Out this week we have three DVDs to feature:  The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season, Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season, Wyvern.

• The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season: Love the Simpsons, can't wait to add this season to my collection
  
  
  
  • Get your copy from Amazon here: The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season
  
  
  
  


• Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season: a great fantasy show, I really enjoyed season one and now can get caught up with season two.
  
  
  
  • Get your copy from Amazon here: Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season
  
  
  
  


• Wyvern: a movie with dragons in it.  This is a tale of caution though, it's a Sy-Fy production set in Alaska so I don't expect much since most of their movies are horrible.  I'm putting it on my rent list because it has dragons.  If you have watch this movie let me know what you thought of it.
  
  
  
  • Get your copy from Amazon here: Wyvern
  
  
  
  

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Culture

• Thursday update (via Tobias Buckell)


• Aeon Speculative Fiction calls it quits (via SFScope)


• A Precognitive Dream... Or Is It (P:S HQ)


• Cool Stuff: The Incredibles Porcelain Statues (via /Film)


• Weird merchandise of the day: The inevitable… (via Club Jade)

Movie

• Teen wins 'Twilight' car on 'Tyra Banks Show' (via Entertainment News)


• Del Toro and Hellboy 3 (dashPunk)


• Segal To Helm Captain Marvel (via Sci Fi Wire)

TV / Series

• Legend of Neil Named one of Hollywood Reporter’s Top 10 Webisodes to Watch! (via Effinfunny)


• “Blood and Fire” Part One to be Released December 20, 2008 (via Star Trek: Phase II)


• Depressing Scoop: ABC passes on ‘Eli,’ ‘Daisies’ and ‘Dirty’ (via Entertainment Weekly)

Music

• Guns N Roses, Chinese Democracy, Axl Rose (via Headbangers Blog)

Game

• A Tear for Jaspree (via dashPunk)


• Star Wars Galaxies: Latest SWG Update Adds Epic Hoth Battles (via Kotaku)

Webcomic

• Lil’ Richard is Here (Looking for Group)


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• Girl Genius (Friday, November 21, 2008)

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Culture

• He’s not an alien, he’s a gaylien. (via An Alternate Earth) (Thanks Jessi)


• Wacky merchandise of the day: Vader TV (via Club Jade)


• Danes create walking house (via Futurismic)


• I Want to Have Square Enix’s Babies (via Topless Robot)


• William Shatner lashes out at George Takei (via AP)


• Takei Fires Back At Shatner (via TrekMovie.com)


• Steampunk Star Wars from Gorilla Artfare (via dashPunk)

Movie

• In Theater: Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom (via dashPunk)


• The Flash Teaser Trailer is NOT Real (via /Film)


• Awesome New Watchmen Teaser Poster (via /Film)

TV / Series

• Eli Stone Season 2


• Ghost Hunters off to college (via Reuters)


• Hulu go boom… (via Hulu)

Games

• Star Wars: The Old Republic (via dashPunk)

Webcomics

• Dresden Codak (via a deep nostalgia for the Future)


• Looking For Group (via Page 194)

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Culture

• Batman theme composer Hefti dies (via BBC)


• Survey Hints at iTunes Gift Cards for Specific Shows and Movies (via Gizmodo)


• Chipmunk Trooper Whisperer (via Star Wars)


• Ms. Pac-Man: The Shameful Lingerie (via Topless Robot)


• Robocop's Sweet Ride (Updated) (via Topless Robot)


• Freakier Than Monkeys!? - Episode #255 comments (P:S HQ)

Movie

• Jovovich Confirmed For Clock (via Sci Fi Wire)


• Greatest Supernatural Horror ever Wuthering Heights (via Hulu)


• J.J. Abrams Reveals New Star Trek Movie Running Time (via Trekweb)

TV / Series

• Ghost Hunters Full episode s4 e17 "Speaking with the Dead" (P:S HQ)


• ABC extends 'Eli Stone' order (via Digital Spy)


• NBC Develops New Argonauts (via Sci Fi Wire)


• Kenneth Johnson Responds to ABC’s New V TV Show (via Sci Fi Cool)

Music

• WHITE ZOMBIE: Box Set Title, Release Date Revealed (via Blabbermouth)

Books

• Snallygaster Returns (via Cryptomundo)


• Homemade Hollywood Arrives In Stores TODAY! (via Fan Cinema Today)

Game

• MMO 2.0: The End of Walled Gardens (dashPunk)


• 5 New Wallpapers Added (via Stargate Worlds)

Webcomic

• Girl Genius


• KISS 4K

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Culture

• What’s on your desk picture (P:S HQ Thanks Jadielady)
  
  
  
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• Telescope Tech Will Speed Search for Extraterrestrial Life (via Wired)


• Weta Workshop's Ray-Blunderbuss has us craving a Peter Jackson steampunk flick (via Dvice)


• From the Voyage Vaults, Object No. 9 Feejee Mermaid (via Curious Expeditions)

Movie

• DVD Releases: October 14th, 2008 (dashPunk)


• Cheadle replaces Howard in "Iron Man" sequel (via Reuters)


