Posts Tagged ‘Fox’
Top 5 Movies/TV Shows about Fanboys-Erin
1) Spaced: From the very beginning the characters in this British TV show quote Star Wars and re-enact scenes from their favorite movies. It blends so seamlessly into the plot that sometimes you don’t even realize they’re references. One of the special features is an “homage-o-meter” that displays at the bottom of the screen what movie/tv show the scene is a reference to.
2) Fanboys: In 1999, a group of friends decide to drive from Ohio to Skywalker Ranch in California to steal a copy of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 6 months before it hits theaters.
3) The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon wears superhero T-shirts in nearly every episode, they have a comic book night, and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: TNG), Summer Glau (Firefly, The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Dollhouse), and have Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Gallactica) been guests stars—making all the boys giddy.
4) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: The name says it all! Kevin Smith is a huge fanboy himself, and someday Silent Bob will successfully move something with his mind.
5) Futurama: Nearly every episode features a Star Trek reference, Leonard Nemoy was in the pilot, and George Takei has been in 2 episodes. The cast of The Original Series guest-starred together in a tribute episode titled “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”.
Top 5 Efforts to save a TV Show
Futurama: Nearly 11 years after it’s first episode aired, Futurama returns to the air waves. The original airing included 5 seasons (72 episodes total—what a normal show would do in 3-4 seasons). What resurrected the series was great dvd sales and 4 straight to dvd movies that sold in the millions, convincing Fox (who still owns the rights to the show) to commission a new 26 episode season. Luckily, cartoon characters age well.
Chuck: Fans purchased footlong sandwiches from product-placement sponsor Subway and wrote letters to NBC to get Chuck into a third season. Fan’s vigor got them into a fourth season as well.
Firefly: I still say that mishandling is the reason this show was cancelled after one season, and I think fans agree. Record dvd sales convinced Fox (hmm, I’m noticing a pattern here) to let Joss Whedon make the movie Serenity, which gave some closure for the Firefly characters. More details that would have been flushed out in episodes are coming out in comic form because the fanbase is so strong.
FlashForward: Fans staged a 2 minutes, 17 second “blackout” to protest the cancellation of the show outside ABC offices in the US, Canada, and the UK, as well as sending 20,000 friendship bracelets to executives. Unfortunately, the show wasn’t renewed.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles: After two season, Fox (Fox again) canceled the show. Fans rented movable billboards and created the “Save Cameron” campaign. Shockingly, (eh hem, sarcasm) Fox ignored their pleas
TV NEWS FOR MARCH 23RD FRINGE CRASH COURSE & TRUE BLOOD SEASON 3 CLIP
Author: Dawn | Filed under: News Blog, TV Show NewsSneak Peek Of True Blood!
A Crash Course in ‘Fringe’
A network faces a challenge when it interrupts a TV show’s weekly schedule. How can it remind fans what happened months earlier and at the same time invite new viewers to start watching?
For the paranormal drama “Fringe,” which returns April 1 after a two-month hiatus, Fox is highlighting a Web site it calls “Fringe 101.” The site features four “essential episodes” from the past season and a half that explain the mythology of the series and help new viewers make sense of its alternate reality.
Fox likens the four episodes to a crash course in “Fringe.” Each episode is streaming at no charge on Fox.com.
“By watching these four key episodes, you will understand the ‘Fringe’ storyline and can jump right in to watch the rest of the season on Fox,” the site says.
Go Eric. I love when he’s kicking ass. I am getting excited for the new season. More clips please. I need me some Eric, and some Lafayette.
I think it’s a great idea to give a crash course on Fringe. For those who haven’t watched it, you can catch up and not feel like you missed any crucial information.
Will you watch the crash course episodes of Fringe?
OBS RECAP & REVIEW: DOLLHOUSE S2 – EPISODE 4
Author: Chris54 | Filed under: News Blog, TV Recap & ReviewOBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’
Dollhouse Season 2: ‘Belonging’
This week’s episode starts with the fuzzy image, but bloody image of Topher stating her was just trying to help her.
With the flash of a camera we are taken back to a year ago, where Priya is helping sell jewelry for a woman on the beachfront. As the conversation advances a man, “prince” of sorts, approaches; returning for another piece of jewelry, Priya asks what he’s doing with it all. The man asks if it would be possibly for her to make a large painting for him and hands her his card.
