I know it's a couple of days late, but I invoke the "It's good until the next episode airs" rule.
How do I begin to break down Monday's Being Human? I think we all learned that even eight hundred years on the Earth isn't long enough for some people to learn that "Hey, we banged the same guy" is not appropriate double-date conversation. I thought werewolves could sense each other, like immortals in Highlander. Vampires can sniff them out but they can't smell each other? Or maybe those are just the British rules. Didn't the purebreds say they could tell that Josh was a wolf? Just...just check the perimeter before you make out, is all I'm saying. It's like the Whedonverse: kissing always hurts someone.
I don't like Mother. She's a big meanie, even among people who drink human blood. However, I agree with her trying to separate Aidan and Suren--albeit for a different reason than she probably had. We all know Suren is bad news bears for Aidan, but it'll be fun to watch this train wreck of a relationship progress through the next episodes.
So, if you kill your maker, you aren't a werewolf anymore. Writers kickin' it old school, I see. Of course, we know that they just can't leave it with Josh refusing to kill Ray and Nora doing likewise. How this new wrinkle will manifest itself later remains to be seen. I see lots of plot loophole potential for that. Maybe Brynn will turn someone and they can reverse it by killing her. Side note: is anyone else a bit anxious as to what Nora meant when she said she got "full" of violence hanging with Brynn?
And now for Saturday's Being Human. Yeah, that's right: I work both sides of the pond and I'm not ashamed of it! My only note on that would be...um...yeah. Succubi. We now have succubi in the mix (and if you paid attention to how a succubus comes into the world, we also have demons). An interesting addition, and I'm not exactly against it, but the three-thing formula gave it a nice, tight little structure, and you could explore the crap out of the inner workings of those three things. As much as I like "everything exists" shows like True Blood, I don't think I want Being Human to become one. Perhaps they toy with the form every once in a while, like in the zombie episode. It was like, "Yep, if the conditions are right, you can be a zombie. How about that?" and they never spoke of it again. Maybe it's a not-so-running gag that occasionally a fourth kind of thing will blow through and then be on it's merry way at the end of the episode. However, there is something tantalizing about the prospect of Hal the Old One knowing a lot more about the supernatural world than Annie or Tom, and using him to reveal new things to his roommates and us.
And speaking of succubi, on to Lost Girl (once-in-a-lifetime segue opportunity).
I started watching this show way after I started recording it, so I had a nice little DVR Lost Girl marathon and now it's on my permanent lineup. Anyway, I think I'll just hit the story arc points that stood out the most in Monday's episode:
Trick and the Ash going at it...yipe! So far (on the US side of things, as we are very late to this party), neither the Ash nor Trick has shown his particular Fae power, and I thought their little confrontation would involve some magical posturing. I suppose in the Fae world, age begets restraint, as the Morrigan also refrained from throwing her magical weight around (I don't know if her Fae power involves wearing the crap out of a red dress, but GOOD GRAVY!). When you're a big mucky-muck you can have grunts do all the zapping and hypnotizing and what-have-you.
Bo: Hey, can I use that awesome weapon that I used on Vex last time?
Trick: Oh, that one. Yeah, the writers don't want to seem repetitive--er, I mean, it got confiscated.
Real cute, guys. I know, it's Story 101: Superman can only throw the "S" on his suit once, then he has to come up with something else to do. It's just really hard to hide the obviousness of that move.
Lauren and Bo being super awkward with each other, and of course Bo can't trust Lauren anymore, but just wait until she finds out what Dyson knows about her past! Crap will hit the fan--of course, since this is Dyson we're talking about, it'll be one of those bladeless fans and the crap will fly right through it. I'm guessing once she finds out about Trick and Dyson keeping things from her, she'll be seduced by the Dark Side and hang out with the Morrigan and her crew for a bit. Just a guess; the Canadian fans getting to the end of season two can correct me if I'm wrong. Bo is very much a good guy, and even though she hasn't picked a side, she seems (at the moment) very Light-leaning. It would be interesting to play up the "lost girl" angle and have her hobnob with the Dark more.
Kenzi is super cute. Not really a plot point; just thought it bore mentioning.
Stay tuned for Thursday (maybe) and Friday (definitely) reviews.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe? Stephen Hawking has the definitive answer
Yeah, this is a little old, but I still wanted to weigh in on the "controversy."
