The Most Awesome Thing You'll Watch Today
Oct 01I bought my friend this awesome book for her birthday last weekend and it sparked a long dormant memory. One of the entries is for the great Brian Thompson, who I think of as The Judge from Buffy, the Alien Bounty Hunter in X-Files, and one of those guys you always see signing autographs at genre-related conventions. Anyway, many years ago, at one of my old workplaces, we stumbled across his official website, which contains his beyond-awesome demo reel. The best revelation from said reel? Brian Thompson is hilarious. Sure, he can do “menacing” along with the best of ’em, but I’d love to see him nab a good sitcom role. Me and the old workmates repeated the “I’ll have the linguine with sundried tomatoes…” line way more times than is probably healthy (and it’s one of those things that gets funnier and funnier with repetition).
Congrats, Ladies
Sep 12I’m sure some hyper-observant types have already pointed this out, but doesn’t it look like Black Canary and Wonder Woman are totally getting married?
(Image from Midtown Comics, which I recently visited!)
Thing's Thing
Sep 07OK, I didn’t notice it ’til a certain dirty-minded friend pointed it out, but does this LEGO rendition of Thing (as rendered in the stupefying Times Square Toys R Us) have…well, a package?
Blind Genre Item!
Aug 09I’ve been thinking that it would be fun to do the occasional Blind Genre Item on the site. I know Matt and Chris probably have some juicy ones, as do many of the other savvy Alert Nerds out there. I remembered this one the other day because of all the recent chatter about nerd culture becoming mainstream culture and geeks ruling Hollywood and so on and so forth, blah blah blarg.
OK, so back in 2001-ish, I wrote for a website with “Sci-Fi” right there in the title — we wore our nerdly colors on our sleeve before it was cool or “mainstream” (or whatever word we’re using today) to do so. I wanted to write a feature on a saucy young actress with a particularly juicy recurring role on a popular genre show. Some fans thought she was grating, but I — and others — found her glorious. I had interviewed other recurring and regular players on the series and figured she’d be cheered to find herself in their company. I submitted my little request to her people…and was snippily informed that this actress didn’t do interviews with “sci-fi websites” (emphasis was definitely on the “sci-fi” part, not the “website” part).
Uh huh.
Where is she now? I can’t offer up any more hints, as the ones I’ve given you are fairly obvious. But I will say that these days, I don’t think she’d be so quick to nix the request.
I Still Miss Karina Lombard
Aug 06As most of you know, The 4400 is driving me completely fucking insane this season. OK, so now they’re making it look like Diana and Marco might hook up again, which I would actually be OK with since I like Marco way better than the walking oil slick she supposedly has “chemistry” with. But the way they’ve set it up is sort of weird, with Maia acting as the annoying catalyst (Maia, remember, was also strangely psychotic about Diana getting together with Oil Slick. Maybe it’s time to stop taking romantic advice from your sometimes-creepy pre-teen adoptive daughter, Diana!).
They’re also moving Tom and the Totally Expendable Blonde closer together, which is expected, but still very tiresome. The preview for next week is especially hilarious. I don’t see it on the USA website, so let me re-create it for you:
OK, so first Richard comes back and they’re like, “Richard’s back!” and Isabelle is all, “Dad?!”
Then they’re like, “He has plans for his daughter!” And they show him acting shady, like he’s kidnapping Isabelle or something.
THEN, they’re all, “But Tom has plans of his own!!!” And they show Tom…making out with Totally Expendable Blonde.
How are these two things connected to each other?! They don’t say, “MEANWHILE, Tom has plans of his own.” The way they say it makes it seem like Tom making out with Totally Expendable Blonde will somehow save Isabelle from the possibly-nefarious clutches of her father. And maybe it does. That would make about as much sense as some of the other storylines going on this season.
One good thing I’ve been noticing: Isabelle must have taken some acting lessons or something, because she is like 5 million times better this season. Maybe it’s because the character has gained some humility and is no longer a psycho hosebeast, but I actually enjoy watching her storyline!
