***Dave and Margie, unfortunately, decided to watch Veronica Mars for the first time last night.
Damn shame that that was the first impression they got of the show. I said in his comments that it was a pretty bleh episode and likened it to Teacher’s Pet from first-season Buffy, but after thinking about it, I realized that it wasn’t as much a lame throwaway episode as it is a “drop mega-hints for the uber-plot” episode… which is almost worse.
‘Serenity’ book
The novelization of the movie will be out April 1 2005, three weeks before the movie is released.
I might end up picking it up just so I don’t have to guess at the spelling of names and whatnot while adding things to the wiki.
The Incredibles: Review in Haiku
Take Expectations
Double them. Raise them. Hope. Pray.
This is still better.
Show-defining quote
“Want to know how I lost my virginity? So do I.”
— Veronica Mars
(Link is spoileriffic if you haven’t seen any episodes, but if you need validation from the LA Weekly to check a new show out, well…)
Tonight on Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars, Tuesday, Nov. 2
Veronica investigates possible fraud in the election of student council president.
Oh, the timing of this episode. Too funny.
Finally
Serenity news
Dark Horizons: Finding That Feeling Of Serenity — short article, but a few fun bits.
Regarding sequels:
Morena also told us, if the movie is successful, all nine actors are locked in.
I cannot emphasize this enough: If you can only go twice to this movie, go once on the first weekend and once on the second weekend — that indicates staying power, above and beyond earning power. If a genre movie like this can break even on its budget (50 mil in this case) while it’s still in theatres, then the studio can anticipate big profits in DVD sales. Basically, breaking even in the box office = sequels.
Double-nested geekdom
So… people watching Lost…