Random Musings - Fembot Edition

Terrence Howard will be playing Jim Rhodes in the new Iron Man movie. Good casting, but with an eye towards future iterations of the character/franchise. The comic book movie collapse is staved off for another year.

David Eick, one of Battlestar Galactica's showrunners, will be bringing the Bionic Woman back to television, updating the concept a la BSG. The ethical/moral implications of a bionic person have always fascinated me, so this is right up my alley. No word on when the show will debut, but I'd guess Fall '07.

On a related note: A lot of people disliked BSG's season premiere.
It was too talky.
It was too political.
It was too different.
Me? I liked it. It wasn't great, but I thought it was effective. Lots of people hated the direction the show took at the very end of season 2 when the focus shifted to the New Caprica colony. The producers could have kept them bopping around in space for the next 6 seasons without a word of complaint, but they took a chance and changed the status quo of a hit show. It was very politically charged, but the past 2 seasons have dealt with complex hot button issues so well, and so even handedly, that it didn't bother me this one time.

Last BSG tidbit: earlier today a rumor hit the net (via AICN) that NBC was thinking of moving it form Sci-Fi to the mothership. This would be a collosally bad idea. BSG does very good, maybe great, ratings for a basic cable channel. Put those same numbers on a network show and you have a disaster.
(UPDATE - NBC has since debunked the rumor. Its staying on Sci-Fi)

So people are now camping out in front of game retailers to make pre-orders on the Playstation 3? For a console that costs $500-$600 and may only launch with ONE semi-exclusive title? I feel shame for my fellow gamers.