Published by GeekBoy on 27 Jun 2008
I know nothing about the movie these clips come from (which I ran across on YouTube). But for some reason, I want to see it SO badly. It’s like what a kaiju or meka movie would look like if a child did the storyboards. The monster has such a jagged look to it, and the robot is simplistic, steampunk perfection. And yet, the opening of that first clip is far more brutal than what I’m used to seeing in a Godzilla movie.
Published by GeekBoy on 26 Jun 2008
“Does anyone have a car? We could get further away from Angel if we had a car.” - Spike
“Man’s career path is based on a pun, can’t be too much inner pride.” - Angel, referring to the Loan Shark Demon
So after all this time, it turns out the Loan Shark Demon is named “Bro’os”. Get it? Think Finding Nemo. Well played, Brian Lynch!
As I’d hoped, this issue brought back the cohesiveness that I felt the “First Night” issues lacked. Armed with a new artist (Nick Runge), we return to the story exactly where it left off at the end of Issue #5, in the middle of a pitched battle of Angel & Friends versus the Champions of the L.A. Demon Lords. At the last minute, Wesley (”Casper the Dapper Ghost”) has appeared on the scene, and as a result, Illyria has reverted back to being Fred again. And according to Spike, it’s not the first time. Apparently, she flips back and forth regularly, and whenever she’s Fred, he protects her.
Observation: If we’ve learned nothing else about Spike over the years, it’s that in the women department, he seems to be attracted to nothing quite so much as a fixer-upper — Crazy Drusilla, Season 6 Buffy, and now Fred-Not-Fred. And yet in each case, these women are powerful, and once fixed, they always move on. I’m guessing the same will happen with Illyria/Fred, even though technically, the two aren’t romantically involved.
Published by GeekBoy on 25 Jun 2008
This week’s W.Y.O.S.T. subject is Patricia Tallman. She popped into my head last week, because she was the co-lead alongside Tony Todd in George Romero’s 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, in which she played a considerably updated version of the Barbara character. No longer meek and vulnerable and seemingly catatonic, Tallman’s zombie-killing version of Barbara was an appealing change of pace — a tough 90s echo of Ripley from Aliens and a pre-cursor to Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But it wasn’t until I did an IMDB search that I realized I knew this redheaded actress from some other projects as well.
Patricia Tallman started her acting career on the stage, and didn’t arrive on the Hollywood scene until she landed a role in George Romero’s 1981 movie Knightriders (don’t worry, I’d never heard of it either). The film didn’t do well either critically or at the box office, but it kicked off an ongoing working relationship with Romero and with makeup legend Tom Savini. Over the next decade, she’d work with one or both of the two in various movies and TV shows, including Tales from the Darkside, Creepshow 2, Monkey Shines, and of course, Night of the Living Dead — sometimes as an actress, and sometimes as a stunt woman.
Published by GeekBoy on 23 Jun 2008
Season 1 of Angel has just been added to Hulu.com. All 22 episodes. Watch for free on your computer, with limited commercial interruptions …
This is in addition to the first two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that were already there …
http://www.hulu.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer
And the entire 14-episode run of Firefly …
Sadly, Hulu.com is NOT Canada-friendly. Sorry Canadians — no Whedon for you!
Published by GeekBoy on 23 Jun 2008
Upon hearing the news that George Carlin died yesterday, all I can say is, “Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits!!!” Because that sucks. He was a hilarious and brilliant man, and will be sorely missed.
