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Flynn Lives!

Jason
Tuesday
9:50 pm

Well I have been waiting with anticipation for something to come out about the upcoming Tron 2 sequel. And now I have it.

The viral site Flynn Lives is now live with some trumped up features and news articles about the disappearance of Kevin Flynn, better known as the protagonist from the original Tron.

Whatever the plot is and whether Flynn is actually around is to be seen. But check it out in all its fakey glory. Click the bouncing Centipede spider at the bottom for a countdown.

But thinking back on Tron and running across The Black Hole this weekend, I have early 1980s family scifi on the brain ..read more

Warehouse 13. Worth it?

Jason
Thursday
4:01 pm

So Warehouse 13 opened it series on the newly branded SyFy earlier this week. And results just came back that 3.5 million viewers caught the first act of the show, making it the most watched cable show of the night.

Having been burned recently when trying out new sci fi, namely Sanctuary and the defunct pilot Virtuality, I need to know, do I even want to waste another 1.5 hours of my life cycle with something I will not enjoy. Don’t get me wrong, Eureka was a present surprise and I am waiting the return of the new season later this month. But its bad when all my new stuff is ..read more

The Geek6: Favorite SciFi Characters

Jason
Friday
11:13 am

GeekSix is evolving. No more do you have to listen to just my weekly top five. Now you get to listen to the collective Geek6. That is right, each of the staff will throw down the gauntlet with what is at the top of their list. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

This week on The Geek6 is the staff’s favorite science fiction character. It was a pretty daunting task considering the breadth of possibilities and the selections showed that as picked ranged from literature to movies to television.

Here you go, listed in no particular order (well I did draw them out of an actual hat)…

Christy Ender Wiggin – Ender’s Game I ..read more