Jul 23, 2008
This one will ruffle some feathers. Okay full disclosure. I’m British. I live in America but I spent the first 28 years of my life in Scotland so I am unquestionably British. Maybe I’m biased.
But I’m not wrong.
Even Britain’s obscure or failed science fiction shows have a greater range and imagination than the majority of the scifi output from American television. I don’t think the distinction is nearly so clear…
Jul 15, 2008
Stargate Atlantis returns for its fifth season with Search & Rescue Part 2 which concludes Season 4’s closer. Nice pan out from the ruined building into space and across to Michael. I wonder how much they spent on that special effect?
This was actually the first episode of Atlantis that I watched in SciFi’s HD broadcast and the special effects in particular did benefit from it.
Unfortunately I’m really not a fan…
Jul 7, 2008
The Ark of Truth is the first direct to DVD adventure for Stargate: SG-1. The 102 minute long (so says the back of the DVD) picks up almost directly from where the tv series finished and finally presents us with a conclusion to the Ori story arc which ran for the last two seasons of SG-1.
Almost the entire cast returns for the story with Michael Shanks, Claudia Black, Christopher Judge,…
Jul 7, 2008
Like most people in the United States I’ve been following the Presidential race with some interest. For a while there it wasn’t clear if we were seeing the possibility of the first female president in Hilary Clinton or as it now turns out the chance of the first black president in Barack Obama. Of course there’s also a possibility we’ll have the 44th white male president too.
But this got me…
Jul 4, 2008
The fourth season of Stargate: Atlantis hits DVD on July 8th 2008 with a 5 disc boxed set that offers not only all 20 episodes from season 4 of Atlantis, but over an hour of new content. Stargate: Atlantis spun off from Stargate SG-1 and the fourth season sees the arrival of SG-1’s award winning star Amanda Tapping as the new leader, Commander Samantha Carter. Jewel Staite (Firefly) also reprises…