Are you a REVOLUTION fan? After reading what’s below, all we can say to that is, “Why?”
By which we mean, “Don’t you realize the cost, man?! Don’t you know?!”
by Mark LeeAs the first season of NBC’s post-apocalyptic drama Revolution came to an end, I really wanted to write a post about how the show reflects Hobbesian social theory and demonstrates the fragility of our modern, technology-dependent society.
by John OstranderThe Beeb announced this week that Matt Smith, the current actor playing the Doctor on Doctor Who, its long running (50 years!) SF series, will be leaving the show with the Christmas Special this year. For those of you living outside the Whovian time-space continuum, the Doctor is a time traveling alien who can regenerate entirely at points of mortality. Different face, different body, largely different personality, completely different actor in the role. They’ve done this eleven times so far so, in general, they have the procedure down pat.
I’ve seen some interesting speculations as to who will be the next Doctor. While usually the actor cast as the Doctor is not so well known, a names of a lot of well known actors are being currently tossed around by that mysterious series of tubes running underground known as the Internet. Hugh Laurie, best known as Doctor House here in America was one name mentioned and I think he would be very highly entertaining. I’ve seen Mr. Laurie in any number of different roles and he was marvelous in all of them. I don’t think the Beeb can afford his salary but it’s still interesting to think what might happen.
I read an interview where Helen Mirren had voiced a desire to the play the Doctor. Could the Doctor change into a woman? In the first episode that Neil Gaiman wrote for Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”, the Doctor mentions in passing a fellow time-lord who did regenerate into a woman so we have to take it as a possibility. Dame Helen Mirren has done a switched character before when she played Prospera, a female version of the character Prospero, in Julie Taymor’s movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. If she could do that, I have a feeling she could do the Doctor with no problem.
Okay, so maybe it isn’t our beloved Detective Goren, but after way too long an absence, the guy who brought him to life, a certain Vincent D’Onofrio is back as part of the star-studded cast of a film called PAWN SHOP CHRONICLES:
We say “star-studded’ cuz, yeppers, we sure have heard of the other members of the cast, like: Elijah Wood, Brendan Fraser, Thomas Jane, Matt Dillon, Lukas Haas, Chi McBride, and – gulp – Ashlee Simpson.
Not too familiar with the writer-producer, Adam Minarovich or the director, Wayne Kramer, but good golly Ms. Molly…Vincent D’Onofrio! Anything else is just window dressing.
We’ve captured a moment of “R’ha”
It’s called peer production, which simply means that you’re not a pro film/video maker – yet – creating your videos for your own pleasure and that of others and/or as calling cards so you can become a pro.
A lot of people pooh-pooh the idea because “who wants to give away something for nothing,” but having your work out there can pay off in many ways – especially if the right person sees what you’ve done and falls in love with it.
Um, yeah, we’re being just a tad snarky here. It’s just that we think it’s really weird that a YouTube channel that bills itself as “the No. 1 channel for scripted drama on YouTube” has chosen this particular subject to put on a medium – our beloved interwebs – where the average age of the “audience” is exactly the demo most broadcast and cable TV networks are trying to hook – i.e. people too young to even think about having children yet alone having a clue about what postpartum depression is.
OTOH, we could just look at this as what the interwebs and their infinite variety of niches are all about. Yeah, let’s go that route and see if we can take this press release seriously:
ALL-NEW DRAMA “SUSANNA,”
STARRING ANNA PAQUIN AND MAGGIE GRACE,
DEBUTS FRIDAY, JUNE 14, ON “WIGS”