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Prequels, Reboots, Atlantis, Universe, And Galactica
I’m a prequel hater. No, not those prequels or even prequels in general, but rather the fact that for years “prequel” has been the buzzword that’s grabbed hold of seemingly every major franchise in...
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Reboots Galore: Red Dawn
The folks over at Slice of SciFi are reporting some casting news on a purported reboot of the 1984 movie Red Dawn. For those of you not, erm, old enough to remember the flick, here’s a quick summary:...
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A Shooter Family Holiday Tradition: A SciFi/Geek Christmas Tree – Vehicle...
The 8 1/2 Foot Tall 2010 Shooter Family Geek Christmas Tree I’m sure just about everyone reading this article has some sort of a holiday tradition. Our family has several and usually includes the boys...
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20 Favorite Ships Called Enterprise
A Depiction of Star Trek's Original U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (Special thanks to Jeff Quan at http://www.jcquan.com for the use of the cool art!) A few months ago GWCers The Operator, ThotFullGuy, and...
View Article#261: Time Travel, Part III
We wrap up our time travel arc with a discussion of the morality of time travel, focusing specifically on Back to the Future. And we run down the week in geek, including the Space Shuttle Discovery’s...
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Not Enough SciFi On TV For You? Really?
One of the frequent gripes in the SciFi community is the lack of quality programming for our genre. The shows that do come along don’t seem to get the network and/or fan support they deserve and often...
View Article#277: Fantasy Sci-Fi League 3.0, Round 3
We fly through the third round of FSL 3.0. And we run down the week in geek, including the premiere of Outcasts, yet more new Futurama, a possible Wargames “reboot,” discussion of the latest Planet of...
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Reboot Redeux: Amazing Spider-Man
I’ve always considered the “original” Spider-Man movie to be essentially a reboot, though I suppose many would consider it simply the modern superhero movie formula: Draw liberally from the hero’s...
View Article#290: Don’t Be A Hater
Sean triumphantly returns (physically) to the room. (He never left verbally, of course!) We update our taxonomy of haters and methodology of avoiding becoming such. And we run down the week in geek,...
View Article#293: News, Crysis
Sean tells us about his Xbox 360 Crysis experience. And we run down the week in geek, including Siri AI antics, new Robocop reboot news, Stephen King’s Twilight bagging, Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer...
View Article#329: Prometheus
We dive into a great discussion of Prometheus and the questions it raises about human creation and corruption; the colonization of ancient earth; alien warning frescoes; self-sacrifice vs. selfishness;...
View Article#335: “B” Movie Arc, Part 2: Total Recall
We continue our “B” movie arc with the epically cheesy 1990 sci-fi flick Total Recall and realize that Arnold’s mechanical acting is ideal for a robot or a comic straight man but less convincing in...
View Article#353: A Christmas Reboot
In this penultimate GWC Christmas episode, we re-think everything that makes our holidays what they are. We re-cast and reboot some of our favorite Christmas movies (read: Seth Rogen and Amy Poehler as...
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