Comic Con Wrap Up Part Une...
LJ is still having technical difficulties so I'm continuing to get error and client messages if I make too long or too code heavy posts. This is driving me nuts. Making small posts..it...it makes my teeth itch. It disturbs the flow.
But I will accept this challenge mostly because it means I'll get to my 2,000th post faster this way.
Jared showing how Jensen looked the first time Jared penetrated him
“It’s true. But then it totally felt awesome.
“I’m in how many episodes this season?”
Misha using Comic Con attendees
Supernatural Panel in its entirety
S6 Gag Reel
* Jared talks about his husband directing and other meshugas for season
*Jensen talks to KSite
* E!s Kristin taliks to the guys
*Zap2It talks to Jared
*E Talks to TPTB
TV Line talks to Jared
*Comic Con has come to a close. It was a strange mix this year of fevered anticipation for what could be versus the reality of it being an arguably lackluster year for the show due to the offerings. On Saturday people were tweeting pictures of an empty Hall H when usually Hall H is always packed to capacity whether for an actual panel going on or for people securing a place for a panel following. Some site (perhaps AdWeek or BrandWeek) listed their list of winners and losers in terms of how much buzz was generated from panels. Their findings were that the winners was on the TV side and the “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” (perhaps due to Kristen Stewart starring in that as well. But on opinion based pieces the report was that the “Twilight” panel was a dud with boring panelists. Unsurprising.), but the losers were the superheroes. While “Captain America: The Last Avenger” had a good response at Comic Con, it was trailing in buzz. “Cowboys and Aliens” also had a lackluster response supposedly at the Con and online. The Peter Jackson/Steven Spielberg panel for “TinTin” got media buzz only because Spielberg announced that there will be a “Jurassic Park 4”. That news trumped all of TinTin’s attention.
I haven’t read/watched a lot that has come out from the Con. I’m going to see if any footage came out of the DC New 52 panel because I’d like to hear Dan Didio explain how this relaunch will work. I did read a recap from one of New 52 panels where the dais was taken to task about the lack of females DC has employed as writers/artist as well as the place of female characters and how they’re in the background. A blogger wrote ‘politicians should get that type of grilling’.
But what got my attention from Comic Con?
Surprisingly Glee.
Or rather what came out of the “Glee” panel. What came out of this panel, you didn’t ask? Executive Brad Falchuk saying that it’s untrue that Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith were leaving the show at the end of Season Four and that he did not know where the interviewer got that story from. Falchuck also said he was surprised that Colfer said he found out on Twitter which, to me, means they have had discussions about this.
A reporter for the Hitfix pressed Falchuk in defense of the Hollywood Reporter interviewer who interviewed Ryan Murphy’s when he announced that the three cast members weren’t returning. Feinberg rightly thinks that Falchuk threw the reporter under the bus instead of standing by Murphy’s statement.
Here is Falchuk’s response to Feinberg to what he said during the panel regarding Colfer, Monteith and Michele and what Murphy said to THR.
"What I said was, I think that's wrong, because Ryan told me he didn't say that. That's what I said," Falchuk explained.
"I'm sure that if you look back, maybe in more words, but that's what I said, was that that's not what Ryan said. And the reason why I was confused as to why it would be reported that way is because it's just not true.
Since March, we have been discussing with Cory, Lea and Chris, specifically, what the plans for the future are. That they're all graduating. We told them very clearly, 'You're all graduating, but we have plans for the future.' So for Ryan to say 'At the end of the season they're done' made no sense to me. And then when he told me he didn't say it, that's why I felt comfortable saying that, because I knew the actual... no matter what he said, I knew the facts, which is that it doesn't make any sense. It'd be like saying that Lea is not on the show next year. I know that Lea's on the show next year. So it wouldn't make any sense, so I felt comfortable saying that... I didn't want to impeach her in any way and say that she's wrong, but I know the facts and that Ryan told me it's not what he said."
…Right now we're really focused on what this season is and we'll probably get into that soon enough," Falchuk said. "The plan is to... Look, I say, 'The plan is to...' Our plan is to keep them around and to have them around. And like I said, we've been talking about it with them for a very long time and so we will continue to do that. I don't know what's going to come of it. I don't want to say, 'I guarantee you they're coming back,' because look, they might come up and they might decide they don't want to come back. Anything could happen. But our idea is to keep them around because we love them all. They're all incredibly talented."
