Something is Out There was a sci-fi cop show that lasted a season. The mini-series was highly rated which led to a short lived series.

I read the discussion on the linked post regarding the threat of the Dothraki against Westeros. It’s difficult to disagree that on the face of it the light infantry of the Dothraki would likely not be quite they are being construed to be. The medieval armies of Westeros would probably possess a considerable…

I can accept the rationale that a show should be cancelled if the ratings can't sustain it.

This is one of the few cancellations that has really irked me in fact and I've been through quite a few. I know that there are those who would disagree but Stargate Universe but I thought this was turning out to be the best of the Stargate series. A great part of that for me came from the fact that the material was…

I completely agree. The standards of this network are truly confounding.

Fringe, Lost, and Star Trek are both mostly, if not entirely, fantasy.

I'm not a big fan of time travel and feel these writers in particular inevitably resort to it as a lazy way to repair their story lines or generate suspense. It's a deus ex machina and the equivalent of using magic. It has been so overused and corrupted that it's no more believable than having a wizard cast a spell…

That's interesting about the moon keeping time. Not having read the books and only three episodes in to the mini-series I was speculating a very elliptical orbit combined with a high axial tilt to account for the long seasons.

Another question for fans of the novels:

It may very well be grounded in scientific hypothesis but the plot of this movie wasn't grounded in that theory. There's a huge difference between how time travel and parallel universes are understood in science and how they were used as an incomprehensible deus ex machina in this film.

My feeling all along about this whole parallel universe/time travel garbage is that the writers of the Abramsverse should have just respected the audiences intelligence and done away with the whole nonsense from the get go.

I pretty much agree with you. I would only say that Bacon is more unequivocally science fiction since the foundation of his fictional society is the scientific method he described in the New Organon. More's work was more a commentary about society whereas Bacon's was a view of integrating a scientific institution…

I always felt, very appropriately to my sensibilities, that Francis Bacon was the author of the first true sci-fi novel. He wrote a utopian novel called New Atlantis in 1620 something, more or less around the time that North America was being explored in earnest and Massachusetts had been colonized by the English and…

Your best friend got Natalie Portman pregnant and is infected with midichlorians due to poor personal hygiene as a result of being raised as a slave by a flying muskrat who deals in junk.

I kind of consider Desparado to be fantasy as it dispenses with all the laws of physics and biology, not only in weaponry but also in the form of Selma Hayek.

I kind of consider Desparado to be fantasy as it dispenses with all the laws of physics and biology, not only in weaponry but also in the form of Selma Hayek.

It's a good list but there were some omissions such that I think are ripe for screen treatment. For instance, Fred Saberhagen's Berserker and Empire of the East series seem like rich material with interesting premises for movie treatments. I thought his Dracula/Sherlock Holmes series were entertaining when I was a…

Sounds like there is a similarity between Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Project X. I think it would be a good approach to make the apes appear sympathetic in this movie.

It seems that the first ape, presumably Caesar, applies the treatment to the other apes in the facility. What is missing from the preview is how these apes figure out to push humanity to the cusp of extinction and expand their numbers.

Also, Shoreham is on the north shore off the Long Island Sound.