GeekiN #110
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
With the May Upfronts in full swing, we discuss what’s been renewed and cancelled. In addition, we promise a GeekiN Extra with discussion on the new shows we are interested in. That show will be out tomorrow. But for now, keep reading for the full list of discussions from GeekiN #110.
Discussion
Television
- Renewed: Chuck, V
- Cancelled: FlashForward, Scrubs, Legend of the Seeker, Heroes
- New shows up of interest: The Cape, Hawaii 5-0, Undercovers, Friends with Benefits
- Glee lands Post Superbowl spot in 2011
Movies
- David Fincher to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake
- Kick Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman rewriting X-Men First Class
- Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin cast in Fright Night remake
- SHIELD is part of Marvel Studios’ post-Avengers plan
- Alvin Sargent signed on to rewrite Spidey reboot
- Alan Tudyk will be in Transformers 3
Video Games
- Natal’s world premiere June 13th will feature a special performance by Cirque du Soleil on MTV. Media briefing will be live on Spike TV June 14 at 1:30 ET
- One of the Nintendo 3ds screens could be widescreen
Other
- Original Empire Strikes Back draft is leaked, and George Lucas reveals he had not planned out the Star Wars saga at Lost event
- Comic creator Jazan Wild sues Heroes over “Carnival of Souls”
- Smallville finale opening 2 minutes
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Ahh, c’mon guys. You know you would love Dreamworks to make “Donkey: the movie”.
I’ve had similar feelings about the show V. It has a fantastic concept and a seems to build up some great suspense, but I keep telling myself, “One of these days, this show is going to WOW me. Not yet, but one of these days.”
Randy, if you’re judging “Fringe” on Season 1, you watched it at the wrong time. Season 2 has been the best show on my TV schedule. Without spoilers, it has a season long story arc about parallel worlds, genetic super-abilities, and an inter dimensional war. The show rocks.
I’m not judging Fringe as a show at all. I’m merely judging what I saw of it. I’ve heard it improved. A lot. But I’m just comparing V and Fringe as comparative points in their first seasons.
I agree. Fringe rocks!
The first half of season one suffered from monster of the week syndrome, but Fringe found it’s footing during the second half of last year. This season has been full steam ahead with great episodes and a very interesting story arc for each character, especially Walter. He is one of the most interesting characters on TV right now.
Outside of Chuck, I think Fringe as a whole this year has had the most interesting storyline and been consistently great from week to week. Not even Lost can claim that.
I can’t wait to see where things end up in the finale this week. I betting there will be a huge cliffhanger.
I have to get around to Fringe. I passed on it originally because it smelled to x-Files and the thought of another show with a bland blond FBI agent left me feeling sick but it’s been getting nothing but good lately so, it’s back on the list.
V. i just don’t think it translates to this generation. The original is fun in that dated way. it had a lot to say about the politics of the day and interesting thoughts on fascism and how it rises so easily. The problem is that this new one is trying so hard to fashion it to modern audiences that it just falls apart IMO.
Scott, you were smarter than me walking out on Robin Hood. I stay at all movies to the bitter end and dammit I did. I saw this because I wanted to see a movie with a friend and we had seen Iron Man 2 already. And at the end of the day the pull of my Robin Hood obsession had me shilling out 9 bucks.
I akin this movie to that travesty of that Clive Owen King Arthur movie from a few years back. “Let’s take a great story and strip it of everything that makes it fun and interesting, try and pass it off as ‘realistic’ and make it gritty. They like gritty, right?”
I really want to send a long memo to Hollywood on empowering women:
GIVING THEM A SWORD AND RANDOMLY HAVING THEM GO INTO BATTLE DOES NOT MAKE A CHARACTER FEMINIST OR EMPOWERED OR ROUNDED. IT JUST MAKES THEM ANACHRONISTIC.
It was like there were two movies happening at once. On the one hand you had an awful medieval political drama (that got all the politics of the day wrong) on the eventual signing of the Magna Carta (that gets what the Magna Carta says wrong and the happenstance of its signing).
