On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Sad news from Gotham today.

Just published by Associated Press.

In memory of the first to embody the role of Nyota Uhura...

https://ca.startrek.com/news/remembering-nichelle-nichols-1932-2022

Based on material released from the Star Trek: Picard art department in recent weeks as well as casting on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I am starting to wonder what sort of longer-term plans are in the works about Nyota Uhura.

Noting today's notable deaths. Among them, but not limited to them:

Neal Conan of NPR. (X-Men fans of a certain age range will remember that name, I suspect.)

Hockey goaltender Tony Esposito.

Actor Alex Cord.

My brain is putting these things together:

• A reunion of the Inhumans cast in Toronto...because Serinda Swan(Medusa) and Anson Mount(Black Bolt) are already working on other stuff there and knocking the critics dead with joy. Get those actors a script they can all have fun with.
• She-Hulk shows up because the Inhumans have moved from Hawai'i to Toronto because politics. And she's a lawyer, drowning in a crash course on international law, refugee/immigration law, etc..
• Ms. Marvel if they hold onto her Inhuman connection from the comics, and my logic doesn't have an explanation why her family would let her go to/bring her from Jersey City to Toronto yet.
• Shang-Chi, because of his father's schemes having a Toronto angle.
• I want to try to leverage Alpha Flight as I first knew it from the comics further into MCU being without being X-Men-dependent.
• Get some of the Agents of SHIELD cast into the game. At least Daisy Johnson and alt-timeline Daniel Sousa.

None of this makes any sense to any of you, right? Outside of a fanfic context, anyway. I'm spitballing here out loud in public, precisely where I shouldn't. Also, getting Canadian actors - Swan, Vellani, Maslany, Liu - to be able to work on a Marvel project in Canada.

Fifteen minutes into Coroner tonight, and already the waterworks almost started twice.

Shocked that they managed to keep Nicholas Campbell in the cast for at least this episode.

Surreal and funereal.

More as it goes...

I only saw Mrs. Furlan in person once, at San Diego, just as Babylon 5 was getting going. And that, from across a standing-room only hall. Her work on-screen was nonetheless stellar, in the best sense, in the role of Delenn.

I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.

Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.

Confirmed by Deadline, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:

Tatiana Maslany is the MCU's Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters.

From Orphan Black to Perry Mason to this. I expect there to be a lot of kvelling (?) from MCU fans in Regina in particular and Saskatchewan in general tonight.

I was hoping for her to end up in an Alpha Flight show, but this will probably work out well.

I suppose Mr. Ruffalo will be showing up as supporting cast? If they're keeping the family connection - their comics counterparts are cousins - I'd expect that.

I don't know how many of you know of this particular site. It's designed to make its money supporting job searchers looking in the film and TV business, on both sides of the cameras and microphones.

Anyway, it looks like it's beginning a funnelling of employers and workers into six different geographic silos: the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, India and "International" for everyone else on the planet who don't fit into the first five regions. I expect this is partly due to Time of Pandemic and partly due to geopolitical stuff.

Figured you'd be interested. Just in case.

Oh, thank heaven. It's his birthday coming up, not his obituary!

I said it in person years ago, but saying it again here: thank you, Mr. Pinsent!

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-many-roles-of-gordon-pinsent-s-long-and-varied-acting-career-1.5207987