Sunday Links for May 15

The big news of the week was the beginning of the TV massacre. Among shows that are canceled are geek favorites No Ordinary Family, V and The Event. Happily, bubble show but personal fav Chuck is coming back for a final season! We also heard about new show pickups with the sad news that geek shows Locke & Key and Wonder Woman were discarded, despite all of the fan interest/anger. You can see if your show has been renewed here. TVLine also has a preview of shows definitely to come right here.

Apparently Marvel has been cutting back on page counts on some of their $2.99 books to 20 pages, in suit with DC Comics. However, these books are going to release extra issues so creators don't lose out on work.

Talking about cutting back, Upper Deck has been chopping up vintage Marvel comics to make trading cards. They are going to be the rarest addition to their Marvel Beginning series. I kinda want one but I feel sad that some of these vintage comics are being destroyed.

For a laugh, check out All Things Fangirl's interpretation of how a movie pitch meeting really goes. Warning though, the humor starts to fade when you realize it may be true.

Despite being a few days late, Tom Katers over at iFanboy wrote a touching tribute to his Mom and how she helped him become such a great geek.

Until next week....

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Are you ready for some Visitors?

Yes, the season premiere that I'm super excited about, V returns tonight!! Will Erica find Tyler, will Lisa take an active role in the Fifth Column, will Anna have babies?! Not to mention, Jane Badler as Diana! Find out when you tune in!



Back in November, I posted some spoilers for the upcoming season that I learned at the NYCC panel. If you want a small insight into what's to come, go read it. If not, just know that I saw some clips from the first few episodes and this season looks A-MAZ-ING!

Tune in to ABC tonight at 9pm EST!

Getting ready for V!!

This post is spoiler-filled so if you don't like spoilers

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Today, the first season of the scifi thriller V comes out on DVD!! In honor of that, here are some tasty tidbits I picked up.

At New York Comic Con, I got to attend the V Panel. It included Morena Baccarin (Anna), Laura Vandervoot (Lisa) and the original V Queen Jane Badler (Diana). But before I talk about what they said, I want to give you the scribbles from the trailer that they showed us. And yes, they are scribbles. I tried taking screen shots but it was too mesmerizing to ignore.

- "It's Earth or Nothing"
- Jack joins the 5th Column and meets the whole team
- More Red Sky from the finale - lasts at least five days
- The 29 other captains confront Anna about Red Sky and she gets angry
- Anna may have human emotion
- Diana is Anna's mother and is being kept in a dungeon

And now to the panel...the Moderator was Damian Holbrook from TV Guide. He was hysterical and if I got nothing else out of this panel, I found someone else to read.

This photo was borrowed from the fine folks at SciFi Cool

Where Season 2 begins:

The launching pad for Season 2 is Red Sky from the S1 finale. Even Anna can't foresee the impact. With Red Sky comes Red Clouds which make Red Rain. This was Anna's plan all along but not this quickly. She will have to deal with the repercussions. (For all of you original V fans, no Red Dust in this series.)

On Jane Badler joining the cast:

- She had to audition for the role but once she did, there was no contest.
- This is a different Diana than the first series; this Diana is wiser.
- She is very excited on this reboot; "Feels like Diana hasn't finished her business on earth yet."

Morena Baccarin on Anna:

- Anna does begin to feel human emotion as seen in S1 finale.
- She thinks it would be interesting if Anna felt enough emotion to connect to a human.
- Anna butts heads with Erica and of course, her mommy Diana.

Laura Vandervoort on playing two different scifi women:

- She loves both of them equally and feels so honored to play strong female roles. She also loves to play evil.
- LV says that Lisa will pick a side this season. Joshua referred to Lisa as his queen, others may also do so.

Finally some more tidbits from the Executive Producer, Steve Pearlman:

- We are not going to see a full alien invasion for a long time.
- Anna had 6 eggs that survived and they will been seen in the first episode. The Visitors grow quickly and these eggs will hatch quick! We will also see Valerie's baby growing up fast.
- We will see more and more about what the V look like for real.
- Toward the middle of the season, we will get some questions answered about why Tyler is the one, and more importantly, What are the V's genders?!

Resistance Updates:

We will see the globalization of the Fifth Column. Oded Fehr joins the team for a story arc to make this happen.

Each actor listed their favorite scenes:

Morena Baccarin - Using tail to kill another V in S2, punching my daughter (Vandervoot looked a little shocked at this!), and laying eggs.
Jane Badler - Using fangs
Laura Vandervoort - Puberty scene

I am super excited for this season to start, and really sad that they already cut back the episode order even though it hasn't aired yet! Please tune in on January 4, 2011 to find out why the Visitors are really here.