Posts Tagged ‘science fiction’
Will It Fly?
Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 24, 2011
When I first heard that the movie Source Code, which I haven’t seen but which looks pretty cool, is being developed for TV, my instinctive first question was, “What network?” (The answer is CBS.) Because, with sci-fi and genre TV, the network is everything. It will largely determine how the material will be handled and [...]
The X-Files
Posted by: meekthegeek on: March 24, 2011
- In: 1990s | Dramas
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Looking back at The X-Files, which premiered in 1993, it’s almost impossible not to compare it to a hundred other shows to air since. As a huge Bones fan, I’m most inclined to look for parallels to that show, and many have been drawn. Yes there’s the female-skeptic/male-believer duo, which apparently, was unusual in 1993. [...]
Lost in Space
Posted by: meekthegeek on: November 6, 2010
- In: 1960s | Dramas
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With a show set in a future that is now the past, it would be easy to simply pick apart the inaccuracies and laugh at the technology (and ask the age-old question, “Where is my jetpack?”) But I won’t do that. I’m going to examine the pilot of Lost in Space for what it is—a [...]
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