If you are looking for something different in the way of a Sci-Fi TV show, check out Time Taxi. It is a show about choices, and how sometimes when you make the wrong one you need a do-over. It is more philosophical and intellectual than the average US show, but that is part of what makes it worth watching.
The Librarians arrive on Sunday, December 7th on TNT, and I am so ready for this series! TNT were behind the original movies series this is based on, and I loved those movies because of the way they blended silly with action, and for the excellent premise. I am setting my DVR now, so I don’t miss an episode!
Just because it is both silly, and very well done, here it is: the regeneration of the 11th Doctor into the 13th. The numbering assumes the War Doctor existed in the order his episode aired, not his progenitor and descendant Doctors proper order. Just to show you how well Blob Van Dam did at creating this Lego animation, I am also including the original regeneration scene from the official Doctor Who channel.
It is called both Moon Embrace The Stars and You Came From The Stars, depending on who is doing the translating, but this looks like it could be quite the tasty little Sci-Fi TV show out of Asia for 2015. OK, I admit I find the music for this show wimpy beyond belief and in need of being retired behind a barn somewhere with extreme prejudice, but the premise and the plot elements are both quite good. And if this only holds a partial candle up to Korean Dramadies like Spy Myung Wol, Detectives In Trouble, or Rooftop Prince, it will be in quality company and worth checking out to see just how twisted this show ends up becoming. Pretty much the best cult TV SciFi/Fantasy stories I have found seem to come out of South Korea, not because they are inherently better, but because the writers work so hard to squeeze every last twist and turn out of the plot that you can’t help but say “I never saw that coming!” at least once per TV series, and often once a week.
They have now finished the GGO (Gun Gal Online) story arc in season 2 of Sword Art Online and are about to roll out the next one, Caliber. They did the same thing in season 1, where the first story arc was a Clear-the-Levels dungeon quest, and the second one was a Save the Princess game. While I think they could have actually broken them into 4 separate segments, they chose to do them in groups of two. I am really enjoying the Anime, almost as much as I enjoyed the books by Reki Kawahara they are based on. The other set of books he created, sharing that same universe and also turned into an anime series, is Accel World, which I am also enjoying watching. If you haven’t seen them yet, take some time to check them out; I think you will enjoy them.
Syfy has a pitiful track record at made for TV movies, but both their original TV series and their miniseries have been excellent, and Ascension looks like it could be a winner. The premise is simple; what if the space race Kennedy started in 1962 didn’t collapse once humanity made it to the moon, but kept going. If that progress had been steady, by now we would be launching our first expeditions to the nearer stars… and what a different universe that would have been! Of course, to keep up that constant development, you would have needed someone to race against, who also didn’t falter or pause.