really SciFi but did enjoy the series premier the other night of "Halt & Catch Fire"
Set in 1980s," story about men who dared challenge IBM's hold on the PC market. Bringing clone PCs to the public.
Great characters, can't wait for next episode.

[CasperParks]

New show on Syfy called "Dominion" looks promising.
Series premier June 19 2014.


Here is the promo trailer for "Dominion" that airs on SyFy June 19th, 2014.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfdatSEgnA

[CasperParks]

Parts Per Billion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFfzhxR_nI

Parts per billion of a deadly pathogen in the atmosphere that travels from the Middle East across Europe and the ocean until reaching the Eastern Seaboard and spreading inland. Would the "Parts per billion in the air" remain at killer levels as it crossed the Atlantic, or would it disburse and weaken? Then again, I am unsure if the film showed a longer time to die along the Eastern Seaboard than it took in the Middle East and later Europe.

The film has a stellar cast, acting is good. It is slow moving, and has flashbacks within flashbacks of flashbacks making it difficult at times to follow. If you are looking for a normal Hollywood end of the world type of film, this is not it. Again, stellar cast delivers. Here is what I took away from the film: Pathogens are killers, coal air-filters may not work. Have oxygen tanks on hand to last for eight days. Bored at times, I did watch parts of the film in fast forward.

Again, if looking for end of the world action film - Parts Per Billion is not it. If looking for a character driven storyline, maybe. If the local video rental store near you moves new releases to a dollar section after a couple of months, I would suggest waiting. That way, if you do not like the film it is not a great loss.

[calikid]

Heavy promos running for a new series called "The Strain (http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/03/guillermo-del-toro-bites-into-the-strain)"
Premiers July 13 2014
on FX

CDC battles Vampires

[calikid]

Here is the promo trailer for "Dominion" that airs on SyFy June 19th, 2014.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfdatSEgnA

Looks like a reboot of the Keanu Reeves movie "Constantine", in serial/TV series form.

[CasperParks]

RE: Dominion


Looks like a reboot of the Keanu Reeves movie "Constantine", in serial/TV series form.

I thought the same thing.

[CasperParks]

Sharknado 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0ieIpBhsg
It is an acquired taste.

[CasperParks]

New Guardians of the Galaxy trailer for UK


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CqymRQ1uUU

[CasperParks]

Gotta love my local rental video store. This past weekend father's day, I went down there at 11pm to get a new release, learned of the sale and... They sweetened the sale for midnight special!

10 movies for $5.00! But had to get 10 for the price break, averaging each at .50 cents.

Adjustment Bureau, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Host, Hanna, Safe House and Cloud Atlas are worth owning as part of a collection. At .50 cents apiece, could not turn those down.

Dark Skies, Chronicle, The Colony, GI Joe Retaliation, worth owing at .50 cents apiece.

That video store has had a lot of special sales lately. I wonder if online viewing is cutting into their market? They tell me, not the case. Just over stock. I think people are watching their budgets. The prices have to be super low to attract buyers. I suspect many people are weary of spending money.

[calikid]

Gotta love my local rental video store. This past weekend father's day, I went down there at 11pm to get a new release, learned of the sale and... They sweetened the sale for midnight special!

10 movies for $5.00! But had to get 10 for the price break, averaging each at .50 cents.

Adjustment Bureau, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Host, Hanna, Safe House and Cloud Atlas are worth owning as part of a collection. At .50 cents apiece, could not turn those down.

Dark Skies, Chronicle, The Colony, GI Joe Retaliation, worth owing at .50 cents apiece.

That video store has had a lot of special sales lately. I wonder if online viewing is cutting into their market? They tell me, not the case. Just over stock. I think people are watching their budgets. The prices have to be super low to attract buyers. I suspect many people are weary of spending money.

You have video rental stores?
Closest thing we have is "Red box"

Sounds like some bargains.
DVD or VHS?
:D

[CasperParks]

You have video rental stores?
Closest thing we have is "Red box"

Sounds like some bargains.
DVD or VHS?
:D

DVD / Bluerays

[calikid]

DVD / Bluerays

BluRay is cool.
Many stores here sell them, Target, WallyWorld, BestBuy, just no video rental stores anymore. Blockbuster was the last hold out, and they closed their doors (here, anyway) last January.

[Doc]

Redbox is all we have anymore. I bought loads of DVDs when Blockbuster and Hollywood went out, some overpriced a bit but most were a bargain. One or two foreign films like The Seventh Seal, Andrei Rublev, and 7 Samurai I got for a fraction of retail. In Sci-Fi I got both the Russian and American films of Solaris, clean copies to replace ones I had that were not as good. Most of the foreign films at the rental places gathered dust because rental demand was so low, so buying a nearly new copy for six dollars of something Criterion wants $80 for was a very good deal, indeed. Walmart and K-Mart have bins of low cost vids but the pickings have not been great lately, Sci-Fi or otherwise.

[CasperParks]

Defiance season two started this week. Sadly, have to sign into a pay TV provider to watch it on Hulu. Sometimes that sign-in pay TV provider changes after a week or two, so will have to keep an eye on it.

Video rental stores across the US died-out. In my area there is Family Video (http://www.familyvideo.com/locations.php). I suspect they continue for a number of reasons. Marketing is one. The company tends to own the land their stores are on and other buildings that are leased to business. They generally have a pizza place next door. While not every week, once a month I'll get a new release and pizza. From time to time, will visit their website and check on new releases - then use youtube to watch trailers and decide if worth chancing a rental.

[Doc]

Casper, I hope you don't have too much trouble connecting with this entertainment because there is something worth seeing for a change, as good as Grimm and Once Upon A Time have been.

Defiance' season opener was good, lived up to last season and then some, so no complaints there. I watched the new show Dominion, derived from the film Legion which I liked very much. It is ambitious, grand scale stuff and could be good. The first hour, though, reminded me of the Magnificent Seven sequels: "We have this bad situation and what we are going to do about it is talk each other to death!" I was just about ready to give up when all Hell broke loose and it got interesting in a hurry! This could be a good one. It was an added treat to see Anthony Head of Buffy fame play a juicy villain after being stuck playing King Uther in Merlin, which was written as if the seminal king was a moron and his iconic son a blockhead. (There were two characters in Merlin that seemed to be smart enough to get in out of the rain and neither of them really mattered. Know who I mean?)

Back to Defiance. The leads are all uniformly good. Defiance is a career-maker for Grant Bowler, usually a supporting actor, and he steps into leading man action hero shoes likes he's been doing it all his life. He's got that unassuming, vulnerable "aw shucks" thing going while being ruthlessly effective when he has to be; strong father to his adopted alien daughter and his character is written so he gets to shoot all the right people before you find yourself screaming "shoot him!" at the screen. His daughter loves him to death even though she tells him "You're an idiot" when he screws up, which somehow to a 2014 audience works as a father/daughter relationship. Add to this good old solid Graham Greene, American and UK favorite Tony Curran, remarkable Jamie Murray and a few very good people whose names I should look up and you have yourself what we fans like to call-- "good"--instead of the crapola the networks spend millions on, only to go unwatched by anyone with a brain and some taste.

So Defiance and Dominion: SyFy may be coming back to its brief seasons of glory! *coughGalacticacough*

[calikid]

Defiance S02E01
"The Opposite of Hallelujah"

Nolan searches for Irisa.
New character, Mayor Pottinger, is introduced.

[calikid]

Falling Skies
Season premiere
Sunday 10pm on TNT

[CasperParks]

Defiance S02E01
"The Opposite of Hallelujah"

Nolan searches for Irisa.
New character, Mayor Pottinger, is introduced.

Well, well, well... Hulu opened up Defiance episode one of the new season for viewing where it is not required to log into a pay-TV provider. Good season opener. Writing is good, giving production crew, director and actors solid material.

[Doc]

Falling Skies
Season premiere
Sunday 10pm on TNT

Also, new show The Last Ship with Adam Baldwin at 9pm TNT same day, Sunday June 22.

[CasperParks]

Just re-watched Cloud Atlas, blue ray. Part of the ten for five dollars deal over father's day weekend. Special features places the story into a better perspective. Amazing, actors were playing six different roles. Sometimes as a man, then a woman, sometimes one race then another race. One role as evil, another as good. Glad that I bought it. Good to have in a collection. I won't watch it again in the near future - however - In a year or two, or with company visiting it is one of those decent ones to pop into the player.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s

[Pandora'sParadox]

If you haven't seen "the edge of tomorrow"...Highly recommend it. It's got a pretty crazy plot...:cool:

[calikid]

Just re-watched Cloud Atlas, blue ray. Part of the ten for five dollars deal over father's day weekend. Special features places the story into a better perspective. Amazing, actors were playing six different roles. Sometimes as a man, then a woman, sometimes one race then another race. One role as evil, another as good. Glad that I bought it. Good to have in a collection. I won't watch it again in the near future - however - In a year or two, or with company visiting it is one of those decent ones to pop into the player.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s

Funny story.
Went to d/L Cloud Atlas, but got Atlas Shrugged by mistake.
Ann Raynd story, turned out to be good enough I went back & rented part2.

Of yeah. Got the right movie too.
Like Tom Hanks. Love Halle Berrie.

[Doc]

The Last Ship went to Hell last night after a good pilot last week. I knew that Navy was lousy at close quarters combat but the crew in the show last night were ridiculous. Nervous sailor shoots at nothing. No guard on the door or watching their back with squad unprotected inside. Oh, well, there's hope. The guys and girls in Falling Skies learned to do it better and I know it is only a story. Anyone watching with even the briefest military training must have been laughing or crying at how miserable they were at moving in a dangerous area. Armed to the teeth and lacking a clue.

[Doc]

Penny Dreadful is on Showtime and just wrapped up its first season. It will return next year. There will be reruns of this season for those who have missed it. A "penny dreadful" was a pulp fiction serial magazine type that featured sensational and lurid stories and was popular in the 1800s, for only a penny an issue. This show, Penny Dreadful is something else entirely. The creators have taken the classic horror characters from Frankenstein, Dracula, Dorian Gray and others and show them interacting in London of the 1890s. It could have been cartoonish and silly like Scooby Doo or like Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein but it is not silly at all. Instead it is a disturbing and sometimes shocking re-envisioning of stories we all know at least something about. (From here on in I promise NO spoilers.)

Showtime describes the show like this:

"Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama."

Add to this some very good and better actors, very good writing and direction and you have something worth watching but not for the faint of heart. Eva Green, of Casino Royale and The Golden Compass plays troubled Vanessa Ives, a friend of Mina Harker (Murray) from Dracula. Timothy Dalton, who everybody but me hated as James Bond is the missing Mina's father and a central character. Josh Hartnett is Ethan Chandler an American adventurer and gunslinger. Billie Piper, beloved of Dr. Who fans as the companion Rose, is also here.


