There's more to life than TV (apparently)

[locker_monster]

A co-worker today asked me what I did last night and all I could come up with was watching TV. So, a post not about TV (mostly).

-Yesterday was the annual Stampede breakfast at my work. It was my first company Stampede breakfast; I went to work for the company after Stampede had finished last year so I had missed out. Nothing too fancy, but it was a free breakfast. That's the best part about Stampede. :-D As for actually going to Stampede, I'm going Saturday with some friends. Mmm, mini doughnuts...

-Next week, I'll have been working for a year. Whoo, go me! I'll probably post more about that next week, but for now, yay, I'm still employed!

-I've been writing a lot while at work lately. Okay, to be more accurate, I've been writing while working. But not writing when I should be working. I type a few sentences then do some data entry, type a few sentences, enter some data, etc. Working at a computer that isn't my home computer seems to help with creativity. Or maybe it's the rampant paranoia that someone might come up behind me and see what I'm writing that's fueling the writing process. Whatever it is, it's nice getting stuff done. If I still have a job come November, I might give NaNoWriMo a try and write during the day while at work. It's probably the only way I'd make a daily writing quota.

-Alan Tudyk's been in town filming a low budget horror movie. A friend of my brother-in-law saw Alan about two weeks ago in a restaurant and we couldn't figure out why he would be here. The local paper had a story about three days ago about the movie, though it was more about how the director is Sally Field's son and how she was in town, too, to watch him direct. This is the first on-line article I've seen about the movie. The article makes it sound like the movie just stared filming but the production has been here for about two weeks now. So I have about another week and a half to stalk run into Alan.

-I heard about the Alien Nation remake Tim Minear is heading up, which is cool for him. I'm too young to remember Alien Nation so I'm indifferent about it being remade. I am not, however, indifferent about Syfy remaking Quantum Leap, which it might, according to io9.com. I've been watching reruns of Quantum Leap for about a year and a half now and I'm somewhere in season four, far enough into the show that I don't want to see a new take on it. Half the charm comes from the actors. This is Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell before they were a starship captain and a homicidal Cylon, respectively. And Quantum Leap was barely sci fi. Sure, Sam travelled through time, but he didn't do it with a flashy time machine and he didn't run around with a ray gun. Al was like the only constant sci fi reminder. The rest of the time, it was just Sam, trying to make right what once went wrong. It doesn't sound like a concrete thing at the moment, thank goodness, but the potential is there. The next thing you know, we'll have this:

Not that this would be a bad thing... ;-)

-Sigh, is it time to watch Torchwood yet?

Comments

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I loved Quantum Leap when I was it was on the first time and yeah, it'd be hard to remake it... they'd need a LOT of charm in the main actors for an out and out remake to work.

I could maybe be a bit more tolerant hypothetically of something along the lines of a sequel-reboot, where another group is sent in to repeat the experiment, having convinced they've got the process under control, but some disasterous event in the first episode reverts them to random leaping, and with Sam Beckett still being theoretically out there, leaping.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

The people at Syfy are speaking with the original creator for the remake, so that's something at least. I'd prefer, if they do go ahead with a remake, that they simply update things, like better special effects. Don't try to make the premise "edgier" or relevant for today.

If they wanted, they could do some stunt casting and hire Scott Bakula to play the hologram character. But I like your idea of a reboot/sequel better. You have the essence of the show but with new characters.

[littlebatti.livejournal.com]

Glad to see rodeos still hav a grand tradition of refined sugary foods. Yay Donuts!
You're lucky you get free breakfast. When the rodeo came to the town I was teaching in, the rodeo clowns would come to school and put on a little show. Out of all the teachers, I got picked to try to rope a bale of hay with a lasso in front of the whole school. (I'm from suburbia not the country so it was anxiety central)

Sadly, I am old enough to remember Alien Nation. I even had the soundtrack from the TV series on CASSETTE tape. I iz so old. I'd like to see them do the series again if they could do a good job of it.

Incidentally,
I've been watching the old original miniseries of 'V' before the new one comes out and I've been surprised at how well the old series stands up character and story wise. (80's special effects are a different story.)

With Quantum Leap, I like the idea of a series reboot/sequel too. You are right the charm of the show comes from the characters/actors. Interesting that they are talking to the creator, Don Bellisario. Out the series that he created Quantum Leap was his favourite and I'm hoping that he would want to see any reboot/remake be a decent one.

I've never seen that Quantum Who vid before. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when they showed Jack as Al. It's perfect.

Totally love your Doctor, Mal, red headed bride icon.

*slinks away to search for Alien Nation soundtrack in a download format*

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Man, there's some bizarre stuff to eat at the Stampede. A friend of a friend today bought deep fried Oreos. He said it was like eating a doughnut with a chocolate filling. Then there were deep fried jelly beans. Deep frying everything doesn't make it better.

Hmm, I hadn't thought of watching the old V before the new V comes out. I very vague memories of the show; I think we rented the miniseries when I was a kid. I did make an effort to watch some old BSG. I should do the same for V and maybe even Alien Nation. The source material should always be respected. So it is nice to see Syfy approaching Don Bellisario about a Quantum Leap remake. They at least want his opinion if things do end up being greenlit.

Yeah, someone posted that Quantum Who vid a few months back I think here on LJ and I just loved it. Captured everything perfectly.

I enjoy making crossover icons. They're my favourite. :-)