• David Fincher's Rendezvous with Rama Officially Dead (via First Showing)


• Ridley Scott Confirms He's Making Brave New World (via io9)


• Star Trek Trailer Coming in November  (via Trek Movie)


• Masters of SciFi - J. Michael Straczynski on Changeling's Message and Warp-Speed Writing for Ninja Assassin (via SciFi Scanner)

TV / Series

• Eli Stone Second Season Premier on ABC


• Ugly Betty:  the Manhattan Project


• The Simpsons- Sex, Pies and Idiot…. (via P:S HQ)


• Destination Truth- Haunted Cave/Burrunjor (via P:S HQ)


• More Legend of the Seeker pictures (via Scificool)


• Get Your Porn ID - A New “Zack & Miri” Site Has Arrived… (via News Askew)


• Doctor Who
  
  
  
  • 'Doctor of Who' for college study (via BBC)
  
  
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• Sci Fi ups Thomas Vitale to exec VP (via Variety)

Music

• RITCHIE BLACKMORE, Longtime Girlfriend CANDICE NIGHT Tie The Knot (via Blabbermouth)


• WHO'S COMING TO SEE CRADLE THIS WINTER? (via Roadrunner Records)

Game

• Rock Band DLC - Dr. Feelgood (via Gay Gamer)


• Wii-kly WiiWare and Virtual Console Update - 10/13/08 (via Gay Gamer)
  
  
  
  • World of Goo (2D Boy, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone--Comic Mischief, 1,500 Wii Points)
  
  
  • Art Style: CUBELLO (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points)
  
  
  • SECRET OF MANA (Super NES, 1-3 players, Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older--Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, 800 Wii Points)
  
  
  • STREET FIGHTER II: SPECIAL CHAMPION EDITION (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, Rated T for Teen--Violence, 800 Wii Points)
  
  
  
  

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This is an amazing, wonderfully written, piece of modern fantasy.  Where else could you watch a show where a dragon could fly down the streets of San Francisco.  I absolutely loved the first season and am thrilled that I can now get it on DVD or through .

Eli Stone is about a power amoral lawyer in San Francisco who is on his way to getting partner in his law firm.  He is driven to win and does not stop to think about how he wins just merely that he does win.  One day that all changes when Eli hears George Michael Singing in his head.  The visions haunt Eli and direct him to help people.  The visions takes the form of people around him singing songs that can give information about future events and people.  It turns out that Eli is suffering form a brain aneurysm which leaves him wondering if the songs are a natural cause of his condition or something from a higher power.

Eli Stone is also a musical because of Eli's condition there is music in every episode.  Although there is a lot of George Michael, which I love, they also have many other songs sung and danced to.  What is wonderful is the fact that it is all in Eli's head but we get to see the song and dancing from his perspective so as the show progresses suddenly one of his coworkers and at times the entire office breaks out in song and dance, Brilliant!

This show tackles religious, metaphysical and political issues but does so in a manner that is not preachy and often will use not taking a side as a device to create tension in the story.  The best example is with Eli's singing, the writers will but forth a perfect argument that it is from a divine source, though not declaring a particular god, and a perfect argument that it is the machinations of a medical condition.  It's amazing how the show can delve into so much spirituality and metaphysical topics without overtly picking a religious side, kudos!  This show is highly recommended and a must own.  I can't wait to see what they will do with the second season.

Get Eli Stone on DVD or through .

Cast

• Jonny Lee Miller - Eli Stone


• Natasha Henstridge - Taylor Wethersby


• Loretta Devine - Patti Dellacroix


• Matt Letscher - Nathan Stone


• Sam Jaeger - Matt Dowd


• James Saito - Dr. Chen


• Julie Gonzalo - Maggie Dekker


• Victor Garber - Jordan Wethersby


• Laura Benanti - Beth Keller


• Jason Winston George - Keith Bennett


• Tom Amandes - Martin Posner


• Tom Cavanagh - Mr. Stone


• George Michael - as himself

Eli Stone - Freedom

Eli Stone - Father Figure

Here are some quick headlines for August 20th:

Animation

• DVICE: Facial animation reaches new heights with 'Emily' - I almost cannot believe the video is animated

Fanart

• Hard Heroes 5 Raises Money, Body Painting Skills - PinkKryptonite.com - Wow, that is the coolest Venom I have ever seen


• What if: Futurama were Anime | dashPunk - I really like this, but I am not sure that Nibbler is cute/scary enough. Zoidberg is always great.

Movies

• The 'Watchmen' war: Fanboys furious with Fox | Movie Biz | Hollywood Insider | EW.com - Does Fox just want to be hated?


• Power Struggle on the Set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine! - Grr.. what is the matter with Fox?


• Jackson Already Writing Hobbit - I wish them luck


• Proyas Adapting Heinlein Novella - If anyone might make a decent film, I'll trust Alex, for now

TV/Series

• Holmes Brings Love To Stone? - I have mixed feelings about her being on the show...

