Powetcast Episode 10: War of the Prequels

We’re facing a prequel-heavy year in entertainment: Star Trek, Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation, the upcoming Caprica (based on the new Battlestar Galactica), and shows that involve so much time travel it’s hard to say which is the beginning or end. Some of those shows won’t even be coming back next year, thanks to a slew of announced cancellations.

Rock it out with us in the Powetcast for the week of May 18th, 2009!

(Are there any prequels you have an opinion about? Angels and Demons turning your crank? Huge fan of Dumb and Dumberer? Leave a comment below!)

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Show notes after the jump!

The Panel
Sean “Zach Braff” Corse
aDam “Rulz” Gardner
Crazy “requires additional supply depots” Jaco
Sindra
Zac “Bang a Gong” Shipley

News
*TV Renewals/Cancellations
**Terminator cancelled:
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/04/fall-tv-cheat-s.html
**Dollhouse remarkably renewed for second 13-episode season
http://www.tvweek.com/tvmojoe/2009/05/welcome-to-another-season-of-d.php
*Duke Nukem “ForNever”: 3D Realms closes shop
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Duke_Nukem_Developer_3D_Realms_Shuts_Down
** OR DID THEY…?
http://kotaku.com/5259942/3d-realms-were-not-closing-spent-20-million-on-duke-nukem-forever?skyline=true&s=x
*Master Replica sold.
http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=251&itemid=14470
*Nintendo Power: Tatsunoko vs Capcom Coming To US
http://kotaku.com/5257869/nintendo-power-tatsunoko-vs-capcom-coming-to-us
Danger Mouse to release blank CD-R
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm
*Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek’s George Kirk) cast as Thor
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/exclusive-chris-hemsworth-is-thor/

Roundtable: Prequels
*What, if anything, makes them work? And why so many lately?
**Star Wars, Wolverine, Temple of Doom, Underworld, Terminator Salvation
*Francis Ford Coppola credited George Lucas with devising the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel

Cool Beans

Movies
*Star Trek

TV
*LOST Season finale
*Transformers Animated – One episode left to go.

Games
*Klonoa on Wii

Comics
*Power Girl #1
*Star Trek Countdown

Pimpin’
*Keep Playing: Rewind – Alisia Dragoon (last week)
*aDam’s review of the new Star Trek series (this week)
*Star Trek movie review (next week)
*Sean and Zac at High Noon (airing Wednesday night, 8pm CDT)
http://www.wyou.org/WYOUStreams.html
*Much of Powet Crew at BotCon 2009
**Next Powetcast will be from there!
http://www.botcon.com