Netflix's PR people are too astute to waste any heavy hitters against the likes of Avatar or Wakanda Forever but don't like to completely bow out of any tussle.
So we have some characteristically mid and low range entries from them this week in Warriors of the Future and Hot Skull.
According to a reddit thread detailing spoilers for chapter #1065 of best-selling pirate fantasy manga series, One Piece, it has been revealed that the setting is not an alternate fantasy world.
It's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world. That's one way for sci-fi to beat fantasy.
Before having an opportunity to see Amazon's new The Peripheral series with our own eyes, we spied more than a few unflattering reviews in the news streams.
Based on a book, did it not do it justice? Was this a case of non sci-fi lovers just not being able to understand and appreciate it? No.
In a pair of recent tweets Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis executive producer Brad Wright has seemingly confirmed the leaked reports of Amazon not proceeding with him or his script for their new Stargate series.
Instead, according to the same leaker, Amazon have engagedThe Expanse writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby.
HBO's post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Last of Us based on the popular PlayStation game has been given a January 16 release date in Australia on Binge and Foxtel.
Which on our calendar will be the first new sci-fi series to launch next year.
Readers of our blog would probably be aware that of the current era Star Trek's, Prodigy is the only one we reckon is proper Star Trek.
In February we credited it with not retconning the Prime Directive, but on watching the first episode after its mid-season break, sadly discovered that honour was premature.
For much of their history, Radio Times were owned by the BBC and unsurprisingly tend never to speak ill of Doctor Who.
When discussing the recently revealed viewing numbers for Jodie Whittaker's final episode (spoilers ahead), again they don't speak ill of that or the Chibnall era, but do throw in a few extra numbers to show that the final episode only had half as many viewers (5.3 million) as his first (10.9 million).
A few weeks back, DC's Black Adam released in cinemas alongside action roleplaying game Gotham Knights. It looked like dark day for the franchise with generally unfavourable critic response to the film, and mixed but quite savage reviews for the game from several major publications. Today on Rotten Tomatoes, Black Adam sports a 40% critic and 90% viewer score. Only half a world between those.