The story is easy to get into. The characters that you already know do about what you'd guess they'd do if you put them together. There are secrets, enigmatic motivations and suspense. Easy to get into but sometimes hard to take. It is a horror series, done with the modern bits of some sex and nudity but not too much. The show is best approached knowing what you are getting into. If you want to see Eva Green show the skills you thought she might have, this is it. Eva can peel the paint from the walls with emotion. If you want to know what Timothy Dalton has always been doing well and can get past the bum rap he got for James Bond, you'll see it here. He is rock-solid and convincing. You'll see that Josh Hartnett from Blackhawk Down is leading man material. Billie Piper continues to show that she isn't just The Companion from Dr. Who or "the hooker with the heart of credit-card plastic". Everyone else is good, some are outstanding. If you crave the old stories made new and done well, this is it.

[calikid]

Under The Dome
Season 2 has started.
Two episodes so far.
Good cast, but IMO the scripts are confusing and mediocre.
Let's hope Steven King (yes, THAT author) can up his game on future episodes/scripts.

[calikid]

Penny Dreadful is on Showtime and just wrapped up its first season. It will return next year. There will be reruns of this season for those who have missed it. A "penny dreadful" was a pulp fiction serial magazine type that featured sensational and lurid stories and was popular in the 1800s, for only a penny an issue. <snip>

Sounds good Doc, think I will give it a look.
Saw a few minutes of first episode, appears to be 4x3 format (not widescreen).
Just the copy I got?
Or was that your experience too?
Not a deal breaker, but unexpected.

[CasperParks]

Under The Dome
Season 2 has started.
Two episodes so far.
Good cast, but IMO the scripts are confusing and mediocre.
Let's hope Steven King (yes, THAT author) can up his game on future episodes/scripts.

King made a guest appearance right near the end...

[calikid]

EXTANT
Starring Halle Berry
Network Series premier July 9, 2014.
Astronaut tries to reconnect with family after a year in space.

[Dragonfire]

For any Dr. Who fans out there, seems someone got hold of the scripts for the first 6 episodes this year. Seems true fans are threatening who ever has the episodes and doesn't want them to see them on twitter or facebook. Of course if you want to know..........sorta like knowing what you are getting for Christmas a month before. The thrill just isn't there when you actually get to open the presents........

Each to their own......

[Doc]

For any Dr. Who fans out there, seems someone got hold of the scripts for the first 6 episodes this year. Seems true fans are threatening who ever has the episodes and doesn't want them to see them on twitter or facebook. Of course if you want to know..........sorta like knowing what you are getting for Christmas a month before. The thrill just isn't there when you actually get to open the presents........

Each to their own......

I ruined my Christmas once by looking in my parents' closet (imitating a friend or a TV show or something). They got me something really special and I could not feign surprise on Christmas morning so they saw right through me and were angry/disappointed. I have never done that since. I also ruined Star Wars for myself back in the day by watching a "Making Of" that revealed too many tricks. Just a cautionary tale.... :rolleyes:

[Doc]

I was looking for some late night diversion last night after a long day's work so I watched Flying Monkeys on SyFy whci I had seen before and knew was boring and mindless enough for the momentary brain rest I had in mind. Like many things that wind up as SyFy films it wasn't a bad idea and even had a few good people in it. Unfortunately the writing was awful. So, the plot turned out to be: Idiot refuses to believe cute monkey turns into demon at night. Idiot dies. Repeat. I turned it off after an hour and fifteen minutes and went to bed. It seemed as if I had been watching it for at least three hours! Oh, well, it served the purpose. Soporific.

[calikid]

The Last Ship went to Hell last night after a good pilot last week. I knew that Navy was lousy at close quarters combat but the crew in the show last night were ridiculous. Nervous sailor shoots at nothing. No guard on the door or watching their back with squad unprotected inside. Oh, well, there's hope. The guys and girls in Falling Skies learned to do it better and I know it is only a story. Anyone watching with even the briefest military training must have been laughing or crying at how miserable they were at moving in a dangerous area. Armed to the teeth and lacking a clue.

What did you think of S01Ep03?
The introduction of the Russian Admiral as an adversary look promising to you?

Got to love that line "We didn't want you fueling up for the Atlantic crossing, so we nuked France" Ha!

[Doc]

What did you think of S01Ep03?
The introduction of the Russian Admiral as an adversary look promising to you?

Got to love that line "We didn't want you fueling up for the Atlantic crossing, so we nuked France" Ha!

It is getting better--evening out--settling in--not sure what to say but with halfway decent writing and the very good cast I'll keep watching and hoping.

[Doc]

The cable channel SonyHD is running Screamers and Screamers: The Hunting one after another tonight. If you never saw Screamers or haven't seen it in a while this is a good time to see it uncut and maybe for the first time in HD on a good flat-screen TV. Screamers is from a Philip K Dick short story and stars Peter Weller in a tale of war robots which have evolved into complicated, deceptive replicants and have complicated a war on a far-off mining planet. Weller does a great job as a commander who has had enough and wants to find a way to end the war. This is a very low budget film with great writing, fine acting and directing and unless you need wonderful FX to make your entertainment, Screamers is an underrated gem that belongs in your Sci-Fi collection.

Screamers:The Hunting stars Gina Holden with a cameo by Lance Henriksen. It is not in the class of the first film and if it were being shown alone I would recommend that you skip it but it does pick up a loose end from the first film and advance the story, albeit with sequel-itis. Gina Holden tries hard to save it and she is worth watching and a couple of good supporting performances fill in some holes but the script is a hot mess with logical problems that may have you shaking your head. However, with your expectations in the right place, if you need some decent eye-candy for a few hours, this double feature will do.

[CasperParks]

The cable channel SonyHD is running Screamers and Screamers: The Hunting one after another tonight. If you never saw Screamers or haven't seen it in a while this is a good time to see it uncut and maybe for the first time in HD on a good flat-screen TV. Screamers is from a Philip K Dick short story and stars Peter Weller in a tale of war robots which have evolved into complicated, deceptive replicants and have complicated a war on a far-off mining planet. Weller does a great job as a commander who has had enough and wants to find a way to end the war. This is a very low budget film with great writing, fine acting and directing and unless you need wonderful FX to make your entertainment, Screamers is an underrated gem that belongs in your Sci-Fi collection.

Screamers:The Hunting stars Gina Holden with a cameo by Lance Henriksen. It is not in the class of the first film and if it were being shown alone I would recommend that you skip it but it does pick up a loose end from the first film and advance the story, albeit with sequel-itis. Gina Holden tries hard to save it and she is worth watching and a couple of good supporting performances fill in some holes but the script is a hot mess with logical problems that may have you shaking your head. However, with your expectations in the right place, if you need some decent eye-candy for a few hours, this double feature will do.

I remember both films. :thumbup:

[Doc]

What did you think of S01Ep03?
The introduction of the Russian Admiral as an adversary look promising to you?

Got to love that line "We didn't want you fueling up for the Atlantic crossing, so we nuked France" Ha!

Last nights Episode 4 answered the question better. The characters and what is going to happen to them is becoming interesting and overshadowing any lapses. Episode 3 had one of my dramatic pet peeves: people pointing guns at one another and then talking, talking when in real life such a thing includes unbearable tension, incredible danger and with the usual outcomes in TV and Films, the good guys should just shoot the bad guys and the hell with the yakkety-yak! As the immortal Tuco said in TGTBTU: "If your gonna shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

It looks like both shows: The Last Ship and Falling Skies are going to deliver and then some, so I feel like there is something worth watching again. The writers and directors have figured out what to do with the best actors to showcase their strengths.

[calikid]

The Strain S01Ep01
Interesting beginning.
Plane full of dead people arrives in Manhattan from Europe (reminded me of some past episode of Fringe?!? Busload of dead folks.), with only 4 survivers of 200+ on board "souls".
Vampires vs CDC. 1hr40min premier.
Interesting vision of Guillermo del Toro/director.

[calikid]

Last nights Episode 4 answered the question better. The characters and what is going to happen to them is becoming interesting and overshadowing any lapses. Episode 3 had one of my dramatic pet peeves: people pointing guns at one another and then talking, talking when in real life such a thing includes unbearable tension, incredible danger and with the usual outcomes in TV and Films, the good guys should just shoot the bad guys and the hell with the yakkety-yak! As the immortal Tuco said in TGTBTU: "If your gonna shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

It looks like both shows: The Last Ship and Falling Skies are going to deliver and then some, so I feel like there is something worth watching again. The writers and directors have figured out what to do with the best actors to showcase their strengths.

Speaking of Falling Skies
Saw a new credit for Mira Sorvino in the last episode.
Pope's new tough gal pal?
Always up for a new hottie addition to the cast. :D
Loved her in the Scifi/Horror movie "Mimic".

[Doc]

Speaking of Falling Skies
Saw a new credit for Mira Sorvino in the last episode.
Pope's new tough gal pal?
Always up for a new hottie addition to the cast. :D
Loved her in the Scifi/Horror movie "Mimic".

I like her in The Replacement Killers too! Interesting, she is one of those people for whom the Academy Award did nothing, career-wise. Made her father proud, though.

[calikid]

I like her in The Replacement Killers too! Interesting, she is one of those people for whom the Academy Award did nothing, career-wise. Made her father proud, though.

I was watching BBC last night, saw an advertisement for a new TV series called INTRUDERS (http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/mira-sorvino-to-star-in-bbc-america-series-intruders/) that she is starring in.
Makes me wonder how long she will survive on Falling Skies. Ha!

[calikid]

Watched TRANSCENDENCE the other night.
Johnnie Depp/Morgan Freedman.

Not bad. Worth the rental.
AI wants to rule the world, in benevolent fashion.
Can't have that!

[Fore]

Watched TRANSCENDENCE the other night.
Johnnie Depp/Morgan Freedman.

Not bad. Worth the rental.
AI wants to rule the world, in benevolent fashion.
Can't have that!I watched that too, I kept an open mind though while watching the movie. I didn't presume the AI was doing anything "evil" until it was.

From that perspective (on first try) it seemed like they overreacted as the movie progressed. The only thing that could have passed for "bad" was when it used people as part of it's extensions. Thats about it. Everything else as I watched was basically the presumption that it (The A.I.) was up to no good.

Even through the entire siege I could see the fictional A.I. doing the right things to defend itself in a pretty logical (and strangely restrained) way.

I wasn't too surprised by the ending revealing the intentions being more benign overall than if you go into the movie expecting some Malevolent Super Computer modeled after a human consciousness.

Like the characters mentioned at the beginning, the fictional A.I. followed the most logical steps to secure itself (if it had a self preservation motive in the first place).

The only overtly [possible] threatening gesture the fictional A.I. initiated was contaminating the atmosphere in the movie with microscopic machines. Other than that, not really much else.

More than anything I was surprised that the entire motivation for the fictional A.I. was established by the desire to fulfill the wifes very desires at the beginning of the film. In the end, the "bad guy" was really the human beings. Basic rules of paranoia and self preservation applied for almost all the organic characters. I can't blame them cause that is what it entails (or means) to be human. The fictional A.I. just seemingly displayed that set of human characteristics in a different way. Probably from a more simplistic angle.

Worth watching at least once.