Skip forward, Priya is now having gallery show with the piece that she was commissioned to make. Bored of the idol talk, Sierra scopes out a nearby alcove of people and find that they are openly participating in sexual actions. Enter Echo. Echo engages Sierra in interesting conversation and mentions that she should stick with Nolan, the “prince”.
Over to Nolan, who is talking to a man, Harding, about the expense of such an event just to gain the affections of the pretty young lady. Harding suggests that they build him a doll with everything he wants, but Nolan refuses; wanting Priya. Harding decides to approach Priya and brings with him Victor, introducing him as a fine arts dealer from Italy. Priya and Victor immediately hit it off and she asks if he wants to leave. As the two head for the door, Nolan interrupts and won’t let her leave and it turns out he hired Victor to help promote him. When he tries to force himself on Priya, she slaps him and say ‘nothing in this world could ever make me love you’. That was until today, when Sierra enters and kisses him passionately. As she leaves he takes a picture with her own camera and throws it in a drawer along with other photos.
Now at the dollhouse, Victor approaches Sierra and comments on her bird painting, but something just isn’t right to her about the color black. Meanwhile, Topher is still trying to get the remote reset to work when Echo enters handing him Sierra’s painting. She says that Sierra doesn’t like the bad man who makes her sad. Interested in the information, Topher tries to find out more about the man from Boyd. Boyd dishes the goods on Nolan and suggests that Topher look into Saunder’s information about Sierra. After viewing Saunder’s files, which include multiple paintings, Topher heads to the records for Priya’s original information.
Meanwhile, Boyd is taking a watchful eye over Echo and notices that she is exhibiting behavior that is abnormal. All of a sudden, Topher grabs him and explains that Priya wasn’t psychotic when she arrived at the Dollhouse; she was drugged to be psychotic. Adelle overhears and confronts Nolan of raping poor Sierra and says that they will no longer be providing him with service. Nolan’s cocky response is that the Dollhouse will imprint her and send her to him forever. Adelle goes to Harding and refuses to send Nolan, but she is overruled and told do it or she loses her job.
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This is one of the more intense episodes of Dollhouse because it being extremely character driven. I really loved seeing more of Sierra and of her past. It was a really sad episode overall and really showed just how much Topher cares for the actives, especially those he’s feels personally responsible for.
Did you see this week’s episode? If so, what did you think of it?
OBS RECAP & REVIEW: DOLLHOUSE S2 – EPISODE 3
Author: Chris54 | Filed under: News Blog, TV Recap & ReviewOBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’
Dollhouse Season 2: ‘Belle Chose’
This week is less about Echo and more about a serial killer.
Our episode starts with a young man, Terry, playing with some mannequins, or at least that’s what you’re supposed to think. When one of the mannequins sweats and another tries to crawl away, it’s obvious that Terry is a sick boy. Drugging the poor girl, he drops the syringe and drags her back towards the others. Bad move man. The girl picks up the syringe and stabs him in the ankle with it. As punishment he decides to beat her head in with a croquet stick. Down one doll, Terry takes to the streets in search of a new one, but is hit by a car while stalking his prey. Guess that drug messed him up good.
At the Dollhouse, Ballard searches for Echo only to find her standing before him nude in the shower, naughty Ballard. After some sexual innuendos Ballard offers Echo a treatment. Meanwhile, Boyd and Adelle discuss the now ‘missing’ Dr. Saunders and Victor chimes in to ask where she is, the man in the next room needs her help. Heading over to the room, Adelle asks Topher if they can wake him up and we get some more sexual innuendos. Boyd points out the more obvious argument, should they wake him up, since the man skipped his last bail hearing and has been missing ever since.
Back to Echo and Ballard though, her new engagement is as a student, Kiki Turner, of a liberal arts instructor at Clarefield College. When Ballard asks about the R on the engagement, we learn that Echo’s to be the sex fantasy of an ‘egghead academic’. Don’t be jealous Ballard.
With the brain scans now done on their new patient, Topher informs Adelle that he’s not as innocent as she believes. Presenting Adelle the scan, he educates her that the dormant parts of the patient’s brain are where empathy, compassion and an aversion to disemboweling puppies is stored. Adelle asks if he’s certain and Topher replies that ‘certain enough that I have ethical problems walking him up’. Just to drive home the point, Boyd points out that Topher has ethical problems. If you haven’t caught on yet, the new patient is our psycho serial killer Terry.
