Maybe I’m wrong about this, but after last night’s crazy-high numbers for the British premiere of “Bionic Woman,” (thanks to the homeland fame of star Michele Ryan, late of “EastEnders”), somehow I can’t imagine that NBC-Universal will be able to resist keeping it going for at least a little bit longer. At the very least, I’m anticipating that it’ll stick around somewhere, if only over at Sci-Fi.
Author: Will Harris (Page 134 of 261)
Will is a member of the Television Critics Association and has written for Decider.com, the Onion A.V. Club, The Dissolve, Indiewire, Rhino.com, TV Week Magazine, The Virginian-Pilot, Popdose.com, and EW.com along with writing for Bullz-Eye.com and Premium Hollywood.
Man, was I psyched this past weekend. I attended the Williamsburg Film Festival, and in addition to meeting Lee Meriwether (“Barnaby Jones,” “The Time Tunnel,” and, of course, Catwoman in the 1966 “Batman” movie) and Richard Herd (John on “V,” Mr. Wilhelm on “Seinfeld,” Admiral Paris on “Star Trek: Voyager”), I also managed to find a decidedly-unofficial set of “The Fantastic Voyage: The Complete Series.”
If you don’t remember “The Fantastic Journey,” well, fair enough. It only lasted for 10 episodes, after all. But for a six-year-old with a rich imagination (which is what I was when the series premiered), it was the stuff dreams were made of, involving a ship entering the Bermuda Triangle and passing through a rip in the space/time continuum to land on a mysterious, uncharted island filled with strange inhabitants who are also stranded there, including otherworldly individuals as well as other humans from different eras. In addition, there are also “portals” on the island which take you from one location to another. If you think the island aspect sounds just a bit like “Lost,” you’re far from the only one to have noticed that similarity; for that matter, it also resembles a few other shows, including “Sliders.” It’s got a great cast, including Roddy McDowall, Jared Martin, and Ike Eisenmann, and writers from other sci-fi sagas, including D.C. Fontana from “Star Trek.”
I know some people frown on buying bootlegged stuff like this, but I make this solemn vow to you: if “The Fantastic Journey” ever comes out officially, I’ll buy it all over again. But in the meantime, I’m getting all the flashbacks I can handle.
Although he’s been bouncing around Hollywood as far back as 1987, when he played Kolya ‘Nikolai’ Rostov on the “Dynasty” spin-off, “The Colbys,” it’s fair to say that Adrian Paul is more often remembered for his role as Duncan McLeod in the “Highlander” saga. After quite a few episodes of the TV series and a feature film, Paul took a break from the “Highlander” universe for several years, but he returned at long last for last year’s “Highlander: The Source,” which turned up on the Sci-Fi Channel and has recently seen DVD release. We spoken to Paul about his experiences in making the film (and whether there’ll be any more), his thoughts on longtime “Highlander” producer Bill Panzer, why his other sci-fi series, “Tracker,” never really took off, and what he’s been working on recently.
Adrian Paul: Hi Will.
Bullz-Eye: Hey Adrian, how’s it going?
AP: Good, good.
BE: So how hard was it to step back into the shoes of Duncan MacLeod after a few years?
AP: It was interesting. It was a different time, too, you know, and they wanted a slightly different type of character; you know, a little darker. But, you know, it’s fine, and you can do that because you know the values of the character; you kind of step back into it and try and find new stuff. So what with the old and the new stuff, you hopefully have a character with some new twists.
BE: Was it painful to lose your katana after all these years?
AP: (Laughs) No. The thing was, I think nothing’s lost, y’know? I mean, we know where it’s buried! But I love the katana. I love tai chi and working with the katana; I find it a very malleable type of weapon. But I do like using other weapons, too, and we wanted to sort of give it a whole different type of flavor. So we tried it, and even though a lot of the fights were sped up…which wasn’t my idea…we had some really interesting fights. The thing was that we actually tried a whole bunch of different types of weapons and stuff so that we’d have a roundabout look on it, but we didn’t know what we were facing when it comes to visual effects. That was an unknown quantity to us, so all we could do was choreograph it and hope for the best.
