*dies laughing* Best promotional image EVER. Art history majors rejoice!
Here are the rest.
…WTF, they’re cutting the deaf sister from Bionic Woman and replacing her with “a hot, hearing, hacker chick”? THE HELL. That was one of my favourite parts of the pilot! As one of my best online friends is deaf, I wanted to see how they treated it in a mainstream TV show. Then they could use the bionically-enhanced stuff to comment on modern viewpoints on disability and maybe raise awareness, and ARGH. Why does TV need yet another dime-a-dozen, perky, hot hacker chick when they could have actually done something with significance?
I’ll tune in to the first couple eps when they air, as the pilot looked quite promising, but this kind of decision leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Ah well, not like I needed yet another TV show to watch this fall. I watch enough TV already.
Want to check out the hilarious Flight of the Conchords, but can’t be bothered to download the episodes online? Good news! They’re all streaming at AllFotC.com.
Give in to the kiwi goodness!
And Veronica Mars is a thing of the past. A beautiful, brilliant, snarky, clever, prematurely canceled thing of the past. And I want to kill both the CW for ending in in favor of utter dreck and Rob Thomas for ending it that way.
The CW is made of fail. Their new schedule makes baby Jesus, baby Moses, baby Mohammed, baby Buddha, baby Shiva, and baby Relic of a Primitive and Out-Moded Belief System on a Crutch cry.
So. Last year, I watched:
Heroes — renewed (was there ever any question?) and getting a 6-episode miniseries spinoff thing
Studio 60 — canceled
House — renewed
Veronica Mars — canceled
Psych — renewed, returns July 13th
The Dresden Files — no word yet; we have until mid-June to find out
Battlestar Galactica — not back until 2008
Drive — axed within like 10 days of its premiere; bite me, Fox.
Monday:
9PM: Heroes (NBC)
Tuesday:
9PM: House (FOX)
9PM: Will watch the pilot of Reaper (CW) because it’s Kevin Smith
Wednesday:
8PM: Pushing Daisies (ABC), because Bryan Fuller is a genius (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Heroes)
9PM: Bionic Woman? (NBC) Could go either way. Will watch the pilot.
Friday:
10PM: Psych (USA)
Plus if my friend gets on Beauty and the Geek, I’ll have to watch that. :D
Then with 2008 will come Battlestar Galactica, plus The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which sounds iffy, but I’ll watch the pilot for Summer Glau.
Overall, I’m most excited about Pushing Daisies. It’s not on Fox, which is always a good sign! Here’s the blurb:
Pushing Daisies is a love story about a pie-baking young man with a very special gift… the ability to return dead people briefly back to life with just a simple touch — enabling him to help a P.I. crack murder cases by asking victims to name their killers. Director Barry Sonnenfeld, writer-producer Bryan Fuller, and the producers of Fish blend romance, crime procedural and high-concept fantasy to create a fairytale in the spirit of Amelie, Stranger than Fiction, and Chocolat.
Yes, please!
Answers to the TV meme quiz thing:
- Wonderfalls (Niagara Falls/Inanimate Object/Supernatural)
- Heroes (New York City/Interracial Couple/Cheerleader)
- Veronica Mars (Girl Power/Neo Noir/Father Daughter Relationship)
- Firefly (Steampunk/Anti-Hero/Mandarin)
- Battlestar Galactica (Human Android Relationship/Polytheism/Military Life)
- The Dresden Files (Wizard/Magic/Private Investigator)
- Buffy (Action Heroine/Leather Coat/Based on Film)
- House (Sarcasm/Medical Drama/Cane)
- Psych (Photographic Memory/Father Son Relationship/Murder)
- Doctor Who (Man With No Name/Dark Past/Time Machine)
Tallies:
Rentata: 6
Will: 8
Chungy: 8
Kristin: 9
Ko: 10
Lurker Jo: 10
A few weeks ago, there was a meme going around in which you took your ten favourite TV shows and had people guess which ones they were based on three of their “plot keywords” on IMDB. Here’s my list. How many can you figure out?
- Niagara Falls/Inanimate Object/Supernatural (IMDB fails for only listing three plot keywords for this show)
- New York City/Interracial Couple/Cheerleader
- Girl Power/Neo Noir/Father Daughter Relationship
- Steampunk/Anti-Hero/Mandarin
- Human Android Relationship/Polytheism/Military Life
- Wizard/Magic/Private Investigator (ditto #1)
- Action Heroine/Leather Coat/Based on Film
- Sarcasm/Medical Drama/Cane
- Photographic Memory/Father Son Relationship/Murder
- Man With No Name/Dark Past/Time Machine
Comment with your guesses! I’ll post the answers in a couple days.
