Side-stepping, a study: “Legend of Korra”: The “Avatar” creators on the new spin-off.

What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?
Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.
So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?
Konietzko: We didn’t head up that film. We’re just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.
Would you like to bring a cartoon version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the big screen?
Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the “Avatar” world. We would be really excited.

Awesome. 

Side-stepping, a study: “Legend of Korra”: The “Avatar” creators on the new spin-off.

What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?

Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.

So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?

Konietzko: We didn’t head up that film. We’re just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.

Would you like to bring a cartoon version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the big screen?

Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the “Avatar” world. We would be really excited.

Awesome. 

21 Jul 2010   [ the last airbender tv ]
Everything about Southland is well-done. The everyday, the dealing-with-shit, even chasing bad guys, none of it is tarted up, we’re not told what to think of it. It shows, it doesn’t tell.
The way they cleared that house this week? Kudos to them! It was slow, deliberate, and very quiet.
And Michael Cudlitz’s Cooper cracks me up. “I’m not an addict. I’m not one of these people like your mother’s friends up in Beverly Hills with their ennui, and their Vicodin, and their white wine.”
Ennui! White w(h)ine! So. Good.

Everything about Southland is well-done. The everyday, the dealing-with-shit, even chasing bad guys, none of it is tarted up, we’re not told what to think of it. It shows, it doesn’t tell.

The way they cleared that house this week? Kudos to them! It was slow, deliberate, and very quiet.

And Michael Cudlitz’s Cooper cracks me up. “I’m not an addict. I’m not one of these people like your mother’s friends up in Beverly Hills with their ennui, and their Vicodin, and their white wine.”

Ennui! White w(h)ine! So. Good.

13 Mar 2010   [ Southland tv quotes ]

…the stark raving existential pain of learning that the world has broken.

Jacob’s review of this week’s “True Blood” (“Time Bomb”). TWoP isn’t what it used to be, but Jacob is great at this (nb: read the recap after you’ve watched the episode).

My thoughts about “Time Bomb” are recursively this: the entire series and this episode each make the other worth the investment.

14 Aug 2009   [ quotes turn of phrase tv the world has broken ]

Heroes Volume Five (season 4) trailer

“Redemption” looks promising (T-Bag’s preaching notwithstanding; which is creepy more so than a red flag); maybe that title hints at the writers’ contrition for Volume Four. One hopes.

29 Jul 2009   [ videos tv ]

Craig Ferguson’s figured it out. (:

23 Jul 2009   [ videos tv ]
Bugatti Veyron vs McLaren F1 (Top Gear) (HD)
Oh hell yes.

Bugatti Veyron vs McLaren F1 (Top Gear) (HD)

Oh hell yes.

9 Jul 2009   1 note   [ cars top gear tv videos video-stills ]

The Pacific

Yes.

23 Jun 2009   [ tv ]

Classic baddie error (Ford Fiesta road test)

16 Jun 2009   [ tv top gear cars ]

The end is pie.

The final 3 episodes of “Pushing Daisies” are running on ABC, Saturday nights. Did you miss the first one last week, too? Sniff.

Also: hey! the WB is useful? Full episodes from the first season of PD if you’re unfamiliar with it (which you shouldn’t be because it is fantastic, even if ABC’s programming department doesn’t. get. it.).

5 Jun 2009   [ tv pushing daisies ]
Westside

Westside

26 May 2009   [ hulu soutland tv ]
I must make amends.
Keely Hawes and James McAvoy pulled off respectable Macbeths. Their respective transitions from shrew to hysteric and big bark to serious bite were slow and metered and, well, fantastic.
(Also the music? Creep. Tastic.)

I must make amends.

Keely Hawes and James McAvoy pulled off respectable Macbeths. Their respective transitions from shrew to hysteric and big bark to serious bite were slow and metered and, well, fantastic.

(Also the music? Creep. Tastic.)

12 May 2009   [ tv tv-stills movie-stills shakespeare ]
CSI:NY, Season 3, Episode 1 (Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” is an enabler.)

CSI:NY, Season 3, Episode 1 (Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” is an enabler.)

28 Dec 2008   [ tv tv-stills ]

…clearly Jack Bauer walks the Earth to take on the world’s sins, to thwart what he can, avenge what he cannot and suffer because he must.

Review: 24

That might be a smidge over-the-top, but it’s well-structured and metered and I’m not the sort who can resist that.

25 Nov 2008   [ quotes tv ]
Vincent Kartheiser’s scenes were particularly well written and well acted. In contrast to Don Draper –- who gains complexity through the tidbits we learn about his past –- Pete Campbell almost entirely develops in the show’s present.

Mad Men: Flight 1”, Sarah Rogers, Show Tracker

I haven’t yet watched the 2nd episode of this season, but I love that observation.

7 Aug 2008   [ criticism tv mad men quotes ]