Says You Sunday
Dec. 30th, 2013 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
I had a pretty busy Sunday...mostly spent sitting in theaters.
In the afternoon I went to a taping of Says You!, the panel game show centered (mostly) around words that airs on Public Radio. I've been listening to them for quite a few years and I was happy to get another chance to see them live. Interestingly, they were recording the show for air, but also taping it on video. Apparently they're going to try and float a TV pilot of the show. I'll be curious to see how that goes. The panelists are mostly Boston/New England locals and I don't know if they really have a national following (outside of being on Says You!). Even if they're going to try and sell the show to PBS stations, I'm not sure if it'll have enough sizzle for TV.
Still, it's fun to sit out there and watch the cast go through their paces. The other nice part about seeing them live is that they can get away with some slightly more risque material that will get edited out later so that's always fun. There were a lot of interesting questions and topics and the audience was quite lively (although some of them need to remember that if they get the answer they shouldn't shout it out).
Afterwards I went to see The Hobbit...or, as is becoming more self-evident, The Lord of the Rings: The Prequel. Am I disappointed about that? Not really. The Hobbit was a fine book. It'd be a perfectly good (longish) single movie. Still, I kind of like this punched up version of things even though it makes some serious departures from the book. My biggest worry about this rewrite is that Gandalf has a pretty clear idea that Sauron is coming back. In the book, Gandalf learns Bilbo has a magic ring and says "well, good for you, take care of that now". Under the present circumstances, if Gandalf ever figures out that Bilbo has a magic ring, it's next stop, Mt. Doom.
My only other nits are that dwarves take forever to get anywhere but wizards and orcs can flash all over the place. Also, Thorin was pretty lucky to have that giant mold placed precisely where it was. On the other hand, that whole scene smacked of A-Team antics and I love me some A-Team. "Hah, I've trapped the Dwarves in a massive forge! Surely they can't improvise their way out of my clutches!"
I also liked that Stephen Fry was in the movie in a part that perfectly suited him and which he clearly enjoyed playing. I do wish that Steven Colbert had gotten a slightly bigger part, but I think you'd just see Colbert and not the guy he was playing. As it was, when I saw him I thought "Ha-Ha! Eyepatch".
So yeah, an entertaining Sunday.
Tom
I had a pretty busy Sunday...mostly spent sitting in theaters.
In the afternoon I went to a taping of Says You!, the panel game show centered (mostly) around words that airs on Public Radio. I've been listening to them for quite a few years and I was happy to get another chance to see them live. Interestingly, they were recording the show for air, but also taping it on video. Apparently they're going to try and float a TV pilot of the show. I'll be curious to see how that goes. The panelists are mostly Boston/New England locals and I don't know if they really have a national following (outside of being on Says You!). Even if they're going to try and sell the show to PBS stations, I'm not sure if it'll have enough sizzle for TV.
Still, it's fun to sit out there and watch the cast go through their paces. The other nice part about seeing them live is that they can get away with some slightly more risque material that will get edited out later so that's always fun. There were a lot of interesting questions and topics and the audience was quite lively (although some of them need to remember that if they get the answer they shouldn't shout it out).
Afterwards I went to see The Hobbit...or, as is becoming more self-evident, The Lord of the Rings: The Prequel. Am I disappointed about that? Not really. The Hobbit was a fine book. It'd be a perfectly good (longish) single movie. Still, I kind of like this punched up version of things even though it makes some serious departures from the book. My biggest worry about this rewrite is that Gandalf has a pretty clear idea that Sauron is coming back. In the book, Gandalf learns Bilbo has a magic ring and says "well, good for you, take care of that now". Under the present circumstances, if Gandalf ever figures out that Bilbo has a magic ring, it's next stop, Mt. Doom.
My only other nits are that dwarves take forever to get anywhere but wizards and orcs can flash all over the place. Also, Thorin was pretty lucky to have that giant mold placed precisely where it was. On the other hand, that whole scene smacked of A-Team antics and I love me some A-Team. "Hah, I've trapped the Dwarves in a massive forge! Surely they can't improvise their way out of my clutches!"
I also liked that Stephen Fry was in the movie in a part that perfectly suited him and which he clearly enjoyed playing. I do wish that Steven Colbert had gotten a slightly bigger part, but I think you'd just see Colbert and not the guy he was playing. As it was, when I saw him I thought "Ha-Ha! Eyepatch".
So yeah, an entertaining Sunday.
Tom
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Date: 2013-12-30 10:38 pm (UTC)Also, Stephen Colbert didn't just read as Stephen Colbert to me in Company, so maybe there's hope for him as an actor actor?
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Date: 2013-12-31 08:54 pm (UTC)