BBC Radio launches Rolling Stones bio-doc
Tune into a six-part series on the band here. Just the first two parts are up currently.
Lost is shaping up to be a big disappointment
With only a few episodes left, I have to admit I'm anticipating a very lackluster, unsatisfying conclusion to "Lost."
To date, this final season has seemed very much random and tossed together and short on revelations.
For five years-plus, the show's producers have been stringing us along with myriad mysteries with the promise of eventual answers. But, at this point, what do we really know?
I have a whole list of unanswered questions (some major, others minor) here. I get the sense many of them will go unanswered, and that just doesn't seem fair.
Even more frustrating, I think many will go unanswered because the show's producers have dropped threads they don't know how to pick up. For example, they briefly brought back the character of Lilly this season. But they didn't address key questions concerning her. For example, she played a role in getting Desmond to sail to the island. Why? And she was in the mental ward with Hurley. Again, why?
Click the link for many more frustratingly unanswered questions.
Early on, the producers promised this series wouldn't flake out ala "Twin Peaks" or "The X-Files." They had the whole story pretty much worked out, including the end. But I'm doubting more and more that that is true.
In the end will "Lost" just be the story of Jacob and Smokey -- two characters we barely know and who were really only dropped into the mix at the end of last season -- with the series' regular characters functioning merely as props?
Is it gonna be some lame story about a cosmic/existential chess game played between these two? Is that the best the producers can possibly come up with at this juncture?
I'm watching until the end, of course, because I've followed the story thus far. But I certainly haven't been excited by any of the episodes this season and I'm somewhat dreading the expected disappointment of the series conclusion.
Is it too late at this juncture for the show to get it together and go out with a bang? I hope not.
To date, this final season has seemed very much random and tossed together and short on revelations.
For five years-plus, the show's producers have been stringing us along with myriad mysteries with the promise of eventual answers. But, at this point, what do we really know?
I have a whole list of unanswered questions (some major, others minor) here. I get the sense many of them will go unanswered, and that just doesn't seem fair.
Even more frustrating, I think many will go unanswered because the show's producers have dropped threads they don't know how to pick up. For example, they briefly brought back the character of Lilly this season. But they didn't address key questions concerning her. For example, she played a role in getting Desmond to sail to the island. Why? And she was in the mental ward with Hurley. Again, why?
Click the link for many more frustratingly unanswered questions.
Early on, the producers promised this series wouldn't flake out ala "Twin Peaks" or "The X-Files." They had the whole story pretty much worked out, including the end. But I'm doubting more and more that that is true.
In the end will "Lost" just be the story of Jacob and Smokey -- two characters we barely know and who were really only dropped into the mix at the end of last season -- with the series' regular characters functioning merely as props?
Is it gonna be some lame story about a cosmic/existential chess game played between these two? Is that the best the producers can possibly come up with at this juncture?
I'm watching until the end, of course, because I've followed the story thus far. But I certainly haven't been excited by any of the episodes this season and I'm somewhat dreading the expected disappointment of the series conclusion.
Is it too late at this juncture for the show to get it together and go out with a bang? I hope not.
Modesty Blaise co-creator Peter O'Donnell dies
From the London Evening Standard:
Peter O'Donnell, creator of the Evening Standard's long-running Modesty Blaise cartoon strip, has died at the age of 90.
Mr O'Donnell, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, got the inspiration for his all-action heroine from a young woman he encountered in a refugee camp after the Second World War.
Movie of Kerouac's On the Road cast
Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Shooting is set to begin in August on the $25 million production, backers said Thursday.
More here.
Joe Kubert details his Vietnam-themed graphic novel
“Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965,”...tells the true story of a detachment of twelve Special Forces soldiers on a basic recon mission into a village fifty-five miles northeast of Saigon that turned suddenly deadly. At the time the OGN is set, the Battle of Dong Xoai was the largest conflict between the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese Army during that stage of the Vietnam War.
More here.
Lost star interested in playing Marvel's Sub-Mariner
Jin as Subby?
Even though "Lost" will be ending in a few short weeks, Daniel Dae Kim would like to stay in the water as Namor the Sub Mariner — Marvel's first mutant.
“Living in Hawaii, I’m always in the water," explained Kim during an interview with UGO, "And I think Sub-Mariner looks Asian. So I feel like if there’s any one I could play, it would be him. I’ve met with Marvel about a few other things, but if and when it becomes appropriate — sure, if they’d have me.”
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