Alcatraz is the story of time traveling murders and the people who want to catch them before they kill again. It’s a good show on many levels, the actors are great, the production values are high, and who doesn’t long for a glimpse of the good old days of prison life in the early 1960s? The problem with all new Sci Fi shows is that the Sci Fi fan base has a very long memory and it’s all but impossible to come up with something completely new. Alcatraz has the look and feel of Fringe, The X-Files, Prison Break, LOST, The…
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Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead
I’d never heard of Neil Strauss when I found this funky looking book called The Game. It was all about how to pick up chicks. It was also about self confidence and what it takes to go out into the world and ask for something you have no real reason to expect you will get. It was a fun book. So when I saw Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, that sounded like a fun title, too. But not so much. Neil falls into that trap that everyone who has more material than they need for a story falls into. …
Never Let Me Go
British Sci Fi never ceases to amaze me-the same people who bring us Doctor Who and Space:1999 also bring us The Prisoner and Outcasts. From the very silly to the simply baffling, British Sci Fi is never predictable. Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his love song to the serving class in The Remains of The Day. Like that film, Never Let Me Go starts out slow, and pretty much stays that way. The film opens with a little slug card telling us there were some serious advances in medicine in 1952 and that…