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The One Battlestar Plot Twist You Never Expected

Today’s batch of spoilers include a shocking plot twist from the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, and a ton of details about a June Battlestar Galactica episode. We also have new plot details about Sam Rockwell’s new movie Moon, and a new synopsis for Star Wars: Clone Wars. We dug up a dodgy description…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Click to viewEver since the first cheesy monster or goofy robot leered out from the cover of a pulpy magazine, science fiction has struggled to shake off a certain tinge of campiness. No matter how hard creators may try to tell cool stories, that slightly ironic silliness is always lurking just outside the frame. And…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sex Secrets Of Hancock And Smallville’s Clark Kent

Spoiler fiends are the truest afficionados of media SF. We’re endlessly curious about everything: we actually care about drunken superhero Hancock’s sex life, and exactly what Mulder and Scully’s status is in X-Files 2. We pore over toy announcements to decipher the secret of Doctor Who’s season finale, and read between the lines to dope…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Cutest Science Fiction Sidekicks, And Why They Fail

All sidekicks must have certain key lovable qualities, or else they lose that sparkle that makes them so endearing. But sometimes the cute-overload factor goes too far and a gag reflex kicks in, making people want to destroy that character. Compiled after the jump is a list of the most adorable sidekicks in science fiction…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Scifi PSAs: Because Knowing Is Half The Battle

G.I. Joe’s Recondo teaches that the more you know, the less likely you are to hide in a fridge. Thanks, Recondo! Although honestly, it is a pretty great hiding place. Back in the day, Saturday mornings weren’t just a place for awesome science fiction cartoons, they were also a chance for the government to instill…

io9 Meredith Woerner

On the International Space Station, You Can Watch Star Wars But Not Star Trek

In a stroke of weird genius, the people at GovernmentAttic.org issued a FOIA (freedom of information act) request to the US government to reveal the contents of the multimedia library on the International Space Station. Probably happy that they weren’t being asked about the Patriot Act, the government happily complied, supplying us with a 13-page…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Meet The New Characters In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

io9 got a sneak peek Star Wars: The Force Unleashed yesterday. The untold chapter between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope follows a new Sith apprentice who dodges rebels and Stormtroopers alike. Get a sampling of the story line, meet some new characters (and find…

io9 Meredith Woerner

R2-D2 Projector in Action Video (Verdict: A Must Have)

We knew that there was a motorized, fully-articulated R2-D2 projector with built-in DVD, iPod dock, all kinds of digital media inputs, and Millennium Falcon remote control, but we never—EVER—imagined it would be so amazingly drooltastic as this video shows. Time to put on your LEGO-made Han Solo jacket or Leia bikini, and buy this thing—because…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Final Proof That Darth Vader Should Not Haggle

Last night’s special Star Wars-themed Deal or No Deal left no cliché untouched, from the “may the force be with you jokes” to the Leia-slave and Stormtrooper costumes and blaster sound effects. I’m all for camp, but watching the Darth Vader brokering with the contestants as the night’s replacement “Banker” really seemed to cheapen the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Chewbacca Promises More Wars To Come

Are we on the verge of another Star Wars movie trilogy? That’s the terrifying rumor being put forward by Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca’s man behind the Wookie, at a recent French convention when asked about the possibility of more hairy heroes in our future. According to TheForce.net, when Mayhew appeared at the recent Générations Star Wars…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Fluidhand Prosthetic Makes Us Think of Darth and Luke

*Warped voice through Tannoy system* Chut chut. Pay Luke Skywalker bolla Tatooine frumf ti pund, konchee er pinkosponto kapa. Luke Skywalker bolla Tatooine frumf ti pund, pay.” Translated from Huttese into Galactic Basic, that reads: “Greetings. Could Luke Skywalker make his way to the Tatooine Lost & Found, where his prosthetic hand has been handed…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Stupid Grown-Ups Love Their Robot Overseers

