Big Blue Arndt: November 2005 Archives
Extended episodes are symptomatic of unthoughtful, inconsiderate jerks.* It was an annoying, and anger-inducing thing to actually make a show longer than the announced run-time, especially when the last five minutes can be the most important ones. The sentimental and even economic consequences are explored here.
I was going to write a review of the episode myself, I believe, because some parts are wierd. But I have not seen the entire episode so I cannot, but for those of you whom ABC had cut off, we'll provide the ending. Needless to say, there are spoilers after "the jump." Actually, I need to say it.
The broadcast of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that we will see tonight will be extra-special because it has been "re-mastered"!
The apocalypse has come. The end of the world is nigh. The obsession with re-mastering things has come to ye olde classic Christmas special? I have an odd feeling it will be in widescreen as well.
Yes, Hutch, I did spy that thing about looping it in your wedding video, it was hilarious.
Back to the matter at hand.... in order to make clear how re-mastered Rudolph was CBS ran and compare-contrast to "original Rudolph". I thought it was odd that the reel they used to compare looked worse than any Rudolph that I had ever seen or remember seeing. They switched in a crap Rudolph reel to make the "re-mastered" vision look good, I swear.
Regardless, it's just wierd. A wierd, wierd compulsion. Also: it's not December but Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer is being aired. It just seems so pre-mature.
No links, I am sorry.... unless one of our contributors has a clip of the relevent commercial...
It would be only the first time that TitanTV has failed me. Criminal Instinct was indeed on tonight.
That the team solved the case hinges on a line based on a subplot that I found to be offensively and unneccessarily sociopolitical. I don't need that stuff while having TV on in the background!
TeeVee told me that Threshold was cancelled about two days ago but I was too busy and/or preoccupied to post. (My self-involvement involves getting a diploma, so I'm okay with it).
Regardless of that fact, there is still an episode of Threshold airing tonight and one being broadcast on December 9th. Why should this affect your TV-watching habits? Despite the show's flaws the program is still slightly more than marginally entertaining. It has Carla Gugino to look at, a tough bald black government official whom is cool to watch boss people around, a generic, white, tough guy, square-jawed, full-head-of-hair-equipped, square-topped government agent.... and Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage.
Now, I rarely watch this program normally because I have stuff to do in my life, especially on Fridays. When I am a lifeless dude then I watch and enjoy. I am partly to blame for it being cancelled. Regardless there is no guaruntee that there will be a DVD set of a program whose long-term plotline has gone unfulfilled.... so watch what episodes you can. There is one on tonight and one on December 9th.
I'll give more details later, but I also have to stop by sometime after class to promote TitanTV. That website rocks so much I wish they were giving me money.... but I'll endorse it for free anyway because it rocks so much!
Threshold 10 PM EST tongiht! CBS!
Go over to Captain Comics Message Board here.
Apparently Dan Didio is trying to restore the DCU to his own personal Golden Age.... comic books when he was 12. Circa 1982.
I remember DC Comics of 1982. I can tell you almost exactly what that the DC Universe looked like around 1982. This could be pretty.
According to Toon Zone, the Cartoon Network has failed to pick up the show for a sixth season. No word has been given whether "Kids WB", which has been running the show second-run, will pick up the program.
Some say that John Wayne is a racist and that Western movie director John Ford is a racist, particularly because of the so-called negative portrayals of Indians in their films.
As Jerry Seinfeld said, is racism bad if it means you like that race? Libertas covers the relationship between the two filmmakers and the Navajo Indians and we get some insight as to their common history and just how much mutual love and respect exists.
At the very least John Ford helped the Navajo Indians, especially when few else would. Putting it further there's a reason that so many places and people in the area are named after the wonderful men.
Loren over at Suspension of Disbelief calls out the the guys writing/producing/creating/directing Smallville for that one part of the episode "Exposed" where Maggie Sawyer openly and loudly declares that diplomatic immunity is protecting the bad guy, and can do so for "even murder". It turns out that that is not true; in fact the episode is so far off regarding the point that it's kind of ridiculous.
Naturally most fans will forgive them because the episode brought them A) Tom Wopat and John Schneider in a 1969 Dodge Charger and/or B) Erica Durance in a bikini (for the second episode in a row).
Soundbitten, back in January 2002, wrote an article claiming, quite correctly, that there is an insufficiency among archives of the Drudge Report. There are the Drudge Report Archives, but they only go back so far ("2001"), and Matt Drudge reportedly started in "winter 1994". There are archives and reprints and collections, but finding the original stuff from way back when is difficult, if not impossible.
Matt Drudge reports and links to gossip, politics, news, and mixtures of all of that and how it relates to one another. He personally does not keep archives of stuff that is his original writings. I don't believe that those boys have tried the Wayback Machine for the Drudge Report.
