Comments on: Post Questions, Topics and Links for Podcast #55

By: the_stig

the_stig — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:36:23 +0000

who's Estelle?

By: coveredwagonkid

coveredwagonkid — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:26:38 +0000

any thought on river tam to possibly play lara croft in a reboot? http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2...

By: menchi

menchi — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:18:45 +0000

Do you think anything good can actually come out of another season of Scrubs?

By: jessie_monster

jessie_monster — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:32:43 +0000

What was the most ridiculous season finale stunt this year?

By: coveredwagonkid

coveredwagonkid — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:50:53 +0000

slightly off topic, but i have a few questions that pertain to the 09-10 season. 1) what do you think about "chuck" getting picked up for a half season (starting in Jan '10) with a reduced budget? 2) any thoughts on michael strahan's new sitcom "brothers," which premieres on friday nights on FOX? http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=brothers 3) any thoughts "medium" moving to cbs, and to friday nights in the same time slot as "dollhouse?" http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/... discuss!

By: John Darc

John Darc — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:43:47 +0000

I guess I was the only one who thought you were talking about Fillion's show.

edit: and Aunt May is totally Estelle

By: Just Christine

Just Christine — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:59:05 +0000

For a nice comparison of the Fall 2009 season, night by night showing what shows will be competing against eachother, you can always check out Variety:

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=chartwide…

(at the bottom there's also a link to the Winter 2009-2010 schedule, since it will be changing at that point for many of the networks).

Also… how long do you give the NBC Jay Leno at 10pm experiment before it explodes in NBCs collective face?

By: Just Christine

Just Christine — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:55:53 +0000

Because they'd still rather give shows they think have more of a mass appeal the better timeslots.

But keeping 'Til Death around is a SERIOUS slap in the face.

Dollhouse will be up against Medium (transplanted from NBC to CBS) and… UGLY BETTY? Wow.

By: John Darc

John Darc — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:51:22 +0000

"The Wayans Bros. was a good show! And we didn't even get a final episode!"

alternatively, "What all of America wants. A reunion of the cast of friends…from Night Court!" "Court? At night? I'm already laughing! Tell me more."

By: John Darc

John Darc — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:48:07 +0000

Well Bill Lawrence's line of reasoning is pretty sound. We like to sit here and judge from the audience's POV, but there are a lot of people working on Scrubs. When the show ends, they all get fired and have to find new jobs. Bill Lawrence is trying to keep them employed for as long as he can because he feels he owes it to them, especially in this economy. And he also said that if Scrubs 2.0 fails, it won't dribble to the finish line. He wants it to fail spectacularly in a blaze of glory.

Some people feel the show had a renaissance on ABC this past season.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:13:19 +0000

What show on FOX (ANY show; not just those in the Friday Night Death Slot) would you axe in favour of Sarah Conner Chronicles? Also, what cartoon from the past (Clone High excluded, as I feel that's the easy go-to) would you put into the Sunday Night Animation Block (because God knows they can't keep a stable fourth show going for more than a season)?

By: Estereo_type

Estereo_type — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:52:31 +0000

Somewhat on-topic: I bought a new TV and Blu-ray Player because I'm an adult and I can get into debt if I want to dammit!

The thing is, I don't have cable. I've got rabbit ears for basic and watch most of my TV on DVD or Hulu. I got the Blu-ray player primarily because it streams Netflix over Wi-Fi.

My question is: Am I crippling myself by not having a cable-box/DVR? Is there TV out there good enough that I should be watching it IMMEDIATELY?

By: Arcys

Arcys — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:55:24 +0000

I'm one of those people who pretty much knows if I'm going to like something (i.e. video games, movies, television, etc.) within the first couple of minutes of watching it. For example I tried playing Fallout 3, and I tried watching Dollhouse, but I just couldn't get into them. On the other hand, when I went into Star Trek with some reservations, but about 10 minutes into it I needed a joy towel.

Do any of you have the same affliction, and if so, what do you do to overcome it? I was seriously hyped up for Dollhouse when it started but was let down. I know that it gets better later on, and I intend on picking it back up, but I haven't had time lately (so don't slay me!).

By: Trep

Trep — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:37:00 +0000

How would you have ended Terminator TSCC if you had another season, tying up the hanging story lines in the finally.