Meanwhile, Ballard takes Echo on a shopping spree in the Dollhouse’s personal Macy’s, or whatever store you want to compare it to. Poor Ballard sits in the waiting area next to another handler, sitting reading a magazine, who mentions he won’t even do this for his wife. Ballard pulls out his FBI training. Sorry Ballard, but just because you’re a big shot ex-FBI agent doesn’t mean you don’t have to take your daughter clothes shopping.
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This week’s episode is mostly filler, but an interesting one all the same. It’s a little scary to think that they can just dump such dangerous minds into anyone.
Did you watch last night? What did you think of the episode?
OBS RECAP & REVIEW: DOLLHOUSE S2 – EPISODE 2
Author: Chris54 | Filed under: News Blog, TV Recap & ReviewOBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’
Dollhouse Season 2: Instinct
This week on Dollhouse Echo is assigned to be the mother to a small infant, but when things go awry Echo takes her motherly programming a little too far.
When Echo is assigned to be the mother of a small boy, Topher comes up with a new way of programming that not only changes the mind, but also the physical body as well. Not a minute later we see what he means as Echo wakes up in the middle of the night, sneaks into a nearby room, and breast feeds her new child.
The next morning, while trying to make coffee for her new beloved husband, she gets this sneaking suspicion that something is amiss with him. Concerned with his behavior, Echo confides in Sierra that she’s afraid he is having an affair, since he seems distant from her and the baby. It quickly becomes obvious that Echo is unaware of the Dollhouse and the fact that she is not the child’s mother.
At home, Echo decides to sneak into Nate’s office to find evidence of her suspicions. All she finds is heartache and when Nate returns home to find Echo in the kitchen with all of his wife’s pictures spread across the kitchen table he has to lie, convincingly. He says that he knew the woman before Echo and that he loved her, but she died. Aware that this whole engagement was a terrible mistake he tells her to head to bed, things will be better in the morning. Only we understand the meaning of this all.
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Stay tuned weekly for the new R&R of each episode of “Dollhouse”
What did you think of the episode? Do you think that there is a moral boundary that shouldn’t be crossed, playing with other’s emotions? Who do you think is supplying Senator Perrin with information?
OBS RECAP & REVIEW: DOLLHOUSE S2 – EPISODE 1
Author: Chris54 | Filed under: News Blog, TV Recap & ReviewOBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’
Dollhouse Season 2: Vows
Dollhouse’s new season picks up a few months after last season finale. Echo, who now sporadically remembers past imprints due to Alpha, receives a new engagement to wed a wealthy businessman under investigation.
The episode begins simply as Ballard, now working in conjunction with Dollhouse after being expelled from the FBI, oversee Echo’s new imprint. Langton, having secured Dominic’s position as chief of security, advises Adelle that Echo’s new engagement is a risk. Adelle disagrees and discusses the agreement between the Dollhouse and Ballard ‘clarifying’ the terms.
Sierra makes an appearance shortly after the episode’s titles requesting a treatment which Topher leaves in the uncomfortable hands of Ivy, who has to deal with Sierra’s mention of tying and spanking.
Dr. Saunders also makes an appearance, harassing Topher with rats, before Langton comes in to discuss her scars, dinner, and excuses.
Meanwhile, Echo and her new husband Martin Klar enjoy their wedding night as Ballard jealously doesn’t enjoy his. The next morning Echo checks in, gives us the 411 on who Klar is and what he does, and goes in for treatment during which she remembers who Saunders/Whiskey was and we are reminded of what Alpha did to her.
Finally, a new player comes to the forefront as Senator Daniel Perrin accuses the Rossum Corporation (and by extension the Dollhouse) of withholding medical advances. Langton and Adelle discuss the dangers and foreshadow that the Senator isn’t going away anytime soon. As Langton leaves and Ballard arrives to be harassed by Adelle, we really get to see the relationship between these two men. Adelle requests that Ballard become Echo’s handler, all the while taking as many shots at his unethical relationship with Echo. Back on Echo’s end, Hugo receives pictures of Echo and Ballard together.
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Stay tuned weekly for the new R&R of each episode of “Dollhouse”
What did you think of the new season? Is it hard to follow for new comers to the series? What do you think is going to happen next?
