Comments on: Monsters LLC, A Subsidiary Of Newscorp

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Unblogged Bits for Friday, 01 May 2009 | ***Dave Does the Blog — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:02:17 +0000

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By: Tankobite

Tankobite — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:03:33 +0000

It had better not be. I'm sure there's got to be evidence someone can throw together to show scientifically that dwindling viewing of Summer's (and thus less watching her) show (and thus less watching her) can probably be linked to the down turn of the economy.

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:26:27 +0000

that would be cool.

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:26:08 +0000

i doubt it will be for very long.

By: Tankobite

Tankobite — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:36:14 +0000

Sucks about TTSC. TV shouldn't be Summer Glauless

By: Kristiaan

Kristiaan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:46:46 +0000

My friend Christopher posted the comment to Felicia Day's facebook wall. I hope she gets a little joy from the comic!

By: Shakey

Shakey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:54 +0000

Hands down Alba is hotter than SMG, but her acting was ropey in Dark Angel simply because she'd not been doing it that long. Both Alba and SMG had grown into their roles and experience as their careers have progressed, but yes I'd agree that Alba is now a better actress than SMG.

That being said, SMG was the perfect Buffy – started as a blonde bimbette thrust into this crazy crazy world, grew up through being screwed emotionally, detached from the world and ultimately came through it all and ended up being more or less OK.

SMG pretty much did the same thing at the same time as her character – Buffy was dim because SMG was a bit dim, Buffy grew into her role as SMG grew into hers, so by the time Buffy was a big girl with big issues, SMG was also a big girl with the chops to portray it.

My call to FOX is quite simply to pitch the idea of "Beauty and The Beast 2020" – retell the classic love story set in the near future, with the Beast being some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong and confined to a small wing of the lab, with the lowly lab tech who falls for him without truly finding out who or what he is. Then as she falls in love, she becomes resolute in finding out about her employers and what they've done and thus cue plenty of overzealous protective streak from our freak as she gets into trouble…

Oh hang on, if done properly that might actually work.

Fuck FOX, I'm calling HBO or Sci-Fi.

By: lou

lou — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:25:26 +0000

ok ok, maybe DA season 2 wasn't better than the 1st, but the whole show was pretty smart and thought provoking. And it may be personal preference, but I believe Jessica Alba is hotter and a better actress than SMG. But that's just me venting.

Now, about that call to FOX…what's your evil plan here?

By: Chris Fairfield

Chris Fairfield — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:47:02 +0000

I assumed it was light coming out of the vile of tears. Sort of a cosmic-energy.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:09:20 +0000

Dollhouse, I don't think, is particularly Whedon, much in the same way as you can't compare Firefly and Buffy/Angel.

What does make it Whedon is the dialog interplay between his character types – you can draw parallels between Willow, Kaylee and Topher and how they handle their situations and conversations with other non-geeks/geniuses/authoritative figures but they are not the same geek.

Similarly, Giles and Adele have similarities, but are not the same "brit", but Whedon does enjoy the sheer comedy that is a brit letting loose, and the sheer heartache seeing a brit suffer a major emotional event or their vulnerability underneath the stiff demeanour.

Regarding Dark Angel though, I'd have to disagree – season 1 was fantastic, but it really went to shit in a hurry when they did shut down Manticore and all the failed experiments escaped – Joshua (the over-dogged guy) might as well been Ron Perlman as Vincent and done Beauty and the Beast 2020.

Dear Christ there's an abhorrent concept for a show…I'll give FOX a call