2IGTV Episode 51

TONIGHT - ON 2IGTV:

Knight Rider, G-Force, Bionic Woman, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, Justice League, Escape From New York, EverQuest, Halo, Manhunt 2, Steven Spielberg and Donald Sutherland.

We also discuss the impending movie and TV industry strikes, Blu-Ray encryption and of course we have the results of our Episode 50 Competition.

Grab it here.

Comments

[Sam Moore]

Chuck is actually pretty good! I've been watching since the premier, and I'd recommend it!

[Sam Moore]

Mark, An answer to your Gossip Girl problem is simple: Watch The Marine! ;-)

[Sam Moore]

Smokin' Aces was brilliant, Mark! It had a plot, it just took a bit of determination to follow it...

['Nelson']

I don't want my prize, please forward it to James, he sounds worthy :)

[Nelson]

The above Nelson is a fraud.

Thanks Guys I am honored -

[LtColonelCreedon]

Don't worry Nelson, we have IP logs to verify who you are. You should already have an E-mail.

Congratulations to you and thanks to all who entered. We have a lot more goodies with useless crap to get rid of in upcoming episodes.

[Sam Moore]

Congrats, Nelson! Though, I must say lads, I can't believe you went with the pity vote. No offense, Nelson! ;-)

[Declan]

Jessica Biel playing hard ball on Wonder Woman. What is the problem with that role. Why don't famous actresses want it? Oh, wait, Halle Berry and Cat Woman...

Mark, I wouldn't joke about Justin Timberlake in the role. Some agent or producer out there has got to be trying to flog the script for a transvestite comedy version of wonder woman, -shudder-.

[Neilo]

Well done Nelson!

Lads, what all this monthly shows from now on nonsense? Does that mean we get a forum to pass the time in between from now on????

[Bruce Russell]

What's this about the Cardassians? There is NOTHING second-rate about the Cardassians.

Six words: 'Four lights! I see four lights!'

As for Bay planning to shoot the Transformers 2 effects sans script, this isn't all that uncommon a practice, and is how the Bond films were executed for years prior to Casino Royale. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it isn't a Bay original.

Any thoughts on the new show Pushing Daisies? Wife and I thought it was the year's best pilot, but would have made a better feature than an ongoing series. As for Bionic Woman, we hope they kill off Jamie and focus the show on the 'evil' bionic woman played by Starbuck. Of course, we also thought Ted Washington's character would be the 'six-million dollar man,' so . . . .

Speaking of 'bionics,' has Katee Sackhoff had some *wink, wink*, *nudge, nudge* 'silicone augmentation' to the chest region? Wife just gives me dirty looks when I bring this up, at least at first. After a while, she starts throwing haymakers and screaming. Not really.

Anyone want to help me lobby Danny Boyle for 28 Fortnights Later?

[Neilo]

"there are 4 lights!" good one Bruce! ;)

And while we're all having a moan, i cant believe you guys dissed roddy piper! "They Live" is a masterpiece!! Shame on you! (We wont mention Hell Comes to Frogtown tho....)

[Bruce Russell]

Best line from They Live:

'I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum.'

The flick is an underappreciated gem. Remember the secret messages, only visible with the special glasses: ' THIS IS YOUR GOD' on the money and so forth.

There's some other great lines, but they escape me right now. Anybody remember Nada's final action?

[Sam Moore]

Bruce, I've heard talk that Boyle plans on doing 28 Months Later to finish it up. I must say, though, that after 28 Weeks, I'm not too sure about another. 28 Weeks can't come within a mile of 28 Days Later.

[Bruce Russell]

I can't get enough 28 ______s Later. I suggest such future installments as:

*28 Semesters Later (zany college sex-comedy spin on the popular franchise)

*28 Decades Later (in which the Rage virus breaks out aboard the Enterprise-E, and it's up to Picard and his crew to save humanity from a zombie apocalypse)

*28 Parsecs Later (Han Solo and Chewbacca face an added challenge on the already difficult Kessel Run: flesh-eating viral rage zombies! And yes, I know a parsec is a unit of distance, not time.)