Did you notice the quotation marks around the word "controversy?"
On August 7, 2011, Discovery aired the inaugural episode of it's show Curiosity, asking the question: "Did God create the universe?" First of all, WOW. That's the question you're STARTING the show with? You've made it practically impossible to top yourselves with that one--oh, wait. Mike Rowe peeing on camera. I stand corrected. Anyway, the discussion on this topic was guided by the incomparable mind of one Stephen Hawking, who concluded to no one's surprise that since time began with the Big Bang, there was no room for a God to create the universe, as there could have been nothing before time. Problem solved. Throw away your various holy texts, all Earth religions, Hawking has deemed them obsolete. Nothing could have existed before time! It's all so simple, why didn't I see it before? Should have...sent...a poet...
I'll give you some time to wipe all of the condensed sarcasm off of your screens.
It's really presumptuous for scientists, who can't even come up with much concrete info on the early universe, to say that nothing came before it. There are schools of thought in theoretical physics that propose a cosmic sea of universe bubbles bumping into each other and forming big bangs in the process. Some theoreticians think that our universe Banged out of the Crunch of an earlier universe--which is to say, a previous universe collapsed into a single point, which then exploded back out to form our universe. With all these imaginations working overtime to hash out the particulars of existence (and I haven't even gotten to what different faiths suggest), it just seems a tad odd that Mr. Hawking, in all his unmatched brilliance, couldn't envision anything before time, let alone a God. Which brings me to my next point:
How can you set scientific parameters for an omnipotent Creator? "Well, God wouldn't be able to do that..." And how would you know? It's like the people who say that Superman would not have been able to fly around the world and turn back time in "real life." If Superman exists in real life, all bets are off. If God created time, He would have to have existed before it. Is this impossible? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GOD, people. Scientists put limits on observable phenomena: motion, gravity, light, etc. Since you say He does not exist, you clearly have not observed Him, so there's no way you can limit Him.
Beyond Earth, the universe has yielded nothing but dead rocks and gas giants and yet people believe that there has to be life out there. Even Kepler-22b, our best shot so far, is still a maybe. And yet people--and by people, I mean serious scientists--believe that there MUST be life out there somewhere. MUST. With no evidence whatsoever. I see an ordered universe, from the motions of planets around stars to the twisting ladder of a DNA strand, and I say there MUST be a Creator. Somehow, my lack of scientific evidence makes that idea sillier than the notion of aliens.
In the final analysis, we return to the quotation marks around the word "controversy." If you believe in God, chances are, Hawking hasn't changed your mind. He's just another guy, like Richard Dawkins, using his authority in the scientific community to tackle subjects outside the realm of science. Let me refine that statement: science can search for God, using its limited tools; but until there is definitive proof of existence or nonexistence, a true scientist cannot, in good conscience, make a definitive statement.
Did you notice the quotation marks around the word "controversy?"
On August 7, 2011, Discovery aired the inaugural episode of it's show Curiosity, asking the question: "Did God create the universe?" First of all, WOW. That's the question you're STARTING the show with? You've made it practically impossible to top yourselves with that one--oh, wait. Mike Rowe peeing on camera. I stand corrected. Anyway, the discussion on this topic was guided by the incomparable mind of one Stephen Hawking, who concluded to no one's surprise that since time began with the Big Bang, there was no room for a God to create the universe, as there could have been nothing before time. Problem solved. Throw away your various holy texts, all Earth religions, Hawking has deemed them obsolete. Nothing could have existed before time! It's all so simple, why didn't I see it before? Should have...sent...a poet...
I'll give you some time to wipe all of the condensed sarcasm off of your screens.
It's really presumptuous for scientists, who can't even come up with much concrete info on the early universe, to say that nothing came before it. There are schools of thought in theoretical physics that propose a cosmic sea of universe bubbles bumping into each other and forming big bangs in the process. Some theoreticians think that our universe Banged out of the Crunch of an earlier universe--which is to say, a previous universe collapsed into a single point, which then exploded back out to form our universe. With all these imaginations working overtime to hash out the particulars of existence (and I haven't even gotten to what different faiths suggest), it just seems a tad odd that Mr. Hawking, in all his unmatched brilliance, couldn't envision anything before time, let alone a God. Which brings me to my next point:
How can you set scientific parameters for an omnipotent Creator? "Well, God wouldn't be able to do that..." And how would you know? It's like the people who say that Superman would not have been able to fly around the world and turn back time in "real life." If Superman exists in real life, all bets are off. If God created time, He would have to have existed before it. Is this impossible? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GOD, people. Scientists put limits on observable phenomena: motion, gravity, light, etc. Since you say He does not exist, you clearly have not observed Him, so there's no way you can limit Him.
