Kestrachern

Over the US Thanksgiving Day weekend I finally had the opportunity to catch up on Lost. I’ve made it through seasons 4 & 5 and am now working on season 1, with 2-3 to follow.
Present Theories:
Jacob is the father trying to raise his child.  A loose parallel of Christian and Jack.
The Island is a prison: [...]

I’ve finished the remade Battlestar Galactica and it is to Sci-Fi what Sarah Palin is to a competent political career.
Though mildly entertaining it was more of a Thornbirds in space or Dynasty with rocketships than it was anything close to Science Fiction.  The story was internally inconsistent and the writers had only one formula for [...]

My first brush with the series came at a 2005 Halloween party in San Francisco. The woman I was dating at the time noticed someone dressed in blue pants, deck shoe, and dark blue jacket with white piping and cried out “The Prisoner”. I thought to myself… doesn’t look like a prisoner.. she [...]

I’ve been watching my way through older Science Fiction television series. Where older = no longer in production.
So far I’ve watched:

Farscape – very good.  Sadly there was no 5th season leading for a rushed movie.
Sliders – meh. Two and a half good seasons out of 5.
Firefly – YAY. [...]

Continuing in my exploration of “classic” Sci-Fi series I’ve been watching Sliders. For those that you that are not familiar with the show it follows the adventures of four individuals that have a discovered a way to move or Slide between alternate universes. Most of the episodes focus on the main characters [...]