SCI-FI geeks out there?

[TxBrew]

Love it. Wait you said no metro Vampires?

 

[cheezydemon3]

first date with my girl, I admited to going to the HOBBIT and thinking that some of it was utter BS. She immediately entered into a small tirade about the rock giants.....a mere footnote in the book ("...impossible to tell if it was distant thunder or the rock giants hurling boulders...") made into a ridiculous action scene in the movie.

She had me at "rock giants"

 

[jrstacey]

7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.

 

[BrutalBrew]

7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.

Ive watched a few, its well done but im not into the time travel stuff. im going to watch more and give it a chance. I hated quantum leap and show similar. I would have to say Stargate and farscape would me my choice for best canadian sci-fi. IMO

 

[VApatriot]

7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.

SWMBO and I watch it, it's pretty good, the chick that is the main character really needs to get that wart looking thing removed from her face though.

Has anyone seen Defiance yet? It's not bad but I want to know how all of the ships that brough them here got destroyed.

 

[Warthaug]

7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.

You mean, aside from Stargate, X-Files, MacGyver, Earth-Final Conflict, First Wave, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, and others...

I don't know what it is, but we make a lot of SciFi & Fantasy shows up here.

Bryan

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not nominating Andromeda as 'one of the best'.

 

[Warthaug]

Has anyone seen Defiance yet? It's not bad but I want to know how all of the ships that brough them here got destroyed.

It made me mad. Star trek first debuted in 1966 - 47 years later they're still making aliens that look like slightly funky humans. Give me a freakin break. Pre-1960's scifi had aliens that actually looked like aliens. Today...not so much.

And yes, I realize its so 15YO boys can fantasize of liaisons with hot aliens.

Bryan

 

[cheezydemon3]

7 pages and the new

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
has only been touted 12 or so times??????

WTF people?? Anyone who hasn't seen it.........

GET THE EFF OUT UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED FOR.

 

[Krovitz]

I'm another sci fi lover. I'd have to agree with all the precious posters. The guy who did District 9 is doing Elysium. Don't know much about it, but the trailer looks bad ass. Also trying to get into Defiance on the sci fi channel. The first episode was pretty good, but we'll see how the show goes.

 

[lowtones84]

Pre-1960's scifi had aliens that actually looked like aliens. Today...not so much.

What exactly do real aliens look like? I'll agree with you on at least on Klingons from the original Star Trek though. Hey they're...tan hahaha...

 

[reverendj1]

What exactly do real aliens look like? I'll agree with you on at least on Klingons from the original Star Trek though. Hey they're...tan hahaha...

I was watching the first episode with them just the other day. They also have funky eyebrows! Don't you guys realize that we are the pinnacle of evolution, so the only differences between us and aliens would be cosmetic? I also got a kick out of seeing that Baltar from the original BSG was the head Klingon.

 

[BrutalBrew]

I believe a lot of it has to do with budget. Its expensive to paste 10 pounds of special effect makeup on people every episode. And the actors would want a lot of money for having to go thru that everyday before shooting. That's why we tend to see the more intense effects on movie budgets. CG is pretty expensive also. I think Babylon 5 did the best job for makeup with small budgets.

 

[Warthaug]

What exactly do real aliens look like? I'll agree with you on at least on Klingons from the original Star Trek though. Hey they're...tan hahaha...

Who knows,; but the chance they look even vaguely human is vanishingly small.

Bryan

 

[stratslinger]

I just saw Oblivion this weekend... For a Tom Cruise flick, it was actually pretty good sci fi. A neat mash-up of ideas from all the best sci-fi stories from the last 30 or 40 years. You had tons of Star Wars in there, a health dose of Moon, a little Vanilla Sky for flavor, even a little Portal for the gamers. And of course there were a few homage shots to Top Gun tossed in. And it all actually worked to form a fun, cohesive whole. I dug it.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I just saw Oblivion this weekend... For a Tom Cruise flick, it was actually pretty good sci fi. A neat mash-up of ideas from all the best sci-fi stories from the last 30 or 40 years. You had tons of Star Wars in there, a health dose of Moon, a little Vanilla Sky for flavor, even a little Portal for the gamers. And of course there were a few homage shots to Top Gun tossed in. And it all actually worked to form a fun, cohesive whole. I dug it.

I heard bad things, but from people much different than me. What you say sounds ok.....but did it have it's own identity too?

BSG to me, blended a ton of star wars, a little Trek and an EFFLOAD of BSG.

