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First Look at Syfy’s Ascension With Tricia Helfer

What if we’d sent an interstellar ship into space in 1963? The new Syfy three-night event imagines that we have. We’ve sent our best and brightest on a hundred-year journey and we’re 50 years in. Some of the residents of the ship are living large. Some, not so much. When a murder happens, the first in the ship’s history, it...

First Trailer for Lucasfilm’s Strange Magic

George Lucas and Lucasfilm may have handed the Star Wars reigns to Disney, but they’re still making movies. Today we have the first trailer for their upcoming animated musical Strange Magic. Here is the official synopsis: “Strange Magic, a new animated film from Lucasfilm Ltd., is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by A Midsummer...

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES RECAP AND REVIEW: “FADE INTO YOU”

Legion contributor Dash Williams is recapping and reviewing The Vampire Diaries for us this season. Follow them on Twitter @DashKnowsAll! This weeks episode ‘Fade Into You’ begins with a flashback to the events of last weeks big reveal; awesome Dr. Jo being the surviving sibling from Kai’s killing spree. Good to see that knife sticking out...

Dear Santa, Please Bring Me This Flux Capacitor Watch

Dear Santa, I’ve already purchased my adult Underoos, so you probably want to know what to get me for the holidays. I wanted to make this as easy for you as possible, as you have so many geeks to deliver to this year. I would like a Flux Capacitor watch from ThinkGeek, please. It’s $49.99 and it blinks! Here’s the info for you...

Dragonriders of Pern Movie Gets a Writer!

If you’ve been reading my work over here at Legion of Leia, you probably know what a giant, ridiculous fan of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. Heck, I called her the “single biggest artistic influence in my life” in my blog post after she passed away. Well, today we learned that the upcoming film adaptation of...

Barbie is a Terrible Computer Engineer

In a world that is all up in society’s grill about equality for women, Barbie just had to go and mess things up, as usual. Sure, she probably meant well, but… Sigh. Do women actually write these “I Can Be ___” stories? Or is some begrudging dude in charge of these books, whose machinations are to indoctrinate little girls...