- Mike Judge finally wrote another movie and Jason Bateman will star!
- Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk about their new show.
- Does Lost have a Redshirt problem?
- Mental Floss has an Old School Nickeloden Quiz!!!!
- Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica podcasts are finally available! I highly recommend these podcasts, they never fail to be interesting.
- Ian McKellan will definitely be back as Gandalf! Thank god. I can’t imagine anyone else in that role.
- Here’s a cool interview with Michael Emerson.
Let’s say that Ben was able to manipulate the smoke monster, but on the show everything is a binary system, everything is in balance, morally balanced or economically balanced, so for Ben to make a thing happen like that, there is also a price, I think, that he had to pay. We don’t know what Ben paid yet to make the smoke monster come. We don’t know that he… “Is he allowed to do that?†and everyone who has power also pays a price. John Locke is going to pay a price. Ben has paid a price… Nothing is for free in terms of power or morality on the island and I’m beginning to see that the writers are more interested in that pattern, too, of this living ledger book system.
Daily Linkage 4/30/08
April 30th, 2008 § 9
Daily Linkage 4/21/08
April 21st, 2008 § 11
- 16 Unanswered TV Questions from the Onion’s A.V. Club
- Daniel Radcliffe stars in PBS Masterpiece Theater production of My Boy Jack; sports awesomely ridiculous mustache.
- A no-frills guide to five just-published first novels from New York Magazine: I’m glad I saw this, I was thinking about picking up that Keith Gessen book…
- ABC News is planning a documentary about J.K.Rowling!
- According to Ron Moore’s blog, he’s recorded a podcast for the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica, as well as episodes 4 and 5! If you’re a hardcore BSG fan and you’re not listening to these podcasts, I highly recommend doing so. Moore basically sits and watches the episode from start to finish and talks about anything that crosses his mind. It’s chock full of interesting facts and ideas. (One example? They had toyed with the idea of showing all 12 Cylon models on Cylon-occupied Caprica in the episode “Downloaded” in Season 2, but they thought it would be giving too much away!)
You can find the podcasts in the Apple iTunes Podcast Directory by searching for “Battlestar Galactica” and choosing the official SciFi Channel podcast.
- Here’s an interview with Michael Emerson, who [brilliantly] plays Ben on Lost.
“It sounds crazy, but even though I’ve read the script, I still sometimes don’t get what just happened,” says Emerson. “I may have a brain defect of some sort because I will just miss obvious things and have to have them explained to me by relatives and children.”
Lost is back in 3 days!!! Hold onto your butts!
Daily Linkage 4/18/08
April 18th, 2008 § 4
- Pop Candy has one Lost fan’s experience as an extra on the set! My favorite line: “Jack didn’t really smile at all” LOL. Indeed.
- Katee Sackhoff will be a guest at the Wizard World Convention in Philadelphia!!!!! I live 10 minutes from Philly, so this is very VERY tempting. I have the biggest girlcrush on her.
- So far, Forgetting Sarah Marshall has an 85% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes! I can’t WAIT to see this movie. If it’s any indication from the reviews, Russell Brand will be a hell of a lot more known in the States soon enough.
- Speaking of which, here’s an interview with Russell from MSNBC, in which he seems to be toned down…
- And here’s an interview with The Deadbolt, in which Russell sounds a lot more like Russell.
“I’ve been recently given an opportunity to be in a film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This is all you need to know about me, although I have a Victorian vocabulary and a preposterous haircut.”
- Ron Moore has been tapped to write an original sci-fi trilogy for the Tom Cruise-run United Artist. I hope it’s about Xenu.
- Emma Watson cast in period piece, in which she falls in love with Napoleon.