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The hottest stories and best comments of the week

The hottest stories and best comments of the week
The cast of the late, lamented Firefly

Here's a list of our hottest stories (and you certainly proved that Firefly is as hot as ever seven years after it went off the air) and best comments this week, in case you missed anything. Just think of it as a DVR for SCI FI Wire.


Our story: First look at Robert Rodriguez's bloody, violent Predators

Your best comment: We need fewer reboots and more versus movies... Predator vs. Star Trek.... Aliens vs. Sex and the City... Freddy vs. Forrest Gump... Jason vs. Hanna Montana... I'd pay to see any of those for sure!—trueman832


Our story: 7 years after Firefly: Where are they now?

Your best comment: I like to think that Firefly is still running in an alternate universe. Now if I could only get there & buy the DVDs.—Omen


Our story: The Green Hornet's latest problem: A bomb scare

Your best comment: Rogen will make Catwoman look like Citizen Kane by the tine he is done with it. That fat bastard should NOT be the hornet.—Suicidy


Our story: Video Exclusive: An hour with Battlestar's Ronald D. Moore

Your best comment: I'd rather drink gasoline and pee on a brush fire than spend an hour with this buffoon. Hey Ron, thanks for ruining BSG!—snake


Our story: Watch the new trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street

Your best comment: Contemporary re-imagining? And the 1980s were... the dark ages? Way to make me feel old, Hollywood.—Mandy


Our story: Bay updates Transformers 3 and calls Megan Fox on her BS

Your best comment:: I honestly hope that no one went to see Transformers 2 expecting to see Oscar quality of acting. It is an action flick which consists of the basic food groups action (check), violence (check), hot half naked women (check), lots of explosions (check), and catchphrase to say for the next week(check again).

If you want to see high caliber acting watch foreign films or whatever the lemming society says is good i.e. The Notebook, whatever Jennifer Aniston or Tom Hanks is in. (tho he does make some great films.)

We must accept that our genre is not going to win for best picture. We want our scifi. The founder of all things geeky, Star Trek has the worst actor as the headliner. William Shatner could not act out of a wet paper bag, but that is what we love about it.

So we should just accept that these types of movies are what they are.

"I am geek, hear me wheeze"—Stonefox13


It looks like John Carter of Mars film will combine several books

Your best comment: They do know that everyone is naked in the books right?—batman59


Our story: Literary classic Little Women being remixed with werewolves

Your best comment: Don't leave out Sci Fi, THE GRAPES OF WRATH OF KHAN. Grandpa Joooooaaaaaadddd!!!!!!!


Our story: Rumor control: A vampire in the new Dune?

Your best comment: OMG!!! Frank Herbert is rolling over and over in his grave!

Haven't we seen enough vampirism in the movies and television already? Need we infuse the lameness of the ideas into every other story idea ever made?

Next, we will see 2001, 2010, and 2063 redux with vampires being the manipulators of the monoliths! Or Star Trek in yet another alternate reality with Spock having pointy canines along with pointy ears! The horror of it all is so revolting to the bloodstream!—divephotog


Our story: Why Paolo Bacigalupi feels it's time for sci-fi to change

Your best comment: Regarding the question of whether SF focuses on environmental topics (not just global warming, please), I'll repeat that my sense is that while you can point to individual authors who write on environmental themes, there doesn't seem to be a coherent trend or movement of doing so. Kim Stanley Robinson is a fabulous writer, and yes, we can point to others who work with the question (Bruce Sterling is another who comes to mind), but it's interesting how separated these writers are, and it's interesting how they aren't associated as a coherent movement or group. Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Military SF... but no real movement of writing on environmental topics. And that seems a bit odd, and a bit troubling, considering that environmental trends are going to define a great deal of what our future actually looks like.—PaoloBacigalupi


Our story: 19 amazing Star Wars pumpkins

Your best comment: How do we know those are not photoshopped? With the right blend mode one could easily do this... I think.

its do-able.—Cheapshot


Our story: V in trouble again. Expect to see fewer episodes

Your best comment: Instead of listening to all the doomsayers, I choose to see for myself and hope for the best. If I am duped, then so be it. After all, great shows get canceled before their time, once great shows stay on too long, and mindless crap can be a ratings bonanza. I don't pretend to know the perfect formula for the perfect show. I only know what *I* like and don't like.—FireflyFlan


Our story: Peter Jackson's Hobbit films endangered by financing

Your best comment: We should all maybe ask our congressmen to propose a bailout for the Hobbit? :) - kh—divephotog

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Why McTex, because he/she disagrees with you? So, you are correct in a subjective realm? Sounds paradoxical to me...More »


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By oddball at 4:52 PM ON 10/02/09

Again....

By asfm at 5:51 PM ON 10/02/09

They're probably going to do it every week oddball as a way to encourage more comments.

