If it's Big Finish, that would mean money out of our pockets.
At the risk of going off-topic, my BF purchases have been steadily reducing. I only have 2 standing pre-orders atm.
Big Finish is an audio-drama producer based in the UK. They've held the license for StarGate and Highlander in the past, but probably best known for their Dr Who stuff. Unrelated to the Baldwin stuff.
Ah. The willful and proud ignorance is bliss defense. Wonderful.
The internet shouldn't be real life. Nobody should be getting SWAT teams called on them because you can play a video game and choose a high-pitched voice and a skinny body-type independently of each other. Any time I have to explain any aspect of the vast, sprawling infestation of garbage that traces back to Gamergate to someone I feel insane. I don't even know where to start. "Well, there are banners of the President's face lit like a campfire ghoul hanging from the Justice Department, and they want to put the face of a guy whose claim to fame was editing videos of himself yelling at nineteen-year-olds to make himself look smart on a silver dollar, but it all starts with when a woman made a text-adventure video game about being sad, and this self-hating gay Nazi really didn't like that, and the guy from Firefly (no, not that one. Or that one. The other-other one) jumped on his bandwagon..." How did so many people choose to make us all live in a world this stupid?
And there's always more! I've been online for a long time, I learned a lot of fascist dog-whistles to recognize when harmful people were trying to weasel into communities like ours, and there's new-to-me garbage coming out at an ever-increasing rate. Now I've got to know about Campus Republicans posting about Nazi-heaven at the center of the hollow Earth, where this so-called master race still can't get a date? Come on! These people are fucking clowns, this shouldn't be news, this should be a moderately viral comedy article about the dumb crap people say on some racist UBB board that's only famous among the terminally-online for how shit its userbase is.
Even if Gamergate is (insanely) important context for understanding the current state of the world, I can't blame anyone for not keeping up with this kind of niche internet drama. Like, a bunch of nerds got annoyed that the interests they'd previously been ostracized for became mainstream and now more popular people were coming into the places that had been their social refuge, and then media personalities pushed that discomfort into directions that were politically advantageous for them, including Baldwin. That shouldn't matter! No one should have to care! Even when you explain about the harassing phone calls and stalking people's homes, the hoax 911 calls that led to armed police breaking down peoples' doors, it still sounds like childish, exaggerated rumors.
And, yeah, the fact that it's been twelve years and you still have to explain that all this happened is frustrating, but, by God, I wish I hadn't ever heard about it, either.
Well, looping back to the point of the thread, this finally got me to watch that compilation of all the promo videos - YouTube's been throwing it at me for a bit now - and it's cool. The funny part for me is that Nathan and Sean are very clearly not in the same place; Sean is somewhere with snow and Nathan clearly isn't. (I suspect a lot of them aren't in the same place - as far as I know Jewel is back in Vancouver and one presumes Nathan still lives in L.A. But it's the one with Sean that stands out.)
I'm excited to learn what this is all about, and hope it doesn't come as too much of a letdown for the people who are aiming for the moon.
To be honest, though, my big takeaway is a sobering reminder that I just turned 50... my social group includes people who went to Uni with Nathan, and if he got old, then we must've gotten old, too.
I'm excited to learn what this is all about, and hope it doesn't come as too much of a letdown for the people who are aiming for the moon.
To be honest, though, my big takeaway is a sobering reminder that I just turned 50... my social group includes people who went to Uni with Nathan, and if he got old, then we must've gotten old, too.
While we're all here, I have some less fraught gossip I've been wondering about for a while. I heard a while ago that Tricia Helfer and Nathan Fillion dated for a bit (IIRC, she mentioned it on her Battlestar Galactica rewatch podcast), and it seems like it would've been around the time they played an estranged couple in the video game Halo: ODST, but I don't know the exact sequence. Did they meet because of the game? Were they cast as a couple because they were already dating? Was it a coincidence, and, if so, was it before, during, or after their relationship? No idea, not my business, still kind of curious.
I do love how hilariously mismatched the two backgrounds are.
I remember after they broke up that Fillion mentioned it on an interview. The interviewer said "The fans would have gone CRAZY if they knew this." Fillion very dryly quipped "That's why we didn't tell anyone."
Well, looping back to the point of the thread, this finally got me to watch that compilation of all the promo videos - YouTube's been throwing it at me for a bit now - and it's cool. The funny part for me is that Nathan and Sean are very clearly not in the same place; Sean is somewhere with snow and Nathan clearly isn't. (I suspect a lot of them aren't in the same place - as far as I know Jewel is back in Vancouver and one presumes Nathan still lives in L.A. But it's the one with Sean that stands out.)
I'm excited to learn what this is all about, and hope it doesn't come as too much of a letdown for the people who are aiming for the moon.
To be honest, though, my big takeaway is a sobering reminder that I just turned 50... my social group includes people who went to Uni with Nathan, and if he got old, then we must've gotten old, too.
The entire thing is hilarious - all of them trying to be superserious but it comes off just goofy in the best and intended way. So much Firefly vibe that it's no wonder fans around the world are so hyped, myself included.
I really do hope it's more than just a small reunion show or the release of a new comicbook series or such because it would feel like overkill at this point.
I hope they have something really good on their hands to go to these lengths and it's set in stone, contracts signed and all. A reboot show is the one everybody wants and personally i would be ok if it's a new crew if they can keep the same vibe and don't just make a carbon copy. You can never have enough whacky hijinks followed by utter insanity.
Ah, wacky fun.
I was wondering if he just meant a new podcast, not an episode of Once We Were Spacemen.
This seems like a good place to ask something sort of related to this that I've been wondering about. What kind of a reputation does Nathan Fillion have as a costar? I learned a while back that him and Stana Katic couldn't get along on Castle, and that was why as the show went on they split their characters up more and more, and now on The Rookie they have his character's wife working in DC while his characters is still in LA, and in the last few episodes she's only appeared once on a video chat, and in one short scene with Fillion last week. Is a complete asshole that women can't stand working with or something?
I've never really got to the bottom of what happened with him and Katic, heard various rumours, including that there was genuine sexual tension there and they were never both single at the same time to act on it.
Not sure he's an asshole as such, but he strikes me as someone who might be...a bit much? I mean to say his characters are often cocky SOBs and I wonder if he's like that in real life all the time and maybe it gets a bit wearing?
I saw Serenity with someone who had never seen Firefly but did go to university with Nathan Filion, and after the movie my friend said he couldn't really get into the show because Mal and Nathan were too similar and it kept breaking the immersion. I've no personal experience to add to this, just a second-hand annecdote.