[CasperParks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bz0QOOT9Hk

Guardians of the Galaxy, decent watch. Good escape. Stan Lee does have a camo. Per marvel films – two special spots at end of film, one at start of credits and second at tail end of credits. They are planning a sequel. Looking forward to it. When first film goes on sale, will buy dvd or blueray.

[calikid]

New BBC 4 part series begins Sunday Aug 17th.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Part 1. Time travel.
Advertisement showed interviews with many actors, David Tenent (a recent Dr Who) was one of them. Should be fun.

[Doc]

New BBC 4 part series begins Sunday Aug 17th.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Part 1. Time travel.
Advertisement showed interviews with many actors, David Tenent (a recent Dr Who) was one of them. Should be fun.

David Tennant is a huge favorite over here and over there. He seems to enjoy the Dr Who retrospectives and should be interesting to watch in this show.

[calikid]

New BBC 4 part series begins Sunday Aug 17th.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Part 1. Time travel.
Advertisement showed interviews with many actors, David Tenent (a recent Dr Who) was one of them. Should be fun.
Stupid time zones...
Sunday alright...at 1am!
Thank goodness for TiVO.

[Doc]

Stupid time zones...
Sunday alright...at 1am!
Thank goodness for TiVO.

On DirectTV we get a choice of times for most evening shows and BBCAmerica is better than most in that way. This week is a feast for Sci-Fi and Dr Who fans in particular. In the run up to the unveiling of Peter Capaldi's version of the The Doctor, BBCAmerica is running a full menu of old episodes (some of the best from Tennant and Smith), a load of retrospectives with old cast members like Peter Davison, Doctor #5, various companions, standouts like John Barrowman, and where else are you going to get a glimpse at Doctors #5, #6, #7, and #8 at one time, as they did last night? It isn't great art but it is good fun!

It's always fun to watch a new Doctor regeneration and see the companion try to adapt to new person in the same space as the previous Doctor just occupied.
Sample dialogue:

Doctor: "Kidneys! I've got new kidneys! (pause) Can't say I like the color, though."

Clara: "You don't like the color of your kidneys?"

After progressively younger Doctors, the casting of Peter Capaldi represents a return to a more traditional Doctor...or so both Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat the Show Runner say: More mysterious, more brusk at times, definitely alien and not sure how to deal with humans and their feelings--many of the qualities that fans of the show enjoyed from the very beginning 50 years ago.

[calikid]

DEFIANCE
S02E11 Bottom of the World.
Not sure, but at the end of the show Rafe's long lost wife returns.
Looked like Linda Hamilton?!?

[CasperParks]

DEFIANCE
S02E11 Bottom of the World.
Not sure, but at the end of the show Rafe's long lost wife returns.
Looked like Linda Hamilton?!?

It was Linda Hamilton...

[Doc]

This is Doctor Who Day. First show with the new Doctor Who airs tonigh and the Whovians all over the world are going crazy. The hype has been huge all week and apparently was effective. Check your local times for BBCAmerica.

[Garuda]

This looks promising:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA#t=37

[CasperParks]

This looks promising:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA#t=37

It does look good.

[calikid]

INTRUDERS
S01E01 Two Souls, One Body
Series premier

Seemed odd watching a BBC series, set in S.W. USA.
But then the disjointed, and violent story line was odd as well.



SPOILER ALERT









Seems to be related to reincarnation. Some guy keeps getting reborn as a little girl and at the age of 9 she/he is hunted down and executed. Very bizarre.
Mira Sorvino was on briefly, and disappeared. Her husband is now searching for her.
Hopefully it ties together down the line. Have to watch another episode or two. VERY violent, takes more than shot-em-up to make a story. We'll see.....

[Dragonfire]

This is Doctor Who Day. First show with the new Doctor Who airs tonigh and the Whovians all over the world are going crazy. The hype has been huge all week and apparently was effective. Check your local times for BBCAmerica.

Loved how he figured out he was Scottish..... Also he was trying to figure out why he had that face......

[Doc]

Loved how he figured out he was Scottish..... Also he was trying to figure out why he had that face......

I thought the minutes leading up to that were a bit rocky but I also knew they planned it that way. A plus was Clara's parallel struggle with the change/his face. In all, I think it will be good for a number of reasons. Doctors #10 and #11 were a younger departure from the traditional. #12 is a return to the old style Doctor but upgraded for the 21st Century. Capaldi is a noted actor, very skilled, and the fans over there have seen him in many roles and like him quite a lot. The show runners always have a grand plan and it usually works for the Whovians' enjoyment. Whenever any entertainment has me wondering and guessing in a good way like this, I know I won't be bored by the same old TV stuff!

[calikid]

Daleks next week?
Certainly trotting them out early...

[CasperParks]

I thought the minutes leading up to that were a bit rocky but I also knew they planned it that way. A plus was Clara's parallel struggle with the change/his face. In all, I think it will be good for a number of reasons. Doctors #10 and #11 were a younger departure from the traditional. #12 is a return to the old style Doctor but upgraded for the 21st Century. Capaldi is a noted actor, very skilled, and the fans over there have seen him in many roles and like him quite a lot. The show runners always have a grand plan and it usually works for the Whovians' enjoyment. Whenever any entertainment has me wondering and guessing in a good way like this, I know I won't be bored by the same old TV stuff!

I watched and enjoyed the two-hour season opener for Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who). Did research ahead of time. Learned he was alien humanoid but was unable to find more regarding his origins. The regeneration thing is a good concept for changing actors for the lead role.

People are always surprised to learn I am not a Doctor Who fan. I hold a great deal of respect for the series. Over quality is good. Local PBS was running a short marathon of episodes. I did see there was a film based on the creators of the series that detailed their efforts to get it made. I would enjoy watching it, however cannot recall the title.

It was interesting when he mentioned his age at two-thousand years...

[Doc]

I watched and enjoyed the two-hour season opener for Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who). Did research ahead of time. Learned he was alien humanoid but was unable to find more regarding his origins. The regeneration thing is a good concept for changing actors for the lead role.

People are always surprised to learn I am not a Doctor Who fan. I hold a great deal of respect for the series. Over quality is good. Local PBS was running a short marathon of episodes. I did see there was a film based on the creators of the series that detailed their efforts to get it made. I would enjoy watching it, however cannot recall the title.

It was interesting when he mentioned his age at two-thousand years...

The film is An Adventure In Space AndTime and they've run it on BBCAmerica a couple of times this week and may do so again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2663812/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwikIhEZrE

[CasperParks]

The film is An Adventure In Space AndTime and they've run it on BBCAmerica a couple of times this week and may do so again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2663812/

Thanks... Appears I missed my chance last week... Not showing any airings in the next two weeks. BBC like PBS tends to re-air stuff, hopefully will catch it next month. It is airing on Hulu Plus. After I get resettled will likely renew Hulu Plus in the Fall.

[Doc]

Thanks... Appears I missed my chance last week... Not showing any airings in the next two weeks. BBC like PBS tends to re-air stuff, hopefully will catch it next month. It is airing on Hulu Plus. After I get resettled will likely renew Hulu Plus in the Fall.

It is well worth it. It tells the story accurately, according to people who know, and it makes a good introduction to Doctor Who for someone whose experience is as you mentioned yours is. I watched whatever episodes PBS ran back in the day but I didn't realize I was a fan until the reboot. When they started making references to the cult following and the Whovians I saw that I had crossed over that line ages ago.

[Dragonfire]

I'm with you Doc. Didn't know I was one.

Still my favorite Doctor is #4. Tom Baker. I actually have a 12 ft. Replica of the scarf he wore. Couldn't pass it up.

[Doc]

I'm with you Doc. Didn't know I was one.

Still my favorite Doctor is #4. Tom Baker. I actually have a 12 ft. Replica of the scarf he wore. Couldn't pass it up.

I've changed my favorite in the old series a couple of times. Tom Baker is favorite and was my favorite for along time but I'm currently leaning toward #5 Peter Davison for his breezy, ditsy-at-times style that usually ended in a brilliant Doctor Who Maneuver to Save the Day. That, and I see him as more pleasant to the companions than Tom Baker's Doctor. But differences of opinion on that sort of thing are all part of the fun!

[CasperParks]

Link for photo / gif posted at google plus, a Doctor Who thing... Rotating booth with altering images inside.

https://plus.google.com/photos/104820795719887306145/albums/6053144700788337313/6053144703067648370?pid=6053144703067648370&oid=104820795719887306145

[CasperParks]

Saw tail end of Sharknado 2 on SyFy.
Yes, it is ridicules.

[calikid]

Labor Day Trek-athon today on SyFy channel.
Just watched Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Best of the movie series?


"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!"

[CasperParks]

Labor Day Trek-athon today on SyFy channel.
Just watched Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Best of the movie series?

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!"

In agreement, Wrath of Khan is best in the series.

[Garuda]

Project Hieroglyph: scientists and science fiction authors working together on more optimistic science fiction stories that will inspire people:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28974943

[CasperParks]

Project Hieroglyph: scientists and science fiction authors working together on more optimistic science fiction stories that will inspire people:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28974943

Doom and gloom sells more.

Roddenberry did paint a rosy future, however in his future Earth did go through a rough patch but he only makes mention of it. In "First Contact", the film starts at the recover of such an event with humanity pulling together.

[calikid]

Falling Skies season ended with a bang.
Killed off a main character.

[calikid]

Defiance season ends by tying up some loose ends.... to bad about NYC.
Not bad.

[CasperParks]

Defiance season ends by tying up some loose ends.... to bad about NYC.
Not bad.

Falling Skies season ended with a bang.
Killed off a main character.

Agree, both had decent end of season episodes.

[Garuda]

Trivia: It's 48 years ago, today, that the first Star Trek episode aired on TV.

[calikid]

Trivia: It's 48 years ago, today, that the first Star Trek episode aired on TV.
I was in 5th grade.
Watched it on my family's amazing new 12" Color TV.
Enterprise crew Visits a remote planet to see Bones old g/f Nancy.
Only she'd been replaced by a shape shifting/ salt sucking alien.
Amazing stuff to a 10 year old boy.

Now what was that episode name?

[CasperParks]

I was in 5th grade.
Watched it on my family's amazing new 12" Color TV.
Enterprise crew Visits a remote planet to see Bones old g/f Nancy.
Only she'd been replaced by a shape shifting/ salt sucking alien.
Amazing stuff to a 10 year old boy.

Now what was that episode name?

I recall when it first began airing. A single parent my mother was raising five children. Church on Sunday morning and evening, youth group activities Tues. evenings and Wed. evenings for prayer meetings. As I recall, Star Trek aired on a church night. Often, I pretended to be sick in hopes of skipping out on church to watch it. Mother was wise to that one. We had a used black and white someone had given us. Years later, in reruns I caught episodes after school.

[spacemaverick]

The 5 year mission only lasted 3 years....

[epo333]

I was in 5th grade.
Watched it on my family's amazing new 12" Color TV.
Enterprise crew Visits a remote planet to see Bones old g/f Nancy.
Only she'd been replaced by a shape shifting/ salt sucking alien.
Amazing stuff to a 10 year old boy.

