Volume 11, Issue 6 ConNotations December/January The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society 24 Frames SF Tube Talk ReAnimation In This Issue Movie News & Reviews TV News & Previews Anime Reviews By Lee Whiteside By Lee Whiteside By Craig L. Dyer News & Reviews Lord of the Rings is Finally (Almost) Here It’s time for another roundup of SF TV **** Dual Vol. 4: One Vision SF Tube Talk 1 The long anticipated first installment of news and info. We’ve got some new hits, ***** Black Heaven, Legend of 4: 24 Frames 1 The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the some duds and a few more surprises on Into the Arena ReAnimation 1 Ring, will premier worldwide on December the way as the new year starts plus we’ll *** Bastard: Complete Collection FYI 2 19th. look at how new and returning shows are **** Trigun 4: Gun-Ho Guns + holding up in the ratings so far in the new CASFS Business Report 2 The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of **** Trigun 5: Angel Arms three movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s season. Musical Notes 3 **** Trigun 6: Project Seeds The Lord of the Rings will premiere Enterprise Launches Big Gamers Corner 3 **** Trigun 7: Puppet Master worldwide on December 19, 2001. Director As expected, the debut episode of Pro Notes 4 ***** Trigun 8: High Noon Peter Jackson has assembled a stellar cast Enterprise did very well for UPN, giving ConClusion 6 the network it’s second highest rating ***** The Legend Of The Dog behind the debut of Star Trek: Voyager Warriors: The Hakkenden Videophile 7 back in 1993. Through subsequent ***** El Hazard: The Magnificent In Our Book (Book Reviews) 15 episodes, Enterprise has settled into a World Boxed Set Musty Tomes 17 very respectable ratings range and is ***** 3x3 Eyes: Collector Edition likely making UPN executives very happy. **** Niea Under 7 Vol. 1: Poor Girl Special Feature The demographics have been as good as, Blues (eps 1-4) Shane & Laurie’s Excellent if not better than comparably rated shows **** Niea Under 7 Vol. 2: Funky on the major networks. Water Blues (eps 5-7) Adventure - Conclusion Through the first batch of episodes, By Shane Shellenberger 8 we’ve seen the Enterprise crew deal with We had a chance over the last couple a number of situations that may echo of months to watch lots of Anime and situations we’ve seen in the other Trek we’ve reviewed 13 of them below. Look for Convention & Fandom series, but we’re now seeing them from more reviews in our next issue since we Club Listings 18 the perspective of the first time humans still have 7 in our unviewed pile with more Convention Listings 19 have come across them. We’ve also seen arriving weekly. instances of technology that will only Convention Registration Form 19 for the movie trilogy and spent over a year become available to humans much later, ****Dual Vol. 4: One Vision on principle photography for the three such as holographic tech and tractor Pioneer, 100 mins, $24.98 VHS, $29.98 Art Work beams. With The Andorian Incident, movies in his native New Zealand. Jackson DVD Rated 13+ Sue Dawe 2 we’ve seen the return of the Andorians to has said that he set out to make the films Sherlock 1, 15, 17 ‘’neither childish nor overly dark.... a good, the Trek universe with Jeffrey Combs Dual tells the story which began in solid action adventure with intelligence and (Weyoun, Brunt) playing Shran. Dual 1 (reviewed ConNotations Volume 11 ( Cont’d on page 9 ) ( Cont’d on page 10 ) ( Cont’d on Page 12 ) ConNotations Non-Profit Org. Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society US Postage PO Box 62613 PAID Phoenix, AZ 85082 Permit 839 Phoenix, AZ Volume 11 Issue 6 ConNotations Page 1 BORDERS FANTASY & SCI-FI BOOK CASFS Business Report Who’s Who This Issue DISCUSSION: FYI Supernal Readers, Fourth Wednesday at Borders, 7320 W BOOK DISCUSSION GROUPS The November meeting of CASFS has Managing Editor: Stephanie Bannon Bell Rd in Glendale. at 7PM. 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