This holiday season – some of the younger members of our ShowMeSciFi.com team picked up the recent Bionicle The Legend Reborn movie….
It could have been called Worf the Robot – as far as we’re concerned.
We had no idea Michael Dorn (the actor who played Klingon Worf) was in this movie – he’s the voice [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , December 30, 2009 On That Note . You may have heard that singing is like praying twice , but what they didn't tell you is that singing off-key is like blaspheming . twice I've caught a cold , and that makes me grouchy . Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 8:23 AM Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous Adolescent Saint Philomena , unofficial patroness of wangsty science fiction writers , pray for us D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that
There are so many layers of plots and sub-plots in Star Wars Legacy – sometimes it’s hard to keep them all straight.
One of the most interesting – and the one that always has the biggest ships and the biggest battles are the plotlines/issues with Gar Stazi and the Galactic Alliance.
This is a sort of [...]: : skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , December 22, 2009 News from the Fish Bowl : Archaeology for Christmas Hi , it's me , Lucky . I haven't posted in a long time because I've been with Snuffles in his cave . He doesn't get Internet access up there . He also doesn't pick up his dirty socks off the . floor I wanted to do a news post over our break , and I just found out that the first-known house from the time of Jesus is being excavated in Nazareth . This is CBS Just days before Christmas , there has been a significant archaeological find in Jesus' hometown . Israeli archaeologists say they've found the first house in Nazareth dating back to the time of . Christ The character of the walls is typical of Jewish villages in the early Roman period . So this would be the sort of house that Jesus or people of his period would have lived in , said Yardena Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority , who headed the excavation . more . Posted by Lucky the Goldfish at 7:51 AM Labels : archaeology news Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss is the third installment in the Fate of the Jedi series – and it’s not the best nor the worst (first book was outcast followed by Omen – which was awesome)
As is often the case lately with Star Wars series – each installment has a few interesting development [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , December 20, 2009 Fourth Sunday of Advent Today is the last Sunday of Advent . I am presently at home where I am luxuriating in non-homeworkness . The family is visiting : Snuffles , Frederick , Phenny , and Lucky all flew in . As I've decided I think I could handle keeping a goldfish , Lucky is currently deciding whether she wants to come to the seminary with me or return to Snuffles's party cave . Frederick is hunting for an apartment and or stable , as he has informed me he can't stand sharing Snuffle's domicile . Sounds as if the gang's breaking up , which rather makes me . sad We were hoping to have received a Christmas letter from Rocky the Space Mouse by now . His writing has become more infrequent as he has become more involved in protecting our solar system from the terrors of the Beyond . I think all of us are worried about him , most especially Lucky , who was particularly close to him while he was here . Unfortunately , we no longer have a reliable address to write to him ourselves , since the Martian base was destroyed
We’ve heard about the Attic from the earliest Dollhouse shows – now we finally know what it’s all about. The Attic Part 2 was one of the finest Dollhouse episodes ever.
Rossum is using ‘unfit dolls’ and enemies of Rossum as human computers – their brains are all connected to power the mainframe – OUTSTANDING.
Meeting [...]
The World of New Krypton series is now winding down…but first Commander El has a mystery to solve.
Is the Labor guild behind the murder or are they being setup?
I don’t know – neither does Commander El – but somehow Adam Strange might..
We’ve never been big Adam Strange fans but apparently he’s got better investigative [...]
The good folks at SyFy are so very much unlike the idiots that run Fox – aren’t they?
Today SyFy announced that Stargate Universe is being picked for a second season.
That’s good news.
No Stargate Universe is not the best iteration of Stargate – the first season so far has had an equal share of hits [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , December 13, 2009 Douglas Wolk on Immanuel Kant Douglas Wolk explains Immanuel Kant's Critique of of Aesthetic Judgment with comic books in this enlightening video which I highly . recommend Oh yeah , and Keep Mass in Christmas Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 11:18 PM Labels : aesthetics comics philosophy Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous Adolescent Saint Philomena , unofficial patroness of wangsty science fiction writers , pray for us D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled It’s such a shame that Dollhouse has been canceled – this week’s double episode – 7 and 8 – were among the best this show has ever had.
Episode seven we see a new type of doll – one that can change personalities on the fly to suit the need. Call her – Echo Supreme. [...]
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Grey Matters was a fine attempt at explaining why/how Walter went nuts and ended up at St.Clairs
After all they did cut up his brain.
