Weekend linkspam

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* Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are making another movie together!

* Charisma Carpenter will be guest-starring on the next season of Lost Girl. This season just wrapped up, and I confess I've been steadily losing interest, so maybe this will renew it?

* In light of the politics around Winter Soldier, I'm glad that my Twitter feed turned up this older article about Steve Rogers' comics history and the political environment he grew up in. Also, here's some really excellent meta parsing the movie's political POV and Nick Fury's character arc.

* Jed and Mo talk more about Agents of SHIELD and the impact of Winter Soldier on the show. I kind of feel bad for them? It's like, "Here, congratulations, have a TV show. And oh, by the way, we will force you to CHANGE THE ENTIRE PREMISE before the end of the first season. So... good luck with that!"

* The other two creators (Jeph Loeb and Jeff Bell) also talk about recent developments, and Cobie Smulders is apparently coming back to AoS now that HIMYM is finished.

* Why doesn't the MCU have LGBT characters?

* There's talk of a Mystique spin-off X-Men film (a la Wolverine) starring Jennifer Lawrence. Won't anyone just let that poor girl sleep?

* No one is surprised that Game of Thrones was renewed for seasons 5 and 6.

* Matthew Weiner talks about the final season of Mad Men, and Jon Hamm talks about the mess that is Don Draper.

* No matter how you felt about the series finale, I can't imagine anyone thinking Battlestar Galactica needs to be rebooted again.

* Brie Larsen will be starring in the film adaptation of Room. And speaking of books turned into movies, here's the first footage of Gone Girl.

* Christian Kane is back on TV in The Librarians.

* Stephen Colbert is replacing David Letterman on The Late Show.

Comments

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... I have to admit that as that rarest of creatures, a fan of Battlestar Galactica 78, that I would totally be down with them finally making poor Richard Hatch's "__ Years Later" sequel to the original show. if indeed that is what's being talked about. Going back to male!Starbuck could be regressive if handled wrong, but the old show also had several vivid female characters and characters of color that could be further developed.

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Heh, I didn't know Richard Hatch had a sequel idea. It seems like this would be a totally new reboot, though, unrelated to any of the previous ones.

[lotesse]

yeah there was a total thing - he self-financed a five-minute promo video back in the 90s for BSG: The Second Coming, but the extant reboot was in development at the same time and that was the program that got picked up. I've always figured that they brought Richard onto the reboot as a sort of olive branch; the 'verse has been his baby since the original show. the promo is prolly on youtube fwiw.

[jae]

I was going to say: "ooh, thanks for the Gone Girl trailer!" But that's not actually a trailer! It seems to be a preview for a show that's going to interview Ben Affleck about the movie. Did you mean to put in a different link there?

-J

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UGH no. Someone else called it a trailer, I linked it before I actually had a chance to watch it, so when I went back, I had the same "HEY, this is not actually a trailer..." reaction. And then forgot to edit the post, lol. Did it now.