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Here's a few threads you probably haven't looked at in a while.

~ The Invisible Man (2000 - 2001) presents a fresh and imaginative look (so to speak) at the concept of guy who can vanish before your very eyes.

~ Warehouse 13 was a SyFy series with gobs of imagination, but frankly I liked Eureka better. Different strokes, eh?

~ The Core didn't become a big hit, but it sure wasn't for lack of trying. The concept and the execution has a lot going for it. It really is an enjoyable movie.

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The Invisible Man (2000 - 2002)

IMDB has 11 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text. Very Happy
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~ After the Invisible Man ended, Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben Victor appeared together as gambling buddies in an episode of the NBC TV series Las Vegas. Their entertaining comedic chemistry was still intact and was acclaimed by fans.

Note from me: I enjoyed the interplay between Vincent and Paul as well. Very Happy

~ In the pilot episode, among Fawkes' doctors are Drs. "Baker, McGann, Hartnell, and Troughton." These are the names of various actors who have played the Doctor on the British TV series Doctor Who (1963). A later in-joke along similar lines has Fawkes using a business card with the name "I.M. Forman" on it; this was the name of the owner of the junkyard that appears in the pilot episode of Doctor Who.

Note from me: I admire a series that has such a high regard for a sci-fi legend and for the fans of that series.

~ In the episode "Exposed," Darian releases a crazed-looking man from a secret experimental prison, and comments "Do I know you?" The man he lets out was played by Adam Storke, who was the lead in an earlier series Prey (1998) - where Vincent Ventresca played a doctor.

Note from me: This is another example of sci-fi "in jokes" for the fans.

~ The end of season one was the two part episode "Money For Nothing". After part one was aired, the Sci-Fi Channel allowed viewers to vote on line to determine the outcome of the part two cliffhanger.

Note from me: I still keep putting off watching the
DVD-Rs that Randy sent me. I'll have to keep the item in mind when I watch the season 2 premiere.

~ A true cult favorite due to the neo-noir style plotlines, characters, humor, intrigue, and the entertaining chemistry of the lead actors, namely Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben Victor.

Note from me: High praise indeed. Very Happy

~ Despite successful ratings in its time slots, this series lasted for two seasons before being cancelled due to cost issues and internal bickering between the Sci Fi Channel and its then-parent company, USA Networks. Despite its science fiction and action elements, the series' plot deals with a variety of adult themes such as freedom of choice, determinism, as well as state bureaucracy.

Note from me: More good reasons to watch this series.

~ Alex Munroe (Brandy Ledford) has numerous fight scenes in her appearances in Season 2. She only throws kicks in her fights. She never throws a punch.

Note from me: I've never bought the idea a woman who wasn't pretty well muscled could punch like a big strong hero.

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Warehouse 13 (2009 - 2014)

IMDB has 11 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text. Very Happy
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~ One of the questions Artie suggests to ask when investigating artifact effects, "Do you smell fudge in places where there are no fudge?", becomes a bit of a running joke in the series. Midway through the first season, Myka uses the phrase "I smell fudge" to tell Pete that she's on the trail of an artifact; in the season two premiere, Artie identifies an invisible mine by smell, which Claudia immediately states is fudge.

Note from me: I tried to get into this series back when it first aired, but it just didn't "click". I was a fan of Eureka, and this series just didn't have the same kind of appeal.

~ There was considerable actor crossover between "Warehouse 13" and "Eureka'. Not only did Allison Scagliotti appear on Eureka as her Warehouse 13 'Claudia Donovan' character, but Neil Grayston appeared on Warehouse 13 as his Eureka "Douglas Fargo' character.

In addition Erica Cerra (Eureka's Jo Lupo), Joe Morton (Eureka's Henry Deacon) and Niall Matter (Eureka's Zane Donovan) appeared on Warehouse 13 as other characters.

Cerra and Matter were husband and wife con artists and Morton was a prison preacher. Likewise Saul Rubinek (Warehouse 13's "Artie") appeared on "Eureka" as Dr. Carl Carlson.


Note from me: I enjoyed the crossover episodes on Eureka, even though I wasn't very familiar with the characters from Warehouse 13.

~ Pete, Myka, and Steve discuss the artifact being "cursed" by an actor who Shakespeare didn't like, due largely to the fact that he improvised too much. The writers likely inserted this as an in-joke aimed at Eddie McLintock, who was notorious for forgetting his lines and improvising his way out of trouble on a regular basis.

Note from me: Artifacts that are "cursed", along with the other plots elements that weren't "science fiction", were why I just could get into this series, as compared to Eureka.

~ Quite a few actors from the Star Trek world have appeared or had parts in the series. To name some of them: Robert Duncan McNeill, (Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager (1995)) has directed an episode on season 5.

Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager (1995)) plays Jane Lattimer.

Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)), Armin Shimerman (Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)), Jeri Ryan (Seven Of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager (1995)) and René Auberjonois (Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)), also appeared.

Also Faran Tahir plays one of the Regins Adwin Kosan was in the Star Trek reboot as Captain Robau.


Note from me: I guess I didn't watch enough episodes to have seen these guest stars. If I had, I'm sure I'd remember, because I just LOVE spotting guest stars from science fiction movies and series! Very Happy

~ Many of the aspects of the characters of Pete and Myka were influenced by their actors, Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly respectively. For example, McClintock suggested Pete should be a former marine, and love comic books, and Kelly asked for Myka to love literature and be a book worm.

Note from me: I admire actors who take an interest in their characters. Very Happy

~ Brent Spiner had a recurring role in season 4. He previously worked with Saul Rubinek on Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Most Toys (1990), in which Rubinek also played a collector - one on the opposite side of the law from Artie Nielson. They also both appear as antagonists in the TV series Leverage.

Note from me: I think I'll try to watch this one, maybe by getting the right DVD from Netlfix.

~ The entire series of Warehouse 13 takes place in the altered timeline that occurred in season 4 of the series Eureka, from which Warehouse is a spin-off.

Note from me: This I did NOT know! Since I have the box sets of the complete Eureka series, I might be able to follow up on this interesting fact. Very Happy

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The Core (2003)

I should have included this IMDB trivia item in the post above. I watched The Core today and remembered how much fun it is, despite it's reputation for ignoring science. Cool

~ The film was famously one of the 'guilty pleasures' of Roger Ebert. In his review he stated: "I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it. It is only a notch down from Congo (1995), Anaconda (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and other films which those with too little taste think they have too much taste to enjoy."

I noticed one brief but fascinating scene today, a shot of the man who designed the craft which travels to the core, and he's holding an 18" model of it with a cut-away to expose the crew compartment.

The cockpit is inside a spherical frame which is design to rotate freely and keep the crew right-side-up, regardless of the ship's own orientation.

That . . . is brilliant. Shocked

The large displays in the cockpit serve as the "windows" for the crew, and they show whatever is directly ahead of the ship . . . even when the free floating spherical crew area is at wildly different angles, relative to the body of the ship.






I admire the way this movie spends so much time showing us —

~ the design and construction of the subterranean ship

~ the imaging system that allows the crew to see through magma

~ the properties of unobtainium, which actually gets stronger by absorbing energy from the heat and pressure

~ and the propulsion system that sends the ship plowing through molten rock like a torpedo!

I submit that this movie's science flaws should be forgiven so that we can enjoy it the same was we enjoy the Star Wars — which George Lucas stated in 1977 was not "science fiction" as all,it's a "space fantasies" . . . . basically colorful fairy tales which took place in space. Wink

In other words, ladies and gentlemen, even though the science in this movie is flawed, the science fiction is remarkably good. Cool

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