Solstice Coil's first video. Written by Shir Deutch and directed by Amir Armel in the summer of 2006, it recaptures the story of the protagonist of the graphic novel that appears on the album, only from a slightly different angle.
Solstice Coil
ok, I had to give it a shot
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 23:37
but it might go a little something like this:
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Lost Ends - Spinoff Season Begins!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 13:53
Action-drama-sci-fi-supernatural-undernatural-romantic comedy series Lost returns to its sixth and final season. Finally, all of our questions are going to be answered, particularly "why have I wasted six years of my life on this crap?"
Lost creators Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof know that once all the questions are answered, it's curtains down for them. That's why they have one ace up their sleeves – the mother of all questions – WHICH LOST CHARACTER IS GOING TO GET A SPINOFF???
Much More Money to be Made
They'll probably use an excuse like "there are just so many directions we haven't explored in the six seasons of Lost, like the smoke monster's cousin and the origin of the white polar bear."
Naturally, we all see through this and we know that this is just their way to make another quick buck before shutting down for good.
Well, I'm sold!
I have sources everywhere so I know exactly what's going on. Are you sitting down? Are you ready for this? This is going to be the biggest twist since they found out that that thing in the mountain was actually a different thing, unrelated to the thing that they thought it was.
ABC has signed off on 11 episodes of a new 22 minute long sitcom, a spinoff of a significant member of the Lost cast. Are you ready for this? Should I say it in Japanese to add mysteriousness?
Subheadline for the Sake of More Suspense
Okay, here it is. I present to you, the new spinoff from the creators of Lost: Miles!
Here's the pitch: he's an angsty and sharp-witted Asian guy with a dark past who speaks to spirits. Scarred by being abandoned by his father, imagine Miles' surprise when he finds himself on a lonely island, 30 years in the past, working for the man who abandoned him and his mother. It's gold, Jerry. GOLD!
Think of all the amusing situations Miles could walk into as he tries to preserve the space and time continuum and make up the lost time with his father, who doesn't even know he's his son!
Naturally, there will be guest appearances of various Lost stars (according to contractual obligations and last resort measurements due to failed attempts at a cinematic career)
Seriously, this could last for like… TWO seasons! Hey, if Joey made it, why can't Miles?
Damn, I hate April Fools
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 18:42
Who came up with this piece of crap? I mean, honestly. Practical jokes, ha ha. I never understand that, really. So here I was, all ready to watch the new episode of Lost on television, all pysched about it, when I found out that an episode of a new series called Cellular was on instead. Naturally, the assholes at HOT (The Israeli Cable Company) didn't say anything about it, they didn't launch a promo, or at least put out an announcement that Lost isn't going to be on...
But that wasn't the prank. They do that all the time, regardless of the date.
So I said to myself, self, stop whining and go check bittorrent. I mean, I usually don't download Lost because for the fourth season, HOT has managed to buy the episodes and add subtitles in less than a week, and I'm already paying for cable, so why bother? But I figured, something must be wrong. Then I saw that there is a new episode, which was uploaded the very same day. Something about the gaps between episodes seemed a bit off, but I said what the hell - and downloaded it.
You see, April Fools has become such a cliche that we expect it so much, it makes us expect it the least. I saw the date April 1 on the download, but didn't think nothing of it.
Burned it on a DVD, shoved it in the player, turned on the television, and... Last week's "previously on lost". Hmmm... that's strange. Okay, maybe it's relevant information for THIS week's episode (though not bloody likely). Then static filled the screen and was replaced with the title "ha ha, happy April Fools". Then, instead of an episode of lost, there appeared an episode of Flava Flav's flavor of love. Well fuck you, you fucking asshole.
I mean seriously, who does that? Why play a joke on thousands of people, when you can't even see the results?! The whole point of a practical joke is to see the person's face when they realize they've been had. This shit is just spiteful. Somewhere there's a guy who's sitting on a old raggy couch in his momma's basement, spilling doritos and kool-aid all over himself while playing Alex Kidd on his shiny Sega Master System (8 Bit), laughing his ass because he knows he raised people's expectations and then destroyed them with 30 minutes of big ass women trying to score with a hip-hop has-been who has like two operational brain cells left. What a fine example of humanity.
