In case you haven’t heard, or just don’t care, American Horror Story season two will not be about the Harmons and the murder house. It will, in fact, be a totally separate story. A story with new characters, new plot, new location, everything. The ghosts of the murder house are just stuck there forever and we never do get to find out what is keeping them there.

I’m a little disappointed in that. I thought there was a bigger plot going on here. I mean, a house where the dead get stuck is pretty cool but don’t we get to find out what is going on? I mean, technically, the plot is the bad guys win and the Harmon’s are are stuck there too. But, because they are all also dead, they become the perfect ‘stuck’ family and take control of the house to prevent anyone else getting hurt there. Ok, I can kinda dig that. Still, the thought of never seeing sexy Moira again is just heart breaking. I mean goddamn, she was sexy.

But what about season two? What do you think it will be about? Well, we know a few things about it. The writers of season one told us there were hints in the last three episodes of season one. Also, we know that some of the characters from season one may be popping into season two here and there. Conclusion? Honestly, it’s pretty obvious really.

Without a doubt, at least to me, season two will be about Constance and the devil baby. She is going to take the baby far away from murder house, likely to Georgia, and try to raise the evil out of him. We’ll see some flashbacks to the house, maybe even the Harmons, and of course we’ll get more Constance.

What do you think? Got an idea for what season two will be about? Think i’m right or just dead wrong?

So, the thought occurred to me while watching Fringe the other night. Something that really kinda unravels the entire current story line for me. So, please, read and if you think i’m wrong, let me know. I don’t think I am.

The logic here is that Peter never existed because he was never saved by the observers in the lake. Simple. Well, here’s some history so we know how and why this breaks down.

Walter couldn’t save his son. Walter’s Peter died and that hasn’t changed. Walter was never able to cure him. But, he was able to build a looking glass into the other universe. He witnessed Walternate’s son go through the same thing as his own son.

Walter watched as Walternate, using superior technology, came up with drug cocktails to try to cure him. When Walternate stumbled upon the correct concoction, an observer came into the room, distracted Walternate, and as a result he missed the crucial moment when the chemicals were mixing together. Because of that intrusion by the observer, Walternate never got the cure.

This forced Walter’s hand and he crossed over, grabbed Peter, tried to cure him, but he fell through the ice.

So here is where things break down. Why doesn’t Walter know who the observers are? He must have still saw them or he would not have had to cross over. If the observers can change the past, and remove their own influence in the timeline, why not just remove themselves when they interrupt Walternate?

I hope to think the writers have this covered. But really, I don’t see how. It just doesn’t add up. Maybe we’ll find out in a future episode but they are going to have to come up with something very clever to get this to work.

Anyway, this summer Torchwood moved to Starz, added a ton of money to the budget, brought in some big name actors, and apparently, hired all the writers from Tremors the series.

What I mean to say here is the show sucked. It was really terrible. They, the writers, producers or perhaps management at Starz, took a great show with a great concept and took a big shit on it.

Ok, so I know you can’t make statements like that without backing it up, so here goes.

1. They made Torchwood some kind of outcasts. Yes, this worked fine in Children of Earth but really, you can’t keep going to that well. Torchwood operated with Government approval for hundreds of years. Jack had contacts in every government on Earth. Why do they keep making them outcasts? Dumb. The show worked just fine, and excelled, by being the “Men in Black”, or WWII trench coats. Lets go back to our roots here and give them some legitimacy.
2. If there was some major crime lord syndicate with people in every government everywhere, how the fuck had they never found Jack before? He wasn’t exactly hiding, he was in charge of Torchwood! They, the families, had people everywhere, just don’t believe they wouldn’t have heard of him. Especially since they were looking for him.
3. Null change thing was just stupid. Why add some alien tech that really has no bearing on anything? Don’t just throw out something that’s stupid for no reason.
4. Bill Pullman’s character was a waste of talent. In the end, he was nothing, he was nobody, didn’t matter if he was there or not. Dumb. Why not make him the reason the Miracle happened? Make him the central cause. Get inventive. Instead, you waste Pullman’s abilities, sideline him to be some bullshit character who doesn’t contribute at all. Lousy job.
5. How the fuck did Jack not know there was some massive crack in the Earth going from one end to the other? He’s from the future! And not just a few years, like thousands of years! You’re telling me that in 5,000 years no one knows about this crack in the earth? Computers can’t tell that people living in two towns on the planet are the exact median age of the race? The families did it just now, that’s how they found it!  Stupid, unimaginative, hack job, plain ole dumb. Get some good writers will ya??
6. What exactly is this big giant crack? It’s really terrible if you make up some story and then can’t even figure out how to explain it. Really really bad. In both Dr. Who and Torchwood, everything got an explanation. We didn’t get left out in the cold with, “OH, don’t worry about what it was, we had Bill Pullman!” bullshit. Terrible. Explain this shit because frankly, we, the fans, are smarter than you. And this just doesn’t make any sense that some big hole in the earth influences poeple’s ages. What happens when people leave the planet? Establish a galactic empire, which we know we will as told in Dr. Who. What happens then? Are we still bound to this crack in Earth? Guess what, you, the writers of this shit, have no idea, so don’t bother trying.
7. Jack is not immortal. He is a fact. Jack’s blood does nothing. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Did you not see how Jack was turned into a “fact”??? He was turned into a fact when Rose became one with the time stream and made him so. A fucking Time Lord is scared of him!! That means he can’t die. Not ever. Don’t give a shit if you have one planet with a big hole. He is a fact in the universe. Don’t contradictyourselves here.  This is perhaps the biggest issue I have. You made Jack immortal. He’s not immortal, he’s a fact. Get it right and understand the difference. If you throw an “immortal” into a furnace and burn them alive, they will be dead. Jack will not be dead, he will come back. Because he’s a fact.
8. Mekhi Phifer, though an excellent addition to the cast, becomes a fact like Jack. Excuse me? What the fuck? Jack was made a fact by the time stream. Therefore, only the time stream can make someone a fact. Right? Again, you don’t explain this shit, which means you don’t know what you were doing, you just think its neat to have two Jacks. Dumb.

