The morning after the nights before: "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King"

Well, so it's finished airing...and SciFi is very pleased. From our producers this morning:

The premiere of Dark Kingdom averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+).

This is the most-watched Monday program ever for Sci Fi in any second quarter.

Dark Kingdom delivered 1.181 million P25-54s, the #8 cable program for the day on Monday on this measure.

...Over on the BBs at SciFi there's a certain amount of approbation, a lot of confusion about where the story came from, and some indignation at the ending, along the lines of "How dare this not have a happy ending, it's a fairy tale, right, a fantasy, where's our happy ending?"

Ah well. We have ours. :) On to the next miniseries!

(The funniest remarks over there so far: (1) "There should be a sequel!" (Whoops, sorry, we seem to have killed everybody but Kriemhild.) (2) "We want a series!" (Argh! But now that you mention it... NAAAH.) ;)

Tags: Dark Kingdom, The Dragon King, Sci-Fi Channel, miniseries, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Uli Edel, Kristanna Loken

More "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King" feedback

Aww, I can't resist.

Dark Kingdom. Based on this old Norse/Germanic tale about the Ring of the Nibelung. It was pretty nifty. The Queen of Iceland was awesome.

So true.

So I just finished watching Dark Kingdom on sci-fi, that lovely mini series and I really liked it, especially Brunhild, the amazingly beautiful, ass kicking, double-bladed axe wielding valkyrie. Yea......she is great, the whole package really. Nonetheless, in the second part of the series, her lovely new husband, whats-his-name, who is in total: a overweight, rapidly aging, greedy and immoral, sterile fool who had tricked his good friend, the true love of Brunhild, amnesiac Siegfried into taking her belt of power and letting her fatty husband have his way with her, while she was tricked! Tricked I say!

Yep, I'd say that just about sums it up.

Dear Sword Wielding Super Hotties,

I wanna marry you. Stop killing yourselves, there really is a guy for you. He's me, and I got Valhalla in my bedroom.

You don't need to break the cycle of hate, nor slay yourself at some punk's funeral. Just come on over and get horizontal.

Erm. (backs away slowly)

The second part was definitely a lot better than the first part. Probably because Siegfried died.

Brunhild (Kristanna Loken / Queen of Iceland) kicked a lot of ass. I wish she had kicked more ass, but she did cut off the evil adviser's head and it doesn't get much better than that.

No argument there.

Dark Kingdom = Saga of the Volsungs (or the German version, anyway). Was pretty cool. Brunhild kicked so much ass. That chick rules.

And I missed Boston Legal!

(sigh) So did I.

Dude, I was so looking forward to Dark Kingdom with Samuel West and Alicia Witt. Even after like ten gazillion name changes that kept delaying it's appearance, I still waited. And waited. Was I disappointed? I some ways, yeah, but it was so teh funny, eh? It was like the laughfests I have with Christopher Lambert movies. Then again, what was Slutbunny, er, Sam doing in it? Ah, all's chaos and confusion!

The name changes. Don't get us started about the name changes. (two heads meet many, many times with two desks, more or less in unison)

...dear God, did Siegfried REALLY speak with that unspeakable accent?

(And there was this... moment... when he stands up to the two roaring Saxon kings and utters the immortal words: "You killed my father!" At which point both [info]rdeck and I sat up and said in unison, "My name is Inigo Montoya... prepare to die!")

So did we. Often.

So just finished watching my show, "Dark Kingdom," on the Sci-fi channel. Robert was in it That's the only reason I watched it. It was actually kinda cheesy. But Rob made it all worth while. Speaking of Robert, like my new icon? Isn't he beautiful? Wouldn't we make beautiful babies? Wow, if Orlando falls through I'll gladly take Robert.

See, now, there's the spirit. Always have a plan. :)

Tags: Dark Kingdom, The Dragon King, Sci-Fi Channel, miniseries, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Uli Edel, Kristanna Loken

Ooh, rhinobots!

 

And railsnails and cogfrogs and other cool mechanicities. The artist is from Kazakhstan. (Thanks to BibliOdyssey for the link)

 

(I also love the index-page Flash animation. There are other witty and handsome animations on the site as well -- from the front page, click on the figure with the top hat.)

 

 

Tags: animation, flash, art