Axiom’s Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy

From the new to the old…

Round 2 Nominations:

Best Comedy Clip:
I still don’t get how Stricteternum isn’t on here but I guess if you can have a Best SF TV Show category without B5 anything is possible. Choosing ten of these from what was left wasn’t easy for me. Luckily, most of my list from last week made it through.

1.    Shaun of the Dead: Throwing Records
2.    Shaun of the Dead: Girl in the Garden
3.    Dazed and Confused: Gilligan’s Island Male Fantasy
4.    Young Frankenstein: What Knockers!
5.    Young Frankenstein: Inspector Kemp- Don’t know how I missed this from the first round.
6.    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine: Programming the Women
7.    Edward Scissorhands: A Good Astringent- This was cute.
8.    Animal House: Toga Guitar Smash- What more can be said for Animal House?
9.    Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Men in Tights- Told you it was hard to come up with ten.
10.    Home Alone: Shopping

Best Clip (non-comedy):
This was a little easier.

1.    SpaceRip: Black Holes Death Rays
2.    SpaceRip: Beyond the Event Horizon
3.    SpaceRip: Voyager’s Legacy- How this show was eliminated from the Best Info category is beyond me. It gets all the love I can give it here.
4.    Field of Dreams: Ray and his Dad Play Catch- The scene that captures the essence of one of the three best baseball films ever made.
5.    Psycho: The Shower Scene- Hitchcock wanted this to be a nude scene but was talked out of it. What was that guy thinking? Still and all, one of the single most shocking scenes—for its time—in motion picture history.
6.    The Birds: The Birds Amass- Just a quietly creepy scene from the master of quietly creepy scenes.
7.    Lost Highway: I’m at Your House- “I’ve always been at your house.” Baretta sure throws some weird parties. From another master of quietly creepy scenes.

Round 1 Nominations:

Best Unscripted Television Show:
Nothing special here for me so I chose an old Samantha favorite:

Kitchen Nightmares

Best Television Show (Scripted):
Friday Night Lights and Arrested Development- meh. I mean, come on, best of all time? Chuck and Battlestar Galactica I’ve heard good things about and I just borrowed the complete set (so far) of BSG from a friend so maybe I can finally fall in love with it now that they’re taking it off the air. But I haven’t watched enough of either to call them the best show on television. Which brings us down to The Blonde and the Bald Man. Hard to pick one of these because they’re both so well done and so very different. The easy (and evidently predictable) choice here for me would be Buffy but there’s an undeniable greatness in AHP as well. AHP… BtVS… BtVS… AHP… which to choose, which to choose. If there can be only one:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Best Movie:
Another category which comes down to two contenders. Raising Arizona is dismissed out of hand. Next we eliminate Men in Black. Then goes the hardest choice by far til now, Ghostbusters, which is a marvelous film. So we get down to NOTLD and Some Like It Hot. I can truly see either of these two winning, and maybe even Ghostbusters. I chose NOTLD over SLIH for Best Classic Movie but somehow that makes this choice a little tougher, as dissing Marilyn twice in a week—especially in this incredible film—seems wrong. But NOTLD is the launch point of my favorite horror genre, by my favorite director in that genre. And I already broke my own heart picking AHP over Buffy (the hardest choice I’ve had to make in these awards, other than maybe Worst CelebReality Show), so:

Night of the Living Dead (’68 )

Best Television Network:
For Buffy:

20th Century Fox

Best News Show:
Wow, this was awfully NBCentric:

Comic Con 2008

Best Informational Show:
Kind of a tough choice but not really:

Nova

Best Talk and Interview Show:
Given these choices, this was pretty easy for me:

Inside the Actor’s Studio

(Editor’s Note: The general public can participate in the nominations as well. Go to the links above for any or all of the categories you are interested in and cast your vote for the shows you think should win. All of the general votes will be tallied up and count as one panelist in deciding the final winners. PSW)