If It's Not One Thing...

Sorry for not delivering on the content so far. I really hate this, as I was serious the other day about getting serious about posting content.

But my family and I have been moving for the past few days. Between the run up to the move, the move itself, the aftermath, and other things happening, I've had very little time.

And then there's this: So we have DishNetwork. We love DishNetwork. They have great channel packages, great quality HD, and an excellent DVR.  They also have this service called "Dish Mover" for when you move and want to keep using Dish (hence, the appropriate named service). It's quite convenient.

Monday was the offical move day, and thus the day of the Dish Move. The technician came, installed the actual dish in the new place (not an easy feat, given the foliage in the area), and hooked it up to our reciever, with the aforementioned DVR, which was filled to the brim (if harddrives have such things) with copious amounts of programming, including new episodes of the shows I'm going to review--episodes I had not yet watched (that's important to the story). The tech said that sent we'd now be picking up signal from different satellites than we had been, the occasional "complete signal loss" messages we were seeing were normal, and would end by the next day. You probably know where this is going. They didn't end. Rather, they stayed pretty steady. New episodes of shows were recorded throughout the week, although often they were so glitched up as to be unwatcheable (and creepy). So today I called them up, and let them know about the situation. They offered to send out a tech this afternoon. I took them up on that. And long story short, he determined that the reason for our low signal was that our almost-six-year-old reciever was malfunctioning and needed to be replaced. My first thought was, "And there goes our DVR recordings."

Indeed, they're gone. They're all gone, folks. Clone Wars. Voltron Force. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Thundercats. Castle. NinjaGo. The Looney Tunes Show. The Big Bang Theory. NASA Channel stuff. And a bunch of other shows/movies y'all either don't care about or would mock me for having.

So, I'm going to try this again, begining with episodes airing tomorrow. Hopefully our shiny new Dish reciever will cooperate.

Now recieving programming from satellites at orbital locations 110 W, 119 W, and 129 W, I am still...

 - Nic


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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 vs. Dead Or Alive 5 Opinions / Mini-Review

On release day, I got my hands on a shiny new copy of Dead Or Alive 5 for the Xbox 360. Not the shiniest copy, as that title goes to the Collector’s Edition (art book, soundtrack, a tin case, etc). I intended to purchase the CE, but unfortunately, it was a Gamestop PREORDER exclusive. Why is “preorder” in all caps? Because Gamestop, at least on their website, never stated that it was, in fact, a preorder exclusive. I had to find that out by calling around to several stores within driving distance, only to hear the clerks say, “Um… yeah… the collector’s edition is only for people who preordered.” Lame. Lame, indeed.

Clone Wars Interviews

News-A-Rama has three short video interviews with the three Jedi leads on The Clone Wars. Though there's nothing really revelatory here, it's good to see the three of them showing their enthusiasm for the about-to-start-its-fifth-season animated show.

Matt Lanter Interview

James Arnold Taylor Interview

Ashley Eckstein Interview


Less than three days to the premiere!

 - Nic

The Avengers Impressions

Tomorrow (Sept 25th), The Avengers arrives on Blu-ray to the delight of  millions of people. In light of this...and in light of the fact that we never did one...I thought now would be a great time to offer my informal review/impressions of the wildly successful superhero ensemble movie directed by TV's Joss Whedon.

Warning: Past this point there be spoilers.

I Am Not A Crook

So, almost none of you know this, but for a few months now I've been working on my own set of stories, set in my own fictional universe. I'm trying to blend some of my favorite genres (science fiction, fantasy, and a few more) into something that I hope will be original, entertaining, fun, and even thought provoking.

At this point, many of my characters will wield bows. One of the main female protagonists, herself a bow wielder, I'm currently envisioning wearing an outfit of green and brown.

So JJ Abrams and Jon Favreau come out with the show "Revolution" wherein the female lead, a bow wielder, looks like this:

Great, now  people will think I'm just ripping off an NBC show.

Thanks a lot McFlares-A-Lot and Happy Hogan!

 - Nic


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And So We Begin Again

Ok folks, it’s here! TV show premiere week. Although there have been a few already, and a few stragglers will be coming in the next few weeks, this is the week that majority of new shows are premiering, and existing shows are returning with new episodes. Given that we are only three guys, and we don’t have the time or inclination to watch some of those shows (I’m looking at you, The Mob Doctor), we won’t be reviewing every episode of every show. However, the shows that we watch regularly, we will hopefully review regularly.

My hope is that beginning today we can turn over a new leaf here at The Inner Dorkdom. We know, because we’re nerds and users of the Internet ourselves, that what folks want is regular content. And that’s something we clearly haven’t been providing.

Here’s my pledge: This far, no further! The line must be drawn here!

Some of the shows I personally intend to cover: Castle, The Big Bang Theory, The Clone Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron Force (when it returns), TRON Uprising (when I get caught up on what I’ve missed), and Transformers Prime (when I get caught up on what I’ve missed). Hopefully there will be more.

So, until tomorrow at the latest, I remain…

 - Nic

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!!! If The Man In Black On Lost Had No Clean Clothes One Day AndBorrowed A Shirt From Jacob, Would He Still Be "The Man In Black"?Huh? !!!

Wow, my trip to "The Island" was great. I found Jack's rotting corpse, didn't press the button in "The Swan" station, and successfully extinguished that annoying bright light in that cave because it was keeping me up at night. It was a great vacation and I have to say that "The Smoke Monster" is really quite nice when you get to know him. I have missed everyone and I hope to keep up the pace I set before on this site and bring you all great stuff going on in the world of entertainment. I can only explain my recent absence as a result of a time displacement anomaly that caused me to become unstuck in time and then chased for hours by "The Others". Luckily, I was rescued by "The Doctor" in the Tardis and given an Ood for my trouble (not sure what to do with the Ood). Unless I need to assist in a new war with the Daleks I should be back for the foreseeable future. We have lots of stuff to catch up on and I'm going to give it a go starting this weekend. I hope to have a book review, a movie review, Marvel news, video game reviews, and my thoughts on the Wii U (it's complicated). So stick around and hold on to your butts, because I'm making this up as I go along.

Todd "I Visited The Lost Island And All I Got Was This Lousy Ankh" B.

(Hasn't everybody secretly dreamed of a fanfic between Lost and Dr. Who? What? Nobody?.... Wow, what planet are you people from? Sheesh!!)