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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Battlestar GalacticaTitle: “Taking a Break From All Your Worries”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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After two weeks of battling dark forces and demons at the outer rim of the universe, Doctor Who takes a break from hardcore horror with a light, silly, and completely rewarding episode. Not since Tom Baker tumbled over his scarf while fighting an egg-headed Sontaran Warrior umpteen-zillion years ago has there been a chuckle-fest […]

After last December’s waterlogged The Triangle, the Sci Fi Channel seems to have taken a less-is-more approach with this year’s annual miniseries offering, The Lost Room. Should “The Key and the Clock�? (the first of three chapters) be indicative of what’s to follow, the end result should amount to a tasty holiday banquet, low […]

The last time Battlestar Galactica faced a food shortage was in 1978, in the original series episode, “Those Magnificent Warriors.” The tone then was a lot lighter, with Match Game trollop Brett Somers macking on Lorne Greene’s Adama. That was another time and another Galactica. Today, as the events in “The Passage” demonstrate, the universe […]

The Heroes head off into reruns until January 22, 2007, but not before carpet-bombing the battlefield with cliffhangers — the big, the small, and the eerily profound. After last episode’s meander through the past, “Fallout�? chugs a shot of adrenaline-laced espresso before that first fade-in, and buzzes at a dizzying speed right up until […]

Using the sport of boxing as a metaphor, members of the Battlestar Galactica crew step into the ring to settle private personal conflicts by beating the frak out of one another. Gods, say it isn’t so — not another Sci-Fi sports-themed episode!
Forget that there’s a war going on, and that murderous robots are […]

Last week, Doctor Who and his traveling companion Rose found themselves stranded on a desolate planet locked in the event horizon of a black hole. The TARDIS pulled one of her classic disappearing acts. As if that wasn’t bad enough, a sinister race of tentacle-faced Ood were on a murderous rampage through the planet’s […]

In our partnership with MeeVee, please welcome our new Totally Frakked columnist: Gregory Norris (aka Mr. Write).
For over a decade, Gregory has been a contributor to Sci-Fi and Cinescape magazines and was a screenwriter on “Star Trek: Voyager.” He has interviewed such genre luminaries as David Duchovny, four of the five Star Trek […]

Written by: Ray Richmond
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter - Hallmark Channel’s “Final Days of Planet Earth” is a sci-fi thriller-cum-camp extravaganza that envisions a world where your Blackberry cannot save you in a pinch and your friends may sprout slimy appendages at a moment’s notice.
Produced by the ubiquitous and deep-pocketed Robert Halmis senior and junior, “Earth” is as […]

Written by: ERIN CARLSON (Associated Press Writer)

******SPOILER ALERT******

Lost” fans, this was a good one. Last week’s premiere was a downer, focusing on moody Jack (Matthew Fox) and his troubled past. Wednesday’s episode, however, brought back the intrigue that hooked viewers during the ABC drama’s debut season and deepened the mystery once again.
(It also brought the […]

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