Beyond Earth, the universe has yielded nothing but dead rocks and gas giants and yet people believe that there has to be life out there. Even Kepler-22b, our best shot so far, is still a maybe. And yet people--and by people, I mean serious scientists--believe that there MUST be life out there somewhere. MUST. With no evidence whatsoever. I see an ordered universe, from the motions of planets around stars to the twisting ladder of a DNA strand, and I say there MUST be a Creator. Somehow, my lack of scientific evidence makes that idea sillier than the notion of aliens.
In the final analysis, we return to the quotation marks around the word "controversy." If you believe in God, chances are, Hawking hasn't changed your mind. He's just another guy, like Richard Dawkins, using his authority in the scientific community to tackle subjects outside the realm of science. Let me refine that statement: science can search for God, using its limited tools; but until there is definitive proof of existence or nonexistence, a true scientist cannot, in good conscience, make a definitive statement.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Sam and Dean are back!
Yes, two posts in one day, who'd have thunk it? Answer: no one, because no one reads this blog. Self-deprecation aside, I watched the Supernatural season premiere yesterday. When last we left our heroes, Castiel had declared himself the successor to the throne of Heaven--which is, you know, a bit presumptuous. The only thing worse than his ridiculous claim was that he had the ridiculous amount of power necessary to back up said claim. Anywho, when we return--oops, wait a minute.
***SPOILERS BELOW THIS LINE THAT WARNS ABOUT SPOILERS!***
When we return, Sam, Dean and Bobby are all, "okay, you're God now, that's cool, please don't kill us" and Cas is all "You guys weren't supportive of my totally well-conceived plan to team up with a demon and absorb human souls, and now we are no longer besties! I'm updating my Facebook status to 'God--and NOT in a relationship.'" So then he starts exacting holy vengeance on churches who have, in his mind, "gone astray"--basically taking out anyone the executive producers wanted to make not-so-subtle comments about. He starts with the anti-gay dudes and then breaks up the KKK. He's not just smiting the right-wing, though; he also hits a transcendental new age-y place and brings his wrath upon the greatest sinners of them all: MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS! In my opinion, it's about time they got what was coming to them. Have you seen Tony Robbins's teeth? That's not natural.
Where was I? Oh yeah, power-mad angel. Meanwhile, Sam is dealing with the busted wall in his head--busted by Cas, of course. Memories of Hell are leaking into his real life and it becomes harder to differentiate between what's real and what isn't. I just realized that re-capping is very tedious work. Cas makes Crowley his Satan (makes sense, when you change administration, the new guy brings in his own cabinet) and then Crowley is promptly summoned by the boys to help with taking Cas down. Crowley does that gravelly British thing and Dean does his gravelly American thing--amazingly, the word "gank" never comes up. [Side note: wouldn't Mark Sheppard make an awesome younger version of Malcolm McDowell on Franklin and Bash in a flashback sequence or something?]
Dean: "You gots a spell what can bind Death!" Crowley: "Blah blah tea and crumpets, blah blah you can't handle it." Crowley doesn't give it up, but the awesome analog Googling skills of one Robert Fisher eventually yield the spell and they summon ONE OF THE COOLEST CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW EVER sorry about that shameless fanboy outburst. All scenes with Death are funny and interesting, and this one is no exception. Dean: "Here's some junk food, DO OUR BIDDING!" Further banter ensues--Dean and Bobby find out about Sam's hallucinations--until Cas appears and releases Death. Death does the usual fist-shaking expected of upper-level supernatural beings and vanishes. ["One wall per customer?" As if he just goes around blocking everyone's infernal memories. These guys never like to seem like they're too available, which makes storytelling sense. Problems can't be too easily solved. But STILL...GRR!] He does tell them how to beat Cas, however: they've got to get him to fart out the Old Ones (shout out to H.P.) and send them back to Purgatory. Later, they do all that. And then...
Lucifer: What's up, Sam? You're still in the cage! You've been MINDFREAKED! Are you ready?
