I had something of a panic attempt when I saw the following 'Heroes' spoiler.....
Meanwhile, Milo's TV bro, Adrian Pasdar, confirmed what I hinted at a few weeks back: Nathan's soon-to-be-seen wife, played by Rena Sofer, is in a wheelchair as a result of an accident. "There's a sense of guilt that has permeated Nathan's existence since this accident, which we get into in Episode 7. It's also an accident that shows something that we... can't really talk about too much. We get information from this accident on a few fronts, not just the one that explains why she's in a wheelchair."
Rena Sofer is a show killer! Just about everything she's been in has been toe-tagged soon after she joined the cast! And now she's going to be on 'Heroes'????
Ivy talked me off the ledge with this:
Well, she managed a stint on Ed mid-run, and that show went on for several years after she left....
That's true..... But still...
'Blind Justice'
'The Chronicle'
'Coupling'
'Cursed'
'Oh, Grow Up'
'Freshman Dorm'
'Just Shoot Me' - joined the show the same year it gets cancelled
'Friends', 'Seinfeld', 'Caroline In The City', 'CSI: Miami', 'Melrose Place' - #
Well, okay, never mind those......
But still!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Friday, November 3, 2006
LA TRIVIATA: COMIC BOOK "HEROES"
For a couple of weeks now, we've seen the comic book "9th Wonders" on 'Heroes', especially the issue which featured Hiro Nakamura and which gave him the clues to track down others with super powers.
This past Monday night, we got to see some other Toobworld comic books on that show, as Micah showed off his collection to his dad, DL.
Among the titles:
"Tales From Space"
"Cosmic Man"
"DJ Doom"
(Interestingly, there's an actual guy named DJ Doom in the Trueniverse. Check out Google - it sounds like he's a record producer or something.)
These comic books could be published by ACE Comics, which is based in Chicago. Among their other titles are:
"The Silencer"
"Kay Carter, Army Nurse"
"Mad Dog"
"Fizzy"
"Tales From Beneath The Tomb"
(All from 'Bob!')
Another comic book from Toobworld would be "Captain Astro", a favorite of Michael's in 'Queer As Folk' (USA). As a matter of fact, if Hiro ever stops in Pittsburgh, he can check out Michael's comic book store!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
This past Monday night, we got to see some other Toobworld comic books on that show, as Micah showed off his collection to his dad, DL.
Among the titles:
"Tales From Space"
"Cosmic Man"
"DJ Doom"
(Interestingly, there's an actual guy named DJ Doom in the Trueniverse. Check out Google - it sounds like he's a record producer or something.)
These comic books could be published by ACE Comics, which is based in Chicago. Among their other titles are:
"The Silencer"
"Kay Carter, Army Nurse"
"Mad Dog"
"Fizzy"
"Tales From Beneath The Tomb"
(All from 'Bob!')
Another comic book from Toobworld would be "Captain Astro", a favorite of Michael's in 'Queer As Folk' (USA). As a matter of fact, if Hiro ever stops in Pittsburgh, he can check out Michael's comic book store!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
COVER UP!
My bestest of friends Ivy just emailed me:
And now that EW has given it a cover, it's official: Heroes is a hit!
(But we knew that all along.)
Entertainment Weekly's next issue which hits the stands this week and which should be in my mailbox tonight, has Hiro, Claire and Nathan from 'Heroes' on the cover.
The caption reads: "Save The Cheerleader! Save The TV Season!"
I think that's a great sign of success.
Now let's hope they never end up on the cover of Sports Illustrated!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
And now that EW has given it a cover, it's official: Heroes is a hit!
(But we knew that all along.)
Entertainment Weekly's next issue which hits the stands this week and which should be in my mailbox tonight, has Hiro, Claire and Nathan from 'Heroes' on the cover.
The caption reads: "Save The Cheerleader! Save The TV Season!"
I think that's a great sign of success.
Now let's hope they never end up on the cover of Sports Illustrated!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
A NEW LOWE IN POLITICS
It's been announced that Rob Lowe will be joining the cast of 'Brothers & Sisters' on ABC for at least six shows. Jon Robin Baitz wrote the part of a McCain-styled Republican senator (more moderate than jerk, I guess) with Lowe in mind, and he hopes the actor will stay on after the six episode arc is completed.
This senator will appear as a guest on Kitty Walker's TV show and will eventually become one of her "suitors".