*It looks to me that Murphy wants to, as the kids in 2002 said, “keep it real” and have the kids graduate at the end of 3 and leave but perhaps FOX doesn’t want to drive off viewers so they’re making Murphy keep them on.
Falchuk also said that Chord Overstreet refused to come back in a reduced capacity because he wanted to do other things; completely making it seem like he was ditching them when people have reported the deal to keep Chord will mean less money, less screentime and leave him unable to do other projects. And to me that’s a kick in the face. At least in last year on “90210” Trevor Donovan and Michael Steger were allowed to do other work due to their not being in every episode. Why hinder Wide Mouth Bass’ opportunities when they didn’t want to employ him full time.
Like I said I found all of this backpeddaling interesting only because I love that the “Glee” fandom is imploding. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Mostly I’m enjoying it because now people are seeing Ryan Murphy as the flake that he is. People are complaining that he’s more focused on his upcoming FX show “American Horror Story”
ETA: Since I wrote this before LJ’s DDOS attack and since then there’s been more backpeddaling, finger pointing and chicanery thanks to two interviews. Quote from FOX exec Dana Walden and Ryan Murphy opens his mouth again. Essentially Walden says that Brad Falchuk handled the question at Comic Con poorly, but he was just trying to protect Murphy and that Murphy sometimes purposely tries to be controversial which is probably why he talked of their departure prematurely since there's not even a deal in place for fourth season of "Glee".
Then Ryan made himself look even worse for saying he's shocked SHOCKED that Chris Colfer would say he found out he was fired over Twitter (even though that's not what Colfer said. It's how the media spun it. And if Murphy is still wounded by that it means that he hasn't spoken directly to Colfer about it) and that he had told Lea, Cory and Chris he was developing a spin-off for them which is why they wouldn't be in S4. He also told them not to talk about it publicly (which is probably why Falchuk was floundering in his response cos he knows of the spin-off plan). But now that it's out there and that one of the three doesn't want to move to NY (people are saying it's Colfer), he's dropping the spin-off for now. Stop planning a show that hasn't been greenlit. That's showing them, Ryan!
*Back to DC. There was a Superman panel featuring Grant Morrison who is penning Superman in Action Comics and J. Michael Straczynski who wrote the massively terrible, horrible, wretched, made me want to commit Seppuku “Grounded” storyline for Superman.
Grant’s Superman in Action Comics will be a thematic to “All Star Superman” (the storyline he wrote and was turned into an animated film last year) in that it’s about isolation for Superman. JMS’ Superman will take place in the current timeline which will be five years after Grant’s Superman in Action Comics (they’re titles are running at the same time).
From what I’m reading they’re cribbing from “Smallville”. Superman will now not know a lot about his alien heritage. Like many others in the DCU he will be an orphan, having lost Jonathan and Martha. He will now wear a tiny stupid cape and dungarees.
Seemingly his only friend will be Jimmy and they’ll “be geeks together”. It seems like Lois replaces Lana as Clark’s go-to pining away for gal as she sees him as a loner/geek just like season one of SV.
Other changes: Business mogul Lex that was created in the 80s is gone. Lex will now be a scientist working for the government and described as kind of a good guy (I read an interview with Scott Lobell who is writing Superboy I know that Superboy--I don’t know if they’re still calling him Conner because Clark is the one who named him and it seems to me Clark and Superboy won’t have any interaction just yet-is still created from Lex and Clark’s DNA so if Lex is a good guy that means that all of Conner’s angst over Lex will go away. I loved that angst!).
Superman may have the ability to get hurt beyond kryptonite and this is a way to make him more accessible and why he is wearing body armour on one of his costumes (which I hate how much they keep throwing that around as if he was so damn inaccessible in the first place).
And sex…let’s get to the sex. Says the terrible, atrocious J. Michael Stracynski: JMS described a sequence where a depowered Clark is starting to get intimate with his neighbor, when his powers come back, and he can no longer have sex with her.
