TV
When work and geekery colide
Man, there’s been a lot of Joss Whedon on here recently.
Here’s some more: Joss Whedon’s Plan to Monetize Internet Content
This is probably a) the most interesting thing I’ve seen from Knowledge@Wharton and b) the most interesting Joss Whedon interview I’ve ever seen.
I’m a publisher of academic journals in my day job, mostly accounting & economics and it’s pretty rare than anything from my personal interests comes up through work stuff!
Dollhouse – the flipside
Sophie’s been posting a bit on why she’s excited about Dollhouse. here’s why I’m not:
- It’s on Fox. Remember Firefly?
- It’s on the same Friday night slot that killed Firefly.
- It had a pilot do over.
- Eliza Dushku needs to learn that being hot is no substitute for dramatic range.
- It’s kind of a silly premise.
I’ll still be downloading watching it, but I’m keen to get a few episodes down before I officially get excited. For the record I thought Firefly was a stupid idea. Actually I still think it’s a stupid idea but somehow it was a stupid idea that worked. Let’s hope Dollhouse works just as well, plus survives Fox’s axe.
More Dollhouse buzz
It seems that a lot of marketing is going into Dollhouse’s launch next week. There is quite a good interview with Eliza Dushku over at the LA Times.
I have to say that the more I read about it (and I’m trying not to do too much) the more I think this might stick around. After all they’re already filmed 13 episodes. Fingers crossed.
Things to look forward to in ’09
With January almost done 2009 is well under way so I thought I’d jot down a list of the things I’m looking forward to this year.
- Receiving, reading and playing Mouse Guard. An RPG of the graphic novels by David Petersen it has had a number of great reviews and as a gaming friend said to me:
“It is one of the most playable RPGs I have come across.”
- Pulling off Day of Games on May 16th. A small one day event here in Wellington with games being offered on the day and people voting for an choosing the game they feel like playing most. More info once I re-do the blog.
- As Nick mentioned in a previous post Green Ronin have announced that A Song of Ice and Fire rpg has been approved and is on it’s way to the printers. I ran through the quick-start adventure back in July’08 and really liked what they had done. The core book is due out in March so I’ll be doing a write up once I get my hands on it.
- Writing my Buffy: the Vampire Slayer RPG scenario series, The Slayer Chronicals.
- Playing in my new Buffy game (there seems to be a theme), Fall. It’s a great group of people and I think will be heaps of fun. I’ll do a write up on our first mini-session soon.
- Dollhouse starting on TV in the US.
I think that’s it for now. I’ll be back at certain points to see how these things all pan out.
Dollhouse!!
In a couple of weeks Joss Whedon’s (the Buffy, Angel, Firefly guy) new show Dollhouse is starting. I’ve been pretty excited about this since I first heard of it, in part due to being a Whedon fan girl and also due to having a rather large crush on the lead actress Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy). So expect o have a few blog post dedicated to it. You have been warned.
Here is a bit of background: