"Let's be bad guys"
Like many Community fants that photos of Nathan Fillion on set has me crazy excited. Not because I'm a massive Nathan Fillon fan (I think he's great and I enjoy seeing him in things, but I've never sought something out because he's in it or ever bothered to watch and episode of Castle), but because I think the way season three must go out is with a homage to Serenity, complete with the air conditioning repair school as the Alliance and our beloved study group as the crew of Serenity (Jeff = Mal, Britta = Zoe, Annie = Kaylee, Shirley =Shepard Book, Pierce = Jayne, Chang = Wash, the Dean = Inara, and either Abed and River and Troy as Simon, or Abed as Simon and Troy as River). How better to (potentially) leave a much beloved cult show screwed by the network with an uncertain future, than to have the show deliberately reference the swan song of another much beloved cult show screwed by the network. It'd be deliciously meta in a way that Community fans would get. Plus, it's an excuse to crank out the paint-ball guns.
Changing the subject, I watched Hugo today and it's the best film I've seen at the movies since Toy Story 3. I really cannot recommend this film enough. In case you're wondering what the film is about (and quite a few people I talked to about going to see it hadn't heard of it, so obviously isn't not in the wider public conciousness), it's Martin Scorcese turning his hands to a family film and writing essentially a love letter to turn of turn of the century film making pioneers, particularly Georges Melies (who directed A Trip to the Moon). The story is about an orphaned boy who lives in a train station in Paris in the 1920s who is trying to fix and automotron and who, in the process, encounters a shop owner and his god-daughter and from there everything changes for everyone. Everything about this film is perfect, from the story (I laughed, I cried, I cried some more), to the performances, to the utterly gorgeous set design and photography. As I said, I can't recommend it enough and I want to go see it again, right this instant.
Last, but not least, I've managed to finally scrape up enough money to get Battlestar Galactica on blu-ray, which I've been meaning to do for years (I could have afforded it on DVD, but the show was short in hi-def from day one, so I figure, blu-ray or bust). The delay has me watching the show again for the first time in going on three years, and I intend to do a full re-watch (although I may skip Black Market, Hero and The Woman King, for reasons obvious to anyone who has seen the show).
Having watched the mini-series and 33 so far, and I've come to remember how fraking amazing this show is. I think that (in fandom circles at least) BSG is a show that has become more remembered for its flaws (losing it's way during the third and fourth seasons, screwing over its female characters, Adama's scenery consuming and epically boring man-pain, the last twenty minutes of the series finale), which is a shame because 80% of this show is some of the greatest television ever filmed. I personally list The Wire as the greatest television show of all the television shows I have ever watched. And when BSG is good (which is about 80% of the time), it is as good as The Wire. Alas, when the show is good, it's amazing, but when it's bad, it is very very bad and it does have that 80:20 greatness:crap ratio (where as The Wire its about 98:2).
Getting back to my point, it seems to me that the show is generally remembered in a negative light by fandom (and I include myself in this), and with the re-watch I've found myself thinking of the show in a positive light and I really do hope that by the time I come to the end of season four, I can keep thinking of the show in the positive light. Because the show really does deserve to be remembered for more than its disappointing and rage-inducing moments.
Changing the subject, I watched Hugo today and it's the best film I've seen at the movies since Toy Story 3. I really cannot recommend this film enough. In case you're wondering what the film is about (and quite a few people I talked to about going to see it hadn't heard of it, so obviously isn't not in the wider public conciousness), it's Martin Scorcese turning his hands to a family film and writing essentially a love letter to turn of turn of the century film making pioneers, particularly Georges Melies (who directed A Trip to the Moon). The story is about an orphaned boy who lives in a train station in Paris in the 1920s who is trying to fix and automotron and who, in the process, encounters a shop owner and his god-daughter and from there everything changes for everyone. Everything about this film is perfect, from the story (I laughed, I cried, I cried some more), to the performances, to the utterly gorgeous set design and photography. As I said, I can't recommend it enough and I want to go see it again, right this instant.
Last, but not least, I've managed to finally scrape up enough money to get Battlestar Galactica on blu-ray, which I've been meaning to do for years (I could have afforded it on DVD, but the show was short in hi-def from day one, so I figure, blu-ray or bust). The delay has me watching the show again for the first time in going on three years, and I intend to do a full re-watch (although I may skip Black Market, Hero and The Woman King, for reasons obvious to anyone who has seen the show).
Having watched the mini-series and 33 so far, and I've come to remember how fraking amazing this show is. I think that (in fandom circles at least) BSG is a show that has become more remembered for its flaws (losing it's way during the third and fourth seasons, screwing over its female characters, Adama's scenery consuming and epically boring man-pain, the last twenty minutes of the series finale), which is a shame because 80% of this show is some of the greatest television ever filmed. I personally list The Wire as the greatest television show of all the television shows I have ever watched. And when BSG is good (which is about 80% of the time), it is as good as The Wire. Alas, when the show is good, it's amazing, but when it's bad, it is very very bad and it does have that 80:20 greatness:crap ratio (where as The Wire its about 98:2).
Getting back to my point, it seems to me that the show is generally remembered in a negative light by fandom (and I include myself in this), and with the re-watch I've found myself thinking of the show in a positive light and I really do hope that by the time I come to the end of season four, I can keep thinking of the show in the positive light. Because the show really does deserve to be remembered for more than its disappointing and rage-inducing moments.