Fanatical Pupil

Thanks to Sci Fi Stuff UK on Twitter I have found out that Fringe has been renewed for a 4th season! (Confirmed by MSM news source SF Examiner)

Time to catch up now! I’ve got three episode on Hulu that I’m planning to watch today! I am looking forward to seeing the further development of Anna Torv’s acting skills (because come on, you have to admit, she struggles a bit with any sort of deep emotion. She certainly excels at being geek eye candy, though, right?). I am also interested in Joshua Jackson’s transformation into the new George Clooney (not my words! A friend – who is a girl – actually said that. I know, right? I mean, I have a total man crush on J-Jax, but Clooney? We’ll see…) You can tell I’m excited because of all the random parentheticals and use of pop culture blog like abbreviations!

Time Travel + Chicago + Jake Gyllenhaal. It makes me feel pretty good that somehow a movie that involved these three things is being promoted as heavily as it is because I would have thought that combining those three things would narrow the target audience size down to 1. Moi.

I mean, let’s just do a quick (abbreviated) recap of Jake G:

• Prince of Persia – Awesome except for the fact that it was a Disney movie (bonus points for time travel, of course)
• Zodiac (loved him in it)
• Brokeback Mountain (haven’t seen, but I guess it won some awards or something)
• The Good Girl (in which he legitimized Jennifer Aniston)
• Donnie Darko

Yeah, there were other movies… but the four of those that aren’t based on video games make for a pretty good filmography by themselves.

Time Travel movies I liked:

• Back to the Future (all of them; classic)
• Time After Time (not bad, really)
• Terminator (again, all of them, even the bad ones, and the canceled TV series which was awesome)
• The Butterfly Effect (Ashton is dreamy, but also, it was kind of good)
• The Jacket (wicked awesome)
• 12 Monkeys (one of the best evar)
• Timecrimes (AWEsome)
• Primer (modern classic)
• Groundhog Day (if it counts)
• Deja Vu (underrated if you ask me)

Others that weren’t that great, but still good cause of the time travel part:

• Timeline
• Flight of the Navigator (when I was young)
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Timecop

Throw in TV shows:

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (mentioned above)
• LOST
• Journeyman (another show canceled just when it was getting good)
• Flash Forward (dealt with time travel themes)
• Daybreak (fits in the Groundhog Day bucket)
• Quantum Leap
• Phil of the Future (sorry, I liked it)
• Tru Calling (not great, but good enough)
• Heroes (which I stopped watching, but I am considering going back to finish since I made it half way through season three; I was almost there)

That’s kind of a lot of good stuff there. Hopefully I won’t get too hung up on the fact that the Source Code is evidently a computer program that allows you take someone’s body for the last 8 minutes of their life… over and over… So, it’s like the Matrix, but for time? As someone who writes code for a living, the movie is just unfortunately titled. But at least it provides for a fun Twitter Meme that probably won’t catch on. And having a bit of Michelle Monaghan can’t hurt.

Download “Valkyrie Project Episode 3: A Slippery Slope” Now!

Published to Smashwords 5 days ago and up to 74 downloads. Not as big a spike on the first day as the first two episodes… I’m thinking that might be because I put it up on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I think I’ll go back to Friday night next time to see what happens. I’m sure there’s also the series factor playing in… i.e., since this says Episode 3 on it, people are less likely to download knowing that they’re not starting at the beginning.

Probably due to the previous reason, I didn’t get as many “trickle downloads” either as I did for Episode 1 when I uploaded Episode 2. But I’m hoping just hoping that some people stick with it…

Episode Notes

This episode includes the first (yes, only the first) changes in POV. Don’t worry, it won’t happen often. It’s also the longest episode to date, bringing the total story word count to just over 33,000. Yes, that means by the time we get to the end of Season 1, it’ll clock in around 130,000. Not sure if I could make it if I wasn’t doing it piece by piece. (More on that is coming in a separate post) And don’t worry, I’m not going to keep making them longer and longer (at least I don’t plan to). So, go download Episode 3 right now!