According to TV Insider and Deadline, another DC Comics superhero will be joining 'Arrow', a show set in Comic Book Toobworld. And the best thing about it is that has televisiological value.
Megalyn Echikunwoke is joining 'Arrow' as Mari Mable, AKA Vixen. According to DC Comics, Mari is an African orphan who had an inherited talent to be mimic any animal.
Here's the interesting part.....
Echikunwoke has already voiced the role in a web series about Vixen. It was animated so it would be situated in the Tooniverse. And the stars of 'Arrow' and 'The Flash', Stephen Amell and Grant Gustin respectively, also voiced their characters in episodes of 'Vixen'.
Once Vixen arrives in 'Arrow', it won't qualify as a crossover. 'Vixen' takes place in the Tooniverse, an alternate dimension, and is just a counterpart to the activities in still another alternate dimension - Comic Book Toobworld.
For alls I know, she'll eventually cross over to 'The Flash', which is very good news for the Television Crossover Hall of Fame. In the month of February, as our celebration of Black History Month, we induct black TV characters who fulfill the requirements. But it's a finite supply, unfortunately. As far as I can see, I have only about six characters or even League of Themselves members left to induct. Vixen would be a welcome inductee once the time came....
It's that time of year again, when we all make lists and think back over the past year, in whatever field of interest concerns us, and chronicle the high points and the lows. For the past few years I've been presenting this compilation as an awards show, the Toobits, which of course celebrates my two bits about Toobworld.
As it is with any such list you'll find in TV columns across the country these last few weeks, these are my opinions. You're welcome to your own and I hope you'll share them, but I'm sticking to my weapons of choice. (It could be you won't see something that was a favorite of yours because I just never got around to seeing it. There's only so much time in the world - even for a do-nothing-else-anyway sort like me! - and I've only got the two eyes, even if they do operate independantly of each other at times.)
Unlike the Emmy Awards which will just keep handing out trophies to some shows forever, only shows, characters and what-not that debuted in 2015 can be considered. (And by "debuted", I mean that which I first came in contact with in 2015. It could be a few years old, but if it's my first time seeing it, it's new.)
This one-time-only rule includes characters who have been recast; those are still the same characters who already exist in Toobworld. (But there were a few notable appearances that deserved honorable mention, and they get it.)
So without further ado, let's have at it:
WORST NEW SERIES TITLE
'Best Time Ever' It would be tough to live up to such a title. And they didn't. BEST EPISODE TITLE
"12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer" - 'Inside Amy Schumer'
BEST BINGE-WATCHING EXPERIENCE 'Transparent' I don't count my lunch-hour viewing of other shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime as binge-watchinng. I'm talking about the definition as it was meant to be - one after the other in a single sitting. (I was taking advantage of the free use of Amazon Prime to watch the show after it won the Golden Globes awards.)
WORST CLASH BETWEEN TOOBWORLD & THE REAL WORLD
'The Good Wife' Governor Peter Florrick's campaign to get the Democratic nomination to run for President. It started out with him trying to get considered for Clinton's Veep and that could remain believable. But I think everybody in the viewing audience knows that Florrick isn't even in the running for the nod and yet now the show has him in first place in the Iowa polls. WORST TV EXPERIENCE
Any Republican debate. Take your pick. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IN A SHOW Imported
'Broadchurch' (Second Season) Domestic 'How To Get Away With Murder' (Second Season)
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IN A NETWORK
For shame, NBC - for backing down on your stand against Donald Trump appearing on the network in the entertainment division so that you could get him to host an episode of 'Saturday Night Live'. My revulsion at this idea extends to Lorne Michaels for going along with this. I just wish there were cast members brave enough to sit the week out in protest, as Nora Dunn did when Andrew Dice Clay hosted (even if it did damage her remaining time on the show, maybe even her career.) BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE GENERAL AUDIENCE
'Forever' was canceled at the end of its first season back in May. It was too good to deserve that fate. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IN MYSELF
I just couldn't continue with 'Y Gwyll' ("The Hinterland") after seeing the first episode. The problem may have been that I had just seen that same storyline used the night before in the final episode of 'Dicte'. I don't have the same disappointment in myself for not continuing with 'Shetland'. I couldn't even finish the first episode. I like the writer's previous series and I like Doug Henshall, but the series lacked crackle of 'Vera' and Henshall as Perez was not as compelling or interesting as Brenda Blethyn as Vera Stanhope. (The only female detective in Toobworld who could stand against Columbo in comparison.)
