THE WALKING DEAD to Debut on AMC in October

October is shaping up to be a great month for horror it would seem.

ONCE UPON A SPY

The opening titles to a 1980 TV Movie Pilot called ONCE UPON A SPY. The show featured Ted Danson and Christopher Lee who guest starred on the show as a villain. More groovy details can be found here. (h/t to Spy-Fi Channel)

V - THE TV TRAILER

Here's the trailer to the remake of V coming straight at you from ABC. I can't help but think of David Icke whenever I see the trailer and think of the show.

THE SPIRIT: THE 1980'S VERSION

Apparently, before I had whiskers on my ol' chin, there was a 1987 Tv version of THE SPIRIT.

The sad news is that it never went beyond that. Although gold stars for sticking closer to the source material and costume design.

Check it out here.

I DID IT!

It was like ripping off a dirty band-aid but I finally did it. It only took a few moves of the thumb on the remote and I canceled any records of HEROES off my DVR. I have little time as it is to make my own pulp, I don't need to waste it on anything that doesn't even care enough to heed the rules of entertaining a audience. Speaking of which I gotta run, I have several projects screaming in my head and they won't shut up until I get them done. Stay weird!

THIS MIGHT BE COOL...

STAY CLASSY, MR KRING

UPDATE: Go here to check out The Groovy Age of Horror creator Curt Purcell's own thoughts on this subject. (WARNING: LINK IS NSFW)

I don't often share my thoughts on TV shows, I am mostly a film geek and that's how I roll. However, one of the shows I do watch is HEROES. It's not a work of staggering genius, but the first season was charming enough to get me through to the end. The second season was meh and I just blamed the writer's strike for that.

Now, we are in the third season and it all feels like there is no structure to it. There is characters being added at every corner turned and more time travel mistakes being made. I could go on, but that would be a whole different post. The gist is that HEROES is not the show it once was, it had devolved into a mess of convulted plot lines and needless characters.

Now recently the show's creator Tim Kring has made comments on how the show should not have been told in a serialized format and how it's really the audience's fault for the decline of HEROES. Oh, really? That's why the show is going down the toilet? Let's break these two thoughts down, shall we?

SERIALIZATION DOES NOT WORK?

Seriously? Serialization is probably the best and only way to tell a story about a group of non-spandex wearing mutant heroes who battle a impending chaotic future. Serialization has worked for pulp fiction writers for decades. It's a proven formula that you can bet good hard cash on. It works for comics, pulp novels, and even shows like LOST.

Look around you Kring. There is a web serial popping up every day and people are watching them. There is a strong audience for it. Stand alone storytelling is great for sitcoms and the occassional serialized episode, but it's not the answer for HEROES.

The flaws are not in seralization, the problem is how the story and characters are gone so far off the rails that there is little hope in saving the show. Honestly, I even wonder if you and the writers had a story arc plan to carry through for several seasons or if you just come up with whatever sounds good in your head as you jot down notes while sitting on a toilet, which seems fitting considering that is how the show will end up.

IT'S THE AUDIENCE'S FAULT FOR USING THEIR DVR'S

How classy is that? Don't blame yourself or the writers, but the faithful few who have stuck it out this far with your show. It's not the quality of the show it's the damn Tivo, digital recorders, and fancy internet which is undoubtly tied into Skynet. I have this feeling that Mr. Kring also sits on his front lawn constantly screaming at kids to get off his damn lawn, too.

DVR is not the problem. Recording a TV show has been going on years through the magic of VCR's and a blank VHS tape. Only now has it gotten easier with the advent of Tivo and other DVR devices. I'm sorry that I have a life and enjoy watching shows on my own leisurely time. But to blame me for using something to make watching your show easier is not the solution. It's network producers and show creators who are stuck in the past which is the problem. I'm recording what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. Get over it!

SOME FREE ADVICE

Besides what I have said, this is how I would save the show; kill every character off. That's right, kill em' all and let God sort them out. Make it one big awesome battle against some greater evil to save the world. Let their stories be discovered by a new group of Heroes and continue on with a new kind of evil.

And for the love of God, stop time traveling! I hate the fact that the show has yet to move away from the though that somehow the future is in peril and needs to be saved. I would love for once to see a plotline that involves the present as opposed to what may happen tomorrow. As much as Hiro is one my favorite characters, his power needs to be taken away from the big picture.

That's my two cents. Stay weird!