And so on.

[LtColonelCreedon]

I for one was overjoyed when we saw the Zombies in Gay-Paris. Now there's no excuse not to wipe Froggie from the face of the planet. I've always wanted to turn Spain/Portugal into an Island!!!

[Nelson]

Thanks Lads, and thanks again to our hosts.

They Live was a fun one, some social commentary from Mr Carpenter, and I still love Precinct 13, even though it looks a little cheesy now.
Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken in my book and Escape from NY should be left alone, or used as a lesson to be vague about the date the story takes place (a long time ago...) rather than the near future. Remakes have been around almost as long as film itself. Sean Connery's flick Outland was High Noon in Space. They'll keep remaking them as long as the cattle line up.

[Bruce Russell]

France wouldn't be terrible if we could successfully wage a campaign of behaviour modification on everyone living within thirty miles of the Paris city centre. Here I'm thinking of those b-mod chairs Tom Thumb built to turn the bad guys into good in Mark Gruenwald's classic Squadron Supreme mini-series. In the real world, there would be no Nighthawk to stop us!

You all were cracking me right the heck up in Ep. 50. I'm feeling awfully sick here at my conference, trying to feel better while in an admittedly decent hotel room, but not home nonetheless.

Laughter must be the best medicine as I dragged myself from my sick bed to tell you that Second Life was actually a topic here at our conference. Specifically, its use in information literacy but more than that I can't say as I wasn't present for the actual lecture.

But I am wondering - what's this about the Colonel being on the cover of Time? In real life or a different one? What is up with that?

And regarding Starbuck's bionic breasts - I think it might be bulkier jackets? She does look different, but so far I haven't seen her in anything like the thin tshirts she wore on BSG and I was attributing it to wardrobe. But her storylines are so far more compelling that Miss Jamie Sommers'.

Any plans for CES? Perhaps a 2IGTV booth?

[CivilianOverseer]

Hi Guys,
Just got up on the recent episodes, have been attending to rendition fli, ..., affairs of state...

To answer the questions, Lt.Col and Mark you are both right, I do indeed enjoy engaging in the manly pursuits of watching stuff getting blown up, however as I rarely get the time away from my hectic schedule, I rely on two complete nut jobs to watch the above mentioned stuff being blown up and give me a quick summary of the most interesting bits. In order to pass off the witty observations as my own at cocktail parties.

[Bruce Russell]

Weird casting news on Star Trek, with Karl Urban as McCoy. I thought casting that other pretty boy as Kirk would be as far beyond the pale as Abrams et al would go, but it would seem I've been proven wrong.

I don't see this choice at all, but maybe that's because this one was near and dear to us Southerners, and we'd hoped to see one of our own in the role. Any thoughts on this, what with Dee Kelly being of Irish extraction and all?

The first time I went to Ireland, I arrived the day after Kelley's death, and to my surprise his passing was front page news in the Irish Times. Of course, this paled in comparison to my surprise at finding a post-industrial civilization in Ireland, but I digress.

[Neilo]

Now now Bruce, we are very modern here in Ireland. In fact, we have all just been given calculators in my office so i no longer need my ink pot and feather to do sums.

Its great fun typing in numbers and turning the calculator upside down to read rude words.

[Bruce Russell]

Yes, I really shouldn't makes such jokes. After all, I do come from a region whose motto is: 'Where men are men, and sheep are scared.'

[Civilian Overseer]

Calculators?, Spoiled Rotten!, My department just made the leap from finger counting to the abacus!

[Civilian Overseer]

Calculators?, Spoiled Rotten!, My department just made the leap from finger counting to the abacus!

[Civilian Overseer]

Calculators?, Spoiled Rotten!, My department just made the leap from finger counting to the abacus!