Was that his pal Bell there at the end that cut up his brain? Crazy..his own partner stole his [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , December 8, 2009 Pro-Life Update The Nelson-Hatch-Casey Amendment in the Senate has been defeated . Please write or call your senators to urge them to defeat the health care . bill Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 11:09 PM Labels : pro-life Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous Adolescent Saint Philomena , unofficial patroness of wangsty science fiction writers , pray for us D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that sentence
Exciting times as the pioneering age of space tourism is almost here.
And the first icon of this new era will be…
Galactic Girl
Check her out on the side of the new VirginGalactic Space Ship Two which was shown off yesterday to the public.
And yeah they’re already taking booking with a cost of $200,000 and a [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , December 8, 2009 A Suggestion-- Those darn supermassive black holes are the universe's greatest contributors to cosmic entropy , and I think we should sign a petition to make them . stop Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 5:21 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous Adolescent Saint Philomena , unofficial patroness of wangsty science fiction writers , pray for us D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that sentence contains so much
The easy review first. Star Trek: Titan: Synthesis is the best Star Trek Titan book yet.
The basic premise is that the ship itself, becomes sentient and takes the holo-avatar form of Minuet (the girl from on ST;TNG episode).
But beyond the ship’s sentience which was cool – was the whole new machine species – the [...] wow what another great episode -Justice
- Stargate Universe Season 1 episode 10 started off as a typical whodunnit..
But with the added who framed Col Young twist this was one interesting episode.
So..it Rush lost? Not likely, that alien ship will be his ticket back to Earth and Destiny at some point.
Will Eli tell anyone what [...] Dollhouse is Back (well until it gets cancelled) – and its back with a BANG!!
So Rossum Corp turned one of its dollhouses against the other in a plot to ensure that the dollhouse itself is never exposed.
Amazing.
Topher and Topher as a doll – FUNNY
Summer Glau as the D.C version of Topher – ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT..Summer [...] Last night’s Fringe episode - Snakehead – was one weird episode.
Another non-pattern event – this was just some whack job herbalist that was implanting a worm into immigrants.
Yes it was neat to see the Alien like emergence, and sure Walter getting lost in Chinatown was fun…
But overall a weak episode, for which we haven’t [...]
Looks like FlashForward’s main plot is winding down doesn’t it?
Loyld Simcoe and Olivia were starting to get real cozy – and what the frak was up with Simcoe saying he caused the black out?
We now know conclusively that D Gibbons was behind the whole thing beyond any doubt – how we get to him – [...]
No we weren’t fans of the theatrical release of Terminator Salvation…but sure we’re likely to pick it up on DVD, just because.
It’s out on Tues Dec 1 (Terminator Salvation (Director’s Cut) [Blu-ray]), but the real key is the deleted scenes, but don’t expect much.
The big deleted scene, which has already been leaked is some [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , November 29, 2009 2009 Keep Mass in Christmas Campaign I seem to recall that once upon a time I had a blog . At any rate , on this the first of Advent , it is time once again for our annual Keep Mass in Christmas Campaign Are you seriously angry that people don't reference your holiday while making embarrassing public displays of greed Do you live in an alternate universe Are you some kind of robot If you answered yes , or no , to any of the questions above , you need to join The Sci Fi Catholic s Keep Mass in Christmas Campaign where we prefer to tell Christians to remember the proper way to celebrate Christmas , rather than telling everybody else , for whom celebrating Christmas wouldn't make much sense . anyway Cracking a joke at an opponent's expense , for example , can demolish that person's argument if the joke succeeds in diverting attention away from the issue and causing the opponent to appear silly . Presidential debates and other forums for political candidates often show the success these tactics find . So does theNo new Stargate Universe this week, but next week will be the last episode for a few months…
Yeah we hate mid-season finales too.
The basic story behind the mid-season finale is another character story – this time we’ve got a murder on the destiny.
Everyone is shocked when a member of the crew is found dead from [...]
Yeaaah SciFi frakked us all over with their Flash Gordon reboot, but the that doesn’t mean there aren’t any Flash Gordon fans out there? Or are there?
Apparently there is a glut of Flash Gordon toys, so this if you’re interested you can now get your very own Alex Ross Flash Gordon for only $5 [...]
Sure it’s been out for a two week on DVD now but Black Friday pricing for Star Trek 2009 is really out of this world.
Over at Amazon -Star Trek (Single-Disc Edition) – is only $9 which is half price for a brand new copy.
We haven’t yet seen $9 copies anywhere else, though we’d expect [...]
He’s baaaaack! Sure the first Universal Solider was trite scifi pulp, but it was still kinda/sorta fun right?
And hey enough people remember it, that apparently it’s good enough to have a sequel – albeit direct to DVD.
And if one 90’s action hero washout isn’t enough, it also include Dolf Lundgren (remember him from Rocky IV?) [...]
