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Hercules' First Comic Con!! HUMAN TARGET, V & VAMPIRE DIARIES Kick Off Wednesday!! Discuss, My Fellow Delegates!!
I am – Hercules!!
As I type, Comic Con delegates are huddled in Room 20, upstairs at the San Diego Convention Center, soaking up three pilots for series coming to broadcast TV over the 2009-2010 season.
HUMAN TARGET is a MacGyvery, MacGrubery Fox adventure hour from Jonathan Steinberg (“Jericho”), based on the decades-old DC Comics property. I thought it had a couple of strong scenes with Mark Valley (“Fringe”) and Jackie Earle Haley (“Watchmen”) but the greater portion of the pilot, set mostly aboard a West Coast bullet train, just caused my mind to wander.
V is ABC’s series remake of NBC’s Lizard-Nazi miniseries, this time from “4400” creator Scott Peters. The production design on the alien ships is ginchy, but the humans’ reactions to these insanely passive-aggressive extraterrestrials just struck me as dopey. I have much higher hopes for NBC’s “Day One,” which may also deal with aliens.
VAMPIRE DIARIES is yet another tale of a horny human female falling hard to a super-dreamy vampire (see “Buffy,” “Moonlight,” “True Blood,” “Twilight”), only this time it’s from “Dawson’s Creek” mastermind Kevin Williamson. Easily the worst of the three pilots hitting Room 20 tonight, which is saying something. Thanks again for cancelling "Angel," The WB!
What say you, my fellow registrants? Am I being too hard on these entries? The last of these screenings concludes around 9 p.m. PT!
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Not objects of tween girls obsessions.
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But fuck those shows for giving us all of this annoying vampire shit.
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Every other TV critic seems to know the big-ass Smallville announcement coming this Sunday, but they're scared WB will kill them for spoiling it.
Ausiello-whatever from TV Guide hinted it was the debut of the new SV Superman costume!
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Anne Rice and Neil Jordan. Anne Rice with writing Interview With The Vampire but more so Jordan with casting Brad Pitt as Louis. I saw that movie in the cinema and I could pretty much hear the girls hearts breaking as the film progressed.
It's a good film, it's just a shame that it's spawned this legacy of pretty boy actors playing what should be cold blooded and emotionless killers.
Dare I say it, even Coppola is partly to blame with his love story centric Bram Stoker's Dracula.
What is next, zombie romance? Perhaps Jason and Freddy will find love in the years to come. Sigh. -
Jul 22, 2009 10:11:24 PM CDT
Herc, that Heroes panel Saturday will be like Arkansas' NCAA
by pennsydeux
hoops championship run. In this case, 60 minutes of HELL. Especially once fans get wind of this, from TV Guide:
Any truth to the rumors about Heroes' Claire becoming a lesbian? -Norm, Escondido, Cal.
Well, Norm, according to Hayden Panettiere (Claire), the persistence of fans like you has paid off. "I think the writers are feeling a lot of pressure now to do it, because everyone's talking about it," she says. "And I certainly wouldn't complain." The non-alcohol induced action ("just a kiss," says creator Tim Kring) will happen in Episode 5 between Claire and her new college roomie, Gretchen (Madeline Zima). Hayden describes Gretchen as "an odd duck who's obsessed with death and shows like CSI." "They're really cute together," Kring says. "If Gretchen reveals her sexual orientation to Claire, Claire might want to reveal her own secret." In addition to fighting evil (more Heroes on page 33), Claire will also pledge Alpha Chi Delta, where preppy pledge master Becky is guarding a secret of her own.
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket. -
of the fact the the lead vampire is for all intents and purposes a pedophile. Yeah just because he LOOKS like a teen (or at least a twenty something playing a teen) he is in fact a dude over a hundred years old who likes underage girls. MoFo can't wait till she's legal? Why the rush, not like he's gonna lose his looks.
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How true. I can't wait to bring that up next time someone starts talkin to me about all that Twilight and Buffy crap.
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Anyway, in reference to our views on these upcoming shows, I sincerely hope V is good, but, judging from the trailer, Day One is gonna jack off and slap its big alien invasion dick all over morena baccarins' face. Unless V brings some surprise to the table, like explicit lesbian sex, creeps up from the dark and rapes Day One savagely from behind, then proceeds to rub its lizard balls all over the face of the Day One alien chick with sunglasses.
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A man after my own heart. That's so true. Good job!
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tricia helfer seems to get a load of guest staring spots these days,
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the only one I'm slightly looking forward to is Human Target and still that doesn't sound too interesting. Anyways True Blood has become an entertaining show now, minus the scenes with Anna Paquin. It clearly doesn't take itself too seriously either.
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That show sucks.
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I mean, can a show with Juliet really be bad? :\
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was quite a bit of fun. Elizabeth Mitchell definitely stood out. They added a pretty cool twist I didn't know about. However, the pacing was sloooooooooow. Could certainly sputter out down the stretch.
