Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium
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It might be interesting to have Jennifer Lawrence playing her...perhaps we'll do that long-awaited cable update in 2007 and we'll see how the show turns out!
I think so, yeah. Also, since As Told By Ginger never gets made ITTL, Klasky Csupo starts using some of those ideas in later seasons of Rocket Power, so we get some high school drama with Reggie and such.
Actually, the Casey Files protagonists are somewhat different from the Ben 10 characters: Casey is definitely more like Martin Mystery than Ben Tennyson, maybe even a little of Marco Diaz in there. Morgan is a lot more easy-going than Gwen, she's snarky but not openly antagonistic most of the time, I'd almost sort of compare her personality to Jackie Lynn Thomas from Star vs. The Forces Of Evil (minus the skateboarding), and the chemistry teacher is more of a Doctor-type figure than a Max, he even has somewhat of a British accent.
As for Clone Wars, we'll discuss it a bit more in the Star Wars update coming soon. There may even be a game down the road...
Noggin is doing about the same as it did IOTL, not much better or much worse.
Sure!
I've just spent the last 3 weeks reading the finished version of Player Two Start and the full Massively Multiplayer thread. There's some really great writing and worldbuilding here, even though I admit that (especially as we get closer to the present) I largely skip past the game info. I stopped playing any console games about the time of the POD, so most of the references go over my head. Instead, I stay for the pop culture/politics/business updates. I've got three questions:
- Did Farscape ever end up being made and shown on Sci-Fi? If so, how was it received?
- What ever happened to Star Trek Online? It's mentioned as being a console MMRPG (XBox IIRC) and doing pretty well in 2003, but in your subsequent MMRPG update it isn't mentioned.
- Honestly, it seems like Star Trek's gotten more of the short end of the stick (especially vis-a-vis Star Wars) than in OTL. It seems that Deep Space Nine (IMO the best of the new shows) was cut short, the best of the TNG movies (First Contact) was butterflied away with a mediocre replacement, and it's not clear how the weird TTL version of Star Trek: Nemesis (I think that's the title of the one with the Voyager descendants) was popularly received. Can we please get some good news for the franchise sometime soon?
Hey, thanks for reading ^_^ I can tell you that we'll try to cover more PC games as we approach the present, simply because the crossover between console and PC will continue to get more frequent as the timeline goes on. For your questions...
Farscape was still made and went largely as it did IOTL. The Jim Henson Company's work on Star Fox influenced the series a tiny bit, but not to the point where it changed the series any more than the normal butterflies would. It ended up getting its full five seasons, and ended in 2004.
Star Trek Online was quite popular throughout 2003, but began to trail off in popularity in 2004. It's still got a userbase, but it's continuing to shrink. As of now, Ultima X is the big upcoming MMORPG for the Xbox, while Star Trek Online may get a new life on PC...
As for news regarding Star Trek proper, I've mostly been letting other readers handle it since to be honest, I've never closely followed the series. It's still extremely popular, obviously, but there's not much going on for it as of 2006 except novels and tabletop games. That should be changing soon, either in the form of a new movie or a new TV series. I can promise at least one of those by the end of the decade.
Nice job there, building on what I posted earlier. I'm thinking that they went to the "rectangle/bracket" look around 2002 (they began using that look in 2000 in OTL). I'm presuming The Basement managed to survive- from clips I've seen on YouTube, it was made by some of the people who did The Zone for YTV in the 90s, and was even weirder.
As for the game shows, I'm presuming Hot Streak only lasted two seasons (due to the relative weakness of the format), and Shopping Spree ended in 2001 (freeing up Jay Wolpert for his work on the first Pirates of the Caribbean film- no, really, he actually worked on it in OTL), while the other early evening shows (Three On A Match, Split Second) ended in 2003-04; the primetime games (Catch Phrase and The Big Showdown) are still running, though I'm hoping that Peter Tomarken's death in a plane crash in 2006 (with his wife- they were on their way to pick up a cancer patient in San Diego) has been butterflied away (presumably be either the aircraft's engine having been repaired properly and/or having shoulder harnesses on the plane); they've also been joined by a few new shows, including Casino (a reboot of Gambit from Merrill Heatter- in OTL, it was pitched to GSN but didn't get picked up), and a new show called Farkle (based on the dice-rolling game, from Jonathan Goodson, hosted by Todd Newton). As for the Saturday QuizTime block of reruns, it moved to weekday afternoons from 1PM to 4, much like the USA Network's old game show block- by this time, rerunning Fun House and College Mad House, the Roy Walker run of Catch Phrase, Classic Concentration (NBC doesn't seem to hate Concentration like they do in OTL), $ale of the Century, and Scrabble (thanks to having licensed Hot Streak from Grundy/Pearson/Fremantle, they were able to outbid GSN for the rights to the latter two- in OTL, GSN and Buzzr have rerun $ale, but only the 1985-86 syndicated run and the 1988-89 daytime eps- no one knows why only those ones, while Scrabble is caught in legal issues between Hasbro and Fremantle). That sound good to anyone?
Did Great Pretenders on FOX Family existed ITTL? (Along with Wild Orchid including Fergie?)
I suppose it could've- there's honestly not much of Fox Family on YouTube, so I can't judge for myself on what it was.
Yes, though they don't get as much press as they did IOTL.
Not really, Azumanga Daioh was one of the lower rated Toonami shows, liked by a very small group of watchers. Love Hina had aired with similar results earlier in the decade, so I doubt we'll be getting any more shows like it in the future on Cartoon Network. Maybe Disney's Animagic will take a chance on shows like it.
Jamie Lynn Spears is still acting and most recently appeared as a cute cheerleader that Kristen Stewart's character has a crush on in Lane. Unlike Lane's best friend, the cheerleader might actually reciprocate Lane's feelings, so her role on the show may continue at least through the end of the season.
Howard Dean is Secretary Of Health and Human Services and is pondering a 2008 presidential run.
Karl Rove is working at a Republican think tank after serving as a member of John Kasich's election team.
Colin Powell is an author and occasional political commentator. He's pondering a 2008 presidential run.
Ruben Studdard had a couple of decent albums and is still a marginally popular R+B singer.
Bill Maher is a comedian and author who had a show on Comedy Central for a while but has been off television on a regular basis since 2001.
Ann Coulter is still a conservative political commentator, frequently appearing on Fox News and writing anti-Gore books.
Paris Hilton never got her own reality show, but has been in the news as of late since she's currently dating John Mayer.
I know that you probably have the 2008 election planned out, but I would actually find a Powell candidacy intriguing.
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Generally there's no making up for missing updates. Today was Thanksgiving, and I probably won't be updating tomorrow either. I update when I feel like updating, please understand ^_^
Short answer?
EDIT: Just noticed the "OTL", meaning you were talking about the TTL thing, but, honestly, I have a feeling the show is more like the pilot, so I'm hoping this post hedges even.
Without going too deeply into it, it's a bit darker/edgier, there's less filler episodes, and Sissi eventually joins the team.
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