Comments on: They’re Talking About Me — In SPACE

By: LadyLepty

LadyLepty — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:23:56 +0000

I agree with #Ouisel.

An actor’s track record of professionalism plays a big part. The other factor is that most of those shows are filmed in Vancouver, so I suspect the Industry/Community is smaller and the friendships tighter.

Usually, I get a kick out of the “hey, that’s…” moments. But then I’m also a bit of an IMDB geek.

Mr S. – Please keep us in the loop about your Stargate: Whatever experiences!

- Thanks

By: Ouisel

Ouisel — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:50:50 +0000

OMG. The person asking Wright and Cooper about your participation, whom you here at the beginning of the clip? That was me! I mentioned it in a comment thread here after the event, which was the Stargate CreationCon in Vancouver earlier this year. They’ve clipped out a couple of remarks I made during the interchange, including this one:

Wright: He’s, uh — what’s the word?

Me: Snarky?

Wright: Smart!

By: Ouisel

Ouisel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:53:04 +0000

@ JustaTech, TheMadLibrarian: it’s not so much the network bringing back the same actors. When the director, the producer, or the casting director likes someone’s work, they’ll use him or her again. Especially if they’re reliable and Play Nice with Others. We might call it Deja Vu, but the actors call it Steady Work in a notoriously uncertain profession.

By: fellow-ohioan

fellow-ohioan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:26 +0000

re Jason@20 Does… does this mean the Scalzi is from out there? (Points at the sky) Gulp. Well that does explain a lot.

By: Marko

Marko — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:18:53 +0000

Remember…the shiny side of the tinfoil beanie goes out.

By: Dystopia

Dystopia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:04:07 +0000

Craig, you’re missing the point! Gordon Gecko was wrong. “Greed is [not] good.” Pharmaceutical companies have acquired the FDA. You’re now the most medicated nation in the history of the worlds. Watch Food Inc. You’re now the most obese nation in the history of the worlds. Watch The Corporation, a Canadian documentary. You’re the most incorporated country in the history of the worlds. “Syfu” is just another example of corporate America running their steamrollers over your over-medicated heads, like the machines over human skulls in Terminator. They have high jacked the sci-fi genre. Witness the slow migratory trek of sci-fi books to the land of young adult readers. Witness the dumbing down of sci-fi movies (though Moon is looking promising). Corporations are re-imagining the future of sci-fi literature as you lay comatose in a pharmaceutically-researched OxyContin daze. The simple fact of the matter is that corporations like stoned viewers/ consumers. They’re good shoppers. Oh, Sci-Fi! Where art thou? I’m afraid Science fiction is nothing more than a corporate acquisition now, a once glimmering rocket ship/ product to be stripped down and sold to the masses for parts to the Chinese and/or Japanese. There is no America anymore. There is only Corporate America, the Incorporated States of America. I.S.A. And your buddies at Syfy are working the mechanized troughs of the “sea-to-shining-sea” Orwellian pig farm. Enjoy the conglomerate that is the Syfy channel. Now run along and feed the pigs.

By: cyan

cyan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:44:04 +0000

Craig Ranapia @ 19: Please. I never suggested that the truly unfortunate “name” change reflects on the actual programming quality in any way. That said, “SyFy” is, in my book, far from good, and IMHO, contrary to its intended purpose, particularly marketable.

By: Josh Jasper

Josh Jasper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:50:33 +0000

I hope at some point you can tell us more about your input and where it went into the actual show.

By: Craig Ranapia

Craig Ranapia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:49:30 +0000

W….T….F?

By: fishhead

fishhead — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:45:13 +0000

Sorry Scalzi . . . but I have to rant . . .

I think millions of people are beginning to realize that they took Michael Jackson for granted, that he was an extraordinary talent on the entertainment and humanitarian fronts, that they unwittingly blocked his presence in the world of music with a perceptual dysfunction. There’s something almost messianic about his presence on stage, particularly how it transcends the entertainment sphere and pours itself into the humanitarian sphere like a cosmic waterfall. I was led astray by the haters, by the filth and muck of our species, by the media, the corporate elite. But not anymore, “the doors of perception [are] cleansed.” The airwaves are infested with on-air personalities who strive on the misery of others, who chase tragic heroes like dung beetles (the dung being the fabricated stories), filling in the myriad blanks of their lives from the grungy bars and soiled rooms of cheap hotels across America. The mass media are the Romans/Jewish High Priests of the modern age, and they have taken crucifying to a whole other level. They’ve taken to crucifying people like Michael Jackson from the inside, a million tape worms wiggling around a televised reality, the mass media is. But we’re beginning to see them for what they are, beginning with the media’s crucifixion of Michael Jackson.

The angle? Er, SyFy hasn’t aired Michael Jackson’s Scream yet!?