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...know something weird is going on in the afterlife when the dead get their own talk show. But there they are, twice a day, on Sci-Fi's new Crossing Over with John Edward, using the host, a regular-Joe medium, to greet, reminisce with and bust the chops of loved ones in the studio audience. Nor do the dead walk only on basic cable. On series as disparate as Providence, Ally McBeal, Soul Food and The X-Files, apparitions of departed loved ones offer advice and solace. On the WB's Dead Last, scheduled for next year, a rock...
...even think about the ratings." But no one on the tour, perhaps, is better practiced at the non-answer answer than Chris Carter. Carter, after all, is the creator of Fox's "The X-Files," which is essentially a non-answer answer in series form: a fascinating and infuriating sci-fi mystery whose "mythology" unfolds molasses-like, every season offering an "explosive" finale that opens five questions for every one it resolves...
...thanks. To be fair, mystery is essential to the show. And some of Carter's questioners had Sci-Fi-Convention Syndrome, expecting the creator to spit out, like a creative jukebox, the answers to all manner of ephemera and hypotheticals. How will Mulder feel if it turns out Scully's preggers by somebody else? Was the spaceship in the season finale the same kind of spaceship as in the movie? "This one was the sports car," Carter said, bemused, "and the other was the Lincoln Continental...
There are architects who love the Parthenon. Greg Lynn has a thing for the blob. This would not only be the '50s sci-fi thriller about a belligerent wad of jelly. The blobs that beguile him are any "isomorphic polysurfaces," meaning shapes that are, well, blobs. Architecture is a profession in which the cube and sphere are still the literal building blocks. What Lynn prefers reminds you of amoebas and bundled foam. In the most pliant forms of nature, in very irregular geometry, he sees the future...
Nineteen years before The Blair Witch Project, this classic sci-fi film showed that you can make an arresting fantasy with hardly more than the change under your couch cushions. Based on an Ursula K. Le Guin novel about a man who discovers that his dreams can alter reality, Lathe has rarely been shown since 1980. (A Bill Moyers interview with Le Guin follows this airing.) Some of the no-budget effects haven't aged well--at one point the earth is visited by alien ships that look like electric hamburgers. The provocative exploration of consciousness, though, is priceless...