Sci-Fi Storm

It seems the Internet has made it so easy to start a petition that the White House must respond to…regardless of the insanity of the petition itself, it seems you can find enough crazy people on the Internet to elicit an official response now.

Recently, one of the more interesting petitions received the necessary 35,000 signatures to require a response – “Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.” And let’s just say, the official response was perfect.

I like it when otherwise serious folk are allowed to show off some humor on such things.

I’m just wondering…a Death Star would only cost $850 quadrillion? Can we mint enough Platinum Coins for that?

Season 3 of Lost Girl starts Monday at 10/9c on Syfy! Catch this sneak peek of “Caged Fae”: Bo is back. And she’s going a little wild.
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The Canadian SF program Continuum makes it’s U.S. debut on Syfy this coming Monday at 8/7c…here is a sneak peek at the first episode, “A Stitch In Time”, and catch our own first look as well!
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Pretty much as usual, a roundup of the Oscars when looking at the science fiction and fantasy genres is a short article. Even with the expanded Best Picture list, nothing made that list, not even The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Probably the highest level award is the Best Animated Feature, which is at least full of genre entries, with Brave, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Wreck-It Ralph filling the sheet.

The dueling Snow White movies, Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, will duke it out again for Achievement in Costume Design, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey did receive nods for Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design and Visual Effects, with Snow White and the Huntsman and The Avengers also getting nods in the latter.

After being captured, Arthur and Merlin manage to improvise a narrow escape…watch “Arthur’s Bane, Part Two” on Syfy tomorrow night at 10/9c!
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Here is a new trailer for Syfy’s Defiance, released today! Defiance starts monday, April 15th, at 9/8c!
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The Television Critics Association’s winter press tour is going on, and NBCUniversal made a bunch of presentations today. Some news from the relevant presentations from yesterday and today…

Syfy’s Defiance will premiere on Monday, April 15th, at 9/8c with a two-hour premiere, and run for a total of 12 episodes (the premiere being two hours long presumably can be split to account for 13 hours/episodes.)

NBC may not be done with The Munsters – despite the network having officially stuck a stake in their Mockingbird Lane reboot, Bob Greenblatt, the head of NBC, said, “I won’t say we won’t do another version of The Munsters again.” Apparently despite the pilot (retooled as a Halloween special) doing OK ratings-wise, the network just wasn’t impressed with the prospect of the show as a series, and Greenblatt admits that the mistake was likely trying to make it more of a dramedy than sitcom. “It’s hard to calibrate how much weirdness vs. supernatural vs. family story. I just think we didn’t get the mix right.”

And as for NBC’s Revolution, which did well before heading in to a four-month-long hiatus, which have critics thinking the show could lose its audience. But producers J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke aren’t afraid, and actually welcomed the break – which isn’t as unusual for shows on its cable sibling, Syfy, but it quite unusual for broadcast network fare.

The two cited Lost as precedence for having such a break, but Lost didn’t endure a “mega-break” until between Seasons 3 and 4 – and then it was between “seasons” (Lost switched to a shorter Winter-through-Spring run from Season 4 on.)

Anyways, they are using the break to “really analyze it, and make adjustments,” according to Kripke.

Syfy will begin showing the Canadian series Continuum on Monday, January 14th, at 8/7c. The series, which aired this past Spring/Summer on Canadian channel Showcase, follows Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols, Criminal Minds, Alias), a cop from 2077 who finds herself back in the present day tracking down terrorists who escaped execution by traveling into the past.

Sounds a bit like the short lived PTEN show Time Trax, doesn’t it? That’s what I thought when I first heard of it, and kind of what I was expecting when I watched the first two episodes.

It’s not Time Trax. That’s good.
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Author Peter David, well known for his works in comics and the Star Trek universe, suffered a stroke several days ago and is in the process of recovering.

Peter David has been prolific in the comics and SF genres, writing for several comic titles including an incredible 12 year run on The Incredible Hulk. He’s written episodes for several TV series including Babylon 5 and Crusade, and co created the kids show Space Cases with Babylon 5 and Lost In Space star Bill Mumy – which in the first season starred a young girl with rainbow colored hair, played by Jewel Staite, more familiar to fans as Kaylee in Firefly and Dr. Keller in Stargate Atlantis. He also did a number of Star Trek comics and novels.

Forget all the twists Merlin has had? Well, here is something to help yo remember before tonight’s premiere of the final season premiere (Syfy, 10/9c) with the video below!
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