They’re heeeeeere. Er, again. Yep, they’re back — those scaly, duplicitous aliens with promises of a better future, hope, and of course, friendship. As the old saying goes, when it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Especially when they just appear in mile-wide spaceships above your major cities, and your military and governments are caught with their pants down. When they’re that technologically more advanced than you, should you really fall to your knees and welcome come them, just because their leader happens to look like an extremely hot human woman? Okay, stupid question. If the people of Earth didn’t fall to their knees in hopeless devotion, we wouldn’t have a show, would we?
Archive for Comic-Con Coverage
TV Review: New V Pilot (Comic-Con ’09)
Comic-Con ’09: Astroboy and Battlestar Galactica Panels
There were three significant sci-fi themed panels at Comic-Con on Thursday: Astroboy, Battlestar Galactica, and James Cameron’s Avatar. Alas, despite waiting three hours in line for “Avatar”, I only managed to catch the final 5 minutes or so of the panel, just enough to hear Cameron saying that he plans to show the first 15 minutes of “Avatar” for free in Imax theaters. I was not, unfortunately, in time to catch the 25 minutes of footage that Cameron brought with him. Earlier in the day, I did manage to catch the “Astroboy” and BSG panels. Observations from the two below.
Comic-Con ’09: Stargate Universe Trailer
“Good God, everybody’s having sex on this show.” That was my reaction about halfway into the new trailer for Stargate Universe that is being shown at Comic-Con ’09. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the same trailer the Stargate Universe panel will also be showing. The trailer runs pretty long, and gives you a good idea of how they’re approaching the show. I must admit, there are parts of it that looked better than I had anticipated (I like the flying orb-camera they discover, which allows them to dictate their thoughts like they’re on a reality show or something) though there are other parts where my original fears that this is little more than a bad attempt to turn the Stargate franchise into a Battlestar Galactica clone seemed, well, justified.
