Posts Tagged ‘tv’
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Another part of the weekend’s nostalgia overload, a marathon session of Jason of Star Command. I had remembered the bad guy’s monocle, but there was so much I had forgotten that came back once I started watching. As a kid, I probably didn’t notice that they not only reused sound FX from Star Trek, they even reuse some of the musical cues. I’m certain as a Star Wars obsessed kid, the ‘evil’ wookie-alikes would have been notable. And now I know why the minister from Mom and Dad Save The World seemed so familiar; I was remembering him from Jason.
But the biggest ‘discovery’ was the do-anything-even-fly-through-space-yet-fit-in-a-fanny-pack robot, W1k1, aka Wiki. Wikipedia’s biography claims it comes from the Hawaiian word for quick, but obviously Jimmy Wales was a big Jason fan =p It’s a robot that is capable of interstellar travel, has a built in laser for freeing Jason from the inevitable chains in the dungeon scenes, and R2D2 like one-understandable-sided-jokes.
Tags: nostalgia, tv, wikipedia
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
The tip-of-my-tounge memory of this show has been rattling around in my head for years, and finally the internet helped me figure out that the show I remembered was Jason of Star Command
. The DVD box set came today, and even before putting it in, I’m on nostalgia level 10. There’s James Doohan as one of the good guys, and the bad guy with an retracting reticle that Last Starfighter ‘borrowed’. The cast list is kind amusing, since they list something they’d be more likely known for, as a parenthetical for almost everyone in the cast.
After having watched how unkind blu-ray was to the original first Star Wars, over the weekend, I’m not sure I’m ready to have my childhood illusions about how cool this show’s effects were, equally shattered. Or maybe it’ll engender warm fuzzy feelings for the fantasy acceptance of youth.
Tags: nostalgia, scifi, tv
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
There’s an ad for a beard dye that uses celebrities with salt-and-pepper facial hair. And not as before after people, they leave the commercial they way they came in.
Tags: advertising, d'oh, tv
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
How did I manage to live through the ’70s and not notice that KISS and Paul Lynde did a Halloween special, with special guests like Witchy Poo and Florence Henderson?
Tags: 70s, camp, rock, tv, wtf
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
We had the first ‘storm’ of the season in Seattle today, with a tiny power outage, that the local news is milking for all it’s worth. Standard local news kind of stuff, but someone has gone a little overboard with the ripple effect transition. We get it, it’s a water story =p
Tags: local, news, seattle, silly, tv
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
I love the internet, most of the time.
Like when it can supply me with not just the name of a half-remembered tv-miniseries, but the entirety of it. Mark Harmon has had a long career, even if I don’t realize it sometimes.
The film is just as over-the-top-silly as I remembered it. Caricature villains, a rigid social structure under autocratic rule offered up as a impossible utopia to the messiness of a real world under democracy, doomed by the frailties of human ego.
And yet, it still manages to age remarkable well. It helps that 90% of their time is spent on a liner built during WW2.
Most annoying plot hole is the whole “it’ll never work” rigmarole over the heat exchanger. What exactly did the script writer think the difference was between a heat exchanger based on lava, and a scotch boiler based on oil? Pointing out that simply generating more oxygen doesn’t remove carbon-dioxide would have been more believable. Whatever.
Tags: found, lost, miniseries, tv, youtube
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
I’m watching Y&R today, and I realize, the ‘flashback’ I’m watching has to be new. When Hope died originally, the actor was the other Adam. I’ve always wondered what they did for a flashback, if the actor had changed. It seems like it would only work for recent flashbacks. You can’t reshoot Victor at 35 without way more effects budget than I suspect they have.
UPDATE: Oh wow. They reshot scenes with new Heather as well. It’s going to be a whole episode of reshoots, methinks….
Tags: actors, replacement, soaps, tv, young&restless
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I’m watching Y&R, and they have a scene in a book store. In the background behind one of the characters, they had a book cover prominently displayed, for “Bumpy the Camel”. I’ve never been more disapointed in not being advertised to. OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but still, I can’t believe no one has written a book with that title yet. Maybe I will.
One day there was a camel. A camel named Bumpy.
“I’m not bumpy
I am humpy” he cried, whenever someone called him “Bumpy”. So naturally, all the animals called him Bumpy.
….
Tags: advertising, books, tv, ynr
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
LOLzers
The “cake is a lie” meme made it into an episode of chowder =)
Tags: funny, meme, tv
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