Copyright (c) 2009 http://www.tomatotv.net/ Online Comic Feed for TomatoTV en-us 5 http://www.tomatotv.net/images/rss-logo.jpg http://www.tomatotv.net 352 63 http://www.tomatotv.net/post.php?id=34 If you don’t know what SOPA is, just Google it. There’s enough others explaining it much better than I could.Today though we are dark today in support of Wikipedia, Google & others who also think it’s a bad idea.(Actually as our regular site is black it’s easy to go dark, but hey we’ll take a coincidence when it work for us.)

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST http://www.tomatotv.net/post.php?id=33 I know it’s nearly a half year away, but we’re really excited that we got our booth approval for San Diego Comic Con again this year. We are sharing a booth without sister company Geekdom Wear at Exhibitor tables B02 in the very back corner of Hall A. We’ll post more later as it gets closer, but San Diego persists in being the biggest thing for us each year. Our THIRD year of our “Full Time Creativity On A Part Time Schedule” panel was great last year & we hope to be allowed to do that panel again. Sales from for our sister site GeekdomWear.com is continue to increase every year at the San Diego show. Most importantly there’s no better place to meet all of you. We’ve got a lot of fun in the pipeline for these years’ San Diego Comic Con. Details later, but we’re so excited to be back in our familiar spot.

The best part about our spot, besides being around other cool vendors, is that it’s just about the best real estate that one can have short of the next level up of exhibit space. We’re only one booth from a corner, in the corner next to the bathrooms & food & down a very active isle that feeds us a constant stream of people. Yep. This year’s San Diego Comic Con looks to be very cool.

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST http://www.tomatotv.net/post.php?id=32 TomatoTV is pleased to announce we will be telecasting the 8th annual Rerun awards this Sunday. The Runnies are an annual tradition here at TomatoTV honoring shows that were overlooked during their original runs. Or it should be, but the awards always seem to go to the same people that won them originally. It’s just one big popularity contest with them.
Okay, you got us. It’s actually just B.J. and Kirby reading past winners’ speeches for an hour. But, if you don’t check IMDB, you can still be surprised.

Note: The author says Topher Davila, but we don't have a category for Kevin yet.

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST http://www.tomatotv.net/post.php?id=31 TomatoTV is may be a small station, but we give the viewing public what it wants, or at least what it wanted 20 years ago. So in that spirit we are proud to announce TomatoTV is jumping on the reality show bandwagon!

Coming soon to TomatoTV is Extreme Parking. From daring new visionaries comes a show about the crazy things that go on when an office full of people leave for lunch, and then vie for parking spots when they return sometime between 45 minutes and two hours later. Shot from a single camera locked on a single shot, critics have hailed this choice as “avant-garde” and “daring”. This show should in no way be construed as an attempt to pass off security cam footage as a reality show while the entire office is out to lunch.

Note: The author says Topher Davila, but we don't have a category for Kevin yet.

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST http://www.tomatotv.net/post.php?id=30 What Agent Jane’s Mother Did and Did Not Tell Her - A pointless fan essay by Kevin Flessing.

Was Agent Jane’s mother Margret simply lying, or did she actually just get better? Or, as it’s frequently phrased around the conventions, “lying or dying?” That’s the question fans have been asking each other for years, ever since Margret appeared in full heath in her second Agent Jane episode – Traitor, Traitor, Traitor, and Spy, with no explanation. In her first episode, Margret was said to be dying, and was even shown in the hospital. Some fans felt Margret had to be lying in the previous episode, given that in her second episode she picked up some of the scattered diamonds after the taxi explosion, and was never subsequently shown to hand them off to anyone. Others feel she must have used the diamonds to pay for her medical bills, and really was sick in the previous episode. The third major fan opinion is that Margret was hypnotized into believing she was sick by Ms. Hypno, one of Jane’s many nemeses.

Each of these theories has a vocal and active fan base. Those in the “lying” camp point to the fact that in several future episodes, Agent Jane and her mother would be on opposite sides, and at times they would even actively fight each other. The “sick” camp points out that Jane had access to all medical records just two episodes later, and she never mentioned her mother as having lied. The “hypnotize” crowd point to the recent media-tie-in novel Agent Jane: Family Secrets, in which Ms. Hypno boasts about controlling Jane’s entire family at one point or another, although it’s never explicitly stated when she controlled Margret. Ms. Hypno of course controlled Jane’s father in the Christmas episode where Jane almost opens the exploding present, and Jane’s sister in the episode with the humpback whales. The debate also continues on whether or not the novels are canon.

Margret and Jane would cross paths again many times throughout the course of the series, and in two of the five made-for-TV-movies, one of which, Agent Jane: Like Mother, Like Spy, features a scene where Margret finally mentions her illness to Jane. In the scene, Margret claims to have selective amnesia, and has forgotten she’s been dying for the previous decade. No attempt to describe the illness was made, and Margret gets along just fine throughout the rest of the movie, even going camping with Jane at the end, so after it was over, fans were still left wondering (and debating) if Margret was actually telling the truth that time or not. To date, that has been the only explicit mention of the illness since Marget’s first episode.

The debate will undoubtedly continue over the internet and at conventions for years to come, but hopefully you now have a little background in case you are ever asked the “lying or dying?” question yourself. As for my opinion, I lean toward hypnosis, but then again I’ve always been a bit of a Ms. Hypno fan, so that might have some influence on my opinion.

(Closing note: yes the author says Topher, but we don't have a category for Kevin.)

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