He kinda looks like Dexter...
Anyway, I saw this trailer of the Legend of Zelda movie on MySpace. Turns out this is also a prank. I can't understand why anyone would do that. A whole lot of money was invested in this trailer! I mean, this isn't even funny. A prank is supposed to be funny. This actually looks kinda cool. I can't understand why people complain about this, saying "omg this is so gay". Zelda, in its essence is gay! There's an Elf running around in a green leotard, for crying out loud.
What sometimes really sucks about the Internet is the fact that everything gets blown out of proportion. Everything gets bigger here. And much like chain letters, pranks have also been taken to the max. I never believed I would ever say this, but I miss the 44.1k modem.
How the mighty have fallen
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 15:36
Continuity has always been the Television Drama's greatest strength and weakness. Writers have to work hard in order to keep things interesting without losing proportions. And unfortunately, they don't always know when it's time to quit. The X-files managed to keep a succession of quality, but lingered on two season too many. Dawson's Creek creator knew he had to jump ship after two seasons because he predicted the show would go nuts, and it did, without him. Even one of the greatest masterpieces of television, Homicide: Life on the Streets, stayed on for one final mediocre season that almost cancelled the entire greatness of the series.
The last couple of years have brought us drama series with brilliant and innovative concepts that unfortunately run out of gas too soon. The best example of them being 24, a brilliant ground breaking thriller that had everyone glued to their seats, but later on succumbed to the same ancient Hollywood rule the Matrix sequels suffered from: When in doubt, do everything BIGGER and LOUDER.
The problem is that a brilliant concept is not enough. Because once people get passed the concept, they need something else to keep them watching, something much more basic. Characters you can relate to. Humanity. Or at least some god damned sense of suspension of disbelief. Since 24 has cardboard black & white characters, it had to continue to rely on the concept, and keep making the concept more and more extreme until it becomes preposterous at some point.
The same thing happened to Prison Break. The entire first season was like an extended version of a movie with a genius concept. The conviction of Michael Scofield's character was extraordinary. The amount of thought put into the details of his plan (Both by Scofield and by the writers) was exceptional. All the characters were reliable and contributed their part to the plot. But everybody knew that once they broke out of that prison, everything would change, for the worst. The second season was like a really crappy sequel. It really should be called Prison Break Reloaded. Yes, it's that kind of manure. And much like Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, I hate manure. Everything was blown out of proportion, and suddenly characters that were there to advance the plot, became liabilities. Who the hell cares what happens to that bitch C-Note, or the prison guards, or even Sucre? And how the hell is T-bag even still alive? They cut off his fucking hand, for Moses' sake. He was bleeding for hours without medical care. And How come Geary, a trained prison guard, couldn't handle a fucking handless gimp? You have TWO hands, he has ONE. The fact that he's a psycho killer doesn't change the fact that you're not a 13 year old girl.
I could go on for hours about the inconsistencies of this show, but I won't. It's frustrating when an excellent show goes bad. But what can one do? You don't cancel a series after one season because it's GOOD. If a show is popular, it's in everybody's interest to keep it running as much as it can. Or is it?
Lost is experiencing the same difficulties. The bombastic concept is no longer the center of attention. Fortunately in Lost's case, they actually created a whole stack of interesting characters you can identify with and even love, which is why you're still compelled to watch even though there's always that feeling at the back of your head telling you it's not really as good as it used to be.
After watching five episodes of Heroes, I fear it's also on its path to becoming an enormous shadow of itself. Your beloved characters are still there, but the thrill is not the same thrill. The plot thickens too much, and characters start to act unreasonably, as seen in the Bennet family's very loose definition of the concepts of "Laying low" and "No more secrets". So much for learning from your mistakes. It's still not as ridiculous as Prison Break or 24, but oh yeah, it's getting there. I mean, it is a show about super heroes. There's no way to go but to the extreme.
