Doctor Who

All right I really don't know if I can stand this......

I know that part of watching Doctor Who is wailing nearly every time the Doctor regenerates, but frankly lately I have barely been managing that. Not that the new Doctor Who isn't well written, and acted, along with have a fx budget that makes the classic look like it was shot in someone's back garden with a kindergarden art class doing the monsters. But I just can't quite seem to manage the enthusiasm that I used to. When Jon Pertwee left I cried, when Tom finally gave it up I found myself loathing scaffolding with a rather disquieting ardor. I had the same basic reaction to greater and lesser degrees with all the classic Docs. When the new series started I was entranced. It was a slightly darker Doctor, though still incredibly manic, with a goofy smile and a ridiculous solution for almost any situation.

Then he was gone....

It hit me rather hard, time, and childhood nostalgia having hidden most of the details of regeneration from me.

Then he was there....

Too pretty, too young, too so many things. But as you do with The Doctor (when you finally give him the chance) you start to like him again even if you don't love him anymore. That dislike however has nothing to do really with David Tennant, he has been an excellent Doctor, and it has been so.. i might even say orgasmically, wonderful to have someone who is just as big a fan playing the Doctor, But instead of the almost rabid grief/anger I used to get, I'm approaching this next regeneration with a kind of resigned doom.

I've found myself avoiding the latest specials as we get closer and closer to Tennant leaving. Closer and closer to a Doctor who looks younger than me!

Maybe I'm just getting to old and set in my ways... though I probably just started out to old...

I won't make any grand statements, we'll just have to see where time and relative dimensions in space takes us. I know that, more than likely in a year or so, I'll give in and start watching it again, but I think that, finally...

he won't be my Doctor anymore.

Underrated, Underfunded, and Canceled: Special Unit 2

There will probably be a series along this line as there have been far too many good scifi shows cut down in their prime.

Canceled after two very short seasons in 2001-2002, Special Unit 2 was a goofy cross between X Files, CSI, and Men In Black, with shades of The Man From Uncle for taste. SU2 is a division of the Chicago PD that works to cover up and police the resident population of "links" or monsters, both mythical and made up by the writers. "Except vampires, which are total fiction." One of the best things about the show was it's irreverence, especially to UPN's top supernatural show at the time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The show made up for it's sometimes cheesy effects by some truly interesting interpersonal relationships.

Nick O'Mally the damaged, sarcastic and violent senior SU2 agent, played by Michael Landes. Nick was constantly bickering with Carl the klepto gnome, Danny Woodburn, and his partner Kate Benson played by Alexondra Lee.

Now as much as I hate to admit it UPN was not at fault for the quick cancelation of the show. The latest internet gossip is that the creators of the show inadvertently or not, where involved in a bit of copyright infringement. Sadly this not only resulted in the canceling of the show but is most likely the reason that a DVD release has not been forthcoming, and most probably never will, not an official release anyway. You can however get a bootleg version on the internet. Ever so often however you can manage to catch it on the SciFi channel. (I refuse to call it by that ridiculous new monicker.)

Nick Fury the first real multi-racial character...

Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Nick Fury!!

    Wait wait wait...... What the fuck is this? David Hasselhoff?! Fury is a white guy? *muffled whispering offstage*...Sorry just a second.. what! really? oh, ok then.. Well, sorry about that, bit of a misunderstanding there.  It would appear that Nick Fury is in fact David Hasselhoff, apparently Samuel L Jackson has not been playing Ni-HEY.. *more muffled whispering* what the hell!..fine, fine!..need to frikin make up their damn minds..   

     Anyway, apparently Nick was white, then for no discernible reason, (other than Samuel is badass) has developed far more pigment, in both the comics and the movies. So I present to you the latest and clearly more baddass version of Nick Fury.. 

    Now up until this point the latest version of Mr. Fury has been (in the big theaters) sticking to cookies with negligible screen time. Well no longer! As of 2010 we will apparently be getting big dose of the latest incarnation of our faviroite monocular bad boy in the form of a movie devoted to him, entitled simply Nick Fury. Not however to be confused with the straight to tv release of Nick Fury agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. In witch the rather annoying David Hasselhoff plays Fury. I know your thinking it, don't do it, your better off not seeing.

     

     Unfortunately  I don't know for sure that this movie will be made. Little has been said about it, and almost nothing is confirmed on IMDb. Will we get a new Fury movie to go along with all the other Marvel heroes being given the silver screen treatment for the new Avengers movie? Perhaps we'll just have to be content with the rumors that Nicky will be getting more screen time in Iron Man 2. (Another RDJ movie I can't wait to see) 

     

     Either way I'm dashed excited.

More Buffy and Less Joss?

For the uninformed Buffy the Vampire Slayer started in the US as a purposely terrible Vampire movie in 92. Joss Whedon wrote the script and Kuzui, who still owns the rights, directed. Then a few years later Whedon in 97, created the Buffy series that we all know and love. It lasted seven years and spawned a spin off tv series Angel, a continuation of the series in comic book form, and numerous other books, and comics and magazines. All of which where supervised and or written by Joss Whedon.