Now what was that episode name?

The last survivor of M-113's long-dead civilization was a telepathic shapeshifter who digested the salt content from its prey. Drawing from a potential food source's mental imagery, it appeared as sympathetic or attractive, and further hypnotized its victim before feeding; hence McCoy saw a vision of Nancy exactly as he had known her years earlier.

When the creature began taking the lives of Enterprise crew members on the surface and aboard the ship itself, McCoy's judgment was tainted by his past feelings for Nancy. It was only when Spock was assaulted and Captain Kirk's life was in jeopardy that Dr. McCoy was able to see past the illusion of Nancy, forcing him to fire a phaser on a sentient being, the last of its kind.

"The Man Trap"

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Leonard_McCoy

[CasperParks]

Star Trek fans, worthy photo to view.

Trek Hugs...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/set-phasers-to-feels-mr-worf#18rzph3

Heart warming....

[Doc]

Star Trek fans, worthy photo to view.

Trek Hugs...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/set-phasers-to-feels-mr-worf#18rzph3

Heart warming....

It is a lovely picture and a great moment to be able to share. Thanks for posting it! I always suspected that Patrick Stewart was a gracious man, even from when I saw him in a brief role as the evil, mysterious Karla in Smiley's People, the John LeCarre mini-series on PBS all those years ago.

[Garuda]

Star Trek fans, worthy photo to view.

Trek Hugs...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/set-phasers-to-feels-mr-worf#18rzph3

Heart warming....

Yeah, it's indeed a great, heart warming story, and picture.

[CasperParks]

Watched SyFy's "Z-Nation". Not bad. Forgot it was a spin-off from "The Walking Dead", until hearing a reference made to it. Walking Dead was losing my interest. I missed the last season, so will have to wait for it on DVD.

[calikid]

Season 1 Final episode of
THE LAST SHIP played the other day.

Not sure I like the direction the plot is taking. Now on land with cure in hand, dangerous politics come into play. Hope next season they get back to sea where THE LAST SHIP belongs!

[Doc]

Season 1 Final episode of
THE LAST SHIP played the other day.

Not sure I like the direction the plot is taking. Now on land with cure in hand, dangerous politics come into play. Hope next season they get back to sea where THE LAST SHIP belongs!

i worried about this when the show started. How long could they stay at sea looking for a cure? When they found a cure, then what? If they didn't have a well thought out Act II, the show was going to be in trouble.

On a different note, Doctor Who seems to have found its feet, with critics raving about this past Saturdays episode, "Listen". I thought it was just good old normal Doctor Who which is plenty good enough.

Also, cable is showing Smilla's Sense of Snow again, an offbeat foreign film, a seeming mystery story that begins in Urban Denmark with a young boy falling from a snowy rooftop to his death. Smilla, his neighbor and adult, female friend, thinks from the footprints that he was chased off the edge and investigates on her own, to increasing opposition, threats, and treachery toward her. Then the film turns sci-fi in a surprising twist and goes to unusual developments at sea and on a remote frozen island. Some critics of the film think it "falls apart" when the sci-fi element enters and the film takes on a more adventurous atmosphere. I thought so too the second time I saw it but I since changed my mind. The film is showing us what Smilla, who was born the daughter of Inuit hunters in Greenland, really can do in the ice and snow when the going gets tough. Like many sci-fi themed films, the technical side is improbable but for for most fans of the genre that is an annoyance to be dealt with that won't ruin the fun unless you let it. This is the fourth time I've seen it and I'm still seeing new things in its subtlety. It is better uncut with the little bit of rough language left in, unlike the first time I saw it. Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris, 1997.

[CasperParks]

Doc,

I watched the trailer for Smilla's Sense of Snow. It looks good. Isn't listed here digital tv. Bookmarked the trailer so not to forgot it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Dragonfire]

I enjoyed Doctor Who. Thought it was a good show.

[CasperParks]

High Moon, Syfy channel had a BBC feel to it. Thought it was decent. It is listed as a SyFy movie but had no additional information for another installment or rebroadcast of the first one. It ran like a two hour series pilot. Hoping SyFy have another installment for it.

[Doc]

High Moon, Syfy channel had a BBC feel to it. Thought it was decent. It is listed as a SyFy movie but had no additional information for another installment or rebroadcast of the first one. It ran like a two hour series pilot. Hoping SyFy have another installment for it.

I watched it also. It was different, almost Steam Punk or Film Noir atmosphere, not entirely predictable and had some new faces, so for a SyFy original that is a pretty good thing. I also watched Paul which followed it. Having watched the trailer back when, I knew it wasn't my kind of thing but I was curious and I like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It was very different from what I thought it would be and I enjoyed it. It borrowed a few things from Race to Witch Mountain and could have ended twenty minutes sooner but with surprise appearances by Sigourney Weaver and Blythe Danner, that is just quibbling on my part.

[CasperParks]

I watched it also. It was different, almost Steam Punk or Film Noir atmosphere, not entirely predictable and had some new faces, so for a SyFy original that is a pretty good thing. I also watched Paul which followed it. Having watched the trailer back when, I knew it wasn't my kind of thing but I was curious and I like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It was very different from what I thought it would be and I enjoyed it. It borrowed a few things from Race to Witch Mountain and could have ended twenty minutes sooner but with surprise appearances by Sigourney Weaver and Blythe Danner, that is just quibbling on my part.

Paul was okay. Race to Witch Mountain, it was good to see they gave an original cast member from the first films a guest spot as sheriff.

[calikid]

Z-Nation
Second episode last night.

Must say I was surprised at the death, of what seemed a major character, by the end of the first episode.
Zombie babies. How fun was that?
Zombie torches...
Zombie popcicles..
Zombie doggies...
What's next?
Going to get bloody down there!

[CasperParks]

Z-Nation
Second episode last night.

Must say I was surprised at the death, of what seemed a major character, by the end of the first episode.
Zombie babies. How fun was that?
Zombie torches...
Zombie popcicles..
Zombie doggies...
What's next?
Going to get bloody down there!

It will take a few episodes for everyone to catch their footing. Newer shows offer unknown actors, writers and directors a chance. The young man at the base is well known as an actor, good casting. The young woman in the back of the truck with finger in her hair and young man with her, hoping they aren't killed off. I expect a jump in sales of wrist rockets.

At some point, I expect them to interact with the other series.

[Doc]

I liked that second episode pretty well. Many of my observations about it are similar to yours, Casper. I like the guy in the frozen North bunker and the newer faces are welcome and seem good enough to carry a show.


I thought they dragged the gasoline-getting thrilling climax way too long. In fact I lost interest for a few minutes and picked it back up when they finally started to resolve it. Still, it is better than a lot of things and I'll keep watching.

[CasperParks]

Gotham: I was pleasantly surprised. Cast and filming must have cost a small fortune. Writing was decent, leaving teasers to pull viewers back in for another episode.

[calikid]

It will take a few episodes for everyone to catch their footing. Newer shows offer unknown actors, writers and directors a chance. The young man at the base is well known as an actor, good casting. The young woman in the back of the truck with finger in her hair and young man with her, hoping they aren't killed off. I expect a jump in sales of wrist rockets.

At some point, I expect them to interact with the other series.

My new favorite pickup line. "Excuse me Miss. You have a finger in your hair."


A ZOMBIE FINGER. Ha! :biggrin2:

[calikid]

Z-Nation
And Zombies as bowling pins.
Black humor, nice divergence from "oh so serious" Walking dead.

[calikid]

Gotham: I was pleasantly surprised. Cast and filming must have cost a small fortune. Writing was decent, leaving teasers to pull viewers back in for another episode.
Bruce Wayne. About 10yo.
Cat woman. About 15yo.
Penguin. About 25yo.

Different perspective than we are used to.
Character development should be fun!

[CasperParks]

Z-Nation
And Zombies as bowling pins.
Black humor, nice divergence from "oh so serious" Walking dead.

Thus far, I like Z-Nation. Liberty Bell was a nice play.

[Doc]

I missed Z-Nation but I'll catch a rerun.

Intruders is getting more and more interesting. They took a big chance going so long with no concrete information to the viewer. Now the basic idea is revealed the net ystery is, "What will they do with it?" Striving for a puzzler like Lost was, as is every other TV Sci-Fi writer. This one comes close.

[calikid]

I missed Z-Nation but I'll catch a rerun.

Intruders is getting more and more interesting. They took a big chance going so long with no concrete information to the viewer. Now the basic idea is revealed the net ystery is, "What will they do with it?" Striving for a puzzler like Lost was, as is every other TV Sci-Fi writer. This one comes close.

I've been watching INTRUDERS since the Premiere here in the US.
Enjoy Mira Sorvino. Good actress, and easy on the eyes.
Last episode explained a lot, maybe to much. A little mystery goes a long ways.
I am having second thoughts about the premise. Originally I thought reincarnation explained "goings on".
But recent developments seem more like possession.
Rose/Amy: "She's gone".
Is it to late to call in the Exorcist!?!?

https://joediliberto.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/intrud202.jpg

Creepy stuff...... :yikes:


"What goes around comes around.” – Madison

[calikid]

"Out There"
TV series produced by
Dan Aykroyd a few years ago.

Purchased by SciFy and never released.

Anyone ever hear if DVD was ever released?

[calikid]

"ANNABELLE"
More horror than SciFi, seems like a good bet for a Halloween scare.
Prequel to "The Conjuring"

Just a few days ago, my neighbor came out to find the name ANNABELLE scratched into the hood of her car. $400 damage. Bummer.
Neighbor's kid, 7yo, had used a rock. Guess the devil made him do it!
One of his buddies snitched on him. Kids......




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUysoK6tdQ

[calikid]

Anyone else watching GRACEPOINT?
Staring David Tennant of Dr Who
And Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad fame.

[Edgar Fouche]

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NIoCWTsFL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-v3-big,TopRight,0,-55_SX324_SY324_PIkin4,BottomRight,1,22_AA346_SH20_ OU01_.jpg

Latest Review of Edgar Fouche's book Alien Rapture - The Chosen.

LOST LORE AND THE UFO RAPTURE The Novel Alien Rapture - The Chosen by Edgar Fouche and Brad Steiger.

Alien Rapture - The Chosen (Unabridged): Unabridged Long Version - Restored - $4.50 Ebook
Read Chapter 1 of the long version for free!
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Steve Erdmann's picture
By Steve Erdmann - 3 days ago
http://ufodigest.com/article/lost-lore-1007


Paranormal writer Brad Steiger had combined his occult interest into Edgar Rothschild Fouche`s experience in Air Force Intelligence and cryptology as a prophetic science-fiction piece that could prove to be “the smoking gun that will astound anyone seeking the truth.”


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The book’s disclaimer said in part, “The Top Secret government documents are alleged to be authentic. However, we believe the U.S government would disagree. Existing Top Secret military science and technology, and government abuses are alleged to be authentic. Historical quotes by public figures are accurate.”

