SciFi TV

[Randomtaskk 1]

Who has seen it?

Thoughts?

Persnally I almost stopped watching it during the first 45 mins, but it definately got much better towards the end.

I dont think it will ever replace BSG, but it doesnt seem so bad so far...

[Easy Bakes 253]

Will this be Shown on TV?

[Randomtaskk 1]

From wikipedia "An extended version of the pilot will have its world premiere exclusively on DVD on April 21, 2009.[1] In early 2010, the first season, composed of the two-hour pilot and 18 hour-long episodes, is expected to begin airing on Sci Fi Channel in the United States.[2][3] The rights to broadcast the series have also been picked up by Sky1 in the UK and Ireland.[4] The pilot was leaked onto the internet on April 13, 2009."

[Kevin 101]

I wish I had a desire to watch this show... but I really don't. I'd rather just be satisfied with my fond memories of BSG.

[Craig91 12]

Downloading now...I mean...acquiring by completely legal means and you can't prove otherwise...

[blade2k5 1,523]

Didn't know about this thread, glad i searched before making a new one. Anyways, I own the DVD, mine arrived in the mail the day after it's release and I've seen it like 5 or 6 times now. Cheese89, do yourself a favor and watch, give it a try. You may like it because it answers a burning question that BSG didn't and I believe this series is going to tie into BSG very nicely. And don't forget everyone, sometime this fall the BSG film The Plan is supposed to air on SyFy Channel. I look forward to that as well.

[blade2k5 1,523]

At sci-fi.com they announced in the Caprica forums that the series will air beginning Jan 22, with the pilot [minus the nudity + new scenes we didn't get on the DVD], will air before the series begins its weekly run. I just watched the pilot again last night for the umpteenth time and still like it as much as I did the first time.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Whoo.

More Scifi programing.

I may start watching Stargate universe. ( did they just comebine SG1& Atlantis?)

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Whoo.

More Scifi programing.

I may start watching Stargate universe. ( did they just comebine SG1& Atlantis?)quote>

I wanna see that too.  SG-U looks really good [ did I not see Lou Diamond Phillips in one of the promos?] and they haven't really given any kind of clue as to what this spin-off series is about, or what time-period it takes place in except those who came through the gate aren't supposed to be there. 

Right now, my wife is into Warehouse 13 so that's about the only new series I'm even remotely paying attention to.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: blade2k5

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Whoo.

More Scifi programing.

I may start watching Stargate universe. ( did they just comebine SG1& Atlantis?)quote>

I wanna see that too.  SG-U looks really good [ did I not see Lou Diamond Phillips in one of the promos?] and they haven't really given any kind of clue as to what this spin-off series is about, or what time-period it takes place in except those who came through the gate aren't supposed to be there. 

Right now, my wife is into Warehouse 13 so that's about the only new series I'm even remotely paying attention to.quote>

last weeks was the best episode of that so far.

Primevil just finished their 2nd season. Im, waiting for Sanctuary to start season 2 as well

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes  last weeks was the best episode of that so far.

Primevil just finished their 2nd season. Im, waiting for Sanctuary to start season 2 as wellquote>

Sci-Fi.com has new trailers for SG-U and Caprica if you're interested

[Easy Bakes 253]

An New Scifi scheduals for season openers

Santuary season 2

Friday October 9 9 PM Central 

Dr Who 

Unknown

Primeval:

Canceled after season 3

Caprica

Premier

Jan 22 2010

Warehouse 13

Runing season 1

Stargate Universe: Series Preimer

Friday oct 2 8 PM Central

Alice

A December 2009 A mini series with a new take on the story.

Nice cast for it though

Kathy Bates (Misery) stars as the Queen of Hearts and Caterina Scorsone (Crash television series) is Alice.

