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By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:02:27 +0000

Come on, MOST TV is crap

Interesting in a thread on SF that no one quoted Sturgeon’s Law”
90% of SF is crap, but then 90% of everything is crap

Though, remembering some more obscure SF on TV, I thing there’s a mathematical increase in 90% and 90%….

J/P=?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:38:58 +0000

My favorites are currently Star Gate 1, Atlantis, Heros, Battlestar Galactica, and Bones. Old favs: Firefly, Farscape, Star Trek Next Gen.,
SG1 is wrapping up, Atlantis MAY be able to continue the tradition. Heros is a tv version of a comic book(the tv version of Crow , with MArk Decoscos, was quite good as well). It’s really obvious Hollywierd is in a declining creative flux. At least the comics are still doing well.

Gary 7

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:16:58 +0000

And then they cancel Jericho *sigh* Actually, they are considering doing a 'wrap up' of the series SciFi Wire J/P=?

By: flak

flak — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:52:22 +0000

Katee Sackhoff’s in it? Well hell, now I have to give it a shot. She’s my favorite actress on Battlestar Galactica, and with the good actors on that show that’s saying something.

By: Teri

Teri — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:35:37 +0000

Katee Sackhoff – Battlestar Galactica’s Starbuck – will have a recurring role as a baddie on the series.

We haven’t come a long way, baby:

Jamie is now a hot bartender, with a rebellious younger deaf sister she is responsible for, and the doctor boyfriend. I guess the ‘independent tennis pro’ doesn’t go over as well with the Maxim crowd?

Nice photo of Katee though:
http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Bionic_Woman/photos.shtml?img=2#photos_sec

By: JSW

JSW — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:49:54 +0000

â€œThe Day the Earth Stood Stillâ€ is indeed a classic and I doubt a remake could offer anything to improve the original. However, this is not the best classic sci-fi movie ever made. I think Forbidden Planet is the best and if I ever hear about them attempting a remake of THAT, Iâ€™ll check out permanentlyâ€¦no really, Iâ€™ll just have to take the long journey into the dark chasm. That would be a complete disaster. Then again, if Peter Jackson gave it a go maybe it would be okâ€¦nope, not even then.

Well, there was that Forbidden Planet TV series that ran for a few years in the ’60s and was then revived in the ’80s. I’m pretty sure they made a few movies based off of it, too.

By: GrillTech

GrillTech — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:39:42 +0000

Don’t put any hope in a Science Fiction show lasting on fox. Firefly – Gone, Drive – Gone. If Summer is going to be on fox again she might want to have a chat with Nathan Fillon about how safe it is as a career move.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:44:42 +0000

I saw The Day The Earth Stood Still last year, for the first time, and was overwhelmed with how great it was!

My favourite part: “I’m impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without out it.”

Words to live for. Sigh…

By: tacitus

tacitus — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:27:11 +0000

Jericho might have had a decent premise, but the execution was terrible. Most of it was little more than soap opera (with bad scripts and acting). Now if you want an example of a post-apocalyptic TV show done right, then look no further than Showtime’s Jeremiah. (Another one canceled before its time.)

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:45:08 +0000

pssst- there are more futurama episodes in the works, they are going straight to DVD (wikipedia)

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:55:42 +0000

The end of the world? Come on now; I’ve seen the long preview on YouTube, and it looks pretty awesome. Time will tell, obviously, but there was nothing in that ~4 minute clip that does anything other than make me anticipate watching it.

By: Dunc

Dunc — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:32:07 +0000

given the environment of TV today, where shows like Firefly and Futurama get canceled

Don’t forget Farscape! What is it about sci-fi shows beginning with the letter F?

By: Sticks

Sticks — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:13:12 +0000

Hark what sound is it that I purchance to hear

Gadzooks it is that of the base of a barrel being scraped.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:54:55 +0000

From what I’ve heard, the new Bionic Women doesn’t look that bad. It is a darker version of the original like Battlestar Galactica is darker than the original, buit it isn’t supposed to be as dark as BG.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:13:17 +0000

Come on, MOST TV is crap, and that includes Sci Fi. Iâ€™m just glad that Iâ€™m too busy to watch much,

I’m with you on this one. I watch less than an hour of TV a month on average. At some point in the early 80′s I realized that TV was crap, sold my TV and never looked back. I doubt I could name 10 shows from the last 10 years. I’ve never even watched a whole episode of Seinfeld.

I own a TV now, but it’s used almost exclusively for watching movies on DVD.

By: Scott G.

Scott G. — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:07:20 +0000

Troy,

1975′s six million dollars would be 23,694,611 in 2006 cash (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/).

I am looking forward to the TV shows and I hope they do well. Many of my other favs have been canceled (Firefly, Drive, etc.) so something has to stick sometime! BSG, Heroes, Doctor Who and a few others give me hope, though.

The movie remake is another matter. Those rarely end up well-done or well-received, something Hollywood may figure out some day (but I doubt it).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:00:47 +0000

To be honest, I don’t think it’s that Hollywood is out of ideas, rather the American public at large is just so much cattle- easily herded this way or that. Take the general apathy in the electoral cycles as just one example. American Idols get more votes than the President- kinda shows where the ‘common man’ places his priority, doesn’t it.

By: DiscoverSD

DiscoverSD — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:27:14 +0000

Hollywood’s running out of ideas. Pretty soon they’ll be doing remakes of all classic films, sci-fi or otherwise.

By: Xenomorph

Xenomorph — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:32:46 +0000

While the new War of the Worlds was pretty good I can’t see any good in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. I first saw it when I was nine and as Josh said, it floored me. It probably started my intereset in sci-fi but also in astronomy and space exploration. Don’t touch this classic, please don’t!

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:03:31 +0000

Ruth has a good point. There’s a lot of original stories that haven’t been told; life is too short for reruns.

I always assumed to understand the Prisoner you had to be English. (My best guess it is an abstract of totalitarianism.)

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:17:21 +0000

Come on, MOST TV is crap, and that includes Sci Fi. I’m just glad that I’m too busy to watch much, but these remakes and based-on-a-movie series sound dreadful enough to make me take up a hobby or read more rather than watch them if I did have the time! I mean, remake the Prisoner? How can you do that, does anybody REALLY know what it was about? As for watching something because an actor from a show you liked is in it, how often does that turn out well, unless you’re only watching for pure eyecandy? Does anyone know of any new series that are at least pretending to be original?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:00:48 +0000

And then they cancel Jericho *sigh*

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:40:06 +0000

>>> one of the finest science fiction movies ever made.

Not really, no.

I’d like to do a remake where humanity sends Klaatu packing. A rocket assisted B-52 dives from a sub-orbital flight right into Gort, pretty much removing him from the picture. Nothing is invulnerable. We Earthers also filch the saucer’s stardrive tech, and send our own ships out to get a piece of that action.

Anyone here read Poul Anderson’s “The High Crusade”?

I’m just a Campbellian, I guess.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:00:25 +0000

The new Battlestar Galactica is one “remake” that doesn’t suck. I was very apprehensive about it when I heard they were redoing it but have loved the result. Same goes with the new Doctor Who. Mind you, if I were a betting person chances are a sci-fi remake is highly likely to be dodgy.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:02:30 +0000

I note with trepidation that they're also remaking The Prisoner as Number Six. Mind you, the themes of The Prisoner are perfectly suited to our modern world, but damn. It's going to be a shame if it sucks, but according to Wikipedia Christopher Nolan is attached and it's being produced by Sky One, who did the current Galactica. So maybe there's hope?