Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex I was just starting to think that this season might foretell a turnaround for genre television on the broadcast networks. ABC’s Once Upon A Time seems to have worked out its consistency issues and is doing well in the ratings, FOX’s Alcatraz and Touch both show promise and [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: The River Has its Creepy Moments, but Mostly it is Just a Mess
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Sci Fi Ramblings: FOX’s New Genre Entries Alcatraz and Touch Show Promise
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex Alcatraz is the latest offering from genre mogul J.J. Abrams, and he once again manages to deliver a show that rises above most of the other sci fi shows on the broadcast networks and cable channels. In the pilot episode, we discover the reason that Alcatraz was shut [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Some Sci Fi Shows from the Past that Might be Ripe for a Reboot: The Starlost, Land of the Lost, Ark II
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex Sci fi fans often lament the many reboots and remakes of television shows that keep cycling through the networks and cable channels, claiming these as unabashed proof that the entertainment industry has fallen into a creative drought. Currently in the works, there are reboots of The Munsters (spearheaded [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: The IAWTV Awards Give Some Good Exposure to the Many Sci Fi Web Series on the Internet
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex This last week the IAWTV (International Academy of Web Television) held their first annual awards which saw several sci fi web series getting some much deserved recognition. The Best Drama Series category saw four science fiction series among the five nominees, and some pretty darn good ones at [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Pioneer One Web Series Wraps Up its First Season, and What a Good One it Was
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex The sixth episode of Pioneer One is now available online and for download (and it’s actually been there for a month–sorry, I’m behind) and this wraps up Season 1 of the acclaimed web series. For those not familiar with the series, it comes to us from creators Josh [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: What’s Worth Watching Among This Year’s Early Crop of Sci Fi Films
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex Today marks the bow of this year’s first genre film (The Devil Inside) with quite a number more coming in the next four months before we then head into the big budget arena that is the Summer Blockbuster Season. The January through April months often have films that [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Dollhouse Epitaphs is the Way That Joss Whedon Should Have Gone With This Story from the Start
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex The Dollhouse Epitaphs comic book from Dark Horse just made it to its fifth issue, and I have to say I have really been enjoying this continuation of Joss Whedon’s TV series Dollhouse and wish that he had taken this approach when the show was still on the [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Looking Back, This Season Has Delivered a Mostly Mixed Bag of Genre Shows Thus Far
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex The first half of the current season is just about over with several shows having wrapped up for the holidays and several more with just a few episodes left before the Winter hiatus. And I have to admit at this point that the season has been somewhat of [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: The New Fairy Tale Based TV Shows are a Mixed Bag
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex This season has brought us two genre shows with fairy tale roots (and the networks mulled even more during the pilot season), but neither of these have quite won me over to this new trend yet. Of the two, I definitely prefer ABC’s Once Upon A Time, but [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: This Fall’s Returning Genre Shows Have Been Decent So Far
Sci Fi Ramblings By John J. Joex The last couple of weeks I looked at several of this season’s new science fiction and fantasy shows and noted that these have been somewhat underwhelming thus far. But after seeing the premiere of ABC’s Once Upon A Time this past weekend, that one looks like it could [...]
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