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Aug. 22nd, 2007 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogRick Green? Is a cool guy in real life.
I got to help interview him today. We were dissing the quality of the first season of Prisoners of Gravity together. I didn't speak up too much, but I was honestly in awe for most of it and generally felt like a nervous wreck. I was totally made of fail. D:
There are things said in that interview that are... big and interesting things! Like...
- How he got the job hosting the series.
- The reasons why the first season Prisoners of Gravity is "lost" (I now feel bad for digging it up).
- The future of History Bites.
- The possible future of Prisoners of Gravity.
- Some goofy bits with Rick Green acting as Commander Rick. If they keep the full opening... OMG... it's SO over the top. Rick also did the "Prisoners of Gravity" rant from season one.
As soon as it's posted, I'll be linking it. This was the secret thing I was working on, although word had gotten out a couple of days ago. It was also one of my big life goals - those who know me know that Rick Green was my media hero since grade 5 and one of the reasons I decided to chase an education and job in media. Not to recreate his stuff, but to do cool crap like what he did and still does. :)
I've also been welcomed into the staff of This Week in Geek. Heaven help me, I have no idea what I have done.
How did this happen? A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Mike, one of the hosts, thanking me for my site and asking me if I wanted to involved with the interview. Turns out that he had visited my site waaaaay back when I was probably back in high school and was shocked at how much it had grown. So, this somehow spun off into me actually being on the phone during the interview. 0_0
I'm still pretty dazed.
I got to help interview him today. We were dissing the quality of the first season of Prisoners of Gravity together. I didn't speak up too much, but I was honestly in awe for most of it and generally felt like a nervous wreck. I was totally made of fail. D:
There are things said in that interview that are... big and interesting things! Like...
- How he got the job hosting the series.
- The reasons why the first season Prisoners of Gravity is "lost" (I now feel bad for digging it up).
- The future of History Bites.
- The possible future of Prisoners of Gravity.
- Some goofy bits with Rick Green acting as Commander Rick. If they keep the full opening... OMG... it's SO over the top. Rick also did the "Prisoners of Gravity" rant from season one.
As soon as it's posted, I'll be linking it. This was the secret thing I was working on, although word had gotten out a couple of days ago. It was also one of my big life goals - those who know me know that Rick Green was my media hero since grade 5 and one of the reasons I decided to chase an education and job in media. Not to recreate his stuff, but to do cool crap like what he did and still does. :)
I've also been welcomed into the staff of This Week in Geek. Heaven help me, I have no idea what I have done.
How did this happen? A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Mike, one of the hosts, thanking me for my site and asking me if I wanted to involved with the interview. Turns out that he had visited my site waaaaay back when I was probably back in high school and was shocked at how much it had grown. So, this somehow spun off into me actually being on the phone during the interview. 0_0
I'm still pretty dazed.
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Date: 2007-08-23 03:11 am (UTC)What, you mean it was "lost" on purpose because they were embarrassed by its stink?
haha ... I now feel good for digging it up. Rick's [pun alert] Green spiky hair gimmick was abandoned after that first season -- his coif must've had a temporary bout of "space radiation poisoning"... They also ditched much of the ambient graphical distraction that littered the screen during interview segments. The bits featuring Clive Barker were the only intellectually engaging content from that whole season. Even the episode on sex was bland, despite the ripeness (boobs!) of the topic. (boobs i say!)
I considered that you might freeze up when confronted with your childhood media idol (too close to the subject, feeling clumsy beside Rick's easy ad-libbing,) but I didn't caution against it beforehand because I thought that might only have worsened your anxiety. You must have performed well enough regardless of nerves to have been invited aboard TWIG. :) In case of emergency, you can always intimidate geeks with your radioactive girl power. (boobs i say!)
~ G.
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Date: 2007-08-23 02:13 pm (UTC)I don't regret obtaining episodes of season one, nor do I regret sharing the infomation about it online. Is it going to stop me from posting more material? NOPE. Mark might have guilt, but I've been working on that site too damn long to delete the season one material that I have. It's a shitty season, but it happened and there's no sense pretending that it didn't. Also, forcing media to "not exist" is a touchy personal issue for me.
Speaking of season one material, sorry about the delay in cross referencing the episode dates you have with the ones I have. Things keep coming up in the evening, but I'm going to put forth an honest effort to check that out tonight.
HA! THE HAIR! I should have asked him about that. That season was so messed up.
Part of the problem is that on our end of the interview there was Mike, Steve, uh, some other girl who's name has slipped my mind and myself. Mike and Steve picked off all of the easy questions and a lot of the ones I was left with were ones that came out from years of working on Signal Loss. So, not really questions that the general public would have any interest in. I did manage to ask him on air about what he thought caused the shift between season one and season two, going from a crappy kid's series to a more mature one. We did discuss the state of the masters and TVOntario, but I think this was after the proper interview when we were chatting. In short, Rick had assumed that TVOntario was still holding onto material. I mentioned that I'd heard that TVO was destroying old material, and Rick got extremely concerned and said that he'd have to talk to Mark about securing any material that TVOntario still has. If anything good came out of the interview, it's that.
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Date: 2007-08-23 06:28 pm (UTC)But (re: flooding staff positions) it would be nice :) if you could weasel me into the production end of your new geek coverage gig... especially if any involvement comes for a future PoG series. *gleeee!!* Are these intended as TWIG "bumper spots" for SPACE channel or just online articles/podcasts for that website? (And do you get paid? lol) Congrats in any case! Girls remain a rarity among geekdom, so a female voice always adds a nice contrast to the testosterNerd mix, softening market perception.
Oh, I was thinking that if wanting for questions, you could've asked Rick for confirmation about the supposed chair desecration anecdote noted in the wiki article so that the podcast could later be pointed to as a citation. (Rick answers, "Yes, it's true." ... *crickets chirping*...)
So... the S1 absence at Merrill is merely Mark's attempt at revisionist history and he's secretly hoarding those tapes in his closet... I will plan my break-in accordingly.;)
I wonder if they'd omit that season altogether from any (im)possible DVD release. Some of the aforementioned early Clive Barker chat did make its way into later season episodes on horror/fear, iirc, along with brief soundbites from McFarlane at a convention. Also, TVO staff might have fed you bogus information about trashing stuff just to quickly dismiss your fannish requests, but it's good to hear that Rick will check up on it.
~ G.