Blast recently got an exclusive interview with the cast of “Hank,” Kelsey Grammer’s latest return to prime time.

We did a great story, and we were happy to have the access. But there was one problem: The show stinks. It’s getting bad ratings and worse reviews.

The good thing is that interviews and reviews are done by different reporters, but my question was: Is it ok to cheer for or hype a show because of our coverage? We gave the show a bad review but still pumped the interview.

Any thoughts?

kirsten on November 19th, 2008 4:37 pm

why dont you goddamn feminists go shave your legs.

if you dont like the idea of women needing help, then DONT read the books or go out into the real world, because women should just stay in the kitchen and clean. Im a girl, and i think women usually do need a man to help them with things, and thats why we arent all lesbians.

its a good book, and a good love story. most love stories girls are helpless to a man anyway.
seriously, no man wants a girl whos all about womens right, so shut up and be happy you can vote.

Everyone got mad at Homer for doing something obviously stupid and wrong. It involved alcohol and money. One family member tried to cut him off. Then he did something amazing and made everyone love him again. All along, there were pithy remarks about the economy.

hrm … that’s basically a summation of the past two seasons.

Here is my favorite:

Cassi on November 14th, 2008 9:24 pm

If you all hate twilight so much how come you seem to know whats in all four books
If you hated it so much why didn’t you stop after the first one
I love twilight and am listening to the Soundtrack right now as i right this
I would like to know why you all hate it so much
Its a love story and vampire story all in one what could be better
Stephanie Meyer is a genius !!!

Oh dear lord.

Yes, because if you hate something, the best thing to do is stop reading and pretend it doesn’t exist.

Future of America?

Blast is releasing a Twilight Extra Edition Monday.

The network, instead of continuing the show that gave them their highest ratings ever when it launched 2004, will finish off Stargate Atlantis with — surprise surprise — a bunch of TV and straight-to-dvd movies.

That thump you just heard was my lifeless body landing somewhere off a tall building.

This is really stupid. And, yes I’ll say it, the last straight-to-dvd Stargate movie sucked. Stargate Continuum was supposed to be this epic way to end Stargate SG-1, and instead all we got was something that was either too long for a single episode or way too short for a two-parter and DEFINITELY not something cinematic and movie-like.

Okay, maybe “sucked” is unfair, because it was still Stargate SG-1, and gets points for that. It was very poorly edited and should have had much more storyline and development. I mean, Ba’al, the main badguy, is killed halfway through, before his nefarious plan can come to fruition. Needed more drama and gloom and doom.

Insider moment that only fans will understand: What if Ba’al’s plan worked? All the system lords were defeated, the Jaffa got their freedom, earth got left alone, Jack’s kid was still alive, and everything was beautiful. Let all that happen and then something catastrophic can go wrong, like Anubis, replicators and priors come at the same time (or any combination of the three) and wrecks shit up or something? Then they have to team up with Ba’al again and defeat the much worse common enemy. NO, they ended Continuum with what? With what? An EXECUTION! Celebrating death. Ba’al may have been the least bad of all the system lords, but SG-1 made it a point to mark his death with a grand celebration. Awful.

I hope that producer Brad Wright and company will learn from this and realize that you can go over the 1:30 mark for a feature film — It’s okay, no one is going to get mad at you for it.

Finally, just to complete my bitter rampage at MGM, (owners of the Stargate franchise) I am very concerned that Stargate Universe, the planned third Stargate series, is going to be god-awful. It already sounds like “Enterprise.”

“Universe” takes place in a long-lost ancient spaceship, exploring the galaxy. It’s already been said that the new show does not contain elements or characters from SG-1 or Atlantis, so kiss Ben Browder goodbye — he seems to really want to be involved in Stargate. He was a late addition to SG-1, but a lot of fans came to like him, especially fans that joined late in the running.

Some science fiction fans remember that Fox tried to “US military explores space in the present time or not-too-distant future” in the 90s with Space: Above and Beyond, which barely made it through a single season (but I liked it just the same).

MGM, Sci Fi, Wright: you, sirs, have an extremely high bar set for yourselves. I am very concerned.

“Twilight Sucks” article on BlastMagazine.com’s PSA blog, 1,428 comments. One thousand, four hundred, and twenty eight comments in a single article.

I don’t have a strong opinion either way, but it’s amazing to read all the responses we’re getting to both our several Twilight features and our well-written “Twilight Sucks” opinion piece.

Amber dying, House showing his inner feelings, Cuddy’s most visible demonstration for her feelings for House, Wilson’s whole world crashing down, 13′s Huntington’s … it all happened at once.

My God.

It was actually painful to watch, but it was so damn good. Wow.