#OpeningTheme - #EUReKA 40s version

New episode of Eureka today!
Here's the fun custom opening theme from season 5 premiere from a while ago ("Founder's Day"):



Still one of my favorite episodes!

#OpeningTheme - #EUReKA

Today, new episode of Eureka on Syfy! Finally!

We're currently on the show's finale season, I'll be sad to let it go, but at least it got a decent run (for me, the ideal run for any show is about ~5, 6 seasons, gives enough room to develop stories and characters without stretching aimlessly without a goal and getting repetitive like those 10+ seasons kind of shows).
And heck, Syfy's got enough fun original series around, like Warehouse 13, Haven, Alphas, etc.

Anyway, I'm just sad the show hasn't been using the complete version of the opening theme anymore...
So here it is to enjoy!



I'll miss this town full of crazy scientists folk... -sigh -

#MusicBOX - "A town called Eureka" cover

This week...no new episode of Eureka on Syfy...
Aww :(

Oh, well. Let's listen to this fantastic cover of the main theme in the meantime!

Movie NEWS! Prometheus' all new trailer

Guess who cameos at some point in this trailer??

So 20th Century Fox' just released an official trailer for Ridley Scott's upcoming Prometheus! - much more revealing than the previous teaser.
Watch it in all its full glory.
Warning, this shows a lot of the plot and whatnot.

Enjoy,



I absolutely love seeing the Alien's Space Jockey coming to life!
And the spaceship!! Oh, my!

I dunno for you guys, but this is seriously looking like the best movie of the year to me.
I like where the Avengers are going to. Even Spider-man might be fun despite its moody/gritty premise.
Dark Knight Rises, well....not my cup of tea so far. (to each their own!)  Too much Chris Nolan-esque takes on the Batman mytho for me...

But this, Prometheus!
Wooow! Just, wow!

Movie NEWS! Prometheus teaser trailer

And after so much "cocktease", Prometheus teaser trailer debuts!



I'm so pumped for this one! This is looking outstanding! Can't wait to see a new scifi monster movie from the man who helped out define the genre!

(also Damon Lindelof from Lost/Bad Robots is involved with this movie? now I really can't wait for this soon enough~)

TV News! DC Announces Booster Gold on-going tv series!! FOR REAL THIS TIME!

Remember this April's Fool?
Well, the joke's become an actual news!

The Syfy Channel will be picking an actual TV Pilot based on Booster Gold as part of a Warner Bros./DC Comics deal.

You can read more on that at the hollywoodreporter.com
They've ordered a pilot for a one-hour drama based on the character

The story will have Booster as a washed-up athlete from the future who goes back in time hoping to become the world's greatest superhero. As in the comics, his focus is on fame and fortune.

COULD BE AWESOME, if done well!
I think this project as a lot more chance and possibilities than the way Warner was developing that Wonder Woman TV Show.

And I do like Syfy current shows quite a lot, great directors and writers around that channel. (like Warehouse 13, Eureka, Haven, Alphas... so many well done shows, even on small budgets)

Shia LaBeouf career explained in 1 minute

Here's what the most part of Shia LaBeouf lines consist of, in Transformers, Surf's Up, and Disturbia!



Next time, Transformers 2 and his already famous new lines: "GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!" and "ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod!!"

Movie NEWS! They made a movie out of that??

I'll copy the quote directly:

Described as "the most absurd waste of $200 million anyone has ever seen", Battleship is a movie adaptation of the classic board game, in which aliens attack during a routine Navy training exercise.

And here's the trailer:

Looks, oh, so silly. Huge budget or not.
You gotta thank Micheal Bay for that, his Transformers already giving ideas to tons of other producers/directors like here Peter Berg (Hancock).

Gamin' NEWS! reboots, sequels and vaporware

In today's gaming news post, let's check out some long awaited sequels (Sonic, Zelda...), rumored remakes (Syndicate) and long forgotten titles resurrected from development hell too (I Am Alive).
First up, Sega released another trailer for Sonic Generations (Sonic: White Time and Space in Japan!!), this one showcasing Sonic's 128 bits era. (Dreamcast/Gamecube/PS2/Xbox)



It's the official announcement of Speed Highway (Sonic Adventure), City Escape (Sonic Adventure 2) and Seaside Hill (Sonic Heroes)!! 
Plus a "surprise" boss battle is also announced with the little tease at the end.




Meanwhile, Nintendo released this new "romantic" trailer for Zelda: Skyward Sword.




Have a look at this all-new Link and Zelda!