Stolen from our own Michael Hutchison because it is too good to let die:
(originally from a Dixonverse post "Infinite Crisis #2 spoilers")
This is why my Metro Med superhero hospital has a counseling center.Can you imagine what a superhero's life, compressed into realtime, must be like for them?
I mean, if someone in your life was kidnapped, it would be a major event that you remembered forever. If a neighbor two doors down was beheaded, you'd have nightmares and need to see a shrink. But stuff like this happens to characters again and again in the comics.
For "Thanksgiving Week" as they call it, Fox is broadcasting Anger Management, Daddy Day Care, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. That's the feature for Wednesday night, Thanksgiving night, and Friday night, respectively. This is relevent to us at Monitor Duty in that one of the kid characters in the Eddie Murphy movie is dressed like/as the Flash and honestly the third movie is Star Wars!
Honestly, having not seen the first two films but having seen the third many times I wonder what does Fox see that can possibly cause it to associate those movies with Thanksgiving. Where is the relevence to the holiday?
Seriously, what really makes Fox executives think that these films are Thanksgiving programming? Shouldn't they run stuff with more overt Thanksgiving themes? Of course, I won't complain that they run Star Wars but I would enjoy the Thanksgiving episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
How many people have heard of a legendary game player who played and finished the entirity of Super Mario Bros 3 in eleven minutes flat? How many have seen that legendary video? Granted the video is more legendary than the player.... I've never heard the dude's name. It turns out that it's a sort of trick. The video is not a recording of a game played on a Nintendo Entertainment System but an emulator. As such there are certain key portions of the players' performance which are sped and up and slowed down to enable the player to do certain things and earn special benefits.
According to Monitor Duty staff emeritus Eric Spratling the real deal is here.
That brings us to the Speed Demos Archive. This is the site that Mister Spratling pointed us to see actual players play the games as fast as possible in the original formats. These are actual video recordings of people playing the games from start to finish as fast as possible. It's a great challenge. When I actually get fast internet back it will be fun to wactch and hopefully I can learn a bit about that part in Metal Gear Solid 3 where I am stuck.
By the way, the actual time for the complete Super Mario 3 runtime is eleven minutes and eleven seconds. That's only eleven seconds longer than the legend!
We got an answer today. The reason that PvP updates at a latter part of the day nowadays is because Scott Kurtz has adopted the living routine/schedule of a college student.
It's... inevitable that as I get hooked on something, I tend to stay up later and later, then sleep in later and later. Before you know it, my sleep schedule is opposite the rest of the world. I'm awake in the wee-hours of the night and sleeping during the early afternoon.He also is sick, in part because of this and in part because of the convention schedule. The sleeping thing is an issue that I faced a few years ago. My all-nighters took me to 6 AM, I went to bed and got up at 12 PM. It was not a good idea for my day to effectively reverse itself. Mister Kurtz is far older than I was. His father is right; Scott Kurtz's decrepit body cannot take this kind of activity for long.Now, being self-employeed, that shouldn't be a problem. So long as everything is getting done. But I'm almost 35 now, and I think my body is finally telling me that I'm getting too old for this [excerement].
As of 6:47 PM EST the PvP strip is still Wednesday's strip. Robbie is thanking Cole. Today is Thursday. The comic strip for Thursday, November 10th is still not online. The comics strip for Wednesday, November 9th is still on the front page in place of today's strip.
Time to test my memory. Tuesday, November 8th I left internet access shortly after 6:30 PM EST. It was after my last class of the day and before Bible Study. As for 6:30 PM EST on Tuesday the PvP comic strip on the front page was still Monday's strip. Sometime Wednesday morning I did discover the comic strip for Tuesday.
Here is the PvP front page. What day's strip is up?
Chris Muir of Day by Day continues as a model of professionalism and punctuality and should be imitated by all. (He is not paying me to say that nor has he put my blog on his Blog Roll. Neither am I his most loyal and dedicated reader. But his strip is funny and timely).
I was born at 7:30 in the morning on this date in 1981.
To actually be in my mid-twenties....
Anonymous said...
It's really hard to be Puerto Rican and the only character that represents us in the JL is this break dancing dude.
11/04/2005 2:56 PM location source
Nothing new has since ocurred to my knowledge yet in addition to the off-the-top of my head historical recap one can read here about the long sequence of events where Richard Donner was replaced with Richard Lester and an epic film is lowered in quality. The account is more or less complete. If one lacks confidence in my recollection and my knowledge and authority, then this site should suffice, even moreso than the IMDB trvia page I noted.
Also, if anyone was curious as to the actual contents of the relevent "Buzz" column from Dreamwatch magazine, I've updated my old post. The scan is done by Steve Younis and the image taken from his servers.
It's apparently an Easter Egg on the Star Wars, Episode III
Consider it pop Yoda. Knod yo' head!
I have no words. Mainly that's because I cannot see it at home because I only have a dial-up connection. I cannot hear it at school because there are no speakers on lab computers.
It looks hilarious.