Category: Geeky Fanboy

Lost in Space? Returning to TV? And the project involves filmmaker John Woo and Buffy writer, director and producer Doug Petrie?
[breif geekgasm]
Yeah, I’d probably watch that.

Victor Garber, who plays Jack Bristow on Alias, will guest star on It’s All Relative on Oct. 29ths Halloween episode as a ‘flamboyantly’ gay party planner.
I must see this. I just can’t imagine Garber (whom I really like on Alias) emoting for the camera in any way that involves more than two muscles on his face, so it’s not that he’s playing someone gay that surprises me — it’s the word ‘flamboyant’ that blows my mind.

A Polish company has reportedly set a world record, stretching the range of a Wi-Fi network 110 Kms at 2.4 GHz, using an antenna developed by them and an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011 Access Point.

Suh-WEET.

(via Slashdot)

I’d really like to see what Carnivàle is all about, because it looks like the kind of thing I’d be into, but with no HBO either our house of that of … anyone we know, apparently … it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

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Firefly won an Emmy.
Good lord, Buffy never won an Emmy until… okay, never.

Gaiman summarizes:

Avalon
is a remarkable film — it looks astonishing, is haunting, deep, frustrating and magical in equal measure, like an art-film version of the Matrix, or a middle-European Philip K Dick structure created by a Japanese director more to unsettle you then to excite you. In a grey, futuristic world, people enter a consensual reality run by computers to play illegal war-games, and the finest player is a woman called Ash. There are hidden levels to the game, and to reality. It doesn’t look like anything else: it’s like an SF tone poem, or a mood, as much as it is a story.

Coming out December 9th, along with a zillion other things I want. :P

Firefly wins TeeVee Awards ’03: Most Unjust Cancellations Award.

But we still must wail against the cancellation of Firefly. Granted, the show’s first aired episodes were a bit shaky. But those who saw the final part of its run (as well as the pilot episode Fox refused to air until it was far too late) saw the strength of its writing, its premise, and its fantastic cast.
A sci-fi western, Firefly really began to work when it more deftly mixed genres, shifting from western to action to techno-sci-fi with ruthless efficiency. It was uncompromising in its quirks — all the outer space scenes were silent, since there’s no air (and therefore no sound) in space — and that idiosyncracy probably didn’t help it with your average TV viewer.
But people who say Firefly was a flop probably didn’t watch more than one episode. And many uneducated folks simply look at its sudden cancellation and jump to a bad conclusion: that after his success with Angel and Buffy, Whedon couldn’t reach his built-in audience with Firefly. The problem with that reasoning is, more people watched Firefly than either of Whedon’s other two creations last year, combined. It’s just that the ratings bar is set a bit higher on Fox than it is on UPN and The WB.

Fox has cancelled more good shows than UPN and The WB have aired in their combined existences: Firefly, The Tick, Undeclared, Andy Richter Controls the Universe just in recent history.
Why? To bring us Joe Millionaire 2, coming this fall.

Add Pirates of the Carribean to the “early December DVD release list”, alongside Alias – Second Season, Buffy – Season Five, and Firefly.