The Avod's pre-Christmas Special

It's a near-Christmas Avod, when DM and the Count take a little time to exchange gifts and discuss just how great Dollhouse has become since its cancellation last month. They also talk a little about Opera, Black Christmas, and, of course, Doctor Horrible.

If you'd like to download it, you can do so here - you can also get it at iTunes, or stream it live over at theAvod's blog!

Any way you want it. That's the manner in which you need it.

Time for Avod! On Thursday!

That's right, everyone, The Divemistress has finally caught up on Dexter, which leads to an amazing debate between the two of us, and motivates me to go and rewatch enough of it that I can provide hilarious examples of what an awful program it is.

If you'd like to hear more about this subject, or many others*, just right-click here to download the new episode, grab it off itunes, or stream it from theAvod's blog. Really, there's more ways to listen to it than you need.

(* Only three others, actually - Dollhouse, Behind the Mask, and random crap)

V is Terrible For Just So Many Reasons

The internet is already rife with excoriations of the new V television show, whose awfulness is now something of a fait accomplit. There’s an aspect of it that I don’t think has been extensively covered, however, and that’s just how ineptly produced the entire affair is.

Take, for example, this shot from the first episode of the show-

Cloverfield 2 – Revenge of Bat-Nor!

I was having a conversation about Godzilla last week and it turned, as many such conversations have since the release of Cloverfield, to the questionableness of Cloverfield.

My main argument, in addition to the whole ‘spoiling suspense’ thing, was that they made me wait the entire movie to get a look at the monster, and then when it finally arrived, I was disappointed to discover that it was just a wingless bat with a tail.

“What is a bat doing underwater?” I was heard to exclaim. “Can bats even swim?”

Then, rather puzzlingly, my conversational partner claimed that Batnor, the Cloverfield monster, was not a bat at all, but rather an original creation.

As I often do, I elected to take our argument to the Internet!

The Makers of Alien Raiders would like you to know...

That they’ve seen “John Carpenter’s The Thing”

Seriously, that’s the only piece of information that they would like you to have. Based on the film I just watched, it may be the only piece of information that they actually possess. How do I know this?

Let me remind you of something – You know that scene from The Thing where Kurt Russell ties everyone up in the rec room so he can prove, through his blood test, who’s an alien and who isn’t?

Cool scene, right? Yeah, I know.

So why am I reminding you of that scene? To save you the 90 minutes it would take to watch Alien Raiders. Because the film only exists to remind you of how great that scene was.