As most politicians always seem to have some kind of political scandal in their backgrounds, it's always possible that this senator has an identical half-brother residing in Washington, DC, by the name of Jack Turner.
But neither one of them would be related to Sam Seaborn, even though his father was a known philanderer.
This is, of course, because Sam Seaborn resides in an alternate TV dimension in which Jed Bartlet was the president of the United States instead of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. (And before Bartlet, Owen Lassiter was the POTUS.)
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
'Brothers & Sisters'
'The West Wing'
'The Lyons' Den'
This senator will appear as a guest on Kitty Walker's TV show and will eventually become one of her "suitors".
As most politicians always seem to have some kind of political scandal in their backgrounds, it's always possible that this senator has an identical half-brother residing in Washington, DC, by the name of Jack Turner.
But neither one of them would be related to Sam Seaborn, even though his father was a known philanderer.
This is, of course, because Sam Seaborn resides in an alternate TV dimension in which Jed Bartlet was the president of the United States instead of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. (And before Bartlet, Owen Lassiter was the POTUS.)
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
'Brothers & Sisters'
'The West Wing'
'The Lyons' Den'
THE GUIDING LIGHT: MORE A MARVEL MISS THAN MS. MARVEL
I watched 'Guiding Light' on Wednesday, the episode in which Harley Cooper became a superhero who called herself "The Guiding Light". She had power over electrical discharges but could be vanquished by water.
You probably heard about this, hopefully here at Inner Toob.
On Thursday, I picked up a Marvel comic book which contained the 8 page story that tied into that same adventure. Although the comic book hit the shelves on Tuesday (as they always seem to do), its story served as a sequel to the soap opera.
Now, I called the comic book a tie-in because it can't be classified as a crossover. The soap opera is in the TV Universe and the story "A New Light" is obviously in the Comic Book Universe. And although the events of the 'Guiding Light' episode did precede those in the comic book, the comic book story doesn't follow the soap opera in the TV Universe (despite the "To Be Continued" caption displayed at the finale).
All of the TV characters who live in Springfield now have exact counterparts in the Comic Book Universe; there's no problem with them showing up in those pages, and we can take on faith the events of the soap opera preceded this tale. They could even go on to appear in other comic books with no difficulties. (And this was a possibility, as Big Al Spaulding, Springfield's ruthless businessman, might plan a vendetta against Stark Industries. Apparently Spaulding and Tony Stark have a past history.....)
But there would be difficulties if some of those comic book characters tried to show up in the Springfield of the TV Universe. And that's because the circumstances of their previous appearances in Toobworld would negate their current comic book configuration as the Avengers.
Most of the Marvel heroes as well as villains who showed up in "A New Light" comic don't have doppelgangers in Earth Prime-Time, although most have counterparts in the Tooniverse and a few - like Wolverine, Dr. Octopus, - and coming soon, Iron Man, Sandman, and Venom - can also be found in the Cineverse. But for the others......
First, let me list the heroes and villains who showed up in Springfield:
HEROES
Captain America
Wolverine
Spiderman
Iron Man
Spiderwoman
VILLAINS
Doctor Octopus
Sandman
Hydro (?)
Boomerang
Venom
Let's start with Iron Man......
Tony Stark's "bodyguard" has yet to make a metal encased flesh and blood appearance in Toobworld. But there is a Stark Industries - or at least there was, in an alternate future timeline stemming from events that happened in 'Eureka', Oregon.
But that Stark Industries was founded by Nathan, not Tony, Stark.
(Whenever he does finally show up in Toobworld, Iron Man better make sure a certain Gallifreyan Time Lord doesn't mistake him for a Cyberman!)
There might not be much of a problem with Wolverine's appearance on 'Guiding Light', except for already existing film rights all tied up, of course. He's quite a main character in the Cineverse and the Tooniverse, but in Toobworld he's only got a fleeting appearance in a blipvert for the Visa Check Card which had its premiere during a Super Bowl game.
So I don't see a problem with Logan coming back to Toobworld for a follow-up on 'Guiding Light', outside of those film rights being sewed up... and the fact that Toobworld has far too many guys named Logan lately.
No, my "Spidey Sense" tells me that the biggest problem would be with the Webslinger himself.
Unlike the situation for characters in the Tooniverse (outside of 'The Flintstones'), characters in the main Toobworld age, beginning in whatever era they first appeared.
