Oh, Silly Hollywood




In the past few years we have been subjected to reboot television shows and movies of old franchises (and in some cases just characters) and it is rare when it proves to meet the level of its original. The Superman reboot leaps to mind, and the list continues with Knight Rider, Charlie’s Angels,  Transformers, Land of the Lost…ad nauseaum.  For every 10 things, there are gems as well Firefly/Serenity and its latest incarnation Browncoats (more to come about them on our podcast this weekend) or Battlestar Galactica/Caprica. So it is literally a crapshoot to find the gems among the–for lack of a better term–pile.

All of which brings me to this weeks rant, the impending reboot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. In many ways this could be a good idea. Joss gets back into movies binging back “his” iconic Buffy Summers and the Scooby Crew, perhaps Faith returns, Cordelia. No, this isn’t what Hollyweird wanted to do. Setting the WayBack Machine for stun, Hollywierd went to the movie, with Kristy Swanson and Donald Sutherland and said THIS IS THE REBOOT WE WANT, and by “we” one can only infer they meant the viewing public. Read More »

Large Con, Small Con




This last Sunday the entire crew was in Nashua, New Hampshire for GraniteCon. It was a cozy con for collectors, gamers, and fans with many local artists in attendance. At the same time we are gearing up for Boston ComiCon, one of the largest, most well attended cons in New England. Modesty forbids me from saying we are the official podcast of Boston ComiCon, so I won’t.

Our planning and organization are very different for each event. I guess the point I am making is that there is a lot to be said for smaller local conventions, they have a lot to offer and you won’t have the crushing crowds you get at a major city event. I got the chance to converse in a very relaxed atmosphere with fans of Sci Fi Saturday Night. That was a real plus for me personally. Getting first hand feedback about what our listeners do and don’t like is great, and at a larger con it is never quite so easy for a myriad of reasons.

I also got a chance to see artists interact with fans. That was really cool. Watching artists smiling and talking with fans and fans getting some real time with artists they like is a win for both. There was a Gaming Room next door, but the dividing wall kept the roar of the Thunderdome down to a minimum. I did wander in for a moment and quickly regained my senses and left; better for the gamers to fight over their point cards, since I was lost anyway.

I want to thank Double Midnight Comics of Manchester New Hampshire for extending the invitation for us to participate. I want to thank the artists who are working on a “Special Project” with us which will be announced shortly. I want to also extend thanks to our fans that came out and said some very kind things to us. You guys are the reason we keep doing this.

This is Dome, sayin: Thanks Everyone…and there are some very very interesting things to come!

Talkcast 24 – It’s Tracy Lee Quinn!




This episode is dedicated to “EmpressSith”. Get well soon.

Hugo Weaving to play the Red Skull.

Comics Corner: Alice In Sunderland by Bryan Talbot review

Avatar gets screwed at the Oscars but gets 10 nominations in The Saturn Awards.

Spiderman The Musical is dead, God save the Queen

Iroman 2 new trailer is out and it rocks

Summer Glau gets a new series, The Cape

2010 Sci Fi Hall of Fame inductees: Octavia Butler, Richard Matheson, Douglas Trumbull, and Roger Zelazny. Ceremony to be held 6/26 at Sci Fi Museum in SeattleWA.

Our Special Guest

Tracy Lee Quinn

Tracy talks about her carreer, what she is currently doing and just mainly charms the entire staff.

http://www.tracyleequinn.blogspot.com/

Girls Drawin’ Girls

 

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Trivia for 3.13.10




Answer the following question to win a mashup of prints from comic artist’s guild members.

Who was the voice of the computer on Star Trek-TOS?

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Finally, Proof that Television is Bad for You




So, here we are in the back 9 of this television season and it quite frankly it hasn’t been spectacular. The uber-geniuses at ABC have just the thing to make everyone stand up…… It’s titled No Ordinary Family. Here is the 411 … the story of a family whose father, Jim, a once aspiring artist finds him and the rest of his family with “abilities”. Cast includes Michael Chiklis as Jim, Julie Benz as his wife and unnamed munchkins. Read More »

Movie Review: Paranormal Activity




The Dead Red Head (DRH) was recently chastised for her minimalistic review of “Dead Snow” (although I thought it covered my feelings of the movie explicitly), so I promise to make this review more verbose.
If you are looking for a quick version, know that “Paranormal Activity” is the first movie to scare the bejeezus out of the DRH in a long time. Almost all psychological scares (the best ones) with almost no blood, very little swearing and no nudity; If you’re looking for a Saturday night scare, trust me, this is the one oh boys and ghouls, end of review.
If you’re looking for more…meat, as it were…the DRH continues to extol the scare value of “Paranormal Activity”. (Spoiler Warning, Yellow Level, Nothing More Than You’d Get in a Long Preview)

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Talkcast 23 – Special Guest: David Niall Wilson




Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Andrew Koenig tonight.

TV: Fringe renewed for 3rd season

Smallville renewed for 10th season, Chuck has another season but……so does Heroes.

The curse of Chi McBride continues as The Human Target tanks and will not be renewed.

Pat from Double Midnight talks about GraniteCon – March 14th in Nashua NH

David Niall Wilson interview

New novel is called “Vintage Soul”; came out in December.

http://macabreink.com/store

 

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Trivia for 3.6.10




Answer this question in the comments to win Batman Blackest Night 1-3.

Who is the author and editor of the anthology Dangerous Visions?

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Talkcast 22 – The Internet Sci-Fi Revolution




Our Guest: Steve Lettieri of scifinal.com & StoryForge TV

A shout out to all our international listeners.

Walter Koenig’s son (Andrew) apparent suicide.

Dead Red Head: Crazies, Nightmare on Elm Street, Alice.

Late breaking news: Max Headroom coming to DVD!

Prop Daleks go for $31,100 & $23,784 in auction yesterday.

Action Comics #1 sells for 1 million dollars; Detective #27 beats it by 70K four days later!

New Superman flick to be titled ‘Superman Unleashed’?

Video Games – Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2

Halftime Trivia

Fun With Internet  Sci-Fi:

Steve talks about Sci-Final.com and what it offers that nobody else does?

Which series he recommends as a starting point and why it offers a diversity that mainstream media cannot and does not.

 

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Feed Wrangling




If you read SFSN via an RSS feed you may have noticed a bit of zaniness going on this morning. Since WordPress gave us the amazing auto-update feature, it’s really been a snap to update and I haven’t been paying so much attention to reasons for updating. Having said that, one of the settings that got by me was “number of items to include in syndication feed”. This was at the time set to 10, which only allowed our last 10 podcasts to appear in iTunes. This setting has now been changed to 1000000… which had the unfortunate consequence of marking a lot of posts unread and bumping them to the top of the feed. Many apologies for the inconvenience, but our feed should now be back to normal.

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