Fouche’ was assigned to many special secret development and classified “Black Programs,” and he decided to incorporate many of his true-life episodes in disguise. “Alien Rapture is presenting many facts with a little fiction,” said Steiger, “to protect the guilty and shield the innocent.”

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Joe Green, a major protagonist (hero) in the story, was a Senior Engineer who worked on advanced aerospace vehicles. While on a final NSA assignment to place transponder-marker-beacons near a downed Russian trawler, Green confronted, once again, a preview of his destiny. That mission was an assignment for the Tactical Reconnaissance Engineering Assessment Team (TREAT) in 1975, but it was only one of many times that Green would encounter a mysterious light and missing time. In this one instance, it was in the waters off North Vietnam, but earlier it has been with his parents when he was a child in his parent’s car in route to San Antonio. It was on the San Antonio trip that Joe met the “angels” that told him why they had contacted him and what mission they entailed:

http://ufodigest.com/article/lost-lore-1007
“Men and women are supposed to tend the garden…be good gardeners of Earth,” the “angels” told Green, “…God is ashamed of us. We are his bad children. We’re supposed to be better than animals. God was so ashamed that He went away and left the angles here to teach us how to find Him again when we are ready. When we grow up.”

THE VIDEO

Fellow-protagonist, UFO investigator, anti-bureaucrat, Blake Webster had exposed a real video of an extraterrestrial craft on a NBC’s “Exploring the Unknown” program; that caught the attention of highest government officials, including the ever-sanctimonious Majestic-12 Committee and high-security types at the National Security Agency and Area 51 at Groom Lake.

Several sub-plots converged throughout the book allowing characters to meet and lend strength to each other. Clive Redding Teller, known as “Red,” joined forces with Blake Webster. Teller was, in fact, a spy for Webster. A Similar protagonist was scientist and “eminent theoretical propulsion expert,” Dr. Carlton Farr (Farr was into Ultra Top Secret Black Government projects). Further protagonists were Wayne Newsome (fearless investigator), Rainey Roberts (Webster’s paramour and the Software Manager for EG&G special projects), and Page St. John, head of the Church of the Celestial Prophet (who was demanding, “a release of all UFO secrets allegedly held in the government hidden vaults”).

“…they decided that they would put together a computer-generated news release. They would use the information from Dr. Farr’s files and material from each of their research or personal experiences. They would also assemble a video from the materials at hand. The digital news release would be placed on all the worldwide computer networks…the video broadcast with pictures and shots of printed files, such as the MJ-12 documents and autopsy report, would be transmitted via satellite…”

THE SINISTER FORCES

A list of our anti-heroes, the antagonists, varied in rank and style. They ferociously fought our courageous “super patriots,” (Page 171.) that were our “muckraker” “anarchist rogues.” (Page 207-208.)

Former Marine sniper M.D. Crawfoot had used the M40A1 on military missions, but he presently used a Remington Model 700 BDL Varmint bolt-action rifle chambered for .308 calibers.

“Crawfoot selected his bullets by weight for maximum penetration. He wanted a flattened taper for kinetic energy transfer and a core lock metal jacket deforming compound bullet for ultimate killing effect. Maximum damage to the target was accomplished by the largest hole; ergo the wider the diameter and the heavier the better.”

Crawfoot came to assassinate scientist Carlton Farr for his knowledge he had gained about Black Programs, the TR-3 Tactical Reconnaissance vehicle (with multimode propulsion), and the inroads that Area 51 had made with “aliens (that) not only walk among us…(but) work among us, creating a new world of alien/human technology,” as Blake Webster theorized.

The capture and torture of “Red” Clive Teller by Area 51 Chief of Security Raul Agabarr, “an unprincipled soldier of fortune who sold his services to the highest bidder and who loved his gore so much he would have worked for free,” forced the rescue of Teller as imperative.

High-official realization of the possible expose of the Majestic-12 program and alien technology became spear-headed by Colonel Tytrent of Special Operations, General Jean-Claude Alexandre Beauharnais, Director of Defense, Special Projects, and Eli Jerrold, “an exceedingly wealthy attorney, a former Director of the National Security Agency.”

RESCUE AND INTERVENTION

The “four conspirators” clashed headlong with the inner sanctum at Area 51 in their rescue attempt of “Red” Teller. They came to realize, however, that Joe Green’s history of abductions since childhood designated him as a potential hybrid consort with the “Jexovah” race (who openly began to communicate through Green to help secure entrance and rescue of “Red” Teller at Area 51, the home of “the MJ-12 committee of patriotic leaders.”)

Communication with the ‘‘Jexovah” and their plans for a prophesied “rapture” of hybrid humans unravel in the finale’ with the appearance of Page St. John‘s congregation at the site. A surprising “resurrection” of Joe Green takes place from a fatal rifle shot.

PART II of the article continues tomorrow Wednesday, October 8, 2014! http://ufodigest.com/article/lost-lore-1008

If you require more information or would like to purchase this book from AMAZON.COM simply click on the books title: Alien Rapture: The Chosen

LOST LORE AND THE UFO RAPTURE - PART II
By Steve Erdmann - 2 days ago

Read Part II here:
http://ufodigest.com/article/lost-lore-1008

[calikid]

Z-Nation
last night on SyFy
Zomb-nado..... Really?
What will those guys come up with next?

[CasperParks]

Z-Nation
last night on SyFy
Zomb-nado..... Really?
What will those guys come up with next?

And me without pay-tv...

[Edgar Fouche]

Latest Review of Edgar Fouche's book Alien Rapture - The Chosen.
LOST LORE AND THE UFO RAPTURE - PART II
By Steve Erdmann - 2 days ago

Read Part II here:
http://ufodigest.com/article/lost-lore-1008

There is NOW a part III

Ed

[calikid]

The Walking Dead
Season 5 Premier tonight
Oct 12@9pm West Coast

[newyorklily]

Firefly is coming back to a computer near you.- - as a role-playing game.

http://m.space.com/27407-firefly-online-game.html?cmpid=558394

[calikid]

Watched new release of:
LIVE. DIE. REPEAT: Edge of Tomorrow.
Tom Cruise in another SciFi thriller.
Sort of Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers.
Good special Fx.
Worth the rental (Amazon Instant Video). DVD release set for Tues.

[CasperParks]

Last week it was 35 years ago that, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams was published.

"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move," Douglas Adams.

Click here for Douglas Adams bio at Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams)

[calikid]

The Walking Dead
Season 5 Premier tonight
Oct 12@9pm West Coast
What a bloody return it was!
Certainly upped the Gore quotient.

[calikid]

Z-Nation
"I give you mercy"
Is nobody safe?
Main character bites it.... or is bitten by it.
At least he got, mmmm, an intimate send off.

[newyorklily]

I bought a DVD set yesterday, of a TV show I don't remember ever hearing about. It's called Invasion. Shaun Cassidy is the creator and executive producer. The DVD set is the entire series and is 22 episodes (1-2 seasons?). Copyright, 2005-2006.

I haven't started watching it yet. Does anyone remember it? How was it?

[CasperParks]

I bought a DVD set yesterday, of a TV show I don't remember ever hearing about. It's called Invasion. Shaun Cassidy is the creator and executive producer. The DVD set is the entire series and is 22 episodes (1-2 seasons?). Copyright, 2005-2006.

I haven't started watching it yet. Does anyone remember it? How was it?

I do not recall watching it. I tried to locate a trailer for it on youtube, but no luck. Amazon, it has 200 five star ratings from customers. Did find trailers for it at Amazon.

[atmjjc]

I bought a DVD set yesterday, of a TV show I don't remember ever hearing about. It's called Invasion. Shaun Cassidy is the creator and executive producer. The DVD set is the entire series and is 22 episodes (1-2 seasons?). Copyright, 2005-2006.

I haven't started watching it yet. Does anyone remember it? How was it?

I started watching this when it first appeared on television. With all the commercials and a slow pace I lost interest. It got a rating of 7.6 on IMDB and will probably play out well on DVD without those commercials nagging at you. It lasted only one season.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651/episodes?ref_=tt_ql_6

[Doc]

I bought a DVD set yesterday, of a TV show I don't remember ever hearing about. It's called Invasion. Shaun Cassidy is the creator and executive producer. The DVD set is the entire series and is 22 episodes (1-2 seasons?). Copyright, 2005-2006.

I haven't started watching it yet. Does anyone remember it? How was it?

It was good and got off to a good start. Hurricane Katrina gave the network bigs cold feet and they pulled the ads emphasing the flood part of the plot, stupidly. They choked momentum off and the show only went a season. It easily could ahve gone two or three seasons, I think. ~sigh~

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChM2icbWo9w

The Rover takes place ten years after an economic collapse. It wild and dangerous living and traveling through the Outback. Guy Pearce is a fine actor, that he was playing lead role drew me to rent the DVD. I sort of recognized his co-star but could not place him. It was after looking up the cast that I realized his co-star was Robert Pattinson best known for Twilight series.

After watching Pattison in The Rover, he has won me over for one major reason. The fact he played the role of a dimwit so well, I did not recognize him from Twilight.

Is The Rover worth a DVD rental? If you are looking for a character driven story, yes.

[newyorklily]

I bought a DVD set yesterday, of a TV show I don't remember ever hearing about. It's called Invasion. Shaun Cassidy is the creator and executive producer. The DVD set is the entire series and is 22 episodes (1-2 seasons?). Copyright, 2005-2006.

I haven't started watching it yet. Does anyone remember it? How was it?
I've finished watching all 22 episodes and it was very good. It's a shame that it only aired for one season because it left me with a lot of questions and ended in a really good cliffhanger.

Doc, I can see how Katrina would have caused the network to downplay the hurricane scenes. After Katrina, it would have been difficult to watch bodies floating in the water on a fictional TV show. But, I feel that Shaun Cassidy is a genius in horror (just watch American Gothic) so maybe another network will pick it up in the future.

[CasperParks]

I've finished watching all 22 episodes and it was very good. It's a shame that it only aired for one season because it left me with a lot of questions and ended in a really good cliffhanger.

Doc, I can see how Katrina would have caused the network to downplay the hurricane scenes. After Katrina, it would have been difficult to watch bodies floating in the water on a fictional TV show. But, I feel that Shaun Cassidy is a genius in horror (just watch American Gothic) so maybe another network will pick it up in the future.

You did a marathon?

[newyorklily]

You did a marathon?
Kind of. I watched about one disc per night.

[CasperParks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZuNA8zMeSE


CNN: 'Doctor Who' Peter Capaldi sends heartwarming message to grieving fan
By Emanuella Grinberg. Click here for full article. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/showbiz/peter-capaldi-video/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)

CNN) -- The past few weeks have been hard for 9-year-old Thomas Goodall, who lost his grandmother in early October.

It was the first major loss of a loved one for the boy with autism from North Baddesley, England, who relies on a consistent routine to avoid meltdowns, his father, Ross Goodall, said

Things finally began to take a turn for better on Monday, when Thomas received a comforting video message from actor Peter Capaldi, who plays Thomas' favorite TV character on "Doctor Who."