On the other hand you had Robin Hood story told in a Sommersby fashion which was mildly interesting and had some interesting beats. But then suddenly they merge into one movie, get really boring and for some reason the French are invading. But I actually really loved the guys playing the Merry Men so to speak and they were REALLY underused. They guy playing Tuck was cool too. The scenes of dancing and revelry were fun and very cool. The only scene I liked? THE ONE SCENE we got of Robin robbing a carriage and calling himself Robin Hood. BRILLIANT. I was literally cheering… and that was all we got. That was it. That and the end credits were cool.
Oh, and it was really obvious that the script didn’t intend for such an old casting in Robin and Marian.
I just wanted to know why there wasn’t a GeekiN Extra this week is it just a lil late ?
anyways I heard a lil diffent about heroes , I heard that it will have one more season ( a short one ) just to finch the show ( not just one more show )
It’s on a different computer, and I couldn’t get it uploaded tonight. It will be up in the morning.
okay cool I know it would be I just wanted to know for sure .
It’s funny, my brother watches both One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected and loves both. I’ve heard (from You I think Scott) great things about Life Unexpected so i”m glad it’s coming back (and I’ll watch). I could care less about One Tree Hill, but I do want to, even though I never watched it, but I will watch Life Unexpected.
CBS, as you know by now, has cleaned house.
Shatner was awesome on Boston Legal, so Shit My Dad Says could be okay (Randy fails again, hehe).
Fringe is much better than V. I should add that. :)
The only film I’ve ever walked out on was Marie Antoinette, that was god awful.
I’m really looking forward to MacGruber, I think it looks hilarious.
The only film I ever happily walked out on? “Wing Commander”. Remember that movie with Freddie Prinze Jr? It was so horrendous that I’d swear you could see the embarrassment on the actor’s faces.
Wasn’t sure where else to put this…
So I watched my first episode of Glee last night, partly because I was a little bored and partly because I wanted to watch the Joss Whedon episode with Neil Patrick Harris in it.
Even though I had no idea what was really going on in the overall arc or anything, I thought the episode was really good. If I had actually been following the show up to now, I suspect I would have liked it even more.
My favorite song was the play audition where NPH and Matthew Morrison sing Aerosmith’s “Dream On”. It was my favorite until I got to the rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” towards the end of the episode. It was a perfect use of that song and the performance of the duet was really powerful. Again, I don’t have the benefit of knowing the overall arc of the show or having attachments to any of the characters, but that song just about killed me.
I think this will finally get me off my butt to watch the show from the beginning.
Save a couple episodes here and there, the show has been great up to this point. You have to be able to believe that nothing in this world is real, or it will drive you crazy. Sometimes it almost feels completely fake. Like in one episode, they teach the football team to dance. The football team proceeds to dance at the beginning of the play in order to throw the other team off. In reality, that could never happen. But it was a really fun scene, so it was totally worth it.
I watched the pilot again the other night, and I feel that it’s possibly one of the best first episodes I have seen. It’s a fun episode.
I was just thinking about that pilot as well. Definitely a fantastic first episode. Its probably still my favorite episode of the series. Though “Dream On” is now a close second.
I have to agree Polygon, I’ve been waiting for a reason to get into Glee, and after this past episode, I think I may have found that reason. That duet has been stuck in my head all week.
I just wanted to mention that the only good thing about the Ice Age movies is Scrat the squirrel. The gags they do with Scrat are always amusing at the very least, and the heaven gag in the second movie made it worth seeing for me despite the rest of the movie being a horrible waste of time.
Also, I’ve met the guy who created the Scrat character, William Frake, and the story of where Scrat came from is pretty funny. Basically, it revolves around hijinks with an actual squirrel on the porch of his house out in the country when he first moved into it. I wish I could remember the details of exactly what it did, but it ended up being the inspiration for Scrat.
That’s the only reason I thought the first movie was worth anything. After that, he got old.