Samantha Pierce

For those of you who have more snow than you know what to do with here's an idea . Those Daleks have got more lives than a Time Lord's cat. As one commenter at the site says, "PRECIPITATE! PRECIPITATE!"

Hubby and I have been wondering for years what was wrong with the top brass at the Sci Fi Channel. Now that they've decided to change the channel's name to the spiffy (and juvenile) sounding SyFy we are really wondering. I get the feeling that no one running the channel is actually a sci fi fan. If any of them were they would know better than to do and say something like this, Sci Fi Channel Aims to Shed Geeky Image With New Name “The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular,” said TV historian Tim Brooks, who helped launch Sci Fi Channel when he worked at USA Network. Mr. Brooks said that when people who say they don’t like science fiction enjoy a film like “Star Wars,” they don’t think it’s science fiction; they think it’s a good movie. “We spent a lot of time in the ’90s trying to distance the network from scienc...

From the comments on this 2005 post : April 1, 2008: "Your blindspots are showing." "I'll forgive your ignorance this time, but try to see beyond your noses." January 16, 2009: "You're white..." The only picture I have of myself on this blog is the South Park cartoon avatar at the top of the left sidebar. (Fixed the date for the January comment.)

The season premier of Eureka is tonight. Finally! Why must they make us wait so long to get a good scifi fix? Hilarious.

Here are the letters I mentioned in the previous post. The one that started it (I'm guessing these letters were written after the show's first airing at the end of 2003): Galactica Needs More Diversity The problem I had with Battlestar Galactica was there were no major and very few minor African American characters. There were no Black men in the show at all or if they were, they had virtually no screentime. In the original series, Boomer and Tigh were both played by African American actors. In this rendition of Battlestar, those characters were played by Asian and White actors. In the Caprica city, there no African American extras. On the Galactica's bridge, there was only one African American actress. Another Black actress could be found playing a religious official that swore in the new President of the colonies. This was very troubling to me. Do you not want African Americans to watch your show? Do you want to project the idea that African Americans are not part of the ...