by Firebird
April 30, 2014 in Dr Who by Firebird
London 1599. A young man sings a love song outside the window of a pretty girl. She calls him up to her room but he gets a nasty surprise, when he kisses the girl she transforms into an ugly witch with pointed teeth, who with her ‘family’ attack him. Nasty way to go.
by GuestBlogs
April 28, 2014 in Guest Blogs, Star Trek by GuestBlogs
This week’s episode is And the Children Shall Lead, which can be watched here and the episode summary can be read here.
by GuestBlogs
April 27, 2014 in Dr Who, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs
The Quarks are the robot servants of the Dominators and help in colonising planet for their masters and to take the natives back to their home-world to become slaves. This means that with more slaves on their home-world, more Quarks can be used for the war effort. Short in stature, the Quarks feature weaponry built into their folding arms and have powerful sensor equipment. They are powered by ultrasound and can exchange power with each other or use their arm-sockets to power other devices. They speak in a high-pitched voice and communicate with each other using beeps and squeals. For a Quark, a double beep means confirmation of an order. The Quarks are programmed to obey the more senior Dominator, which becomes a problem for Toba when he tries commit treason against his leader, Rago.
by Firebird
April 26, 2014 in Farscape by Firebird
A mysterious energy sphere implants itself inside Moya and envelops Crichton. When Aeryn fires upon it, it ejects not one, but three Crichtons! One of them is the original, one of them is a de-evolved ‘Ape-Man Crichton’, and the other is a super-evolved ‘Future Crichton’. The energy sphere turns out to be a dimensional portal, and a transmission from this portal demands that unless one of the Crichtons is sent back, Moya will be pulled though in her entirety. It seems obvious to everyone to send the ape-Crichton back, but when he cannot be found, the original Crichton finds himself at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder.
by GuestBlogs
April 25, 2014 in Cult TV, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs
After a haunted house and an abandoned railway station, the series starts to move into a more sci-fi direction in the third assignment of Sapphire and Steel. While the series does very much have a sci-fi core, it also as a lot of horror elements which often ends up pushing the sci-fi stuff to the background, especially in the previous story. Now we head to the opposite end of the spectrum with a story that has sci-fi very much in the forefront with a time capsule from the thirty-fifth century containing a family sent to study life in the twentieth century. This itself gives a very unique set up to the story as rather than objects from the past being the anachronism that causes all the trouble, it’s an object from the future that is trying to tamper with Time. This story is also slightly shorter than the last part at a length of six parts and is once again written by P J Hammond, now let’s take a closer look.
by Firebird
April 23, 2014 in Dr Who by Firebird
A young woman (Martha) walks down a busy street fielding calls from her family when a strange man walks up to her and takes off his tie. She’s puzzled but continues to the hospital where she works. Next we see her among a group of medical students doing the rounds talking to an old lady and then a Mr Smith who she is asked to assess. She thinks he’s the man who took his tie off at her earlier but he denies it and suggests that she check with the nurses, he’s been here since yesterday. She listens to his heart and gets a surprise, Mr Smith winks at her and she says nothing, suspecting that it’s some kind of a joke.
by GuestBlogs
April 21, 2014 in Guest Blogs, Star Trek by GuestBlogs
This week’s classic Star trek episode is The Paradise Syndrome. You can watch the original episode here. The Enterprise is assigned to deflect an asteroid that is on a collision course with a planet. En route to the deflection point the ship stops at the planet for a quick survey mission. While on the planet Kirk Spock and McCoy discover an alien obelisk and the inhabitance resembling American Indians. Kirk before beaming up wants one more look at the obelisk and heads to the obelisk while Spock and McCoy stay near the native village. Kirk accidently gets trapped inside the obelisk and has his memory wiped by an electric discharge. The crew search for Kirk unable to find him they must leave in order to reach the deflection point in time.
by GuestBlogs
April 20, 2014 in Dr Who, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs
The Pyrovile are a race of volcanic giants made out of stone and living magma. They come from the lost planet of Pyrovilia, which we later learn was taken from its current point in time and space by the Daleks. With their planet gone they went out to find a new one and choose the planet Earth and sought to harness the volcanic power of Vesuvius in ancient Pompeii so that they can transform the human race into a new race of Pyroviles. However, the Earth was not right for their species in its current state, so they planned to use Vesuvius’s volcanic power to boil away the oceans and make it like their original home planet. The Pyroviles themselves can breath fire and survive in great temperatures but they are not without weakness. They can be defeated by water and it turns them into solid stone and they crumble to death.
by Firebird
April 19, 2014 in Farscape by Firebird
Now married, Crichton and Katralla are frozen into living statues so that they may watch over the presiding governments of the next eighty cycles. Immediately, Clavor and the Scarran emissary Cargn attempt another assassination. Jenavian Charto again comes to the rescue, and she and the restored Crichton escape into the barren lands. Unfortunately for D’Argo, Chiana and Rygel, Empress Novia threatens the execution of every off-worlder on the planet if Crichton is not found. When finding John becomes a life and death matter, D’Argo turns to someone equally desperate to locate the astronaut: Crichton’s enemy, Scorpius.
by GuestBlogs
April 17, 2014 in Cult TV, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs
The second assignment of Sapphire and Steel is both longest and notoriously the scariest of all the stories. This story was again written by P J Hammond, who also envisioned and created the series, and it is eight parts long. Again, keeping to the same formula of small sets and minimal casts, its hard to believe that it’s able to sustain itself for eight parts but it does so surprisingly well. While there are moments which feel quite padded out it still manages to keep itself going and there are times where it flies by surprisingly quickly.
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