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Bittersweet. Wholly bittersweet. Dead Like Me: Life After Death presents fans of the original series with a quandary. What is Dead Like Me without Rube (Mandy Patinkin)?
The new Dead Like Me feature film, reprising the plot of the ill-fated television series, answers that question but in a way that most fans will find lacking. By most accounts, getting 70% of an original cast back together 5 years after it ended (quite abruptly, I might add) would seem like a dream come true. Did we notice Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair, was replaced by Sarah Wynter? You bet your ass we did. Did we care as much? No. What really gets at us - eats at us - is the void left by Rube's absence.  Sure, they play it off decently well in the story but you can't replace the grounding character of
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The early demise of Showtime’s morbid dramedy Dead Like Me was mourned by a small but loyal cult following, but even devoted fans could see that the promising show was sputtering through its second and final season. The drop-off is likely attributable to the departure of series creator Bryan Fuller (who headed up the similarly short-lived cult favorites Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies) midway through the first season, over conflicts with MGM. Fans were long promised a movie follow-up, but when it finally came, the lack of involvement from Fuller and a couple of principal cast members was an ominous ...

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Treknobabble [1] is a continuing series of columns written by uber-Trekkie Reed Farrington in anticipation of the upcoming J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. I thought I would use this Treknobabble to talk about a few recent Star Trek news topics that each probably don’t deserve to have a whole Treknobabble devoted to them. So I’ll be covering the bid by Vulcan to host a Star Trek movie premiere, a rumor of a new Star Trek television series, and the release of some international posters for the new Star Trek movie. There’s a town named Vulcan in Alberta, Canada. Population: 1900. This city was named Vulcan even before Star Trek was televised; in 1910, a railway surveyor named the town after the Roman god of fire. In efforts to promote tourism, the town council decided to associate their city with Spock’s home planet of Vulcan. Since 1993 at the height of Star Trek’s popularity,
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