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Just breezed through the place, and caught the Ineffable Mister Crowe’s piece on the upcoming Futurama product en route.

ZOIDBERG roolz?

Good Sir, I beg to differ.

Futurama is populated by many fine and diverse characters, from the hapless, mindless Philip J Fry to the hapless, clueless Amy Wong. But, left in the dust of forgotten memory, is The One True Star of this show, he without whom this show would be merely a slapstick parody of itself.

I give you- Scruffy.

An emigma, wrapped in a riddle, cloaked by a Warbird’s cloaking device. Scruffy. We see so little of him, and he appears to do so little when we do see him. I think that he is a major linchpin in the show’s future development. Just as Fry was the Chosen One against the fury of the Brains, Scruffy is due for true greatness.

That, or someone lost several pages of script with his name on them…

Truth (rarely on, always around)

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As in lovesick. But that’s another story, which none of you are ever gonna get.

Spoilers, as the Esteemed Mr Crowe challenged, is the subject at hand. (Note to self- ask if he’s any relation to that Maximus guy.)

Spoilers.

We’re whacked with ’em every day, especially if we’re respectable genre fans. Wanna know what’s gonna happen on BG next season? I already know, and I never even tried to find out. Same with Atlantis, Heroes and that new NBC time travel show. Well, not that one, because I deleted the e-mail that had the promised spoilers. That I kinda regret doing.

Overall, I’m copacetic with spoilers now. I used to hate the things. Even a hint of what I didn’t know would incite the Red Rage, driving me to send the giver loads of spam. And that stuff doesn’t smell great when it’s sitting around by the truckload for a few days. Especially when the new Doctor Who kicked off. I really wanted to come into that cold, get every jolt for myself.

But I also made the mistake of being in a DW fan site, and there they were, all around me. "The Time Lords are gone!" "The Doctor’s got this horrific accent!" (I disagree with that entirely, for the record. My friend Roger is a North Country guy, and the accent’s cool.) And I steamed. I sulked. I trolled for addresses to send spam. Nothing, and the spoilers continued, late into S1, then for S2 while I was still digesting S1. (Pausing to get my Corporate Fix…) Okay, back. After awhile of innundation (sp?), I began to get used to the idea. Spoilers. They exist. We learn to live with them, or we walk around with dirty socks in our ears. Or we belt anyone that tries to give us one. (That last isn’t advisable. Jail’s not fun. And no, I know nothing about the Inside, man!) Or we can turn off our computers. (Sorry, folks. Please stop screaming.)

So, what have we learned here today? That spoilers are all about us, and we have to learn how to live with them, much as we have to live with the notion that Skiffy’s keeping Paincauser Jane around to punish We the Faithful? That whoever let me have this blog should be taken out behind the barn and fed to starving pigs? That I loathe Paincauser Jane? Yes to One and Three, no to Two. (Only because the guy owes me fifty.)

Peace in, folks. Trust me- I got it right.

Truth

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Meh…

It really coulda been better…

FLASH!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHH!

I’m gonna stop doing this…

Promise. Never again will I riff on the Queen classic. Freddie Mercury’s ghost wants royalties.

I’m watching Flash The Series for the third time as I type this. Not because it’s really good, but because everything else on TV is really bad.

This isn’t bad either, IMO. It’s just- incomplete. It feels as though the writers just used the sketch notes for the air-draft. Where there could eb more substance, we get- air. The last book I read similar to this in structure was John DeChancie and David Bischoff’s "Dr. Dimension: Masters of Spacetime", and I felt ripped off by it. I remember wanting my four bucks back. I’m surprised that I don’t feel more ripped off by this.

The effects are garden-variety. Not surprising, this being the Spawn of Skiffy. I’ll hope for more. The action- again, okay. Nothing to leap out of your seat and roar over. As a guy, that bothers me somewhat. I like to leap and roar. I want more carnage. Am I wrong for that?

Frankel (sp?), the Chief Scientist. He’s miscast. Should’ve been the Chief Interrogator, IMO. If I’m a scientist, and someone lands in my part of town, claiming to be from another planet, I’m going to ask a few sciency questions. He didn’t, just pressed Flash abut the "Imex" (nice touch, BTB, though I admit that I saw it coming at first shot). And, when he had Flash on the torture table, he *enjoyed* that. (Hope the CIA wasn’t watching.) I still don’t know whether Aura’s shot killed him or not. Hope not, because that would make for a nice plot point, him having a serious beef with Ming’s daughter.

The acting. Okay, I’ve seen better in high-school productions. I’ve *done* better. And that was as a dead body. (Sorry, no recreations.) But the actors, as I said before, didn’t get much to work with in the way of a story. They managed well enough. They all look nice.

Karen Cliche (wonder if that’s her real name, or just something she picked for effect?), as the bounty hunter-type, is too Starbucky for my taste. One hot, macho babe per generation should be it.

Aura? Dale says to her, early on, that Flash "wouldn’t touch her if" she was "the last woman in the Universe". Allow me to agree wth that in totis. She’s- meh. Take her or leave her, preferably leave her. She’s a catch for some guys out there. Not for me. Dale, however, can interview me anytime she likes. And I don’t even like reporters. Character-wise (forgive me for the slip into Looks City. I’m a guy, okay?), both are exacly true to form.

Flash- he’s a little slow for the world-saving type, at times. Again, this could be due to the script, so I’ll let him go. Zarkov gets a bit of a knock by me. He’s a geeky Crazy Eddie from "First Wave". Can’t even shoot straight. Back to the boards for him.

I want an Imex. (Repeat this forty-three times, and you understand my lust for power-through-knowledge.)

Overall grade? Meh. Make it a C+ But it is just the pilot. Room for improvement, and Skiffy will give it that. Look at Paincauser Jane, still chugging along, clip show after only seven eps. (stopping self before PCJ rant escapes).

Thank you for your readership, all seven of you. I now return you control of your minds and souls. (Didn’t even know I had them, did you?)

Truthseeker013 (now weeping, because nothing’s on TV. Thank Deity for the Internet. Witch Hunter Robin, here I come…)