What's wrong with Sci Fi these days?

Entertainment Weekly has sent a couple of big shots across the bow of the entire Science Fiction film and television genre.

Mark Harris asks if Science Fiction has run out of new ideas. Although I cannot blame everyone working in the genre for the short-sightedness of most TV and film executives, there is no denying that the current reliance on re-imagining, re-booting, and re-invigorating the work of bygone eras has gone way overboard. Meanwhile Marc Bernardin at the PopWatch blog aims squarely at The Sci Fi Channel, asking why they aren’t being “way more awesome” and stepping up to the challenge of making good modern sci-fi using the tools at hand. If even half of the projects Bernardin suggests in his post were to happen, I'd have the SFC on constantly in my house...wouldn't you?

I encourage all our readers to go over to those EW pieces, and comment with your ideas for the genre. Who knows – maybe someone, out there, can hear you.

Speaking of EW, they have finally put the now-infamous Last Supper photo online, in a fully interactive version that is very fun to play with.

This photo has generated the expected volumes of what we fans like to call “fanwank”…one of the cast who attended the shoot has even gotten into the fray. But not everyone believes him. *wink*