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An Old Friend
Hailing Frequencies from Julia Houston
Anyone Going to watch this? I missed the first one, I'm afraid I'm going to come in on the middle if I watch this one first. For that reason I will likely NOT watch this one until I get to watch the first one.
Thanx Julia!
4400
The show starts back up this week (whee!) and TrekWeb has an interview up with executive producer and former DS9 writer Ira Steven Behr. Here's a bit:
In the opening episode "Wake Up call", 4400 philanthropist Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell) has joined with other returnees to found a "4400 center," a development that Behr explains will set the stage for a spiritual exploration of the 4400 and their situation this year.
"The 4400 are stepping forward and [have] a chance to unite everyone to help prevent this catastrophe from happening in the future, and it certainly deals the 4400 a question of faith and it has a quasi-religious feel to it," he says. "I think that the 4400 as an entity is incredibly interesting. One of the things that we want to do is allow the audience to make their own judgment about the 4400. We really made [them] into a very public movement, reaching out into the community and asking you to join with them in finding the '4400 ability within you' -- because they're all human beings like us. They've been studied and they don't have nannites in their system or any kind of 'tech'," (an oblique reference to the phrase that notoriously doomed many STAR TREK scripts), "that would make them different than you or I and so it's just an evolution, it seems, an accelerated evolution, of the human mind, the human species. The idea that we all have this ability within us if we can find it, is I think going to polarize the world in terms of the show and give the fans a lot to chew on.
Anyone Going to watch this? I missed the first one, I'm afraid I'm going to come in on the middle if I watch this one first. For that reason I will likely NOT watch this one until I get to watch the first one.
NEWS BITS
* SCI FI Wire has a good article up on Alan Gardner and his "east meets west" novel, Radiant.
* Check out the trailer for Save the Green Planet, then tell me what the hell it is.
* The Crow: Wicked Prayer premieres June 3, 2005 at the AMC Pacific Place Theatre in Seattle, Washington, then will screen wider a week later before being released on DVD July 19th.
* Smallville is moving to Thursdays at 8 PM.
* Sin City 2 should start production January 2006. No script or cast news yet.
TOP SCI-FI/FANTASY BOOKS, Amazon - 5/20/05
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2. Black Rose (In the Garden)
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. Eldest (Inheritance 2)
5. Star Wars: Episode III
6. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl 4)
7. Angels and Demons
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
9. The Time Traveler's Wife
10. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
TOP SF/F SYNDICATED SHOWS, NGR, 5/2 - 5/8/05
1. Stargate SG-1 1.7
2. Andromeda 1.5
3. She Spies 1.5
4. Twilight Zone 1.3
5. Mutant X 1.2
6. The Outer Limits 1.2
7. The X-Files 1.2
8. Angel 1.1
9. Buffy 1.1
10. Ripley's 0.8
Thanx Julia!