Charlie Jade: Dirty Laundry

Recently, a discussion thread at the Bureau raised the problem of people who constantly ask what is happening in a show or movie, why it’s happening, and questions of this nature. Usually, they appear to be operating under the assumption that you somehow know more about the show/movie than they do, when, usually, you’ve both been watching for the same amount of time.

Okay. Don’t ever watch Charlie Jade with someone like that in the room.

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Century City restarts in Canada

Century City was a short lived series about a
law firm in a near-future world with significantly
advanced biotechnology. As you can see by this IMDB
page
, the cast included Hector Elizondo, Nester
Carbonell (Batmanuel in the live action
Tick), Kristen Lehman (Invisigoth in “Kill
Switch,” the X-Files episode written by
William Gibson), Viola Davis (from the new version of
Solaris), Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards in the
upcoming Fantastic Four live action film),
and Eric Schaffer (recently seen in
Spanglish). The American run was cancelled
after four episodes, but Space: The Imagination
Station
ran the full nine episodes in Canada, and
is scheduled to restart from the pilot this Sunday. I
missed the first two broadcast episodes, but I liked
what I saw. It’s worth a look on a Sunday morning.
Note that Space is airing them in the sequence
suggested by the home network rather than the
production order. (The episode order is much like
that of Firefly, only the first episode
actually came first.) With everything else going into
reruns, I’d be willing to review this series over the
next few weeks. Alternatively, I could do a complete
series review in two weeks when I catch the episodes
I’ve missed. If you have a review preference or an
opinion of the show, speak up below. (Generally, they
bring up issues that will need dealt with, but rarely
dig deeply into them.)

Berman Backstabs Coto

shayward writes, A TGL report here has excerpts of an interview with Rick Berman. He says that some of the more verbal fans believe “that when we took Manny Coto and we promoted him from co – executive producer to executive producer that he just suddenly took over and it became The Manny Coto Show.” He goes on to say, “That’s just nonsense.” He also indicates that he and Braga were just as involved with scripts and stories as they were previous to Season 4.

Backstab may be a bit strong a word, but this article makes it painfully clear this man hasn’t the foggiest clue what’s going within his own series and why fans are turning away from Trek and villifying him. To quote: “It’s going away because it has endured for so long. It’s paradoxical.” Yeah Rick, kind of like your writing.

Lego Star Wars – Revenge of the Brick

chad writes, The Lego Star Wars movie that was shown on the Cartoon Network last Sunday is now available online. View it here (or download directly from here [about 12MB]). It\’s got some funny parts, and I especially like how Obi-Wan and Anakin use the force to reconfigure their starfighters from scattered parts.