Another classic battle from Gamera vs Guiron (the good part is at 8:30 onward):

“That’s Cathy Rigby in that suit.”

Classic.

Meanwhile, don’t miss the musical complexities of the Gamera theme:

Sci Fi Weekly has an interview with David Tennant.

Technorati Tags: Doctor+Who

I an tired and my brain is dead.  Hence, the need for some funnies. For some reason I had been thinking about good ol’ MST3K and Gamera and YouTube did not dissappoint:

This was from Gamera v. Zigra, a personal fav. The fight sequence that starts around 8:15 and goes on to the next clip is utterly, totally, absolutely classic:

The last clip has a panoply of versions on the ever-popular Gamera theme song.

Technorati tags: Gamera, MSTSK

Via TrekToday, we have yet more evidence that Rick Berman didn’t get it (Berman Still Pondering Failure of ‘Nemesis’):

Speaking to Star Trek Magazine (via Sci Fi Pulse), Berman also explained that Leonard Nimoy was his first choice to direct Generations, but Nimoy was unhappy with the script (in previous interviews, mainly with Spock’s small, generic part) and did not want to take part in the project.

“I felt it was important to bring members of the original cast into the story to pass the torch. Now, obviously, because there was a century time difference we had to come up with a story that would allow that to happen. And we did,” Berman said. “When it came time to select a director, after everybody was happy with the script, the first person we agreed we would go talk to was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was not pleased with the script. He wanted to do some pretty dramatic work…let it be said there were disagreements and the end result was that there was a bit of a falling out.”

Let’s face facts:  Generations was largely boring, and there were certainly far, far more exciting ways to integrate the two generations.  Too bad Berman didn’t take some of Nimoy’s advice.  Not only would having him on board as director made it truly a merging of TOS and TNG, but given that III, IV and VI all had substantial input from Nimoy, and all were superior films to Generations, then it is logical (if I may use the word in this context) to assume that Nimoy’s suggestions for Generations would likely have been a better film for them.

Via the SciFi Wire:  Writers Hired For JLA Film

Via the SyFy Portal: ‘Caprica’ Will Be ‘Battlestar Galactica’s’ ‘Lou Grant’

“I would say it’s pretty positive, because of the support for ‘Battlestar,’ but also because it represents a pretty strident departure from the kind of show ‘Battlestar’ is,” Eick said. “Not that SciFi doesn’t like the kind of show that ‘Battlestar’ is, but I think if you’re going to do a spinoff, you can do ‘Xena’ or ‘Stargate: Atlantis,’ which are sort of variations of the same theme as their precedessors. Or you can say, ‘OK, you had ‘M*A*S*H,’ and then you had ‘Trapper John, MD.’ Or you had ‘Mary Tyler Moore” and then ‘Lou Grant.'’ So I think this is more in the spirit of taking a portion of the mythos, the backstory of ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and then advancing it in a completely new direction with a different style and tone and just an overall different kind of show than ‘Battlestar Galactica.’”

Ok, I understand what Eick means, but that just sounds, well, odd. But perhaps that because I never watched Lou Grant.

I would’ve thought I was geekier than that!

Take the Geek Test and see how you rank.

The column is here: ‘Trek’ wreck: ‘Final Frontier’ documentary boldy goes … nowhere.

I must confess, I wasn’t all that impressed with what I had read (centering the piece around the Christie’s auction) and really, I am not sure much new could be done with a Trek documentary. This column hardly inspires even programming the TiVo to try the thing out.

Via the LAT: ‘Battlestar’ will be back for four

For a while, things looked iffy for “Battlestar Galactica.” After the Sci Fi Channel last month moved the third-season drama about a human resistance movement against an occupying race of robots from Friday nights to Sunday nights in an attempt to goose ratings, viewership remained stagnant.

The network has ruled, however, that the show won’t live by numbers alone: The Sci Fi Channel is expected to announce Tuesday that it has renewed the series for a fourth season. At least 13 new episodes will be produced this summer for a premiere next January.

That’s excellent news. The bad news, however, is that a 13-episode order is smaller than S2 or S3. Worse, if S4 is slated for January, that means a loooong wait from the end of S3 (likely to end in a major cliffhanger, if history is a guide) and the start of S4.

Update: SyFy Portal reports that the final episode number will likely be 20.

Norman Spinrad, author of the screenplay for TOS’s The Doomsday Machine talks about the experience in this video:

Via TrekMovie.com