So that’s it. Eight reasons why this season was terrible. Please get some new writers, explain away all this bullshit, make the show good again. One more season of this bullshit and fans will abandon you.

If you haven’t seen this show and are curious, please watch. It’s on Thursdays on comedy central. Its about a social worker named Mark that dates a half demon, has a zombie as a roomate and a 400 year old wizard as an assistant. How fucking good is that? The show is simply hysterical. For instance, Mark’s zombie roomate was recently turned into a half plant half zombie, whose leaves made a di-aging cream, and had to be moved to a greenhouse so he could mature and create new plants. Only then did he return to full zombie state.

This is the type of show I wish I was working on. The comedy is crisp and the writing is solid. If you get a chance to check it out, check it out. You’ll laugh, trust me. If you don’t like it then I guess you are lame. But that’s ok, I like lame people.

Ok, I get it, Eureka costs a lot of money to make and right now it’s not making that amount in advertising. But is it not making that amount with drawing in users to other shows on SyFy? Is not Eureka drawing in other viewers to other shows? I have to say I think that it is.

I am really fearing that SyFy is returning the days when they got rid of Farscape and replaced it with Tremors the series. Yes, I do remember you did this you bastards and I will never forget it. And you better not be doing it again!

SyFy really turned a corner when BSG came out. They grew some balls and attacked the science fiction genre with gusto. I praise them for their success over the last several years. But please, for the love of god, don’t start slipping down the dark path.

Look, we get it, if a show isn’t profitable, it has to be cut. Ok, fine. We may not like it all the time but we get it. At the end of the day it’s about how much money you make. Fine. But it’s also about keeping your fan base generally  happy. You eased up on the wrestling and put more into the shows. And we love you for it. I don’t even mind the stupid name change anymore.

But please, please, please, don’t let this start a trend to cancel the good shows and replace them with stupid shows. Please? Can I get some comments from the community here? Can we shout out to the devils that exists in suits at the top of the food chain and let them know we have a voice. Let us shout again that chant we shouted so long ago. Let them hear our voices as we join together. Let them hear our call. Shout with all you can. I am fucking Farscape!

My first thoughts of this were, simply put, “Awesomely Awesome!”. Yes, I happen to be a big fan of Ms. Day. I think her show The Guild is just great and her timid acting style is a perfect fit for any geek. She’s seems to be fitting well into the cast of Eureka and her character seems right at home dealing with Fargo.

I wonder how long she’ll be on the show and if it will effect the long term future of The Guild. Eh, probably unwarranted concerns. Either way, if you haven’t had a chance to check out Eureka’s new summer season with Felicia Day, I highly recommend it. Not only do you get to see her supreme geeky coolness, but you also get to see the great show of Eureka itself. It’s in an awesome reboot style season where several main cast characters have gone into an alternate universe and now must deal with what to do next. The wickedly delicious sub plot here is the son of Alison, who in her own universe he was autistic, in this universe he is not. So she is confronted with the constant pain of making a choice to return home or stay with her non-autistic son. Very cool plot.

At any rate. If you haven’t seen it, watch it, its really cool.

I often wonder if I had gone to Harvard, Princeton, Yale or some other top school, how would I have turned out. I know its fruitless to look back and wonder what if, but shit man, I could have made the facebook site in two weeks, who couldn’t? I’ve remade 5 million dollar a year websites in a month before, from scratch! Sigh.

The real question is, ok, I didn’t invent some crazy cool website like Facebook, but can I now? Is it still possible to invent something that will rock like all the others have? Is the idea of dorm room companies even possible anymore? I don’t know. There’s a lot of others out there, yes from Harvard and every other college, that are a lot younger, can write a lot better code than I can and have a lot more time to do it.

But I am not deterred. Granted this blog has been mostly a failure. I get maybe 20 people a day. But I think I can come up with something great. I’m working on it now, wish me luck!

On the scifi front, we’ve a ton of new shows coming out. I haven’t even had a chance to watch them all. I want to review them as I watch them. Going to be a fun scifi summer!

