Comments on: Dr Who: Origins and Season Finale

By: Dominic

Dominic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:34:17 +0000

I,m pleased that Dr who is as entertaining for you as it is for us in the UK. My views are that Seasons 1-2 were terrific but 3&4 lost their way. The end of season 4 was brilliant.My only criticism is why did the Supreme Dalek have such a bad paint job and what was those bits around its head?.The Scottish Doc is one of the best to date, pl bring back the Draconians and the Chronovores!

By: kayla wiliams

kayla wiliams — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:09:35 +0000

I can’t wait to get the series 3 of doctor who.I love to wach doctor who. I wach doctor who on scifi.

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:05:40 +0000

I’ve just put my money where my mouth is and got hold of series 1 (surprised how easily available it is as well). Looking forward to it.

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By: 790

790 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:10:43 +0000

Bruce, another cool Uk import is a little show called, “Urban Gothic”. Its a twilight zone-ish show with a horror edge to it.
Kinda tough to find but Frys carries it.

Also if you love British humor you’ll love the Original “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC movie”.
Douglas Adams real extended version of his book. Not the new movie version.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:53:45 +0000

Haha yeah, season 1 and 2 are good, great even but season 3 is real complex in a good way and season 4 is just all out Scarrens.

(Cool thing about the Scarren story arc, is they find out that not only does Chricton have wormhole weapon secrets, he is also from Earth, and the Scarrens need something “else” that can only be found there).

Wormholes arnt just for killen, if ya get my drift.

The dvds are pretty cheap last time I looked. The PeaceKeeper War miniseries can be found at bestbuy for like 10 bucks. They condensed all 4 hours into one huge movie… Its so worth 10 bucks.

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:30:17 +0000

Right, that’s it! I’m looking for those DVDs as soon as I scrape some shekels together.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:59:51 +0000

Yeah I loved that office Straker had and that Mini-bar!
The General (if I remember correctly)was a lame duck and Straker knew it. He also felt theGeneral was a risk to have in power.
^
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Haha, The hellraiser looking guy is called Scorpius.
He’s a hybrid, half Sabacean and half Scarren. He’s the Peacekeeper version of Darth Vader/Boba Fett.
He looks like that because his outfit is a special cooling suit. He’s very smart, strong and can tell if your lying by looking at your aura.
He keeps this a secret so as to allways be one step ahead of others.

On the rest:
(I’ll try not to spoil too much). Scorpius comes in at the end of season 1. Crais’s pursuit of Cricton ends because of Scorpius.

Scorpius dosnt care about Crais dead brother he finds out by capturing Chricton that he’s a human not a Sabacean and also stumbles upon wormhole information that was implanted by dimensional-time-aliens earlier in season 1.
Scorpius wants to use the wormhole information to build a weapon to destory the Scarrens.
Chricton actually does make a wormhole weapon near the end of season 3.
After that he’s the Galaxys most wanted, Scorpius and the Scarrens both want the weapon and hunt him down to get it. Chricton has to eventually pick a side and that’s covered in the 4 part mini series “the Peacekeeper Wars”…
Is a real good show!

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:30:35 +0000

we’ve all had our “moments”
I used a fully posable spiderman action figure for target practice when I was in high school.
I cut up a superman comic book that my dad gave me.. that cool pic with him holding the car begged to be cut out…
Etc., etc…

On the other hand, I still have my all metal diecast thunderbird #2! The flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the Land of the Giants ship… yea.. I got one really coooool box…

By: steven the git

steven the git — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:16:56 +0000

No, about ten years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_(TV_serial)

Pretty sure it is on dvd too, somewhere.

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:35:02 +0000

Never saw that one, steven. Is that recent?

You’ll get people beating each other to death with clubs on ebay for an Interceptor, Bruce. Dig that sucker out! I had one and painted it white. Because it was white in the show. Like a fool.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:23:29 +0000

I got a diecast from the UFO show too! That tri-legged interceptor. Egads, the memories flood back and I realize that one box in storage has some really cool things in it.

By: steven the git

steven the git — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:11:24 +0000

One British show that sneaks into the scifi bracket that I dearly loved was Ultraviolet. It was about vampires and an organisation that hunted them, but there was a hitech element to it, with guns with cameras attached (the undead didn’t show up) and even fancy coffins that only opened on a timer.
Very short series, about 6 episodes I think, and probably cancelled due to the usual dumb reasons. Was an excellent show and could really have gone on to more.

A number of the older shows, like Prisoner and UFO, are being shown again, if on obscure digital channels (ITV4).

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:59:36 +0000

Thanks for that 790, that fills in a heap of blanks I had. For a start I couldn’t work out why Crais had it in for Crichton or who was escaping from whom, which is pretty fundamental really. So that Hellraiser-looking guy: what’s his problem?

