Eureka

I’ve been in and out of the SciFi Channel’s website for the past couple of weeks working on my Who Wants to be a Superhero article; I’m surprised I didn’t see that Battlestar Galactica would be showing little “webisodes” leading up to the beginning of the third season on October 6th. The first one, posted yesterday, is Day 67 of the Occupation: Resistance. If you like seeing quality science fiction on television (my likes: ST:TNG, Firefly, Babylon 5, Farscape, The Prisoner, UFO (not Project UFO), Doctor Who; dislikes: Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, X-Files), you need to be watching Battlestar Galactica. And if you love BG like I do, you’ll want to see these webisodes. And if you want the SciFi channel to focus more on quality science fiction and less on wrestling or whatever, watch their good stuff. ...

I’m kinda actually enjoying the SciFi channel now and then. Since I have a reliable way to see TV listings, I can deftly avoid accidentally tuning into Stargate - it used to be “all Stargate, all the time”, and I just can’t watch that show. It’s a shame… I liked the movie. **Dead Like Me ** Last week I caught myself watching “Dead Like Me” before the premiere of “Eureka”. I said then that “Dead” looked a lot more intriguing than the show I’d tuned in to watch. This week, they showed two episodes in front of Eureka. ...

Sat down in anticipation last night for Eureka, the SciFi channel’s newest show. I turned on the TV a little early and caught the end of “Dead Like Me”, where a young woman is just getting started in her new job as the Grim Reaper, with Mandy Patinkin as her mentor. The bits I saw were okay; I’d watch it again. Anyway: Eureka. The website for the show is funny and satirical. What they need to do is take the people who worked on the website, and put them in charge of writing the show. ...

Who’d have thought a sleepy little Northern California lumber town would become the setting for a new Sci-Fi TV show? Actually, I dunno if Eureka, the TV show, has anything to do with Eureka, California (one is SF and one is north of SF…). The teaser commercials remind me a lot of the upcoming Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood - a top secret facility that uses alien technology to do whatever it is they do. (Well, after looking at their website, I guess Eureka (the TV show) doesn’t have anything to do with aliens, though Eureka (the city) might.) ...