Being about life on a space craft, no one is going to re-invent the wheel. Some things will be universal. Beyond that a story must be it's own even if some aspects overlap with same genre stories.

 

[ChshreCat]

You mean, aside from Stargate, X-Files, MacGyver, Earth-Final Conflict, First Wave, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, and others...

I don't know what it is, but we make a lot of SciFi & Fantasy shows up here.

Bryan

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not nominating Andromeda as 'one of the best'.

An American show shot in Vancouver is still an American show, though.

 

[Warthaug]

A US network buying exclusive US distribution rights or collaborating with the production firm does not make the show american. Everything I listed received a CPTC tax credit (which is where I got the list from). To get that, a production has to be majority funded, written, filmed and produced in Canada, by a Canadian firm.

Bryan

 

[ChshreCat]

A US company creating the show, writing it, producing it and hiring a studio across the border to shoot it at, makes it an American show. Hell, the X-files was shot in California for half it's run. Vancouver is a cheap place to shoot so American companies use it. Doesn't make all the shows Canadian shows. Continuum is a Canadian show.

 

[Jon73]

So we go from listing our favorite sci-fi to debating Canadian v. American tax credits? Awesome. Would the Americans in Canadada shooting sci-fi shows in a foreign country to avoid our ridiculous taxes then be considered aliens? And what are they if they are aliens pretending to be aliens?

Alien Nation and "V" (the original), great movie and great tv show.

 

[cheezydemon3]

When does Falling skies come back? (tries to get the thread back on track)

 

[BrutalBrew]

Most of the shows listed are actually a cross of American and Canadian. A mix of both Country's writing, producing, directing, actors. Stargate's SG1, Atlantis, and Universe are great example's.. The Director's, Producer's, screenwriter's Dom DeLuise son's Peter and David DeLuise own these show's. They are Stargate as far as the Tv show goes. I'm not sure if they had anything to do with the Original movie. Farscape was an American/Australian show.

 

[BrutalBrew]

You mean, aside from Stargate, X-Files, MacGyver, Earth-Final Conflict, First Wave, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, and others...

I don't know what it is, but we make a lot of SciFi & Fantasy shows up here.

Bryan

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not nominating Andromeda as 'one of the best'.

BattleStar Galactica was American.But they did do some filming in Canada for outdoor background's. And had some Canadian Actors.
Rest are definitely Canadian.

 

[ChshreCat]

When does Falling skies come back? (tries to get the thread back on track)

June 9th. Can. Not. Friggin. Wait.

 

[reverendj1]

When does Falling skies come back? (tries to get the thread back on track)

June 9, 2013. I watched the first few episodes of the first season, and really liked it. I just have a huge backlog of shows to watch now.

 

[BrutalBrew]

When does Falling skies come back? (tries to get the thread back on track)

June 9th TNT. Cant wait.
http://netflixcommunity.ning.com/gr...g_source=activity&groupId=1993323:Group:11199

 

[BrutalBrew]

June 9, 2013. I watched the first few episodes of the first season, and really liked it. I just have a huge backlog of shows to watch now.

You have only watched slow episodes , it gets really good.

 

[reverendj1]

If those were slow, I really need to watch the rest. Right now I'm on a Star Trek TOS kick. The second season of Star Trek is where it really picks up steam.

 

[stratslinger]

I heard bad things, but from people much different than me. What you say sounds ok.....but did it have it's own identity too?

Regarding Oblivion... Yeah, it definitely had its own identity in there that helped to tie all the other elements together. A neat war story with a twist to it, a nice love story, a couple of cool mysteries... I'd be interested to hear some of the negatives people are saying, just to compare to my own thoughts on the movie. See if it'd poke any holes in my own experience, I guess.

 

[Krovitz]

New episode of Defiance tonight. Anyone else enjoying this show? It's like a wild west sci fi.

!!!Spoiler Alert!!!

Who is the old bag working for? Did I miss it or is it still a mystery?

 

[VApatriot]

New episode of Defiance tonight. Anyone else enjoying this show? It's like a wild west sci fi.

!!!Spoiler Alert!!!

Who is the old bag working for? Did I miss it or is it still a mystery?

Who cares, the current mayor is kinda hot! I'm waiting for soem back story on all of these alien races. One thing I don't get, they have enough tech to build ships to get here, but they're driving aound in wierd and old junker cars??? I'll still watch it though, not a bad show.