- If you've been wondering how to go out in style when you shuffle off this mortal coil, then perhaps you should consider this Star Trek Coffin shaped like a photon torpedo. Now you can re-enact the ending of Wrath of Khan, complete with bagpipes if you'd like!
- Is Cavemen even still on? Apparently so, as Tony Figueroa at Blogcritics dissects the shows first two episodes. Metrosexual cavemen? No thanks.
- UGO has a short interview with Jamie Bamber, covering many topics. Among them Razor, BG season 4 and what props Bamber plans on, um, keeping after the show wraps. I'll take a Viper please.
- Speaking of Galactica, the Battlestar Galactica game for Xbox Live Arcade is now available, as is the demo. I tried it and really, really didn't like it. Which is too bad since who wouldn't want to fly around in a Viper, fragging Cylons?
- Terminally Incoherent has an interesting post about anti-intellectualism on TV. Specifically, the way SF fans or technically savvy people are portrayed on the vast majority of TV shows. Can anyone think of a show where the 'geeky' person was actually show as being heroic or sympathetic? I can only think of Hiro.
- Maureen Buccellato from Flick Direct watches Heroes for the first time, and comes away confused. Not surprising as there is an entire season of backstory she's missing, thus showing how hard it will be for Heroes to pick up new viewers, as the older ones appear to be leaving it in droves.
- If NBC were smart, they'd use their new Hulu service to make older shows, in their entirety, available for viewing. Sadly, that's not the case. Hulu went into closed beta on Monday, and new shows have only a five week window for viewing. The good news is that many older shows' entire seasons are available. Shows like The A-Team. I love it when a plan comes together in a classic pincer movement!
Comments (6)
| PermaLink
| Category: Tube Bits
Posted by JP Frantz at Thursday November 01, 2007 at 12:08 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
"Can anyone think of a show where the 'geeky' person was actually show as being heroic or sympathetic?"
How about the math geniuses on NUMB3RS?
Posted by scotty on Thursday November 01, 2007 at 6:55 AM at 6:55 AM
The guy, whose name I forget, from ALIAS. He was shown, several times, as being very sympathetic, even heroic at times.
It's not that geeks aren't portrayed as sympathetic. They're just never portrayed as socially adept. The popular image is, even if you're Bill Gates, you're still getting wedgies and playing D&D in mom's basement.
Posted by S Andrew Swann on Thursday November 01, 2007 at 7:09 AM at 7:09 AM
You know, if I'm going to be "buried" in a Star Trek-style coffin, I would want to be shot into space; not put into the ground! So, until it comes with a space-flight, I think I'll pass...
Posted by PeterY on Thursday November 01, 2007 at 8:08 AM at 8:08 AM
re: sympathetic geeky person - early Buffy had a very sympathetic Willow. You know, before she turned into the skin flaying witch. 
Posted by felix on Thursday November 01, 2007 at 9:05 AM at 9:05 AM
"Regenesis" has a number of sympathetic geek characters, and for the most part the science is plausible (if overly-glamorized).
I can't think of another modern series that treats scientists with so much respect.
http://www.amazon.com/TV-Program-Genesis-DVD-Box/dp/B000S6KTXE
It's a Canadian production, but I've heard it may be getting syndicated here in the US. It'll be interesting to see how well it does, since it doesn't shy away from criticizing the current administration's absurd attacks on science.
Posted by Brian Prince on Thursday November 01, 2007 at 2:55 PM at 2:55 PM
Can anyone think of a show where the 'geeky' person was actually show as being heroic or sympathetic? I can only think of Hiro.
Spock
Skully (Mulder is sort of a geek as well...or do i have this turned around)
Data
7 of nine
Chief (He made a stealth Viper...that is pure geek)
Samantha Carter
River Tam
Dr. Quentin Q Quinn (actually I think the running joke is that he is the only sympathetic character on the show)
Frylock
Posted by joshua corning on Friday November 02, 2007 at 1:53 AM at 1:53 AM