Music

• Review: Dark Passion Play by Nightwish | dashPunk - To be honest, I could not imagine the band without Tarja, but this album put all of my fears to rest and made me fall in love with Nightwish is a deeper way than I had ever believed possible.

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Culture

• SocialMedian is Raising $500,000… In 140 Characters or Less (via Mashable)


• Fandom v The Scifi Channel (dashPunk)


• Star Trek Wiki (via Memory Alpha)


• The Guild’s Codex Fan Art (dashPunk)


• Volunteer Search: PHP Guru (via Organization for Transformative Works)


• Liberty Vader (dashPunk)


• Robotech back in the Beltway! (via Robotech)


• Wee Hayley Campbell Needs A Beard Or Two (via Neil Gaiman)

Movie

• Review: Star Wars Revelations (fanfilm) (dashPunk)


• Review: Batman Gotham Knight (dashPunk)

• Hayao Miyazaki New film wows Japan (via Reuters)


• Diesel Creates Hannibal Toon (via Sci Fi Wire)

TV / Series

• Fullmetal Alchemist second TV anime series announced (via Heisei Democracy)


• Eli Stone to air on UK Sci Fi Channel (via The Guardian)


• Great Cocktails (via Hulu)


• Hasselhoff Returns To Knight? (via Sci Fi Wire)


• Stargate Atlantis will end this season (via Gate World)


• Chronologies of Babylon 5 Available for Preorder (via JMS)

Game

• Final Fantasy XIII to have no main character (via Final Fantasy Series)

Webcomic

• Looking For Group

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Eoghann Irving from Solar Flare has written a post claiming, “There’s No Such Thing as Science Fiction Fandom.”  His main point:

It would be more accurate to claim that there’s no such thing as a single unifying science fiction fandom.

I think there’s a strong case to be made that historically there used to be one. The one that formed around the pulp magazines, that essentially created WorldCon and the Hugos. Members of that fandom were at one time a pretty good example of the average science fiction fan (Solar Flare).

Is Fandom splintering?

In February, I wrote Three Types of SF Fans, in which I explored the major divisions within SF Fandom.  I do not believe that Fandom is splintering, our problem is Pop Culture exposure and a misapprehension about what fandom is.

The Source of the Problem:

• Fans are fanatics!  They eat, drink, breathe and live SF.


• Enthusiasts think they are fans.  They get excited by the release of an SF film, maybe play some games, but are not defined by their interest in SF.

As SF has made its flash into the Pop Culture, many new enthusiasts have been created and a few new fans.  Every flash in the pan has this effect.

We are at the point in the cycle when SF has past its peak in popularity and is falling out of favor causing the enthusiasts to stay interested in the series that turned them on, while talking trash about other SF so they can hold on to an image of coolness, the image of a fracturing fandom is born.

The Scifi Channel is to Blame

The Scifi Channel and the major studios have fed this seeming division by conflating futuristic action films and series with science fiction leaving many enthusiasts to believe that SF is synonymous with futuristic action films.

This makes it almost impossible for any non-action based series or film to have any sort of traction.

To make this point clearer, I have debated with people whether Dead like Me and Eli Stone are SF.  The group I was talking with insisted that they were not because they were not action packed...

Promoting Fan Culture

But the scale of the genre now is such that you really can’t assume that another science fiction fan will like or even be interested in what you are interested in. The sheer number of fandoms within the science fiction fan community results in a huge diversity of opinions and tastes (Solar Flare).

Our biggest problem with multiple fandoms is that fans have failed to communicate fan culture to the next generation.  We have allowed pop culture to parody and ridicule our lives without offering an alternative take for people to see.  The beauty and power of a filksing, the humor of a masquerade, or the basic comradery of a convention.

As long as we allow pop culture to define fandom, true fans will continue to find themselves pushed further and further out of the picture.  So keep the faith, and spread the word.

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Culture

• Facial animation reaches new heights with 'Emily' (via Dvice)


• Hard Heroes 5 Raises Money, Body Painting Skills (via Pink Kryptonite)


• What if: Futurama were Anime (dashPunk)

Movie

• Troll 2 on Hulu (via Hulu)


• WB COO on Harry Potter (dashPunk)


• The 'Watchmen' war: Fanboys furious with Fox (via Entertainment Weekly)


• Power Struggle on the Set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine! (via Comic Book Movie)


• Robotech Movie Coming in 2010 (via Movie News)


• Jackson Already Writing Hobbit (via Sci Fi Wire)


• Proyas Adapting Heinlein Novella (via Sci Fi Wire)

TV / Series

• Holmes Brings Love To Stone? (via Sci Fi Wire)


• INTELLIGENCE IS MAKING A COMEBACK! (via Lady Bunny)
  
  
  
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• Guild Volunteers Wanted! (via The Guild)

Music

• Review: Dark Passion Play by Nightwish (via dashPunk)

Book

• Apex Publications’ Annual Halloween Short Story Contest (via Solar Flare: Science Fiction News)

Game

• Roleplaying: Knights of the Old Republic (dashPunk)

Webcomic

• Girl Genius


• KISS 4K

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