BEST CRITIQUE BY AN ONLINE COMMENTER
Ray Brizzi:
If they're not splitting series up the last season into two seasons a year apart, they're making shorter seasons on the others. Where are we, England? Steam came out of my head when i went to watch Better Call Saul this morning.
WORST ANALYSIS BY AN ONLINE COMMENTER
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-21/these-doctor-who-fans-cant-cope-with-evil-david-tennant-in-jessica-jones Fans can't tell the difference between the Tenth Doctor and Killgrave. Just a notch below those people who cant tell the difference between the characters and the actors who play them. BEST O'BSERVATION OF A TV SERIES “Thank you for being my family,” he said. “I love you both and really, nothing else matters, does it?”
And that made it easier to see him go. One look at Harry at that awkward-can't-make-eye-contact stage and how his Father lit up like a Christmas tree, of course he needs to go spend more time with his family. Good for you Dave. Good for your family. It was a perfect ending. - Amy Chen O'Connell (about the last 'Late Show with David Letterman')
BEST TELEVISIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS So this weekend Amanda and I watched the Lifetime movie about the girls in Cleveland who were kidnapped and held hostage for over a decade. They were chained up, raped... I have watched some full on crazy ass messed up movies. This was made for TV and even keeping it safe for TV it was one of the most disturbing movies I've seen. Jumping off from that, I was floored and baffled that someone would choose to buy ad time in this movie for 50 Shades Of Grey. Really???? You want to advertise your movie about the fun of bondage and S&M in a movie about woman facing real degradation and abuse? Classy. - Thomas Holbrook BEST CONTRIBUTION TO TOOBWORLD 'The Librarians' - the Fictionals The splainin of living characters stepping out of BookWorld to become three-dimensional in Toobworld served to bring 'Once Upon A Time' and 'Once A Hero' a reasonable background for why their characters also came from another fictional universe.
It's that time of year again, when we all make lists and think back over the past year, in whatever field of interest concerns us, and chronicle the high points and the lows. For the past few years I've been presenting this compilation as an awards show, the Toobits, which of course celebrates my two bits about Toobworld.
As it is with any such list you'll find in TV columns across the country these last few weeks, these are my opinions. You're welcome to your own and I hope you'll share them, but I'm sticking to my weapons of choice. (It could be you won't see something that was a favorite of yours because I just never got around to seeing it. There's only so much time in the world - even for a do-nothing-else-anyway sort like me! - and I've only got the two eyes, even if they do operate independantly of each other at times.)
Unlike the Emmy Awards which will just keep handing out trophies to some shows forever, only shows, characters and what-not that debuted in 2015 can be considered. (And by "debuted", I mean that which I first came in contact with in 2015. It could be a few years old, but if it's my first time seeing it, it's new.)
This one-time-only rule includes characters who have been recast; those are still the same characters who already exist in Toobworld. (But there were a few notable appearances that deserved honorable mention, and they get it.)
Dr. Allerdyce, killed by her daughter Shirley, 'Fortitude'
FIRST MAJOR TV CHARACTER TO DIE
DCI Emma Summerhayes, 'EastEnders ' MOST DESERVING TO DIE Dandy Mott, 'American Horror Story: Freakshow'
BEST NEW CHARACTER NAME
Roland Schitt, 'Schitt's Creek' Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun, 'Game Of Thrones' [Mostly because it's an in-joke reference to Phil Simms, formerly of the Giants. Wun Wun = #11. 1-1....]
WORST NEW CHARACTER NAME Yezzan zo Qaggaz, 'Game Of Thrones' (surprise!)
BEST NEW ALIAS
Hundred Eyes (Se Fu), 'Marco Polo'
BEST ZONK VISUAL 'You're The Worst' - "Spooky Sunday Funday" Gretchen dressed as Daenerys from 'Game Of Thrones'
BEST MOVIE REFERENCE Cabe Gallo: Hey, John McClane, need a ride? Walter O'Brien: Who's John McClane? Cabe Gallo: Some guy in a movie. Never mind. Let's go. 'Scorpion' BEST LINE
"S'all good, man." - Jimmy, 'Better Call Saul'
BEST EXCHANGE OF DIALOGUE
Kristen Clark: We know more now than we did before.
Cameron: Yep! We know that when confronted by a bouncer named "Cleaver", I leak urine.
'Stitchers'
BEST SPEECH/MONOLOGUE OVERALL
DRAMA Wilson Fisk: I was thinking about a story from the Bible. I'm not a religious man... but I've read bits and pieces over the years. Curiosity more than faith. But this one story... There was a man. He was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho... when he was set upon by men of ill intent. They stripped the traveler of his clothes, they beat him, and they left him bleeding in the dirt. And a priest happened by... saw the traveler. But he moved to the other side of the road and continued on. And then a Levite, a religious functionary, he... came to the place, saw the dying traveler. But he too moved to the other side of the road, passed him by. But then came a man from Samaria, a Samaritan, a good man. He saw the traveler bleeding in the road and he stopped to aid him without thinking of the circumstance or the difficulty it might bring him. The Samaritan tended to the traveler's wounds, applying oil and wine. And he carried him to an inn, gave him all the money he had for the owner to take care of the traveler, as the Samaritan, he... continued on his journey. He did this simply because the traveler was his neighbor. He loved his city and all the people in it. (sighs deeply) I always thought that I was the Samaritan in that story. It's funny, isn't it? How even the best of men can be... deceived by their true nature.
Guard: What the hell does that mean?
Wilson Fisk: It means that I'm not the Samaritan. That I'm not the priest, or the Levite. That I am the ill intent... who set upon the traveler on a road that he should not have been on.
('Daredevil')
SITCOM
Senator Gil John Biggs: I decided to play a little hooky today.
I drove down to my hometown of Ruby Shoals, which is right on the shore. Angie, show ’em a bit of where we’re at, go on.
OK, so it was tore up some by Sandy, but you get the general -# Oh, grab a shot of them gulls there. Cute little suckers....
Anyway, being back on this beach reminds me of what a privilege it was to grow up in a place where you could run through tide pools, hunt for sharks’ teeth, blow up crabs with cherry bombs. Man, that’s just good times.
Anywho, Ruby Shoals has always been pretty conservative. Soid Republican. And as Republicans, the thing we believed in most of all was opportunity. Which meant we believed in building stuff to create opportunity. Like roads and schools and power grids.
It was a Republican, Ike, who built our highway system.
And another, Nixon, who created the EPA to protect what we are looking at right now.
As conservatives, we believed in conservin’ and free markets, which is why most of us used to favor cap and trade to fight climate change.
Anyway, that was then. We don’t believe in climate change now. Or any research into it. Same with mandates or infrastructure or background checks or a dozen other things we used to support before we got within pissin’ range of the Tea Party.
I’ve about had it with all that.
Remember the old Gil John Biggs? The one who used to bring home a new clinic or research center or whatnot without apology? Sure, I named ’em after myself, but I don’t mind future generations knowing who invested in ’em.
You remember Coach Biggs? Who made college loans a huge priority because he’d seen how they changed lives.
And remember the guy that never voted to shut down the government or wreck our credit or suppress voting rights or compared people to Hitler?
Remember that guy? He’s back.
('Alpha House')
BEST ZONK LINE
”A blind old man taught you the ways of martial arts? Isn’t that the plot to 'Kung Fu'?” - Foggy Nelson, 'Daredevil'
BEST ZONK DIALOGUE
'MADAM SECRETARY'
"YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION"
Henry McCord: I'm having a tough time with this. I haven't been sleeping well. Allison McCord: Really? Henry McCord: Yeah.... I've been watching a lot of 'Gunsmoke' in the middle of the night. Allison McCord: What's 'Gunsmoke'? Henry McCord: It's an old TV show, a Western. I liked it as a kid...
Henry McCord: Today I just wanted to go back in Time to our trip to England when touring churches was our thing.
Allison McCord: you should wake me up the next time you watch 'Gunsmoke'. Maybe that could be our thing.
The writer trusted the audience to recognize the title as being for a Western. No mention of it being about Matt Dillon, or that he could have been a fictional character. Any mention of 'Gunsmoke' in any show as a TV show isn't a problem - it would have been an historical recreation of Matt Dillon's tenure as a US Marshal.
WORST ZONK DIALOGUE
'NCIS: LA'
"BLAME IT ON RIO"
Sam Hanna: It's a post-op kit for cosmetic surgery......
