DarthVader-related stories
Posted Nov 17th 2009 7:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Music and Variety
A long time ago (well, 31 years ago) in a galaxy far, far away (Television City isn't technically a different galaxy, unless you consider TV producers to be people who don't spend much time on planet Earth), an evil was unleashed upon the human race.
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the infamous
Star Wars Holiday Special, a Christmas not-so-spectacular roasted by critics including some here at
TV Squad years after it hit the air and even some of the franchise's most ardent fans.
That also includes
George Lucas who once remarked at an Australian convention that he wished he could buy up all of the world's remaining copies of the show and smash them into oblivion with a sledgehammer. I wonder if 31 years from now, he'll be saying the same thing about
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace?
Continue reading Remembering The Star Wars Holiday Special, even if we really don't want to
Posted Oct 8th 2009 8:41AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, House, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
In
this week's episode of House, James Earl Jones played an African dictator. Much of the plot centered on whether he should live or die, and whether the doctors should make that decision in order to save innocent Africans that he would kill if he survived.
Ok, here's the thing about this. Jones is undoubtedly a great actor, but he didn't seem like an evil dictator ready to wipe out half the population of his country. He seemed more like his character Terence Mann in
Field of Dreams, a kindly old guy who needed to be shown the way.
Continue reading Did James Earl Jones seem like an evil dictator in House?
Posted Sep 23rd 2007 10:01PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S06E01) A long time ago, but somehow in the future . . .
Who would've thunk it? When Family Guy premiered back in 1999(!) many people tossed it away as a pale imitation of The Simpsons and kind of ignored it. Who knew that eight years later, at the start of the show's 6th season, Seth MacFarlane and his crew would be able to get the approval of George Lucas himself to air a spoof of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It shows how far Family Guy has come since it returned to the prime-time airwaves.
Continue reading Family Guy: Blue Harvest (season premiere)
Posted Jun 18th 2007 11:23PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, Episode Reviews
Before action figures became collectibles that should never, ever be removed from their little plastic bubble packaging boys and girls actually played with them. Sometimes, the adventures that these little characters had were not what they were intended for. In fact, I'm sure that some of these action figures did things that would make a grown man blush.
Continue reading Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special
Posted May 14th 2007 8:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S05E17) As I got into this episode, two things occurred to me. First, since next week is the season finale, when did they decide to cut this season to 18 episodes? More importantly for our purposes here though, this episode felt very familiar. It took a minute, but when Lois and Mayor West got to the debate, I remembered what it was. The main story was very similar to the season two episode, "Running Mates."
Continue reading Family Guy: It Takes A Village Idiot, And I Married One
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