For the first time since his grandmother's death, Thomas smiled.

"I think it probably meant everything to him," his father told CNN. "I think it gave him the emotional support that we as parents couldn't."

After Ross Goodall uploaded the video to YouTube on Thursday for family to see, others took notice and started sharing it, drawing more than 200,000 views in 48 hours.

It didn't come out of the blue. Thomas comes from a household of Whovians, where sonic screwdrivers, robot Daleks and TARDIS time-travel machines make up much of the decor.

CNN: 'Doctor Who' Peter Capaldi sends heartwarming message to grieving fan
By Emanuella Grinberg. Click here for full article. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/showbiz/peter-capaldi-video/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)

[Doc]

That was a nice message for the young kid from The Doctor. By all accounts, the cast, creators, producers and crew of Dr Who are a good bunch.

Dr Who had the season finale last night which was good, satisfying in the way it tied up loose ends and left a great teaser for the Christmas Special to come.

On another note, BBC America followed Dr Who last night with a rerun of the pilot of Sherlock which has not been widely available so it is an opportunity for a lot of people to get caught up with this modern day version of Sherlock Holmes stories from some of the same people as make Dr Who. The casting, the writing and everything else about Sherlock is first rate and has been very well received. I usually hate modern re-telling of old classics but I love this one!

[calikid]

Upcoming SciFi mini series being promoted on SyFy channel.
www.Ascension.syfy.com (http://www.syfy.com/videos/Ascension/Promos%20&%20Trailers/vid:2824738/?__source=Maxus_Ascension_Season1&WT.srch=Search)

"Ascension is a lifeboat for humanity"

[CasperParks]

Upcoming SciFi mini series being promoted on SyFy channel.
Ascension.syfy.com

I've seen previews. It does appear interesting.

[atmjjc]

Upcoming SciFi mini series being promoted on SyFy channel.
Ascension.syfy.com


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJqQ4OdPcAo

On Dec 15, 2014 the SYFY channel is presenting a 3 day miniseries called ‘Ascension’. I am setting my DVR for this series:)

[CasperParks]

Someone had to post this...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/user/starwars/videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLk59H86ww

Unsure if I will see this one on the big screen or wait for rental on blueray.

[atmjjc]

Someone had to post this...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/user/starwars/videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLk59H86ww

Unsure if I will see this one on the big screen or wait for rental on blueray.

Thanks for the trailor CP. The downside we are going to have to wait a year b4 this will make it to the theater and some more wait to DVD/BLUE RAY.:(

[CasperParks]

He did say, "I'll be back."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E4FJTwSuc

[calikid]

He did say, "I'll be back."

<snip video>




Now THAT's Entertainment! :D

[CasperParks]

Z Nation - review.

If you have not see the series or missed a couple of episodes and plan to catch-up, stop now or risk minor spoilers.

As expected it took two or three episodes for actors, writers, directors and so-on to gain their footing. As a spin-off from The Walking Dead, I expected a crossover episode. However, I was not disappointed a crossover failed to occur. The show stands on its own.

Thought I was shooting holes in some the events until I thought deeper about it. Was Citizen Z broadcasting his music and message on AM / FM radio or Satellite radio? Local ground based radio stations would lack power, so it would have to be Satellite radio...

Remaining members of the group are split-up.

Murphy continues to "change". He did have a passing romantic encounter that resulted in pregnancy. The group was forced to flee. He does not know about the pending birth of his child... What will the child be like?

Series pokes fun at a Zombie Apocalypse:

They did encounter a group of zombies on drugs like painkillers, speed and yes - Viagra. Doc or someone in the group stated, "How is that even possible?" Which leads open the question: Are zombies able to breed?

I have theory: When zombies are lacking a food supply the virus will start consuming their host body. The host body is simply a means of travel and if unable to locate human flesh to eat and process for nourishment, the virus will start consuming the host body until fresh meat is found.

Last episode offered a teasing glimpse as too whom started the Zombie Apocalypse.

Season One left us gazing skyward...

At this point, I plan to continue watching it.

As far as The Walking Dead - I am out of touch with it, a couple seasons behind. No local video rental stores nearby... Bummer...

[CasperParks]

The Giver


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNNugNe0Wo

Enjoyed the film and give it a solid five stars. With Jeff Bridges as a driving force it was eighteen years in the making. Hop skipping through special features is worth it. Film is based on a novel by Lois Lowry (http://www.loislowry.com/). For many middle school children the book is required reading. In the special features is a "study guide" for teachers. Clearly, film makers intended for it to be used in classes. Four books in the series, hope the other three make onto film.

Good seeing more and more films based on novels...

[calikid]

Watched a "B" SciFi movie last night.
"Dyatlov Pass Incident".
Fictional story kind of like. Blair Witch Project Mocumentary.
Young filmmakers go to Pass to make follow up film about the famous incident from 50 years ago.
Passable entertainment.
worth a rent, but wouldn't buy.

[CasperParks]

Rumors of War


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKMhOmDE7E

I think it was produced by a Christian film company. Have not seen it, but it is on my list of films to watch.

[CasperParks]

Watched a "B" SciFi movie last night.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Fictional story kind of like. Blair Witch Project Mocumentary.
Young filmmakers go to Pass to make follow up film about the famous incident from 50 years ago.
Passable entertainment.
worth a rent, but wouldn't buy.

Lot of "B" SciFi films show up on Hulu or Amazon Prime as free. Will keep an eye for it.

[calikid]

Lot of "B" SciFi films show up on Hulu or Amazon Prime as free. Will keep an eye for it.
Seems I rented under the UK name.
BluRay Released in USA under title "Devil's Pass", same movie. Starring Holly Goss.

[Fore]

Rumors of War


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKMhOmDE7E

I think it was produced by a Christian film company. Have not seen it, but it is on my list of films to watch.Considering it is a christian film, it has a good production value. I thought the director did a very good job of contrasting the future with the past flashbacks. To show how the philosophy espoused is both flawed and evil.

The future depicted in the film reminded me of what I heard the ET's describing as a future. The backdrop is eerily accurate. The only thing from the film that is missing are the head honchos.

The 25min mark is especially interesting in the back and forth speech.
At 55min there is the charismatic leader who (I have to admit) does a good speech.
At the 1 hour mark, the story reveals the false flag attacks that is the excuse to further an agenda.


http://i.imgur.com/tR3wyJv.png

http://www.primewire.ag/watch-2754609-Rumors-of-Wars

[CasperParks]

RE: Rumors of War


Considering it is a christian film, it has a good production value. I thought the director did a very good job of contrasting the future with the past flashbacks. To show how the philosophy espoused is both flawed and evil.

The future depicted in the film reminded me of what I heard the ET's describing as a future. The backdrop is eerily accurate. The only thing from the film that is missing are the head honchos.

The 25min mark is especially interesting in the back and forth speech.
At 55min there is the charismatic leader who (I have to admit) does a good speech.
At the 1 hour mark, the story reveals the false flag attacks that is the excuse to further an agenda.

Agreed, they are issuing a warning. I will try and watch it before this year expires.

[CasperParks]

Ascension airs tonight on SyFy Channel, 12/15/2014.

[calikid]

Ascension airs tonight on SyFy Channel, 12/15/2014.

Part 1.
TiVo Ho!

[CasperParks]

Ascension airs tonight on SyFy Channel, 12/15/2014.

Watched night one... Looking forward to nights two and three.

[calikid]

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy last night.
Not bad for a movie featuring a talking Raccoon!

[CasperParks]

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy last night.
Not bad for a movie featuring a talking Raccoon!

Bradley Cooper did voice-over for Rocket Raccoon.

A great nephew had been asking to borrow it for a couple months, told him it wasn't released yet. Bought the Blueray day after it was released and loaned it to him. I did see it on the big screen.

[CasperParks]

Mark Twain classic remake.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kqSo9A3_ZA&list=UUAyk1jSOLrpm6I6yH6LlCrg

One of those classics that get remade every few years. Appears it was filmed in 2013, but shows a release date is for April 2015 for the US.

[atmjjc]

Just got done watching the sci-fi movie ‘The Signal’ and those with alien abduction scenarios may internalize this movie better than most, basically because of the shear strangeness of the happenings. Most likely the movie will have sequels.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehQEldYkTs

The movie Signal aims to get you thinking. The story can be maddening to follow, but it sure is cool to look at and has mixed reviews by the critics.

[calikid]

Bradley Cooper did voice-over for Rocket Raccoon.

A great nephew had been asking to borrow it for a couple months, told him it wasn't released yet. Bought the Blueray day after it was released and loaned it to him. I did see it on the big screen.

I liked the use of classic rock/pop music as background for Guardians of the Galaxy.
Added a lite air, almost comedic to some heavy handed scenes.

The costume for the Vin Diesel character was very scary.
Did not even recognize him until the credits. Nice!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_post_349_width/2014/07/ronan_guardians_of_the_galaxy.jpg

[calikid]

Recently watched a movie called "Alien Abduction" (2014)
(http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Abduction-Katie-Sigismund/dp/B00JGMKJH2/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1418968535&sr=1-1&keywords=alien+abduction)

Interesting story based on "The Brown Mountain Lights" of North Carolina.
Another "found footage" format in the genre of Blair Witch.
Features an autistic boy (his camera POV) and his family as they romp through the backwoods trying to avoid being pounced upon.
The characters, even the mountain man, were well developed. I had feared shallow toothless yokels ahead, but surprising depth added to the story.
Special effects were so/so, but at least the director wasn't afraid to show me the alien.
Not a bad effort. Very watchable.

[calikid]

Ascension airs tonight on SyFy Channel, 12/15/2014.

Watched this show for 3 nights.
They had some interesting plot twists, wish I could say I was surprised but I figured out the first great reveal after watching 45 minutes. hint, VR related.
And casting Trisha Helfer as a washed up madam? Hello? I'd take her over the hill any day!
Must say the ending was MUCH less than satisfying.
The ending was so convoluted I couldn't believe with only 3 minutes left in the movie we had no inkling of the resolution.
First it was to predictable, then an ending out of left field.
Just hate when a story become so twisted the writer must rely on Deus ex machina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina) to make any sense of the long tortured road we traveled to get to the finale.

All in all, one star out of four. Glad I watched it, probably will never watch it again.

[CasperParks]

Watched this show for 3 nights.
They had some interesting plot twists, wish I could say I was surprised but I figured out the first great reveal after watching 45 minutes. hint, VR related.
And casting Trisha Helfer as a washed up madam? Hello? I'd take her over the hill any day!
Must say the ending was MUCH less than satisfying.
The ending was so convoluted I couldn't believe with only 3 minutes left in the movie we had no inkling of the resolution.
First it was to predictable, then an ending out of left field.
Just hate when a story become so twisted the writer must rely on Deus ex machina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina) to make any sense of the long tortured road we traveled to get to the finale.

All in all, one star out of four. Glad I watched it, probably will never watch it again.

They left a lot of stuff open at the end.

