4 posts tagged “sci fi”
Late night for me. Let's just say that I have had two cups of coffee so I am awake for the foreseeable future...
DVDs
- Caprica - BSG prequel that is sitting on the coffee table waiting on Alex being in the right mood to watch it. I am thinking it might be a good fit for the 4th of July long weekend. I mean we ain't going to be watching the fireworks
- Star Trek: TNG - Someone wont let me watch Deep Space Nine until we have re-watched all of TNG. Half way through season 5 and it is dragging somewhat
- Virtuality - Ronald D. Moore did a pilot for Fox, and they have repackaged it as a tv movie. That probably means it is now a failed pilot but as ever the optimist I am hopeful for a resurrection, especially after seeing the 12 min preview and webisodes
- Stargate Universe - the trailer makes it look edgier than Atlantis or SG-1, and it has Robert Carlyle in it so nuff said
- Torchwood - The 'Children of Earth' mini-series airs in July and it feels a little bit like Midwitch Cuckoos (though spooky children always give off that vibe to be)
- Doctor Who - Finally getting the Christmas special that was aired AGES ago in the UK. It also looks like BBC America has wrangled the Doctor from Sci-Fi Channel
- Warehouse 13 - Cute but worth a watch given that there isn't that much on at the moment
For whatever reason there tends to be a dearth of sci-fi movies opening in the summer, the powers that be obviously think that genre is better suited to fall which is why it made no sense to open last year's X-Files movie in the summer.
- Star Trek - So you've seen it once just keep watching it because it really is that good!
- Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince - Not strictly sci-fi but wizards are hardly mainstream
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - same as above but this time with robots in disguise
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Not another Sarah Connor Terminator spin-off I promise. The book is excellent, but the time travel is rather more a literary plot device than an actually exploration into time travel
I tend to do quite a bit of navel gazing during yoga classes, and by navel gazing I mean putting my introspective head on though I do literally spend time gazing at my actual navel as well. I find yoga quite mindless, especially when you filter out the mediation and the new age rhetoric, as all you are doing is breathing and following instructions for a series of poses. I like to think I do my best thinking on the mat, and today I was mulling over why I have been feeling so out of sorts. I managed to identify key ingredients that had been missing this week - escapism and thinking.
Escapism comes in many forms. My favs are studying ancient civilisations and watching genre tv shows based on cool futuristic stuff (hello science fiction and fantasy). I find that both of those things lead to thinking and that in turn leads to a happy me. Does this makes me an uber nerd? Because I really hope so. Last week was primarily about the day job, and in the evening I only had time to watch the Daily Show and Colbert. As much as I love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert they are very much based in reality, and given that most of my favourite shows are on break for the summer there are slim pick-in's for programs that transport you to a galaxy far far away.
Is it odd that a lack of Fringe, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Chuck and Doll House disrupt my reality so much? Not really when you think about the Obama-BSG article the Onion ran a few months back. Dude, I am totally on the same page as I have an entire summer to fill before school and the new tv seasons begin in earnest. What am I meant to do till then?
Next up will be my summer sci-fi survival guide.
The second half of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica will kick off on January 16th. For some reason I thought it wasn't going to air until much later next year, so praise the gods that I was mistaken. To start getting us in the mood check out the promo. It looks so frakking good! Can't wait to find out who the final cylon is, and how Ronald D. Moore et al tie everything up!
Day three in my new boots and all is well; no blisters or pinching. But because I keep admiring them I have strained a muscle in my leg. When I am in need of a little pick me up I look down at my feet and smile; then I push my chair back, straight my leg and then twist my foot about so I can take in fully the bodacious nature of the boot. Other than my material worship I am filling my time by reading The Line of Beauty, which so far is all shagging and Henry James (very BBC2), and working my way through the first season of Supernatural. I am surprised by how much I am enjoying it, a cross between X-Files and Quantum Leap with a generous sprinkling of Buffy. The premise is simply two brothers who tour the country hunting all things supernatural. They are a wise cracking duo with a taste for classic rock who make ends meet with a little light credit card fraud and hustling pool because this type of work does not pay. There is an overall arc to the series, but each episode is a self contained mystery and it is a relief to watch something with only two main characters rather than a battalion. I worry that with 24 and the like I will end up needing a spreadsheet to keep track of the goings on and subplots. There are plenty of flourishes to keep your interest, and worthy cameos from Angel and X-Files alumni.
