Entertainment Weekly's Best of 2006 issue is out. Here is the smattering of genre-related tidbits it contains:
PEOPLE
- Amongst the Greatest Performances: James Callis (Gaius Baltar) of Battlestar Galactica and Jonny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
- Breakouts (Brightest stars) of 2006 include Michael Emerson (Ben Linus) of Lost and Masi Oka (Hiro Nakumura) of Heroes.
MOVIES
- Lisa Schwarzbaum's Best Movies of 2006 includes Pan's Labyrinth.
- Readers voted Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as their second favorite movie of 2006 (behind The Departed).
- In a reader-voted face-off, X-Men earned 59% of the votes and Superman had 49% of the votes.
DVD
- The DVD of The Greatest American Hero received the Dorkiest Packaging award.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was voted by readers as the DVD with the best extras (35% of votes). Superman: Ultimate Collector's Edition was second (23%).
- The Chroncles of Narnia was voted by readers as best kids' DVD release (35% of the votes).
- In a reader-voted face-off, Lost, Season 2 earned 47% of the votes and 24, Season 5 had 53% of the votes.
- King Kong (Deluxe Extended Edition) was listed as the worst DVD release (way too long already, no need for extra footage).
TV
- Battlestar Galactica was #3 on the list of top TV series of the year. Heroes made #10.
- Heroes was voted by readers as the best new show of the year with 45% of the votes.
- Lost was voted by readers as the #2 returning show in the biggest creative slump.
- In a reader-voted face-off, Lost gained 49% of the votes and Heroes had 51% of the votes.
BOOKS
- Scott Smith's horror novel The Ruins was listed as the #1 fiction book of the year.
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips was the 5th best non-fiction book.
- Readers voted The Ruins as the 3rd best novel of 2006.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday December 27, 2006 at 12:15 AM
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Sigh, is it just me
or has science fiction
become really boring
lately? I don't see
anything on the
horizon either. Don't
get me wrong SF books
are outstanding but the
rest of the SF genre
sucks. I think the
genre is in a deep
sleep and could even
be in a state of
suspended animation. The
sa indicator lights came
on when Enterprise left.
Sigh.
Posted by Jim Shannon on Wednesday December 27, 2006 at 1:27 PM at 1:27 PM
With books you can make your own movies/television shows. The theater of the mind beats anything I've seen on the big screen. Fleets of ships, planets colliding, enemies more evil than evil ("Doc" Smith). Clashing empires (numerous fantasy and SF novels), heroes and villains larger than life (ditto), scientific wonders (SF), and more.
Heck, I've got such a backlog of stuff that I haven't read or want to re-read I could skip watching TV or going to the movies for the rest of my life and only start to make a dent in it.
Television and the big screen will wake up at some point. Look at the state of SF in the movies in the early 1970's. Except for a few shining lights, it was as dreadful as what we have now.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Wednesday December 27, 2006 at 7:19 PM at 7:19 PM
Hi Fred,
Yes I agree with you. I
think SF where it is now
is pre Star Wars 1977.
It's in a coma. Maybe
we've been spoiled from
1977.Maybe we've had too
much of a good thing. Could
Science fiction be mainstream
now? From 1977-present SF/F
movie wise most of Hollywood
has embraced the genre to
almost the exclusion of all
else. If it isn't SF/F or
action adventure it doesn't
sell. There have been a few
Gems of course like "Pirates
of the Caribbean" and the
"Da Vinci code" but most of
the blockbusters have been
in the SF/F area.
Thanks for sharing that btw
Fred I'll stick to reading books
until another Star Wars 1977
or "Babylon 5" comes along.
Posted by Jim Shannon on Thursday December 28, 2006 at 1:33 AM at 1:33 AM