Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome

I was never a huge fan of Sci-Fi’s remake of Battlestar Galctica, but I did watch it and I did come to like most of the characters.  The spin-off series, Caprica, about the worlds before Cyclons never made much sense.  Why should anyone care that some idiot billionaire make the Cyclons?  And how did it make any sense that his daughter’s soul was the cause of all their problems? Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome was a damned good pilot.  It had a lot of action, a lot of foreshadowing, and I have no problem with following around a young William Adama…

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Falling Skies

I’ll watch just about any science fiction that doesn’t feature giant robots that turn into cars. Falling Skies from TNT and Steven Spielberg is the story of Earth after the fall of humankind to an alien invasion.  The aliens are called Skidders and most closely resemble one of the twisted toys from the original Toy Story.   They have an upper body with a head and two arms, but then have a lower body composed of several legs.  We learn that the key to killing them is to disable as many legs as possible. Falling Skies is basically a post apocalyptic…

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