On a less positive note, 1993 Bullfrog game is being completely reimagined in this remake by Starbreeze Studio.
Some fans been hating it, others can't wait for it.
I'm just sad it's gonna be yet another FPS oriented RPG-lite adaptation (like what happened to X-Com or the Fallout series). Too much of the same idea in my eyes. Can't games be different/try original gameplay these days? NOoooOo! One things sells, let's all copy/past it!
Anyway, here's the new Syndicate!



Looks actually kinda good. Better than what we've seen of the new X-com for example.
But I dunno...


Finally, here's one from Ubisoft.
Several YEARS ago, they announced a new game (around the rumours of a Beyond Good & Evil 2 started if memories serve right) which was called I Am Alive.
It promised to run on their then-new Assassin's Creed engine, offer a huge open ended world in a post-apocalyptic scenario. The game would feature some survival elements, trying to survive, gather food/water, etc.. Some light parkour/platform too, which is the norm for all Ubisoft titles these days.
It probably would have played kinda similar to Assassin's Creed 1/2 or Splinter Cell Conviction I guess. 3rd person style action game.

Today, a new trailer was releasedd, the game confirmed to be finally coming to Xbox 360, PC and PS3.
Only now it is a downloadable title, the look and probably the game seems to have been completely redone from scratch, featuring a first person point of view.

Check it out!



The game is "Alive"! Looks like a complete overhaul. Might be fun, not sure if I like the new tone of the game...
Will probably be an interesting title anyway.


And that is all for the day~

Oh, to be...(Darth Vader)

Here's a fun video/song featuring Ryan Cartwright (from SyFy's Alphas) wondering about what it's like to be "Darth Vader"~

Oh man...it's weird listening to his real British accent :P

(I mean, I'm used to seeing him not using it, that's all!)

Hey Eyz! Whatcha gonna watch this season? -2011-12 Edition-

It's time for this year's planning of TV shows.
To watch or not to watch... Following one show too many...?

Well, I can't answer that to you. Some believe there's good and bad shows out there. I simply say, to each their own. Sure, reality TV continue to survive for example, despite how bad it's gotten over the years, but it still is watched by Billions of people (with an Uppercase 'B') over the world! You can't judge the quality of a show by its rating, that's what producers do. Just look what you think will entertain you!

I can decide for you, I don't know what you guys and gals like. So here is like last year my own selection, the TV series I will watch for the 2011-2012 season!

And to open up the topic, a quickly sketched Sheriff Carter from Eureka.

First up, the shows that are missing the call.

I decided to pull the plug on Chuck. Sure, I liked the characters (at least some of them), and even if the first two Seasons went downhill during Season 3 the 4th one last year started great...but the show can't decide if it wants to be a generic soap for teens, a science fiction-ysh take on the spy genre or a comedy... I mean, most episodes of Season 3 and 4 (besides the strong good couple of episodes at the start of both seasons) were about Chuck's feelings or his sister crying all of her screen-time!!
Boring, annoying... Blah!
(I wish it had Reaper that had continued, as the "lazy young adult, that can't decide his own path for his future, gets powers to face evil each week, along with best pal, and gets the girl at the end of the day" show)

Also, Undercovers, J.J. Abrams last recent show got cancelled way too early in my eyes. It started far away from the mysteries à la Lost, and was a more reality grounded Alias...but the characters took too much time developping, which seems to have bored and scared the audience away...
Too bad... I liked it, more so than Chuck for that matter, as a "spy" show.

And The Cape got canceled too.
But unlike recent similar shows that got canceled on their first seasons these last couple of years *cough*Journeyman*cough*, it will be released on DVD! Good thing, I'll be sure to get it^^
At the end of the day, despite haters making a bad rep to the Cape, it was a genuinely fun pulp superhero show. With a sort of similar vibe to The Flash in the early 90s. I liked it!

And finally Batman: The Brave and The Bold is over now!
After a long (but not enough) run, it had some true gems in there! And it was a great showcase of the entire DCU, featuring old school interpretations of characters like this show's take on Superman, Silver Age obscure characters like Kamandi or B'wana Beast and even some more recent elements from our good ol' Post-Crisis DCU with Jaimes Reyes!Blue Beetle, the JLI or Guy Gardner. If only it could continue, maybe with a name change retitled as "The Brave and The Bold" simply?...