Lets get some framework going here, and then I, yes I, will show you how all three are wrong and what the meaning of the Singularity event really is. First, the singularity event is something that will/might/won’t happen in the future where computers become just as smart as people. That is the event. Once that happens we can call up our trusty dusty computer and ask it a question and it may or may not answer, since it’s just as smart as us it may just choose not to.

Of course, that’s the problem that Mr. Stross has. The computer, you see, will never be as smart as us because we have millions of years of evolution. Our intelligence has been crafted by generations of suffering and misery and goddamnit, no machine will ever be able to be us!

Mr. Knapp says, slow down there Mr. Stross, we’re not saying that computers will be human intelligence they will just be as intelligent as us. So when we ask them, why the fuck my computer has blue screened, they will tell us, because window’s sucks.

Mr. Anissimov, whose name is just far to similar to Asimov, says…well I really don’t know what the hell he says. Honestly, the debate is really a philosophical one and not one that is helpful or hurtful to the emerging singularity event, that will of course happen.

How do I know it will happen? Because, the singularity event really has nothing to do with whether or not you can ask your toaster to not burn the toast. Wanna know what it is? The really big secret?

Ok, it’s not really a secret. All the singularity event really is is a time when computers become so powerful we can ask them, just what do I need to do to live forever? A computer will become so powerful that it will be able to totally simulate the human body. When that’s done we’ll be able to rapidly test drugs, in hours and not years. We’ll be able to model replacement organs. We’ll be able to do experiments on the human body that we can not do today.

Computers and the medical industry will fully merge and replacement organs, parts, etc will allow us to extend our lives and live indefinitely. We’ll be able to replace eyes, ears, augment our immune systems and perhaps even record our brains so that if our bodies do suffer major trauma, we can have a new body grown and plugged right back into it.

Ray Kurzweil knows full well that’s what the singularity event is. He doesn’t give a good god damn whether or not he can have a conversation with the computer, he only cares if the computer will save his life and extend it, not to mention make him young again and bring his father back from the dead (yes he really wants that).

So the next time you see a couple of bloggers debating the fate of future AI, just remember, we don’t give a shit. All we want is our bodies to be 25 and stay that way for 1,000 years. If they do turn out to be intelligent, and threaten us in any way, we’ll just unplug the fuckers.

So, the story opened up just after an alien invasion by some six legged freaks with really weird and improbably space ships. They have basically conquered all of humanity, kill any adults they find and capture and turn into slaves any children they find. Sounds like a fun bunch.

When I first started watching the show I noticed that it started to feel a great deal like V from the 80′s. Let me  be clear, V from the 80′s NOT ABC’s recent attempt to revamp the show. The modern V sucked balls.

Now, I know, V really wasn’t the exact same as Falling Skies. In V, they aliens had come, they hadn’t taken over anything, and we mostly kicked their asses and sent them on their way. Then someone decided to start a television series and BAM, we have V the series from the 80′s. Which, to me, felt a lot like Falling Skies.

Why? How? Am I nuts? Probably. In both shows, Falling Skies and V, the cast goes on mission, fights some aliens, secures some food, water, rescues some people, and then they go home. Period. IN that way both shows feel very simliar to me. And that is why that I had a very poor feeling regarding Falling Skies. I honestly don’t think it’s going to go the distance. The recipe isn’t dynamic and the story line just feels like it falls flat.

And just what kind of super high tech aliens can only scan 500 humans or more at a time? This was one of the plot devices in the show that I really had an issue with. We can, modern humans, use telescopes to find something as small as a car on the road in Kentucky. You’re telling me that these aliens have mechs, massive spaceships on stilts and can’t do a freakin planet scan for a group of 500 people schlepping along the road? Give me a break.

Come on writers, lets think of something better here. You can even go with something like, the aliens just don’t give a good god damn about people anymore. Sure they will kill adults, slave out the kids, but they won’t actively hunt anyone because they’ve already won, why do they care?

But there is an interesting silver lining. The aliens may turn out to be humans and the entire invasion may be some future / past attempt to save us all. I dunno, i’m just guessing there but the previews seemed to lean in that direction. Which is an interesting plot for sure but is it enough to carry a show in the 21st century? I don’t think so. I give it half a season before it’s axed. It just doesn’t seem to have the balls to carry itself. Poor plot, poor action, 80′s themes, and bad writing leave this one dead on arrival.

Of course, I doubt anyone really gives a shit about these two idiots. They were granted a 60+ million dollar win against the Facebook and they still pursued more litigation. Yes, they 60+ million dollars wasn’t enough to satiate their incredible desire for revenge, or wealth, or just plain greed.

But don’t worry, they will still live on and be part of the elite of the country, find great jobs, and lobby the hell out of congress to not raise their taxes. Yes, you just watched a dance of the rich and assholish. They fight, barter and trade over millions while you and me can’t afford to pay  our bills. They piss away millions and while millions of American’s go unemployed. Nice isn’t it?

In case you haven’t noticed, I hate the Facebook. I much prefer looking at the Lamebook. Very funny and I highly recommend it.

On other news, I am back after studying for and passing certification exams so expect to see some more posts coming along. There’s a ton of new Sci Fi shows coming out and each and everyone one of them needs to be watched and blogged about until i’m blue in the face.