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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Borg Cupcakes

by Jamie Frevele | 5:30 pm, February 12th, 2012


Despite how adorable these are, cupcake resistance is futile. There was no credited artist on these, so if someone comes forward with more information, we will edit and give credit where it’s due. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

  • Here’s a situation: It’s Valentine’s Day, the first one with a new lover. That lover happens to be an alien, and you have no idea how to seduce them because it’s early in the relationship. Or it’s not early, and you’ve just been too awkward to ask. Good news! There is a comprehensive guide to having sex with aliens over at io9!
  • The writing team behind ABC‘s Once Upon a Time discuss the way they have been approaching women on the show, saying their three female leads are “tough” and “not afraid to use their power.” Direct quote: “We weren’t interested in writing damsels in distress.” (via Hero Complex)
  • The Walking Dead returns to AMC tonight at 9:00 PM EST, but if you’re interested in the ethics of zombie killing, there is an excellent piece by Kyle Munkittrick over at Pop Bioethics concerning the ethics of zombie-killing. It’s a response to io9‘s Lauren Davis, who asked When Is It Okay to Kill a Zombie?
  • Some viewers of NBC‘s 30 Rock are concerned about how Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is developing as a character. For example, why does she depend so much on Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) now when at first, he was getting in the way of her running her show? And is she getting, um, crazier? (via Splitsider)

    • Finally, this is the coolest guitar you will see today. It is shaped like the Millennium Falcon. (via Rampaged Reality)

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    • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

      (notes the one smiley Borg)

      “3 of 7 doesn’t seem to be getting with the program…”

    • http://twitter.com/JinxyBlastwave Jinxy Blastwave

      30 Rock stayed with their formula to the point where it doesn’t hold up anymore.  They even mentioned it within the show, where Jack had a mid-life crisis moment when he realized he was staying with NBC and not moving upwards anymore.  Liz’s decline as a character was inevitable in hindsight.  During the whole “Jack doesn’t approve of Criss” storyline, all I could think was that I hope it doesn’t work out, and that Criss deserved better.  Strange to side with a guest star over a character I’ve liked for years.  They just went too far with the grump storyline and the “I can’t manage my life” storyline for me to be invested in Liz anymore.

      It used to be that Liz couldn’t manage her life because she didn’t have time, and was therefore willing to settle for less because she was just exhausted.  Then it morphed into, Liz can’t manage her life and needs Alec Baldwin to solve all her problems for her.  Remember when Liz used to solve problems for people?  What happened to that?

    • Anonymous

      The 30 Rock argument is invalid. ALL the characters have changed for the worse/gotten crazier over the years. To say that Liz is becoming more and more dependent on Jack is to ignore the fact that just about everyone on the show have become caricatures. Jack was ALWAYS a know-it-all, and Liz was always kind of helpless. Can anyone name one problem that she didn’t go to Jack for advice on? The article even says ” Liz is as clueless and lost as Tracy and Jenna” but doesn’t mention the fact that Jenna and Tracy weren’t always so clueless and lost. In the beginning, Jenna was a very sane but manipulative and vain aging actress. Now, she’s a completely unstable, Tracy-esque sex fiend. And it calls Pete her only sane friend. Anyone who watches 30 Rock knows that Pete is anything but sane.

      The problem isn’t that the characters of Liz Lemon and Jack are becoming more sexist/anti-feminist/whatever. The problem is that the characters are, more than ever, CHARACTERS. And yes, the character development of Liz really took a turn for the worse and it’s still sad to see a strong “feminist” character rely so heavily on a chauvinist like Jack, the fact of the matter is that the entire show is nose-diving and everyone is horrible and offensive. This is coming from someone who watched the show religiously for the first three years, as a devoted fan for two, and who hasn’t had the stomach to handle more than one episode of the most recent season.

    • Frodo Baggins

      The term I’ve heard for this phenomenon in general is “Flanderization.” See TV-Tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization

    • Frodo Baggins

      Muffin-sized cakes? Truly, those are the best of both worlds.

    • TKS

      Interesting to see that the One Upon a Time writers aren’t interested in writing about “Damsels in distress.”  Now, if only they were interested in writing a good TV show.

    • Anonymous

      Homer is definitely a more extreme example of this than Flanders is, but I’ll take it!

      Personally, the first time I noticed this was with Eric on Boy Meets World. Remember his character “development?”

    • Frodo Baggins

      I… uh… never watched it. *Hangs head in shame*

    • Francesca M

      I nearly spat out my drink. Bravo. Bravo.

    • Adam Whitley

      It was really jarring when watching it in syndication and it was never commeneted on ever.

    • Adam Whitley

      you fail the precious

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