Before starting let me tell you that I'm an avid science fiction afficionado. Books, movies, tv series, comics, I like them all. Coming to Bucharest when I started studying at the university was like entering a candy store as a kid: all these antique bookshops with cheap, old and good books I finally was able to get my hands on. Because you see, in Onesti, my hometown, getting science fiction books was kind of impossible. The local library carried a couple of old books from Nemira and from time to time you were able to find one or two from in the book stores. You had to resort to 'aunt Ioana's son who comes from Bucharest for Easter' or to other science fiction fans. And they weren't that many.

Now, onto my gripe. Let's face it: we, the science fiction fans, don't get too much love from the networks. We're probably too few to generate the desired ratings and generally we're smart, which means that we're not going to watch everything which has a spaceship in it.

With the big screen, we're better. We get our share of science fiction movies. They don't come in big numbers, like the usual retarded teen comedies or the cheap horror flicks. But they come. Are they any good? Well, most of them aren't. But this is not about the big screen.

You see, I have a problem. I don't have a lot of new stuff to watch. The usual suspects, I've seen them and nowdays I'm searching for old science fiction flicks which I saw when I was a kid and which I can look at today without saying to myself: "Oh yes, now he sees the awful truth and next the monster comes out and he shoots it 4 times and... Wait, why am I watching this movie?". My problems would be solved if I was a trekkie since there's soooo much stuff to see, so many series and spinoffs.

But alas, I am not.