For instance, Superman saved the day in Metropolis back in the 1950s. But by the early 1960s, he was dead. (The Supermen we see on other TV shows are to be found in alternate dimensions.) Batman served and protected Gotham City during the 1960s, and he's up in his eighties by now.
Wonder Woman - 1975-1979. And the Hulk? Late seventies to the mid-eighties. Captain America first burst onto the scene in 1979 (and technically I see no reason why he couldn't show up in 'Guiding Light' for a sequel). The thunder god Thor is immortal, so even though we first saw him in 1988's "The Return Of The Incredible Hulk", we know he lived during the days of Hercules legendary journeys.
Spiderman appeared in the main Toobworld in 1977, and he would now be about 56 years old. There's no way he'd even be considered for inclusion in the Avengers. Maybe in AARP......
But there is another Spiderman who appeared in the main Toobworld and he might be the one needed for the 'Guiding Light' sequel. Like Thor and Wolverine and Captain America, he showed up in that Visa Check Card commercial. You could tell by his voice that he was fairly young, so he couldn't have been the original TV Spiderman.
There are two ways we can run with this. First, he could be the son of the original Spiderman. But that would mean his origin story would have to be different, as he would have inherited his powers from his father genetically, thus classifying him as a mutant.
Or he could be a visitor from either an alternate dimension where there should be plenty of Spidermen around; or from another universe entirely - specifically the Cineverse. After all, his voice was almost similar to that of the movie Spiderman..... That Visa ad probably occurred at the same time it was broadcast, so that was a January. Maybe Peter Parker had a cold.
And that commercial established that at least one dimensional vortex had been breached, since Underdog arrived at the last moment from the Tooniverse.
I didn't even get around to mentioning that many of these superheroes (and at least one super-villain, Dr Doom) were referred to as comic book characters for the most part in the soap opera. And an issue of "X-Men: Endsong" was given a prominent close-up.
If only both the show and the comic book could have been produced together as an animated special. That way they could co-exist together in the Tooniverse.
Of course, being situated in Springfield, that would mean they would have only four fingers, bugged-out eyes, and yellow skin.
But Jeff Albertson, AKA Comic Book Guy, would have been in Seventh Heaven, and I don't mean the TV show: "Best. Crossover. Ever!"
As some other TV superheroes might say, "Cowabunga!"
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
ps
The 8 page story is appearing in several Marvel titles over the next two weeks. I chose "Civil War: Choosing Sides", mostly because it had Howard the Duck on the cover.....
CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES
SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE 11
MARVEL SELECT FLIP MAGAZINE 18
MARVEL TALES FLIP MAGAZINE 17
11/1
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN 21
SPIDER-MAN AND POWER PACK 1
MARVEL ADVENTURES FLIP MAGAZINE 18
MARVEL HEROES FLIP MAGAZINE 18
11/8
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL 2
FRANKLIN RICHARDS: HAPPY FRANKSGIVING!
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR 18
11/15
ULTIMATE MARVEL FLIP MAGAZINE 19
ULTIMATE TALES FLIP MAGAZINE 19
You probably heard about this, hopefully here at Inner Toob.
On Thursday, I picked up a Marvel comic book which contained the 8 page story that tied into that same adventure. Although the comic book hit the shelves on Tuesday (as they always seem to do), its story served as a sequel to the soap opera.
Now, I called the comic book a tie-in because it can't be classified as a crossover. The soap opera is in the TV Universe and the story "A New Light" is obviously in the Comic Book Universe. And although the events of the 'Guiding Light' episode did precede those in the comic book, the comic book story doesn't follow the soap opera in the TV Universe (despite the "To Be Continued" caption displayed at the finale).
All of the TV characters who live in Springfield now have exact counterparts in the Comic Book Universe; there's no problem with them showing up in those pages, and we can take on faith the events of the soap opera preceded this tale. They could even go on to appear in other comic books with no difficulties. (And this was a possibility, as Big Al Spaulding, Springfield's ruthless businessman, might plan a vendetta against Stark Industries. Apparently Spaulding and Tony Stark have a past history.....)
But there would be difficulties if some of those comic book characters tried to show up in the Springfield of the TV Universe. And that's because the circumstances of their previous appearances in Toobworld would negate their current comic book configuration as the Avengers.