You wouldn’t have thought so earlier today, when the National Enquirer’s story broke about Patrick Swayze not only having pancreatic cancer but, in fact, only five weeks left to live. But it sounded so damned dire that we just couldn’t bring ourselves to believe it…and now that we’ve read MSNBC’s report, we don’t believe it.
Well, not entirely, anyway.
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that Swayze does indeed have cancer – his representative, Annett Wolf, admitted as much – but the guy’s still got a pilot in contention for A&E, where he plays an unorthodox FBI agent (is there any other kind?), and everyone sounds optimistic about his chances.
Of course, it could just be a case where everyone’s downplaying the situation, which means that we could be reading his obituary next week. But we’re still rooting for the Swayz.
UPDATE: In a flurry of emotion, I have just joined the Facebook group, We Love You, Patrick Swayze. Don’t be afraid to follow suit yourself.
First off, if you didn’t see last week’s write-up, there’s a perfectly good reason for that, but to find out what it is, you’ll have to click here.
Are you back? Excellent. Let’s move on, then, shall we?
Hey, everybody, Dale’s back! I always thought the guy was a little squirrelly because, well, he is squirrelly. But, wow, the guy’s really grown up over the course of the past few months. One trip to Missouri, and he’s become a man. And by “man,” I mean he’s actually about one evil look away from being a full-fledged bad-ass. I think I’ve said it before, but, seriously, you don’t want to be around that guy when he’s finally fed up.
Y’know, I’ve heard some people say that D.B. Sweeney is too damned likable to accept as the devious Goetz, but, personally, I think the combination of this against-type performance and a disconcertingly dark second season of “Jericho” makes him exceptionally off-putting in the role…which I mean as a compliment, if that wasn’t evident. Jake’s hatred of Ravenwood is understandable, given his history with the organization in Iraq, but it doesn’t take long for the majority of the town to turn against them when they start screwing with Dale’s shipments of the Hudson River Virus vaccine. (More on that in a moment.)
Hey, everybody, Jimmy’s back! Or, to put it another way, “Narc, narc, who’s there? Jimmy!” Not that we should’ve expected him to anything other than tell Beck what he knew about Sarah Mason, but what wasn’t expected was the way Hawkins decided to handle the situation: by bursting into Beck’s office and saying, “You’re killing my investigation!” It’s actually a good ploy, given how readily Hawkins has had lies spill forth from his lips during the course of the series, but in this case, it’s for the greater good, as he attempts to pick and choose bits and pieces of the facts at his disposal in order to sway Beck into realizing that the government isn’t telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It’s a slippery slope he’s treading, but Major Beck’s conversation with Thomas Valenti was clearly sufficient to sway Beck into believing Hawkins’ story. And as long as we’re speaking of Beck, I like him a little more each episode, especially after the scene with him and Heather in the waning minutets of the episode
Hey, everybody, Dr. Dhuwalia’s back! The guy’s not a very good liar, though, and he’ll clearly break under pressure at the drop of a hat. Still, I love the character, so I’m glad to see him return. Plus, even though he’s got the kind of loose lips that sink ships, the whole issue with the virus made for great drama, from the transmission Heather received that clarified just how bad things had gotten to the tension-racked scenes in the warehouse.
So Bonnie’s going the Kerouac route and hitting the road with Jennings & Rall, eh? Well, we did get our first full-fledged CBS’ing of Season 2 with the way the music swelled during the front porch conversation between Stanley and Bonnie, but we also got a bit of heretofore-unrevealed information about how Stanley and Bonnie lost their parents, and I’m sure fans – like, say, myself – enjoyed getting those details. It’s nice to see that the cute girl from J&R seems to have some scruples; at least it looks like Bonnie will be in good hands.
So who’s this mysterious person on the other end of the line from Hawkins…? Time, as they say, will tell…
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