I’m a sucker for science fiction. I have been since childhood. I grew up staring at the TV with lightsabers \u00c2\u00a0humming and lasers blasts caroming around trash compactors all day long. I loved Battlestar Galactica, despite its incredibly cheesy everything. As I got older, I continued to check out every sci-fi show I could, despite the fact that most of them were canceled before they were able to truly flourish. Most simply couldn’t garner enough viewers to justify the gargantuan budgets necessary to create alien worlds and\/or technology. The ’90s were the worst for me. Show after show just vanished from the air just as I grew attached to the characters or story. This practice continued into the new millennium, though with less frequency, as studios stopped risking budgets on sci-fi as a general rule and the Sci-Fi channel became a haven for science fiction to survive.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Netflix provides me with a large source of science fiction that I missed the first time around (Farscape, Babylon 5, Sliders) and has allowed me to re-experience some of my favorites (Stargate, Firefly) without any delay between episodes. However, I’m still looking out for that next great series that runs for 5 to 10 years and enthralls me throughout. But, with studios unwilling to spend the money necessary to create high quality series, some sci-fi creators are seeking new ways to fund their projects.<\/p>\n
And now we have reached the entire reason for this post. Today I came across a short film\/pilot for a science fiction series that was made entirely using crowdsourced funding with a budget of $15,000. The result is pretty spectacular, though some might be put off by less-than-stellar performances and B-grade special effects. It certainly reminds me of some of my favorite sci-fi novels, in which a great mystery is investigated by a small few individuals. I highly recommend checking it out. I’ll certainly be looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
It’s supposed to be available at VODO<\/a>, but I haven’t been able to get the site to load all day. But it’s being freely distributed via BitTorrent, as well. You can find it via EZTV here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a sucker for science fiction. I have been since childhood. I grew up staring at the TV with lightsabers \u00c2\u00a0humming and lasers blasts caroming around trash compactors all day long. I loved Battlestar Galactica, despite its incredibly cheesy everything. As I got older, I continued to check out every sci-fi show I could, despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,117],"tags":[240,239],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2350,"url":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/donate-to-l5-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-complaining-and-crowdfund-science-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":2348,"position":0},"title":"Donate to L5, Or: How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Crowdfund Science Fiction","author":"Jared Cash","date":"March 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, I posted an entry about L5, a completely crowd-funded sci-fi series pilot. 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