One of the first stories we posted on Average Dudes was about the Writers Strike last year. It was a devastating time in the lives of Americans. With a lack of new, original shows to watch, weeknights became mundane…some poor dudes were even forced to read or have conversations with their spouses. It’s a time I’d like to forget completely. (more…)

I promise I’m not that big of a Terminator fan. I posted before about the season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It seems my prayers were answered as the show has gotten the greenlight for a second season. Now I just hope they don’t royally screw it up.

[E! Online]

Moon Bloodgood has had quite the career thus far. She started off as a Lakers girl, landed a role as a stripper in CSI (seriously, she was credited in the episode as “Stripper”), and then suddenly she was starring in two major, albeit short-lived, television shows, Day Break and Journeyman.

It appears she’s not slowing down. She’s been cast alongside Christian Bale in “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins,” the fourth film in the franchise and supposedly the first of a new trilogy. She’ll reportedly be playing “a no-nonsense and battle-hardened member of the resistance who is carrying a lot of guilt over surviving the nuclear holocaust.”

So basically she’ll act like a total manly bitch for the first quarter of the movie and then she’ll sacrifice herself to save the rest of her crew. It’s science…

[Yahoo! News, Moon Bloodgood on Chickipedia]

Last night was the untimely finale of one of the only decent shows left since the WGA took a vacation. Of course, leading up to it, all the promotion billed this finale as a huge deal with an explosive ending and other assorted TV buzzwords. When the show ended though, it was painfully obvious that they did not mean this to be the end of the season. They couldn’t even show a teaser for next season because they have no more footage.

I was a little wary of the show when it started. I didn’t really want to like it but it ended up grabbing me. Now I can only hope that Fox doesn’t kill it. There’s a lot of potential for things to get wildly crazy and to show even more of the back story of some of these characters. With the new Terminator trilogy on the horizon, this show could become the biggest thing since Lost. I’m curious though…what did you think?

Generally speaking, everyone feels pretty similarly when it comes to advertisements. Sure, there are some funny commercials that people talk about and enjoy, but a commercial break is usually a good reason to exercise the fast-forward button on a DVR remote. For advertisers, the popularity of DVRs and the increased usage of the internet as a media portal has forced creative thinking in terms of how to get their messages to the masses. For consumers, that means some seriously annoying and potentially frightening assaults on other aspects of our daily lives. (more…)