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I Swear It's Really Six

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (25)

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SyFy has released a bit of casting news for its new series “Three Inches,” which is about a team of superheroes with terribly mundane abilities. So far SyFy has announced three members of the team. James Marsters of “Buffy” and “Torchwood” fame will play the leader of the team (though there’s no news on what his power will be, other than cheekbones and abs), while Stephanie Jacobsen’s (Kendra from “BSG: Razor”) character will be able to manipulate peoples’ emotions (presumably by ways other than executing families wholesale). Naoko Mori (Tosh from “Torchwood”) will play a character who “can duplicate any sound she hears.”

There’s still no word on who will play the protagonist of the series, a man struck by lightning who is able to telekinetically move any object, but only for three inches. It’s not clear what the limitations of this are, but I immediately jump to splitting hairs when stories toss out these very arbitrary rules. Is there a limit on how big the object is? I.e. can he move the moon three inches away from the Earth? What about a part of an object, as in, can he move your heart three inches to the left? And once he moves an object three inches, can he do it again? If not, is there some sort of effect that wears off, or is the stapler on his desk permanently immune because once six years ago he mindfreaked it? And what about momentum? If he moves an object three inches on a slippery surface, will it keep moving? Why yes I do have a technical degree, and no I don’t get out much.

Oh look, a shirtless Nathan Stark in this week’s “Eureka!”

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(source: CinemaBlend)









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Comments

the brits beat us to it again. this show was called No Heroics, and was pretty good actually.

Posted by: anglophile at August 26, 2010 10:04 AM

And how long does it take to move the object 3 inches? Is it like 3 inches a minute or 3 inches a second? Because if you're sitting on the couch and you left the remote on the other side of the room, it might be worth it to drag it across the room in 3 inch increments if it only takes a second to move it that three inches, but if you have to work really hard at it and it takes over 30 seconds for each 3 inch increment, you might as well just go pick the damn thing up. These things do matter!

Posted by: peachfish at August 26, 2010 10:06 AM

I understand your questions and reservations, SLW, but aren't those things better left to the storytelling? Perhaps he can and will do all those things, just not right away. James Marsters will be his Xavier, yo. Speaking of, James Marsters would've made a good, youthful Xavier -- especially if they went the Ultimate route.

Honestly, this is the only upcoming super hero TV series that sounds remotely interesting. The cast just makes it interestinger.

Posted by: RobP at August 26, 2010 10:06 AM

It quite literally can't be any worse than "Heroes."

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at August 26, 2010 10:17 AM

What's that in metric? One meter? Sweet! Ladies and gentlegays, the line for my 3 inch marevelous man muscle begins to the left.

Posted by: admin at August 26, 2010 10:19 AM

Naoko Mori back on TV? Yes, please.

Posted by: Robert at August 26, 2010 10:34 AM

Wow, Marsters look so young and delicious in that picture.

Posted by: Michellery at August 26, 2010 10:38 AM

*looks. Gah.

Posted by: Michellery at August 26, 2010 10:38 AM

Screw this, when does 'Misfits' come back on the air? Now that's some british super heroes I can get behind.

Posted by: the_wakeful at August 26, 2010 10:39 AM

NAOKO! Naokonaokonaokonaokonaokonaoko. With her and Marsters (who were wonderfully flirty in Torchwood, until he smashed her cute face in), it's pretty much guaranteed I'm going to watch it and love it, even if I hate it. I hope it's more Eureka than... well, most anything else SyFy puts out.

Posted by: Cadet at August 26, 2010 10:39 AM

the_wakeful, holy crap, when IS "Misfits" coming back?

Posted by: Cadet at August 26, 2010 10:41 AM

I predict that James Marsters super hero power will be "Moist" because, well, CHEEKBONERS.

Posted by: BWeaves at August 26, 2010 10:49 AM

OMG! no police academy jokes? what is wrong with you people? (alternatively, i could take this opportunity to make my own police academy joke but i'm not so good with the comedy...i'll just say Michael Winslow is not impressed)

Posted by: Sinnh at August 26, 2010 11:06 AM

Does anyone else find James Marster's natural American accent frankly unconvincing?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 26, 2010 11:09 AM

Cadet, according to Wikipedia, November of this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_%28TV_series%29

Posted by: the_wakeful at August 26, 2010 11:18 AM

I can't come up with a witty line about the irony of Stephanie Jacobsen being cast as someone who can control emotions when she does not seem to be capable of emoting. So I'll just say "She's a lousy actress" and leave it at that.

Posted by: Todd at August 26, 2010 11:30 AM

Bwhahahaha @BWeaves, you took the words right out of my mouth. And made them funnier.

Posted by: nosio at August 26, 2010 1:14 PM

I hear that one of these characters has the ability to shake exactly 2 pills out of a bottle, and an incredibly magnetic colon.

Posted by: logar at August 26, 2010 2:15 PM

Yay! Spike got a job! James Marsters is too talented to get so little work.

Posted by: Mebe at August 26, 2010 6:22 PM

@Mrs. Julien

It's probably because he's from California, with a California drawl, and everyone over there sounds fake.

Bah ha ha ha!


Maybe he's an alien...

MAYBE he's really a KOALA!

In all seriousness, I do wish he get more stuff to do.

Posted by: Candee at August 26, 2010 7:17 PM

TOSHIKO!! SPIKE!! KENDRA!! But we don't get SyFy (I apologize for perpetuating that spelling) in my area. Must begin scheming...

Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 26, 2010 9:39 PM

Nathan Stark came back? Almost makes me want to start watching Eureka again (I stopped when he died). Is it the same Nathan or some alternate universe Nathan?

Posted by: Three-nineteen at August 26, 2010 10:46 PM

The important question is will James Marsters be blond for this?

Posted by: jM at August 27, 2010 1:01 AM

I kinda hope not.

Is this a good question, or a bad question?

Posted by: Candee at August 27, 2010 12:29 PM

James Marsters!?! SWOON!!!!

Posted by: ph at August 27, 2010 3:49 PM