Yeah, blurring Dr Russell just looks bizarre now. They used to do the same thing with practically every female character close-up in Star Trek as well, the weirdos. You’re spot-on about everyone smoking like chimneys in UFO. And drinking. Straker’s got a minibar in his office, f’God’s sake. That’s just what you need, isn’t it? A whiskeyed-up coughing man with blue eyeliner in charge of countering the alien threat to civilisation. No wonder that General hated his guts…

By: 790

790 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:01:41 +0000

Yeah Big Dentist, UFO was a great show. Its great watching that show on dvd. Everyones smoking like its a heath fad. Stiker was cool, and the movie studio base was very original.
Space 1999 was awesome for its time. I had at least one or two Eagle spaceship toys. Personally I loved the second season theme more than the first, and being young and stupid I thought Barry Morse died in real life and was written out?
He was the Bones of the show. Never liked Dr Russell much. They would allways blur her facial image, “wonder why, lol”. Looking back now those uniforms were awefull. Haha.

(Farscape) was a show about a NASA test pilot ” John Chricton” that while flying a test spaceship was caught in a wormhole.
Due to the nature of his flight path and a solar flare, his ship was instantly transported to the other side of the universe smack dab in the middle of a intergalactic space-prison break.
Upon clearing some debris his ship was struck by a Sabacean Marauder. The pilot of the marauder was killed when his ship struck an asteroid.

The pilot was the brother of the Captian of the fleet, Captian Crais. Cap Crais was a “human landmine” and upon hearing the news of his brothers death freaks out, kills his XO and goes rogue to find John Chricton. And that’s just the pilot episode for season1.
John Cricton later in seasons 2 thru 4 was hunted down for his wormhole knowledge. Seems the PeaceKeepers (Sabaceans) and the Scarrens (big lizards) want to develop a wormhole weapon. The scarren makeup and overall look was awesome. The show was produced by the Jim Henson Co.

The show was amazingly original I reccomend watching it in order.

After the show was cancelled by Sci-fi because of budget woes, the fans created a viral campaign to get it backon the air. the fans were extremly angry over the last season 4 episode -ironically titled “bad timing”. That episode left off with a MASSIVE cliff hanger.
Because of the viral campaign (save farscape) a few weathly fans decided to become Angel investers and funded the show. Sci-fi agreed to air a 4 epsiode mini_series (Farscape the Peacekeeper Wars) to the close out the show with some class and boy did they.

Check out Farscape everyone. Its a great show !!!

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:33:05 +0000

Make sure you strap yourself in for the final episode of that, Vic. McGoohan received death threats when it was first shown, and had to move his family to the US temporarily. There’ve always been periodic rumours of a movie, but a recent one had that man Eccleston again as Number Six – filming to be on location back in Portmeirion, site of the original Village. I’ll believe it when I see him in a piped blazer!

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:07:25 +0000

Man, you guys are talking me back… Space 1999 and UFO… great stuff at the time.

Anyone watch The Prisoner? I have the entire series on DVD but I only got through a few episodes and set it aside due to lack of time. I’ll have to pick that up again and watch it all the way through.

Vic

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:48:24 +0000

The Gerry Anderson shows give me a warm fuzzy glow. UFO and Space:1999 are still big faves of mine. Until the second series of the latter, which went all horrible. Rubber monsters, cheaper sets, kill off Barry Morse (easily the best actor in it), and add a crappy new theme tune. Has any other show simply dumped its own identity like that from one series to the next? Can’t think of one offhand.

There was a documentary about British SF on the Sci-Fi Channel a while back. They showed a clip from Star Cops and it just looks embarrassing now. Moonbase 3 did the factual thing better. Loved Blake’s 7 despite the diabolical effects, and it had the best spit-yer-tea-across-the-room finale ever.

I never watched enough of Farscape to figure out what was going on, but I think that was part-Australian wasn’t it? Filmed there anyway.

Lexx! That’s another good call.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:51:22 +0000

Steven: HAH!! Space 1999. I “remember” liking that show. Heck I even have diecasts of that oblong little space ship of their’s, it’s pretty cool.

790: Thanks…

By: 790

790 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:15:05 +0000

Bruce here’s some non-US shows I highly reccomend checking on dvd.

1_ LEXX, a must see epic dark sci-fi journey aboard the mighty ship LEXX.
The show was made in Nova Scoatia*spell-check*
790’s favorite sci-fi tv show of all time beating out all Star Treks.

2_ Red Dwarf.
A must see BBC show. Hands down the best sci-fi comedy of all time.

3_Torchwood.
Spin-off of Doctor Who, lead character Capt. Jack.
Quality show when you can’t get Doctor Who.