Geek Moment of the Day - The Dark Knight Rises(Animated Style)

August 18, 2011.

Okay, this is one of the greatest things I've seen on YouTube. This dude took the teaser trailer for the The Dark Knight Rises and recut it with clips from Batman: The Animated Series. Not only are ALL the clips BRILLIANT and perfectly worked into the audio of the trailer, but this makes me even more excited for the movie. Since it's pretty much consensus that the the animated Batman series is one of the best animated shows of all time, and probably the best super hero based show of all time I love that it works so well with the movie.

Nothing else to say, just watch and adore the brilliance.

Via Youtube. Video created by xNick1718x

Geek Moment of the Day -- Curiosity

August 14, 2011


Curiosity is a new show on the Discovery Channel and it's GREAT! Each week a new host takes us on a journey to answer a question. Last week Stephen Hawking asked "Did God create the Universe?", and this week Michelle Rodriguez(Lost, Avatar) asked "Are we ready for an Alien invasion?". Both episodes are amazing, and they got a wide variety of people to help answer these questions. Included are physicists, engineers, government officials, military officials, doctors, etc. so you know that the information included in the show will be complete.

What I like the most about the show is that every week is not the same. Most shows like this pick a type of topic and go the full series with that. Mega Disasters, or The Universe for example. Next week is hosted by Maggie Gyllenhal, and the question is "Why is sex fun?". If that's not a change of pace then I don't know what is. I'm sure it'll focus on biology, and psychology a lot, but for someone who is interested in science, but is not interested in physics then this change of pace is a great thing.

Tune into this series if you get the chance. New episodes air every Sunday at 8/7c on the Discovery Channel, and then randomly throughout the week. And as they say, check local listings for more.

Geek Moment of the Day -- The Evil of the Daleks!

August 12, 2011

As everyone knows, I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who. I only started watching earlier this year, and fell in love with the new series. When I was done with the new stuff, I decided to go back and watch the old stuff. It's really GREAT! Cheesy yes, bad special effects yes, BUT as an Original Series Star Trek fan I'm the last person who should complain about special effects or camp.

So, why is this the Geek Moment of the Day? Well, earlier tonight I finished Season 4 which ran from 1966-67, and introduced the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. This episode didn't introduce him, it was the season final, but I really loved this serial. Only one of the 7 episodes are available, but some amazing people have reconstructed the other 6 parts and they are available on Youtube.

What I loved about this serial was it had my favorite aspects of Doctor Who. Great use of time travel, hugely important canon, THE DALEKS, the Doctor being a bit scared and not perfect all the time, great heroics by the Companion, and of course the brilliance of the Doctor being shown in the end. I won't give anything away about it, but I do think this is a serial that would be loved by all fans. The introduction to Troughton is a serial called "The Power of the Daleks" so don't get them confused, but I would suggest watching that one too. This serial also has several key events that while not directly connected to the new series, are clearly inspirations for many things Davies did with the Daleks during his tenure.

Oh, and don't forget...all who deny the DALEKS are SUPREME will be EXTERMINATED!!!

Geek Moment of the Day! The Return of Myspace

August 11, 2011


Hey everyone! This is the first geek moment of the day, and I think it's interesting. Do you all remember MySpace? No? Oh. Well, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away Facebook was only a gleam in the eye of Mark Zuckerberg, and Friendster was kind of a piece of crap. So, Myspace did the job. One of the first big modern social networks it allowed users to create personal profile pages, and add friends and pictures. One thing that was pretty cool about it was you could put music tracks right on your home page, and they would play whenever someone visited it. Yes this became very annoying because some people liked to have friggin loud as hell music blast your ears off. You know who you are! Even Facebook doesn't allow that, or anything close to the personal profile pages Myspace did.

New features!

In the coming days I'll be starting two new features here on the site.

As you can see, the site has been almost totally TV and Film reviews. That is not what I planned, and not what I want the site to be solely about. The idea of the Podcast always has been to look back on things and discuss them, but we also had a lot of fun with random rants and rambles. With that in mind, I have decided to bring that to the blog.

The first of the new features will be "Geek Moment of the Day". This will be a daily post about something in the World of Geek that I saw, read, heard about, or simply occurred to me at random. The plan, is for me to then pick a Geek Moment of the Month at the end of each month. Know that your comments will be a huge factor in my decision so feel free to say anything about any of these many moments. Now, what do I do if I can't think of anything? Well, if there is nothing that I can think of, or nothing I would post I simply will skip a day. I feel no moment would be better than a lame one, or worse, a made up one. I'm pretty excited about this since I have many of these moments happen to me, and I love telling people about these so why not you guys too?

The second is a little different. I'm planning on a Rant Post. I haven't yet come up with a super clever heading, so any suggestions will be welcomed. These rants will range from things like, commercials that annoy me, to serious issues of the day. As I stated in one of the very first posts I will keep religion out of these, and I will try to do the same with politics. If a rant is more serious and I fear may offend I will put a disclaimer on. With that said, the serious rants will be few and far between. The rate of these posts will also be a bit random. I think weekly will be a good idea. That leaves a lot of time for me to find something good to rant about, and spreads them out enough so I don't become annoying. I might be annoying anyway so it's good to not be too annoying.

So yeah, I hope these sound cool!