So whats this about Buffy being done without Joss? Whedon's version of Buffy has spawned a worldwide cult following. When anyone thinks of who created Buffy they think Joss, how do and where do they expect to market it? Well for starters they won't be using Buffy, they'll be developing a new Slayer, none of the well know side characters will be making an appearance, we don't even know for certain that it will be in present day. Who knows it might even be worth watching. Unlikely though, the humor of the script written by Whedon was the only thing that made the movie remotely worth watching, now all we've got is the rather iffy judgment of the people that remake Japanese horror movies.

Personally I'm not all that excited, though I would LOVE to see a vampire movie come out that was actually about vampires and not about strange sparkly fairies masquerading as vamps. So I suppose that I could welcome this new addition to the buffyverse, if nothing else it would help to counteract the latest aberration New Moon.

X-Files...trust me this is only the first

Well my pets settle in because this is one of my grand obsessions.

  X-files along with Buffy and Star Trek are my default settings, so sorry but theres gonna be a lot of posts about them.

So, recently got seasons 1-3 for $20 each, where you my ask with a gasp, Wal-Mart of all places. Which means I have spent most of the last week watching X-Files nearly non-stop, you know, really indulging my Mulder fetish.

But in between all the ogling I was doing, (btw he spends a lot more time naked than I remember) I was noticing all the actors I recognized, so I thought I'd share a few connections with you all. 

 

I suppose I should start chronologically and really one of the more attractive guest stars, Seth Green. Later to have a more major role as the laconic lycanthrope Oz, in BTVS, here he plays a UFO watching stoner in the episode Deep Throat, the first episode after the pilot.

The next episode, Squeeze, brings us a double with Doug Hutchison as Eugene Victor Tombs the stretchy slimy liver eating murder, and Donal Louge as Agent Tom Colton, an old friend of Scully's who asks for help and gets more than he really wants. 

Mr. Hutchison you might remember from the latest season of Lost as Horace Goodspeed. 

Donal Louge has been in several tv shows and movies, but the one I always go back to is the slimy and inept henchman Quinn in Blade. Donal had his own series for a while called Grounded for Life, that I think of fondly.

Now we're going to jump some episodes as my geekdar didn't go off again till Space. Susanna Thompson who plays NASA specialist Michelle Generoo trying to get her fiance out of orbit in one piece, later becomes Army Lt. Col. Hollis Mann, the spunky girl who challenges Jethro's authority, and tries for a little love in NCIS. This next fact has little bearing on the X Files, but the lovely David McCallum also stars in NCIS as Ducky. (If you haven't seen the show you should check it out!)

 

Alright last one for now!

 Fire this one is another twofer. With Mark Sheppard playing the obsessive pyrokentic  pyromanic. Mark can later be seen in the truly excellent cult hit by Joss Wheadon,  Firefly as Badger, and in the latest Wheadon project Dollhouse. 

The next guy to cause a bip is Dan Lett who plays the upper class english twit who's next in line to get turned into a crispy critter. Later on he becomes a wet Canadian twit in The Industry, a very good Canadian comedy that I highly recommend along with The Red Green Show.

Well thats all for right now, but I'm nowhere near finished we're not even through season 1 yet.

MUUUWHAHAHA.........

Wolverine

Someone got there first and did it better than I could.

  Namely my good friend Misti on her blog  Fangasm Central

Star Trek...2009

A warning first......SPOILERS

I do soo love Star Trek, all of it, well maybe not ALL. Several of the movies could have been done without and the latest series was only remotely watchable, the episodes with Brent Spiner being the only really interesting ones.

The original holds the dearest place in my heart, for all the cheesy acting, ridiculous dialogue, and horrific Scottish accents, every time I watch it I get warm fuzzys in the pit of my dorky little soul.

So when I heard this movie was coming out I was elated and terrified in turns. To see the Enterprise back on any screen was impossibly exciting, but to see the characters given over to new actors and a special effects driven movie industry made me squirm. The trailers proclaiming  "this is not your fathers Star Trek" only deepened my misgivings. What the hell was wrong with the Star Trek I grew up with, that my mother chased James Doohan through Madison Square Gardens because of, that gave us the ideas for so much of the technology we have today.

So with bated breath I went to the midnight premier in costume. Waiting for them to smash everything to bits, and they did. 

The movie was great, easily one of my favorites, the characters where spot on with the exception of the Vulcans. Spock having a sex life without the aid of spores, and his father being FAR more accepting of his human side, even before they kill off Amanda. But to be honest it was an acceptable diversion from the original, at least to me. 

Character interplay was everything I had come to love in the original and beyond. The first look at the Enterprise in space was breath taking...I really did fall in love with her all over again.

But they really did mean it when they said it wasn't going to be my father's Star Trek, they didn't just make it sharper and edgier, they erased my fathers Star Trek from the canon. Rendered it a defunct alternate universe, they resurrected and erased my favorite characters, and somehow I don't know if I can forgive that. So I won't, I'll instead treat it as I was meant to treat the original, as a wonderfully executed AU fanfiction. 

I can't wait for the next one!