SpockSoc

I hope you enjoyed your holidays, did well in your courses last session, and weren’t crippled too much by the NTEU. It’s back to uni for session two (already!) and we’ve got events every week like always. I’ve still not quite hammered out a full schedule, but I’ll have it done soon. Honest.

In any case, our first screening this session is Mystery Univrse, the last third of season one. We don’t have a room set for this one yet, thanks to all the administrative hoops that the uni makes us jump through, but rest assured it’ll be on this Friday starting from 5pm. Somewhere. I’ll let you know exactly where later in the week. Entry free for members as always, pizza run at 7-ish (as always).

And next Friday, we’ll be having our sort-of-annual trivia night! Yay! We’re holding in place of a screening this year in the hopes that more people will be able to make it. Come along and test your knowledge of Sci-Fi and Fantasy trivia against the rest of SpockSoc. It’s heaps of fun, and we’ve got heaps of prizes. It’ll be at 5pm next Friday (the 30th) upstairs in the Roundhouse – we’ll let you know the specific room next week. Entry is $5 for everyone, members and non-members alike – bring all of your friends. We’ll be having pizza for dinner like a normal screening.

Update:We have a room for this week’s Mystery Univrse screening: the Macauley theatre. It’s on level one in the Quad building, directly underneath the bell tower. For those still uncertain, I’ll hang our orange banner on the railing outside – if you stand on the Quad lawn and look around, you’ll be able to see it easily, and we’ll be directly behind it. Stairs are to the left and right (and in the lobby too, but that’s not immediately obvious) and there’s the lift way down near the chemist. The lawn, incidentally, is on level G. Level one is the floor above.

Remember, we start at 5pm, showing Mystery Univrse season one, episodes 14 to 20. Entry is free for members – membership is $5 for the year, or $2 for one screenings. We’ll be getting pizza for dinner at about 7pm – $5 per half pizza, plus a free can of soft drink.

Lastly, don’t forget the SpockSoc trivia night next week in the Roundhouse – exact room to be advised. Entry is $5 for all, so bring your friends. Lots of fun, lots of trivia, lots of prizes.

Update 2: A tentative Schedule for session 2 is up http://www.spocksoc.com/schedule/

Hey all! Last week of session, hey? SpockSoc won’t be having any events during the exam period or holidays (because people have exams. And go on holidays) but we’ve got another jam-packed session planned for you next session. As soon as we get some jam and start packing.

But first! This Friday we’re showing Eureka, the last four episodes of season three. Come along even if you haven’t seen anything of Eureka – I’ll give brief character descriptions so people know who’s who. We’re finishing off the season so we can start fresh with season four next session. It’s a great series starring Colin Ferguson as Jack Carter, the average normal-joe guy who happens to be the sheriff in Eureka, a town full of geniuses. And when things go wrong around geniuses, they go wrong real bad. =) 5pm in Rex Vowels. Pizza run at 7-ish.

Only two weeks of session left, aww. Anyway, based on suggestions and lack of enthusiasm in what we planned to show and what series we have left, I’ve decided on the screenings for this week and next week. This week, we’re showing the last four episodes of Warehouse 13 season one, and the last four episodes of Better Off Ted. Better Off Ted got cancelled last week, so these are the last four episodes ever (aww) but we’ll show the next season of Warehouse 13 next session. The screening starts at 5pm Friday in Rex Vowels as usual – pizza run at 7-ish.

Next week is the last week of session. We’ll be showing the last four episodes of Eureka season three, though I might show the fifth-last one for a bit of recap. Either way, we’re going to finish early that night, because the very next day, Saturday the 5th of June, we’ll be partnering up with the UNSW Anime society to marathon the whole of a Sci-Fi anime series. More details next week, but keep your diaries free, and come along to kick back and relax before Stuvac.

Getting on towards the last few weeks of session – boy do they go by so fast. This week’s screening is Mystery Screening Univ, starting from episode seven (because we reached episode six at our first screening in week one). I’m hoping as many people will still be able to come this week as there were in week one. =) In any case, it’s 5pm Friday in Rex Vowels, pizza run at 7-ish like usual.

This week at SpockSoc we’re showing two things. Firstly, we’re showing the last three episodes of the third season of Primeval, because that was how far we’d gotten at our last screening of it last year. Unfortunately the future of Primeval is a little uncertain, so I thought I might as well just get the remaining episodes out of the way. In Primeval, a team of scientists must protect modern-day London from strange portals in time which bring forth creatures from the distant past – and the far future. It’s made by the same guys who did Walking with Dinosaurs.

