Sci-Fi Storm

Robin Fischer writes to let us know about two events at Blockbuster locations in the Chicago and Orlando areas for the release of Star Trek on Blu-ray and DVD. Read More for all the details.

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Sarah J Giannantonio writes “New animation, new music and new rap influences (Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Digital Underground, The Beastie Boys, Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock,Public Enemy) update the cult original with over 10 million plays Star War Gangsta Rap (and special edition) by Bent TV.

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/sw_gangsta_rap_chronicles/“

Chicago Tribune columnist Maureen Ryan, while giving a positive review of the series premiere of V, took a side shot at Stargate Universe, calling it “a boring, poorly plotted, lamentably sexist mess.” This prompted a response right in the comments section from SGU producer Brad Wright (search for his name), calling the comment “petty”. This even prompted a rebuttal by Ryan.

So when the world ends in 2012, is there more story to tell? Apparently so. Roland Emmerich has plans in the works for a TV series called 2013, which will follow survivors who attempt to rebuild. Maybe he learned his lesson from Stargate and wants to make sure he owns the franchise…but other than Stargate, Movie-to-TV sequels have not done well…Logan’s Run pops up in my head first…

V premiered last night to great ratings – 14.3 million viewers and a 5.2 share of the desirable 18-49 group, although it wasn’t the most viewed (NCIS had 20.2 million, but only a 4.3 share in the same demo). However, the New York Times was not thrilled, calling it “slapdash and formulaic” and where some things only make sense on “Planet Television”. I do think that there are valid points – it seemed like they wanted to set up all the situations for the entire series just in the first episode – so in order to save time they just went from “Spaceships suddenly showed up and disrupted the world” to “The Visitors are awesome!” Yes, time passed but that really gets lost. And the problem is that other than one plot element (which I don’t want to spoil), it pretty much is the old V done over – no surprises. However, things may still not be quite stable with the production: Showrunner Scott Peters is being replaced by Scott Rosenbaum (Chuck), although Peters will stay as an executive producer (at least in name). It was enjoyable laughing at the original being shown on Syfy though…Read More.

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David Tennant, best known as the current Doctor in Doctor Who and is ending his run this year, will appear in a U.S. pilot called Rex Is Not Your Lawyer as the title character. It is described as a “legal comedy” hour-long pilot which has been in development for a couple years and recently got a greenlight and was in search of a lead actor until now. Of course, this is only a pilot, so there is no telling if it will see the light of day…

Joss Whedon, in a tongue-in-cheek (we hope…) post on his blog, is making an offer for the up for auction rights to the Terminator franchise. He’s only offering $10,000, but he’s already working on ideas…although I still think a musical Terminator could work…