As we close in on the end of yet another Whedon show, I have to say that I’m already quite a bit more happy with how this one looks like it’s going to end than I was with Buffy.
“Wipe out every bad guy we can find and burn the house down while we’re still inside.”
Hell yeah. Hell. Yeah. Going out like the Wild Bunch.
There but for the grace of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings
ABC played Disney’s (made-for-TV?) A Wrinkle in Time last night.
I taped it and watched the first hour or so before Justin went to bed (he made me promise to wait to watch the rest with him).
Justin was impressed, I was impressed, and the bits I caught during the rest of the night made me think they did a very good job with the conversion as a whole. Very cool.
Band camp? We were never in band camp…
Via ***Dave: The way we weren’t.
Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it’s something that’s never happened. Then (if you like) post this in your journal so that people can invent memories for you.
Alright, people… let’s have it.
Shiny
Joss Whedon told SCI FI Wire that he will begin production in three weeks, with all of the original cast members in place.
“The show plays on a very small, personal level. And while I want that to work in the movie, the movie has an epic quality and a resolve that you simply can’t afford in a TV show. Because if you have the epic quality, you run out of money, and if you have the resolve, you run out of ideas. … The movie is really like, if you took a giant hit of the show all at once. It’s very big. Perhaps I should use different imagery.”
Dangerous when Bored
So what do you do when you can’t fix the last big problem on your PC and you’ve got an afternoon to kill?
You fiddle with blog templates and write bad noir ripoffs that don’t go anywhere.
Ooh
Palm Wiki, and related tools.
On this day in Geeker history…
BBC NEWS | 30 years of D&D
Lesse… boxed set in 81, so only 23 years for me.
Damn
Paramount Pictures announced that it will delay the release of its (eventually) upcoming Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to Sept. 17 from June 25.
(via Arref)