I have been reading and hearing allot of negative comments on the new Flash Gordon series and I believe everyone does have the right to their own opinion. However while I may be in the minority (very likely) I was hooked on this show from the beginning. Why I like it is that the hero [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Exec. News Dir.)
I have been eagerly anticipating the return of “Flash Gordon” ever since we first got wind of it going into production early last year for the SCI FI Channel. I say that because then you will understand how disappointed I was in last night’s pilot [...]
Who Series 3 Finale - “Last of the Time Lords — A Slice of SciFi Review
July 3, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 16 Comments
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
After five solid weeks of “Doctor Who” I suppose there was going to be an episode that was a let down eventually. It’s just too bad that episode turned out to be the season finale of series three, “Last of the Time Lords.”
Looking at the entire three-part [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
With each passing season of Doctor Who, you can almost feel Russell T. Davies coming more and more into his own as writer on “Doctor Who.” And “The Sound of Drums” is further evidence of just how far Davies has come and how much more comfortable he is [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Heading into this week’s episode, I was prepared for a letdown. The last three weeks of “Doctor Who” had been so great that I figured the series three would come down to earth a bit with an episode that was just good, but no where as good as [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
I’m going to make a bold statement here–Stephan Moffatt may be the new “Doctor Who”’s equivalent of Robert Holmes. For those of you who are new to whole “Doctor Who” experience or have only seen the new series, Holmes was one of the most consistent writers of the original [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Exec. News Dir.)
“John From Cincinnati” — A Bizarre, but Enthralling Tale
Tony Soprano has sung his swan song and people were wondering what will give them that HBO fix now that the mob crew is no longer a factor on the network. Well, they didn’t have to guess [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Last week, I stated that depending on how the second half of the “Human Nature/Family of Blood” storyline turned out, that “Doctor Who” could have another instant classic story on its hands.
Well, I’m here to tell you–the new series has another instant classic on its hands.
“The Family of Blood” [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Paul Cornell’s “Human Nature” is regarded in “Doctor Who” fan circles as one of, if not the, best New Adventure novel published. I read it back in the day and I have to admit–I really liked it. But then again, I’m biased as I loved all [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Stories in which the events that happen on-screen take the same amount of time as the audience spends invested in the film or television program are nothing new. It happened in the classic “High Noon” (the original, not any of the substandard remakes) and viewers can see it [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
When the one-minute preview for the rest of series three excites you more than the 41-minutes of story leading up to it, you know something’s wrong.
It’s not that “The Lazarus Experiment” is necessarily a bad episode of “Doctor Who.” It’s something far worse–a rather dull one.
The Doctor brings the [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
One of the hardest transitions from the classic “Doctor Who” to the new series was the predominence of multi-episodes stories. Having been brought up on 26 seasons of stories with a cliffhanger every 25 minutes, it was hard to get used to the idea of “self contained” stories instead [...]
“Daleks in Manhattan” — A Slice of SciFi Review
April 24, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 10 Comments
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
Before the season began, I was talking to some fellow “Doctor Who” fans about what we most wanted to see in series three.
Jokingly, I said I’d love to see the series get a new cliffhanger, since for the past two series, every cliffhanger has been the Doctor and/or [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
As a “Doctor Who” fan I have to confess something–while I like the overall work Russell T. Davis does on the show as a producer and show-runner, I’ve never been overly satisfied with any of his scripts. He’s got some great ideas, it’s just sometimes the execution of them [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
For her first trip in time and space, the Doctor takes Martha back in time to 1599 where they meet the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.
The thing about “Doctor Who” is they’re so good at pulling off these hybrids of costume period dramas and monster stories that we can often overlook [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist)
The post-Rose Tyler era of “Doctor Who” officially began Saturday night with the premiere of series three. As a long-time fan of “Doctor Who,” while I liked Rose, I realize that change is part of the show and most companions don’t stay on board the TARDIS for more [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Producer & Managing News Director)
All that is contained in the following recaps are super spoilerific, so if you have yet to see either of the shows that aired this past Sunday, March 25, 2007 then you may not want to read any further.
The parts I can relay without really [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica — Son Rise, Son Set, Son Match
March 14, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | Leave a Comment
Battlestar Galactica
Title: The Son Also Rises
First Aired: 3/11/07
Q: On Battlestar Galactica, what do you call a bunch of dead lawyers?
A: Baltar’s legal defense team.
In the first episode following the shocking loss of Kara “Starbuck†Thrace, greasy little pimpstick Baltar is still causing mayhem for the handful of surviving humans he didn’t doom the [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Producer & Managing News Director)
This is a recap of Sunday night’s (Mar. 4) episode of “Battlestar Galactica” called ‘Maelstrom.’