Rounding out the stellar cast are Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Dodo, Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as the King of Hearts, Philip Winchester (Crusoe) as Jack of Hearts, Matt Frewer (Watchmen) as the White Knight, Andrew Lee Potts (Primeval) as Hatter, Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica) as 9 of Clubs, Timothy Webber (Taken) as Carpenter, Alex Diakun (Sanctuary) as Ratcatcher, Zak Santiago (Kingdom Hospital) as 10 of Clubs, and Eugene Lipinski (Animorphs) as Doctors Dee and Dum.

Friday Oct 2 8 Central.

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Caprica

Premier

Jan 22 2010quote>

Have you seen the pilot yet?  I purchased the DVD before it was released from Amazon and it arrived a day after it was released.  I've watched it over a dozen times now and absolutely love it.  One of the burning questions left unanswered from Galactica is answered in the pilot.  SPOILER Highlight to read... That question was how did the Centurions become sentient?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: blade2k5

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Caprica

Premier

Jan 22 2010quote>

Have you seen the pilot yet?  I purchased the DVD before it was released from Amazon and it arrived a day after it was released.  I've watched it over a dozen times now and absolutely love it.  One of the burning questions left unanswered from Galactica is answered in the pilot.  SPOILER Highlight to read...

Im hoping they will show the pilot as the season opener

If not ill have to buy it.

[blade2k5 1,523]

The pilot will air before the season opener on Jan 22 with scenes not on the dvd.  So I'll be watching that as well.  Sometime this fall the final Galactica movie will air called The Plan.  That I'm looking forward to.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Nice

[Easy Bakes 253]

SGU Starts friday night.

and good news Primeval will be comeing back for season 4.

mabey we can get Randomtaskk to change the thread title to Scifi friday nights or something. and we can  make this a general scifi TV thread.

[blade2k5 1,523]

I just ordered the BSG Season 4.5 on BluRay and also the BSG movie, The Plan on BluRay [ships on Oct 27], and should have the BSG-S4.5 in my hands on Friday  I already have the DVR set to record SG-U on Friday night.

[Livin in Sim 83]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

SGU Starts friday night.

and good news Primeval will be comeing back for season 4.

mabey we can get Randomtaskk to change the thread title to Scifi friday nights or something. and we can  make this a general scifi TV thread.

quote>

Hmmm, Randomtask hasn't logged on since July.  I doubt he'd object if I changed it, since the pilot is long over, correct?  How about Scifi TV, or shoot me a suggestion?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Livin in Sim

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

SGU Starts friday night.

and good news Primeval will be comeing back for season 4.

mabey we can get Randomtaskk to change the thread title to Scifi friday nights or something. and we can  make this a general scifi TV thread.

quote>

Hmmm, Randomtask hasn't logged on since July.  I doubt he'd object if I changed it, since the pilot is long over, correct?  How about Scifi TV, or shoot me a suggestion?

quote>

Scifi TV sounds good.

Pilot will be shown early next year to kick off the new show, but the rest of the new shows kick off over the next couple weeks.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

EB:  How about changing title from SciFi TV  to SF TV?

SciFi is the plural of ScumFum.

[Firebird 40]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

EB:  How about changing title from SciFi TV  to SF TV?

SciFi is the plural of ScumFum.

quote>

Well, its certainly better than "Syfy". 

Anyway, ill be looking forward to the SGU pilot tonight. A couple friends and i are having a pizza party over it. 

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

And now we have seen SG-U's debut.

Apparently we have a concluding episode next week as we visit our first class M (L?) planet.  Will the natives be restless?  Will there be any natives?  Hope so, because the current crew has no aliens.  I miss Teal'c and Ronon.

I am not sure the time-line cutouts were well-enough signaled, 

This has overtones of The Last Starfighter.  Kid solves a big game problem and gets dognapped by SGC?  Been done before, but what the hey?  How many of you have seen that old slug of an SF movie?

I wonder how soon we find out who the bad guys are in those disc-shaped ships?  The CGI is rather good in this.

Let's see:  What's worse than Gou'auld, Ori, and Wraith?  Hmmm.  Banths?  Green hexapodal martians?  Drei fusse tier?