[Garuda]

Often with a mini-series like that, it's meant to send out feelers. If it's successful enough, they'll make either a sequel or turn in into a full-fledged series.
They did the same with the 're-imagined' Battlestar Galactica: it started off as a 4 episode mini series before it became a full-fledged series.

[calikid]

Just got done watching the sci-fi movie ‘The Signal’ and those with alien abduction scenarios may internalize this movie better than most, basically because of the shear strangeness of the happenings. Most likely the movie will have sequels.

[video snip ]

The movie Signal aims to get you thinking. The story can be maddening to follow, but it sure is cool to look at and has mixed reviews by the critics.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Special effects in THE SIGNAL were stunning.
Fishburn (Morpheus from Matrix) was good as usual.
Ending was predictable, but not bad.
Good rental.

[calikid]

Helix Season 2
January 16. SyFy has advertisements running.

Looks like the action is moving away from the South Pole laboratory, to some as yet unnamed island.
My interest was flagging the end of season 1.
Hope the writers can punch it up.

[CasperParks]

Back to the Future II, Marty McFly was sent 30 years into the future 2015. ABC has an article with what the film got right and what it got wrong, complete with clips from the film. Click here to read. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/back-future-part-ii-scored-2015-predictions/story?id=27946920)

Film did get flat screens right, Biometrics and 3D movies.

[calikid]

Back to the Future II, Marty McFly was sent 30 years into the future 2015. ABC has an article with what the film got right and what it got wrong, complete with clips from the film. Click here to read. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/back-future-part-ii-scored-2015-predictions/story?id=27946920)

Film did get flat screens right, Biometrics and 3D movies.


Great Scott!
Hendo Hoverboard: The World's First Hoverboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwX5NtF530

[Doc]

Back to the Future II, Marty McFly was sent 30 years into the future 2015. ABC has an article with what the film got right and what it got wrong, complete with clips from the film. Click here to read. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/back-future-part-ii-scored-2015-predictions/story?id=27946920)

Film did get flat screens right, Biometrics and 3D movies.

Funny, I'd seen so many predictions that never happened: flying cars for commuting, the Wankel Engine, personal robots...well, when they started talking about "flat screen TV" I had enough. I said, "BS! They'll never be able to make that big thing (CRT TV) into something an inch thick you can hang on the wall!" (Of, course, now at home we have a couple of them, not to mention the monitors that are now cheaper and much better than the CRT was!)

[newyorklily]

An internet campaign has begun to bring back the X-Files. Considering all of the places we can now view TV shows, I think there is a good possibility someone will pick it up. And I really want to see how Scully's hybrid son, William turned out.

Read all about it and listen to the podcast interview with Gillan Anderson here.
https://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-gillian-anderson/


Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk

[CasperParks]

An internet campaign has begun to bring back the X-Files. Considering all of the places we can now view TV shows, I think there is a good possibility someone will pick it up. And I really want to see how Scully's hybrid son, William turned out.

Read all about it and listen to the podcast interview with Gillan Anderson here.
https://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-gillian-anderson/

Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk


Back to a series instead of another film? Maybe the SyFy channel could do a three part min series.

[calikid]

This could be fun!

CSI: Cyber (http://www.cbs.com/shows/csi-cyber/)
New show starting in March 2015.
"It takes a hacker to catch a hacker".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEdH7iKOwhk

[CasperParks]

They Live!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRafyWhzG4

A classic film that continues to resonate.

[CasperParks]

12 Monkeys, SyFy Channe (http://www.syfy.com/)l


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi4AtvfXlUA

SyFy Channel's 12 Monkeys series began 01/16/2015. The 1995 film was inspired by a short film from the 1960s. TV series would fall under the "inspired" by clause.

Time travel is tricky. I was able to watch episodes one and two. Thus far, I give it a decent rating of five out of five stars. Writing and directing is good, cast is stellar. Budget must be huge.

Big budget TV series struggle, they must pull high ratings to justify cost for companies to advertise when aired. Over the past few years, a number of great science fiction shows have fallen by the wayside.

Changes in how people are viewing entertainment has the market place in turmoil.

[calikid]

Helix Season 2
January 16. SyFy has advertisements running.

Looks like the action is moving away from the South Pole laboratory, to some as yet unnamed island.
My interest was flagging the end of season 1.
Hope the writers can punch it up.

Helix
Season 2 premiers this weekend, on SyFy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHdPxqu3jg

[calikid]

Helix
Season 2 premiers this weekend, on SyFy.

[video snip]

Speaking of season premiers,
Saw an ad on H2 for Season2 premier of
Hanger1: UFO Files
Coming Friday, February 13, 2015

[Vicktorya]

Hi everybody -
First post - newbie alert :-D

Just thought I'd say hello by way of a "this is what I watched last night" The Intruders. How did I miss this? Thought it was very good. http://youtu.be/BJ9Wqw6mCJ0

Tonight, it's either Boys from Brazil or The Shadow Men ...

I look forward to getting more familiar with all of you and the forum contents,
very best!
Vicktorya

[CasperParks]

Hi everybody -
First post - newbie alert :-D

Just thought I'd say hello by way of a "this is what I watched last night" The Intruders. How did I miss this? Thought it was very good. http://youtu.be/BJ9Wqw6mCJ0

Tonight, it's either Boys from Brazil or The Shadow Men ...

I look forward to getting more familiar with all of you and the forum contents,
very best!
Vicktorya

Vicktorya,

Welcome to The Outpost Forum...

Boys from Brazil, classic. Based on a novel by Ira Levin. Film 1978 staring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier with Steve Guttenberg supporting role. I recall watching Gregory Peck portraying a villain for the film and thinking, wow. Famous, yet not above taking a role of that nature. He pulled it off! Over all, I considered it a stellar cast.

[Garuda]

Hi everybody -
First post - newbie alert :-D

Just thought I'd say hello by way of a "this is what I watched last night" The Intruders. How did I miss this? Thought it was very good. http://youtu.be/BJ9Wqw6mCJ0

Tonight, it's either Boys from Brazil or The Shadow Men ...

I look forward to getting more familiar with all of you and the forum contents,
very best!
Vicktorya

Welcome aboard!

[lycaeus]

Hi everybody -
First post - newbie alert :-D

Just thought I'd say hello by way of a "this is what I watched last night" The Intruders. How did I miss this? Thought it was very good. http://youtu.be/BJ9Wqw6mCJ0

Tonight, it's either Boys from Brazil or The Shadow Men ...

I look forward to getting more familiar with all of you and the forum contents,
very best!
Vicktorya

Welcome to the Outpost Forum. I've never watched the Intruders but in the past had been informed of a striking correlation of that show to my own life.

Apparently the aliens in that show are indistinguishable from humans 'cept they have deformed fingers. There was a researcher named John Robbie who was killed after publicly disclosing to the world that Nordic non-humans are all around us and the only way to identify them is by their deformed finger. Well I lived with a guy who had such a finger....and yeah a weird deformed finger means very little in itself, but the guy I lived with had signs of being used in a mind-control sleeper agent program, where secret 'black ops' groups use unknowing human beings in experiments in underground bases. And the research indicates that such people may be genetically tweaked, so I think in his case he may have had some alien genetics in him, maybe like 1-3% alien genes, I think a 50/50 human-alien hybrid would be too advanced to pass as normal. You can search the forum for 'Nazi Nordics' to read my posts about him and Nordic aliens if you are curiously inclined.

[Doc]

Hi everybody -
First post - newbie alert :-D

Just thought I'd say hello by way of a "this is what I watched last night" The Intruders. How did I miss this? Thought it was very good. http://youtu.be/BJ9Wqw6mCJ0

Tonight, it's either Boys from Brazil or The Shadow Men ...

I look forward to getting more familiar with all of you and the forum contents,
very best!
Vicktorya

Hi and welcome, Vicktorya, that looks like a good film! One that I somehow missed before now, unless I haven't seen enough of it to recognize it yet. I'll be enjoying the film this evening after supper.
A lot of us at The OutPost are big Sci-Fi fans, so your find is most welcome. If you need assistance regarding the forum in any way, let someone know and we're glad to help, members and staff alike.

[calikid]

12 Monkeys.
S01E02.
Don't usually like time jumping shows.
But this one is holding together well so far.

[calikid]

HELIX
S02EP02

Meanwhile, 30 years in the future (groan).
ANOTHER time jump story line.
Not as thrilled about this one.
Writers better keep it tight, not going to take much disappointment for me to delete this from my TiVo "to do list".

[Doc]

HELIX
S02EP02

Meanwhile, 30 years in the future (groan).
ANOTHER time jump story line.
Not as thrilled about this one.
Writers better keep it tight, not going to take much disappointment for me to delete this from my TiVo "to do list".

Funny, 12 Monkeys seemed to go very fast tonight and Helix seemed like a two-hour show. So far 12 Monkeys is surprising me in that I didn't think a series from the film had much of anywhere to go. They came up with some subplots and a really appealing actress to take Madeleine Stowe's role from the film. (Brad Pitt fans will wonder where his part went.)
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Helix is the bigger surprise for me. After the bombastic (see what I did there?) season-ender I wondered where they could take the story and the Euro teaser didn't look very interesting. Well, in spite of the pacing, they came up with some good ideas so I now have two shows to watch Friday nights. stephen Weber and Billy Campbell are playing against the types of characters they usually play and doing it well. Hiroyuki Sanada is becoming the all-purpose not exactly Bad Guy but the quiet guy with lots of stuff under the surface, mostly very bad.
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[Doc]

On a different note, I got a Roku3 for Christmas and it has revolutionized what we watch at home. First I connected to my Amazon Prime Media and soon found myself catching up with a network show I missed Extant with Halle Berry. this is Sci-Fi with high strangeness and getting stranger by the episode. Aside from a few minor quibbles it fits my requirements because the acting is good and I can't tell what will happen next. I like that.

I'm also going back and watching the old Doctor Who seasons I enjoyed on amazon Prime two years ago. Now with streaming on the Roku the old shows are easier to view in some ways. This time around I'm going slow and enjoying some of the actors I really didn't see much of the first time a watched them. Jon Pertwee has more to him as The Doctor than I thought and Peter Davison has grown on me. I'm still working on liking Tom Baker and Colin Baker more. (If Tom Baker read that, he'd have something hilarious to say about it.) Several of the actors have said that playing The Doctor was the best thing that ever happened to them and I can see why they say so. If you play Doctor Who, there is a very good chance that a large number of sci-fi fans will love you forever.

Off topic, there are a couple of Korean TV shows on Prime that are very good even with subtitles. One is an NCIS knockoffBSG Policeand another is an epic Slave Hunter's--which is almost like a twenty episode major motion picture.

[calikid]

@Doc.
What kind of fees do you pay with Roku & Amazon plus?

