Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

Comments

[pattrose]

Boy, do I agree with you about the number of flashbacks. I love Jamie Lee Curtis, but not in this at all. I watched two episodes, and to me it got worse than better. I lost two hours I'll never get back. I was so hoping it would be great. It wasn't even close.

I'm sorry to hear about animated Firefly. I thought it would be the regular show. I'm very disappointed.

[shadowkat]

I don't understand how it got a second season and how folks are watching Scarpetta? I found it headache inducing? Interesting to hear it got worse instead of better, I couldn't get past the first episode.

Firefly can only really continue as animated, unfortunately, since Ron Glass (Shepard) passed away, and the actors have aged - and they want to do the period between the 14th or 13th episode and the film Serenity. Also it's easier and cheaper to do animated. You can hire a handful of actors to play multiple roles. Alan Tyduk (WASH) could probably play WASH and half of the non-main cast roles all by himself.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, your bringing up Tudyk, he continues to be in demand (and Fillion is still leading a show). Doing voiceover is easier to squeeze in alongside other jobs.

Re: the second season for Scarpetta, my guess is that it was contracted for from the start, probably in order to ensure getting big names like Curtis and Kidman.

[shadowkat]

It may have been - but they are advertising it as based on the number of viewers S! got. (I was following Curtis for a bit on Instagram and FB and she was advertising the heck out of it and S2 pickup. I finally stopped following her - she was driving me nuts.)

I think most of the cast of Firefly is busy - and voice work allows for it to work, and they have to be between S1 and Serenity - for Wash to be in it, since ahem, he can't be in it after Serenity - well, he could...but...