Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
The latest entry in the “who will be in the next Trek movie” saga is the casting of Pavel Chekov; the youth-targeted, Beatles-reminiscent navigator.
Anton Yelchin is supposedly under not-so-well-kept-secret negotiations with Paramount.
With a name like that, how could he not be cast?
GateWorld is featuring an interview with Martin Gero done in March. (Why it takes them so long to transcribe and post these things is a mystery.) Some changes have already occurred since the interview took place, but it’s still a great insight into the “soft reset” of Season 3, the new world of Season 4 and life without SG1.
Speaking of life and SG1, want a chance to own a little SG1 history? MGM is offering the chance to win one of the nifty 10th Anniversary watches.
The Angel Collector’s Set box isn’t anything to write home about, but at least it doesn’t recall Barbie. The set will be out October 30th and retail for $140, but is currently only $97.99 on Amazon – quite a deal for a full five seasons.
Yes. I agree. Silly of me to go away on a business trip the week after Nerd Prom. So much Gate-geeky news coming out of there.
– Atlantis floats on over to a 10pm Friday time slot, starting September 28th
– GateWorld summarizes the rather giggly panels at Comic-Con
– David Hewlett celebrates the nerd love with an editorial on SciFi
– David also breaks the news to those who haven’t seen his fiancee in person that the Stargate Baby Factory continues to be alive and well. (So that would be in addition to Joe Flanigan, Robert Cooper, and Rachel Luttrell this season alone!)
– Producer Joe Mallozzi makes the SCB Campaign happy with pictures of the happy return of Carson Beckett
– More on the big, honkin’ full series box set and its extras. Y’know. For those of us who haven’t been collecting these for years and would have to spend a lot of money just to get those bonus features. (Not that I’m bitter, or anything.)
How not to get your show uncanceled from Denis McGrath, someone who actually works in TV. And even if he didn’t it still looks like damn good advice to me. Hell, might be worth adapting some of that advice into other situations.
I swear I have a battered hand-me-down Barbie case (this one, in blue) that looks a lot like the Gilmore Girls complete series case. Honestly I’m not sure if that’s a homage or an insult. GG isn’t The Sopranos or anything, but Barbie?
The ten worst sci-fi shows ever! Oh dear lord, Cleopatra 2525. Our local station tried to position that as Xena after Xena. Not… not so much. Even the later seasons of Xena weren’t that crappy. (via)
A fantastic Serenity poster set available from Forbidden Planet. Anyone know where to get one in the States?
I did not regret not going to Comic-Con until I heard this: They showed a Futurama trailer. Why is it not online? This is so unfair.
You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Trailers and such
For the tenth year in a row, Stargate had a presence at San Diego Comic-Con. (Apparently, this year they were giving away free haircuts if you agreed to cut in and/or spray on a Stargate logo.)
This year, they were pushing the upcoming SG1 straight-to-DVD movies. Sadly, it looks like they’re going to be delaying their release a little to get some better effects completed. Ark of Truth will now be coming out in the Spring and Continuum will now be coming out in the fall of 2008. But the happy news was that third series is still going!
Producer Joe Mallozzi got lots of pictures of the cast and crew who attended (along with his usual list of all foods available).
And David Hewlett reports that if any of the SGA cast looked particularly stupid in their panel, it was all due to being unable to hear each other.