Doyce Testerman

Wednesday December 4 at 8/7c, the WB is playing a The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Return to Middle Earth special, hosted by Michael Rosenbaum of Smallville.
Sweet.

“Sweeeet…”
South Park Firefly
My favorite is Jayne with the Blue Sun shirt on.

Q&A with Mutant Enemy Prez Christopher Buchanan on the future of Firefly.

Boy, sure have been a lot of Geeky Fanboy posts lately… must be the season.
Sat down and watched the middle two hours of the SE edition of Fellowship last night.
– The stuff they add in the birthday party is great.
– I need to watch the fight with the cave troll about fifty times.
– Get to see Arwen’s purple dress from the Very Secret Diaries. Laughed and laughed.
– Sam kicks ass.
– I like the long version of entering Lothlorien better.
– Celeborn is a big fucking waste of space. It’s not the movie maker’s fault: he just is.
– Sam kicks ass.
Jackie and I have both seen it about five times now so unless something new was on we’d (occassionally) chat about this or that, since she’s reading the books for the first time. In explaining about how such-and-such scene from the books was changed or altered or tweaked, combining two or three lesser characters into one or whatever, I’ve realized that I agree with every single alteration the crew of this amazing film have made. Tom Bombadil doesn’t need to be there, ditto Glorfindel. In book form, sure: it lends the weight of time to the thing, the sense of history and things that are (within their realms of influence) more powerful than even the Big Bads of the world, but it doesn’t necessarily help the actual story.
So, no mourning for me.
Except I would really have like to have seen the Barrow-wights, but that would have meant including Tom Bombadil to rescue them, so I understand that they had to go.
I absolutely loved seeing all the stuff that they filmed and got to add back in. Great, great stuff.
Best new scene: Frodo ‘leading’ the party out of Rivendell.
Only thing in the new bits that looked like it really shouldn’t have been there: One of the urak-hai falls down before Legolas actually shoots him, I think. Need to watch that scene about fifty more times too.

I didn’t intend to become the source of all things Firefly, but people have been asking, and if a few extra Geeky Fanboy posts help out the show, it’s all good.

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – A source close to Mutant Enemy, the production company for FOX’s struggling Friday-night science-fiction drama “Firefly,” reports that the network has ordered two more episodes produced, keeping the series before the cameras through December.
The new episodes come from six scripts previously ordered, over and above the original order of 13 episodes.
The show’s original, two-hour pilot – seen only in abbreviated form by TV critics and not at all by the public – will likely air Dec. 20.

It seems like an odd combination, but the parking lot that’s shared by CompUSA, PetSmart, and The Container Store is a Very Dangerous Place for me.
CompUSA:
Dear lord I’d like this. Anyone want to buy my color m130? with all the hardware? Cheap? Dead serious here: you could get a deal.
Messed around with the devil for awhile and boy those titanium powerbooks are put together nice, but came back to the Tungsten. Itsa ver’ ver’ sweet.
Container Store:
Get thee behind me, Eagle Creek. God I love this stuff. Still trying to find the perfect container for my phone/palm (and ideally the palm keyboard) that isn’t a purse.
PetSmart
Got a fetching ball so cool that even Jake played with it for a half-hour. Go me.