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by Rick Norwood
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SF on TV | |
Thanks to Pat Riley for pointing out that in my mid-November column, I confused the old version of V
with the new version of V.
Smallville is gone until January. Dollhouse will return on December 4 and
end on January 22. Summer Glau joins the cast. If, by some remote chance, a few million more people tuned in,
the series might yet survive.
SF on TV in December 2009
Have a Merry Christmas. Coming in January, the return of The Justice Society. Hawkman,
Doctor Fate, Stargirl, and Martian Manhunter come out of retirement to join Clark Kent on
a two-hour Smallville television movie. Should be worth watching, because the script
is by Geoff Johns, author of many excellent comic books, including the
current mini-series, Superman Secret Origin.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
The only genre tv show I really enjoyed last month was Heroes. The Thanksgiving episode was especially
good. I watch V, FlashForward, Smallville, and a few others from time
to time, but they do not hold my interest. V is far and away the most popular genre series,
with more than twice as many viewers as the runner-up. Outside of genre tv, my favorite show is
The Daily Show with John Stewart, who continues to skewer political blowhards by running their
own contradictions side by side, as with Glenn Beck's "America has the worst health care system in the
world", "America has the best health care system in the world," and Rudy Giuliani's "New York is a safe place
to try terrorists," "New York is a dangerous place to try terrorists."
Thursday, December 3
 
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