Most of the Marvel heroes as well as villains who showed up in "A New Light" comic don't have doppelgangers in Earth Prime-Time, although most have counterparts in the Tooniverse and a few - like Wolverine, Dr. Octopus, - and coming soon, Iron Man, Sandman, and Venom - can also be found in the Cineverse. But for the others......
First, let me list the heroes and villains who showed up in Springfield:
HEROES
Captain America
Wolverine
Spiderman
Iron Man
Spiderwoman
VILLAINS
Doctor Octopus
Sandman
Hydro (?)
Boomerang
Venom
Let's start with Iron Man......
Tony Stark's "bodyguard" has yet to make a metal encased flesh and blood appearance in Toobworld. But there is a Stark Industries - or at least there was, in an alternate future timeline stemming from events that happened in 'Eureka', Oregon.
But that Stark Industries was founded by Nathan, not Tony, Stark.
(Whenever he does finally show up in Toobworld, Iron Man better make sure a certain Gallifreyan Time Lord doesn't mistake him for a Cyberman!)
There might not be much of a problem with Wolverine's appearance on 'Guiding Light', except for already existing film rights all tied up, of course. He's quite a main character in the Cineverse and the Tooniverse, but in Toobworld he's only got a fleeting appearance in a blipvert for the Visa Check Card which had its premiere during a Super Bowl game.
So I don't see a problem with Logan coming back to Toobworld for a follow-up on 'Guiding Light', outside of those film rights being sewed up... and the fact that Toobworld has far too many guys named Logan lately.
No, my "Spidey Sense" tells me that the biggest problem would be with the Webslinger himself.
Unlike the situation for characters in the Tooniverse (outside of 'The Flintstones'), characters in the main Toobworld age, beginning in whatever era they first appeared.
For instance, Superman saved the day in Metropolis back in the 1950s. But by the early 1960s, he was dead. (The Supermen we see on other TV shows are to be found in alternate dimensions.) Batman served and protected Gotham City during the 1960s, and he's up in his eighties by now.
Wonder Woman - 1975-1979. And the Hulk? Late seventies to the mid-eighties. Captain America first burst onto the scene in 1979 (and technically I see no reason why he couldn't show up in 'Guiding Light' for a sequel). The thunder god Thor is immortal, so even though we first saw him in 1988's "The Return Of The Incredible Hulk", we know he lived during the days of Hercules legendary journeys.
Spiderman appeared in the main Toobworld in 1977, and he would now be about 56 years old. There's no way he'd even be considered for inclusion in the Avengers. Maybe in AARP......
But there is another Spiderman who appeared in the main Toobworld and he might be the one needed for the 'Guiding Light' sequel. Like Thor and Wolverine and Captain America, he showed up in that Visa Check Card commercial. You could tell by his voice that he was fairly young, so he couldn't have been the original TV Spiderman.
There are two ways we can run with this. First, he could be the son of the original Spiderman. But that would mean his origin story would have to be different, as he would have inherited his powers from his father genetically, thus classifying him as a mutant.
Or he could be a visitor from either an alternate dimension where there should be plenty of Spidermen around; or from another universe entirely - specifically the Cineverse. After all, his voice was almost similar to that of the movie Spiderman..... That Visa ad probably occurred at the same time it was broadcast, so that was a January. Maybe Peter Parker had a cold.
And that commercial established that at least one dimensional vortex had been breached, since Underdog arrived at the last moment from the Tooniverse.
I didn't even get around to mentioning that many of these superheroes (and at least one super-villain, Dr Doom) were referred to as comic book characters for the most part in the soap opera. And an issue of "X-Men: Endsong" was given a prominent close-up.
If only both the show and the comic book could have been produced together as an animated special. That way they could co-exist together in the Tooniverse.
Of course, being situated in Springfield, that would mean they would have only four fingers, bugged-out eyes, and yellow skin.
But Jeff Albertson, AKA Comic Book Guy, would have been in Seventh Heaven, and I don't mean the TV show: "Best. Crossover. Ever!"
As some other TV superheroes might say, "Cowabunga!"
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
ps
The 8 page story is appearing in several Marvel titles over the next two weeks. I chose "Civil War: Choosing Sides", mostly because it had Howard the Duck on the cover.....
