Video, Film, and Television

The Munsters: Taking Team Edward Too Far

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Well the news is in on the possible 'Munsters' Remake.

It's TrueTwiBloodsters.

Basically it's a younger-Twilight where Eddie copes with werewolfism, mom is some kind of flesh-eater, and I'm pretty sure gramps won't be rocking out in his Dragula.  It's the Munsters with most everything changed to protect the innocent.

Beyond my weird reaction of amusement and disgust, I wonder if we've got a trend here.  We saw Teen Wolf go Twiangsty (which seems thematically inappropriate, but at least Michael J. Fox was a heartthrob in his younger days).  So now Munsters gets Twilight and True Blood infusions – so is the next big thing repurposing older properties to take advantage of the whole Vampire/Werewolf/Romance/YA trend?

Ridiculous?  Maybe, but consider that there's assorted properties to repurpose, the whole vampire market apparently has more lives than its inspirations, and remakes have an air of safety (even when it's slapping a name on something else).  Plus you probably have much clearer property negotiations than with the latest hot YA/Vampire/Whatever series.

It makes sense.  In it's own way.

Not that I'm happy with this – but it's a trend we progeeks may want to look for, if only to be ready for it's impact.

– Steven Savage

Gree Has New Social Game Platform

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OK gamers, Gree's got a new social game developer platform coming and there's a look at it now.

They're promising:

  • Access to their current amount of players (A sweet 150 million)
  • iOS and Android integration
  • A ton of tools

So sounds interesting for gamers, you're going to want to watch this (and I'm wondering if their iOS integration will cover all Mac devices eventually). It might be something you have to know.

I'd also note that Gree is locked in an increasingly bitter rivalry with DeNA, and this may be one of may ways they take them on (or out).  Hmm, and where are some of the others in all of this . . .

– Steven Savage

Steve’s Kill Your Cable Adventure #1: The Device Experience and The Discussion

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Well, there's a lot of re-orging going on at my apartment.  One roommate is moving away for work for a year.  Another may move.  Plus we've thought of a relocation anyway for a bit more walkability.

Somewhere among all of this we came up with trying to Kill Your Cable.

It fits.  It saves a good amount of money a month, lets you not pay for stuff you don't want, and it's seemingly the wave of the future.  So my remaining roommate and I looked into this – and I'm going to share my findings.

Kill Your Cable both seems to be a trend – and be inevitable.  So I'm going to explore it from the user end and see what lessons we can learn from it – programmers and media people, pay special attention!

So here's what we found.

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