New SciFi site from NBC Universal

For addicts of the SciFi Channel, there is a new site launched this week which is promising all sorts of downloads, exclusive interview content, competitions and whatnot to satisfy you in the few spare minutes when you're not glued to.. the SciFi Channel.

Looks alot like every other TV channel site to me but hey, its SciFi goodness so we thank them for that. Oh yes.

I'll let you know if anything remotely exciting occurs once I join the "community".

Stay tuned....

Futurama geekfest

Always one for a little extreme geekism of a weds lunchtime, the Gnu stumbled upon an insanely good entry on everything2.com which is so cool it deserves a post all of its own.

Now some of you may have seen enough episodes of the mildly implausible futuristic Simpsons-come-Star Trek sci-fi soap that is Futurama to know that it is... shall we say... a bit of a challenge to keep any grasp from season to season as to what happened when to whom.. and how many of the characters Zoidberg has eaten for example.

So Sam 512 gets full kudos for mapping the entire and ultra-confusing chronolgy of events in the whole Futurama series. Now, do not underestimate this feat - there are a lot of shitty versions out there that claim to be accurate but this guy has really wrapped his brain around multiple dimensions simultaneously in such a way that I'm not sure the whole world won't turn inside out.

If you don't believe me, take a look for yourself.

The Dresden Files - TV series

Ok so I finally got my paws on the first episode of the Dresden files and frankly I don't see it making it on the small screen this side of the pond unless we grow another 200 channels and they need a low budget Buffy wannabe to fill them with.

Although the plot stays close to the original, the special effects, as pointed out in the blogosphere are virtually nil. Like Buffy there is plenty of action and unrealistically pretty people raising perfectly pucked eyebrows (and that's just the guys) at each other but it really is a late night cable effort which needs some serious financial investment.

The TV critics of course seem to love it. Well, it fits nicely in to the genre and I imagine its easy enough to sell ad slots but given that the books are written like a decent TV series you'd expect the real TV series to be spot on.

Disappointing but reasonable light entertainment if you've just got in... at 3am.