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My Mother, The Car too?!? Oh Boy!!!
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Yeah Twilight sucks. But to now start shitting on Interview with the Vampire and even go so far to say that Buffy sucks now? Fucking stupid. These latest "rip-offs" don't ruin the originals.
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I didn't "shit" on Interview With The Vampire. In fact, I said it was a good film. It's just a shame that Brad Pitt was cast as a remorseful vampire, because his pretty boy looks have now influenced a new generation of vampire movies that cater to swooning girls, rather than horror fans.
However, I've always thought that Buffy and Angel were shit fro the start. And no, I'm not Wheedon bashing, as I actual found Firefly to be one of the best Sci-Fi shows of recent times.
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CW made more than up for it with Supernatural.
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yeah and stop jizzing about Buffy and Angel.
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Are porn for pre-adolescent girls. Or just women developmentally arrested in pre-adolescence. It's penetration without the cock!
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V has to be the winner of the trio, with Juliet and Inara in the cast. Human Target is on probation due to the Jericho connection, but who knows, talented people have blossomed from mediocre shows before.
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Is V going to be a mini series? If it isn't, I don't see how it can work.
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To clarify, when I say :mini" i mean a limited series a la "Harper's Island."
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Jul 23, 2009 6:49:13 AM CDT
yes, one more time, fuck you WB for cancelling Angel!
by h_woodexecmakingstupiddecisions
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It is by far the best show ever. I can't imagine what it will be like when it's all done. What else is there to look forward to. There's nothing else like it. All the new shows try too hard to shove "emotion" down the viewer's throats. Lost does it well without even trying. I want to see how it all ends but I don't want it to end. ABC better have something as good prepared when the show makes its final curtain.
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She yells at the goth teens who referred to vampires as "the Lonely Ones".
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Jul 23, 2009 8:38:17 AM CDT
Well I haven't watch the CW since they cancelle Angel
by hollywoodhellraiser
so I could give a rats ass to what they show and that includes Supernatural. That show could be good but I'm not watching CW to find out.I only watch 2 network shows; Lost and Gordan Ramsey Kitchen Nightmare.Most of my tv shows are now on cable and its so much better, too!
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Two more seasons left, dumbass.
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Jul 23, 2009 9:39:55 AM CDT
Fuck CW for cancelling Angel...but THANKS for Supernatural
by turketron_2
HIGH FUCKING FIVE for letting that show go on for this long. There's vampires on that show too... and the last one we saw got DECAPITATED WITH BARBED WIRE
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...And that was "Let the Right One In."
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With all the talk about having to produce great programing because the budgets are tight so there are fewer shows, you think someone would come up with a good idea. So basically you are telling us you fell asleep? Was it a nice nap?
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Yes True Blood has the human-vampire love affair. But that same vampire has killed several humans including a 16 year old girl he turned into a vampire. They don't hide the fact that he is a product of evil.
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Liking teenage or high school girls does not make you a pedophile. It's illegal, but hardly pedophilia.
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isnt that what thelma from SCOOBY-DOO says? dude-your a fag
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Jul 23, 2009 1:21:42 PM CDT
Wasn't 30 days of night supposed to make Vamps scary again?
by tell_your_mom_i_said_hi
Oh well. So sad that the movie failed to succeed.
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Resistance is futile.
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Just wondering, because think most people consider being hot for teens to be pedophilia, for sure.
Not saying I think that. I have never gotten over Britney's "One More Time" video. But this topic comes up a lot, and I usually get a lot of flack for saying that liking a 16 year old or a 1o year old are two different things.
Not that it isn't skeezy, I just don't see it as child molesting.
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*unable to find words, I laugh so hard*
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I'd have to agree with you. They even have different terms for being sexually attracted to minors of different age groups. It's all creepy, in a way, but being attracted to a 16-year-old is rather different from being attracted to a 12-year-old. Were it not, we wouldn't hear about so many guys who have cheerleader fantasies.
Pedophelia - attraction to prepubescents. Hebephilia - attraction to pubescent persons. Ephebophilia - attraction to mid-to-late adolescents. (From Wiki) -
yes, even if the other person is 100, do your research folks! still creepy if she's not 18 but that's a matter of opinion i suppose
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My God, Jacob is going to blow out my eye balls in 2010, if Avarar doesn't first.
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Or the Man in Black.
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he tells people to stop gushing over Whedon's show when he sounds like a retarded Lost fanboy. Why will V "rule" network TV after Lost is gone? Oh is it because that horrible blonde actress is in it. Apparently she acts even worse in this new show. Fucking Lost. Does anybody even care about the answers to that shit anymore? I couldn't give two shits about Jacob.
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I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole only b/c those dicks cancelled angel. good to know it's shit.
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