During my Comic Con recap articles, I had mentioned how I'd randomly ended up in a panel for the TV show The Middleman in which they did a live script reading from the 13th episode of the show (which never got made due to the show being cancelled). If you remember, I had said how much I loved that panel and that it was like watching actors performing an old school radio drama from the 1930's. Well, some kind soul who was also in the audience that day has done something amazing and has posted the entire panel onto youtube for everyone to enjoy.
You can find the files here.
Even if you've never seen the show before, the panel is still pretty entertaining. The episode they read is entitled The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse, and it was supposed to be the show's big season finale where the main characters face off against an evil criminal mastermind named Manservant Neville, who is using a wildly popular device his company sells to take over the world. The episode is filled with geeky references from things like Star Wars to Japanese Hentai Anime to Steve Jobs giving a Keynote speech.
Since this is a fan video from the audience, the audio can be a little bad at times, but overall the quality is suprisingly good and you can still manage to catch the whole story. If for nothing else, you should at least watch the clip below for one of the single best supervillain speeches I've heard in years, delivered by the amazing actor Mark Sheppard (whom you may recognize as Badger from Joss Whedon's Firefly or the lawyer Romo Lampkin from Battlestar Galactica)
The amazing villainous rant starts at the 2:15 mark of the clip. By the 4:10 mark it really gets going, and it reaches it's awesomeness climax around the 5:15 mark. It truly is someting to behold. I'm really sad I'll never get to see this episode get produced. Rumor has it though that a comic book version of the episode is getting made. At least that's something, right?
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