It Was a Metaphor! For Strangling!
Apr 10Oh, John Cho, you card! You didn’t really try to strangle Zachary Quinto, right? Although there is something sort of awesomely old skool about that image, vaguely reminiscent of all the drama that once went down amongst the original TOS cast, no? Anyway, I couldn’t help but remember my friend Sue’s own strange encounter with Sylar/Spock, which didn’t lead to any violence, but was still slightly terrifying.
It was a metaphor.
Torchwood: Do You Gwack?
Apr 07I’m a couple eppys behind on the U.S. run of Torchwood — just finished up the one with Gwen’s shapeshifter-plagued wedding (did anyone else wish she would have tried to cover up her sudden, mysterious pregnancy instead of telling the ‘rents? Wacky hijinks surely would have ensued!). Anyway, here’s what I really want to talk about: I have never quite bought into Gwack, the oh-so-poetically named Gwen/Jack ‘ship. Yet it seems like Torchwood really, REALLY wants me to buy into it, wants me to start my own fanfic page and do a YouTube mash-up and the whole nine yards. Right?
But I don’t know…their longing looks have just never felt quite as organic to me as, say, Gwen’s sweet domesticity with Rhys or Jack’s triple entendre-laced banter with Ianto. Both are appealing characters, but they don’t really go together, you know, that way. It’s always seemed a bit like Male Lead + Female Lead Must Absolutely = AWESOME ‘SHIP. YOU WILL BELIEVE THIS EVENTUALLY.
But, but…here’s another but (Jack would have something to say about that — hey!). The final scene of this particular episode made me buy into Gwack just a little bit. I mean, shit. “Will you miss me?” “Always.” Oh my God…miss me, too, Captain Jack!! The spark that should have been there all along was definitely present in this tiny little exchange, in this sweet, brooding slow dance. I’m not quite ready to proclaim my allegiance to Gwack entirely, but I can at least see it.
All this makes me curious as to what the general fan consensus is on Gwack. Please tell me if you have an opinion.
EDIT: Of course, Urban Dictionary has a kind of hilarious definition of “Gwack.” Just the first one — don’t read the other ones, they’re not as good.
Fanboys Mess…
Mar 28…still going on. In the meantime, I plan to boycott Superhero Movie not just because of this, but because it looks fucking stupid.
Also in the meantime, why not go visit Fanboys writer and Alert Nerd fave Ernie Cline? He’s the reason we were excited for this movie in the first place.
Dollhouse: Helo and That Guy From The TV Set
Mar 27Here’s our first shred of Dollhouse casting news. Scooping up Helo and his strangely hypnotic muscles was a fine move indeed, but I am almost equally excited about the casting of Fran Kranz as the show’s resident nerd. He was most recently on Welcome to the Captain, a sitcom that looked kind of like a parody of an actual sitcom, but you should all check him out in the 2006 flick The TV Set. If you love TV and know anything at all about how it’s made (or are curious to find out), you must watch this movie. It’s hilarious and insightful and Fran kills as a young actor who gets cast in a comedy pilot thanks to his hammy tendency to turn any line of dialogue into a potential catchphrase and the fact that one of the network execs is sure her daughter will love him. And the cast is stuffed with genre faces: Mulder, Ripley, Reed Richards, Deadly Girl. So go watch it and get a jump on a new potential Whedon fave.
Sigh.
Mar 25That whole Fanboys mess is still going on. Probably the biggest news to me in all of this is that the film apparently doesn’t have a theatrical release date anymore. It kind of sounds like it might go straight to DVD, no? Really frakkin’ disappointing.
What happened here, anyway? And can we really say that geeks rule Hollywood if a movie about geeks can’t get a release date? And aren’t there enough people out there who would spend the ticket money just to see Kristen Bell in the Princess Leia outfit? I’m just saying. Darth Weinstein, take note.
