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Mira Furlan just got signed for Toronto Trek. Cool. I wonder if she'll have her CD for sale.
I figure I can get at least 1 Delenn card signed, unless she's asking stupid prices; which is possible, since they don't pay the guests anymore.
Heh. They're not even mentioning B5 on the web site. Apparently she's only done Lost.
I still find it amusing that TT has 100% of the (male) Asian actors from the Trek franchise this year. Yay!
I figure I can get at least 1 Delenn card signed, unless she's asking stupid prices; which is possible, since they don't pay the guests anymore.
Heh. They're not even mentioning B5 on the web site. Apparently she's only done Lost.
I still find it amusing that TT has 100% of the (male) Asian actors from the Trek franchise this year. Yay!
Hey, kids! I'm about to get very hypocritical!
Remember a few weeks ago, when I pondered cruelly on those Trekkies putting together their own shows? Yeah, I really showed them, didn't I?
Well, today I got to see some more Fan Films, this time from the burgeoning superhero genre.
Batman: Dead End was amusing and all (for the first half, at least. Then it just got SILLY), but these latest ones are just kinda silly.
Grayson starts out promisingly enough. Batman gets killed, Robin comes out of retirement to avenge his murder, something is rotten in Gotham City, blah, blah, blah.
But it just gets SILLY. Dude, Superman? Wonder Woman? Green Lantern? Anyone else recall that anytime these guys get a wee bit selfish, they generally take over the world (Elseworlds ad infinitum)?
The basic plot seems interesting enough. But the creator needs to learn control.
World's Finest, on the other hand, seems better controlled. Superman & Batman (same guy who played Bats in DE? Same Supes as Grayson? Are there only three guys making these things?) gotta work together to fight crime. Crime is defined as Lex Luthor & Two-Face. They DO have the Lex Armour, which I've missed since the Great Byrne of '85.
Watchable, and the storyline that leaks through makes sense.
Interesting how, instead of making a full featurette, the creators choose to make trailers. Apparently SDCC was going to have a fan film festival, but that got shut down after lawyers started circling. The SDCC website mentions nothing, of course.
Superhere films, since they dependon FX so much, are an interesting challenge.
Remember a few weeks ago, when I pondered cruelly on those Trekkies putting together their own shows? Yeah, I really showed them, didn't I?
Well, today I got to see some more Fan Films, this time from the burgeoning superhero genre.
Batman: Dead End was amusing and all (for the first half, at least. Then it just got SILLY), but these latest ones are just kinda silly.
Grayson starts out promisingly enough. Batman gets killed, Robin comes out of retirement to avenge his murder, something is rotten in Gotham City, blah, blah, blah.
But it just gets SILLY. Dude, Superman? Wonder Woman? Green Lantern? Anyone else recall that anytime these guys get a wee bit selfish, they generally take over the world (Elseworlds ad infinitum)?
The basic plot seems interesting enough. But the creator needs to learn control.
World's Finest, on the other hand, seems better controlled. Superman & Batman (same guy who played Bats in DE? Same Supes as Grayson? Are there only three guys making these things?) gotta work together to fight crime. Crime is defined as Lex Luthor & Two-Face. They DO have the Lex Armour, which I've missed since the Great Byrne of '85.
Watchable, and the storyline that leaks through makes sense.
Interesting how, instead of making a full featurette, the creators choose to make trailers. Apparently SDCC was going to have a fan film festival, but that got shut down after lawyers started circling. The SDCC website mentions nothing, of course.
Superhere films, since they dependon FX so much, are an interesting challenge.
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Jun. 19th, 2004 11:32 amI don't have much of a gut instinct. In fact, I really HOPE I don't. Because this Star Trek new Voyages thing fills me with the kind of dread you usually only get in the seconds between when you turn the corner and see a guy standing there with a gun and him pulling the trigger.
And Rod's involved. I don't know how to feel about that. Even if he is offering his blessing (and support, since he's new on the production team), I still don't know how much that amounts to legally. Good kid, he is. I just ain't sure about the wisdom of associating with this operation.
Barring any sort of miracle, it will likely damage the Roddenbery/Viacom relationship.
In all probability, Viacom will probably just roll out of bed, reach out one hairy knuckle, and crush it.