Tony DiNozzo: Of course! Michael Long!
Marty Deeks: That's right....
Tony DiNozzo: Lieutenant Michael Arthur Long.
Marty Deeks: He was shot in the face; he was rescued by billionaire Wilton Knight. He was a primary field agent for the Foundation of Law And Government.
Tony DiNozzo: F.L.A.G.
Marty Deeks: F.L.A.G.
Sam Hanna: What are you two talking about?
Nell Jones: 'Knight Rider', starring David Hasselhoff.
Marty Deeks: The Hoff. Don't you dare hassle him.
Nell Jones: 80s TV show with the talking car....
Eric Beale: AKA "KITT". And the Knight Industries Two Thousand was a little more than a talking car.
G Callan: Do you ever get the feeling we're working alone here?
Sam Hanna: Every single day.....
This was another example of a script writer who didn't trust his audience to understand the reference without clubbing them over the head with the source. This scene would still have worked if it ended after the two mentions of F.L.A.G.
BEST NEW COINED WORDS
"Incognegro" - a white person passing as black ('The Nightly Show' 6/15/15) "Killgraved" - to be under the mind control of Killgrave ('Jessica Jones') "Show-Hole" - when your TV show has ended and left you with nothing to watch (Netflix)
BEST THEME SONG
TV SERIES:
"Unbreakable" from 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'
TV COMMERCIAL MUSIC MODERN "5 Years Time" - Noah And The Whale (Used in a Volkswagen Golf commercial)
CLASSIC "Prelude": "The Magic Flute" - Mozart (Used in an Infiniti QX60 commercial)
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT The song and dance number in the movie "Daddy's Boy" ('The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt') BEST MUSIC VIDEO "The Wishing Boot", 'Saturday Night Live'
BEST DREAM SEQUENCE
Jim Gaffigan's media nightmare - 'The Jim Gaffigan Show'
BEST NEW TOOBWORLD LOCATION
World
Fortitude
USA
Schitt's Creek
BEST NEW ALIEN LOCATION
"Monolith World" (Ego?) 'Agents Of SHIELD'
BEST NEW ALTERNATE TV DIMENSION
DRAMA 'The Man In The High Castle'
SITCOM 'The Last Man On Earth' WORST NEW ALTERNATE TV DIMENSION 'Quantico' This is purely subjective. Had they destroyed some fictional building in NYC instead of Grand Central Terminal, I could have kept this series in Earth Prime-Time.
BEST NEW FICTIONAL COUNTRY
Urkesh, 'Forever' BEST MAKE-UP
I've never done this category before, but I have to give props to the make-up wizards on this show for the wounds inflicted on various characters. But mostly for the transformation of Rebecca DeMornay as Trish Walker's mom Dorothy - from an unrecognizable older woman to the DeMornay I remember from "Risky Business" and "Identity" in the flashbacks.
BEST FIGHT SCENE
Hundred Eyes vs. Jia Sidao, 'Marco Polo' Some may argue that the fight scenes in 'Daredevil' and even 'Jessica Jones' were better, but they had to be more tricked out since enhanced humans were involved in them. This was between two "ordinary" men from centuries ago, so the choreography of the fight scenes really couldn't depend on anything more than camera tricks. BEST ACTION SCENE The attack by the White Walker army on Hardhome, 'Game Of Thrones'
BEST NEW FICTIONAL BOOK
"Into The Light" by Peter Van Owen - 'Proof' According to the book cover, Van Owen wrote "The After Life You Live". His obsession with the Afterlife could be due to him really being the Reaper Mason from 'Dead Like Me'. If so, perhaps a lot of his information came from that job he had in the Pacific Northwest.....
"The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show", 'Parks And Recreation' We got a whole show out of that! Special mention for "It's Patsy" from Comic Book Toobworld, as seen/heard in 'Jessica Jones'
BEST NEW FICTIONAL RADIO SHOW "Trish Talk" - 'Jessica Jones' First time for this category; I doubt I'll be using it again.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
DOMESTIC
'Alpha House'
IMPORTED
'Jonathan Creek'
'QI' I came to 'QI' because of Stephen Fry and the informative banter and moved on to 'Jonathan Creek' because I discovered Alan Davies in 'QI'. BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE (aka MEDIUM)
MOVIE TO TV 'Limitless'
TV TO MOVIE
"Entourage"
BOOK to TV
'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'
COMIC BOOK to TV
'Jessica Jones'
WORST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE (MEDIUM)
TV TO MOVIE
"Jem And The Holograms"
BOOK TO TV
The pilot for "The Wheel Of Time" MOVIE TO TV 'Minority Report'
BEST BOOK THAT SHOULD BE A TV SHOW "Banner Deadlines" by Joseph Commings I could see this being a great vehicle for John Goodman.
