Archive for January, 2010

Yvonne Strahovski in Mass Effect 2

January 29th, 2010 fanaticalpupil

Mass Effect 2 Artwork

One of my friends just “shared this with me on Facebook”: ‘Mass Effect 2′ role departure for ‘Chuck’ actress. The long and short is that Yvonne Strahovski is playing “the woman” (aka Miranda Lawson – you might recognize her as the well-endowed woman in white from the commercials if you’ve watched any TV at all lately) in Mass Effect 2. BioWare even did the creepy thing where they scan the person’s face and then make the character look just like them. (Sorry, I like it when video game people look like people, but not people I know – unless they’re actually supposed to be that person)
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Frightened Rabbit on Chuck – Part 2

January 14th, 2010 fanaticalpupil

In Part I of this ongoing series, I was shocked by the seemingly magical appearance of Frightened Rabbit on Chuck. I had never heard of them before, and loved Twist so much that I bought their album and listened to it many times.

The first time it was on, Frightened Rabbit got the coveted spot of an emotional montage scene near the end of the show. The emotional montage scene near the end of the show is like striking gold for a musician who sells their song to a TV show. It’s like headlining a national arena tour. I know this simply based on the number of hits I got (and still get) from people searching for some combination of Chuck, Music and/or Frightened Rabbit.

Unfortunately for Chuck (note the italics), someone in charge of the music for the show fell in love with Frightened Rabbit as much as I did, and lo and behold, a year and a half later, here comes another Frightened Rabbit song in the season premiere of Season 3.

Oh, woe.

Woe.

Woe.

Why so much woe? Let me tell you.
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Tara Reid in Playboy? Really?

January 8th, 2010 fanaticalpupil

I was doing a search for magazine covers for another blog post when this turned up in the results:

Trust me, I was not looking for anything even remotely related to Tara Reid. And the only reason Playboy was related was because it’s a magazine.

Nevertheless, I was shocked and appalled. (And threw up in my mouth) (Just a little)

This is 2010, people! Does anyone really want to see what Tara Reid naked in 2010 looks like? I mean, how much is Playboy going to spend on airbrushing just to make her look presentable?

Oh, and in case you were wondering, this is just a really abstract post about the decline of magazine publishing industry. Think about it.

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Sounds like Sarah Hoyt Could Write Horror

January 8th, 2010 fanaticalpupil

I mean, in this post about getting her latest book published (DarkShip Thieves which is available now and sounds pretty cool) she talks about how she went through at least 4 agents in order to get stuff published that publishers actually wanted to publish. Each one has a distinctly terrifying personality, and the story (even slapped together for a blog post as it is) will probably scare anyone who is even thinking about trying to become a writer.

I’m glad she persevered though, and not just because it gives me hope, but because it’s a fascinating story that is probably a good read for any aspiring novelist… and because Darkship Thieves sounds like it’s a lot more like something I’d like than her other books (no offense, since I haven’t actually read any of them, of course).

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Could NPH have saved Firefly?

January 4th, 2010 fanaticalpupil

My wife was scoping NPH’s bio on IMDB, which purports that he auditioned for the role of the doctor on Firefly. One has to wonder (okay, I suppose one doesn’t have to) if NPH had been the doctor (no disrespect to Sean Maher) if Firefly would have made it more than 15 glorious episodes. On the one hand, the doctor was the only character who wasn’t ever really funny, and NPH seems like he’d have to have some humor in the character – I just don’t see him playing a serious guy who only cares about his sister and is super serious all the time. On the other hand, NPH is awesome. On the third hand (since we’re talking about SciFi here, we can have a third hand, I think), Firefly started and ended before NPH launched himself back to the forefront of awesomeness in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (yeah, sorry, Starship Troopers didn’t quite do it). So, maybe he wouldn’t have made a difference without the extra built-in fan base…

On a related note… Too bad when they canceled Dollhouse I was kind of relieved, because, while it’s a decent show, I wasn’t all that into it, but as soon as they announced it was canceled the show has had some of its best episodes so far. Oops. (Sorry, gotta do the hands thing again) On the one hand, maybe we all should have been more patient to let Joss Whedon develop his fairly complex idea of a show before writing it off. On the other hand, Firefly was awesome right from the start, so… sorry, there is no third hand on that one.

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