Farscape Season 1 VFX supervisor Paul Butterworth on the creation of Moya, beating Star Wars at their own game, and inspiring Guardians of the Galaxy. “It was a very bizarre, very bizarre project,” ...

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ITV ‘dinosaur sci-fi’ show Primeval may have ended in 2011, but there is still an active Reddit community tossing back and forth theories about which season was best and why Cutter had to die. There’s ...

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Wyvern Gaming’s Brad Ellis is no stranger to games design or crowdfunding. His company has produced five tabletop/card/deckbuilding games and all five were ...

Whilst the mainstreaming of fandom might cause some older hands to grind their teeth and jab needles into their Sheldon poppets, the consequence is not insignificant: the image of geeks as antisocial ...

During her interview with The Companion’s Rebecca Davis for Amanda Tapping: Embracing Mental Health as a Fandom, the actor-turned-producer/director was frank about the mental health challenges she ...

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode ‘Captive Pursuit’ (S1, Ep5). Proceed with caution. Many fans can point to a moment when Star Trek helped them through ...

Let’s not forget, as we begin on what could be an esoteric and convoluted journey, that Ra was not originally going to be an alien in the Stargate (1994) movie. Jaye Davidson’s character was an ...

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