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by Rick Norwood
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Smallville continues to waver between the embarrassing and the
thrilling. I did enjoy the moment when Clark finally tells Lois.
Caprica has a lot going for it. If only it had a few sympathetic
characters. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when Zoe, a terrorist teen transformed
into both giant robot and a holograph, the most appealing person on the show,
says she has a plan. But then the show was cancelled.
SF on TV in November 2010
It is only November and already we have two season finales. I remember when tv shows
continued to air new episodes into May. In other news, the Vatican reveals that
Homer Simpson is secretly Roman Catholic. V will return in 2011
along with the last five episodes of Caprica. Ron Moore will create a
new Battlestar Galactica series, set at a time in
between Caprica and BSG.
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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. |
At last, a Fall tv show I really like: Sanctuary. Actually, this
is the third season of the show. Three episodes aired in October on the SyFy
Channel. I expected a typical low-budget SyFy series. Now that I've watched
it, I like it a lot. It has appealing, exotic characters, interesting scripts,
and -- something you don't often see these days -- good music and good art
direction. To give just one example, in a brief scene set in a room with a
slowly rotating ceiling fan, the transition into and out of the scene is
accomplished by the blade of the fan. Sadly, after only three episodes in
the new season, it is off the air, and I don't know when or if it will return.
Tuesday, November 2
 
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