We are so far away from Earth now, that anything goes.  How about Fenachrone or Chlorans?  How about some benevolent aliens?  Norlaminians?  Osnomians?  Arisians?  Can't just have the ascended Ancients, now can we?

There is a huge cast.  It came with an explicit sex scene, which means that SF TV has now grown up.  After all, what else is there to do in your spare time when you are trapped on an alien ship at the end of the known universe?  Wonder if this is going to be a generational ship?

[panthersimcity4 162]

Originally posted by: Firebird

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

EB:  How about changing title from SciFi TV  to SF TV?

SciFi is the plural of ScumFum.

quote>

Well, its certainly better than "Syfy". quote>

I know, for some reason they decided to focus the channel on venereal diseases.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

And now we have seen SG-U's debut.

Apparently we have a concluding episode next week as we visit our first class M (L?) planet.  Will the natives be restless?  Will there be any natives?  Hope so, because the current crew has no aliens.  I miss Teal'c and Ronon.

I am not sure the time-line cutouts were well-enough signaled, 

This has overtones of The Last Starfighter.  Kid solves a big game problem and gets dognapped by SGC?  Been done before, but what the hey?  How many of you have seen that old slug of an SF movie?

I wonder how soon we find out who the bad guys are in those disc-shaped ships?  The CGI is rather good in this.

Let's see:  What's worse than Gou'auld, Ori, and Wraith?  Hmmm.  Banths?  Green hexapodal martians?  Drei fusse tier?

We are so far away from Earth now, that anything goes.  How about Fenachrone or Chlorans?  How about some benevolent aliens?  Norlaminians?  Osnomians?  Arisians?  Can't just have the ascended Ancients, now can we?

There is a huge cast.  It came with an explicit sex scene, which means that SF TV has now grown up.  After all, what else is there to do in your spare time when you are trapped on an alien ship at the end of the known universe?  Wonder if this is going to be a generational ship?quote>

I remember The Last Starfighter decent enough movie, havent seen it for a while though to see if it holds up well.

"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada"

I wonder if Alan dead foster did  the novels of all those Mid 80 Sci Fi movies.

Supprized they havent remade it yet.

havent watched SGU yet.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

EB:  Have mercy!  Did you need to quote my whole post just to talk about an old movie?  This eats up the server, you know.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Sorry

[Boggy1 45]

There is only one thing I am looking for in a science-fiction TV series. Realism. Unforunately, serials that are scientifically realisitc are few and far between.

Although I can enjoy Star Trek, and other stuff of that sort; I am increasingly seeing the innacuracies, lazy writing, impossibilities, and general over-the-top Hollywood style drama. It does kind of ruin it for me, and takes me totally out of the immersion.

I want a show where there is no sound in space; where artificial gravity is created via centripedal force; where nebula are mainly invisible to the eye and far larger, where planets have atmospheres, flora, and fauna different to that of Earth, where proper Newtonian physics is implimented in translation/rotation....the list goes on.

So far I have found a grand total of two shows that do this.

The first is the BBC mini-series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.

[blade2k5 1,523]

So we now have to discuss all the different sci-fi shws in this thread? Why?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Boggy1

There is only one thing I am looking for in a science-fiction TV series. Realism. Unforunately, serials that are scientifically realisitc are few and far between.

Although I can enjoy Star Trek, and other stuff of that sort; I am increasingly seeing the innacuracies, lazy writing, impossibilities, and general over-the-top Hollywood style drama. It does kind of ruin it for me, and takes me totally out of the immersion.

I want a show where there is no sound in space; where artificial gravity is created via centripedal force; where nebula are mainly invisible to the eye and far larger, where planets have atmospheres, flora, and fauna different to that of Earth, where proper Newtonian physics is implimented in translation/rotation....the list goes on.

Anyone know of any others?quote>

Babylon 5 used rotation for gravity.