Nickvotrobeck writes, Actor Peter Boyle died last night at the age of 71. Best known recently for his role as Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, Boyle had a memorable career with roles such as The Monster in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein and guest spots on Lois & Clark and The X-Files.
Browncoats Take Back The Sky
rickyjames writes, Hundreds of Firefly fans were left holding the bag when last weekend’s Flanvention was mysteriously canceled hours before opening. No problem for Browncoats, who organized the Browncoat Backup Bash in real-time on the fly. Several Big Damn Heros including Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin showed, proving that you really can’t take the sky from Browncoats.
Weekly Comics Discussion – December 13, 2006
This is going up a day early so I’ll have it done before I board a plane. Complete listings are available in the usual place. It’s a light week this week for a lot of people, but next week picks up again with the return of some Civil War material just in time for Christmas.
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Battlestar Galactica 3×10: The Passage
Food shortages force the fleet to make a dangerous trip through a dense star cluster to a planet where they can harvest algae to replenish their food processors.
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Weekly DVD Picks – December 12, 2006
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Check out Orbital Outfitters for your space travel needs: “industrial quality spacesuits and related services.”
Saturday Movie Review – “The Mighty Peking Man”
This week is home to a review of one of the worst movies we’ve ever reviewed.
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Smallville Review – “Subterranean”
Sorry this was late; I didn’t realize there even was a new episode last night until I saw a submission about the latest episode in the sub queue. Next week’s may be a day or two late, as well. I’m going out of town on business again, and the flight back doesn’t land until 11:20pm, which means I’ll be getting home and midnight and working the next day.
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Firefly: The MMORPG
Multiverse, a company that appears to make MMO middleware (i.e. the stuff you use to make games, but not games themselves), announced today that they have acquired from FOX the rights to make a massively-multiplayer game based upon the ‘verse of Firefly. Multiverse’s software has already been used to make a whole bunch of games nobody’s ever heard of.
Day Break Discussion – ‘What If They’re Stuck’
To prove his innocence, Brett visits the Internal Affairs office, twice, in search of the murder book. During his first visit, things aren’t going like he planned but his second time isn’t better when he doesn’t have any other choice than taking someone hostage.
Anyone watching this? Rumor has it, this temp replacement for Lost is on the chopping block due to poor ratings.