Now, let's have a look at the things I'll be watching~



Can't wait enough for Season 4 of Castle to start soon!
I've been watching this show since day 1, and I just love it!
Nathan Fillion, the tone of the show, the light fun yet realistic police stories... Reminds me of Monk from a couple years back. But much better I have to say.
Last Season ended in such an epic fashion, lies, deceptions, treachery and death! Best cliff-hanger in years!



And here it is!
One of the two new shows that will start soon, by J.J. Abrams and the team at Bad Robotos
Person of Interest.
Lost's own Ben Linus teams up with an "hobo" to fight crime, using an amazing supercomputer that can predict the future... Sounds promising!



Meanwhile, Fringe will be well on the way of its 4th Season now!
Approaching a resolution?
(I dunno for you but my ideal for a run of a series, as I always say, it should be around ~5 seasons. not too short nor dragging on like those long running shows like Friends and co..)
What will happen to the world now that Peter combined both alternate universes and seems to have erased himself?!?



And the other new show from Abrams & Bad Robots I mentioned above is Alcatraz. Starting for mid-replacement in 2012.
Lots of talent involved on this one!
I mean, they got Jurassic Park's Sam Neill in here! And even Lost fans favorite Jorge Garcia!



Speaking of which, Steven Spielberg's dino show will also start this month!
Terra Nova will be about a bunch of people traveling back to the past to, errr..., escape pollution in the future by living in the far off past along dinosaurs. I think. Well it sounds messy so far but we'll see how this turns out!
I'm specially watching this because they'll be reusing sets and props from the Jurassic Park movies :P




Meanwhile, my favorite dinosaur-show (sorry Terra Nova, the spot's already taken!) just finished airing its 5th season recently in the UK.
Yep, Primeval only airs in Summer. I still need to catch on those, since the departure of character Nick Cutter from the show, and after some lackbuster episodes, the show was able to find ground and get progressively back to form.



I did not like at all how the first Season of The Walking Dead ended up in such a clumsy lackbuster out of place finale episode, containing both an explanations for the Virus' origin. The way it explained you can't cure it and whatnot. (I much prefer the mystery surrounding it be it in the comic book or in George Romero's "Of The Dead" movies... defining it take that goal off the survivor's mind..which could offer such great story arcs in later Walking ired director/exectuve producer Frank Darabont from the show due to "creative differences". Big loss for them, losing this award winning director and fan of the series... I fear what they're gonna do this season...



The SyFy block now!
Warehouse 13 is airing its Season 3 currently already :D
I just love Warehouse 13, and it's only been getting better over the time! "Newguy" Jinks is a sort of hit and miss. He's kinda funny sometimes, I love it when the others take advantage or make fun of the guy, and he's got a good alchemy with other characters, but he's kinda odd and always sticking out of the group. Plus his "human lie detector"-thing going on is kinda boring...and when they drop it, it's even worse because it got you thinking "Hey?! Wasn't he s'pposed to notice XYZ was lying??"...
Great show anyway!



SyFy already announced the end of Eureka, but I say it's not a reason to panic!
Despite good ratings, the show will be ending soon. It is currently airing its 4th Season, we'll even get a Christmas episode in December.
And then in 2012, the show will wrap up in Season 5.



At least, there's great new shows on SyFy currently.
Like Stephen King inspired show Haven. Fully of little trivia references and pretty similar in tone to both Eureka and Warehouse 13.
The question is, will they also have a Christmas episode and will Haven cross over any of the other shows at some point? :P



And finally there's Syfy latest kid on the block, Alphas.
A show I have to admit, I did not like at all! But the characters kinda grew on me. (not all of them though..)
It looked like another generic superhero gritty show playing the "Hey! We're realistic! We don't have costumes and are more grounded in today's world"-card.
The weakest part of the show...I kinda wish it had more humour like the above three shows. It is trying so much to be serious...



The Office will start with its 8th Season (wooah? already? So many years gone by..) without Steve Carrell.
Can't wait to see how this turns out, though from experience, when TV shows lose their main character/one of the principal actors, it usually goes downhill...
Will it survive long?
I propose more Rainn Wilson to boost the ratings!



MythBusters started its 2011 season a bit earlier this summer.
It's still remains one of the best programs on TV ever!
They've been exploring fan requests (and interaction) more and more over the years.



As for cartoons, Lucasfilm promise a great fun new season for Star Wars: Clone Wars!
The thick of the war is happening! And Anakin is slowly shaping into a Sith!
Also, Admiral Ackbar cameon in the new episodes!