This article contains spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the episode yet, you have been forewarned.
The show opens and we find Kara talking with Helo telling him how much she has [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica — Four-Play
January 30, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 3 Comments
Battlestar GalacticaTitle: “Taking a Break From All Your Worriesâ€First Aired: 1/28/07
The capture of Greasebaltar on Algae World allowed The Powers That Be at Battlestar Galactica to draw even more parallel lines to our present, post-911 Earth. It also made it possible for Edward James Olmos to don his director’s cap and conjure some of the [...]
The Dresden Files
Title: "The Boone Identity"
First Aired: 1/28/07
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s most famous supernatural crime investigator since Carl Kolchak, gets mixed up with an ancient Egyptian artifact that allows a vicious killer to jump from one host body to another. The biggest felon in this convoluted mess of an episode, however, isn’t Gus Boone, the [...]
HeroesTitle: "Godsend"First Aired: 1/22/07
Those ass-kicking Heroes return to TV with all-new adventures for the first time in six weeks. For those of us left speechless last December by the revelation that beloved hero Peter is to blame for the destruction of New York City, the end of the wait seems heaven-sent. It’s been far too [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica — I Spy With My Giant Eye… The Way to Earth!
January 23, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 1 Comment
Battlestar GalacticaTitle: “Rapture�?First Aired: 1/21/07
Taking up residence in its new Sunday night time slot, Galactica returns in a big way in the first of nine fresh episodes. From the opening fade-in, in which we see the last Battlestar in orbit around Algae World facing off against the Cylon Base fleet, “Rapture�? barrels ahead at [...]
Totally Frakked: The Dresden Files — Bird Flew
January 23, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 4 Comments
The Dresden FilesTitle: “Birds of a Feather�?First Aired: 1/21/07
Meet Harry Dresden. He’s a scruffy, scrappy, wisecracking Chicago detective. He loves women, and on this day, he’s been loving perky blonde diner waitress Laura. (A lot, as a matter of fact.)
Your average, everyday sort of guy, right? No… Harry’s got secrets. For starters, he’s really [...]
Totally Frakked: Jake 2.0 — The Second Time Around
January 7, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | Leave a Comment
Jake_2 The late, not so great UPN headed into the 2003 fall season with high hopes for Jake 2.0, intending to marry the series about a geeky-sexy computer tech-turned-super spy with its other struggling standard bearer, Star Trek: Enterprise. The experiment proved disastrous for both shows. Despite establishing a core group of loyal, vocal fans, [...]
Totally Frakked: Doctor Who — Ghosts in the Machine/When Parallel Worlds Colllide
December 27, 2006 || Category: TV Reviews | Leave a Comment
It’s a normal day at Jackie Tyler’s Powell Estates flat: The kettle’s on, the washing’s been done, and Rose’s grandfather will shortly be stopping by for a visit. There’s only one problem with that last bit — Granddad Prentis has been dead for a decade. Just as Rose suspects that her mother has lost her [...]
Doctor WhoTitle: “Fear Her”First Aired: 12/15/06
Doctor Who journeys to near-future London, just in time to enjoy the 2012 Olympics. The residents of the seemingly normal neighborhood where the TARDIS lands, however, might as well be living in the cursed village of Midwich. As the Doctor and Rose soon learn, all have plenty of reason to [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica — Dangerous Liaisons
December 19, 2006 || Category: TV Reviews | 2 Comments
Battlestar GalacticaTitle: “The Eye of Jupiter”First Aired: 12/15/2006
This week, Battlestar Galactica’s intrepid humans delight in an all-you-can-eat salad buffet of global proportions. Alas, unexpected dinner guests are about to crash the party. Break out the Pepto!
In last week’s episode, the Colonial fleet successfully navigated the hellish star cluster that stood between it and [...]
Totally Frakked: The Lost Room, Part 3 - Not Without My Daughter!
December 15, 2006 || Category: TV Reviews | 1 Comment
The Lost Room Title: “The Eye and the Prime Object”First Aired: 12/13/06
It’s 11:00. You know what that means: It’s checkout time at The Lost Room. Joe’s daughter Anna is still trapped God-knows-where. Joe is on the lam, framed for murder by whack-job Martin Ruber. Various forces are moving into position for the final showdown at [...]
Totally Frakked: The Lost Room, Part 2 — Motel Hell
December 13, 2006 || Category: TV Reviews | 4 Comments
When we last checked into The Lost Room, Pittsburgh police detective Joe Miller found himself in possession of a key to a motel room straight out of The Twilight Zone. Joe’s daughter Anna vanished into the room, and sinister forces — including Joe’s forensics guy, Martin Ruber — were jockeying to gain possession of the [...]