The creative staff seems very genuine, and may perhaps be very creative. So why put this much energy into something even more fragile than normal. I think it's even more dangerous than a normal Trek fanseries, considering that this is pretty much the most direct violation possible of Paramount's IP, and they'll sue you into a corner for much less.
I mean, people put energy into things like Finnegan's Wake and, while you can make judgments about the viability of a web series of that ambition (seriously, is there any?), at least they don't have to worry about some junior barrister deciding to make his name by zapping them.
Unless, of course, he works for a cranky SF writer who's prone to chucking lawsuits at people, but we know there aren't any of those.
And Rod's involved. I don't know how to feel about that. Even if he is offering his blessing (and support, since he's new on the production team), I still don't know how much that amounts to legally. Good kid, he is. I just ain't sure about the wisdom of associating with this operation.
Barring any sort of miracle, it will likely damage the Roddenbery/Viacom relationship.
In all probability, Viacom will probably just roll out of bed, reach out one hairy knuckle, and crush it.
The creative staff seems very genuine, and may perhaps be very creative. So why put this much energy into something even more fragile than normal. I think it's even more dangerous than a normal Trek fanseries, considering that this is pretty much the most direct violation possible of Paramount's IP, and they'll sue you into a corner for much less.
I mean, people put energy into things like Finnegan's Wake and, while you can make judgments about the viability of a web series of that ambition (seriously, is there any?), at least they don't have to worry about some junior barrister deciding to make his name by zapping them.
Unless, of course, he works for a cranky SF writer who's prone to chucking lawsuits at people, but we know there aren't any of those.
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Feb. 9th, 2002 10:40 pmIt's official. I hate trekkies.
The whining mewling little fucks. You know what the current itch in my craw is. The whining mewling little fucks and their reaction to the theme song to Enterprise.
I'm not watching the show, you know. I haven't seen three full episodes so far. The cast is good enough, I guess. But the characters (aside from a few) aren't grabbing me.
But I like the theme song. It is, to put it bluntly, pretty much fucking perfect for the show. It contains yearning and hope and joy and the firey unstoppableness of the human spirit that the show should be about. And the weasels are complaining.
They seem to think they have a right to comment, you see. The wonderful thing is that the vocal ones are, as usual, a stunningly tiny minority. A squeaky ball bearing that's trying to drive the car.
Hell, it's a Diane Warren song. I mean, it's not like she's one of the most popular songwriters of the 20th century. Oh wait. SHE IS. The woman has written songs for longer than some of these defective zygotes have been breathing, and has an awards shelf bigger than the average semi-detached condo. Sure, she wrote that stupid Aerosmith song from Armageddon (ich; I so hate that flick) but no one's perfect.
And Russell Watson? The guy's a freaking tenor. He's a classical musician from England with blue collar roots. And he's a goodwill ambassador for the UN, so he's not some schmuck.
But the retarded spock ears set, you see, the whining mewling fucks are all "it's just a cheesy Rod Stewart song". Fuck.
Ah, hell. Someone get me my nitro pills.
The whining mewling little fucks. You know what the current itch in my craw is. The whining mewling little fucks and their reaction to the theme song to Enterprise.
I'm not watching the show, you know. I haven't seen three full episodes so far. The cast is good enough, I guess. But the characters (aside from a few) aren't grabbing me.
But I like the theme song. It is, to put it bluntly, pretty much fucking perfect for the show. It contains yearning and hope and joy and the firey unstoppableness of the human spirit that the show should be about. And the weasels are complaining.
They seem to think they have a right to comment, you see. The wonderful thing is that the vocal ones are, as usual, a stunningly tiny minority. A squeaky ball bearing that's trying to drive the car.
Hell, it's a Diane Warren song. I mean, it's not like she's one of the most popular songwriters of the 20th century. Oh wait. SHE IS. The woman has written songs for longer than some of these defective zygotes have been breathing, and has an awards shelf bigger than the average semi-detached condo. Sure, she wrote that stupid Aerosmith song from Armageddon (ich; I so hate that flick) but no one's perfect.
And Russell Watson? The guy's a freaking tenor. He's a classical musician from England with blue collar roots. And he's a goodwill ambassador for the UN, so he's not some schmuck.
But the retarded spock ears set, you see, the whining mewling fucks are all "it's just a cheesy Rod Stewart song". Fuck.
Ah, hell. Someone get me my nitro pills.
