Lots of people play Candy Crush. Why? I dunno. I mean, I play, but I couldn’t tell you why. Compelling storyline? Nope. Interesting characters? Nope. People like spending a ton of money on a glorified version of Bejeweled? Apparently.
But say, the company that makes the game was recently acquired by Activision, which is trying to make movies off their products. Someone after the cut speculated what a Candy Crush movie would look like.
There’s a lot of TV out there, and some of it basically ended last week while I was out of the country, but I decided to stay up to midnight in another country to see the conclusion anyway.
This week, I’m covering The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
Continue reading Non-Geek TV From The Geek Perspective: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
David Letterman is set to retire from late night TV this month, and his departure means we will see the last of the great pre-90’s icons step aside. The business had long since changed, but Dave’s departure is the end of an era. What does his departure mean?
Continue reading Letterman’s Exit Signals the Last of the Old Guard
Most geeks first experienced seeing Patrick Stewart in the role of the very un-Kirkish Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stewart had been an actor for years at this point, having been trained as a Shakespearean actor who played the London stage in tights that looked every sillier than the spandex uniforms he was asked to don for the first two years as Picard (Gene Roddenberry’s death allowed the producers to switch to more comfortable wool uniforms later in the series run). Later on, he played a character that sheer dumb luck was designed to look exactly like him, Professor Charles Xavier. Ask a number of geek fans if they know any other role he’s done, and they might be hard-pressed to name something.
Geek Love is not misplaced in this instance. We should love Patrick Stewart if for no other reason than he seems to be having fun most of the time, and he may very well be up for anything.
Gabbing Geek 