The Flu vaccine is all part of an Alien/Lizard/V/Visitor conspiracy.
I knew there was a good reason why we didn’t get the H1N1 vaccine.
BUT THE WHAT THE FRAK? Does ABC have no ethics? Plant a story about the flu vaccine being a route for alien control? rly? Aren’t people scared enough about the Flu vaccine [...]
So Katee Sackhoff aka Battlestar Galactica’s Starbuck made a a guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory -
It was easily the best cameo yet for the show which has had Summer Glau and Wil Wheaton so far.
No Katee isn’t naked, but she is in the tub with Howard (isn’t that every male geek’s fantasy??)
Some of [...] The observers are the whole key to the pattern, they’re everywhere in time
but last night’s episode -..August – well …now we know there are many Observers – which is kinda neat.
But the whole think with the one observer watching the girl from when she was small and then being in ‘love’ with her? COME [...] FlashForward really sucked tonight.
Mostly it sucked because it was just a character set-up episode.
Bryce chases his vision all the way to Tokyo and finds nothing while Keiko does the same but only in reverse. Sure that was interesting but it didn’t have to be the whole frakking episode.
Let’s hope the next episode (in two [...]
Yeaah we were waiting for Battlestar Galactica The Plan for months. And yeaah we watched within a few days of its release.
It is so shockingly BAD that it has taken this long for us to have the stomach to write a review.
Battlestar Galactica deserves better than this kind of treatment. I don’t know if Ron [...]
Who is John May? ABC’s V is really picking up steam now with the emergence of the V Fifth Column. We have no idea who John May is, but no doubt he’s well hidden.
The whole Fifth Column thing was the biggest revelation in this third episode of the new V (official episode title is:A [...]Unbelievable!
io9 has what it claims to be a confirmation from George Lucas’ ILM and a frame from the blu-ray version of Star Trek 2009
In real-time play, it’s not even a second long, but it’s clear that everyone’s favorite astromech was on Nero’s ship when the NCC-1701 blasted her to oblivion.
Here’s the thumbnail from io9:
Posted in [...] We’ve had our doubts about SGU over the first 7 episodes, and to borrow a line from this episode, ..for a few moments there I thought we were in trouble.
Episode 8, titled Time blew us away. Easily the best episode yet and one of the best Stargate episodes of any stargate series yet.
We’ve got [...]
Until the very end of this episode i had no idea that Massive Dynamic was the real bad guy…though i suppose it really shouldn’t be a surprise.
Massive Dynamic is the bad guy for the show PERIOD.
Interesting idea though on the multiple tyler clones though…
And it was neat that Walter finally visited Massive Dynamic too.
Posted in [...]
Our choices matter now more than ever…
Ok after last week’s big episode Tracy is back and we find out that she was chased by Jericho – sorta like blackwater i guess.
But how did she get out of Afghanistan? And
Who is Jericho? and how are they related to the black outs?
And what’s up with the rings? [...]It’s official. FOX is cancelling Dollhouse.
Is anyone surprised?
This is FOX after all, they canceled Firefly and from the very first episode (which was awesome), we knew the FRAKKERS at FOX had their fingers on the button to kill this show.
It’s bad enough the show is on hiatus for the whole month of November too, but [...]
The second episode of ABC’s V was another really great episode.
The key character is really shaping up to be FBI Agent Erica Evans played by actress Elizabeth Mitchell.
She’s strong, tough and saavy. And how about that shower scene? No nudity. And that’s a good thing. It means she’s serious and the shows producers are not [...]
Look to Windward is another of Iain M. Banks Culture novels…for us it’s the third one we’ve read behind Consider Phelbas and Use of Weapons, both which were superior books to this one.
Yes the basic premise of this book was interesting – the light from one of the last great battles of the Idiran [...]That was one strange episode – in that it was all about personal relationships. SGU episode 7 Earth gave us more insight into Destiny’s crew and their history on Earth.
Col Young getting back together with his ex – while inside of Telford’s body was kinda freaky – especially when the communication between the stones was [...] Great to have Fringe back, and another fine episode.
So now we know the CIA and Russians have a play in the pattern too.
Somehow the cosmonaut that Broils shot is still alive and now in space somewhere with the ’shadow’ with him – a really neat idea overall.
Is the Shadow related to the watcher? We’ll [...]Wow – somehow until today no one knew that Wil Wheaton – best known to Star Trek Fans for his work on Next Generation as Ensign Wesley Crusher – was actually in J J Abrams star trek 2009.
Wheaton did the voice over work for the Romulans on Nero’s ship.
