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12.18.04

Entergeekment Tonight

I just took a break from a week of Extended Return of the King viewing to catch up on my sci-fi/fantasy news web-surfing and ... jaw-drop after jaw-drop after jaw-drop.

1. Someone's bought the movie rights for The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, and started on the screenplay. How unlikely is this? Well, the series stands at seven books with three to go; the books are long, dark, and complex; and the protaganist, a leper translated to a magical land where his senses are restored and he is regarded as a savior, isn't exactly a heroic, sympathetic figure.

True, we all thought the Lord of the Rings was unfilmable, too. But here's a big difference: Frodo never raped anyone.

2. Farscape star Ben Browder is joining the cast of Stargate SG-1 next season. How are you supposed to feel when your favorite actor, who starred in an outstanding TV series, signs on for a much-much-less-good one? (Consolation: at least he's not on Stargate Atlantis.)

3. Farscape co-star Claudia Black, a terrific and funny actor in her own right who has a guest role in an upcoming SG-1 episode, is reportedly doing a five-ep arc for the series in the ninth season, the same one Browder has signed on for. The ante is upped: Ben and Claudia, together again, maybe.

Still ... it's Stargate, the series that, ever since being acquired by the "Sci-Fi" Channel, largely just sits around the conference table. And on the rare occasions it does get out of the office to wander around the forests of Vancouver, it pretty much just plods down the tired old Trek trail of TV sci-fi cliché. If the next thing I hear is that Farscape showrunner David Kemper is joining the Stargate creative team*, then I'll get excited.

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* Update, 12.20.04: Come to think of it, Kemper did write the story for one Stargate episode, back in the first season. So maybe ...

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I think it would make more sense to make a movie of the Gap series. Wait, what am I talking about?

– randomlife · 9 AM

You do such a good job on keeping me up on the minutia of my geeky sci-fi indulgences. Thx bro. :)

– kris · 10 AM

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