The next episode of the official Jim Butcher podcast, The Butcher Block, is out, this time with a new format! I’m now the official News Correspondent, and my bit starts at about 3:45. Huzzah!
(31min 45sec) Fred plugs in for a quick episode in a new format. He checks in with Butcher Block News Correspondant Priscellie for an update on everything that’s happened since the last episode, and goes over to the grill with Chad Underkoffler to cook up some “butcher burgers”, looking into discrepancies in the continuity of the novels.
Of course, since Fred and I recorded my bit last Friday, we got news about the DVD release of Season 1, a release date for Small Favor, and according to Fred, Jim finished his story for “Supernatural Honeymoon” (but of course, none of the details of said story are public knowledge yet, phooey).
On a sadder note, however, Veronica Mars has been canceled, with little hope absolutely no hope for resurrection. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!
Rules of Engagement. Oh, wow. YES, Dresden TV, YES. It’s like all the naysayers in the fandom cried out, and were suddenly silenced. Silenced by AWESOME. Delightfully pervy Bob, actual magic, the frying of technology… et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Book!Harry would have come up with something more clever than “Mr. Crispy,” but I appreciate the effort. :D
Yayfun!
More from the Half-Hour News Hour. I think I had a dream like this and woke up in a cold sweat. So… how is this political satire? Or even a parody of the news? I’m reminded of the “President Al Gore” SNL sketch, except that was actually funny and delightfully self-deprecating.
I can’t see how the Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter sketch would be funny at all, except as a horrific morality tale or self-deprecatingly like Al Gore, though I can’t imagine a twit like Limbaugh or a lunatic like Coulter being self-deprecating.
Ease the pain by checking out the Official Site for Oshawa’s Stephen Colbert Day.
In other TV news, House was picked up for a fourth season, and BSG was picked up for 13 episodes of a fourth season, with the possibility of extending it full-length. Sweeeeet.
Renata: N. This is what we call a “ghost post.” I am blogging from beyond the grave!
So. *cackles* So much love for all the ridiculous similarities between The Dresden Files and Psych. As I pointed out before, both series already have a smartass private detective with apparent supernatural abilities, brought in as a police consultant by a blonde cop named Karen. But in tonight’s episode? Juliette wears a necklace remarkably similar to TV Murphy’s. I am so easily entertained.
There was a brief island of squee earlier this week when I bid on an Advance Reader’s Copy of the next Dresden book, White Night. I knew going in that there was no way I was going to get it, because in the past they’ve always sold for over a hundred bucks (which I wouldn’t pay even if the book was printed on solid gold. Well, okay, maybe then). Still, there was a lovely nine hours last Sunday when I could pretend it was mine. 7 weeks to go! (Edit: the auction just ended, and it went for $192.50. Some people have too much money.)
I got out of the dorm more this week, despite the bitter cold. During the month of February, Penn has a series of events for the seniors almost every night, collectively called “Feb Club.” Tuesday night, a group of friends and I went to the trendy, pan-Asian restaurant Pod for drinks. We each had one, over the course of an hour, and I was amused that I wasn’t even tipsy, unlike some of my friends. I’ve never had enough alcohol at one time to actually get drunk, and I was curious to see if I’d inherited my mom’s lightweightedness, but I guess not! I’ll still be very careful until I figure out exactly how my body reacts to alcohol, though, because I am not an idiot.
Thursday, I went to Ko’s play, which was utterly hilarious. It was put on by the English department, and it was a series of three scenes from different plays, on the theme of unrequited love. Ko played a housewife having an affair, and she gave what was easily the funniest performance in the show (well, with the exception of Professor Rachetti, who played a Puck character through all three, and was brilliant). Ko wins!
Last night, I saw The Vagina Monologues (also known as The Hoohah Monologues among conservative idiots), which was excellent. Sterling performances all around: some hilarious, some insightful, some devastating.
So apologies for not posting in forever. Here, have some funny stuff!
Kat: ….YES JOHN BARROWMAN SCOTTISH ACCENT *melt*
Me: YESPLZ
Kat: [as Maggie, her gay RPG character] I would totally turn straight for John Barrowman.
Me: I would turn gay so I could turn straight for John Barrowman.
Kat: John Barrowman is definitely worth changing sexual orientations more than once for.
Also, Will linked me to this great article on The Onion. I would totally vote for him.
Not funny, but fangeekish: Drive promo, focusing on Nathan Fillion!