Listen in to this clip below to [...] J J Abrams Star Trek makes it to the ‘little’ screen on Nov. 17th.
Alongside the movie itself the DVD release will include a few notable outtakes including the deleted Klingon Scene. They don’t quite look like regular klingons to us, but hey close enough. We’ve included the clip below which aired on the Scream [...] Another decent, but not great episode. Water follows other monosyllabic episode names like light and darkness..and wonder what’s next.
The Destiny loses half of its water and the command staff is checking the crew to see who has taken ..what??
That was dumb. What did Lt. Scott see on ice world (Hoth as Eli called [...] Episode of Stargate Universe – Light -was kinda/sorta interesting.
Yes it SUCKS that Chole didn’t hook up with Eli.
BUT the whole thing with Destiny going through the Corona of a star to recharge was kinda neat – and also obvious.
What bothered us about this episode was how most of the crew just seemed so hopeless. [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , October 21, 2009 October Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour This month's tour features Eric Wilson's Haunt of Jackals Wilson's website is here and his book trilogy website is here Check out the tour : here Brandon Barr Wayne Thomas Batson Jennifer Bogart Justin Boyer Keanan Brand Amy Browning Karri Compton Amy Cruson CSFF Blog Tour Stacey Dale D . G . D . Davidson Jeff Draper April Erwin Karina Fabian Beth Goddard Todd Michael Greene Timothy Hicks Becky Jesse Cris Jesse Julie Carol Keen Dawn King Rebecca LuElla Miller Mirtika Nissa John W . Otte James Somers Speculative Faith Rachel Starr Thomson Robert Treskillard Steve Trower Fred Warren Phyllis Wheeler Jill Williamson KM Wilsher Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 8:53 PM Labels : Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous Adolescent Saint Philomena , unofficial patroness of wangsty science fiction writers , pray for us: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , October 11, 2009 A Groaner The philosopher Rene Descartes moved to Sweden in 1649 to tutor Queen Christina . Descartes was a lazy man used to sleeping late , and he was now grieving over the recent destruction of the robot he had built to replace his dead daughter the robot having been tossed off a ship by ignorant and fearful sailors so he was irritated to find he was expected to lecture to the queen every morning at . five One morning , however , the queen did not send for Descartes . Though he was at first inclined to take advantage of the situation and remain in bed , his curiosity was aroused , and so he arose , dressed , and found the chamberlain . When he did so , he asked , Why has the queen not sent for me The chamberlain replied , Monsieur , Her Highness find this morning that she has quite lost her voice , so she simply cannot see you . Descartes thought about this for a moment . She's not ill , then Surely she doesn't need her voice to hear me lecture . The chamberlain answered , Ah , Monsieur , perhaps this is true: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , September 23, 2009 September Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour This month's tour goes out to The Vanishing Sculptor by Donita Paul . Paul's website is here and her blog is here Brandon Barr Jim Black Justin Boyer Rachel Briard Karri Compton Amy Cruson CSFF Blog Tour Stacey Dale D . G . D . Davidson Jeff Draper April Erwin Karina Fabian Linda Gilmore Todd Michael Greene Katie Hart Ryan Heart Becky Jesse Cris Jesse Jason Joyner Julie Carol Keen Krystine Kercher Dawn King Rebecca LuElla Miller Mirtika Eve Nielsen posting later in the week Nissa John W . Otte Lyn Perry Crista Richey Cheryl Russell Chawna Schroeder James Somers Speculative Faith Rachel Starr Thomson Robert Treskillard Steve Trower Fred Warren Dona Watson Phyllis Wheeler Elizabeth Williams KM Wilsher Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 10:13 PM Labels : Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour Donita K . Paul Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World This Blog Protected by Mischievous: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , September 14, 2009 Introducing a New Product from the Creator of The Sci Fi Catholic I've been away for quite a while , but as usual I have an excuse . Although my past business ventures , such as the Tossed Cookies Plug-ins and Shiatsu by Shih Tzu were failures , my current one is sure to be a huge . success You can tell this is a gluttonous society : we now actually bathe in food . The other day , I was in the soap aisle at the grocery store looking at the body wash and began to notice the various ingredients : mango , green tea , yogurt , honey , and even oatmeal . I said to myself , This isn't soap , this is breakfast . Yet the foods offered here in the soap aisle are all woman-on-a-diet breakfasts . Where are the manly , meaty soaps to get my day started That's why I've created Hearty Breakfast Soap for Men™ made with moisturizing sausage and eggs , exfoliating hash browns , and coffee a skin toner and emulsifier Hearty Breakfast Soap for Men™ rinses clean with no filmy residue , making your skin feel refreshed , leaving