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cjlasky7I can't afford the TV I want to see.
All across the board, on various streaming channels, I see dream projects that I (once) would have given my right arm to see produced. But now, it's all happening at the same time, and I just can't pay for it all.
The torture breaks down as follows:
On CBS All Access: The new Star Trek. Not just Discovery, but the new Jean-Luc Picard series and the animated "Lower Decks" from Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan.
The knife in the gut: Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot starts April 1st.
DC Universe: the Doom Patrol. Anyone who knows me knows that I was crazy for Grant Morrison's run on the book in the 90s, and it seems the TV show is taking its cue from that era.
The knife in the gut: Alan Tudyk is playing Mr. Nobody, leader of the absurdist supervillain team, the Brotherhood of Dada.
Amazon: Good Omens. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's apocalyptic comedy finally comes to life, after 20 years in Development Hell. Gaiman is adapting the novel.
The knife to the gut: David Tennant is playing Crowley; Michael Sheen is playing Aziraphale. The soundtrack should be wall to wall Queen music. (This is unfair.)
Hulu: And now, the one that really set me off...
Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith.
When I was a kid in the 70s, the one comic book writer who seemed to be on my wavelength was Steve Gerber. Gerber was a satirist and a misanthrope, an underground comix sensibility who somehow wound up in the hallowed halls of Marvel. He had great runs on the Defenders, the Guardians of the Galaxy (original flavor) and Man-Thing, but his crowning glory was Howard-- a demolition of contemporary American culture.
Of course, almost nobody remembers Gerber's brilliant work on Howard because George Lucas' 1986 movie effectively wiped Howard off the pop culture map for three decades.
But not everybody forgot. Chip Zdarsky's run on a new Howard comic book series restored a lot of good will toward the character, and James Gunn--with the cameo at the end of the first Guardians movie--made Howard a possibility in Hollywood again.
And now, Howard is coming back to the screen. With a chance to finally do it right.
But I can't afford all this. The boy needs to go to college.
DVDs for my birthday?
All across the board, on various streaming channels, I see dream projects that I (once) would have given my right arm to see produced. But now, it's all happening at the same time, and I just can't pay for it all.
The torture breaks down as follows:
On CBS All Access: The new Star Trek. Not just Discovery, but the new Jean-Luc Picard series and the animated "Lower Decks" from Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan.
The knife in the gut: Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot starts April 1st.
DC Universe: the Doom Patrol. Anyone who knows me knows that I was crazy for Grant Morrison's run on the book in the 90s, and it seems the TV show is taking its cue from that era.
The knife in the gut: Alan Tudyk is playing Mr. Nobody, leader of the absurdist supervillain team, the Brotherhood of Dada.
Amazon: Good Omens. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's apocalyptic comedy finally comes to life, after 20 years in Development Hell. Gaiman is adapting the novel.
The knife to the gut: David Tennant is playing Crowley; Michael Sheen is playing Aziraphale. The soundtrack should be wall to wall Queen music. (This is unfair.)
Hulu: And now, the one that really set me off...
Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith.
When I was a kid in the 70s, the one comic book writer who seemed to be on my wavelength was Steve Gerber. Gerber was a satirist and a misanthrope, an underground comix sensibility who somehow wound up in the hallowed halls of Marvel. He had great runs on the Defenders, the Guardians of the Galaxy (original flavor) and Man-Thing, but his crowning glory was Howard-- a demolition of contemporary American culture.
Of course, almost nobody remembers Gerber's brilliant work on Howard because George Lucas' 1986 movie effectively wiped Howard off the pop culture map for three decades.
But not everybody forgot. Chip Zdarsky's run on a new Howard comic book series restored a lot of good will toward the character, and James Gunn--with the cameo at the end of the first Guardians movie--made Howard a possibility in Hollywood again.
And now, Howard is coming back to the screen. With a chance to finally do it right.
But I can't afford all this. The boy needs to go to college.
DVDs for my birthday?
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Date: 2019-02-12 12:17 am (UTC)There are ways though...trials. CBS All-Access has free trials. So too does Hulu and Amazon.
I do feel your pain -- I've been ignoring CBS All-Access for a while now. I want it for the Good Fight and Discovery, but two shows is just not a good enough reason. Also you have to give it a lot of personal information -- such as phone number and address..eh no. Also Starz -- which had American Gods and Outlander and Black Sails. And so many others...such as Sundance Now with Discovery of Witches...and oh yes, DC Universe's Doom Patrol.
Damn it. I miss the days when Netflix was the only streaming channel around.
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Date: 2019-02-14 12:41 pm (UTC)I felt bad about missing this before--but I thought I was going to cry.
But seriously, great interview.
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Date: 2019-02-14 03:29 pm (UTC)You need to stop torturing yourself. ;-) I stay away from information on things I can't see. (Well, okay, I do own the cast album to Hamilton but that's different...now I no longer have to see it.)
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Date: 2019-11-19 06:24 pm (UTC)Check out your local library. We can request anything that is available throughout the entire branch system--books, movies, ebooks, music, etc. They have tons of digital content, too. For example, I read The New York Times digital edition for free (though I do subscribe to our local newspaper, too).
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Date: 2019-11-21 02:22 am (UTC)I'm always hesitant to use the DVDs in my local library, because the last time I tried it, something on or in the disk messed up my player. (Still, if a copy of Good Omens drops into my lap I might say "to hell with it"....