Well, there it is, Roswell, Texas - the book I have coveted for the past two years but somehow just never got around to reading. Now I know why, because this multi layered volume of ‘twisted Texas tawdriness’ pretty much soaked up every insomniac moment I had and then some. Daylight came and went for a solid week and yet I remained somewhere in the desert lost in the mountains hovering aloft over Roswell waiting to return to my senses – I’m still waiting for that to happen.
Archive for November 6, 2009
Roswell, Texas – Saddle up Boys!
Behind the Scenes On The Casting Of Zachary Quinto As Spock
Having been raised on the old school Trek and being of the advanced age to have actually watched the show while it was still on it’s network run, getting to know a new Spock was a little difficult.
Avatar TV Spot Showcases The Battle
Here’s a nice and juicy 30 second trailer released to the wilds of T.V. land. Some footage I either haven’t seen or missed as I gawked at the pretty blue scenery or at the pretty blue girls. “Avatar” is on it’s way. I’ll see you there Dec 18th.
The Apocalypse is Still on Hold on Tonight’s Supernatural
You knew it had to happen: Dean and Sam Winchester REALLY breaks through the fourth wall in tonight’s episode of “Supernatural”, titled, “Changing Channels”. It looks like the apocalypse and all that end of the world stuff will just have to wait while the boys have to figure out how to escape the Trickster’s latest game — trapped inside some of America’s current crop of mindnumbingly SHITTY TV shows.
Mandalay Pictures Has Eyes for the Machine Man
Mandalay Pictures would like to make a movie based on the novel “Machine Man” by author Max Barry, only they don’t quite know how it’s going to end. Because, see, the book itself isn’t finished, and as we speak, Barry is putting one up one page from his novel online every day for people to read and make suggestions. Barry, we’re told, will then take suggestions from readers and, possibly, incorporate them as the book is written. Which is either the laziest way to write a novel, or sheer genius, I can’t quite decide. The uncertainty wasn’t enough to deter Mandalay, though, who snapped up the film rights.
Roland Emmerich Has His Plans Made For 2013
Roland Emmerich has an early Xmas present ready for all you fans of fine, tasteful and hysterical disaster movies. “2012″ will enrich all our Sci-Fi Holiday preparations with absolutely photo realistic footage of mother Earth undergoing an extreme makeover.
The Cast Of V Speak
Now that “V” seems to be off to a good start ratings wise I can stop stressing out and settle in to a possibly full season of lizards in disguise. 14 million viewers is a good number, it works. There will be a bit of a drop off probably since 14 million is a hard number to sustain but I’m feeling good. Good actors, really nice special effects and a twisty story with lizard loving humans that will balance out the human loving lizards. I wonder how humanity would really react if big whomping starships appeared over our cities? I guess it would depend on the city. Would the aliens have humans worshiping them? Damn right we would. Hell, we worship Britney, or some of us do (Nix).
V Gets Great Ratings In Debut
Well, well. “V”, our next Sci-Fi obsession, did very well in the ratings last night. How about 14 million viewers? How does that grab you? It was the second highest rated debut this season behind NCIS: LA. I’m surprised frankly. Since I really liked the show, I’m surprised and happy. If the ratings hold reasonably well, look for more lizard on human and lizard on lizard action next year after the Olympics. Thanks EW!
Chuck’s Scott Rosenbaum Takes Over V Showrunner Duties
Man, what is going on over at ABC’s “V”? First there were all those rumors of delays, network unhappiness with the episodes that have been produced so far (resulting in rewrites and reshoots), and now word is that “Chuck” veteran Scott Rosenbaum has moved over to “V” to replace Scott Peters as the show’s new showrunner.
Dreamworks Options The Future Robopocalypse
Dreamworks and Doubleday have acquired the film rights to Daniel H. Wilson’s as yet unpublished book “Robopocalypse”, about how humans deal after the robots take over. Daniel H. Wilson is a robotics engineer so he knows a thing or two about how screwed we will end up being. I’m curious to see how he manages to differentiate his work from the obvious Terminator stuff. There’s room in the genre for a more subtle approach. Daniel has written about our future robotic enslavement before as I need not remind you. He schooled us all in such notable works as the Nobel price winning “How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion,” and of course his Pulitzer winner “How To Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Aliens, Ninjas, and Zombies,”. Both are required reading in your finer British Ivy plastered institutions of higher learning worldwide.
What Roland Emmerich Couldn’t Obliterate
I am confident in reporting that in “2012″, an imminent digital masterpiece by director Roland Emmerich, your favorite phallic monument or architectural wonder is going to be completely squashed. However, in deciding which statue, building, city or structure was going to be tidal waved, rolled, or dropped core-ward toward the spicy molten center of mother Earth, Roland had to be careful, because political correctness is taken a bit more seriously in some places.
Diora Baird Is Orion But Not A Slave In Star Trek Deleted Scene
As the epic Blu Ray (ditch your Grandpa’s DVD, Poindexter) release of Star Trek approaches (Nov 17) we are getting some data drops of some of the deleted scenes sure to light up your big screen television set. In this release we’ve got the lovely blue hued Diora Baird having none of James Tiberius Kirk’s lame excuses. Orion woman are strong baby and don’t you forget it.
Open Discussion Thread: The New V Pilot
Anna and her Visitor buddies are about to touch down tonight on ABC (in case you missed the gazillion commercials on TV last night), and this is your open discussion thread to talk about the pilot. Did you love it? Hate it? Somewhere in-between?
See The Preview Of This Weeks Stargate Universe Episode Earth
Stargate Universe is a popular little Sci-Fi effort that seems to have a certain strange attraction to both Nix and I and you, out there, in the dark beyond the tubes. Some people like it, some people hate it, some people just watch, uncertain of how it as yet computes in their estimation. I want it to be good. How’s that?
SGU Producer Joseph Mallozzi Would Like you to Stop Being Idiots
Well, this, er, is not going to prove very fruitful. Apparently tired of all the “Stargate: Universe” bashers showing up at his blog and leaving, well, SGU bashing comments, SGU producer/writer Joseph Mallozzi has responded with a long statement on his blog.
