As many of you will not know, I work in a shoe shop occasionally. My nerdiest purchase as of late have been a replica pair of Will Smith’s converse he wore in…
Category: Ramblings
The wild and amusing ramblings of sci-fi fans
Star Trek: Voyager’s Enduring Popularity?
What is it about Star Trek: Voyager that inspires so many casual Star Trek fans to declare it to be the “Best Star Trek show!“? It had its moments, certainly, but can…
What did you think of our Continuum podcast?
It’s been a few months since we released our first episode of the Sci-Fi Continuum. It’s quite literally an audio sci-fi heaven, with geeks babbling about geeky things. The question is, what did you think of it?
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series – UK Pre-orders
For all of our UK readers out there I thought that I would bring to your attention (just in case it hasn’t already it) that the Battlestar Galactica complete series box set…
Earth: Final Conflict – worth a remake?
It’s been over seven years since Earth: Final Conflict ended its five year run. Over that run, it produced some 110 episodes spread across five seasons. It opened with strong critical acclaim,…
Why is there no pure Science-Fiction on television anymore?
It’s a question many people have been pondering for quite a few years. Gone are the hey-days of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the subsequent Nineties sci-fi boom. The arrival of multiple Star Trek spinoffs, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, Stargate SG-1 and a plethora of dozens of other sci-fi shows seemed to herald the dawn of a new Golden Age of a more pure science-fiction.
Yet today, we’re left with a fraction of the science-fiction which used to grace our television screens. Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis have both just finished, and other shows such as Firefly or Threshold were shot down before they really got going.
So why have these shows fallen into decline? Twenty years ago, Star Trek was a guaranteed ratings winner, drawing in millions of viewers and a massive market share. As the latest television incarnation of the franchise – Star Trek: Enterprise – came to an end, it was left with a fraction of the viewing numbers its predecessors had enjoyed. Enterprise‘s decline has been written about in more than enough detail, and its death can be attributed to any number of factors: lack of advertisement, lacklustre plots or perhaps simply too many episodes of the same franchise without a break.
Yet Enterprise is reflective of a much wider problem for the genre. The few genre shows which have succeeded in recent years have attempted to blend their traditional sci-fi elements with elements of other genres.
New Wolverine Poster
Marvel have uploaded the new poster for Wolverine to their site, and I have to say it’s pretty plain. And it’s not even very exciting. Which is quite difficult to achieve when…
Donnie Darko Sequel in the works
This cannot be good. No, seriously. Heading straight for the Wikipedia summary for this, I was greeted with the following: S. Darko takes place in the summer of 1995, seven years after…
Featured Discussion: Is ‘The Dark Knight’ overrated?
This featured discussion is an experimental idea on Sci-Fi Heaven. It’s intended to be like a forum thread rather than your traditional blog post.
It’s been a few weeks since The Dark Knight splashed onto our home screens in DVD and Blu-Ray glory, and so hopefully those of you who didn’t see the movie an unhealthy number of times in the cinemas now have had the chance to do so.
Now that the hype has settled, and the dust begins to form on top of what is widely considered to be a modern day masterpiece, there have been one or two voices in the distance crying out to be heard. They proclaim The Dark Knight to be overrated: a over-hyped piece of cinema that’s simply too dark to be enjoyed. Some say it’s just not that good.
So what’s it to be? Is The Dark Knight truly a 21st Century wonder that will sit atop the favourite lists of film critics for decades to come, or is it simply much ado about nothing: a film made famous in no small part by the very tragic passing away of Heath Ledger. Is that too cynical?
Atlantis Finale Far From ‘Well Crafted’
Stargate actor Robert Picardo recently announced that the Stargate Atlantis finale – ‘Enemy at the Gate ‘ was a “well crafted” piece of television. It’s not. “Enemy at the Gate” is by…
Attention Bloggers: PayPerPost.com
I stumbled upon an interesting little site last night which pays bloggers to post on a specific subject ranging from anything from candy to search engine optimisation. It’s a nice little idea,…
Nuking the Fridge
It seems that a new alternative to the infamous “Jumping the Shark” expression has been found by UrbanDictionary in “Nuking the Fridge“. Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to refer to…
Shatner singing to Lucas
Quite old! But funny nonetheless.
Welcome to the new Great British Police State
If reports are to be believed, the Orwellian society is being embraced by the Government of the United Kingdom. Often the crux of horror stories from imaginative science-fiction writers, a privacy-invading, technologically-advanced…
‘Dark Knight’ Trailer
Another look at the very slick, stylish promotional approach being taken for this movie. Very shiny. Additionally, there’s a pretty great fan music video to “Jesus Christ” by Brand New that caught…
Recent Inactivity
It’s been a tough few weeks in the Sci-Fi Heaven world. Personally, I’ve been extremely busy with a lot of academic work and other pursuits (I’ve written a play, Skyline, to be…