Geek World has a new guilty pleasure! We are getting such a kick out of Merlin on NBC! This UK import is a fun take on Camelot and the main characters are absolutely endearing! By the way Buffy’s Anthony Head plays the father of a teenage Arthur. If everyone’s favorite Watcher isn’t enough the guest stars have already included some of our other favorite geeky shows: Eve Myles (from Torchwood) and Michelle Ryan (you probably know her from your attempt to watch last year’s Bionic Woman, but we found our love for her in Jekyll which you all must see).
Merlin is currently playing on Sundays on NBC so let’s hope it sticks around (and even better that it goes to another season)!
Geek World has a new guilty pleasure! We are getting such a kick out of Merlin on NBC! This UK import is a fun take on Camelot and the main characters are absolutely endearing! By the way Buffy’s Anthony Head plays the father of a teenage Arthur. If everyone’s favorite Watcher isn’t enough the guest stars have already included some of our other favorite geeky shows: Eve Myles (from Torchwood) and Michelle Ryan (you probably know her from your attempt to watch last year’s Bionic Woman, but we found our love for her in Jekyll which you all must see).
Merlin is currently playing on Sundays on NBC so let’s hope it sticks around (and even better that it goes to another season)!
The Michael Papajohn interview is now online and you can download it. I’m putting the links here because I haven’t had a chance to change the archive page yet:
We spend some time talking about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (he plays Megan Fox’s father in the movie) but you want to hear it all because there are so many great and never before heard stories from his time in Hollywood!
As you heard on our this past Thursday we took a time warp and watched some geeky video game based movies from our past. When we watched the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie we were shocked. First we wondered how a movie starring Bob Hoskins, John Leuizamo, Dennis Hopper, & Samantha Mathis could be so awful but upon realizing that the cast was: Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi, Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, & Samantha Mathis as Daisy the casting horrors became all too real (at least they changed the story so Luigi was adopted because there’s no way John Leguizamo could pass for an Italian plumber). The movie went on and we got our jollies laughing at the ridiculousness of it all until the end when we both had a physical reaction. We watched as images of New York City made way for the Twin Towers and then it happened, in streams of billowing black smoke the image of the Twin Towers changed to the image on the right. It was strange enough to see the Twin Towers as part of the old NYC skyline but that image with the surrounding smoke was terrifying. We knew we had seen something far too similar. The photo from FEMA taken 9-11 said it all. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing.
Now we’re not conspiracy theorists, we don’t believe that Hollywood was telling of the plans almost a decade before the terrorist attack but it doesn’t make it any less freaky. The funny thing is the only other person who seemed to see this connection was one of those wacky people who find conspiracy everywhere (for example they noted every movie where people got $9.11 or did something at 9:11PM, and that’s too far fetched even for us).
So we ask you all, is the Super Mario Bros. movie the devil?
The Michael Papajohn interview is now online and you can download it. I’m putting the links here because I haven’t had a chance to change the archive page yet:
We spend some time talking about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (he plays Megan Fox’s father in the movie) but you want to hear it all because there are so many great and never before heard stories from his time in Hollywood!
As you heard on our this past Thursday we took a time warp and watched some geeky video game based movies from our past. When we watched the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie we were shocked. First we wondered how a movie starring Bob Hoskins, John Leuizamo, Dennis Hopper, & Samantha Mathis could be so awful but upon realizing that the cast was: Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi, Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, & Samantha Mathis as Daisy the casting horrors became all too real (at least they changed the story so Luigi was adopted because there’s no way John Leguizamo could pass for an Italian plumber). The movie went on and we got our jollies laughing at the ridiculousness of it all until the end when we both had a physical reaction. We watched as images of New York City made way for the Twin Towers and then it happened, in streams of billowing black smoke the image of the Twin Towers changed to the image on the right. It was strange enough to see the Twin Towers as part of the old NYC skyline but that image with the surrounding smoke was terrifying. We knew we had seen something far too similar. The photo from FEMA taken 9-11 said it all. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing.
Now we’re not conspiracy theorists, we don’t believe that Hollywood was telling of the plans almost a decade before the terrorist attack but it doesn’t make it any less freaky. The funny thing is the only other person who seemed to see this connection was one of those wacky people who find conspiracy everywhere (for example they noted every movie where people got $9.11 or did something at 9:11PM, and that’s too far fetched even for us).
So we ask you all, is the Super Mario Bros. movie the devil?
Don’t miss Geek World tomorrow!! Geek World takes another trip in the time machine to watch geeky movies from our past and is shocked to learn that Super Mario Brothers may be the devil! Tune in tomorrow at 12 Noon PST (3pm EST).
Don’t miss Geek World tomorrow!! Geek World takes another trip in the time machine to watch geeky movies from our past and is shocked to learn that Super Mario Brothers may be the devil! Tune in tomorrow at 12 Noon PST (3pm EST).
Thanks to all of our fans and all you Geek World newbies!!!! You helped make this weeks Geek World the best and most listened to episode ever!!! Thanks again to Michael Papajohn for such a great interview! We can’t wait to have him on again. I bet he has even more great never before told stories to share and we know how to bring them out.
On a frustrating note I’m having some MAJOR computer issues right now (I’m lucky that blogger works on really old operating systems so I can at least post this) so I’ll try to get the interview up online for download as soon as I can but there is a chance I might not be able to until next week. Same goes for last week’s show with the Battlestar Galactica interviews. Keep checking the blog for updates.
Tune in next Thursday for another one of our Time Warp review shows. We’re planning on going back to our childhoods to take a look at some very geeky movies that we can never forget (no matter how hard we try).
Thanks to all of our fans and all you Geek World newbies!!!! You helped make this weeks Geek World the best and most listened to episode ever!!! Thanks again to Michael Papajohn for such a great interview! We can’t wait to have him on again. I bet he has even more great never before told stories to share and we know how to bring them out.
On a frustrating note I’m having some MAJOR computer issues right now (I’m lucky that blogger works on really old operating systems so I can at least post this) so I’ll try to get the interview up online for download as soon as I can but there is a chance I might not be able to until next week. Same goes for last week’s show with the Battlestar Galactica interviews. Keep checking the blog for updates.
Tune in next Thursday for another one of our Time Warp review shows. We’re planning on going back to our childhoods to take a look at some very geeky movies that we can never forget (no matter how hard we try).
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