Sam: No. It's not true. It's IMPOSSIBLE!
Lucifer: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Sam: DO NOT WANT!
Meanwhile...
Cas: Wow, that was crazy, wasn't it? Remember when I killed all those innocent people? Man, that was out of control. But I'm cool--ah. Wait...no, no I'm not. RUN!
Dean: Let me walk closer to you so I can hear that warning again. What's this about running?
The indestructible bodies of Dean and Bobby get thrown into various parts of the room.
Cas: There is no Castiel, only Zuul!
Black out.
I hope they spend as little time as possible on Sam not being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Or if they do, at least give it some kind of interesting twist. If you haven't noticed, every single sci-fi/fantasy show has an episode where the heroes wake up in some mental institution and they discover that the whole show up until this point has been a delusion. Of course, the mental institution is revealed to be an illusion created by some creature and they return to business as usual. Those plots are so tedious to me because you already know they aren't actually going to write off the entire show as a deranged fantasy. There's no suspense, it's just prolonged resolution. Supernatural had an episode like that, and now they're breaking down the walls between reality and illusion in another way. Sam obviously isn't still in the cage if he's not in every scene. How can he hallucinate stuff he can't see? You can't do a Sixth Sense review of every episode since Sam came back and make it all fit. So, I think the next episode is going to resolve that whole thing--or else it'll be about the other characters trying to restore Sam's sanity, without any Blade Runner-esque questions about what's real and what isn't.
Where was I? Oh yeah, power-mad angel. Meanwhile, Sam is dealing with the busted wall in his head--busted by Cas, of course. Memories of Hell are leaking into his real life and it becomes harder to differentiate between what's real and what isn't. I just realized that re-capping is very tedious work. Cas makes Crowley his Satan (makes sense, when you change administration, the new guy brings in his own cabinet) and then Crowley is promptly summoned by the boys to help with taking Cas down. Crowley does that gravelly British thing and Dean does his gravelly American thing--amazingly, the word "gank" never comes up. [Side note: wouldn't Mark Sheppard make an awesome younger version of Malcolm McDowell on Franklin and Bash in a flashback sequence or something?]
Dean: "You gots a spell what can bind Death!" Crowley: "Blah blah tea and crumpets, blah blah you can't handle it." Crowley doesn't give it up, but the awesome analog Googling skills of one Robert Fisher eventually yield the spell and they summon ONE OF THE COOLEST CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW EVER sorry about that shameless fanboy outburst. All scenes with Death are funny and interesting, and this one is no exception. Dean: "Here's some junk food, DO OUR BIDDING!" Further banter ensues--Dean and Bobby find out about Sam's hallucinations--until Cas appears and releases Death. Death does the usual fist-shaking expected of upper-level supernatural beings and vanishes. ["One wall per customer?" As if he just goes around blocking everyone's infernal memories. These guys never like to seem like they're too available, which makes storytelling sense. Problems can't be too easily solved. But STILL...GRR!] He does tell them how to beat Cas, however: they've got to get him to fart out the Old Ones (shout out to H.P.) and send them back to Purgatory. Later, they do all that. And then...
Lucifer: What's up, Sam? You're still in the cage! You've been MINDFREAKED! Are you ready?
Sam: No. It's not true. It's IMPOSSIBLE!
Lucifer: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Sam: DO NOT WANT!
Meanwhile...
Cas: Wow, that was crazy, wasn't it? Remember when I killed all those innocent people? Man, that was out of control. But I'm cool--ah. Wait...no, no I'm not. RUN!
Dean: Let me walk closer to you so I can hear that warning again. What's this about running?
The indestructible bodies of Dean and Bobby get thrown into various parts of the room.
Cas: There is no Castiel, only Zuul!
Black out.
I hope they spend as little time as possible on Sam not being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Or if they do, at least give it some kind of interesting twist. If you haven't noticed, every single sci-fi/fantasy show has an episode where the heroes wake up in some mental institution and they discover that the whole show up until this point has been a delusion. Of course, the mental institution is revealed to be an illusion created by some creature and they return to business as usual. Those plots are so tedious to me because you already know they aren't actually going to write off the entire show as a deranged fantasy. There's no suspense, it's just prolonged resolution. Supernatural had an episode like that, and now they're breaking down the walls between reality and illusion in another way. Sam obviously isn't still in the cage if he's not in every scene. How can he hallucinate stuff he can't see? You can't do a Sixth Sense review of every episode since Sam came back and make it all fit. So, I think the next episode is going to resolve that whole thing--or else it'll be about the other characters trying to restore Sam's sanity, without any Blade Runner-esque questions about what's real and what isn't.