The Looney Tunes Show is going through some solid episodes lately. I've loved the show since day one, let the (fewer each day) haters hate. As a long time huge Looney Tunes fan, I've been through various interpretations of characters, be it the lazy Hannah Barbera-ysh episodes in the 70s. And there's been worse, much woooorse *cough*Baby Looney Tunes/Loonatics Unleashed*cough*.
This cartoon kinda features them as we'd seen them a bit in the movie Space Jam, living in the suburbs, altogether.
Despite the tone or the formula of the episodes, they're splendidly in-characters. With a Daffy as silly, crazy and jerk-y as ever.
The musical parts have been okay. Some pretty good, and other bad. Though I can't like the CGi 3D segments of Wile E. Coyote... I tried.. But it's so bad.. at least it doesn't ruin the episodes much and are pretty forgettable.



Not much is known about the upcoming 2nd season of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Only that it will be more influenced by the upcoming Joss Whedon Avengers live movie.
Such as Iron Man and Captain America costumes getting redesigned, Nick Fury turning into Samuel L. Jackson.. Oh and Skrulls.
And more Avengers will join the roster, it seems Miss Marvel and Vision will be part of the team.



The amazing relaunched Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is taking a hiatus, they will take a year to produce new episodes. It wasn't canceled! :)
"And traps will be better~"



I love ThunderCats!
Wait, no... I actually never liked much the ThunderCats. But since this new cartoon, I can proudly say, I'm now a fan of the series!
The episodes are already running currently since it started not long ago. Love the mix of scifi and magic, it really shows the ones that are making it at Warner Bros animations were long time fans, unlike the people behind the badly animated/written original "toys cartoon" that was the classic. They're even making scene of most of the concepts behind the series!



Young Justice: Invasion, that is the name of the second season of Young Justice, which not much is known of at this moment, and it will air in early 2012.




There's gonna be a brand-new Spider-man cartoon, called (and adapted from) Ultimate Spider-man.
Yes, another retelling of his early days as Spidey. I wish they had continued the previous "Spectacular" cartoon.
Oh well.
And it won't follow the current Ultimate Spider-man comics, nor the original one either, but it's its own original product (though following some ideas from here and there). And yes, it was "improvised" as marketing material for the upcoming rebooted movie so it will air in 2012 alongside the movie.
(and it looks like Spidey will be working with/along the help of SHIELD's Nick Fury!?!)



Don't miss out next year the all new Green Lantern: The Animated Series!
Part of me wants to skip it, it looks bland, generic, ugly CGi models, badly animated, etc..
But it's also GL, so I want to give it at least a little look. It does look straightly aimed to kids moreso than other comic book adaptations usually.
Still, it looks pretty bad at the moment, hope they can polish this before it airs! (right now, it looks worse than some 32-bits games cinematics...)

Futurama

Futurama's finishing its 6th Season today actually!
Season 7 will start around somewhere in 2012.



The longest running show ever, The Simpsons, will start Season 23 later this month!
Some hate it, some love it, both still continue to watch it after all this time for some reason...
I'd say, we're already been through the worst episodes, around Season 20 when it got a bit boring and repetitive. But these last two seasons have been great, much so than some earlier ones.
They made me love the Simpsons all over again with some very original and fun episodes!
Also, don't miss next year the historic 500th episode!! (Holy Cow!!! That much already?!)



Robot Chicken will continue airing in October! Finally! Not soon enough!
Why do they make all those long breaks in-between...wait! Oh, yes. Stop motion, it looks beautiful but takes a lot of time...

Currently missing from the lineup are the Venture Bros. They announced the show had been renewed for seasons 5 and 6, with pre-production to begin in June 2011 though. But no news regarding any dates so far.

Also there's that other CGi animated DC cartoon, an upcoming new "Batman: Animated Series". No news on that front though.

And that is all...
That's already a lot if you ask me :P

So, what will YOU watch this season? Any of those above might interest you? What other shows will you follow, any good recommendations?
Make yourself heard, drop me a word!

Allison Scagliotti talks about Warehouse 13

Here's a pretty insight look at Allison Scagliotti aka Claudia from Warehouse 13!
She's a fun kickass girl! And the show is awesome :D



And there's some Eddie McClintock (Pete) in bonus in there XD

Watch this great Syfy show!~

Stan Lee in Syfy's "EUReKA"

Here's something random! And awesome too!

This is a fantastic clip from last night's episode of EUReKA (episode 13 of season 4 - "Glimpse").



Epicness!
Another great funny cameo for "the Man"!

Totally random! It totally got me by surprise, I love it!
(Specially the Hulk theme appropriately playing in the background)