All Entries Tagged With: "ALIAS"

J.J. Abrams Strikes me as a Fanboy, So I Love Him 3x’s More

Okay, I know I just posted videos for Dollhouse, but I don’t want to waste time in posting this awesome video for Fringe with series creator J.J. Abrams. I want to thank TVGuide.com for the video, and from that link you can also read more with Abrams.

What can you tell from the video? Well, I don’t know how keen you are (kidding) but what I sense (and have sensed since Felicity aired) is that J.J Abrams is a man of enormous creative talent. You might know his name in association with the TV shows Alias, Lost, or the movie Cloverfield. Now he’s bringing us his new show, Fringe. Abrams is a fan of mysteries (at least I think this is a fair guess) and he’s rethinking his methods of how he develops and shows them.

Even if you never watched Cloverfield, I bet you know what it is, and you were interested in it - talking about it with friends in the car or strangers online because of that amazing viral marketing campaign that they had. It pulled you into it, like uh - well, substitute your own brand of metaphor here.

Alias was frickin’ amazing and powerful in the first two (or three) seasons. After that, it did lose some of the magic, the center didn’t hold (yes I’m thinking of both a Sylvia Plath poem and a scene from Bones as I type that). There were too many things going on, people were confused, and you lost what made the show so great at the beginning. When it ended, there was a bit more of a sigh of relief than anything else.

Abrams realized that Alias didn’t end as well as it could have, I’m guessing, which is why he advance-planned the date for the end of Lost. And Lost, as all fans know, has more than its fair share of mysteries. Giving Lost an end-date tells people to hang on, it tells them there is a specific plan. With a show like that, that really helps. They can set the pacing.

Another thing that stands out to me, about Abrams, is how passionate he is about his projects. I think he’s a fanboy himself. He’s humble, he wears cute glasses, and well - I’m just a big fan! I’m curious to hear what you guys think of what Fringe will be. Are you excited to see it? Don’t you want to watch just to see Joshua Jackson back on TV? (Or is the Joshua thing just a me-thing?)

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Remember When Our Friends Lived on a Creek?

A long time ago, we used to be friends* with a bunch of angsty teens that lived on a creek. Remember those days? Yeah. Those were some pretty great days.

Today my Dawson’s Creek season 6 box set arrived from the library (yea, buddy - I’m cheap). The sixth season is the last season. And I think most fans will agree that seasons five and six are pretty lackluster (read: mostly a suckfest). It always feels like, ‘Really? Where’s the Creek magic? Why does Jack Osbourne have a cameo? Why can’t Andie McPhee come back?’ I don’t think I can actually handle watching the series finale again. I watched it at first (all those years ago), with a couple of friends. So I held it together in that first viewing, no tears. Maybe just a little bit of mist. But that’s all. Honest!

But… when I watched it by myself…oh noooo. SO MANY TEARS. Because, oh God…Jen! Also, the line Dawson’s delivers about, ‘I guess this threesome has become a foursome’ always held such perfect self-aware irony (for the characters and the show, itself) that I find myself

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Foxs’ Fringe Preview! (So Many Reasons to Love J.J. Abrams and Joshua Jackson)

Once I knew the combination of the names J.J. Abrams and Joshua Jackson (another J.J. - ha, yea, I’m sure I’m not the first to notice that) were coming together for a show, I was on board for Fringe. It’s the new Fox TV show. It’s sort of like Alias meets Lost, although that’s too simple of an explanation. And that’s only explaining the vibe of the show. That is to say, there’s lots of overwhelming mystery, and probably a decent amount of cliffhangers in store for us. Can you stand it?! I am so ready to swoon over Joshua Jackson, again. Oh, Dawson’s Creek, you’ve been gone too long.

But I’m no longer an angsty teen who needs to watch (only) angsty teen shows. I’m now in the CIA, covering up uh…things, so that’s what I can relate to. And that’s why I must watch Fringe!

When you’re a CIA operative it’s so hard to find a decent TV show to relate to. Sigh. (Wanna see my very real, and very glittery badge? I made it in photoshop!)

When an unlikely trio uncovers a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events, they discover it may be part of a larger, disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology on FRINGE airing TUE 9/8c this fall on FOX.

The first Fringe trailer from Fox:

And, there’s one more!:

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When Life Pulls You Down - TV Show Fanvids Are There For You

Listen up - ’cause here’s an easy statement to apply to your roller coaster existence: when life sucks, you need some music. Sad music will let you wallow (Sarah McLachlan never lets me down - Felicity Porter (Felicity) and I have that in common), but if you’ve got any intentions of pulling yourself up out of the proverbial sludge - you need something with a fast, makes you dance, amps up your heart - beat. So, that’s what I’m gonna deliver here.

I listen to DVD commentary for my favorite shows, which - while sometimes time consuming, is always rewarding. I believe it was for commentary on the pilot of Alias where I heard J.J. Abrams say that for the infamous strut that Sydney does in her red-magenta hair in an airport, he had music going so that Jennifer Garner would really nail that strut. And if five seasons of a show (and a successful movie career) can say anything - I think it says she did.

I will add that my method here, with these vids, is Jessica-is-not-a-doctor-but-boy-does-she-look-pretty-in-a-white-jacket approved, and when I tested it, it worked. So save this page. Because we all know life can be a real bitch.

Oh - and this is also the next installment in the Sofachip Fanvid Appreciation Awards. So if you’re featured here, go on and claim your banner after the jump.

Let’s kick this off with my favorite TV Doctor, Dr. House. He may be cranky, but he inspired one of my favorite House M.D. fanvids. The Gorillaz - Feel Good inc. song is perfect for a video with fast pacing and as much glee as there is angst. It doesn’t matter WHO you ship with House - if you like him, if you like the show - you’re gonna like this video. No. I take it back. You’re gonna love it.

di0br - Windmill, Windmill:

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Does Barry Watson Look Like a Koala Bear?

A Koala isn’t actually a bear, or so they say. As far as I know, they look like cute little bears. Then again, I’ve heard they’re quite vicious, like a model without her Evian water. Why am I talking about Koala’s? I’ll tell you. You see, on an episode of Samantha Who? Barry Watson’s (I mean Todd’s) girlfriend says he looks like like the koala bear he won for her at a carnival. She holds the ‘little fuzzy’ up to him, and everything. Well, I don’t think Barry Watson looks anything like a Koala. But, judge for yourself:

I know you must be terribly disappointed to see that he does not, in fact, resemble a Koala. However, there is someone who does.

Undeniable! And I don’t mean it in any hostile or bad way. I think Koala’s are cute! Victor Garber is on Eli Stone right now…which is a show I don’t watch because it’s basically, as I put it to someone once: “Ally McBeal with a penis.” I did love Victor Garber on ALIAS, though! Maybe he could have been on The Noozles. That was that cartoon on Nickelodean about two Koala’s - one was gray, one was pink.

The Koala picture is from australian-wildlife.com, the picture of Barry Watson and the picture of Victor Garber are from starpulse.com. You can buy animal pictures at the Australian site, and the picture are so cute: check them out. Do you think there is a TV star out there who looks like a wombat?

Am I crazy to think that people look like animals? I THINK NO, I AM NOT!

Now - you might want to subscribe to Sofachip before I tell you what animal YOU look like! (The link is on the main page.)

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