The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 103): Panel Round up of Our Favorite SF&F Movies and TV Shows of 2011

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1. Paul (@princejvstin) says:

   January 23, 2012 at 12:13 pm

   Another fun filled episode.

   Feels and looks like you guys went longer than the group of us who did Books. Did we not babble long enough?

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2. Paul (@princejvstin) says:

   January 23, 2012 at 12:45 pm

   Battle Los Angeles is a war movie, not a SF movie. But its okay on those terms, IMO.

   I might have added Priest as a “rental” level movie, myself.

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   • Patrick Hester says:

     January 23, 2012 at 4:12 pm

     Priest was okay, but would that then fall under Horror?

     ~P
     @atfmb

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     • Paul (@princejvstin) says:

       January 23, 2012 at 6:10 pm

       No, I don’t think it’s a horror movie. The intent of the movie is action in a dark fantasy world. Thus, its Dark Fantasy and not Horror.

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3. William says:

   February 15, 2012 at 10:41 am

   I just found your website/podcast. There’s a lot of interesting stuff, which is cool for SF fans like myself. Interesting to hear your comments on 2011 movies and TV. I didn’t find a lot of TV that interested me other than Fringe (and sometimes the real world Walter grates on me), The Walking Dead, and Face Off (a reality show on the Syfy Channel about making special effects). I did like Sherlock, but I think of it more as detective fiction. And I watched some Dr. Who, but basically have found the new Dr. Who series to be pretty abysmal in the stories and writing, but pretty good special effects.

   I did like Source Code, Captain America, and Midnight in Paris (although I guess I thought of it as magic realism or something along that line rather than SF). I didn’t care too much for X-Men, though it was ok. January Jones was ok, she didn’t act too much, thankfully. Her main role is of course visual. Falling Skies I started watching, but just didn’t hold my interest (another banal invasion Earth series). Grimm almost had some promise, but pretty quickly lost its charm. Really The Walking Dead was about it for SF/horror for me. The others I haven’t seen, or have no interest in, which is a bit sad. If I had one question it would be: Why can’t producers/directors get SF right these days? It seems like it would be a fairly easy equation to reach and garner an audience. With CGI effects being more cost effective, plus you wouldn’t even need to use them that much, space opera should be more affordable these days not that a SF series needs to be space opera. It just seems that someone should be able to make something for TV that more SF fans could or should enjoy. Perhaps another topic for discussion might be what SF TV do you consider high watermarks for television.

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