Dear Download of the Season Premiere of The 4400, Guest Starring Summer Glau,
You have been at 99% for over 5 hours. Finish or I’ll hit you with a big ruler with a thumbtack taped to the end.
No love,
Priscilla
Finally got around to watching the first episode of Tim Minear’s “The Inside”. Quite good! I’m going to have to start watching regularly. It’ll bring meaning to my Wednesdays, now that Lost is over for the year. And it’s fun to play “Spot the Minear Vet”, most notably with Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne on Firefly, and Katie Finneran, who played Sharon on Wonderfalls. *surfs IMDB* Hey, the guy who plays the medical examiner (Rich Sickler) was the First Assistant Director for Serenity! Um, the guy who played Sheldon was in the Buffy episode “Homecoming”, but Tim Minear didn’t have anything to do with Buffy, did he? Just Angel. But the actress who played the “New Girl” was in the Angel episode “Happy Anniversary”!
Meanwhile, in a less pointless exercise, why does the IMDB schedule show that they’re showing the episodes out of order? You’d think Tim Minear would have learned his lesson about Fox by now. Gah, I really hope this show makes, if only to prevent Tim Minear from having a psychotic break and swearing off TV forever. *pats Joss*
Ashley — My Firefly DVDs are very much in use at the moment, but Premiere Video and (I think) Hollywood Video have them in stock. I’m sure some kind family member could be cajoled into renting them for you! *grins* Or you could try to persuade Rachel to lend you hers.
Comment-Answering!
Tori: Extra Serenity tickets? Why yes indeed I do. Interested?
Jo: It’s not that bad, it just reduced my brains to porridge. I’m sure kids will enjoy it. And maybe the excessive hyperactivity quotient would be ameliorated by a small screen, rather than in the theater.
Tori again: We had Chicken Little, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, a horse movie, and the Wallace and Grommit trailer. Speaking of trailers, I find it hilarious that I will have seen Serenity twice before seeing the trailer on the big screen.
Ko: I sent you a link to the file, which I uploaded to my webspace because it is 5Mb and you use lame Penn email with a 10Mb quota. Hahaha, the song kills me dead. Other people that want to hear it, email me (priscellie at gmail) and I’ll send you the link. Offer good for the next five days! Offer also good for a highly entertaining version of “YMCA” sung in Cantonese.
Becky: *pokes you back* *procrastinates*
Renata: By “The 4400 is the funniest show ever!”, do you mean funny-badness or actually humorous? Ah well, I guess I’ll find out soon. *downloads the Summer Glau episode*
Rebecca: Where did you find a Kaylee-esque jumpsuit? Bah, our sole Army surplus store sucks.
Meghan: I fail! Make that “Captain of the ship Serenity and veteran of the Battle of Serenity Valley, who rarely experiences serenity, Mal’s character in Serenity veers more towards the darker range of his spectrum, even more so than in ‘Serenity’.” *commits grammatical hari-kari*
And that’s as far back as I feel like going.
Last night was so much crazy fun! Chungy spontaneously called me at 6 and asked me if I had a tennis racket. At 7, we were off to the SMU tennis courts to reprise our grand match of CalvinTennis (derived from CalvinBall), in which every missed ball is coupled with increasingly ridiculous insults, and the only real rule is “Be as silly as possible.” Definitely the most fun I’ve had exercising since the last time we played CalvinTennis, in 9th or 10th grade.
Afterwards, we ate a healthy dinner at Good Eats (veggie plate for me, club salad for Chungy), and we brought home a slice of apple pie to munch on while watching the replay of “Into the West”. I delighted in Alan Tudyk and Chungy enjoyed Matthew Settle. It’s a shame Alan’s entire subplot was cut, but I guess it works. The brothers never see each other again (I presume), so if Joshua never learns of Nathan’s exploits in Tejas (*snork*), we shouldn’t either.
Anyway, I lent Chungy the first of the Firefly DVDs and she gave me back a bunch of the Tori Amos CDs she borrowed, then I burned her a copy of the pilot of Tim Minear’s “The Inside”, which I still haven’t watched yet. God bless BitTorrent. Hopefully, Chungy will be Firefly-savvy by the 23rd, when I take her to see the advance screening of Serenity!
HERESY!
They’re remaking Charlotte’s Web. A mixture of live-action and 3D animation. Steve Buschemi? Yes. Julia Roberts and Oprah? NOT A CHANCE.
I just discovered the word “osculation“, which in addition (ha!) to being a mathematical concept also refers to the act of kissing. It wins my “most unromantic word for a romantic thing” award of the day. Three cheers for osculation!
Okay, I’m done.
We have a date for the first Serenity prequel comic: July 6th. Also, check out the first five pages on Comics Continuum. Previously we’d just seen the first four. Bonus!
Also revealed today, the back cover of the UK edition of HP6!
Good news for UK flans! Attendees of the London Film and Comic Con 3 can register for special preview screenings of Serenity. These will be the first UK screenings, yes?
Linked from Heidi — The Periodic Table of Haiku