More From The Cutting Room Floor
One of the lessons I learned in writing a script for video is that some ideas sound a lot funnier in your head than they wind up being. This was one of those ideas, and as proof here are 2 cringe-worthy takes. I thought the idea of comparing apples and the internet was random and funny, but I think it turned out to be just random and…uh…well not so funny. Coming December 4th to an intertube near you, Kind of a Big Deal. Can you feel the excitement yet? =P
Update: Sound is fixed!
November 28th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Think the sound may be busted on this?
From watching alone it looks sort of like you’re holding a giant imaginary apple that slowly shrinks in size till you can throw it from hand to hand … that’s about 8 seconds in ;D
November 28th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I thought I was going insane or my audigy 2 was busted. moar like this.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Grrr. Sorry I was in a hurry this morning and didn’t even play the video. But it does look like the sound is broken. Unfortunately Het is in school today so she probably won’t be able to fix it until this evening.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Can I get the official word on whether or not these preview videos are part of canon? There’s some serious (and when I say serious, I mean it’s getting personal) debate going on at the Amberpedia. You know, I’m like trying to explain to these twits that to be canonical means it shouldn’t have touched the cutting room floor. But that idiot that double posts all the time, NightCrusader32?, he’s like saying it’s canon if it’s been blogged. Seriously though I’m about to kill him.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
It still doesn’t work for me
If I click it here it just stays frozen. If I click the video to go to YouTube it tells me it’s private.
I tried not to mention it, but not mentioning it is a bit like not mentioning that a battlestar webisode doesn’t work. The anticipation would be too much
November 29th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Grrr. Somehow the video was set to “private,” but I know I was able to see it yesterday. Anyway, it should be working now.
@Ken: You are correct, only the forthcoming video should be considered canon. Which means that the internet is in fact *not* like an apple, nor is it like an irradiated fake Barbie doll. Also, Amberpedia is non-canon, so the entire debate should also be considered non-canon. Oh…except I just talked about it, so I guess Amberpedia, inasmuch as it is non-canon, is now canon. And now I believe I’ve completely destroyed all continuity. Which is pretty cool, considering that it took Star Trek years to screw up their continuity!
November 30th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Why not just talk about how Hiro screwed up continuity with his time jaunt? And how many days was Ando waiting at that restaurant, anyway?
And why is it that every single “special” in Heroes believes they have powers, but that everyone else who is right in front of them demonstrating their powers, doesn’t?
Re: FBI girl and Coworker of FBI girl disbelieving Atom Man has powers, though she believes Doughnut Man can read thoughts?
Or how Memory Girl doesn’t see anything odd or unusual about instant mastery of Japanese, but can’t believe Hiro (aka Kuronoman) can manipulate time no matter how many times he demonstrates it for her? And why didn’t she or anyone else recognize Hiro when he showed up with Ando? After all, she mentioned the Japanese phrasebook “someone” had given her the first time we saw her (later we find out Hiro had given it to her earlier). And if Hiro did in fact change the past (something he says he could not do), why does Ando still remember the “old” present?
How come the policeman who was going to question Hiro never returned? Wouldn’t it seem a little suspicious that this girl is killed, and the odd Japanese guy who had been chatting her up for what appear to be hours vanishes?
Mohinder’s dad doesn’t believe Sylar’s ability to instantly recognize something broken and to be able to fix it constitutes a special ability?
And what sort of examination of a genetic code can lead to the names and addresses and real-time living/dead status of all the specials in the world? And why did his dad leave his computer running - in INDIA - when he moved to New York City?
If Bene Gesserit Girl (the one with The Voice, yay for Dune ripoffs) and The Haitian knew where Sylar was going to be AFTER the killing, why didn’t they go before? If they felt they had to let the scenario painted by Comic Book Man play out, why did Horned Rim Glasses Man try to stop Cheerleader Girl from going to her fate?
And why does Senator Fly not believe his brother is a special too, despite huge amounts of evidence of his power?
How come Oracle Kid tells Mohinder he has the answer already, but then gives him a vision in which he reveals the answer?
How come Hiro and Ando just happen to come to the closest point to Odessa High when they stopped for a random lunch on the way from Las Vegas to New York?
We know The Cheerleader is a cheerleader, but did she have to wear nothing BUT her uniform ALL THE TIME for the first six episodes? The one where she met her fake birth parents was the FIRST time in the series she did not wear that uniform.
Is there any doubt The Cheerleader will be able to provide the human contact Atom Man craves so that he won’t blow up NYC? Can they do this without making it seem predatory?
The Mimic magically is healed from near death by the presence nearby of the Cheerleader, but doesn’t find this odd? Is HRG Man going to get The Mimic out of jail?
How long does it take to shoot someone from 400 yards? One episode? Two? How long were Drumline (ie DL. Took me too long to remember where I’d seen him before) Guy and Techno Kid at THAT diner anyway? Techno Kid calls Psycho Mom the night before and tells her where they are. Psycho Mom the next day gets in touch with a gun dealer, drives into the desert, tests and fires the gun and then seeks revenge. Meanwhile DL and TK drive someplace random, stop for food, and BOOM, there she is.
I like the show and watch it every week, but its continuity errors really bug me. You can bet I’ll be checking “Kind Of A Big Thing” over for ANYTHING wrong.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
You can bet I’ll be checking “Kind Of A Big Thing” over for ANYTHING wrong.
/em wipes sweat from her brow
Tough crowd!
Since we’re getting all canonical, I should point out that the title is “Kind of a Big Deal.” It’s an understandable mistake though. You might have seen one of the 50,000 promotional posters we had to recall when Lucas decided Jedi aren’t big things, but big deals. =P