By IronOre at 6:15 PM ON 10/02/09

I don't mind it. I missed the Paolo Bacigalupi when they first posted it, and it was an interesting read, so it does help some people.

Also, this means they're reading our comments and in some small way that means we're influencing the thoughts of SyFy which isn't a bad thing. Maybe one day the bosses of the guys that do the SciFi Wire will pull their heads out.

By SighFyeGuy at 7:40 PM ON 10/02/09

Did divephotog really think there were going to be vampires in Dune or was this a sarcastic comment?
C'mon people, read the article before commenting!!!

By oddball at 10:24 PM ON 10/02/09

Also, this means they're reading our comments and in some small way that means we're influencing the thoughts of SyFy which isn't a bad thing.


Yeah that's obvious considering half my comments get deleted for sharing my "OPINION".


Maybe one day the bosses of the guys that do the SciFi Wire will pull their heads out.

LOL maybe I really shouldn't comment on this one.

By divephotog at 8:30 AM ON 10/03/09

Yes, I beleive they do read the comments faithfully...The problem is that the Wirepeople are not the execs who do the programming and the decision making that we are so adamant about in our postings, nor is their real e-mail access to these people, or the NBC-Uni people who are their bosses.

So our comments do get heard, and occassionally we are able to influence the Wire staff to correct an error or omission in their stories, but guess we can forget the impact going any higher. - kh

By wackamole_atl at 9:55 AM ON 10/03/09

I still say i've seen better stories and scripts on my used toilet paper than whats to come with alot of these remakes.I think alot of the execs see what originally happened with SG1 and think they can make the next big movie to series sci fi hit. Which so far has yet to be seen. I dont know maybe but, then again i think uwe bowl should direct the next transformers( sarcasim hurts sometimes lol)

By Craig at 1:21 PM ON 10/03/09

I'm one of the "bosses of the guys that do the SciFi Wire" and I read the comments regularly. Not only here but on our forums, on message boards on other sites, through e-mail feedback, on Facebook, on Twitter (I'm @syfy) and many other places.

I appreciate your taking time out to leave comments, good, bad and other. And we often discuss them at the weekly Syfy senior staff meeting.

By wackamole_atl at 3:35 PM ON 10/03/09

I'm glad to see someone from wire acknowledge that they read our sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but always from our sci fi loving hearts comments. I'm just one for if its not broke dont fix it , but at the same time dont feel you cant make a little change to it without going overboard. For instance i liked the new BSG ,until it went all spiritual on you. Some people liked it , i didnt and thats my opinion, not everyone else. I for one like seeing articles like this one. If you want to look at it one way this is ET(Entertainment Tonight, not extra terestrial) for us sci fi geeks out there. I would like to see sci fi wire do some more video interviews. Well thank you for reviewing my rants and raves lol.

By Sam at 7:13 AM ON 10/04/09

I'm just waiting for something new to finally arrive in scifi creations. Everything for the last decade has been geared towards killing ourselves because we either deserve it or because that's the way it should be. Wall-e, while cute, still has us looking forward to covering the world with garbage, yet being able to sustain ourselves indefinitely in space. The Day The Earth Stood Still was supposed to be about the perils of war, but instead turned into a flick that had aliens going about wiping out our planet of the “Human infection” to make room “for more worthy species” Terminators are still taking over the world or Aliens are destroying the world. Heck, Transformers have robot aliens out to take over the world!

Then we have the new “horror” darlings. Namely vampires who are always sexy, in positions of power, and make us mere humans seem just that much more like uncooperative cattle by comparison. Can we stop trying to blow up the planet already? Either find a way to do it (with a collider?) or just deal with scifi as it always appealed to the fans: a look into the possible future technologies and what we do with them.

Please, oh please, don't make a futuristic vampire flick out of that idea! (Ultra Violet still makes me cringe.)

By divephotog at 12:40 PM ON 10/05/09

Craig... If the comments are being read, then why is SyFy continuing down the awful road it has chosen with programming. The Comments here must have shown that the general Science Fiction enthusiasm of the channel has decreased over the past years due to the overload of junk (Wrestling?), pseudo-science (Ghost Hunters, Whisperers, Destination Myth, and Scare Tactics - which all belong more appropriately on your sister network under the NBC-Uni umbrella - Chiller), and the massive overload of straight horror creeping in (again more appropraite to Chiller) and now with October, ruling the channel.
If these comments are being read, why is there no effect? A normal business takes comments and complaints to heart in their operation, to keep their business running and serving their clientelle, but here it seems to be leading you all the opposite direction - maybe if we do even worse, we can elicit more comments? - type action... - kh

By McTex at 4:31 PM ON 10/05/09

I still say that Snake is a clueless do^chebag.

By Beezy at 11:11 AM ON 10/06/09

Why McTex, because he/she disagrees with you? So, you are correct in a subjective realm? Sounds paradoxical to me.


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