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I enjoyed the three posts below by Pow because they're a mixture of facts and opinions. That's the best kind of post, because we can always look up facts . . . but the only way we can learn what somebody's opinion is for them to share it with us.

That's why I created All Sci-Fi sixteen years ago. I wanted to learn new things about science fiction in every form. And I wanted to hear the opinions of people who loved sci-fi as much as I did.
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

At one time producers considered doing a fourth Mr. Belvedere film where he would be on a jury.

I believe I read that Cliffton Webb felt that the character of Belvedere was being overused and Webb refused to do anymore such films.

That's a shame. The character was a hoot, and the idea of having Belvedere on a jury was a good.

Had it been supported by a strong script I think it would have been a good movie.
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Stargirl (CW 2020)

News for Season #2 of DC's Stargirl }

On the season ending episode we see Cindy Berman ( Meg DeLacy) holding a black diamond & peering into it saying "I see you, Elipso."

Eclipso is an extremely powerful DC Comics super-villain of supernatural origin.

Abilities include : Superhuman strength, stamina, speed, invulnerability, flight, energy-vision & blasts, possession of humans.

This will be a frightening entity of immense power.

Cindy may well be in far over her head if she thinks Eclipso will be hers to command.

That depends of course if Eclipso will be adapted as he is from the comics to the TV show.

He has never been done in live action before, so this will be a first. He has a nasty looking countenance from the later version of the character in the comics.

In the comic books he's responsible for the deaths of Wildcat II as well as Dr. Midnite.

Solomon Grundy will return next season.

Thunderbolt's Pen that Courtney has on her dresser will be pivotal in season 2.

Background : Thunderbolt has had no less than 3 different origin stories.

One is that the pen houses a genie, a Fifth-Dimensional imp named Yz.

Yz has vast magical powers and can fly.

Yet another origin story has Thunderbolt as an energy-based alien with energy powers and flight.

Just which way the SG TV series will go is anyone's guess.

Dr. Midnite's owl, Hootie, may appear.

We briefly saw Hootie when Courtney was first exploring the Justice Society headquarters this season.
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SeaQuest DSV (1993-1996)

SeaQuest was one of the first weekly s~f TV series to employ CGI for everything underwater in its September 1993 debut.

The pilot movie for Babylon 5 beat SQ when it premiered on February 22, 1993.

Both series paved the way for future s~f shows to utilize CGI and move away from the traditional model-miniatures that s~f shows had used from the 1950's onward.

Beating both B5 & SQ was Captain Power and the Soldiers from the Future which arrived on TV in the fall of 1987.

Captain Power rendered the mechanical robots known as the Bio-Dreads fully on a computer.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)