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Have you ever woken up on a Monday, or even a Tuesday, looked out the window at the rain and the wind and thought, holy hell, another boring day, off to work - why, oh why, baby Jesus, why would you do this to me?
Well, he does it to you to allow the karmic romper room for things like this. Without a constant diet of grey boring nothingness, something as delightful as this wouldn't be half as unexpected or as totally awesomely brilliant.
Trust the Portuguese to combine the unstoppable force of Star Wars with the moveable object that is sand in such a delightful way. Here's a couple of pics to prove that whilst he likes to dish out plenty of rough stuff, baby Jesus still has a twinkle in his eye.
Did you ever get in a room and start talking to someone about Sci Fi and then realise after a few minutes that you just weren't getting through? That somewhere, in between 'Teal'c is awesome' and '7 of 9' is smokin' they started looking at you in that blank way usually reserved for gravy stains on corduroy trousers or bits of gum on the bottom of one's shoe?
Its a shameful and shaming experience. But it doesn't have to happen.
Too many people in the wide world aren't 'down' with Sci Fi. Typically, these are people who lack imagination, courage, and a history of regular torment and teasing as a child as they tried to protect their twelve-sided dice from schoolyard bullies, or brought their headless Princess Leia doll tearfully back home. These are the people who don't have 'their own little world'.
Due to the overwhelming response to the beyond excellent Rocketman, as performed by William Shatner, it seemed only fair to give his right hand man, Leonard Nimoy, his chance to walk down our memory lanes.
It was a time of innocence, a time where Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson had barely thought about unleashing hobbitses onto the silver screen.
But Bilbo Baggins was big in the sixties. Hobbitses were huge. The graiffito 'Frodo Lives!' adorned the US subways as a call to arms for the disenfranchised. And Star Trek (the original) was still on air.
You may have noticed, you may not (let's hope you have) the great big brand-spanking new super excellent and most worthy addition to the SCI FI website - SPECTRUM.
SPECTRUM is of course our new online video player which will give you all sorts of cool vidtidbits (and even cool sonic tidbits) to feed our ever-widening horde of clickers.
Fans of Blake's 7 will be pretty much stoked that the new player also incorporates the first new rendition of this classic series in over 30 years - as an extremely well produced audio adventure. The very first adventure, 'Rebel' is now live, which will give a crash course introduction to the heroes (and villains) of the show to newbies and alse give old fans a re-introduction to one of the UK's most beloved Sci Fi adventure series.
Sometimes the melding of late seventies special effects and porno music is so compelling it defies description. For many, this will be a trip down memory lane. for others, it will be yet another WTF moment on SCI FI PI.
It's one of our most requested golden oldies to put on air on SCI FI. It's the glory that is Martin Laundau and Barbara Bain, hurled across space in an orbitless moon by that evil genius Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson. The glamour of Science Fiction, 1975 style.
Enjoy!
Walking around Bright Lights Studios in Vancouver you quickly understand the massive scale of production that a major Sci Fi TV show requires to get to air. 9/10ths of the entire studio are currently turned over to Stargate:Atlantis, and with a combination of permanent and 'swing' sets on several massive sound stages, the sounds of activity are constant. One day an 'indoor' forest will exist next to a village, the next day a spaceship will spring into existence.
Sets are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Of course, sets like The Daedalus, the Puddle Jumper, Atlantis Base and The 'Village' remain more or less intact. But even these sets remain active, providing surprising versatility for a show that's soon heading to its 100th episode.
On The Set Of Stargate:atlantis In Vancouver - More Impossible Pics!
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Monday, May 19
by Captain
After our first day on The Daedalus set of Stargate:Atlantis to chat with the stars of the show and to talk to creator Brad Wright and star Ben Browder about Stargate:Continuum, it comes as a bit of a shock that the next day was even better - walking into the gate room of Atlantis Base was something of a Sci Fi fan's dream - but it's not just the context of being there - it's the sheer physicality. It's a massive set.
The workmanship is astounding - the railings that Shepherd and co look down on before the next off-world visit are all 'don't move if you bang it with your fist safe as any bridge' solid metal, and the up close touches of the keyboards, offices and medical bays are a sight to behold.
On Board The Daedalus - Sci Fi Pi Visits The Set Of Stargate: Atlantis
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Friday, May 16
by Captain
One of the coolest things about getting to go on set of a major Sci Fi show is sharing it with SCI FI fans.
With our visit on board The Daedalus, we could get right up close and see the kind of detail that you never get to see on air, the kind of 'behind the scenes' details that really define the show, but is never really revealed through transmission.
The first thing you notice about The Daedalus set of Stargate:SG-1 and Stargate:Atlantis is that as a space ship, it hasn't been created to look that futuristic - obviously, it's made to look like it was built in the present time, and shares a great deal of the surprisingly analogue technology that you'd find in any state of the art aircraft carrier. The buttons are switches, they aren't just glass panels, there's plumbing fittings and there's more than just a passing nod to the warning labels and signs that you see in the modern US. Navy.
Some of our SCI FI fans may not have seen this already, and for those who have, you really don't need much convincing to see it again.
William Shatner remains an icon not just of Sci Fi, but of popular culture. At the 1978 Saturn Awards, he blended his singular vocal stylings with the words and music of Bernie Taupin and Mr Elton John.
The results speak for themselves. It is simultaneously the most ridiculous thing that has ever existed and, obviously, the coolest thing that has ever been done. Sit back, relax and enjoy - William Shatner's version of 'Rocketman'.
Glarkware, one of the few truly tremendous receptacles for awesome yet geeky T-shirts, has come up with a limited edition number for true die-hard Battlestar Galactica fans.
Only available in May, it's an excellent alternative and/or replacement for your Kevin '07 T-shirt!
Fans of the Show will tell you of the difficulties that occur when you try to run an election with only 50,000 living humans scattered across a rag tag flotilla of spaceships, you're dying of cancer and your running mate is a Cylon-lovin' traitor.
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