Angry Puppy video blog 36: Extra-rocking edition

...I kept going to the back door of my apartment to find the crying dog until I finally realized it was Kodos.

It's funny.  Actually, Timebomb's kickass, but they're a sorry (though amusing) group of heroes and constantly put upon by upper tier heroes, The Hotness kinda reminds me of less manic and very British Michael Scott/Steve Carell...with fire/heat powers. 

I always find the big difference between brilliant 'genre' shows (BSG, X Files) and less succesful one is not nessecarily that they ask lots of questions and slowly answer them, but that the questions that inform everything (How far are you willing to go to save humanity, are we alone) are big, universal ones that tie everything together. Something built around a universal theme has much better staying power then something built around a gimmick or an 'I know! What if we...'

I quite like No Heroics. Timebomb is retired, due to some stabby incidents in the past, and spends most of the first reminding himself not to have sex with strangers in the pub bathroom. The pub doorman (Thundermonkey) can summon monkeys, but it takes them two hours to arrive, rendering him effectively useless. I don't have a TV, but it's available to watch a few places on line, but then you get into dubious legal territory.

 

It's a lifestyle. I mean orientation!

Just kidding.

I love the HP Lovecraft stories. They're better than a lot of modern horror fiction. Lovecraft is actually respected by some important literary critics as proven by this article by Joyce Carol Oates in this article she wrote in 1996 for the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1376 

Fringe is only getting marginally more interesting. I have to reiterate that the show should focus more on Massive Dynamics - the evil Super Science Corporation and it's cool CEO with a cybernetic arm. Having both Massive Dynamics and Ms. Torv's Boss as mysterious characters is a bad idea because like you guys stated in your review there really isn't a strong reason for our protagonists to be together. Ms. Torv's boss could be much more fleshed out and could provide the necessary back history in order to be the motivating force behind the group. One thing that bothered me about Tuesday's episode was the fact that Phillip Broyles(played by Lance Reddick - "The Wire" fame) was keeping evidence and information from Olivia - the photos of that "alien" guy/Deus Ex Machina. Olivia should have had an argument with Broyles about whether they really want her investigations to succeed or not.

Pushing Daisies is in DEEP TROUBLE. Their ratings are in a nose dive. Terminator SCC could be a much better show if they just kill off John Connor - which IO9 so helpfully suggested. Clearly a show centered around Shirley Manson, Summer Glau and Lena Headey's characters would be much more interesting especially in light of the creative plot developments that would arise from the now dead John Connor. They could also even move the plot to the future with all three actresses.

Sanctuary was incredibly boring. Sci-fi Channel continues it's inexorable devolution into a nothing channel. BSG is its swan song.

True Blood is getting really good now. I really enjoyed the camp Vampire Bar "Fangtasia" in the episode "Escape from the Dragon House". Contrary to some "people's" opinion, I think Stephen Moyer who plays "Bill Compton" - Sookie's Boyfriend is really hot. I even prefer him over "Eric Northman" played by Alexander Skarsgard. How anyone can favor tripe like "Ugly Betty" over "True Blood" is beyond me.

"No Hero" a new Comic Book series Written by Warren Ellis and Art by Juan Jose Ryp was released this past Wednesday and it was pretty good. I urge people to stay with it for at least 4 issues to get a good sense of where it's going. It certainly falls into the Transhumanist Sci-Fi genre.

I didn't know this until recently but they're actually developing a Live Action/Computer Graphics "GATCHAMAN/Battle of the Planets" movie. Although, the failure of "Speed-racer" must have had a huge chilling effect on it.

Do you guys think that Peter Berg is talented enough to do the re-boot of the Dune Movie franchise? I don't believe so. But I'm biased, I don't think the Novels can successfully be made into a movie. I would have liked to see what Jodorowsky would have come up with in terms of a DUNE series of movies. Jodorowsky also is the creator of the Sci-Fi comic book series that is my blog-handle - "METABARONS".

I hear there's been a Six week delay in the next issue of the Buffy Season 8 comic.

Thanks for another great Vlog.

Based on the first show of PUD?  And you want to kill off the cute hunkett in Terminator cause you gush for the dyke women? So where do you think the story will go if the whole reason for the show is killed off? Clearly, they might as well scrap the show and have the actresses move to Liptsick Jungle. Then kill off Kirby and the gay guy and have the women from Lipstick all have three liasons with the women from the Terminator. Imagine sex with a cyborg!

So far I've watched the first two episodes of Knight Rider, so far it's bombing bad. The first episode had Michael Knight and this floozy getting naked for an implausible plot, the second episode had said floozy in a bikini and next week's episode has Michael learning to surf (ie. more half naked women)... also they had a chance to be responsible about gender identity and A.I. rights and they failed miserably on both fronts (Men are men and woman are women and KITT "belongs" to Knight Industries). Add to this two of the most annoying/badly acted assitants -the computer geek and the "language" girl- and this is an avoid at all costs series.

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"A woman never runs away, a woman never hides away in order to survive." - from her song 'Real Me' by Ayumi Hamasaki