On a brighter note, re-makes! I recently found out that they've actually made a TV remake of FLASH-GORDON! That's right! I'm sure it sucks, but I'm not even gonna bother checking. There are only so many hours a day. On the other hand, I've been watching the remake of The Bionic Woman, and I have to say, I know that this is trash, but it's fun trash. It started off kinda obscure, with a weird choice of Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck as the "Evil Bionic Woman", but it's slowly settling down as an obvious Nikita rip off with all the unclear conspiracies and politics between made up government agencies. But on top of it all, that Michelle Ryan is hot in ways that I can't even describe. It almost makes up for not having the slow motion running effect.
Hmmm… I completely forgot what I was talking about. Oh well. Here's a picture.
The last couple of years have brought us drama series with brilliant and innovative concepts that unfortunately run out of gas too soon. The best example of them being 24, a brilliant ground breaking thriller that had everyone glued to their seats, but later on succumbed to the same ancient Hollywood rule the Matrix sequels suffered from: When in doubt, do everything BIGGER and LOUDER.
The problem is that a brilliant concept is not enough. Because once people get passed the concept, they need something else to keep them watching, something much more basic. Characters you can relate to. Humanity. Or at least some god damned sense of suspension of disbelief. Since 24 has cardboard black & white characters, it had to continue to rely on the concept, and keep making the concept more and more extreme until it becomes preposterous at some point.
The same thing happened to Prison Break. The entire first season was like an extended version of a movie with a genius concept. The conviction of Michael Scofield's character was extraordinary. The amount of thought put into the details of his plan (Both by Scofield and by the writers) was exceptional. All the characters were reliable and contributed their part to the plot. But everybody knew that once they broke out of that prison, everything would change, for the worst. The second season was like a really crappy sequel. It really should be called Prison Break Reloaded. Yes, it's that kind of manure. And much like Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, I hate manure. Everything was blown out of proportion, and suddenly characters that were there to advance the plot, became liabilities. Who the hell cares what happens to that bitch C-Note, or the prison guards, or even Sucre? And how the hell is T-bag even still alive? They cut off his fucking hand, for Moses' sake. He was bleeding for hours without medical care. And How come Geary, a trained prison guard, couldn't handle a fucking handless gimp? You have TWO hands, he has ONE. The fact that he's a psycho killer doesn't change the fact that you're not a 13 year old girl.
I could go on for hours about the inconsistencies of this show, but I won't. It's frustrating when an excellent show goes bad. But what can one do? You don't cancel a series after one season because it's GOOD. If a show is popular, it's in everybody's interest to keep it running as much as it can. Or is it?
Lost is experiencing the same difficulties. The bombastic concept is no longer the center of attention. Fortunately in Lost's case, they actually created a whole stack of interesting characters you can identify with and even love, which is why you're still compelled to watch even though there's always that feeling at the back of your head telling you it's not really as good as it used to be.
After watching five episodes of Heroes, I fear it's also on its path to becoming an enormous shadow of itself. Your beloved characters are still there, but the thrill is not the same thrill. The plot thickens too much, and characters start to act unreasonably, as seen in the Bennet family's very loose definition of the concepts of "Laying low" and "No more secrets". So much for learning from your mistakes. It's still not as ridiculous as Prison Break or 24, but oh yeah, it's getting there. I mean, it is a show about super heroes. There's no way to go but to the extreme.
On a brighter note, re-makes! I recently found out that they've actually made a TV remake of FLASH-GORDON! That's right! I'm sure it sucks, but I'm not even gonna bother checking. There are only so many hours a day. On the other hand, I've been watching the remake of The Bionic Woman, and I have to say, I know that this is trash, but it's fun trash. It started off kinda obscure, with a weird choice of Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck as the "Evil Bionic Woman", but it's slowly settling down as an obvious Nikita rip off with all the unclear conspiracies and politics between made up government agencies. But on top of it all, that Michelle Ryan is hot in ways that I can't even describe. It almost makes up for not having the slow motion running effect.
Hmmm… I completely forgot what I was talking about. Oh well. Here's a picture.
