Well, this would get me to watch:

I started watching BBC America for Dr. Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns, and then ended up watching Top Gear as well. I barely like to drive, and yet I enjoy the hell out of that show.

Like most of you, I imagine; I haven't seen the actual American Top Gear yet. Rumor has it that it's more of a straight car show; without the endearing goofiness of the British original. So far, anyway: I suppose you might have to work your way up to driving to the North Pole or building your own electric car...

Longer strips will return, but this year has been a colossal disappointment for toys so far--yes, not even two weeks in, and I'm calling 2011 all but dead. Well, maybe not, but while I've eBay'd a few things, and put in for my Backyard Legends Prince of Crystal; locally I've found not so much. At least, at any price I'm willing to pay. And yet I keep stumbling into deals on stuff for my Oldest, like a nice markdown on an Undertaker/Batista two-pack. Good for him, bad for me.

I also spent yesterday watching Green Hornet on SyFy; since I'd never seen it before. (I knew of the character, but I only knew the great theme from Kill Bill.) Being the Green Hornet seems like the easiest job in the world, though: "Hey, Kato, can you drive me over to those criminals? And then beat the living crap out of them? Then when we get home, rotate the tires on the Black Beauty, reload my gas gun, and make me a smoothie..." It does seem borderline inhumane to let Kato loose on those thugs, though, and as I type this he just brutalized an innocent security guard. I know I'll probably see the movie at some point, but I'm not sure I'll see it in theatres...maybe.

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I didn't think I was a Tron fan, yet here we are.

Hmm. I know I saw the original Tron in the theatre when I was a kid (I mainly recall the cheer for the 3-second Pac-Man cameo) and read the Brian Daley adaptation of the movie. I wasn't great at the original Tron game, being particularly bad at the lightcycle stage. I liked the later Discs of Tron better.

I never had the Tron figures from 1982 as a kid, but years later I got the 20th anniversary reissues (for a steep discount) and then Mercury (the girl) and Jet (the guy) from Tron 2.0 in 2003. All from NECA, although I believe the old ones were made by Tomy.


And the new Sam Flynn figure, I got for half-off at the Wal-Mart by my work, which for some reason, doesn't seem to be carrying the pile of Tron: Legacy stuff other stores are. Sam was the only one they had, and he was immediately clearanced. Weird. It's a gimmicky figure, with the voice chip and light-up moving face; but it's a pretty good gimmick.


The last time I tried to watch Tron, was over at a friend's house, and I fell asleep. To be fair, that was pretty late and after a hard night drinking borderline completely abusively; but I don't think any of us finished it that time. If it wasn't for the novel and the South Park episode "You Have 0 Friends" my recollection of Tron would be a lot fuzzier. But I am looking forward to seeing Tron: Legacy, even if I'm probably not going to be there first in line...


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