RANDOM THOUGHTS:
The following were on my mind between Monday, May 15th and Monday, May 22nd:
- It's been nearly two days since Sony announced that it essentially fired Dan Harmon from his duties as showrunner of "Community," yet the news still infuriates me. This is a man who created this show, who constantly loved working on it and who had a pretty good idea as to how he wanted it all played out. And now the studio that picked up his show fired him, disregarding his brilliance just because he kept turning in a few scripts late, taking away all of the things that made his show so unique in the first place. It's an auteur's vision unfullfilled, and that pisses me more than the fact that the studio also brought along two new showrunners that had previously never been part of the project before.
Speaking of Harmon, it's much more interesting to look back at the final three episodes of "Community's" third season (which all aired the night before) since each of them represents aspects of the show that defined it during his reign. The first episode was "Digital Estate Planning," was the high concept episode (much like "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" and "Virtual Systems Analysis"). The second episode, "The First Chang Dynasty," was another example of the show's flat out genre parodying episode, much like "Modern Warfare" or "Basic Rocket Science." And the final episode, "Introduction to Finality" (which I think played out like a wonderful series finale in and of itself) was the typical grounded episode of the show.
-My prediction for the "House" finale: It was lupus. I haven't watched the show in two years, I have no idea on any of the new plot developments, and I don't know if House is still even a practicing doctor at the hospital. Whatever the case may be, it's lupus.
-I'm not sure if making a feature length "Hulk" movie with Mark Ruffalo would be a good thing. The Hulk worked the best in "The Avengers" when he was a suppporting player that was mostly there to beat people up in a "I don't give a crap" kind of way. I'm not sure that him in a feature role would make a great film, especially after the first two Hulk films were met with a mixed response.
-Everytime I think of Wes Anderson, I picture the inside of his mind playing out like Paul Brittain's Lord Wyndemere character on "Saturday Night Live" and acting as an inspiration behind all of his films.
-Finally great to know that "Game of Thrones" is finally going to show an actual battle this Sunday. Once I saw the promos and realized that none of them had Tyrion knocked unconscious before it, I immediately got super stoked.
- "Battleship," based on a board game, is now reportedly being turned into a video game. I hope that the video game becomes a musical, and that musical turns into a board game, and that board game turns into another world, creating a chain of meta-ness that will make the world fold in half.
Because next week is Memorial Day, I've decided to schedule the next installment of the RTs for that following Tuesday. Enjoy yourself until then!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you just have any suggestions or tips for my next blog entry, e-mail me at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mails are greatly appreciated.
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