- Location
- NYC (né Falkirk)
- Pronouns
- he/him
I was thinking guidance counsellor, he's the only one who sees potential in Roxann Dawson's thirty-eight year old high school senior.Oh yes. Robert Beltran is the Magical Native American gym teacher.
I was thinking guidance counsellor, he's the only one who sees potential in Roxann Dawson's thirty-eight year old high school senior.Oh yes. Robert Beltran is the Magical Native American gym teacher.
An alt-DiCaprio career is always interested.I've wondered how things would have gone had River Phoenix not died in 1993 at 23 years old from a drug overdose. He had a burgeoning acting career and was also a guitarist and songwriter, and he already had connections with a lot of celebrities in both industries who would go on to become big names themselves.
River had already been signed up to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire (1994), the part that went to Christian Slater after he died. Director Gus Van Sant had also wanted to make his movie Milk in the early 1990s and had gotten Phoenix to agree to a role, though its unlikely the movie would have been made then even if he had lived.
Oddly, Leonardo DiCaprio ended up taking a couple of roles that River Phoenix had been the main contender for - as lead for The Basketball Diaries, and he was James Cameron's original choice to play Jack Dawson in Titanic, a role that likely would have boosted him definitively into the Hollywood A-List.
O'Quinn's role brings to mind his turn in Millennium, as does the name Owl Club.Night Mares
Crossover?episode 8 - "Tremors" finale part 1 - tremors
O'Quinn's role brings to mind his turn in Millennium, as does the name Owl Club.
Crossover?
I'm a big fan of the second season, despite it robbing us of a Jose Chung episode during the short-lived run of The Lone Gunmen.There's a show I really wish was streaming. At least the first two seasons.
I'm a big fan of the second season, despite it robbing us of a Jose Chung episode during the short-lived run of The Lone Gunmen.
Morgan & Wong in charge of The X-Files would have been... something else.I loved how they went "Fuck it, we're ending the world" and gave us that insane season ending montage.
And then they pulled the plug on that in season 3. Cowards.
Morgan & Wong in charge of The X-Files would have been... something else.
To turn this into an actual AH possibility: Chris Carter originally managed both The X-Files and Millennium. For the second season of Millennium, Carter passed the reins over to Glen Morgan and James Wong whilst he focused on season five of The X-Files and its proposed film. Morgan and Wong brought Darin Morgan with them to Millennium.You think that's wild, imagine how the show would have been if Darin Morgan had been in charge.
(13 confusing episodes and then cancelled by a baffled network, after which Darin retires even earlier than he did in OTL)
I loved how they went "Fuck it, we're ending the world" and gave us that insane season ending montage.
And then they pulled the plug on that in season 3. Cowards.
Donner Lake isn't too far from SF: An episode dealing with supernatural after-effects of the Donner Party (wendigos?)Working on my next fake TV show, this time a Weird Western that replaces Into the Badlands.
Night Mares
It's all because of Nick Frost.
When Shaun of the Dead came out, if you had told me that 15 years later, Frost would play an Old West mountain man and brawler, and not in a comedic manner, I never would have believed you. And yet, it happened. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I started with Night Mares on the ground floor. The premise - occult investigators in the Old West - is right up my alley, and Molly Quinn was one of my favorite cast members on Castle, so I was an easy sell. The show did not disappoint.
Aired on AMC between 2017 and 2021.
premise (the Night Mares are a secret sisterhood of occult investigators, in this case a pair of Irish-American sisters living in San Francisco in the early 1870s) and inspiration (Stephen King, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, etc.)
main cast
Emily Beecham as Anne Brophy, occult troubleshooter
Molly Quinn as Maggie Brophy, bookish type
Lewis Tan as Gwok Zidaan, ex-miner, gunslinger
Tania Raymonde as Sister Isabel Ramirez
Leighton Meester as Hannah Visser, member of the San Francisco Owl Club
Nick Frost as "Savage" Sam Henderson
recurring cast
Orla Brady as Caoimhe McLarney, Anne's mentor
Demore Barnes as King Brady, rival troubleshooter
Terry O'Quinn as Thaddeus Clarke, head of the Owl Club
Rachel Nichols as Gloria Clarke, Owl Club member, witch and Anne's nemesis
JuJu Chan as Gwok Maanjuk, Zidaan's sister
Francois Chau as Gwok Zungsam. Zidaan's father
James Hong as Gwok Wahbo, Zidaan's great uncle
Max Martini as Theodore Poole, Talon of the Owl Club (their enforcer and assassin)
season 1
episode 1 - "Once Upon a Time in the Weird West" part 1
episode 2 - "Once Upon a Time in the Weird West" part 2, cameo by Lera Lynn (the vocalist for the opening credits)
episode 3 - "The Owl Club"
episode 4 - "Haunting at High Noon" ghost town with actual ghosts, "Savage" Sam Henderson's first appearance
episode 5 - "The Mentor" Caoimhe's first appearance
episode 6 - "Midnight in Massacre Canyon"
episode 7 - "The Blood Countess" Bathory (Rachel Weisz), a harrowing opening scene where Bathory stalks and brutally devours two tavern girls (Renee Olstead and Leven Rambin)
episode 8 - "The Wolf of Mariposa County" werewolf
episode 9 - "LIghts on Mount Shasta" ghost lights
episode 10 - "The Talon" (Max Martini) arrives from back east, introduces the Atlantean arc
season 2
episode 1 - "The Map" Atlantean map
episode 2 - "Goengsi" Chinese vampire
episode 3 - "Devil's Hoof Hill" Katie McGrath in a scenery-chewing turn as villainess Mary Burke
episode 4 - "Ghost Quelling Society" Chinese plot part 1
episode 5 - "Ghost Quelling Society" Chinese plot part 2
episode 6 - "Dust Devils" dust devils as Mary and Zidaan are traveling through the mountains
episode 7 - "Encounter at Hangman Hill" Sasquatch
episode 8 - "The Cantonese Mine" abandoned mine
episode 9 - "Old Man Mountain" Atlantean tomb part 1
episode 10 - "Old Man Mountain" Atlantean tomb part 2
season 3
episode 1 - "The Eye" the Eye of Harun, an ancient Atlantean artifact
episode 2 - "High Society" Hannah-centric episode with Lena Headey as Isabella Bird (real life traveler and writer; her travels in the American West took place in 1873)
episode 3 - "Shadow of the Ghost" Chinese episode
episode 4 - "The Old Mission" Sister Isabel and Maggie adventure
episode 5 - "Fangs" Bathory returns, targets Maggie who drives her off without any weapons except her faith
episode 6 - "Via Crucis" Maggie begins to question her calling
episode 7 - "The Knife" Caoimhe is killed by the Clarkes and Poole
episode 8 - "Tremors" finale part 1 - tremors
episode 9 - "The Big One" finale part 2 - the big one, Anne gets her revenge on Gloria and Poole
episode 10 - "Aftershocks" finale part 3. - aftershocks, the Owl Club purged, Anne and Zidaan go to China, Maggie takes her vows.
Marina Sirtis plays the *Worf, whilst Michael Dorn is squeezed into a onesie as the ship's counsellor.I've mentioned once or twice my vague idea for a TNG where the Romulans are the Federation's allies instead of the Klingons, which I think is a lot truer to TOS depictions of the two species. I wonder how that would play out on the show. What would the "Worf" look like here? An early role for Michelle Forbes, perhaps? Wikipedia says she got her first TV role in 1987, so it's a stretch but not an enormous one.