But here again is that list of the comics in which you can find that story
10/25CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES
SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE 11
MARVEL SELECT FLIP MAGAZINE 18
MARVEL TALES FLIP MAGAZINE 17
11/1
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN 21
SPIDER-MAN AND POWER PACK 1
MARVEL ADVENTURES FLIP MAGAZINE 18
MARVEL HEROES FLIP MAGAZINE 18
11/8
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL 2
FRANKLIN RICHARDS: HAPPY FRANKSGIVING!
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR 18
11/15
ULTIMATE MARVEL FLIP MAGAZINE 19
ULTIMATE TALES FLIP MAGAZINE 19
Thursday, November 2, 2006
TV CROSSOVER HALL OF FAME: NOVEMBER, 2006
As our year-long salute to 'Law & Order' winds down, we come to the month when usually the TV Crossover Hall of Fame salutes politicians and newsmakers who qualify for induction.
So we have the perfect candidate in the current District Attorney for New York City, Arthur Branch (as played by former Senator, Fred Dalton Thompson). So far, he's made about 118 appearances in Toobworld, mostly in the flagship of the line, 'Law & Order'. But he's also made the journey to the other shows in the franchise, including the "Pilot" of 'Conviction' which was the first 'L&O' show not to carry the 'Law & Order' prefix in its title.
There have been two episodes of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and eleven episodes of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', and six more for 'Law & Order: Trial By Jury'. By my reckoning, that was a pretty good series and I was sorry to see NBC let it go.
I'm just sorry DA Adam Schiff retired before he had the chance to appear in all of these spin-offs, but there weren't that many opportunities back then. (It's amazing to talk about 'Law & Order' as if it's been around since the horse & buggy days!)
So there's just one more month to go in this salute and by a rather glaring omission so far in the list, it should be pretty o'bvious who's left. And you'll probably be able to guess why I saved that candidate for last.
It's a groanable offense, officer.
Since we've long since passed the half-way mark for the year, we're running the complete list of the 2006 inductees so far......
January - Lennie Brisco
February - Anita Van Buren
March - Donald Cragen
April - Mike Logan
May - Jamie Ross
June - Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
B'day Honors - Faith Yokas
July - Rey Curtis
August - Ed Green
September - Dick Wolf
October - Dr. Emil Szoda
November - Arthur Branch
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
So we have the perfect candidate in the current District Attorney for New York City, Arthur Branch (as played by former Senator, Fred Dalton Thompson). So far, he's made about 118 appearances in Toobworld, mostly in the flagship of the line, 'Law & Order'. But he's also made the journey to the other shows in the franchise, including the "Pilot" of 'Conviction' which was the first 'L&O' show not to carry the 'Law & Order' prefix in its title.
There have been two episodes of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and eleven episodes of 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', and six more for 'Law & Order: Trial By Jury'. By my reckoning, that was a pretty good series and I was sorry to see NBC let it go.
I'm just sorry DA Adam Schiff retired before he had the chance to appear in all of these spin-offs, but there weren't that many opportunities back then. (It's amazing to talk about 'Law & Order' as if it's been around since the horse & buggy days!)
So there's just one more month to go in this salute and by a rather glaring omission so far in the list, it should be pretty o'bvious who's left. And you'll probably be able to guess why I saved that candidate for last.
It's a groanable offense, officer.
Since we've long since passed the half-way mark for the year, we're running the complete list of the 2006 inductees so far......
January - Lennie Brisco
February - Anita Van Buren
March - Donald Cragen
April - Mike Logan
May - Jamie Ross
June - Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
B'day Honors - Faith Yokas
July - Rey Curtis
August - Ed Green
September - Dick Wolf
October - Dr. Emil Szoda
November - Arthur Branch
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY: "KYLE XY" & DETROL LA
Nicole Trager is the Seattle psychologist who took in 'Kyle XY' in order to help him regain his memories. The show has been picked up for another season, so we might be learning more about her and the rest of the Trager family - as in other family members like grandparents and the like who could meet Kyle.
Do you think Nicole might have a sister?
Because I've been seeing a blipvert for Detrol LA featuring a woman in an elevator who suffers from a problem with her bladder control and she looks a lot like Marguerite MacIntyre to be her sister. (But not enough that I might think it was actually her. And the IMDb.com/search doesn't have this ad listed under her "Other Works".)
It'll probably be best if we never learn one way or the other whether or not Nicole has any siblings. That way we don't have to exclude the possibility that these two women are related.
And it probably won't ever come up anyway. After all, who wants to be reminded that they have a sister who's walking around wearing nothing but a sandwich board proclaiming "I HAVE A BLADDER CONTROL PROBLEM"?
