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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 8:34 am 
There's a thread for this now. 
https://tvclubhouse.com/forum/read.php?file=/6465/12106886.html&lm=1379431403
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Scout
Member
01-19-2005
| Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 9:50 am
Jimmer -Sorry I didn't see your message earlier. Thanks for starting the new thread.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 8:10 pm
I'm not sure what I think about the reboot of Haven. I watched the premiere, but everything's different. I hope things get clearer soon. I do like the new female cast member, and the fact that the wrestler is going by his real name now, not "The Edge", or whatever it was. Maybe he can follow Dwayne Johnson to acting respectability. I look forward to finding out what they got for this season.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, November 30, 2013 - 4:55 pm
So I am watching the Star Trek movies on Syfy and I just don't understand how is it that going around the sun at warp speed creates a time machine, LOL?
Otherwise I am enjoying the movies, LOL.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, November 30, 2013 - 8:59 pm
They stole that from Superman...he used to fly around the earth super fast to achieve time travel.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 3:23 pm
LOL, but wasn't that to make the earth turn backward? I don't understand what the sun has to do with it but oh well, its Star Trek.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 11:32 pm
 
See? It works!
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 8:03 pm
Actually they did it by accident way back in the original series. The idea was based on the slingshot effect to increase warp speed enough to time travel.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Slingshot_effect
The fun thing about Star Trek was that they did not try to make the science real, just enough to sound possible. After all it was science fiction. During the original series, when some authentic sounding science was needed, the writers would insert the words tecchnobabble. Then their science advisers would come up with something to fit the script.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technobabble
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Friday, December 06, 2013 - 5:41 am
Technobabble = awesome...I tried to use it to impress my friends when I was 10 years old and it worked!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Friday, December 20, 2013 - 2:41 pm
Syfy have announced the premieres of their Monday goodness:
Lost Girl Season 4 at 8pm
Being Human Season 4 at 9pm
Bitten Season 1 at 10pm
Bitten's about the only remaining female werewolf in existence and stars the girl who played Kara in Smallville. It says it's a Canadian show but I don't know if it's aired there or not (I often find shows that have aired in Canada don't record if I set a season pass to "new" shows, so that might be something to look out for).
Little video about Bitten and the others at the link:
http://tvline.com/2013/12/20/lost-girl-season-4-being-human-bitten-syfy-promo/
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Friday, December 27, 2013 - 12:17 pm
I saw The Faculty on Syfy last night. I had forgotten all the actors in it that have gone on to bigger things.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Friday, January 10, 2014 - 11:33 am
I am so excited about Helix tonight... a different take on how a CDC deals with a zombie-like outbreak. Looks really good so I'm hoping not to be let down!
Tonight on Syfy, 10-11.30pm, double episode premiere with limited commercial breaks.
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation...or total annihilation.
Helix is the product of some of the biggest names in genre television, starting with Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica). Also Executive Producing are Lynda Obst (Contact) and Steven Maeda (Lost, CSI: Miami, The X-Files).
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, January 10, 2014 - 12:03 pm
Thanks for the heads up!
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Scout
Member
01-19-2005
| Friday, January 10, 2014 - 12:35 pm
I completely forgot this was going to be on tonight. Thank you Kitt!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Friday, January 10, 2014 - 10:38 pm
I like the story and the possibilities but it's coming off as a bit of a mess to me right now. I think it's because there are so many people not talking to each other when they're all in such a perilous situation their protocol would or at least should make them have to update each other all the time. Like the vet woman didn't mention the monkey for how long? And they have people they now know are intent on infecting others yet they shower with music on so they can't hear if anyone comes in?
I'm still hooked though!
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 11:41 am
The loud music bothered me also. Why in the world would you have music playing when crazies are running around loose? Parts were kind of cheezy, but still think the story has possibilities. It reminds me of the movie "The Thing".
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 11:54 am
Oddly enough, my DVR only saw one 90-minute episode, but the reruns have the episodes as two 1-hour episodes....
I'm confused.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 12:05 pm
The 90 minute episode had "limited commercial interruption" so was actually two single one hour episodes minus adverts (although it did have some short ones). All the repeats on Syfy seem to be showing the two episodes (Pilot, Vector) each with their own hour.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 1:18 pm
Kitt, thanks for the explanation! So I have the 90 minute Pilot recorded, I don't need what they are now billing as epi 2?
That's probably why the DVR didn't pick it up.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 1:19 pm
Yeah, the 90 minute show is all you need until next Friday .
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 1:32 pm
Perfect, thanks!
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 5:42 am
Watched the premiere of Bitten (Cdn) last night. From the previews I thought it would be something our girls would watch with us (they love all that werewolf stuff) but after the 2nd somewhat graphic sex scene we nixed that. LOL Was a rough beginning to the viewing and we didn't love it but worth another view.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-21-2003
| Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 8:43 am
Wathced "Helix" last night. I'm not sure about that show. The character development wasn't happening for me so I don't feel invested in anyone. I find a lot of it too unbelieveable and I'm all for a good ride ie "The Dome" which had a lot of that too. I will check out one more episode and see how I feel.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 12:23 pm
Bitten's on in the US tomorrow night, Rissa. I wasn't sure about either, the female based vamp/wolf shows tend to swap sex for story very quickly. There was one only a couple of years ago that did the same, although I can't remember what it was called and it might even still be going. I will probably try it Monday but it doesn't sound like I'll want to keep on watching.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 3:14 pm
What bothered me about it Kitt was the total irrelevance of the nudity to the story. It's not like the show as a whole is very edgy, just tossed in some nudity for shock value. It was nice to see so many Cdn actors and for Toronto to actually BE Toronto and not a stand-in for a U.S. city which happens a lot. The main character's (Elena's) boyfriend is one of the worst actors I have seen in a long time but hubby thinks he will get eaten soon so won't be an issue. LOLOL
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