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In other news, I spent the weekend watching the entire 2 seasons of Big Guy and Rusty. For those much younger than I (sob, sob) this was a series aired on Fox's defunct Fox Kids animation block ten years ago. Produced by the same team of the animated Men In Black, the show was loosely based on a Dark Horse published comic of the same name and featured a boy robot and his much larger patriotic idol, the Big Guy. Unlike the comic with its main influence from Japanese monster movies and robot manga (Astro Boy anyone?), the show's landscape is wholly American: vaguely 50s character design mixed with futuristic mecha, with a healthy dose of 90s pop culture snapbacks (Hannibal Lecter-mind vampire, oh my).
The charm of the show is undoubtedly the interactions of the boy Robot Rusty with the humans around him. He's sweet and naive, and like any child is capable of pouting and being annoying. But we don't hold that against him, because Rusty tries so hard to be a hero just like the Big Guy. There's nothing like a massive dose of AWWWW to brighten up a cynic, let me tell you. Oh and the Big Guy? Not quite the robot Rusty think he is. Nope, there's a guy piloting the BGY11. And HOT DAMN is Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter a badass. Sure he spends a better part of the series being calm, collected, and subdued despite the incredulous missions (going to the future, fighting insane alien monsters) but once Hunter is out of the Big Guy and forced to survive on his own in the desert against mechanical drones he's switched to SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER mode (here). God, re-watching that scene is like being all sweaty-hands and sixteen again. PHWOAR.
Annoyingly, Fox/Sony Pictures Family Entertainment has yet to release anything on DVD. I remember being in anguish after learning the show was canceled and writing to Fox hoping to have some news, but heard zippo. So what's a fan to do? Seeing as how it took me 10 years to buy fan-made discs of season 2 episodes, you can imagine what a wilderness it's been. Back then you had to find someone who might know someone who worked at a comic book store who might know someone on some forum who maybe taped one or two episodes and could make a copy onto a VHS tape for ten bucks. *sighs* You kids these days. All it takes now is to go on YouTube and voila! all the episodes of the series on one account. What about those who would rather watch the show in a better quality? Does Fox enjoy the thought of fans downloading torrents of the show? I hope not, and promise to buy as many of the box sets as I can if they would only make it available.
Finally, I must admit to tittering/groaning at the credits when seeing the name Frank Miller. Oh yes, Miller did write the original comic. The BFF to this day refuses to acknowledge this, and attributes credit solely to the awesome Geof Darrow. It's unfair to be sure, because not all is tainted with the awful weird of his certain works but I find it ironic that it was his name that perked my interest in the show all those years ago.
Speaking of canceled shows, tomorrow is live-or-die night for Chuck. Aw no, we hardly knew ye! It's not official, but it's very much a possibility the show might not be renewed. Other than scour cbs for issues of the limited Chuck comic series released months ago, what are fans doing? Subway, for one. The idea is to drive sales for Subway to show fan appreciation for the sponsors of Chuck; after all it is sponsors who decide whether a show is making money or not. The specifics of how this helps the show is iffy, but its heart is in the right place. So: if you don't want Chuck to go off air, Monday is when you'll walk into Subway, spend some hard earned money, and write a comment about saving Chuck into the suggestions box. Or call nbc/tweet/blog about Chuck. Fingers crossed!
the_dark_cat.In other news, I spent the weekend watching the entire 2 seasons of Big Guy and Rusty. For those much younger than I (sob, sob) this was a series aired on Fox's defunct Fox Kids animation block ten years ago. Produced by the same team of the animated Men In Black, the show was loosely based on a Dark Horse published comic of the same name and featured a boy robot and his much larger patriotic idol, the Big Guy. Unlike the comic with its main influence from Japanese monster movies and robot manga (Astro Boy anyone?), the show's landscape is wholly American: vaguely 50s character design mixed with futuristic mecha, with a healthy dose of 90s pop culture snapbacks (Hannibal Lecter-mind vampire, oh my).
The charm of the show is undoubtedly the interactions of the boy Robot Rusty with the humans around him. He's sweet and naive, and like any child is capable of pouting and being annoying. But we don't hold that against him, because Rusty tries so hard to be a hero just like the Big Guy. There's nothing like a massive dose of AWWWW to brighten up a cynic, let me tell you. Oh and the Big Guy? Not quite the robot Rusty think he is. Nope, there's a guy piloting the BGY11. And HOT DAMN is Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter a badass. Sure he spends a better part of the series being calm, collected, and subdued despite the incredulous missions (going to the future, fighting insane alien monsters) but once Hunter is out of the Big Guy and forced to survive on his own in the desert against mechanical drones he's switched to SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER mode (here). God, re-watching that scene is like being all sweaty-hands and sixteen again. PHWOAR.
Annoyingly, Fox/Sony Pictures Family Entertainment has yet to release anything on DVD. I remember being in anguish after learning the show was canceled and writing to Fox hoping to have some news, but heard zippo. So what's a fan to do? Seeing as how it took me 10 years to buy fan-made discs of season 2 episodes, you can imagine what a wilderness it's been. Back then you had to find someone who might know someone who worked at a comic book store who might know someone on some forum who maybe taped one or two episodes and could make a copy onto a VHS tape for ten bucks. *sighs* You kids these days. All it takes now is to go on YouTube and voila! all the episodes of the series on one account. What about those who would rather watch the show in a better quality? Does Fox enjoy the thought of fans downloading torrents of the show? I hope not, and promise to buy as many of the box sets as I can if they would only make it available.
Finally, I must admit to tittering/groaning at the credits when seeing the name Frank Miller. Oh yes, Miller did write the original comic. The BFF to this day refuses to acknowledge this, and attributes credit solely to the awesome Geof Darrow. It's unfair to be sure, because not all is tainted with the awful weird of his certain works but I find it ironic that it was his name that perked my interest in the show all those years ago.
Speaking of canceled shows, tomorrow is live-or-die night for Chuck. Aw no, we hardly knew ye! It's not official, but it's very much a possibility the show might not be renewed. Other than scour cbs for issues of the limited Chuck comic series released months ago, what are fans doing? Subway, for one. The idea is to drive sales for Subway to show fan appreciation for the sponsors of Chuck; after all it is sponsors who decide whether a show is making money or not. The specifics of how this helps the show is iffy, but its heart is in the right place. So: if you don't want Chuck to go off air, Monday is when you'll walk into Subway, spend some hard earned money, and write a comment about saving Chuck into the suggestions box. Or call nbc/tweet/blog about Chuck. Fingers crossed!
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