It's that time of year again, when we all make lists and think back over the past year, in whatever field of interest concerns us, and chronicle the high points and the lows. For the past few years I've been presenting this compilation as an awards show, the Toobits, which of course celebrates my two bits about Toobworld.
As it is with any such list you'll find in TV columns across the country these last few weeks, these are my opinions. You're welcome to your own and I hope you'll share them, but I'm sticking to my weapons of choice. (It could be you won't see something that was a favorite of yours because I just never got around to seeing it. There's only so much time in the world - even for a do-nothing-else-anyway sort like me! - and I've only got the two eyes, even if they do operate independantly of each other at times.)
Unlike the Emmy Awards which will just keep handing out trophies to some shows forever, only shows, characters and what-not that debuted in 2015 can be considered. (And by "debuted", I mean that which I first came in contact with in 2015. It could be a few years old, but if it's my first time seeing it, it's new.)
This one-time-only rule includes characters who have been recast; those are still the same characters who already exist in Toobworld. (But there were a few notable appearances that deserved honorable mention, and they get it.)
So without further ado, let's have at it:
THE BEST CHARACTERS OF 2015
BEST RECASTAWAY
OVERALLJason Gideon, 'Criminal Minds'
FEMALE
'Jessica Jones'
The casting agents for this show went all out to make the 13 year old Jessica look just like her adult self. And kudos to Elizabeth Cappucino for making us believe she was Jessica after Kristen Ritter had indelibly made the role her own.
MALE
IMPORT: Ross Poldark, 'Poldark' Robin Ellis will always be Poldark for me, but Aidan Turner certainly brought um... certain qualities to garner modern appreciations for his interpretation. DOMESTIC: Matt Murdock, 'Daredevil' Anything would have been better than the Daredevil who met the Hulk back in the Eighties (Being TV fixated, I don't have to render a verdict on Ben Affleck's version.), but Charlie Cox neatly differentiated the blind lawyer from his avenging do-gooder. WORST RECASTAWAY Pop Pop Goldberg, 'The Goldbergs'
BEST HISTORICAL RECASTAWAY Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'Arthur & George'
WORST HISTORICAL RECASTAWAY
Mark Twain, 'The Murdoch Mysteries' BEST NEW MALE CHARACTER
DRAMA Brian Finch, 'Limitless'
COMEDY Senator Gil John Biggs, ;Alpha House'
BEST NEW FEMALE CHARACTER
DRAMA Jessica Jones, 'AKA Jessica Jones'
COMEDY Kimmy Schmidt, 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'
IMPORT Dicte Svendsen, 'Dicte'
SPECIAL CATEGORY Gigi Rotblum, 'Gigi Does It'
WORST NEW CHARACTER Robyn, 'Jessica Jones' I wasn't crazy about her twin brother Reuben either, but at least he got killed off early on by Kilgrave. I don't want to say it was Colby Minifie's acting that made this character so annoying, because I was not a very good actor myself back in the day. (I'd have to see Minifie in something else to be sure.) It's more likely Robyn was ill-served by the dialogue and plot actions given to her. I'm afraid we'll see more of her in season two, as I got the feeling they were setting her up to be a girlfriend for Malcolm Ducasse...... BEST NEW MALE SUPPORTING CHARACTER
DRAMA "The Gentleman", 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'
COMEDY Titus Andromedan, 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'
BEST NEW SUPPORTING FEMALE CHARACTER
DRAMA Tricia "Patsy" Walker, 'Jessica Jones'
COMEDY
Lillian, 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'
BEST NEW RECURRING MALE CHARACTER
Karl Weathers, 'Fargo' BEST NEW RECURRING FEMALE CHARACTER
Eve Rothlow, 'How To Get Away With Murder' BEST NEW CHARACTER ADAPTED FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Killgrave the Purple Man, 'AKA Jessica Jones'
BEST CROSSOVER CHARACTER FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Senator Edward Morra, 'Limitless'
BEST NEW CAST ENSEMBLE
IMPORT 'Fortitude' DOMESTIC 'Fargo' - Season Two COMEDY 'Alpha House'
BEST ADDITION TO AN EXISTING CAST
MALE
DRAMA
The High Sparrow, 'Game Of Thrones'
COMEDY (MORE OR LESS)
Ray Spiewak
FEMALE
Jocelyn Knight, 'Broadchurch'
BEST NEW GUEST APPEARANCE
FEMALE
Karsi, 'Game Of Thrones'
MALE
Stick, 'Daredevil'
BEST HISTORICAL CHARACTER
Kublai Khan, 'Marco Polo'
WORST HISTORICAL CHARACTER
Mark Twain, 'The Murdoch Mysteries'
BEST HISTORICAL CHARACTER REVISION
Ariq Böke, 'Marco Polo'
BEST NEW ALIEN CHARACTER
Karellan, 'Childhood's End'
And by "new", I mean new to television; the book has been around for decades. For thirty-five years, my imagination's rendering of the Overlords was based on Wayne Barlowe's depiction in his "Guide to Extraterrestrials". But even if the overall design suggests Tim Curry in "Legend" (which is another universe anyway), Charles Dance's acting overcomes the make-up and prosthetics to make Karellan believable.
