Anyone else here remember the original V back in the 80's?  Marc Singer in all his glory, fighting as a member of the Resistance against the alien forces that came to take over our planet in a subtle and surreptitious fashion.

Well, it's coming back soon.  ABC is doing a remake of the original V miniseries.  It stars Morena Baccarin (she played Inara on Firefly), Scott Wolf, Joel Gretsch, Alan Tudyk, and a few others.  And from the early clips, it looks pretty awesome.

OK, so it's not that difficult to spoof Star Trek, but it can be tough for most spoofs to be funny and hysterical while still being relevant to the overall plot. 

Of course, with Family Guy, they rarely miss their target

Taken from the past week's episode, Brian is dating Lauren Conrad from "The Hills" and initially recoils from the idea because he thinks she's a bimbo.  But over the course of the show, he comes to find out that she's just as much of an intellectual as he is.    And it all culminates during this one scene, which pays homage to Wrath of Khan.

In the immortal words of Warcraft.... Job's done!

OK, so that's a bit of a lie.  There are actually a few jobs done, and I'm here to give you updates on them. 

The Game Night Calendar is finally squared away and should be working at optimal efficiency.  Plus, I threw in a few fun little updates to make things easier for the folks coordinating game nights.

I've also got a great update on the Email Digests for the site.   

I've got a lot of ground to cover, so I'm posting everything behind the jump.  Don't worry, it's not boring.  Not too much, anyway. ;)

Hey gang... just a quick update to let you know that there are some updates/fixes going on right now with regards to the Game Calendar and TAG Social.   You can keep using these features while the work's being done, but I wanted to keep everyone up to date as to what's going on.

Earlier this morning, we identified an issue with mail messages from TAG Social that hadn't been sending  correctly.   The issue only affected a small subset of people.   The fix for the issue was incredibly minor, and we should now have mail messages being sent out correctly.   If you received a few backlog emails from TAG Social this afternoon, we'd like to apologize for the delay in getting those mailed to you.

And speaking of TAG Social, we've got an upgrade coming to the Social component within the next 48 hours.  There are a couple of new features in the update, including truly private groups (where not only is the group invite-only, but it won't appear in the overall list of groups on the site when doing a search).  We're also working on getting groups set up to have their own photo albums, so that those of you setting up discussion groups can upload pictures for everyone to share.   We're pretty sure that's going to make some of the Lost discussions a lot more fun, and that other groups will hopefully take advantage of that.  And there are a few other cool things included, as well.

We're also laying some groundwork for future features that we're hoping to add to Talking About Games in the coming months.  We're working to set up Facebook-like notifications so that a little window pops up in the lower right corner whenever you have a new TAG Social message or group discussion.   We're also doing some initial work for a possible IM client that'll run on TAG.  Oh, and if you like Facebook, we're also trying to see what we can do about integrating directly with them via Facebook Connect.

I've also heard the calls from a few of you that the Game Night Calendar has a couple of minor issues that need to be ironed out,  and I'm literally working on those in another window as I type this blog post out.  With any luck, we'll have those minor hiccups isolated within the next hour or two, and I'll hopefully have an update for you on that soon.  

Thanks again for all the support, everyone.  :)

First, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their well wishes that they've sent to me over the past week.  The surgery went fine, and all of my wisdom teeth have been removed.  Now comes the unfun part:   Sitting and waiting for the pain to subside.  Blech.

I don't know what it is, but for some reason, I've had the most oddly philosophical dreams these past few days.  I'm not sure if it's because of the drugs, or the fact that I've been getting caught up on Torchwood and Doctor Who (both of which ask a lot of "What if?" questions). 

Hit the jump, and find out what runs through my mind when I'm drugged up and asleep.

The following is a look at the common fallacies and mistakes people often encounter when dealing with Battlestar Galactica.   I can understand that the new Galactica can be tough to follow at times, so I figured this handy chart might be useful for some folks.

OK, but really, this whole thing is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the sloppy writing of the show.    Because when TV gives you lemons, you need to point and laugh at those lemons.

(Spoilers through Season 4)

Prepare for FTL jump in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1....

We talked about this at the very tail end of UncleGamer Radio Episode 104, so I'm posting this on the site for everyone to enjoy.

Mario and Luigi take a side trip to Vice City in this Robot Chicken sketch.  If you're a fan of either franchise, you'll love this!

A sneak peek at UGR this week

We've got an announcement.  A really good one.  Something close to 25 episodes in the making.

Now that I've finished Fable II, I'm back to rant about it.  Because much like another RPG from last year that I blogged about, I really loved the game and found an appreciation for it.

And then that appreciation came crashing down in the final minutes of the game, when I came to realize that the final boss battle is not just a big joke, but the ending of the game was terrible.  It was even worse than Fallout 3's ending!

Frankly, I'm pissed.  I'm tired of games with big, sweeping stories that have craptacular endings.   What's the point?  I'm tired of developers that refuse to give a game a proper piece of closure.  You don't have to totally stop the game at the finale, but for the love of all that's Holy, if I devote 30 - 60 hours of my life to playing in a world that wants me to make my mark on it, then you damned well owe me some kind of closure.

The following blog post has a few minor spoilers about the Fable II ending.  They're vague spoilers, though.  Mostly, because there's nothing TO spoil.

Hit the jump!

A coworker of mine stopped by my office today.  She loves awesome Youtube videos as much as I do,  and like me, she loves TV game shows.  So I went to show her some of the videos that were on the TAG blogs just a couple of weeks ago.

Then I ran across this brilliant gem, in the "related videos" section.

It's quite possibly one of the funniest examples of bidding in The Price Is Right history, and as a TPIR fan, it brought tears to my eyes because I was laughing so hard.  Be sure and watch the whole video!