
Underrated Classics: Farscape
Underrated Sci-Fi shows: Farscape Honestly, when I started watching this show, I didn’t think I’d make it through the first five episodes, let alone the first season. The pilot was good enough to intrigue me, but the show (especially the first season) had the bad habit of switching from acceptable, to good, to downright horrible episodes. I know a lot of people don’t like the show’s costumes and make-up, but that’s one point I never really understood. Granted two or three cha


Underrated Classics: Shadowrun
Most people credit The Matrix with popularizing the idea of cyberspace, and it's an easy mistake to make. Comparatively few people are familiar with Snowcrash, or Neuromancer, or any of the early cyberpunk novels that shaped the genre. Even fewer are familiar with my favorite pen & paper roleplaying game of all time, Shadowrun. It spawned over 30 novels, several video games, and has clearly inspired Netflix's recent TV movie Bright. The idea behind Shadowrun was both simple,


Fox Killed Firefly
Firefly was in its own genre. Yeah, you could call it Space Opera. You could even call it Sci-Fi Exploration. But at that time, nothing, and I mean nothing, was Science Fiction mashed into Western Classic TV. Cowboys and Cowgirls flying spaceships, shooting space-age guns, and smuggling illegal cargo across the galaxy, while being chased by “Alliance” forces without the use of mutant aliens or creatures popping up on the TV screen here and there, really was in its own Sci-Fi