Geeky Fanboy: March 2004 Archives

Completely forgot to tape Wonderfalls. Anyone in town manage to snag it?

Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Ken Watanabe, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy,
and now Gary Oldman. Very cool.

But honestly, after Last Samurai, I'm most stoked about Ken Watanabe.

In case you missed it last Friday (or in case I hasn't loaned you the tape yet): Fox to Encore Wonderfalls "Wax Lion" on Thursday (that's tonight, chilluns).

And the "I fucking told you so" quote:

Friday's opener managed a meager rating among adults 18-49 according preliminary national data. Said scores were about on par with former Friday time slot holder "Boston Public's" and well behind the debuts of last season's "Firefly".

Ahem. A-hem. A-fucking-hem, you TelExec idjits.

So, this weekend, I spoke with a couple to whom I'd lent the first disk of Firefly.

My rule of thumb on getting people interested in Firefly has, thus far, be 'make them watch an episode'.

Seriously, that's usually all it takes.

Anyway, I was expecting... well, pretty much the same reaction I get from everyone else to whom I've introduced the show.

Definitely didn't get that.

Hard to say if this should be under Fanboy or BitchBitchBitch.

Tim Minear (late of Firefly writing/production fame) has a new show coming out... it's called Wonderfalls.

(Stop me if you've heard this one.)

... It looks... well very cool and kinda damn weird. Definitely genre-bending.

... It's on Fox.

... They put it on Friday night. (Starts in two weeks.)

... They're airing the eleventh-filmed episode first (which I believe Minear has said is sort of at the end of the first real story arc).

You ever have a friend that you feel is in a bad relationship, and you should tell them?

Upside: Jewel Stait's on the show at least for a couple episodes in the middle -- heck, she might be in the first aired episode... who knows?

In other geekesque news: Adam Baldwin's apparently going to be on the next new Angel -- there hasn't been any hoo-haw about it, but Randy saw his name on the cast list for next week's show.