[calikid]

Funny, 12 Monkeys seemed to go very fast tonight and Helix seemed like a two-hour show. So far 12 Monkeys is surprising me in that I didn't think a series from the film had much of anywhere to go. They came up with some subplots and a really appealing actress to take Madeleine Stowe's role from the film. (Brad Pitt fans will wonder where his part went.)
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Helix is the bigger surprise for me. After the bombastic (see what I did there?) season-ender I wondered where they could take the story and the Euro teaser didn't look very interesting. Well, in spite of the pacing, they came up with some good ideas so I now have two shows to watch Friday nights. stephen Weber and Billy Campbell are playing against the types of characters they usually play and doing it well. Hiroyuki Sanada is becoming the all-purpose not exactly Bad Guy but the quiet guy with lots of stuff under the surface, mostly very bad.
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I liked 12 Monkeys too... (mini-spoiler) watching our boy assassinated the doctor, and then lie about it brought home the lengths he is willing to go.
The "local" scene seems to be heating up as well.

But Helix feels like it is dragging.
Although I was a bit surprised by the "Norman Bates" ending.
Nice to see Mr Sanada back in the mix.
He is a good actor..... Enjoy his craftwork.

[Doc]

@Doc.
What kind of fees do you pay with Roku & Amazon plus?

Roku3: You buy the device and then you have a choice of free channels and pay channels. Other than Amazon Prime which is free on Roku I have all free channels. Roku3 device costs $99. I bought a "refurb" for $79 which turned out to be a return that they checked over and re-packaged, brand new, works fine.

Amazon Prime cost me $79 the first year and I think its up to $99 a year now. It includes free two day shipping and usually pays for itself in purchases in a few months for me.

[Doc]

I liked 12 Monkeys too... (mini-spoiler) watching our boy assassinated the doctor, and then lie about it brought home the lengths he is willing to go.
The "local" scene seems to be heating up as well.

But Helix feels like it is dragging.
Although I was a bit surprised by the "Norman Bates" ending.
Nice to see Mr Sanada back in the mix.
He is a good actor..... Enjoy his craftwork.

I expected 12 Monkeys to find someone more like Bruce Willis but I guess they went with a "young Bruce Willis type" which is OK, I suppose but the 70s haircut is a bit baffling. Maybe a haircut to something more modern is in the story arc somewhere.
I've seen comments on SyFy's announced upcoming series saying that new people are picking and developing the shows and trying to make the network into something better than it has been. Its old, best days relied too much on reruns of series for my taste, so a turn to original shows like these two and better or equal would be most welcome to me. The buzz is encouraging. We were close to dropping cable but one or two things kept us SyFy and HGTV networks and individual shows like The Walking Dead and Falling Skies. With SyFy getting crappier it was a close thing these last couple of years. If SyFy turns it around, I will keep some form of cable/satellite. However, with the Roku kind of streaming and having channels like Hulu will kill the current cable format within five years or so, anyway.

[calikid]

I expected 12 Monkeys to find someone more like Bruce Willis but I guess they went with a "young Bruce Willis type" which is OK, I suppose but the 70s haircut is a bit baffling. Maybe a haircut to something more modern is in the story arc somewhere.
I've seen comments on SyFy's announced upcoming series saying that new people are picking and developing the shows and trying to make the network into something better than it has been. Its old, best days relied too much on reruns of series for my taste, so a turn to original shows like these two and better or equal would be most welcome to me. The buzz is encouraging. We were close to dropping cable but one or two things kept us SyFy and HGTV networks and individual shows like The Walking Dead and Falling Skies. With SyFy getting crappier it was a close thing these last couple of years. If SyFy turns it around, I will keep some form of cable/satellite. However, with the Roku kind of streaming and having channels like Hulu will kill the current cable format within five years or so, anyway.
Cable gone in 5 years?
That is a bold prediction.
Hope you're right.
Tired of paying big $$$ for 500 channels in 10 languages,
When I only watch a dozen of them in English.
Cable cutting. Bring it on!

[Doc]

Cable gone in 5 years?
That is a bold prediction.
Hope you're right.
Tired of paying big $$$ for 500 channels in 10 languages,
When I only watch a dozen of them in English.
Cable cutting. Bring it on!

I wrote "current cable format" not "cable". Nobody ever got rich betting on my predictions. The only time I was ever right was when I said book stores would be gone in fifteen years back when they were still doing well. Still a few hang on. :biggrin2:

[calikid]

Two new (2015)
Unsealed: Alien Files
Last night.
S03E11 and E12.
One was: Triangle Terror
Black Triangles as Artificial Life Forms/self aware machines.
Interesting theory.

[calikid]

Walking Dead mid season premier tonight.

[calikid]

For Breaking Bad fans, series premier of spin off:
"Better Call Saul"
On tonight.

[newyorklily]

This was just posted on FB. It's supposed to be the complete series of "Taken" .
Piano Tribute to Laura Karpman - Taken (Steven Sp…: http://youtu.be/4SE7_4P19II

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[Garuda]

This was just posted on FB. It's supposed to be the complete series of "Taken" .
Piano Tribute to Laura Karpman - Taken (Steven Sp…: http://youtu.be/4SE7_4P19II

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Nope... It's a short piece of music with the theme song only. (Or at least that's what I'm getting).

[newyorklily]

Nope... It's a short piece of music with the theme song only. (Or at least that's what I'm getting).
Thank you, Garuda. Unfortunately, I don't always get enough network signal to check the videos.

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[calikid]

Thank you, Garuda. Unfortunately, I don't always get enough network signal to check the videos.

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It is a nice, simple, elegant piano tune.
Thanks for sharing.

Add note: Looks like there are "related links" in the right column for show segments.

[CasperParks]

I posted this on 01/15/2015.
Had a pressing urge to watch it, again.
Seven weeks later, They Live (http://www.hulu.com/watch/734899)is running free on Hulu!
Unsure how long Hulu is airing it.



They Live!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRafyWhzG4

A classic film that continues to resonate.

[Longeyes]

Hi Guys

UFOs Declassified has been a pretty good series.
The last one in the UK was particularly good think it was ep 5 in the states (History Ch) and ep 6 in the UK (Yesterday), it featured Japan Airlines flight 1628 and the Aurigny pilot's sighting off the island of Alderney. Had a great interview with the Jersey air traffic controller, who managed to look at the raw data from the radar that day and he could clearly see something large and slow moving which the control tower systems had filtered out.

[calikid]

Hi Guys

UFOs Declassified has been a pretty good series.
The last one in the UK was particularly good think it was ep 5 in the states (History Ch) and ep 6 in the UK (Yesterday), it featured Japan Airlines flight 1628 and the Aurigny pilot's sighting off the island of Alderney. Had a great interview with the Jersey air traffic controller, who managed to look at the raw data from the radar that day and he could clearly see something large and slow moving which the control tower systems had filtered out.

Do you mean,
UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES (http://www.unsealedfiles.com/the-alien-files) ???

There is a sister program called:
UNSEALED: Conspiracy Files
But this one stopped running after last season, here in the USA.

Added note: oh wait, I see UFOs: Declassified
in the History Channel listings, nothing listed until March 30th.
Will have to check it out. So many shows, hard to keep up sometimes!
Thanks for sharing.

[Doc]

I'm still watching 12 Monkeys and Helix on SyFy Friday evenings. 12 Monkeys flipped back and forth through time at a dizzying rate this week, or so it seemed to me. More important, though, is I had wondered how they would stretch the original film plot to make a series with continuity and it is becoming apparent they are going to focus more on conflicts between the participants, which isn't going to hold my interest by itself. I hope I'm wrong.

Helix, on the other hand is going along merrily with stunning new revelations all the time. (No spoilers here.) The characters seem to have caught a case of the "stupids" lately, i.e. going in the way of danger that recent experience makes very unwise. How many times do you want to go down in the cellar with a flashlight for protection? Put yourself in the hands of a psychopath? Hopefully this is a temporary affliction. In the first season this got people killed left and right.

On a different note I was looking for something different to watch on Amazon Prime since my BBC shows went off the Free With Prime list. I found a historical drama mini-series from KBS Korean TV, with subtitles,named The Slave Hunters. The production and the actors won many awards and it shows. It has good acting, direction, script, easy on the eyes. There is intrigue, romance, martial arts, political plotting, social issues, you name it. If you are looking for something different that will hook you and make you wonder what will happen next...it's also on Youtube in episode form and also available a few other places online.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVsFuY06mw

[calikid]

I'm still watching 12 Monkeys and Helix on SyFy Friday evenings. 12 Monkeys flipped back and forth through time at a dizzying rate this week, or so it seemed to me. More important, though, is I had wondered how they would stretch the original film plot to make a series with continuity and it is becoming apparent they are going to focus more on conflicts between the participants, which isn't going to hold my interest by itself. I hope I'm wrong.

Helix, on the other hand is going along merrily with stunning new revelations all the time. (No spoilers here.) The characters seem to have caught a case of the "stupids" lately, i.e. going in the way of danger that recent experience makes very unwise. How many times do you want to go down in the cellar with a flashlight for protection? Put yourself in the hands of a psychopath? Hopefully this is a temporary affliction. In the first season this got people killed left and right.

On a different note I was looking for something different to watch on Amazon Prime since my BBC shows went off the Free With Prime list. I found a historical drama mini-series from KBS Korean TV, with subtitles,named The Slave Hunters. The production and the actors won many awards and it shows. It has good acting, direction, script, easy on the eyes. There is intrigue, romance, martial arts, political plotting, social issues, you name it. If you are looking for something different that will hook you and make you wonder what will happen next...it's also on Youtube in episode form and also available a few other places online.

SNIP Video

IDK Doc.
Enjoyed the first season, and gave Helix Season 2 a shot.
But felt they were all over the map.
Gave up after 3 or 4 episodes.
Helix is no longer on my TiVo "To Do" list.

I'm still hanging in with 12 Monkeys.
Find it odd that they not only have time jump sequences us viewers need to keep straight, but now they have introduced FLASHBACKS that read like time jumps.
The plot is boarder-lining on becoming too convoluted to follow.
Hope they pull the threads together soon before they too, fall off my "To Do" list.

[Doc]

IDK Doc.
Enjoyed the first season, and gave Helix Season 2 a shot.
But felt they were all over the map.
Gave up after 3 or 4 episodes.
Helix is no longer on my TiVo "To Do" list.

I'm still hanging in with 12 Monkeys.
Find it odd that they not only have time jump sequences us viewers need to keep straight, but now they have introduced FLASHBACKS that read like time jumps.
The plot is boarder-lining on becoming too convoluted to follow.
Hope they pull the threads together soon before they too, fall off my "To Do" list.

Helix has always had a strong dose of the the crazy but it made it unpredictable for me which is always an attraction. I had some of the concerns you had at the beginning of Season Two but it was worth waiting out. It reminds me of Lost--either they have a grand secret plan or plot hook they may or may not reveal over time or they are doing a good job of leading me on. It holds my interest.

12 Monkeys, on the other hand, is giving me the idea that they don't have anything up their sleeve and the parlor tricks we are seeing are the evidence of that absence. If they are going to hang this story on me caring about conflict with his old pal and the Teutonic project leader's deceptions--well, I won't care very long. And yes, you are right about the flashbacks! Why not make it really confusing!