EEK! Mermaid Sighting on Secret Circle
How pleased was I to learn that Phoebe Tonkin from H2O: Just Add Water was actually starring in the new witchy show, The Secret Circle? So now she's a witch AND a mermaid. Welcome to having sci-fi street cred, Phoebe. Also being worth about fifty points in the Obscure Reference game. Her American accent sounds...strange, as do the fake American accents of many an import. But she can work on that. WHO THE HECK KNEW THAT JASON STACKHOUSE WAS AUSTRALIAN? If your answer is "anyone who looked on Wikipedia," then you are a smart aleck and need to shut up. Anyway, if you didn't already know that the person was from a different land, sometimes they can fool you. I was fooled by Anna Torv on Fringe, even though people say her accent is bad. I think the people who say that already knew she was antipodean (look THAT word up on Wikipedia, smart alecks) and were listening really hard for inconsistencies in the dialect. If you aren't looking for it, you won't find it, and you just watch a show and think everyone's American until you learn otherwise. Unless, of course, you hear someone saying, "Howdy you all, this is a totally awesome surf party that we are at, homies! Coca Cola, baseball, apple strudel--I mean pie!" Then some eyebrows might be raised.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Good riddance, Eureka, now time for more ghosts and rasslin'!
Apparently, Eureka is being canceled. Of all the shows in SyFy's highly questionable lineup, Eureka and Alphas (whoops, I called it out, now it'll get the axe too) are the only two science fiction shows amid its original offerings (Enterprise reruns don't count). Everything else is fantasy (Warehouse 13 and Haven), some kind of quasi-fantasy science-ish thing (Sanctuary) and of course, the kajillion reality shows (do we really need a Ghost Hunters AND a Ghost Hunters International?). AND DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE SYFY ORIGINAL MOVIES. It is my theory that their movie development staff is broken up into the "A Team" (Tin Man, The Lost Room) and the "B Squad" (Boa vs. Python vs. Aardvark).
Now, I like the fantasy stuff and I even watch one or two of the reality shows, but you would think that a channel called "SyFy" with so little "Sci-fi" would hold onto whatever it had. Forgive me if I have a little trouble "imagining greater" when they kick all their best stuff to the curb. Actually, all I can do is imagine how the channel could be greater. As I said, I'm no sci-fi snob; I would accept any kind of fantastical scripted entertainment (definitely looking forward to Neverland from my beloved "A Team"), as long as it was well-done (i.e. not Black Scorpion--although even that was preferable to WWE) and could actually stay on for a decent amount of time. I can picture an "In Memoriam" montage similar to the one the Oscars does, except for dead Sci-Fi Channel shows instead of deceased movie people. A moment of silence, if you will...
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Lexx
I know this one doesn't actually count as having been created by the Sci-Fi Channel, but like Sliders, it was picked up and they made new episodes. Either way...WHY????
I didn't forget about First Wave...I just found it kind of boring. That having been said, I would take it. I would take a re-boot of a show that bored me to tears over Monster Finders Transcontinental or whatever abomination they're planning to replace Eureka with.
Sure, SyFy...by all means, cancel one of your best shows. I'm getting Carnivale flashbacks (but I'll gripe about that injustice in another post).
Now, I like the fantasy stuff and I even watch one or two of the reality shows, but you would think that a channel called "SyFy" with so little "Sci-fi" would hold onto whatever it had. Forgive me if I have a little trouble "imagining greater" when they kick all their best stuff to the curb. Actually, all I can do is imagine how the channel could be greater. As I said, I'm no sci-fi snob; I would accept any kind of fantastical scripted entertainment (definitely looking forward to Neverland from my beloved "A Team"), as long as it was well-done (i.e. not Black Scorpion--although even that was preferable to WWE) and could actually stay on for a decent amount of time. I can picture an "In Memoriam" montage similar to the one the Oscars does, except for dead Sci-Fi Channel shows instead of deceased movie people. A moment of silence, if you will...
