Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
The new dramedy series “The Middleman” from the ABC Family Network premiered this week on Monday and turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable 1-hr romp into a fast-paced, satiric-laced dialogue reminiscent of the old Mel Brooks days with “Get Smart,” only with sharper wit.
The pairing [...]
Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor)
On a recent podcast commentary for “Silence in the Library,” director Eros Lynn asked producer Phil Collinson an interesting question–”What do you see as the difference between the writing style of Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat?”Â
If you’ve heard the podcast in question, you know that Collinson is stunned [...]
Fairly or not, there were huge expectations heaped on this year’s Stephen Moffatt two-part story. As the season began, we wondered if Moffatt could somehow top last year’s superlative “Blink.” Then came the news that Moffatt was taking over as show-runner in 2010 and suddenly the pressure on “Silence in the [...]
The hardest reviews to write are those for something you love. And I will make no bones about it, I loved everything about Stephen Moffatt’s latest instant classic “Silence in the Library.”
If there was one story I was looking forward to this season, it was this one. Moffatt has shown that he has [...]
Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor)
Based on the title and the preview, I went into “The Doctor’s Daughter” expecting to not be pleased. In fact, you could go so far as to say I hated the entire concept and idea before the first moment of the show flashed up on my screen.
So, I have [...]
Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor)
One of the assets of the Sontarans as a returning monster/villian for Doctor Who is that while they are easily identified with the classic run of the show, they’re not a “staple” of the original series in the same way the Daleks or Cybermen were.
I say this because it [...]
Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Assistant Editor)
When I was younger, I couldn’t wait for Doctor Who SPOILERs. Of course, in my younger days, in the dark time before the world-wide web, the only real source of SPOILER information I had came from Doctor Who Magazine. And while it was a good source for tidbits about [...]
After a stretch of three episodes that were hit or miss, I have to admit I was staring to lose a bit of faith in Doctor Who.
Thankfully, this week’s story “The Fires of Pompeii” while not an instant classic along the lines of last year’s “Blink” or “Human Nature/The Family of Blood” was still enough [...]
Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor)
I have to admit that as series four of the new Doctor Who approached, I was having a hard time mustering up the same level of enthusiasm I had four years ago when we got “Rose” or two years ago for “New Earth” or even last year with “Smith [...]
“Battlestar Galactica: Razor” — A Slice of SciFi Review
November 25, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | 15 Comments
Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
It’s been so long since I’ve watched a fresh episode of “Battlestar Galactica” that I’ve gotten a bit lazy and forgot what great programming this show is.
I finished watching the special 2-hr movie “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” last night, and I only have three words to adequately [...]
Applegate Makes Return After Long Absence
October 11, 2007 || Category: TV Reviews | Leave a Comment
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
“Married With Children” actress Christina Applegate makes her return to the small screen after a lengthy foray into motion pictures and stage work to star in the new series “Samantha Who” for ABC.
Like the Alphabet network’s other new series “Pushing Daises,” this Applegate skein has gotten [...]
Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
Critics that were favored with a pre-launch viewing of the new ABC show “Pushing Daisies,” loved it, said it was the greatest thing since grandma’s home cooking. The hype surrounding the series raised the anticipation of SF fans to frenzied heights.
Now that the show has [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Executive News Director)
I finished watching the NBC pilot episode of the new NBC dramedy “Chuck.” I have to say that, in all of my nerdy geekiness I enjoyed the show a lot.
Like any new television show that is introducing new characters and trying to lay a solid [...]
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 [...]
