I sympathize. Just try to get some people to watch b/w movies.

Nice piece. I see a lot of this stuff all the time. I swear, some fans think "popular" is a dirty word and actively resent having to share their favorite sf/fantasy obsessions with the "mundane" masses. And don't get me started about the sci-fi snobs who look down their noses at fantasy and horror and get all bent…

Throw in a pizza and that sounds like a fun Saturday night!

Now if they can just work a talking vampire chimp into this, we're talking Saturday night monster movie gold . . ..

I don't know. Some of them are dopey fun—if you're in the right frame of mind.

Syfy is running "Coming this summer" ads regarding the new seasons of Alphas and WH13.

Ditto "The Bitter Suite" on XENA. (Everybody forgets that Xena did it before Buffy.)

Castle regularly references geek culture as well: there was the steampunk episode, the comic book episode, the vampire episode, the cryogenics episode, etc. It's not just cops and robbers.

For a second, I misread that item and thought that Lizzie Borden was going to be appearing . . . .

Wow! Thanks for the plug!

Trust me, I wrote an entire trilogy about Khan. I've seen "Space Seed" more times than I want to count. There's nothing in the episode that contradicts the idea that he was genetically-engineered, but that wasn't mentioned back in 1966 or so. I guess genetic-engineering wasn't really a staple of tv science fiction…

The Eugenics Wars were definitely mentioned by name in "Space Seed," but nobody says anything about genetic engineering. Khan and his people are supposedly products of selective breeding. The genetic-engineering business was retconned in later.

Regarding Khan, the bit about him being genetically-engineered was not introduced until THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982). The original tv episode, "Space Seed," only mentioned selective breeding.

You know, they really need to make a "Charmed" joke on Big Bang Theory.

Has anyone mentioned THE 4400 yet? That was another show that reinvented itself every season, usually by ending each season with a game-changer of some sort.

I think it's a rule that all shows have to do a vampire episode eventually. See: "Gilligan's Island," "F Troop," "McCloud," "Starsky & Hutch," "Castle," "CSI," "CSI: New York," etc.

How does that work? I confess I'm old and am not exactly sure what a "hashtag" is (although, obviously, I've seen the term floating around).

Minor editorial correction: "maiden" should be "maiden voyage." (What can I say? I'm a compulsive proofreader.)

Congrats to Charlie Jane and the other nominees!

Maybe you're thinking of Joanna Russ? I know she dabbled in slash. (I once attending a reading where she read a bit of a K/S story she'd done for fun.)