The Invisible Man
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Lexx
Farscape (This would be like the actor that gets the loudest cheer during the montage)
Why, dang it, why? Rifftrax just doesn't fill the void.
I know this one doesn't actually count as having been created by the Sci-Fi Channel, but like Sliders, it was picked up and they made new episodes. Either way...WHY????I didn't forget about First Wave...I just found it kind of boring. That having been said, I would take it. I would take a re-boot of a show that bored me to tears over Monster Finders Transcontinental or whatever abomination they're planning to replace Eureka with.
Sure, SyFy...by all means, cancel one of your best shows. I'm getting Carnivale flashbacks (but I'll gripe about that injustice in another post).
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Sci-fi Relocation Program
Watching last week's episode of Stargate Atlantis got me thinking about what I call the "Sci-fi Relocation Program." Whenever you see an actor from another sci-fi show (especially a canceled one) on another, perhaps more successful show, you have witnessed the SFRP in action. For example, in the show I just mentioned, Connor Trinneer (alias "Trip" from Star Trek Enterprise) is playing the rogue wraith known as Michael. Another beneficiary of the program on that show is Jewel Staite, who plays Dr. Jennifer Keller (truly the cutest of the sci-fi doctors--sorry Gates McFadden fans). Jewel was relocated from Firefly, where she played Kaylee. Very observant Atlantis fans might also remember that she played a wraith girl in a previous season.
The most prominent participant in the SFRP has got to be Joss Whedon. He managed to take all of his old Firefly cast members and turn them into uber-baddies in Buffy and Angel. Gina Torres went from Zoe to the potentially Earth-swallowing Jasmine, Nathan Fillion got upgraded (or downgraded, depending on how you look at it) from Mal to the incredibly creepy super-strong priest guy in Buffy, and Adam Baldwin (Jayne) was dropped into a tailored suit and re-assigned to Marcus Hamilton, the sinister avatar of Angel's Senior Partners. Oh, and Summer Glau was a ballerina. For one episode. But that was before she starred on Firefly, so it kinda doesn't count. What does count is that she was relocated from Firefly to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. See? I was going somewhere with that.
This, of course, isn't the complete list of relocated actors. However, there are rules that determine whether or not an actor you're seeing on a show is a beneficiary of the SFRP. The person in question must go from a main character role on a sci-fi show to another main character role on another sci-fi show. Christina Hendricks going from Firefly to Mad Men doesn't count. I'm on the fence about Adam Baldwin's move from Angel to Chuck, although getting your brain zapped with top-secret government information does count as science fiction. (It also counts as Jake 2.0, but we'll cover plagiarism in another blog). Worf jumping from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Deep Space Nine doesn't count, because the move takes place within the same "universe."
Well, I think I've made my point. Ya can't keep a good actor down, especially if they've got momentum from a fan base from their previous show. I would, of course, welcome other suggestions--or relocation programs from other genres, if you can think of any.
The most prominent participant in the SFRP has got to be Joss Whedon. He managed to take all of his old Firefly cast members and turn them into uber-baddies in Buffy and Angel. Gina Torres went from Zoe to the potentially Earth-swallowing Jasmine, Nathan Fillion got upgraded (or downgraded, depending on how you look at it) from Mal to the incredibly creepy super-strong priest guy in Buffy, and Adam Baldwin (Jayne) was dropped into a tailored suit and re-assigned to Marcus Hamilton, the sinister avatar of Angel's Senior Partners. Oh, and Summer Glau was a ballerina. For one episode. But that was before she starred on Firefly, so it kinda doesn't count. What does count is that she was relocated from Firefly to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. See? I was going somewhere with that.
This, of course, isn't the complete list of relocated actors. However, there are rules that determine whether or not an actor you're seeing on a show is a beneficiary of the SFRP. The person in question must go from a main character role on a sci-fi show to another main character role on another sci-fi show. Christina Hendricks going from Firefly to Mad Men doesn't count. I'm on the fence about Adam Baldwin's move from Angel to Chuck, although getting your brain zapped with top-secret government information does count as science fiction. (It also counts as Jake 2.0, but we'll cover plagiarism in another blog). Worf jumping from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Deep Space Nine doesn't count, because the move takes place within the same "universe."
Well, I think I've made my point. Ya can't keep a good actor down, especially if they've got momentum from a fan base from their previous show. I would, of course, welcome other suggestions--or relocation programs from other genres, if you can think of any.
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