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Do you think Nicole might have a sister?
Because I've been seeing a blipvert for Detrol LA featuring a woman in an elevator who suffers from a problem with her bladder control and she looks a lot like Marguerite MacIntyre to be her sister. (But not enough that I might think it was actually her. And the IMDb.com/search doesn't have this ad listed under her "Other Works".)
It'll probably be best if we never learn one way or the other whether or not Nicole has any siblings. That way we don't have to exclude the possibility that these two women are related.
And it probably won't ever come up anyway. After all, who wants to be reminded that they have a sister who's walking around wearing nothing but a sandwich board proclaiming "I HAVE A BLADDER CONTROL PROBLEM"?
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
THEORY OF "RELATEEVEETY"/BORN TO RERUN
DS Saffron Saleh is an officer in the Manchester police force. She may even have known DI Sam Tyler before he was struck down by a car after his girlfriend was kidnapped.
Taking a Wold Newton approach, it's my contention that her cousin, Anvar Parvez, who is known as "Annie", lives in London and works as a medical examiner, a forensic pathologist for the London police department.
They could be first generation Britons, whose parents were immigrants from the sub-continent. And both girls saw their chosen fields as a way to repay their adopted homeland for allowing their parents to find a better life for themselves and their children.
The roles are not played by the same actress, as is usually the case in my theories of "relateeveety". Nisha Nayar plays Saleh and Amber Agar is Annie. But there is enough similarity in their appearance to suggest a close, yet not exact, relation between the two.
But because of the actress who plays her, Saffron Saleh could have been reincarnated far into the future as a programming executive on board the Gamestation space satellite. She joined the front lines in a vain battle against the Daleks when they invaded which cost the programmer her life. (However, she may have been brought back to life through the intervention of Rose Tyler as the "Bad Wolf".)
DS Saffron Saleh - "Cracker: A New Terror"
Dr. Anvar "Annie" Parvez - 'Murder City'
Gamestation programmer - 'Doctor Who' ("Bad Wolf" & "Parting Of The Ways")
DI Sam Tyler - 'Life On Mars'
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Taking a Wold Newton approach, it's my contention that her cousin, Anvar Parvez, who is known as "Annie", lives in London and works as a medical examiner, a forensic pathologist for the London police department.
They could be first generation Britons, whose parents were immigrants from the sub-continent. And both girls saw their chosen fields as a way to repay their adopted homeland for allowing their parents to find a better life for themselves and their children.
The roles are not played by the same actress, as is usually the case in my theories of "relateeveety". Nisha Nayar plays Saleh and Amber Agar is Annie. But there is enough similarity in their appearance to suggest a close, yet not exact, relation between the two.
But because of the actress who plays her, Saffron Saleh could have been reincarnated far into the future as a programming executive on board the Gamestation space satellite. She joined the front lines in a vain battle against the Daleks when they invaded which cost the programmer her life. (However, she may have been brought back to life through the intervention of Rose Tyler as the "Bad Wolf".)
DS Saffron Saleh - "Cracker: A New Terror"
Dr. Anvar "Annie" Parvez - 'Murder City'
Gamestation programmer - 'Doctor Who' ("Bad Wolf" & "Parting Of The Ways")
DI Sam Tyler - 'Life On Mars'
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
THE LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES: CAN WE LINK?
I can't believe I forgot to mention this.......
As many of you might know (I hope), Toobworld stands apart from other versions of a TV Universe in that we consider celebrities appearing as themselves in a fictional setting to be just as much a character as the others in those shows. So when Sammy Davis, Jr. appears in an episode of 'All In The Family' as well as in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'I Dream Of Jeannie', and doing fictional things he never would have done in real life, then he's serving in the role of a crossover character.
We call these people the League of Themselves.
So recently, Joan Rivers showed up in Boston to "cover" a trial in which a young law clerk was accused of killing the judge he served (who was also his lover). Her appearance was short and sweet but it served its purpose - it linked 'Boston Legal' to the Miami-based 'nip/tuck'.
Ms. Rivers showed up in two episodes of that show, one which bore her name as the episode title. (All episodes are named after a particular client of the plastic surgeons.) And in that instance, it was quite an affecting scene where she realizes that if she really did have all of her past surgeries undone, she'd look like a monster to her little grandson.
