In the “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” episode (Episode 9, Season 1), there is a Navy Blue Pontiac TransAm WS6 fully decked out with ZO6 wheels.  Very pretty and still one of my favorite muscle cars to this day (damn you GM/Pontiac).  As you can see, it clearly has the chrome ZO6 wheels, TransAm nose, Ram Air hood, and TransAm raised spoiler:

But, as this show tends to do, things get blown up and wrecked.  This particular car has the unfortunate fate of smashing in to a retaining wall and getting rolled over.  A truly cringe-worthy site.  Or is it?

Just before the car is wrecked, you see it driving down the road, and I believe this is still the WS6 as in this frame it looks like you can still see the dual-spoke ZO6 wheels on it, and I think the raised spoiler:

Something caught my eye (partially because my buddy had tipped me off to this ahead of time, so I was paying particularly close attention to it), but the car that was rolled was not the same WS6 seen earlier in the show, and in all likelyhood it was just a V6 done-up to look like a WS6.

What’s this?  This doesn’t look like the raised TransAm spoiler.  This looks like a standard V6 spoiler:

And the money shot… single spoke wheels instead of the dual spoke ZO6 wheels, and the flat V6 spoiler!  It is interesting to note though, that they did go through the effort of using a V6 that has the TransAm nose piece and Ram Air hood.

And just a couple more shots confirming:

I thought it was interesting at least.  I’m glad they didn’t destroy a WS6

This show has impecable taste in cars… I mean hell, the main characters drive around in a 2nd-gen TransAm.  It doesn’t get much cooler than that.

If you haven’t checked out The Good Guys yet, you should.  It is currently on Thursdays, but it is getting moved to Fridays for the Fall Season.  I am glad to see it’s going to get a chance in the fall and wasn’t just a summer show, but I am slightly worried for it.  When I saw they are moving it to the Friday time slot I got worried because Fox seems to have a habit of canceling shows after the spend a season in the Friday death-slot.  Good luck The Good Guys, you’re a great show and deserve a long healthy run!

I heard about this show from a post on a message board.  People were raving about how good it is, and since I’m not one to miss a good show, I thought I’d check it out.  I’ve watched the first 4 episodes and I am hooked.  This show is fantastic.

I said it’s the best show you’re not watching because it is.  Sure House is better, but you’re probably already watching that.

How AMC landed a show like Breaking Bad blows my mind a bit.  Give the show at least 2 episodes.  I watched the series premiere and I felt kind of on the line about it, but after I watched another episode I was really hooked and drawn in to it.

To give a quick plot summary, the main character is diagnosed with a terminal illness.  He is a typically passive goody-goody up until he realizes he is going to die.  He realizes his family needs money and he will do anything he can to ensure his family, a crippled teenager, and a pregnant wife, will have what they need after he is gone.  This leads to crazy, yet fascinating stories such as him becoming the finest meth cook New Mexico has ever seen.

It really makes you feel for Walter (the main character), feel the despair, the confusion, the anger…  Bryan Cranston deserves an award based on his performance in the first 4 episodes alone.  I can’t wait to see what the final 3 of the first season, and the first episodes of the currently-running 2nd season have in store.

So anyway, give Breaking Bad a chance, I bet you’ll like it, and it deserves all of the attention it can get!

I’m not going to go over WHY it happened, as it’s pretty well explained by the Boxee and Hulu teams here:

Boxee on the Hulu Situation

Hulu “Doing Hard Things”

What I will do is offer my opinion on it all… after all, that is the point of a blog, isn’t it?

Both Hulu and Boxee are amazing products.  Hulu brings together MANY different content providers in to one place and offers great streaming services for all this content in one nice, clean, easy to use site.  Boxee is a cutting edge Media Center style application that transforms almost any computer in to a very sleek meda-centric device.  While Boxee [on Windows] is still VERY alpha (read: buggy as hell, crashes constantly), there was one thing I found it actually did really well, which was it’s Hulu integration.  You could search and browse all of Hulu’s shows directly from inside Boxee.

It was a very cool feature, and the main reason I didn’t uninstall Boxee after it’s 10th time crashing while trying to scan my media from my network.

But as of today, that feature is disabled.  The decision was not up to Boxee or Hulu, but rather the content providers (NBC, Fox, etc…)

The ONLY thing they will accomplish by doing this is to drive people away from the Hulu service.  There will be NO positive effect from disabling a service once offered, especially this type of service.

If you take a moment to think about who used it… who are they cutting off?

Nerds.

Nerds know about, use, and put up with Boxee and it’s quirkiness because we know it has GREAT potential.

So bascially the content providers have done 1 thing here, which is to piss off several thousand nerds.

Now I ask of these content providers, just what exactly do you think these people are going to do now?

1) Stop watching your content

OR

2) Obtain your content through other means, such as torrents, which are always higher quality, and always commercial free.

I’d be willing to bet you have just driven away thousands of people who viewed content on Hulu through Boxee (over 100,000 Hulu streams were watched through Boxee last week alone), and watched your advertisements, to torrents.  Torrents where they will never see your advertisements again.

I will never understand the choices made by media outlets.  They constantly seem to be making the exact opposite decisions that they should.  They weren’t loosing anything through Boxee as you still saw their ads.  They should be embracing new cutting edge technologies, not disabling them, and pissing off a lot of people.

Just mind blowing.