COCKBLOCKED!
It’s nothing to dance over, Clark
~I love dirty Tom but I didn’t want him literally dirty
But I will accept this challenge mostly because it means I'll get to my 2,000th post faster this way.
Jared showing how Jensen looked the first time Jared penetrated him
“It’s true. But then it totally felt awesome.
“I’m in how many episodes this season?”
Misha using Comic Con attendees
Supernatural Panel in its entirety
S6 Gag Reel
Click to view* Jared talks about his husband directing and other meshugas for season
*Jensen talks to KSite
* E!s Kristin taliks to the guys
*Zap2It talks to Jared
*E Talks to TPTB
TV Line talks to Jared
*Comic Con has come to a close. It was a strange mix this year of fevered anticipation for what could be versus the reality of it being an arguably lackluster year for the show due to the offerings. On Saturday people were tweeting pictures of an empty Hall H when usually Hall H is always packed to capacity whether for an actual panel going on or for people securing a place for a panel following. Some site (perhaps AdWeek or BrandWeek) listed their list of winners and losers in terms of how much buzz was generated from panels. Their findings were that the winners was on the TV side and the “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” (perhaps due to Kristen Stewart starring in that as well. But on opinion based pieces the report was that the “Twilight” panel was a dud with boring panelists. Unsurprising.), but the losers were the superheroes. While “Captain America: The Last Avenger” had a good response at Comic Con, it was trailing in buzz. “Cowboys and Aliens” also had a lackluster response supposedly at the Con and online. The Peter Jackson/Steven Spielberg panel for “TinTin” got media buzz only because Spielberg announced that there will be a “Jurassic Park 4”. That news trumped all of TinTin’s attention.
I haven’t read/watched a lot that has come out from the Con. I’m going to see if any footage came out of the DC New 52 panel because I’d like to hear Dan Didio explain how this relaunch will work. I did read a recap from one of New 52 panels where the dais was taken to task about the lack of females DC has employed as writers/artist as well as the place of female characters and how they’re in the background. A blogger wrote ‘politicians should get that type of grilling’.
But what got my attention from Comic Con?
Surprisingly Glee.
Or rather what came out of the “Glee” panel. What came out of this panel, you didn’t ask? Executive Brad Falchuk saying that it’s untrue that Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith were leaving the show at the end of Season Four and that he did not know where the interviewer got that story from. Falchuck also said he was surprised that Colfer said he found out on Twitter which, to me, means they have had discussions about this.
A reporter for the Hitfix pressed Falchuk in defense of the Hollywood Reporter interviewer who interviewed Ryan Murphy’s when he announced that the three cast members weren’t returning. Feinberg rightly thinks that Falchuk threw the reporter under the bus instead of standing by Murphy’s statement.
Here is Falchuk’s response to Feinberg to what he said during the panel regarding Colfer, Monteith and Michele and what Murphy said to THR.
"What I said was, I think that's wrong, because Ryan told me he didn't say that. That's what I said," Falchuk explained.
"I'm sure that if you look back, maybe in more words, but that's what I said, was that that's not what Ryan said. And the reason why I was confused as to why it would be reported that way is because it's just not true.
Since March, we have been discussing with Cory, Lea and Chris, specifically, what the plans for the future are. That they're all graduating. We told them very clearly, 'You're all graduating, but we have plans for the future.' So for Ryan to say 'At the end of the season they're done' made no sense to me. And then when he told me he didn't say it, that's why I felt comfortable saying that, because I knew the actual... no matter what he said, I knew the facts, which is that it doesn't make any sense. It'd be like saying that Lea is not on the show next year. I know that Lea's on the show next year. So it wouldn't make any sense, so I felt comfortable saying that... I didn't want to impeach her in any way and say that she's wrong, but I know the facts and that Ryan told me it's not what he said."
…Right now we're really focused on what this season is and we'll probably get into that soon enough," Falchuk said. "The plan is to... Look, I say, 'The plan is to...' Our plan is to keep them around and to have them around. And like I said, we've been talking about it with them for a very long time and so we will continue to do that. I don't know what's going to come of it. I don't want to say, 'I guarantee you they're coming back,' because look, they might come up and they might decide they don't want to come back. Anything could happen. But our idea is to keep them around because we love them all. They're all incredibly talented."
