Category: Sci-Fi

I’ll be getting back to The West Wing, but first Bismo has another series he’s recommended. It’s Brisco County, Jr., starring fan favorite Bruce Campbell from — yikes! — 31 years ago, and I really enjoyed it. Watching how well the characters are introduced made me realize what the West Wing needed was a 2-hour pilot episode. You can watch the Brisco pilot episode at this link. https://dai.ly/x8hazjt

Commissioned for the Horizons pavilion at Disney EPCOT, Robert McCall’s painting, “The Prologue and the Promise”, was on display for a few years. This is a high-resolution image.

After being taken down, the painting disappeared. Its whereabouts are unknown. Not an easy canvas to hide, at 60 ft. wide by almost 20 ft. tall.

https://www.mccallstudios.com/the-prologue-and-the-promise/
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Prologue_and_the_Promise

Red Dwarf was the nerdiest of all nerdy Sci-Fi shows, as well as also being the raunchiest.

Fans who are wondering where Craig “Lister” Charles is today will find him on BBC Radio 6.

If Star Trek is Wagon Train in space, then Dune: Part Two is Lawrence of Arabia in space. That isn’t intended to be a slight. The movie is a bit of a overly long mess, but it’s a fun ride. Which describes a lot of movies these days, I guess.

At last, the promise of what Star Wars could be, that George Lucas was unable to fulfill, is here. Andor is the Better Call Saul of Sci-Fi.

I’m almost done watching season 1. In one of the episodes there is an absolutely brilliant integration of the dystopian existence of Lucas’ THX 1138 into his Star Wars universe, along with a nod to Star Trek’s “Journey to Babel” episode. Season 2 will be out next year.