Tin Man

Mood: Pffft!  Music: Deftones

I have a love/hate relationship with America's 'SciFi Channel'. Actually, it's like 99% absolute loathing. I think they are an embarrassment to science fiction. I will never, ever - in a million fracking years - forgive them for canceling Farscape (and neither should you - the characters wore leather and latex outfits). The Saturday night movies are a haven for 80's soap opera stars and atrocious FX. And now there's word that are taking the last 20 episodes of Battlestar Galactica and dividing them up: 10 episodes in 2008, and the last ten in 2009.

This makes me want to PUNCH SOMETHING.

But it's the only station that carries Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who - so as a scifi geek, I have no choice. It's my fault for not having the patience to wait a few hours until the episodes hit bittorrent. And 'Eureka' - while not great, does not suck. It can be a decent hour of scifi television when nothing else is on.

Usually I gleefully ignore any of their 'special mini-series', but one of my favorite crushes actors is in this thing (mental note: STOP obsessing on Canadian actors) and I've always adored Zooey Deschanel and Alan Cumming.

'Tin Man' is an 'update' on the Wizard of Oz, without Liza's mom singing.

Via the mailing list, I received a heads-up on the new promo pics. And hey, new glove pics! The lady in the pictures is Kathleen Robertson and she plays Azkadellia (Why do the baddies always have complicated names?! Can't a 'Darlene' be a horrid despot too?!).

'Tin Man' will premiere on December 2nd!

(SciFi.com's Tin Man promo page)

Comments

[Tony1827]

Teri,

Have you heard the latest on Galactica? Frackin' April!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2007/10/battlestar-gala.html

Tony

[Tony1827]

Teri,

Another reason to fuel your love/hate relationship to the SciFi Channel. They're changing their name to..... "SyFy" I know, what the frak??!!

http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/sci-fi-channel-to-become.php

Unfortunately, this probably means less science fiction, and more generic crap like reality shows, wrestling and sitcoms. Shows like BSG and Farscape will be even more of a rarity. It will be really sad when BBCAmerica has more science fiction content than the channel formerly known as SciFi.

Tony