So Joan Rivers is the link between those two dramatic series. But she's got a few more sitcoms in which she played herself:
'I'm With Her'
'Curb Your Enthusiasm'
'227'
And as I said, she acted out a fictional version of her life in doing so. That's why I don't even bother delving into the talk shows, award shows, comedy specials, home shopping shows and what have you.
One that's a near miss is an episode of 'Here's Lucy' in which she served on a jury with Lucy. Her character was named Joan, but I don't think she was playing herself. It was like the situation with Lucille Carter. And Lucille Carmichael. And Lucy Ricardo. And Bob Hartley. Mary Richards. Tim Taylor. Jerry - well, you get the picture.....
Anyway, congrats to Ms. Rivers for being the one person who could bring those two dramas - which air opposite each other! - together.
And she was able to do it before Melissa pulled the plug......
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
As many of you might know (I hope), Toobworld stands apart from other versions of a TV Universe in that we consider celebrities appearing as themselves in a fictional setting to be just as much a character as the others in those shows. So when Sammy Davis, Jr. appears in an episode of 'All In The Family' as well as in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'I Dream Of Jeannie', and doing fictional things he never would have done in real life, then he's serving in the role of a crossover character.
We call these people the League of Themselves.
So recently, Joan Rivers showed up in Boston to "cover" a trial in which a young law clerk was accused of killing the judge he served (who was also his lover). Her appearance was short and sweet but it served its purpose - it linked 'Boston Legal' to the Miami-based 'nip/tuck'.
Ms. Rivers showed up in two episodes of that show, one which bore her name as the episode title. (All episodes are named after a particular client of the plastic surgeons.) And in that instance, it was quite an affecting scene where she realizes that if she really did have all of her past surgeries undone, she'd look like a monster to her little grandson.
So Joan Rivers is the link between those two dramatic series. But she's got a few more sitcoms in which she played herself:
'I'm With Her'
'Curb Your Enthusiasm'
'227'
And as I said, she acted out a fictional version of her life in doing so. That's why I don't even bother delving into the talk shows, award shows, comedy specials, home shopping shows and what have you.
One that's a near miss is an episode of 'Here's Lucy' in which she served on a jury with Lucy. Her character was named Joan, but I don't think she was playing herself. It was like the situation with Lucille Carter. And Lucille Carmichael. And Lucy Ricardo. And Bob Hartley. Mary Richards. Tim Taylor. Jerry - well, you get the picture.....
Anyway, congrats to Ms. Rivers for being the one person who could bring those two dramas - which air opposite each other! - together.
And she was able to do it before Melissa pulled the plug......
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
NUMBERS GAME
Oceanic Flight 815 crashed in late September, 2004. At this point in the TV series' timeline, we're into November of 2004. There's no telling, however, if Time in the outside world progressed faster than it does/did on the island. Or at least so the producers have hinted......
Still, just because Hurley crashed on that island back in 2004, that doesn't mean that "The Numbers" haven't still exerted their influence on others back in the outside world.
We've already seen them manifest themselves as the "lucky numbers" on a Chinese fortune cookie fortune in an episode of 'Veronica Mars'.
And in the last hour I saw a commercial for Pine-Sol in which a guy won the lottery. Of the numbers read off on the TV, all we get to hear is the final number - 42.
The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Even if he was holding a Pick 5 ticket or the Daily Four rather than the full sequence of "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42" as Hurley had done when he won his jackpot, there would still be power in that sequence if he had, let's say, "4, 15, 23, 42".
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw various combinations of "The Numbers" pop up again and again in TV shows and commercials, now that 'Lost' has become such a cultural phenom.
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Still, just because Hurley crashed on that island back in 2004, that doesn't mean that "The Numbers" haven't still exerted their influence on others back in the outside world.
We've already seen them manifest themselves as the "lucky numbers" on a Chinese fortune cookie fortune in an episode of 'Veronica Mars'.
And in the last hour I saw a commercial for Pine-Sol in which a guy won the lottery. Of the numbers read off on the TV, all we get to hear is the final number - 42.
The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Even if he was holding a Pick 5 ticket or the Daily Four rather than the full sequence of "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42" as Hurley had done when he won his jackpot, there would still be power in that sequence if he had, let's say, "4, 15, 23, 42".
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw various combinations of "The Numbers" pop up again and again in TV shows and commercials, now that 'Lost' has become such a cultural phenom.
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
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