Life on Queen Street

Five episodes into a well-rated, popular program with high media presence and a tie-in movie on the horizon you find yourself posting contact information and tips for writing the network on a message board.

*eyeroll*x*headdesk*/the network that canceled Firefly*=?????

That said, you never really lose those Scaper skills, and I may possibly have e-mailed my local Fox affiliate and sent a request for SCC merch to Foxshop.com already this evening.***




Over-invested? Me? I'm a genre fan, dammit. We eat 'over-invested' for breakfast.



*Although their ratings were only a third of THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES**

**Retroactively breaking my heart as I found Firefly an acquired taste.

***I need a "nerd" icon (QED).

It's ToyFair time again and there are many, many pictures of shiny new toys kicking around the web for geeks like me to perv stare at. As I'm really all about DC Comics' characters these days, might as well start there:

Fables is currently my favourite comic not about to end its run, and I would love to get my hands on this stature of Bigby and Snow from "March of the Toy Soldiers" - ( Spoiler )

- but not for $195 American.

It doesn't look like I tagged the original post, so I can't link to the original sculpt for the 13" Nightwing figure but they seem to have resculpted his face to give the figure a far less fugly effect.

But the real surprise was that they're releasing a 13" Barbara Gordon BATGIRL!!! I didn't even know this one was in the works - I'm hoping that they tweak the design a little before final version, particularly around the head. And I think Bab's eyes are green (wow, maximum fangirl moment there. Sorry).

Still, no matter how much I love Batgirl, I'm just not sure about this one - it makes me want to write "Bruce Wayne gets transformed into a girl and he and Superman totally do it" slash. And then I feel dirty inside (and just a little bit turned on *eek*).

And this one is just a little too... Madonna in her "Vogue" phase around the boobs.

I'm not much of a Captain Marvel fan - my memories of the character date mostly to a mid-70s Saturday morning show that featured Captain Marvel and Osiris (possibly live action) and for years I thought, like Frankenstein's monster, that the character's name was actually "Shazaam!" These are still pretty damn cool.

Speaking of Madonna, I can't help feeling that if someone with a vagina was involved anywhere in the development process, we could have avoided this. *shudder* Barda deserves better.

Okay, I don't care how big a fan you are, Battlestar Galactica minimates are lame (as are minimates in general - excluding the Batgirl one I own 'cause I bought it back when BG got no action figure love at all). But these are fucking cool and if I don't get a Starbuck figure to play with play with immediately there will be hell to pay. Hell. With double hockey sticks.

"Toy Most Likely to Find Its Way Under rubberneck's Tree".

I do not understand the attraction (unless Carter and Hewitt are going to go off and start their own race of freakishly intelligent superbeings - that would amuse me) but all y'all Stargate fans should really check this gallery out. Vala's "accessory" alone is worth the price of admission - yes, her action figure appears to come with its own dildo. So wrong and yet, so completely in-character. ;)

Meanwhile, Cam's hair has taken on a life of it's own.

Also? Superhero Zombies. And sadly non-superpowered but still awesome Zombie fighters.

Baby's first Batman?

The answers to questions I can't believe anyone really asked: Part One and Part Two.

Over at Hasbro, it's clear that George Lucas wants to own your soul. The joke Carrie Fisher made about paying Lucas a royalty every time she looks in the mirror? Yeah, I'm beginning to think that wasn't no joke.

POTC fen can get an idea of Jack, Elizabeth and Chow-Yun Fat's character designs in POTC 3 by taking a boo at the NECA figures. No Will Turner - interesting: normally every conceivable boy figure is released before the female characters.

And finally, I'm looking forward to 300 as much as anyone but You've got to be kidding me.

Wolfgang Peterson is releasing a Director's Cut edition of Troy - I'm actually verging on excited about this: kind of-sort of bad sword&sandal epics are better than no sword and sandal epics at all.

I'm less excited about the news that they're making a movie from Frank Miller's Ronin, which is my least favourite (save the last act of The Dark Knight Strikes Again - WTF Frank?!). Ronin is FM's homage to the classic manga Lone Wolf and Cub but it never gelled for me. I have the trade somewhere in Casa di Cranky - I'll probably pull it out sometime this week for a reread along with The Dark Knight Returns - "I know 62 ways to disarm a man from this position..." heh.

Also in comics, Birds of Prey writer Gail Simone answered 55 questions from fans at Newsarama.com. Not too much interesting for me personally over there - some confirmation that breaking up Nightwing and Oracle was a decision mandated by Dan Didio (not surprising, since he wanted to off Nightwing at the climax of 'Infinite Crapfest') and a surprising plug IMO for Marv Wolfman's run on Nightwing. ( thoughts on latest Nightwing arc )

I haven't seen either Battlestar Galactica or Rome yet (and let's add my addiction to TV not currently conveniently available in Canada to reasons why I think the legislation currently before the American House of Representatives to record all ISP traffic sucks ass) but I hope to tonight. Also, following blog reports this weeked, Michael Auiselllo is reporting (along with with the LA Times) that BSG's fourth season is a done deal (WARNING - spoilers in the link). The renewal is apparently for 13 episodes, which makes me happy because I think Ron Moore gets into trouble when he tries to expand the arc of each season out to 20 episodes. Having just rewatched season one, I'm can't honestly say that there's an episode that could easily be skipped over - possibly "Litmus" and "Flesh and Bone" could have been merged into a single ep - whereas in season two, just off the top of my head, "Black Market", "Sacrifice" and "The Captain's Hand" are all episodes that were so badly reviewed online that I never bothered to watch'em. At least one episode that I did watch - "Scar" - was a complete and utter OOC waste of time. And this season, as much as I enjoyed "Unfinished Business", the storyline did not requie and entire episode to itself whereas "Hero" should have been left on the drawing board. 13 episodes is a nice tight number that ought to give us maximum bang for our buck. Now, about Starbuck... .