Arrested Development Development

"No, WRONG Arrested Development"

So for the four Arrested Development fans who haven’t heard yet, it was recently announced that the super brilliant, award-winning show with a rabid fan base that FOX couldn’t figure out how to promote or market, is launching a new season. Fortunately for the show, it won’t be on FOX, but rather on Showtime, according to Entertainment Weekly.

So, here is the scoop. It is basically one season that will have 9 or 10 episodes. Each episode will focus on the events of each individual characters life after the cancelled FOX series, bringing us up to date on their current mishaps and predicaments. Which will ultimately accumulate in them all coming together in…

The Arrested Development MOVIE. Rumors about this thing have been floating around forever but nothing substantial had ever been heard or seen (scene?)  BUT it is has now been officially announced by show creator Michael Hurwitz that there will indeed be a movie.

Okay, I have mixed emotions about this. Generally speaking, TV shows don’t make for good movies, that being said, if anybody can do it, Arrested Development should be able too. You would also think that with the shows early cancellation they still had plenty of material to pull from.

"THIS Arrested Development"

Regardless, it will still be awesome to see the TV show back together again, even if just for one season.

Oh btw, the first episode in the show is said to catch up on Buster (Tony Hale) and his absurd life. Weirdly enough, I got to meet Tony Hale at Sound of Music Sing-A-Long at the Hollywood Bowl last year.

Now if we could just get AD to come to Comic Con!

October Fest…

Here is the October calender, delivered to you as promised to your virtual doorstep! Created by staff writer Aileen Cacayorin (@A1l33n)  and sponsored by ZICO Coconut Water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: If you feel we left something appropriately nerdy off let me know. We probably did it on purpose just to start an online debate with you.

Our Calendar Girl

Here is a brief calendar of some of Septembers nerdiest line up, compiled by staff writer Aileen Cacayorin (@A1l33n). So if you need something to do Friday night, and unless that is when your Dungeon and Dragons group meets, you probably will, then check out our calendar to see what is up! Whats nerdy and whats not is open to debate, so it is likely something got left off, no offense if it did.

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A Game of Thrones or Moans?

When I first heard about HBO’s new show Game of Thrones I admit I was immediately intrigued. HBO has a reputation for great television and I am a sucker for anything fantasy. To be honest most fantasy TV (and books) suck. They rely on campy action, cheesy quests, generic characters and bad writing. So my hopes are pretty high that maybe HBO will do one right. After one episode I am not hooked, but I am interested.

First of all, let me get the disclaimers out of the way. The show takes full advantage of the fact it is on HBO and the producers know their audience well because it has a lot of nudity and sex. Seriously, they should rename it Game of Bones.  I am not easily offended but it was a bit absurd. So if these things don’t bother you or you just really like boobies then continue.

Second disclaimer: It is relatively violent.  If you are squeamish about decapitations and mutilated bodies then you should also avoid this one show. It isn’t on the level of a zombie apocalypse, but it isn’t for the faint of heart either.

All that aside, it is earned another showing. The story is based off the best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series  by George R.R. Martin and follows the plight of a group of noble families vying for the throne of the Kingdom of Westeros.  The plot centers around the Stark family of Winterfell and their many children whom are easily confused with one another. Sean Bean plays Eddard “Ned” Stark, the patriarch of the family and long standing friend and defender of the King. After a prominent assassination, the King visits Ned to ask an important favor of Ned. One Ned is reluctant to do but feels he has no way out. At the same time, enter in the rise of an ancient, mysterious evil, the political manipulations of the old monarchy trying to regain power, and some weird family relations and the stage is set for a potentially compelling show.

I love Sean Bean in this role, for those who are unfamiliar with him, he played Borimir in The Lord of the Rings. He is a solid actor and he is a good in the fantasy genre. As a fantasy fan I really like what this show is attempting to do: that is create a fantasy story that is well written and driven by characters and story rather than cheap hack and slash quests.

One of the other things I like is that one of the main characters is a dwarf, er little person? Midget? I am not sure of the P.C. term these days, but I think it is pretty gutsy to have him in a non-traditional role.

Will the show succeed? HBO seems to think so. After just one episode they already signed on to a second season. It would appear that so far A Game of Thrones also wins in a game of ratings.

Check it out, especially if you like fantasy, I want to hear what you babblers think. I only have episode to base this rating on so this obviously doesn’t reflect the entire series but for now I give it 3.5 Babbles.

Breaking Me Badd

To continue my trend of great shows that have been forever but I never started watching until recently (i.e.: Dexter) I would like to throw Breaking Bad into the mix. My fellow Babbler Johnny and I, after much hype and curiosity, decided to start watching this and it leaves me with only one real question. Actually two…

Why the heck didn’t I start watching this sooner?

Who is the genius at AMC that keeps producing these awesome shows? (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead etc.)

Bryan Cranston plays Walter H White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns 50, receives some very bad health news and realizes his best days are far behind him and that pretty soon there will be no one left to take care of his family. So what any ordinary, normal human being do in this situation? Simple: Break Bad, as in lose it.

In order to make money and ensure his family is taken care of when he is gone, he decides to put his chemistry knowledge to good use and starts making Crystal Meth and finds himself plunged into a world that a nerdy, little white guy has no business being in and forced to make decisions he would never have dreamed he would have to make.

Think Fight Club, or Falling Down here. A man faces his life’s failures and what he has become versus what he had dreamed of being at one point. To add to his woe he was once part of Nobel Prize winning science team, but those days are long gone now.

The acting is brilliant and Cranston really makes you feel sorry for him. The writing is crisp and the characters compelling. This show is no picnic, the content is dark and not for everyone, which is why I love it. Granted I’m only a few episodes into the first season but I like what I have watched so far. If you are one of the ten people left in America who hasn’t watched this show you should check it out.

Ironically enough, famed Batman villain the Scarecrow was a former high school chemistry teacher turned bad guy/drug dealer. Hollywood will probably try a cross over.

Now that would break bad.