The second is a comedy fantasy series called Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. It’s a short show – six half-hour episodes, and American… which means very American humour, which may admittedly be not to everyone’s taste. It still looks pretty good at first glance, so come along and try it out.

As usual for double-show screenings, we’ll decide on the night which we’ll show first. 5pm in Rex Vowels – pizza run at 7ish.

This week at SpockSoc: Paradox. Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint must prevent a major accident from occurring. Her only clues are photos that somehow arrive from eighteen hours in the future, after the accident has already happened. It’s another British series – five hour-long episodes, so we’ll be able to see the whole thing in the one screening. Starting at 5pm in Rex Vowels – pizza run at 7-ish like usual.

In other news, due to availability and things airing on TV, we’ve made some changes to our screenings in weeks 10, 11 and 13. Week 10 is now Primeval and Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. Week 11 is Mystery Screening Univrse, the second third of the first season. Week 13 is yet to be decided. I’ll give more details in the e-mails of the week, but keep your diaries free if those series interest you.

Last but not least: if I were to have a marathon screening on the Saturday following week thirteen, who’d be interested in coming? Would it make for a good break before stuvac starts, or will people be too worried about exams already? Fill in Poll to the right to let me know your opinion. I want to hear it, honest. =)

Hope you’re enjoying  the Anzac Day long weekend. This week at SpockSoc we’re showing Sanctuary, the first half of season two. The series stars Amanda Tapping (Sam Carter in Stargate) as Doctor Helen Magnus, a woman who became immortal as a result of experiments with vampire blood. Now, she runs a sanctuary for all sorts of creatures who need her help – werewolves, lizard men, creepy worm-paratise things from Chernobyl. Et cetera.

I’ll attempt a brief recap of the events of season one before we start, so come along even if you weren’t at our screenings last year – it’s a great series. Starting at 5pm in Rex Vowels.

On a side note, for those who were at our Misfits screening last week but left immediately, the next season is being either filmed or broadcast (not sure which) in England in May so with any luck we’ll be showing it early next session. Watch this space.

Here we go, second half of the session.

This week at SpockSoc, we’re showing Misfits. It’s a British series about a bunch of people who discover they have superpowers. Kinda like Heroes, only instead of gaining their powers by looking at the sun during a solar eclipse, they get struck by lightning. And instead of being a random bunch of people from all over the planet, they’re juvenile delinquents. Also, it’s British. =)

Anyway, as per British series, the first season is short, only six episodes, so we’ll be able to fit the whole thing into the screening. Come along. =) Screening starts at 5pm in Rex Vowels theatre.

On a side note, if you missed Doctor Who on Sunday, or want to watch Doctor Who Confidential, the making-of special, remember you can catch both on ABC’s iView

I hope you enjoyed your mid-session break. This week’s screening is Better off Ted. It’s an extremely funny office-humour-type series with some sort of sci-fi elements.

Ted Crisp loves his job. He works for the team at Veridian Dynamics, where nothing is too far-fetched, or out of the ordinary. An average day for Ted could easily involve creating a suicidal turkey, for instance. The only problem is, Ted is ethical and the company is not.

It stars Jay Harrington and Portia de Rossi. We showed the first episode at a screening last year, and it was quite well-received by those there. We’re starting at 5pm in Rex Vowels like usual – pizza run at 7-ish. If you’re not sure whether you’ll like it, just come for at least the first episode – they’re only half an hour. =)

On a different note, the Lord of the Rings marathon went well on Saturday, but considering the number of interested people I spoke to at O-Week, the turnout was much smaller than I expected. Was mid-session break a bad time? Was there not enough advance warning. If I were to run it again, would you be interested and when would be a good time? Please email me using the contact form.

Hope you enjoyed your Easter long weekend and will enjoy (or are enjoying?) your mid-session break. As I said last week, and will expand upon now, SpockSoc has not one but two screenings this week.

This Friday, we’ll be showing the last eight episodes of the first season of Legend of the Seeker, a series based on the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind. It’s a special extended screening, since we have eight episodes to get through – we’ll be starting at 4pm in Rex Vowels. That’s four o’clock Friday, Rex Vowels theatre. Even with the extra hour, it’s gonna be a bit squishy fitting things in, so we’ll be starting not long after 4 – apologies for those who can’t make it then, but you’ll only miss one episode if you come at 5. Pizza run at 7-ish like normal. I will attempt a recap of the first two-thirds of the season, if new members want to come along.