The Updated Spock Actors Reference Post

On July 28, 2007, the following was posted on the original DTM Blog;

For anyone remotely interested, the people behind the new Star Trek movie have revealed two members of its cast: Zackary Quintos (creepy young dude who’s in Heroes) and Leonard Nimoy (creepy old guy who does photography of naked women… and he did some TV show back in the 60s) will both play the character of Spock. That’s right; Spock is so big they need TWO people to play him. Well, it’s better than the 1980s when they need SIX people to play him.

This info came from the OFFICIAL Star Trek site.

A couple days later, this was posted (588)

Contrary to an earlier blog post, you didn’t need SIX actors to portray Spock back in the 1980s. Instead, you needed NINE.

1. Leonard Nimoy – the original Spock

2. Launched Photon Torpedo – dead Spock

3. Photon Torpedo Tube – rotting Spock’s casket

4. Carl Steven – Spock at age 7

5. Vardia Potenza – Preteen Sexmate Spock at age 13

6. Stephen Manley – Teenage Spock at age 17

7. Joe W. Davis – Vulcan-Rage Spock at age 25

8. Director Nimoy – Nimoy-Spock hybrid

9. Baby – Baby Spock in Star Trek V flashback

So yeah, that’s a lot of people/things/stupidities to play one Vulcan. Wonder how many actors Tuvok has:

1. Tim Russ – Tuvok

2. A shitload of stunt doubles.

Okay, so what about the Vulcan chick on Enterprise? Well, see Tuvok but swap Tim Russ for that other chick. Jolene whatsherface.

So yeah, Vulcans are hard for one person to handle…

Or maybe it’s just me.

Good night.

Well then…

“What we’re really trying to do is get to the core of who Superman is. So we’re taking away a lot of his iconic visuals – we took away the spit curl, the cape. We left him with just the “S” and even that’s not the same, it’s more of the Fleischer “S” from the old animation.”

Gene Luen Yang, Superman writer
Well… I guess I need to go back and watch the old Fleischer cartoons and see if they’re as dull and uninspired as the tripe being written now.

Random Thought on AVGN Seaman

That sums it all up, really.

If you want a genuinely funny Seaman video that isn’t pretentious, well… you know where I’m going with this already.

EDIT: I was apparently told that this horrible episode was dedicated to the late Leonard Nimoy, who provided narration for Seaman. I was also told that people on “that blog” consider this a “proper” tribute. Sure, pal. Whatever you say.

Hogan Doesn't Know Best

If I could offer a piece of advice to the Hulkster… please, for the love of God, fuck off social media. Not on a permanent basis, mind you, but for the foreseeable future. At least until this whole thing blows over… which might take longer because of your constant retweeting of other comments that were designed to suck yo… wait, that’s an image nobody wants.

Seriously, though, Hogan’s retweeting people telling him he’s not a racist seems more like an attempt to cover up the fact that he really is. And for those wondering, I’m not implying that he is. I just want him off social media so he could deal with this behind closed doors. Sometimes, laying low and be silent is the best strategy to rehab the strained image.

Random Thoughts On… The Upcoming Power Rangers Movie

(Originally from Episode 41 of the DTM-Cast)

Considering your vehement hatred for what you consider the Voldemort of Power Rangers amateur productions, I was just wondering what your ideal Power Rangers movie would be. Would you make it darker or keep it light-hearted?

That’s actually a good question, because it sort of brings to light the expectations some people would have for this thing.

Lionsgate, for those who are not in the know, is set to produce and release a new Power Rangers film sometime next year; a reboot, as it were. And much like anything we know nothing about, there is speculation, there’s conjecture, there’s very little to work with. And in between the time it was announced and the day it gets released, there have been and there will be little unofficial, unauthorized films offering their take of the material and then, in predictable fashion, all of this will dark and grim and gritty and claim to be Power Rangers for fans who have grown up when, in fact, what they produced is actually juvenile, generic, low-brow schlock that makes the KIDS show seem sophisticated in comparison.

As for what I’d like to see in the Lionsgate production… well, naturally something a little more mature and a little more refined than what you’d get on the series and that doesn’t necessarily mean making it grim or dark or bloody or stupid or moronic, but rather something that gives the movie a little more depth and substance than just merely the cheese. If nothing else, I want to go into a Power Rangers movie knowing that I’ll get something from that film that I wouldn’t get from the television show, which, for all intents and purposes, would most likely still see production around that time.

But at the same time, I don’t think they should completely wash away the silly aspects of the thing either because then you’re taking away the essence of the show; kids change into spandex-donning heroes, wield fantastical high-tech weaponry, control giant colossal mechanical warriors, fight off the bad guys, and throw a bit of a message in there. The concept is silly and ridiculous and rather than try to shy away from that like an embarrassment, they should embrace it. There should be a balance between giving it a bit more depth and substance to make it feel a bit mature and also keeping the levity and fun that could be had with the concept.

In other words, give me a Power Rangers movie that feels like Power Rangers, but different enough that it would be a unique take.

Random Thoughts On… The Infamous “Agony In Pink” Fic

A long while back, someone had asked me if I had seen the rather infamous Agony In Pink fanfic, the somewhat dark fanfic involving OG Pinky being kidnapped and subject to some rather “harsh” treatment. And unfortunately, I had to admit that yes, I have, in fact, read Agony In Pink. I’ve not only read Agony In Pink, but I also sampled the Agony In Pink remake, the Agony In Yellow spin-off, and Holly’s House Invasion, an original “adult” fic from the same author. And all that literature had resulted in a significant loss of sanity that I am still recovering from to this day.

For those who don’t know what any of that is, it’s essentially extreme adult content… but with Power Rangers. Two of them focusing on vintage Pink and another focusing on the Yellow Ranger from Power Rangers in Space. It’s not the most pleasant thing to read, regardless of whether you’re into that sort of kink or not. This was essentially garbage shlock in written form before morons with no creative juices made their own schlock of the same vein (but nowhere near the same extremes.)

If you insist on tracking this stuff down, do so at your own risk. But I ain’t helping you. I’m not sure the new set-up would appreciate that sort of thing.