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Science fiction is overrun with Martians, from monstrous invaders to shapeshifting superheroes to Santa-kidnapping buffoons. To make sense of over a century's worth of Martians, we present this grid ranking scifi Martians on their goodness and just how alien they are (click to expand). More »
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We're still a week away from watching Megan Fox snack on schoolboys in Jennifer's Body. In the meantime, we're serving up a list of the other women in science fiction who hunger for human flesh. More »
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Let’s get it out at the start: My Favorite Martian was no Lost in Space. The latter had Robot, after all, and Dr. Smith, not to mention cool mod spacesuits. Despite its title, MFM had little-to-no outer-space trappings (at least as I remember it) and the lamest laugh track this side of Gilligan’s Island. If, however, you spent much of your childhood watching whatever was on the tube on Grandma’s house, you might be interested in the money shot from the My Favorite Martian pilot episode in 1963: The moment when reporter Tim O’Hara sees something strange in the sky, and meets the foil-jumpsuit-clad alien he later comes to know as Uncle Martin. Yuks ensued for the next three seasons. More »
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Audiences have been laughing at science fiction since it was conceived, but usually for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't until television became popular that producers decided to get in on the joke and start making comedies about science fiction — and those early shows gave birth to everything from films like The Three Stooges in Orbit to countless episodes of 3rd Rock From The Sun. There have been a lot of comedy scifi misses, but check our list of hits after the jump. More »
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