Greetings Earthlings!

Finally coming on DVD Animaniacs & Pinky and the Brain. Its about damn time!

( What we going to do tonight, Brain? )

( Hellooooo Nurse! )

From tvShowsonDVD.com

Industry sources have informed us that La Femme Nikita - The Complete 4th Season, is finally on the way to DVD! The first season was originally released in July 2003. During the same month a year later the second season was released, but was immediately pulled from the market because of a licensing issue with a song by the group Garbage. When that licensing failed to get worked out, the sets were re-pressed without the song (one of only a couple of times Warner has had to do a music replacement on a TV-DVD, which is very commendable), and the re-worked package came out in March 2005. Then, a few months later, the third season hit in late June 2005. Since then, nothing...until now. We've gotten the word that the elusive 4th season is tentatively set to arrive in stores on July 25, 2006. We even have an early look at the cover art, which may be subject to change:

As they say on the net Woot!

While at work the other night I had an odd thought. What if the Firefly 'Verse is the future of Earth 2. I know Joss said there are no aliens in the 'Verse, but bear with me.

In Earth 2 the stations are controlled by people that want to make a perfect society and seems to be corrupt. Not unlike the Alliance. In Earth 2 the Earth has been used up and we need a new place to live. In Firefly they refer to Earth as the Earth-that-was.

Perhaps the Terrians passing on their abilities to to Uly and perhaps the other Syndrome Children is what allowed humans to develop the technology to terraform planets? Like I said I know Joss said there are no aliens in the 'Verse, but I still think its a neat idea.

Gordy came over tonight and he & I went out to Outback and the Barnes & Noble. He had a gift card that was still burning a hole in his pocket from X-mas.

Wandering around I picked up Cinderella and Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price for Ann. And I picked up War of the Worlds Season 1 for myself.

Gordy wandering around picked up a Johnny Cash CD and found wonder of wonders Hawk the Slayer! For those of you unfamiliar with this gem, it was a British movie that came out way back in 1980.

This movie like Archer:Fugitive From the Empire and Sword & the Sorcerer are great badwrong goodfun movies. The SFX in Hawk the Slayer are awful even for 1980.

The movie features Jack Palance as Volton the big evil guy who hisses all the time while wearing a fantasy version of Darth Vader's mask.

The others include:

Patricia Quinn as the Sorceress who is better known as Magenta in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

William Morgan Sheppard as Ranulf the one hand man with the repeating crossbow, Sheppard has done a lot of genre TV and movie work including playing Blank Reg on Max Headroom, some misc parts in Star Trek TV, Dr Zito on MacGyver, the Professor on SeaQuest DSV, and the first Soul Hunter on Babylon 5.

Bernard Bresslaw played Ralf the Giant (who wasnt very giant). And also know for playing Rell the Cyclops in Krull.

There are other characters but no-one of any note at all. Except for John Terry as the title character Hawk, the Slayer! ho now plays Jack's father on Lost. We kept looking at the screen trying to figure where we knew him from. We ended up looking on IMDB to figure it out.

A lot of gaming geeks in my youth thought this movie was the bomb, because the wanted the "Mind Sword" that Hawk wielded. Shot the bow superfast like Crow the Elf or have Ranulf's repeating crossbow. These items showed up in many AD&D campaigns.

Ann had never seen it before so enjoyed the badness of the film and laughed along with Gordy & I. We joked that we needed to watch Krull, Archer: Fugitive From the Empire, and Sword & the Sorcerer as a marathon of movie badness.

Ann & I went out to get a bite to eat at Applebee's tonight. I think it is the forst time we have eaten out in over a month. I had the Sizzling Chicken Skillet from the Weight Watchers menu and Ann had her usual.... fajitas. I am not sure why she even looks at the menu when we go there. :-)

But in the way home we stopped at The Place of DVD Evil, known to the rest of the world as Best Buy. We were poking around the new releases and she said "Go ahead I know you want to." She was gesturing at the general release version of Battlestar Galactica. Not being a fool I grabbed it and sprinted for the checkout counter before she could think better of it. I think I trampled a senior citizen on my way there.

Then when we got into the car again she just looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes and said "I love you. You geeky man." Now usually that is a prelude to needing me to do some laundry or some other household task (just kidding sweetheart), but this time she told me how much she adored me and was glad that we got married.

Now I just want to say I love you too, Ann. I couldnt be any luckier than to have you with me and I hope we are as happy for the rest of ours lives as we we are right now.

Now onto the DVDs...

The BSG DVDs come in a slip case and the individual DVDs are in thin cases (like the Firefly DVD set), which I like a lot. All the episodes and the mini-series have commentary except: Water, Litmus, Six Degrees of Separation, and Flesh & Bone, Which means I have many hours of watching and re-watching to do. YAY! It also looks like the discs have a play all option for the episodes which is another big plus for me.

I just wonder why every cover for BSG things has Six looking like she is about to shoot eyebeams out of her eyes. She is by far the least interesting part of the series for me. Oh well I am off to my geekfest!!

EDIT: BTW anyone that is interested I have a copy of the BSG miniseries on DVD that is looking for a good home now. For sale or trade!

I have just finished watching Season One of B5 on DVD and I am starting on watching Season Two as I type. I am not sure how many times I have re-watched the whole thing now.

It is interesting to watch the slow transformation of G'Kar and Londo from being a hot-head and a fool respectively. Then seeing G'Kar becoming a philosopher-preist and Londo becoming a tragic fool.

I am also lifting some general ideas from this for my C&C game which I cant elaborate too much here, because all three of my players read this blog regularly.

But when I get further along designing the City of Riverhallow I will throw up more information here.

Ann bought a el cheapo DVD player last week and I found the hack for it so she can indulge her love BBC DVDs. Hopefully there will be something extra in my pay envelope this week!

Ann bought Constantine at the same time she picked up Due South for me. After watching it a couple times I am surprised how much I liked it. I just divorced myself from the fact it was based upon Hellblazer and it worked just fine.

I really liked Gavin Rossdale (Balthazar) and Tilda Swinton (Gabriel) and was a bit annoyed that they killed off off Chas.

The only element that really bugged me was that damn gun. Why the hell did they need that? Had to make the final fight scene more sexy?

And if I ever run another modern occult I think I will borrow Papa Midnite's vault for it. I have had some odd ideas for one ever since reading the WoD 2.0 core book. But then I always have game ideas.

Just finished watching Due South season 1 on DVD. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this show. The chemistry between Paul Gross and David Marciano is great and the little lines they throw in.

Ray Vecchio: So this is how they punish Mounties in Canada; they make them dress like Americans?

Ray Vecchio: Please tell me this doesn't involve sub-zero temperatures or Inuit legend.
Fraser: No, it does not.
Ray Vecchio: Of course it does. It always does.

And of course you could base a drinking game around this oft repeated line. Fraser: Thank you kindly.

Now to get DVD of Season 2.