NERDS AROUND TOWN
Nerds Around Town: Lord of the Rings, Runaways and Amazon streaming
Nov 19, 2019, 5:51 am
NERDS AROUND TOWN
Born with a comic book in one hand and a remote control in the other, Cory DLG is the talent of Conroe's very own Nerd Thug Radio and Sports. Check out the podcast replay of the FM radio show at www.nerdthugradio.com!
This weekend, The Houston Community Warriors are hosting a dinner to support the Houston Foodbank. I'm going to get details but for today what I want you to know about this is that it supports Houston Foodbank who is absolutely one of the good guys. Go donate and help support them if you can't go to the dinner. IF you can then do both and be extra awesome.
Overall, there aren't a ton of successful fan favorite Amazon Prime shows, it feels like the streaming aspect of the Amazon Prime account is sort of a back feature, less relevant than the free shipping and access to tons of old free stuff. It's honestly hard to figure out the whole strategy for Amazon, who is producing content for themselves at a good pace, but they aren't having as many massive hits (The Boys aside) as the other services. Part of it is the decision making at the top end probably, case in point, The Lord of the Rings television series that is in production currently has been green lit for a second season and they haven't finished filming the first and second episode yet. But even stranger, they are going to take a four to five-month break after filming the first two episodes which they plan to use to lay out the second season of the show? What on earth is going on here?
Another lower tier Marvel show has bit the dust, The Runaways. The show has been well done but it started to get a little too big for a streaming series with two sets of casts, the parents and the kids. I can see where as a show it was starting to get too big to continue shooting. Also most streaming shows don't get to a fourth season, I've seen some rumblings about fourth and/or fifth seasons being where producers start to make good money off of their investment in series and selling the licensing and re-airings and all of that. I'm not sure yet if that connects to the streaming stuff but it's worth mentioning. Also the pitch concept of Runaways is brilliant, a group of kids discover their parents are a cabal of super villains. How awesome is that!? Please read the comics and check it all out.
Making the first issue of my comic book was awesome, but honestly making the second issue has been road block after road block, it's been frustrating. Without going into details and calling people out, and honestly it isn't even anything malicious, it's just problem after problem. This is where it becomes work, but I still love it, stay tuned guys, big things coming.
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The Houston Astros announced on Monday that additional imaging has revealed that Jeremy Peña is dealing with a small fracture in one of his ribs.
Peña left Friday's game after being hit by a pitch in the ribs. The club originally believed they had avoided any fractures or breaks, but new information has informed them otherwise.
Update on Jeremy Peña: pic.twitter.com/jfCsCUKWFx
— Houston Astros (@astros) June 30, 2025
Peña is heading to the 10-day injured list retroactive to June 28. This news comes at an unfortunate time, with Jeremy posting the best regular season numbers of his career. He's currently slashing .322, .378, .489 with an .867 OPS.
Peña will miss the Rockies and Dodgers series at a minimum.
Story on Peña headed to the IL with quotes from Dana Brown.
“This isn’t one of those things where you have to be sidelined the whole time. Once the inflammation goes down, he might feel good enough to swing a bat.” https://t.co/ih2G09Jpcf
— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) June 30, 2025
Let's hope the team doesn't rush him back too soon and create an even bigger problem. These quotes above from Dana Brown have me concerned. Playing through injuries can create bad habits, and Jeremy has clearly found his swing this season.