Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
John Williams wrote: I'm trying to think of any good sci-fi on television recently, or coming soon, but the only thing I can think of is Dollhouse. Umm, and possibly A Game of Thrones, if it ever makes it to HBO, but that is fantasy, not science fiction. It's not sci-fi, but currently the best show I'm watching is an Anime: Death Note. It's a supernatural horror turned into a detective story. But there are a few other decent shows that take sf elements. Life on Mars, which tackles time-travel, is a decent police story. Even House's final episodes of Season 5 were quite sf-ish. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
William T Goodall wrote: _Lost_ and _Fringe_ both return. _Lost_ was excellent last season and I expect great things from the final season. _Fringe_ kicked up a gear with the twists and revelations at the end of the first season so it will be interesting where that goes. I never watched _Fringe_. It replaced _Terminator_ in the Warner Channel (which I find quite annoying: they keep chaning the times and days, even placing good shows on Sundays (!)), and then I switched to The Hentai Channel aka Animax, and now I am totally captivated by _Death Note_. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The Poop on the Kindle
At 10:25 PM Saturday 7/25/2009, Doug Pensinger wrote: So who has a Kindle (I know someone mentioned them before), how do you like it and what do you read on it? I just got one today and am attempting to download the NY Times (free 14 day trial) right now. It seems like it's taking a long time... http://cserver.rbma.com/content/Tinas_Groove?date=2009-07-27referer=http://www.dailyink.comuid=ot33z0token=z02s9gsize=large ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
On 7/27/2009 7:42:51 AM, Alberto Monteiro (albm...@centroin.com.br) wrote: William T Goodall wrote: _Lost_ and _Fringe_ both return. _Lost_ was excellent last season and I expect great things from the final season. _Fringe_ kicked up a gear with the twists and revelations at the end of the first season so it will be interesting where that goes. I never watched _Fringe_. It replaced _Terminator_ in the Warner Channel (which I find quite annoying: they keep chaning the times and days, even placing good shows on Sundays (!)), and then I switched to The Hentai Channel aka Animax, and now I am totally captivated by _Death Note_. DeathNote just ended on The Cartoon Network here. Hopefully they will run the entire series again. From my house it appears to be the best anime series ever. xponent Ryuk Maru rob ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Death Note and japanese music [was: Torchwood: Children of Earth]
Rob wrote: DeathNote just ended on The Cartoon Network here. Hopefully they will run the entire series again. From my house it appears to be the best anime series ever. Two weeks ago, I kind-of made all my family watch one episode together. What was my surprise when, instead of emocore's song by Nightmare, the show began with the death-metal by Maximum the Hormone. Animax shows japanese videoclips every half hour. It's very interesting. Some bands are quite good - and they don't show in the mainstream videoclip channels. Alberto Monteiro PS: I will refrain from commenting too much on Death Note. The show is too good to be spoiled. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Death Note and japanese music [was: Torchwood: Children of Earth]
On 7/27/2009 5:49:57 PM, Alberto Monteiro (albm...@centroin.com.br) wrote: Rob wrote: DeathNote just ended on The Cartoon Network here. Hopefully they will run the entire series again. From my house it appears to be the best anime series ever. Two weeks ago, I kind-of made all my family watch one episode together. What was my surprise when, instead of emocore's song by Nightmare, the show began with the death-metal by Maximum the Hormone. Animax shows japanese videoclips every half hour. It's very interesting. Some bands are quite good - and they don't show in the mainstream videoclip channels. Alberto Monteiro PS: I will refrain from commenting too much on Death Note. The show is too good to be spoiled. I have grown to love Maximum The Hormone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCGcNoAoq9s Kind of a sidestory to Deathnote wherein a false MTH is killed by the Deathnote and the real MTH appears to finish the song. It's not deathmetal, it's kicking your ass over town hardrock.G xponent With Drop D Tuning Maru rob ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
On 25 Jul 2009, at 23:16, Richard Baker wrote: Gary said: I've also been watching Primeval on BBC America. SciFi Channel just started showing it. I didn't care for the first few episodes, but became hooked as the story arc developed. Of Course, BBC didn't renew Primeval and tonight's cliffhanger episode will be the series last episode. The BBC didn't renew Primeval because it wasn't a BBC series: it was made by and shown on ITV in the UK. Apparently it was ITV's attempt to counter the success of the revived Doctor Who but was somewhat less successful in the ratings. It was poorly promoted as well. I never watched the first two seasons when they aired because it looked a bit naff in the promos, but then I got the DVD set of the first two seasons off Amazon very cheaply when I'd run out of stuff to watch and enjoyed it. Apparently a Hollywood movie based on the series is in development but it won't have the same cast or tie up the cliff hangers at the end of the TV show. And the forthcoming AMC mini-series re-imagining of _The Prisoner_ looks like it might not be awful. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41840 -- William T Goodall Mail : w...@wtgab.demon.co.uk Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://web.me.com/williamgoodall/blog/ You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow? ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
On 26 Jul 2009, at 18:56, Max Battcher wrote: Gary Nunn wrote: Warehouse 13 - After two episodes, I'm not impressed or hooked yet, but I'll give it a few more episodes. I got a kick out of the first episode and I think that it might have staying power. Certainly it is yet another monster of the week program (albeit substitute gadget/oddity for monster), but it is playful and fun. I really like the bits of steampunk in the Warehouse itself. Certainly there are some fun things in thinking about such a crazy project that it would bring such (later in life) enemies as Thomas Edison and Nicolai Tesla together to build such a bizarre facility... It reminds me of the (cancelled) _The Middleman_ series. There are neat hints that a deeper through-storyline is building and with Jane Espenson helming I've got a feeling that we can expect the show to cross a few boundaries that we might think are set in stone in the formula even though we've only seen a few episodes thus far. I guess most importantly is that it plays very well in a duo with Eureka (which thanks to the magic of Hulu end up scheduled on the same nights for me) and I think its good to have more science is awesome in television, even if it is pseudo-science as most of Warehouse 13 appears. Speaking of science is awesome on television, please tell me that you all are watching Better Off Ted? It's like The Office meets Eureka (with a dash of Arrested Development and a dash of Pushing Daisies); it's a fun comedy about (RD) middle management at a mega- science corporation, Veridian Dynamics, that builds crazy things like weaponized pumpkins and hover shoes. It's definitely the funniest program with two major show-stealing characters that happen to be scientists that I've seen. I'll have to try that show. -- William T Goodall Mail : w...@wtgab.demon.co.uk Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://web.me.com/williamgoodall/blog/ And yes, OSX is marvelous. Its merest bootlace, Windows is not worthy to kiss. - David Brin ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth
On 7/27/2009 20:09, William T Goodall wrote: I'll have to try that show. If you liked The Middleman you should get a kick out of Better Off Ted. I'm hoping to get the Middleman DVDs eventually and the last episode comic sounds great. I also hope someone posts the reading of the final script from Comic Con in a useful fashion for those of us who couldn't make it to Comic Con... -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
