Sci-Fi Tv Through the Years

Not sure what prompted the retrospect, but found this in our local media.

Sci-Fi TV through the years

Some fine shows appear in this slide show but several excellent ones have gone missing! Firefly for one! Also Space: 1999, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, original Battlestar Galactica, Star trek Next Gen, and The Avengers (If they include the Prisoner, I feel Emma Peel and John Steed deserve a place).

So what are your favorites that have been omitted from this? There are so many excellent (and not so excellent) sci fi show out there.

This also brings up a common debate amongst geeks. What constitutes sci fi? If they include Superman, why not X-men or Batman? Are they true sci fi or comic book heros?  Does fantasy fall into this category?  I would put the Prisoner and Avengers in more a fantsasty genre but the zone is definitely grey.

So what elements does a show have to have for you to consider it sci fi?

  \  /
  (  )
(     )
 = =

What's Japanese for "Squeeee!"?

Via Galley Slaves comes word of a live-action production of Star Blazers, to which I say, with slightly unsynchronized mouth movements, "Hot dog!"

Everybody sing!

Paris, Oshkosh, Andrews? Amateurs.

This past May, JWT and our respective children took in the sights and (often incredibly loud) sounds of the Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, DC. It was impressive although I think my kids enjoyed the dollar-a-pop moonbounces more than the occasionally earsplitting airshow flights.

However, if it landed on the same weekend as the Sci-Fi Airshow, some hard decisions would have to be made.

Unless of course there was no oppportunity to play in Moonbounce Alpha.