Webisode Clack – the shows of Strike.TV (and Heroes)
If you can remember as far back as the beginning of 2008 — I know it’s hard, but try — the striking members of the Writers Guild of America touted the fact that they were starting their very own website. The site was called strike.tv and it was supposed to feature a number of “webisode” series from WGA writers. Stuff that was their own creation and not dictated by some heavy-handed studio with no imagination whatsoever (at least, that’s what I think the WGA members were thinking when they started up the site).
A few weeks ago, Keith reviewed one of the offerings on the site – Mindy Kaling’s Hou$e Poor. However, there is much more to this site than just that offering. Some of it features writers and stars you are familiar with. Others are from people who have slaved behind the scenes for other shows. Over the next few weeks we’ll take a look at some of the offerings strike.tv has to give us in this ever-changing world of television. Let’s begin with some fake babies, fish out of water and sci-fi noir.
For this installment of The Librarian: Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart and vampires
Vampires. You can’t walk down the street these days without stepping on one of them. They’re on television, in books and on the movie screen. Hell, one even moved down the street from me. Which, pardon the pun, sucks because he’s up all night, blasting Yanni tunes from his outside speakers. Hey, some of us living folks have to get up at sunrise and go to work! You undead idiot!
So, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when the latest installment of The Librarian movie series — The Curse of the Judas Chalice — featured, you guessed it, vampires. Or rather, the search for the one true vampire and the chalice that would awake not only him but his undead minions. In the middle of it all is one Flynn Carsen, played by Noah Wyle.
Does Flynn survive his meeting with Vlad the Impaler? Or, does he become a sad-sack vampire with a long black coat who rescues the down-trodden of Los Angeles? Of course he survives! Whether he did it in an entertaining way is another story. Read the rest of this entry »
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