“Objects in Space”

The following was written before Neo’s post, but I write so little that I figured I would post it anyway.  🙂

So many reviews over so little a thing.  An obect, mor’n’one really.  This is going to be an evolving thread, so hold on just a sec while I get the details out there, I know this might seem strange in order, but it isn’t.  Backwards, little chunks of apple.

((Warning:  I tried to keep  as many spoilers as possible out, but one or two may have snuck in))

To begin:

The Lost Room, a miniseries that showed on the Sci-Fi channel before it went SyFy.  It originally aired between December 11th and 13th, 2008 in three parts.  The parts are cryptically called:

“The Key and the Clock”

“The Comb and the Box”

“The Eye and the Prime Object”

Every once and a while, Syfy will play them again, usually in a straight shot, and I am telling you now, it is worth a watch.  Without revealing too much, the main character, Detective Joe Miller (played by Peter Kraus), gets in over his head as he searches for his daughter among a ramshackle group of thieves, murderers, and paranoid stalkers, who are all attached in some way to a number of ‘strange objects’ like a bus ticket, that when touched, sends you to hell, or a pair of glasses that prevent all combustion from occurring. 

The show is pretty amazing and is really worth a watch.  This goes doubly so for folks that enjoy the World of Darkness (see previous review).  I give it 8 out of 10 primary buffer panels.

Staying with the ‘Strange object’ theme, I couldn’t help but mention Warehouse 13.  Yet another show given to us by the Syfy channel.  ((It started last year and the second season will start in July)).  In it, two government agents are assigned to a large warehouse in the middle of nowhere that houses every strange object that has been collected by the U.S. Government.  ((Think Indiana Jones, these folks are like the ‘Top Men’ that the Arc of the Covenant was sent to)).  This and ‘The Lost Room’ could very well be in the same universe, but Syfy doesn’t usually do that with any of its specials or series. 

Every week, the viewer is given a glimpse into the world or the powerfully strange and the strangely powerful.  Every episode is written out like an X-files ‘monster of the week’ episode, replacing the monster with an object out of history that the Agents have to find, neutralize, and figure out.  That is part of the fun for me, watching how the stories unfold, and learning how and why these objects act out as they do.  The characters are interesting and three dimensional, and you feel it when bad stuff happens to them.  I also give this show 8 out of 10 primary buffer panels.

The third series for a small review is less about objects and more about the people that produce them, except unlike the ‘supranatural’ objects above, are much more technologically based.  This show, of course, is Eureka.  It, like the others, airs on SyFy, and the fourth season will begin in July.  This is a very ‘character driven’ show, and it really draws you in to see how the characters react to the often ‘world threatening’ disasters they create through scientific genius.  If the mad scientist deep down inside you has ever begged for release, this is the show for you.  I could see Dr. Horrible going crazy in a town like that.  Eureka centers around a normal U.S. Marshall that, while chasing a young fugitive across the country, accidentally finds himself drawn into the small town of Eureka, and unwittingly impresses the right folks, becoming their new sheriff.  Then, like Warehouse 13, most of the episodes are…well…episodic, focusing on a specific device or idea gone wrong.  This show earns 9 out of 10 primary buffer panels mostly because they have developed more of the story than the two previous entries, and each week, I find myself drooling for the next bite.

Ok, now for the reason I wrote this article, I won’t pretend for a second that if you haven’t seen the show already that you would start now, but for the first time, SyFy is crossing over two of it’s shows to intertwine them into the same continuity.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/05/heres-the-eurekawarehouse.php

So the last thing, besides Floozle, would be that I would ask you to give any or all of these shows a chance.