By: MrPeepers

MrPeepers — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:25:01 +0000

I waited to start watching Battlestar until after the finale aired so I could watch the whole thing all the way through, and I just finished it. Now there is a gaping hole in my life with nothing to fill it. What is the next great show that I should sink my teeth into?

By: arnonaut

arnonaut — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:08:07 +0000

What adaptation would you take back (blast out of existence) if you could?

Bad TV adaptations of films kind of work for this week's theme (Stargate anybody?), but I'm also thinking of bad video game-movies or vice-versa, or bad comic-movies, bad tv-novelisations…etc.

By: Jonny Ace

Jonny Ace — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:58:53 +0000

Have you come up with a reason why Fox picked up Dollhouse, but decided to leave it in it's shitty timeslot? why set the show up for failure? plus the 2 lead-ins are crap, one is a new sitcom starring an ex-football player who can't act and the other is Til Death which is always a "bubble" show. it's so frustrating. your thoughts?

By: Metallink11

Metallink11 — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:25:04 +0000

Since Dollhouse got picked up for a second season, what sort of plot involving the Dollhouse tech would you like to see next season? Alternatively, if you had access to the Dollhouse technology, what would you do with it?

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:44:40 +0000

Alex Castle?

I think Aunt May is obvious.

By: the_stig

the_stig — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:40:54 +0000

Oops, I may have just made up that last name.

But I was referring to Alex the art director at the Dallas Observer.

By: Ytoabn

Ytoabn — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:25:22 +0000

Sorry this is off the general theme but….

Will Alex and Josh every be in the same podcast?

By: Kristi

Kristi — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:24:49 +0000

For your consideration, Top 100 Sci-Fi shows: http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/... I know it's a little off topic, but it's close... If you could create your perfect fall prime time line-up, disregarding networks, including recently canceled shows, what shows would you chose? What days? What would you put opposite Monday Night Football? In the Friday night Death Slot?

By: NotoriousNGP

NotoriousNGP — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:22:24 +0000

I've been watching Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure and The Gruen Transfer this TV season in Australia, they're good local shows which are entertaining. LL's Choose Your Own Adventure is about this nerdy Asian guy called Lawrence Leung who does geeky things like trying to beat the most extreme of the Rubik's Cube timed solving records, finding lost childhood loves, and doing Sudoku. On the other hand The Gruen Transfer is a weekly critique of advertising and its effectiveness on the average adult hipster panel who discuss whether the advertisements featured are effective enough to sell things or whether they are just terrifying and alienating.

Do you guys get Australian TV in the States? I know you get BBC America but I'm not sure if you get Aussie TV. If you don't get it you can YouTube both The Gruen Transfer and Lawrence Leung off the Australian ABC's Youtube Channel. Would you watch an Australian program if it was geeky enough?

By: Dram

Dram — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:05:47 +0000

Do you have recognized standards for which narrative-based shows you watch? Are there any notable exceptions to these?

By: MrWorld

MrWorld — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:20:49 +0000

Have you ever tried to rewrite a finale, or to imagine an ending to a show that didn't get one? In my mind, Battlestar ended with finding out Starbuck's Dad is Daniel and was the original creator of the cylons and she's a prototype, her mom was a cock-dumpster lab assistant. Just one example.

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:45:12 +0000

oh god, I cant wait to "dont get me started" on this one.

By: John Darc

John Darc — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:16:39 +0000

I wish you guys had Josh or Denise (DENISE!) on this week, so they could talk about How I Met Your Mother. They're the only two who have mentioned watching it.

So I guess my question would be…Is Scrubs now an unkillable behemoth? The show that everyone was afraid of getting cancelled now just won't die.

By: the_stig

the_stig — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:34:43 +0000

I was thinking about Eli being a freelance photographer and it struck me that it's the same profession as Peter Parker in Spiderman. So I was hoping you guys could determine the real life equivalents of people in the Spiderman Universe with Eli being Peter Parker.

So for example, I think Alex Castle would be the equivalent of J. Jonah Jamison with the Dallas Oberserver (of DallasObserver.com) being the Daily Bugle. But who would be Mary Jane Watson, Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Norman Osbourne etc?

By: MichaelH

MichaelH — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:55:58 +0000

Do you like Lost again now they seem to be making the effort to form a comprehensive mythology for everything?