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by Rick Norwood
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Smallville continues to go downhill. Only one new episode is scheduled for February, though
another episode, unpromisingly titled "Hex," is in the can and could air. My guess is that the producers are trying
desperately to get the show back on track. Stephen S. DeKnight, writer for Buffy and Angel,
who was the top writer for Smallville, has gone over to Dollhouse. I hope they let
Clark don the cape and fly away at the end.
Friday night is proverbially where TV shows go to die. It killed the original Star Trek. It
killed Firefly. Will it kill Terminator and Dollhouse?
Ron Moore, commenting on the Final Cylon, admitted that he didn't know who it would be until the script was
written. Now we know who, but not why. To me, this is like a mystery writer not knowing who-done-it when he
starts a book, so that all the "clues" are meaningless until, at the end, we learn that the rabbit-in-the-hat
is the murderer. This explains why Battlestar Galactica is big on emotion but small on
logic. It's still the best SF on the air in February. The new volume of Heroes also looks good.
SF on TV in February 2009
Looking to the future: Caprica from Ron Moore, Stargate Universe, and a new Doctor.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
The big news in February is the beginning of a new series by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and
Firefly. It's called Dollhouse.
Monday, February 2
 
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