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Six Theorists Explain What TV Is Doing To Your Mind

How does watching television change you? Can it affect your identity or change your perceptions of reality? Theorists have been asking those questions for fifty years. Here are six books to get you started asking the thorny questions. I could have included dozens more books in this list, but I narrowed it down to include…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 30

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Final Round: River Vs. Batman!

River Tam: a child prodigy, subjected to weird brain experiments and turned into an unstoppable killing machine. Who can stand in her way? Maybe the guy who trained since childhood to become the greatest detective and the greatest fighter? io9 TV badass smackdown day seven: River vs. Batman!(opinion) So which Batman is it? It’s any…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 30

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Six: River Vs. The Doctor

Who knew River Tam was such an all-purpose badass? She’s crushed two cybernetic organisms, a legendary starship captain and the Slayer. Can she defeat a Time Lord, who’s lived ten lives and saved the universe? Plus a couple bonus rounds. io9 TV badass smackdown day six: River vs. The Doctor(survey) But on the off chance…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 29

10 TV Shows That Should Never, Ever Be Made Into Movies

Hollywood may have shown lack of judgment when it comes to adapting television shows into movies – Land of The Lost, anyone? – but that doesn’t mean we’re content to stay quiet and not warn them off certain shows nonetheless. This week, we’ve been celebrating the best of science fiction television, but there’s a dark…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 29

Pitch Us Your Best TV Shows

All this week, we’ve been talking about the TV that ate our brains, but now we want to know about the TV that’s eating yours… Not that it exists yet. We want to know what your ideal TV show is. You can pitch us an all-new idea, a spin-off of an existing series or concept,…

Television Graeme McMillan Aug 29

Smallville’s Ninth Season To Feature Classic Comic Clash?

What is going on over at Smallville? Yesterday, Geoff Johns – who’ll be writing an episode of the show’s ninth season – teased this pic and added “Had an amazing week at Smallville! JLA vs. JSA!!” Interesting… [Twitter]

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 29

The Cutest, Sexiest, Weirdest And Wrongest Futurama Porn [NSFW]

Few science fiction shows inspire so many naughty ideas as Futurama. Go looking for regular images of the Planet Express crew, and you’ll probably stumble across porn quickly. We sifted through and found the absolute sexiest and weirdest. It’s NSFW! Seriously, you have to make a major effort to avoid Futurama porn — go to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 28

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

This week we all fell in love with our televisual screens and discovered new depths between the pixels. So what did you miss from our TV Ate My Brain Week? We’ve got the best of the best lined up right here. Your Complete Guide To Fall Science Fiction TV The fall TV season is just…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 28

Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

Although science fiction has been a mainstay on television since the mid-twentieth century, the genre has been consistently critical of television’s power to brainwash the masses. Here are the classic anti-TV tales from science fiction. While there are dozens more stories I could have included in this list, I’ve focused here on the classics –…

Television Annalee Newitz Aug 28

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

We’ve all seen the big spoofs of scifi classics. Family Guy just recreated Star Wars and the Simpsons’ Prisoner tribute was perfection. But nobody salutes science fiction better than 30 Rock’s sly one-liners, which just slip it in there. We’re madly in love with the writing on 30 Rock, mainly because each wickedly clever line…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 28

What’s The Matter With Story Arcs On Television?

Used to be, your television heroes explored the edges of the universe and confronted unimaginable nightmares. And then they’d end up back where they started. Now television gives us arcs, that continue from week to week. Is that really better? It’s the classic trade-off: on the one hand, self-contained weekly episodes are newbie-friendly and easy…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 28

Original Pilot vs. Official Pilot: Which Shows Changed the Most?

While most shows’ pilots air as their first episode, some shows get a do-over to make creative changes, improve production, or appease the network. We look at some of the pilots that didn’t make it and how the shows changed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Riff Regan vs. Alyson Hannigan) What they changed: Joss Whedon financed…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 28

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Five: River Vs. Buffy

Is there anybody who can stop River Tam’s slaughter of television’s greatest ass-kickers? How about Joss Whedon’s original heroine, Buffy? The Slayer has stopped the apocalypse more times than you can count — surely she can take on one girl? io9 TV badass smackdown day five: River vs. Buffy(polling)

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 28

Doctor Who Set Pics Reveal A Historical Figure And An Old Enemy?

British time-travel show Doctor Who’s taking us back to one of the Doctor’s favorite historical eras, judging from some new set pics — and we’ll be meeting one of history’s greatest legends — and one of Doctor Who’s worst villains. There are spoilers in this post. Please exercise maximum spoiler contamination procedures. So it appears…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 28

The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows Of All Time

Science fiction and fantasy have ruled television for over 50 years, but some shows have brightened our screens and supercharged our brains more than others. Here’s our list of the 100 greatest science fiction/fantasy shows of all time. How did we determine these rankings? Using science. That means that if you disagree with the shows…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 28

At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek

When have TV aliens been more popular than magic? Do shows featuring time travel fare better than those about space exploration? We chart the popularity of television’s most common themes, and see how scifi television has changed since 1970. We looked at over 300 science fiction and fantasy television shows from 1970, the year after…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 28

The Questions You Shouldn’t Answer, And The Answers You Can’t Let Go Of

I was lucky enough to be talking with one of my favorite scifi novelists the other day, and I asked him a question he didn’t know the answer to. We were talking about a book he’d written, and I asked him if he’d tell me the answer to a Big Unanswered Question in the book.…

io9 Josh Friedman Aug 28

What The Hell Happened to the Mid-Sized Scifi Movie?

This is a weird post. Maybe even a rant. And my ire could be significantly misplaced, but WTF – This is something I’ve been thinking about all summer: Where is the middle? I’m talking movie budgets here. You know, the monetary cost of producing a science fiction film for theatrical release. Someone like myself who…

io9 Jesse Alexander Aug 27

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Four: River Vs. Kirk

The battle of the Summer Glaus was long and fierce — but we’re calling it. River Tam vanquished her robotic twin, Cameron. But how will River do against the man who doesn’t believe in the no-win situation: James T. Kirk? io9 TV badass smackdown day four: River Tam vs. Captain Kirk(survey)

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 27

From Enchantress to Vamp Slayer – How “Bewitched” Created “Buffy”

A blonde hides her supernatural powers from the rest of the world while her show deals with social issues through metaphor and analogy… Sounds like Joss Whedon’s Buffy, but Elizabeth Montgomery was there thirty years earlier with classic sitcom Bewitched. My theory that Bewitched was the Buffy the Vampire Slayer of its day started, I…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 26

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Six Theorists Explain What TV Is Doing To Your Mind

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Final Round: River Vs. Batman!

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Six: River Vs. The Doctor

10 TV Shows That Should Never, Ever Be Made Into Movies

Pitch Us Your Best TV Shows

Smallville’s Ninth Season To Feature Classic Comic Clash?

The Cutest, Sexiest, Weirdest And Wrongest Futurama Porn [NSFW]

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

What’s The Matter With Story Arcs On Television?

Original Pilot vs. Official Pilot: Which Shows Changed the Most?

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Five: River Vs. Buffy

Doctor Who Set Pics Reveal A Historical Figure And An Old Enemy?

The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows Of All Time

At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek

The Questions You Shouldn’t Answer, And The Answers You Can’t Let Go Of

What The Hell Happened to the Mid-Sized Scifi Movie?

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Four: River Vs. Kirk

From Enchantress to Vamp Slayer – How “Bewitched” Created “Buffy”

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