BEST NEW ALIEN RACE
The Overlords, 'Childhood's End'
See the remark above regarding Karellan.
BEST NEW PUPPET CHARACTER
Julia, 'Sesame Street'
CHARACTER MOST DESERVING TO BECOME A REGULAR/ CHARACTER MOST DESERVING TO GET THEIR OWN SPIN-OFF
Lady Me, 'Doctor Who'
BEST NEW COMMERCIAL CHARACTER
Hannah's Horse, 'DirecTV'
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE
DRAMA
Bob Schieffer & Madeleine Albright, 'Madam Secretary'
COMEDY
Adam Nimoy, 'The Big Bang Theory'
Cindy Crawford, 'Cougar Town' BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE IN A COMMERCIAL
Lenny Kravitz & James Franco, Guitar Hero
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE IN SKITLANDIA
Biff Henderson, 'Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel'
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE IN THE TOONIVERSE
Conan O'Brien, 'Archer'
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE ONLINE
Jim Morris, 'Alpha House'
BEST TELEVERSION (SKITLANDIA)
Senator Bernie Sanders, 'Saturday Night Live'
(TOOBWORLD)
Governor Ronald Reagan, 'Fargo'
SPECIAL CATEGORY
Rin Tin Tin, 'Drunk History'
BEST CHARACTER RETURN
Drama:
Riggsy, 'Doctor Who'
Osgood, 'Doctor Who'
Sitcom:
Former Senator Vernon Smith, 'Alpha House'
Skitlandia:
Ed Grimley, 'Saturday Night Live'
BEST CHARACTER RETURN IN A CROSSOVER MALE
John Constantine, 'Arrow'
FEMALE
Claire Temple, 'Jessica Jones'
BEST CHARACTER RETURN ONLINE
Mary Ann Summers, "She's Still On That Freaking Island"
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES RETURN
All of the "reporters" (plus Craig Kilborn, former host!), 'The Daily Show'
BEST ALIEN RETURN
The Zygons, 'Doctor Who'
BEST NEW MALE VILLAIN
Kilgrave ("The Purple Man"), 'AKA Jessica Jones' Close runner-up:
Wilson Fisk ("The Kingpin"), 'Daredevil'
BEST HISTORICAL VILLAIN
Jia Sidao, 'Marco Polo'
BEST NEW FEMALE VILLAIN
Madame Gao, 'Daredevil'
BEST NEW SERLINGUIST
The Prince and the Unicorn, "Potty Pooper" commercial
BEST THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY OVERALL
Tag & Dutch Spence, 'The Middle'
Who better to play brothers than two actual brothers? Jerry Van Dyke is a recurring character on the show and Dick Van Dyke showed up as his brother.
SKITLANDIA
'The Soup' finale
Joel & his "grandmother"
BEST RELATEEVEETY CASTING
'Better Call Saul'
Jimmy and Chuck McGill
BEST THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY BETWEEN DIFFERENT MEDIUM Prince Kuragin, 'Downton Abbey' (Linking him to Prince Kuragin of "War And Peace")
As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"