*It looks to me that Murphy wants to, as the kids in 2002 said, “keep it real” and have the kids graduate at the end of 3 and leave but perhaps FOX doesn’t want to drive off viewers so they’re making Murphy keep them on.
Falchuk also said that Chord Overstreet refused to come back in a reduced capacity because he wanted to do other things; completely making it seem like he was ditching them when people have reported the deal to keep Chord will mean less money, less screentime and leave him unable to do other projects. And to me that’s a kick in the face. At least in last year on “90210” Trevor Donovan and Michael Steger were allowed to do other work due to their not being in every episode. Why hinder Wide Mouth Bass’ opportunities when they didn’t want to employ him full time.
Like I said I found all of this backpeddaling interesting only because I love that the “Glee” fandom is imploding. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Mostly I’m enjoying it because now people are seeing Ryan Murphy as the flake that he is. People are complaining that he’s more focused on his upcoming FX show “American Horror Story”
ETA: Since I wrote this before LJ’s DDOS attack and since then there’s been more backpeddaling, finger pointing and chicanery thanks to two interviews. Quote from FOX exec Dana Walden and Ryan Murphy opens his mouth again. Essentially Walden says that Brad Falchuk handled the question at Comic Con poorly, but he was just trying to protect Murphy and that Murphy sometimes purposely tries to be controversial which is probably why he talked of their departure prematurely since there's not even a deal in place for fourth season of "Glee".
Then Ryan made himself look even worse for saying he's shocked SHOCKED that Chris Colfer would say he found out he was fired over Twitter (even though that's not what Colfer said. It's how the media spun it. And if Murphy is still wounded by that it means that he hasn't spoken directly to Colfer about it) and that he had told Lea, Cory and Chris he was developing a spin-off for them which is why they wouldn't be in S4. He also told them not to talk about it publicly (which is probably why Falchuk was floundering in his response cos he knows of the spin-off plan). But now that it's out there and that one of the three doesn't want to move to NY (people are saying it's Colfer), he's dropping the spin-off for now. Stop planning a show that hasn't been greenlit. That's showing them, Ryan!
*Back to DC. There was a Superman panel featuring Grant Morrison who is penning Superman in Action Comics and J. Michael Straczynski who wrote the massively terrible, horrible, wretched, made me want to commit Seppuku “Grounded” storyline for Superman.
Grant’s Superman in Action Comics will be a thematic to “All Star Superman” (the storyline he wrote and was turned into an animated film last year) in that it’s about isolation for Superman. JMS’ Superman will take place in the current timeline which will be five years after Grant’s Superman in Action Comics (they’re titles are running at the same time).
From what I’m reading they’re cribbing from “Smallville”. Superman will now not know a lot about his alien heritage. Like many others in the DCU he will be an orphan, having lost Jonathan and Martha. He will now wear a tiny stupid cape and dungarees.
Seemingly his only friend will be Jimmy and they’ll “be geeks together”. It seems like Lois replaces Lana as Clark’s go-to pining away for gal as she sees him as a loner/geek just like season one of SV.
Other changes: Business mogul Lex that was created in the 80s is gone. Lex will now be a scientist working for the government and described as kind of a good guy (I read an interview with Scott Lobell who is writing Superboy I know that Superboy--I don’t know if they’re still calling him Conner because Clark is the one who named him and it seems to me Clark and Superboy won’t have any interaction just yet-is still created from Lex and Clark’s DNA so if Lex is a good guy that means that all of Conner’s angst over Lex will go away. I loved that angst!).
Superman may have the ability to get hurt beyond kryptonite and this is a way to make him more accessible and why he is wearing body armour on one of his costumes (which I hate how much they keep throwing that around as if he was so damn inaccessible in the first place).
And sex…let’s get to the sex. Says the terrible, atrocious J. Michael Stracynski: JMS described a sequence where a depowered Clark is starting to get intimate with his neighbor, when his powers come back, and he can no longer have sex with her.
COCKBLOCKED!
It’s nothing to dance over, Clark
~I love dirty Tom but I didn’t want him literally dirty
