Science fiction has been a television staple for the past 60 years. And of the thousands of episodes that have been produced in that time, we’ve chosen 10 of the most memorable, transcendent hours of sci-fi TV — the best the genre has to offer. As always, your mileage may vary, but if you wanted to show an alien civilization how we feel about our own tomorrow — as well as how we view ourselves today — these episodes are a good place to start.
Man, now I really wish I had gotten into this panel at Dragon*Con this weekend, watch the videos, they look like they had a blast in there.
More set photos from Captain America: The First Avenger just turned up, and these give us our first look at Cap’s costume. We found them over on The Daily Mail, which tells us that this is a stunt double riding an Indian motorcycle.
Yesterday, the British newspaper The Sun ran a story saying that Martin Freeman (a.k.a. Tim from the original U.K. Office) had to decline an offer (and seven-figure payday) to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies due to a scheduling conflict: The actor was already committed to shoot the BBC series Sherlock, in which he plays Dr. Watson. That’s all true, but according to sources close to the Hobbit production, it’s not over yet. New Line and MGM, the studios backing the Hobbit films, have since come back to Freeman with a proposed schedule that would allow him to shoot both projects. All parties are currently negotiating a deal.
