By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Supporter of All Life, Both Synthetic and Organic So, here we are, True Believers! After a semi-long delay caused in part by the global pandemic, not to mention an ambitious slate of Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU to the uninitiated) projects on the go, let’s welcome the first…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Former Bedrock Resident During this period of pandemic-related lockdown, it’s not surprising that, given the delays with new Fall TV shows having fallen behind production schedules, that most of us would decide to revisit some older TV properties, if only to keep cheerful and relatively sane. A great…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Ten Forward Regular Fifty-four years ago, an inventive sci-fi series about Starfleet explorers aboard an iconic starship launched an enduring franchise that would see seven spin-offs (with a few more planned), thirteen movies and countless books, graphic novels and memorabilia. Indeed, Star Trek has been to the final frontier and…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Former Muppets Labs Intern Just think of it: The Muppets have been in existence for nearly 70 years. They’ve been a constant in our pop culture awareness, going back to their modest beginnings in a small TV show called Sam and Friends in 1955, later gaining greater fame through…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Card Carrying Trekkie since 1974 With the resurgence of popular Star Trek TV spin-offs hitting the airwaves in the last few years (Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), it comes as no surprise that the fan base’s appetite for original content is growing faster than…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Lifelong Serling Student We all know the theme song by heart. We all have a favorite classic episode, either it be about a monster on the airplane wing, a nearsighted man unable to read books in a post-apocalyptic world or aliens looking to cook…AHEM, serve man. The original series’…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer A show the helped revive a failing kids network in the mid 2000s, Nickelodeon’s popular series Avatar The Last Airbender is a reminder of just how far the high definition format can take a cherished animated series to the next level, while still being limited by available technology…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer After a busy and tumultuous first season, CBS All Access’ foray into the Star Trek universe decided to push the envelope by tapping yet again into well known lore from the original series, while still creating new avenues to explore strange new life and civilizations. And boy oh…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer The year is 1975. I’m one year-old in Canada, but somewhere out there, on a British soundstage, a producer mostly known for some TV hits involving puppetry and miniatures decides he’d ride the post Star Trek vibe from the Americas and film a series in which a lunar…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer Think back on your favorite fanged fiction. The decade is irrelevant, be it Christopher Lee or Bela Lugosi or (shudder!) George Hamilton, everyone’s had their vampire fix either on the big screen or on their television sets. As a guy born in the mid-seventies, I was…