Category: Sci-Fi
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Aliens Being Real Would Be the Most Important Thing That’s Ever Happened, Not Cheap Political Theatre
It seems most of us are generally aware that a hearing was held in the US House of Representatives the other day that discussed UFOs (or UAPs as they were mostly called) and aliens. David Grusch, a former USAF intelligence officer and one of three whistleblowers called to testify, alleged that the government has recovered…
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The Only Good Jedi Is a Dead Jedi – A Modest Proposal for the Future of Star Wars
by William Moon The Jedi have to go. Both for real-world reasons (their mystique is long gone, mired in a morass of vaguely defined mythology) and for in-universe ones (one of them inevitably turns evil and starts blowing up planets). I’m not advocating for a Sith takeover either. They only seem to exist in the…
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The Bats**t Chronicles #2: Dune
by William Moon As promised, The Bats**t Chronicles returns with a sophomore outing covering Dune. (See the entry on Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway here.) And where to start with Dune exactly? Well, first off, this won’t focus on any one particular version of Dune and instead will look at the novel and…
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The Best of Futurama: Why We Keep Coming Back to the World of Tomorrow
by William Moon It can be easy to forget since we still don’t have any firm release date, but Hulu has revived Futurama from its cryonic stasis once again. The first half of the series’ 20-episode order is slated to drop sometime this summer, and after an initial delay, all of the show’s original regular…
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Whatever Will Happen with the Man of Tomorrow?
As Superman: Legacy flies into pre-production, let’s examine what audiences may be looking for from the Man of Steel on the big screen by William Moon Yesterday was the 85th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1. (The cover date is June 1938, but it went on sale on April 18th of that…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part Two
Numbers 100-51 are in part one here. And we press on. 50. “TVC 15” (1976, Station to Station) One of Bowie’s most willfully bizarre tracks, “TVC 15” begins with a boogie-woogie piano intro, which is joined by a golden oldies-style vocal line from Bowie. While the vocals are buried in a surprisingly busy mix, the…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part One
by William Moon We lost David Bowie over seven years ago now, which feels impossible until you remember how little meaning time has had in the intervening years (too busy flexing and wanking, I suppose). The recent appearance of his Queen duet “Under Pressure” in the award-nominated film Aftersun sent me into a Bowie place,…
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A Dream Given Form – 25 Episodes That Show Why ’90s Throwback Babylon 5 Is Worth Your Time
NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 by William Moon We’re not quite to its 30-year anniversary (the pilot TV movie Babylon 5: The Gathering first aired on February 22, 1993), but having recently completed a rewatch of the entire series (which was also a first watch for my wife), I think…
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1982: Movie Sci-Fi’s Best Year?
Multiple Classics of the Genre Look at 40 by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 June 1982 was a fat month for movie releases. In an era now where studios fight over release date real estate much like jackasses fight over smart TVs on Black Friday, the logjam of…
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The 100 Greatest Science Fiction Movies, Part Two
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in July 2021 OK, we’re back. Here’s part one, in case you missed it. Now, on with the list. 50. 12 Monkeys (1995, dir: Terry Gilliam) I mentioned in the intro that La Jetée was ruled out because it’s not feature length, but that you…
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The 100 Greatest Science Fiction Movies, Part One
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in July 2021 Well, why not? I should note that this list is just my opinion, and the larger Sci-Fi Gangstas team reserves the right to their own views on the subject (possibly we may hear those views at some point in the future). With…
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Keep Circulating the Tapes: The Evolution of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Continues
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2021. There’s been a flurry of articles discussing Mystery Science Theater 3000 lately. Like this one…or this one. (Both of those are definitely worth reading.) Maybe I don’t have a tremendous amount to add here. MST3K is an institution, something that began airing…
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The Post-Script to a Classic – Three Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation at Its Peak
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in September 2017 For this 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a series that’s as important to the development of science fiction on television and in popular culture as its famed predecessor, let’s take a look at the show’s most famous episode(s), the two-part season-spanning…
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Don’t Feed the Plants: The Genius of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the King of the Nerd Musicals
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in August 2017 Well, certainly the talk of this week has been about the…♪ to-tal-e-clipse-of-the-Sun. So that naturally got me thinking about one of my all-time favorite movies, Little Shop of Horrors. This isn’t a round number anniversary for the film or anything, nor is there any type…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part V
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 So now it’s all down to this…We’ve tromped through 138 episodes of this series in the previous four installments (links below), and now we’re staring down the disruptor barrel at the top 35 entries in the show’s catalogue. It’s been…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part IV
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Welcome back, everyone. This is gonna be the best Part IV since Rocky IV. We’ve traipsed through 103 of the show’s 173 episodes, so that means we have…hmmm…carry the one…um…70 episodes left…that’s right…70. So, hows about we press on? Once again,…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part III
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 The endurance test continues. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed reading the first two parts of this five-part series. I imagine if you haven’t, you probably won’t be reading this. We’re continuing to rank the episodes of the underrated 90’s sci-fi series Star Trek:…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part II
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 …And we’re back. I hope you enjoyed Part I, because Part II’s gonna be more of the same, just extra awesome. The episodes get better and better, and I don’t know about of some of our international customers/readers, but we…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes, Part I
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Hello all, I’m the new guy here at Atlanta Classic Comics. I like lists. This is a list. All right, now that that’s settled, let’s get started. In my opinion, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the overall strongest Trek series, and I don’t…
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