What heavy metal teenager with a bitchin’ mullet hasn’t fantasized about acting out this scene? Walking out of a giant monster skull, with a wall of flame behind you, and telling all of the old farts that they’re really slaves of the man? In this awesome scene from Starchaser: Legend Of Orin, the slaves of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Speed Racer’s Son Meets A Robot Chimp

If you had a robot butler scheduling your TV viewing (and maybe showing programs on a Teletubbies-style belly screen) he would have an upbeat lilt in his synth-voice when describing this week’s TV options. There are actually some worthwhile items, on days other than Thursday and Friday. For instance, might we suggest mutant ghetto rats…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Secrets Of Iron Man And Heroes Season 3

We have a whole weekend’s worth of spoilers to digest, in one extremely massive spoiler-blast. A ton of new reviews of Iron Man came out, including loads of ironclad plot details and a couple dozen photos. There are also pics and video which reveal a new villain in the next Doctor Who Christmas special, now…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

R2-D2 and C-3PO Easter Egg in LEGO Indiana Jones

Reader LindsayJoy just received her Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb LEGO set, complete with snakes, the Lost Ark, snakes, Marion, snakes, Indy, snakes (I hate snakes,) and a special piece we didn’t notice the first time we saw the first production set photos: a piece with the hieroglyphic engravings of R2-D2 and C-3PO in…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Actual Video of Drunk Darth Vader Attacking Jedi

Remember the case of the drunkard dressing up as Vader and beating some Jedi-wannabees with a crutch? Here’s the vid. I can’t believe someone got charged with assault for this. Footage of the actual attack just takes all the juice away from the tale. I mean, in the old days, you had to take off…

Tech News Brian Lam

Why Do Anti-Heroes Rule Science Fiction?

The first time I ever read the word “anti-hero,” it was in an article about science fiction, and it’s always seemed a very science fictional type of word — like anti-matter, or anti-gravity. Science fiction has its share of one-dimensional white hats, but the characters who capture our imagination are usually the morally blurred rascals,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Which Star Warrior Would You Like As Your Boss?

It’s one thing to become a Jedi, but being one with the Force isn’t going to get you ahead in the modern world. Or is it? That’s the question being asked by the writers of HR World, the internet’s “leading resource and community for HR professionals.” They’ve been busy looking at the main characters of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Darth Vader Goes Low Rent In New Jedi Attack

Years after you thought he’d reformed and ended his war against the Jedi, Darth Vader is back and making trouble for those who learn from the teachings of zen muppet Yoda. Or, at least, that’s what a Welsh court heard recently, as they learned about one of the most amusing physical attacks caught on camera…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Forget Warp Speed, Try One Of These Alternative FTL Ideas

In Star Wars and Star Trek, the main way to get around the galaxy is to use warp speed or flip on your hyperdrive, which is a bit like hitting the gas pedal as hard as you can so you’ll get there a bit quicker. There’s more science to it than that, involving subspace fields…

io9 Kevin Kelly

The One Battlestar Plot Twist You Never Expected

21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Sex Secrets Of Hancock And Smallville’s Clark Kent

The Cutest Science Fiction Sidekicks, And Why They Fail

Scifi PSAs: Because Knowing Is Half The Battle

On the International Space Station, You Can Watch Star Wars But Not Star Trek

Meet The New Characters In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

R2-D2 Projector in Action Video (Verdict: A Must Have)

Final Proof That Darth Vader Should Not Haggle

Chewbacca Promises More Wars To Come

Fluidhand Prosthetic Makes Us Think of Darth and Luke

Stupid Grown-Ups Love Their Robot Overseers

Speed Racer’s Son Meets A Robot Chimp

Secrets Of Iron Man And Heroes Season 3

R2-D2 and C-3PO Easter Egg in LEGO Indiana Jones

Actual Video of Drunk Darth Vader Attacking Jedi

Why Do Anti-Heroes Rule Science Fiction?

Which Star Warrior Would You Like As Your Boss?

Darth Vader Goes Low Rent In New Jedi Attack

Forget Warp Speed, Try One Of These Alternative FTL Ideas

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AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

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Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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