If it's Satuday, it must be time for yet another awkward music video for an original song of dubious merits by Kevin Long! This week it's "In Outer Space!"

Yowza!

Samsung's "Galaxy Gear" watch came out last year. It's basically a cellphone you wear on your wrist. This is basically a daydream people have had since Dick Tracy's Two-Way Wrist Radio, and it's always been the stuff of Science Fiction.

Samsung knows this (Or at least their advertising firm does) and so they put together a commercial that's nothing but clips of people talking into their wrists from a dozen SF shows and movies.

Babylon 5 turns up! Twice!

The subject of how TV series stories used to be episodic, versus today's multi-story arcs, popped up in the discussion on "Where Star Trek started to go wrong", and I thought about addressing it there, but then I thought it deserved its own discussion.

Each style has its good points, and its bad points. I'd like to explore them now.

Ginrummy pointed our noses at this Slashdot interview with J. Michael Straczynski, in which he answers questions from a Web audience about his works and creative process.

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/04/15/1328251/interviews-j-mi...

Also from Slashdot: Straczynski, in collaboration with the Wachowskis of "The Matrix" fame, are producing a new SF thriller for Netflix, titled Sense8: