Oh man, it’s been forever since I’ve written, and I blame my job. I mean, I don’t want to blame my laziness as it is one of my better qualities and I don’t want to blame my exposure to the dreaded writer’s block. My job will be my scapegoat, I mean; I blame it on everything else.
Anyway, I have wanted to write this entry for a while, but needed to wait until after last weekend as I went to visit Seamus in the 4th Circle of Hell (also known as upstate NY). The reason was because I was going to watch a season finale at his pad and this whole entry is dedicated to the season finales that just aired. So, without further adieu, I present the 1st Annual (only if I remember in the following years) Trent Lane Season Finales Award Spectacular. Unfortunately, I can’t afford a host or get a network to air it, so deal with reading it.
Award: The Finale That Is On Another Plain of Existence When Compared To All Other Shows.
Winner: Lost – “The Incident”
Why: Well, gee, let me think about that one. Not only was the whole season just kick ass, but the finale just blew it all away….literally. We get to meet the mysterious Jacob, learn a little bit about him and learn how Locke actually came back to life, yet creates so many questions it makes my head hurt.
I think my favorite part was when Miles actually asked the question I’ve been asking since this whole “let’s blow up the island” idea was hatched. That being “what if the bomb blowing up causes the incident?” When Juliet ended up at the bottom of the hole with the unexploded bomb, she hit it and the screen went white, I was left speechless for a full 5 minutes just trying to wrap my head around everything that happened. Good times.
Award: The “Are You Bloody Serious?” Award For Most Ludicrous Season Finale.
Winner: House – “Both Sides Now” & Bones – “The End is the Beginning” (Tie)
Why: Well, let’s deal with House first. Now, the show had been struggling with mediocrity all season…and losing. It pretty much hit the breaking point when Kutner committed suicide for no reason. In the episode prior, House asks Cuddy to help him because he is hallucinating (remember this word, it’ll appear again soon) and he feels he needs to detox from his addiction to Vicidin. At the end, they sleep together. Anyway, to make a long story short, we find out that the whole thing has been one big hallucination and House never slept with Cuddy and she never helped him detox. So, he checks himself into a psych ward.
This probably wouldn’t have been so bad if they hadn’t ripped themselves off from a few seasons ago when House was shot by a disgruntled patient. You know, the show has a simple premise – Sherlock Holmes with a stethoscope. You don’t need to sway from that. It just pisses me off that this show has gone completely in the toilet over the past couple of seasons.
Now, on to Bones. Throughout the season, Booth has been having hallucinations (again, that word) and at the end of the episode prior, he finally gets taken to the hospital and they find a brain tumor and he gets operated on. We open up the season finale with Bones jumping into bed with Booth (in the worst kept secret in TV show finale history). We learn very quickly that this isn’t the same show we remember, as Booth and Bones are married and run a nightclub. First rule of the alternate reality episode, you have to clue in the viewer no later than 30 minutes in or we get confused.
Skip to the end and we see Bones typing the story out on her laptop while sitting by Booth’s bed. He wakes up, says he had a strange dream, and asks Bones who she is. I wanted to throw my TV out the window at this point. Not only did it completely rip off House, but they producers lied to the viewers when they said that Bones and Booth would actually sleep together and it wouldn’t be a dream. It was just a crappy episode altogether that would have been better in the middle of the season, not at the end.
Award: The Best Finale That Doesn’t Involve Time Traveling, Mysterious Islands, Hydrogen Bombs, and ABC.
Winner: Fringe – “There’s More Than One of Everything”
Why: Holy Lord, I think J.J. Abrams is a genius. Overall, the episode didn’t really play out like a finale but more like another episode in the overall arc of the show. However, we finally get to meet the mysterious William Bell (played to perfection by Leonard Nimoy) and find out a little about how devoted a father Walter is.
While I think most everyone were blown away by the closing shot with Olivia looking out the window of one of the Twin Towers in New York in the alternate reality she past into, I was more blown away by the fact that Peter was not Walter’s actual son, but his son from an alternate reality. That the real Peter had died when he was a young boy was just shocking. This show proved it has the ability to go just about anywhere and this episode was the perfect example of that.
Award: Biggest One Hour Piece of Absolute Filth
Winner: Smallville – “Doomsday”
Why: The best part of Smallville in the past was always the season finale. No matter how torturous the season was, the finale always pulled it out of the fire. However this season, the finale just threw gas on the fire. I’m going to try and recount this without putting my fist through the computer monitor. I give myself a 50-50 chance.
Clark has finally come up with a way to defeat Doomsday. He’s going to separate the human from him and take on the beast (yeah, great plan). Anyway, he enlists Flash and Black Canary (not only looking female, but also like Black Canary) to steal Black Kryptonite. Anyway, long story short, they turn on Clark to Oliver, Chloe uses the Black Kryptonite to do the separation, Clark defeats Doomsday (in the lamest way possible) and Jimmy takes Chloe some place that overlooks the whole city that he bought her.
At this point, Jimmy has learned Clark’s secret and tells Chloe. She tells him that she was only with Davis to protect Clark. Well, the now human Davis hears this and kills Jimmy, who with his last breath kills Davis. Anyway, at the funeral, Chloe gives Jimmy’s little brother his camera, telling him that it belongs to him now, basically telling us that the little kid becomes the Jimmy Olsen we know, not the one who just died.
At this point, I was screaming obscenities at the television screen while Seamus was cackling like a man gone mad. Anyway, once I had calmed down, we get the end where Clark tells Chloe he needs to divest himself of all human entanglements because his morality and humanity got Jimmy killed. You know, you don’t need to do that, since Oliver is more than willing to get check his morality at the door and he gets to mack hot chicks while he’s at it. Clark is just too much of a pussy.
This whole episode just stunk to high heaven. I was embarrassed that I had it on my DVR. I was embarrassed that I wasted my time and watched it. I was embarrassed that I actually thought it might be good. I feel so unclean now; I need to take a shower.
Anyway, that concludes the awards show. Thank you all for coming. See you next year.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
My Open Letter to BBC America
A while back, I mentioned that one of the last bastions of good TV was BBC America. The British just seem to have a way to make television fun, exciting, and thought provoking. After the run of Life on Mars, I was getting excited about the possibility of the sequel, Ashes to Ashes, making its debut. BBC America did what it normally does, and waited for two full seasons to be released in Britain before bringing it over here, since American audiences are not used to the short season runs of British shows.
So, when it finally premiered on BBC America, the Duchess and I settled into watch. While a casual fan of Life on Mars, she is a devoted Anglophile, even living in Britain for about 4 months after her graduation from a prestigious institution of higher learning. While not as good as predecessor, this show was fun to watch (if only to remind us all that absolutely nothing good came out of the 80’s). The season 1 finale was probably the best of the bunch, finally revealing who that scary looking clown was that kept haunting Alex (much like the girl in the red dress that kept haunting Sam).
So, I settled in to watch the Season 2 premiere the next Saturday only to find an old episode of Torchwood on. Now, while I have nothing against Torchwood, it was a repeat and on instead of a new episode of Ashes to Ashes. Shock was my immediate reaction, as I had seen the new show on my future recordings list on my DVR. This was followed by a string of expletives that would have made a trucker blush. I immediately logged on to my computer and went to the home of where truth and information meet, the BBC America message boards. It was there that I found out that the show had been cancelled and the American viewer had no recourse.
So I did what any red-blooded American who is semi-literate and semi-drunk would do. I wrote a letter expressing my deep displeasure at their choice. Before I could find an envelope and a stamp, the Duchess interceded and got her hands on the letter. She made necessary changes to some of my phrasing and grammar, and then allowed me to send it off. For you now, is the original first draft of my letter:
Dear Ass-Hats of Programming,
What the hell kind of thoughts do you harbor in your drug-addled minds? I tuned into BBC America on Saturday night, looking forward to one of the few shows that didn’t involve horrible CGI, Gordon Ramsay, Top Gear, over-sexed mouth breathers, or morally-indefensible British public and what do you think I found? Horrible CGI, wrapped up in the package that is a repeat of Torchwood.
While I like Torchwood, I would like to watch a new episode of one of the few shows you present that doesn’t slowly diminish my will to live. Seriously, is a rerun of Torchwood better than a new episode of Ashes to Ashes? Did your mother’s free-base battery acid while she was pregnant with you?
Speaking of, what the hell is up with your programming as of late? I swear, if there was ever an episode of Top Gear, in which Gordon Ramsay and Graham Norton run down the sluts of Mistresses, you would probably run it on an unending loop. What happened when you rebranded the network so that a different genre was presented every night? Did it cause you to have to think? Was that too much trouble for you?
And why do you rerun the same shit all the time? Why not give us reruns of Gavin & Stacey, or Worst Week, or Touching Evil, or Wire in the Blood, or MI-5, or one of the multitude of good British programs? It’s like the guys from Top Gear have pictures of you fornicating with a goat, which you know would make the cows jealous. Either that or you’re actively trying to become the Head of Programming at FOX.
Seriously, bring back Ashes to Ashes or I’m going to have to sludge my way through the den of pornography that is the internet and find some unwashed slug who lives in his mother’s basement who was kind enough to violate copy write laws (or whatever they have in England) and upload the episodes onto his website. Do you want me to do that?
Thank you and burn in Hell,
Trent Lane
Personally, I think this version is better.
So, when it finally premiered on BBC America, the Duchess and I settled into watch. While a casual fan of Life on Mars, she is a devoted Anglophile, even living in Britain for about 4 months after her graduation from a prestigious institution of higher learning. While not as good as predecessor, this show was fun to watch (if only to remind us all that absolutely nothing good came out of the 80’s). The season 1 finale was probably the best of the bunch, finally revealing who that scary looking clown was that kept haunting Alex (much like the girl in the red dress that kept haunting Sam).
So, I settled in to watch the Season 2 premiere the next Saturday only to find an old episode of Torchwood on. Now, while I have nothing against Torchwood, it was a repeat and on instead of a new episode of Ashes to Ashes. Shock was my immediate reaction, as I had seen the new show on my future recordings list on my DVR. This was followed by a string of expletives that would have made a trucker blush. I immediately logged on to my computer and went to the home of where truth and information meet, the BBC America message boards. It was there that I found out that the show had been cancelled and the American viewer had no recourse.
So I did what any red-blooded American who is semi-literate and semi-drunk would do. I wrote a letter expressing my deep displeasure at their choice. Before I could find an envelope and a stamp, the Duchess interceded and got her hands on the letter. She made necessary changes to some of my phrasing and grammar, and then allowed me to send it off. For you now, is the original first draft of my letter:
Dear Ass-Hats of Programming,
What the hell kind of thoughts do you harbor in your drug-addled minds? I tuned into BBC America on Saturday night, looking forward to one of the few shows that didn’t involve horrible CGI, Gordon Ramsay, Top Gear, over-sexed mouth breathers, or morally-indefensible British public and what do you think I found? Horrible CGI, wrapped up in the package that is a repeat of Torchwood.
While I like Torchwood, I would like to watch a new episode of one of the few shows you present that doesn’t slowly diminish my will to live. Seriously, is a rerun of Torchwood better than a new episode of Ashes to Ashes? Did your mother’s free-base battery acid while she was pregnant with you?
Speaking of, what the hell is up with your programming as of late? I swear, if there was ever an episode of Top Gear, in which Gordon Ramsay and Graham Norton run down the sluts of Mistresses, you would probably run it on an unending loop. What happened when you rebranded the network so that a different genre was presented every night? Did it cause you to have to think? Was that too much trouble for you?
And why do you rerun the same shit all the time? Why not give us reruns of Gavin & Stacey, or Worst Week, or Touching Evil, or Wire in the Blood, or MI-5, or one of the multitude of good British programs? It’s like the guys from Top Gear have pictures of you fornicating with a goat, which you know would make the cows jealous. Either that or you’re actively trying to become the Head of Programming at FOX.
Seriously, bring back Ashes to Ashes or I’m going to have to sludge my way through the den of pornography that is the internet and find some unwashed slug who lives in his mother’s basement who was kind enough to violate copy write laws (or whatever they have in England) and upload the episodes onto his website. Do you want me to do that?
Thank you and burn in Hell,
Trent Lane
Personally, I think this version is better.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Good and The Bad of TV - Part 2
Alright, I’m back and ready to give you part two of the good and the bad of TV this season. Check out Part 1 for a recap of what I’ve been through already.
Show Cancellations:
The Good: Knight Rider on NBC
The Skinny: First, I have to say I never even watched this piece of garbage, so I’m only going from what Seamus told me. Of course, he was one of twenty people who actually watched it (before he got so disgusted with it that he couldn’t watch it). Reboots, reimaginations, and sequels are tough to pull off. NBC should have learned this with the Bionic Woman reimagination, which had a boatload of potential before it got pissed away.
From what Seamus told me, the decided that plot wasn’t that important and hot chicks and fast cars was the way to go. No offense, but that route has failed so many times, its not even funny. It’s even worse when you take a show that many people remember and love from there childhood and slip that crap into it. The only good thing NBC did with this show was put it out of its misery.
The Bad: Pushing Daisies on ABC
The Skinny: This delightful and witty show was killed by the greedy writers. The writing was top notch, but the writers strike basically killed any momentum it had and by the time it premiered in September, the sheep that make up the TV viewing public forgot all about it. And yes, I still have anger issues over this.
This show had a lot of potential, a great cast, great writing, and was just plain fun to watch. Bryan Fuller has talked about bring the show to the big screen, but only after a comic book run. I’m all for continuing the run. Heroes fans should be jazzed that Fuller is going back to that show to help out the horrid writing that has plagued the show since the end of the first season. Personally, I think it’s too far gone to help.
Josh Schwartz:
The Good: Chuck on NBC
The Skinny: Schwartz has always had problems with second seasons (example: The OC). He tends to buy into the hype and either prolong a storyline or get away from what made the show good to being with, the characters (again, The OC). Thankfully, Chuck flew under the radar and didn’t fall into the trap.
The show is just plain fun to watch. It’s light, escapist fare. The characters have remained true to themselves and the storyline hasn’t gotten too convoluted (although the FULCRUM storyline is kinda tough to follow at times). It pulls in great guest stars and stays true to the formula that made it fun to watch. It’s a show on the bubble and I hope NBC brings it back, as it’s the only show worth watching on that network.
The Bad: Gossip Girl on The CW
The Skinny: Well, Schwartz may have escaped his OC disease with Chuck, but not with Gossip Girl. The first season was actually semi-worthwhile, but the second season isn’t even watchable. I get annoyed by the preview ads for it, let alone if I actually tried to sit through an hour long show.
I tried to watch the second season, I truly did. But after I watched the first episode of the season, I just deleted it off my DVR. It was characters acting out of character and just cringe-worthy writing and acting. Every time I see that pretty boy who plays Chuck Bass, I want to hurl something at my TV. Every time I hear about a Gossip Girl spin-off, I wonder what parents let their children watch. While Chuck will probably get cancelled, this piece of filth will probably stick around way too long.
Smallville:
The Good: The first half of the season, up to the Chloe/Jimmy Wedding
The Skinny: I think Seamus summed this up perfectly when he said “well, it’s not great, but it’s definitely better than the last few seasons.” The show had finally cut the dead weight (Kristen Kruek) and was running fast and lean. It was basically the Chloe/Clark/Lois show, with little bits of Jimmy and Oliver mixed in. They introduced the new bad guy (Doomsday) and the new Lex Luthor (Tess Mercer).
They kept the storylines simple, had Clark take yet another step towards his destiny, and started to introduce some sweet Clark/Lois moments. Plus, I think everyone can agree that more Oliver Queen equals a better show. They were starting to show flashes of what this show had been in its first few years. And I was enjoying it.
The Bad: The second half of the season, from the wedding on forward
The Skinny: The second I saw Kristen Kruek’s name in the guest star list (the exact second), I muttered “well, there goes the season”. It just becomes an utter train wreck at that moment. I laughed when she was introduced in her fight scene with Oliver in the factory that supposedly had Lex.
Then she got super powers, and got back together with Clark, and got infected with kryptonite and couldn’t go near him anymore. What the hell is this crap?!?! When they finally booted her off the show, I thought maybe the rest of the season could be salvaged. But like a bad fart, her presence just lingered. They came up with horrible storylines like Davis being taken in by the Luthor’s when he first came to Earth, or Chloe becoming Lois, or Tess engineers a plane crash so Clark will reveal his secret.
The worst one was the episode that aired just last week, entitled “Stiletto” in which Lois pretends to be a superhero. About 15 minutes in, I wanted to be impaled by one of her stilettos, so as to put me out of my misery. Even Seamus, the world’s biggest Smallville apologist, fell asleep about 20 minutes in.
This half of the season has only been saved by two things. One, the Legion episode and two, “this is Watchtower, signing on.” That’s it. That can’t save any show. Not even this one.
Show Cancellations:
The Good: Knight Rider on NBC
The Skinny: First, I have to say I never even watched this piece of garbage, so I’m only going from what Seamus told me. Of course, he was one of twenty people who actually watched it (before he got so disgusted with it that he couldn’t watch it). Reboots, reimaginations, and sequels are tough to pull off. NBC should have learned this with the Bionic Woman reimagination, which had a boatload of potential before it got pissed away.
From what Seamus told me, the decided that plot wasn’t that important and hot chicks and fast cars was the way to go. No offense, but that route has failed so many times, its not even funny. It’s even worse when you take a show that many people remember and love from there childhood and slip that crap into it. The only good thing NBC did with this show was put it out of its misery.
The Bad: Pushing Daisies on ABC
The Skinny: This delightful and witty show was killed by the greedy writers. The writing was top notch, but the writers strike basically killed any momentum it had and by the time it premiered in September, the sheep that make up the TV viewing public forgot all about it. And yes, I still have anger issues over this.
This show had a lot of potential, a great cast, great writing, and was just plain fun to watch. Bryan Fuller has talked about bring the show to the big screen, but only after a comic book run. I’m all for continuing the run. Heroes fans should be jazzed that Fuller is going back to that show to help out the horrid writing that has plagued the show since the end of the first season. Personally, I think it’s too far gone to help.
Josh Schwartz:
The Good: Chuck on NBC
The Skinny: Schwartz has always had problems with second seasons (example: The OC). He tends to buy into the hype and either prolong a storyline or get away from what made the show good to being with, the characters (again, The OC). Thankfully, Chuck flew under the radar and didn’t fall into the trap.
The show is just plain fun to watch. It’s light, escapist fare. The characters have remained true to themselves and the storyline hasn’t gotten too convoluted (although the FULCRUM storyline is kinda tough to follow at times). It pulls in great guest stars and stays true to the formula that made it fun to watch. It’s a show on the bubble and I hope NBC brings it back, as it’s the only show worth watching on that network.
The Bad: Gossip Girl on The CW
The Skinny: Well, Schwartz may have escaped his OC disease with Chuck, but not with Gossip Girl. The first season was actually semi-worthwhile, but the second season isn’t even watchable. I get annoyed by the preview ads for it, let alone if I actually tried to sit through an hour long show.
I tried to watch the second season, I truly did. But after I watched the first episode of the season, I just deleted it off my DVR. It was characters acting out of character and just cringe-worthy writing and acting. Every time I see that pretty boy who plays Chuck Bass, I want to hurl something at my TV. Every time I hear about a Gossip Girl spin-off, I wonder what parents let their children watch. While Chuck will probably get cancelled, this piece of filth will probably stick around way too long.
Smallville:
The Good: The first half of the season, up to the Chloe/Jimmy Wedding
The Skinny: I think Seamus summed this up perfectly when he said “well, it’s not great, but it’s definitely better than the last few seasons.” The show had finally cut the dead weight (Kristen Kruek) and was running fast and lean. It was basically the Chloe/Clark/Lois show, with little bits of Jimmy and Oliver mixed in. They introduced the new bad guy (Doomsday) and the new Lex Luthor (Tess Mercer).
They kept the storylines simple, had Clark take yet another step towards his destiny, and started to introduce some sweet Clark/Lois moments. Plus, I think everyone can agree that more Oliver Queen equals a better show. They were starting to show flashes of what this show had been in its first few years. And I was enjoying it.
The Bad: The second half of the season, from the wedding on forward
The Skinny: The second I saw Kristen Kruek’s name in the guest star list (the exact second), I muttered “well, there goes the season”. It just becomes an utter train wreck at that moment. I laughed when she was introduced in her fight scene with Oliver in the factory that supposedly had Lex.
Then she got super powers, and got back together with Clark, and got infected with kryptonite and couldn’t go near him anymore. What the hell is this crap?!?! When they finally booted her off the show, I thought maybe the rest of the season could be salvaged. But like a bad fart, her presence just lingered. They came up with horrible storylines like Davis being taken in by the Luthor’s when he first came to Earth, or Chloe becoming Lois, or Tess engineers a plane crash so Clark will reveal his secret.
The worst one was the episode that aired just last week, entitled “Stiletto” in which Lois pretends to be a superhero. About 15 minutes in, I wanted to be impaled by one of her stilettos, so as to put me out of my misery. Even Seamus, the world’s biggest Smallville apologist, fell asleep about 20 minutes in.
This half of the season has only been saved by two things. One, the Legion episode and two, “this is Watchtower, signing on.” That’s it. That can’t save any show. Not even this one.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Good and The Bad of TV - Part 1
I know it’s been ages since I’ve updated, and for that, I’m a bad person. However, before we hit the stretch run to the end of the TV season, I want to run down the good and the bad we’ve seen so far.
First, a little RIP for Bea Arthur. Best known for Golden Girls, Maude, and celebrity roast jokes, she will be missed. Just imagine if Maude had been on during the time of idiot bloggers. The landmark abortion episode would have caused the web to explode. My take on it would have been that no matter what your views on abortion, the episode should not have aired. Not because of the fact it was about abortion, but for the fact that there is no way Bea Arthur gets pregnant at over 50 years old and looking like she did in that show. That’s all I’m saying.
Anyway, on to my rundown. Part 1 now and Part 2 tomorrow.
24 Plot Twists.
The Good: Tony Almeida being the good guy.
The Skinny: When we first jump into 24 this season, Tony is working with the terrorists while Jack is trying to bring him down. We then find out that Tony is actually working with Bill and Chloe to bring down rogue elements of the government. Far-fetched yes, but still good drama. Plus, Tony was always a good guy, even if it’s highly implausible that he survived that attack last season. If you want revenge for Michelle, go after Logan, not the US Government.
The Bad: Tony Almeida being the bad guy – redux
The Skinny: So, Tony goes to all this trouble helping Jack get the CIP device and warning him about the attack on the White House and taking out the Starkwood Compound only for us to find out he is actually working against the government and now had a canister of the nerve gas. Huh? If this was his goal, just keep the attack on the White House a secret or just lay low at the Compound instead of blowing it up. It just makes no sense he would go to all this trouble.
Series Finales:
The Good: Battlestar Galactica
The Skinny: Like I didn’t go into enough detail about this. I really liked it, it tied up things nicely, and it is aging extremely well…so far.
The Bad: Life on Mars – The US version
The Skinny: I’ve said before that the US version isn’t half bad if you lobotomize yourself to forget the British version. It was intriguing and kind of made you wonder how they were going to play it out. The best part of the British finale was that the easiest answer was the correct one, and Sam made his choice. The US version decided to go the exact opposite.
What we got was an actual literal playing out of the show title, as a space ship touched down on Mars, all played to an Elton John song (instead of David Bowie). They all wake up from their sleep pods and it was all a dream for Sam. Not only that, but Gene is his father. Are you frakking serious?
It’s like the writers took the Mission Space ride at Epcot one too many times. If they tried, they couldn’t have come up with a worse finale. I really don’t think I’ve seen a finale this horrid. I was watching with the Duchess and she turns to me after it’s over and was like “That sucked.” I think she was being nice. To paraphrase Bart Simpson, this both sucked and blew.
Mid-Season Series:
The Good: Castle on ABC
The Skinny: Detective writer Richard Castle needs to start a new book series and decides to base his new character off of NYPD Detective Kate Beckett. Wackiness ensues. I find this show entertaining and hope that ABC renews it (which means they won’t). Nathan Fillion is a freaking riot as Castle. There isn’t one character that annoys me either. The cops at the NYPD and Castle’s mother and daughter are separate, yet both make the story great. The best thing and an easy trap for every show, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet isn’t complete camp.
The Bad: The Unusuals on ABC
The Skinny: When you watch the ads for this, you think it’s going to be a quirky cop show, which is desperately what TV needs. I was also intrigued because Amber Tamblyn was getting a paycheck for doing something that didn’t involve Bible thumping or an overly dramatized plot about a well-travelled pair of jeans.
So, I watched the first two episodes and found myself struggling. Yesterday, I sat there looking at it in my DVR trying to talk myself into watching it. Instead, I watched the 1998 series premiere of Seven Days (I miss the old days when UPN would throw everything against the wall to see what stuck).
Unlike Castle, this show does take itself too seriously, while the ads make it seem campy. I don’t know how they did it, but they did. Plus, seeing as I don’t like this show, ABC will probably renew it over Castle. Sometimes I just hate TV.
See you all tomorrow.
First, a little RIP for Bea Arthur. Best known for Golden Girls, Maude, and celebrity roast jokes, she will be missed. Just imagine if Maude had been on during the time of idiot bloggers. The landmark abortion episode would have caused the web to explode. My take on it would have been that no matter what your views on abortion, the episode should not have aired. Not because of the fact it was about abortion, but for the fact that there is no way Bea Arthur gets pregnant at over 50 years old and looking like she did in that show. That’s all I’m saying.
Anyway, on to my rundown. Part 1 now and Part 2 tomorrow.
24 Plot Twists.
The Good: Tony Almeida being the good guy.
The Skinny: When we first jump into 24 this season, Tony is working with the terrorists while Jack is trying to bring him down. We then find out that Tony is actually working with Bill and Chloe to bring down rogue elements of the government. Far-fetched yes, but still good drama. Plus, Tony was always a good guy, even if it’s highly implausible that he survived that attack last season. If you want revenge for Michelle, go after Logan, not the US Government.
The Bad: Tony Almeida being the bad guy – redux
The Skinny: So, Tony goes to all this trouble helping Jack get the CIP device and warning him about the attack on the White House and taking out the Starkwood Compound only for us to find out he is actually working against the government and now had a canister of the nerve gas. Huh? If this was his goal, just keep the attack on the White House a secret or just lay low at the Compound instead of blowing it up. It just makes no sense he would go to all this trouble.
Series Finales:
The Good: Battlestar Galactica
The Skinny: Like I didn’t go into enough detail about this. I really liked it, it tied up things nicely, and it is aging extremely well…so far.
The Bad: Life on Mars – The US version
The Skinny: I’ve said before that the US version isn’t half bad if you lobotomize yourself to forget the British version. It was intriguing and kind of made you wonder how they were going to play it out. The best part of the British finale was that the easiest answer was the correct one, and Sam made his choice. The US version decided to go the exact opposite.
What we got was an actual literal playing out of the show title, as a space ship touched down on Mars, all played to an Elton John song (instead of David Bowie). They all wake up from their sleep pods and it was all a dream for Sam. Not only that, but Gene is his father. Are you frakking serious?
It’s like the writers took the Mission Space ride at Epcot one too many times. If they tried, they couldn’t have come up with a worse finale. I really don’t think I’ve seen a finale this horrid. I was watching with the Duchess and she turns to me after it’s over and was like “That sucked.” I think she was being nice. To paraphrase Bart Simpson, this both sucked and blew.
Mid-Season Series:
The Good: Castle on ABC
The Skinny: Detective writer Richard Castle needs to start a new book series and decides to base his new character off of NYPD Detective Kate Beckett. Wackiness ensues. I find this show entertaining and hope that ABC renews it (which means they won’t). Nathan Fillion is a freaking riot as Castle. There isn’t one character that annoys me either. The cops at the NYPD and Castle’s mother and daughter are separate, yet both make the story great. The best thing and an easy trap for every show, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet isn’t complete camp.
The Bad: The Unusuals on ABC
The Skinny: When you watch the ads for this, you think it’s going to be a quirky cop show, which is desperately what TV needs. I was also intrigued because Amber Tamblyn was getting a paycheck for doing something that didn’t involve Bible thumping or an overly dramatized plot about a well-travelled pair of jeans.
So, I watched the first two episodes and found myself struggling. Yesterday, I sat there looking at it in my DVR trying to talk myself into watching it. Instead, I watched the 1998 series premiere of Seven Days (I miss the old days when UPN would throw everything against the wall to see what stuck).
Unlike Castle, this show does take itself too seriously, while the ads make it seem campy. I don’t know how they did it, but they did. Plus, seeing as I don’t like this show, ABC will probably renew it over Castle. Sometimes I just hate TV.
See you all tomorrow.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Battlestar Galactica Finale Review - Part 2
So, where were we when last we met? Oh yes, gunfight in the CIC while multiple nukes streaked toward the Cylon base and the Galactica. Let’s go from there.
BOOM! Multiple nuclear impacts on the Cylon base and it’s chaos. Cavil decides that he’s not going to be taken alive and eats a bullet. With the rest of the bad Cylons disposed of and the Cylon base exploding all around them, Adama feels now is a good time to pull out of the base and get out of there. Due to the damage to the ship from the explosion, Starbuck is the only one near the FTL. When asked where to jump to, Adama tells her to jump anywhere that isn’t where they are.
She is then struck by a notion. Earlier in the season, she had assigned numbers to the notes of the Cylon battle song, aka “All Along the Watchtower”. She then types those numbers into the FTL and hits enter. The Galactica then jumps to those coordinates and all is not well. It looks like that place will become their home, since the Galactica starts to buck and all but breaks apart. We are then treated with probably the best shot in the history of the show.
We pan from the Galactica to a surface that looks distinctly like the Moon and suddenly see, as plain as day, Earth. Or, in this case, our version of Earth. Holy shit, they found Earth!!!! Wait a minute; I thought Earth was a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Well, you see, it seems as if the Earth they originally found was their original home planet, while this Earth is much like it, yet completely different. Thoroughly confused yet? Good.
Anyway, Adama sends a Raptor to the rendezvous point that “Admiral” Hoshi led the Colonial fleet and brought them back to this new and improved Earth, now free of nuclear waste. So, they land and survey the territory. Looks as if the people are extremely primitive, traveling in packs by foot with spears. Anyway, this is now home. And here endth the show. Wait, what do you mean there’s more? Oh crap, we still have 20 minutes left.
To wrap things up, the Centurions are cut loose to go wherever they want while Adama slaves the whole fleet to the Galactica and has Sam fly it all into the Sun. You see, Lee decides that technology is bad and they should live in the wide-open expanse of the land, and not be encumbered by massive cities and whatnot. They plan to move people to all corners of the Earth and populate the planet and breed prejudice against machines.
We catch up on some of the survivors. Tyrol is going to go to a cold, lonely island up north so he can be alone with himself. Helo (oh my God, he’s alive!) and Athena are walking (him with a cane) with Hera. Six and Baltar decide to go start a farm together.
We go down to the plains and see Adama and Roslin watching the wild life. Roslin looks like she’s going to die at any minute. I think Adama notices this too since he asks if she would like a closer look. He carries her into the Raptor and says goodbye to both Lee and Starbuck.
Starbuck then tells Lee that she will be leaving shortly too. He goes into some long rant about something or other and turns around and she’s disappeared (probably couldn’t take is babbling anymore). So, I’m still trying to figure out what she actually was. There are just too many possibilities. Of course, Ronald Moore said in an interview that he wasn’t sure either. I’m not sure if I should be pissed off about that or not.
In the Raptor, as they are flying over the wildlife, Roslin silently passes away. Adama pretty much loses it and slips his wedding ring onto her hand. At this point, myself and Seamus (some 300 miles away) both realize our respective living rooms are a tad dusty. Anyway, Adama finds a place to land and goes about to build the perfect log cabin that they had talked about on New Caprica.
We then close in on little Hera and the ground she is walking on. Then, we flash-forward 150,000 years and see writer/executive producer Ronald Moore reading a newspaper and here the news the a body of a girl was found in Africa and is about 150,000 years old, the oldest body ever found. Then the apparitions of Baltar and Six start to talk about how far mankind has come but yet look to be on the same path as previously (it’s all happened before, it’ll all happen again). They feel that man can still save itself, as they haven’t gone down the road yet. We close in on a TV screen in a store window that shows us all the great things being done with robots while we hear a more modern version of “All Along the Watchtower”. We then see them both walking together and blending into the crowd of people walking the streets. Fade to black.
I know that there are so many people who want to beat the crap out of this ending. In fact, if they had ended it with when they first landed on Earth and we found out it was our Earth, just thousands of years in the past; I would have been cool with that. The problem is the tacked on ending felt, well, tacked on.
It seemed like an unnecessary finish and wanted to tie the whole thing up in a neat little package. The best part of this show was the fact that it flew off in all directions and kept you guessing. The minute they saw Earth, I knew all was well and the journey had been about something. They had not only found home, but their second chance. A way to save humanity and not fall into the same trappings that destroyed them in the first place.
The very end with Baltar and Six was overkill as they shoved religion down our throats (but seriously, the show had religious overtones throughout). That said, I liked the fact that we saw just how mankind had evolved and that, while on the same road as others, we still have our freewill in all this. That, combined with a little luck, will mean we won’t befall the same fate as our “ancestors”.
One of the best moments in the whole series was when they found Earth. Moore suckered us all at the end of last season by giving us the barren wasteland of Earth. Shock and awe was pretty much my reaction. It all makes sense now. They were searching for their Earth and, in the end, found a new version of it. Sweet wrap-up to the series.
Seamus, while less than enthralled, enjoyed the finale. He thought the space battle was the best in the series. I will debate that it finishes second to the battle of Galactica and Pegasus against the Basestars above New Caprica in “Crossroads”. He thought the ending was crap and didn’t need to be there. Even invoked the finale of Star Trek Voyager to make his argument. The Duchess, on the other hand, felt the final moments were too preachy. Seriously, I can’t debate her on that.
Here’s the thing, the finale did what the show always did. He pushed the envelope, stayed true to itself, and caused a lot of people to start talking. That’s what the show was always about to me, and that’s why it was great. I think my major gripe was the fact that the show had to end and with such a thin plot point. You want to have a final Cylon/human showdown, I’m all for it, but it shouldn’t be over one little girl. So, I give it 4 out of 5 stars, and eagerly await Caprica and the TV movie The Plan.
BOOM! Multiple nuclear impacts on the Cylon base and it’s chaos. Cavil decides that he’s not going to be taken alive and eats a bullet. With the rest of the bad Cylons disposed of and the Cylon base exploding all around them, Adama feels now is a good time to pull out of the base and get out of there. Due to the damage to the ship from the explosion, Starbuck is the only one near the FTL. When asked where to jump to, Adama tells her to jump anywhere that isn’t where they are.
She is then struck by a notion. Earlier in the season, she had assigned numbers to the notes of the Cylon battle song, aka “All Along the Watchtower”. She then types those numbers into the FTL and hits enter. The Galactica then jumps to those coordinates and all is not well. It looks like that place will become their home, since the Galactica starts to buck and all but breaks apart. We are then treated with probably the best shot in the history of the show.
We pan from the Galactica to a surface that looks distinctly like the Moon and suddenly see, as plain as day, Earth. Or, in this case, our version of Earth. Holy shit, they found Earth!!!! Wait a minute; I thought Earth was a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Well, you see, it seems as if the Earth they originally found was their original home planet, while this Earth is much like it, yet completely different. Thoroughly confused yet? Good.
Anyway, Adama sends a Raptor to the rendezvous point that “Admiral” Hoshi led the Colonial fleet and brought them back to this new and improved Earth, now free of nuclear waste. So, they land and survey the territory. Looks as if the people are extremely primitive, traveling in packs by foot with spears. Anyway, this is now home. And here endth the show. Wait, what do you mean there’s more? Oh crap, we still have 20 minutes left.
To wrap things up, the Centurions are cut loose to go wherever they want while Adama slaves the whole fleet to the Galactica and has Sam fly it all into the Sun. You see, Lee decides that technology is bad and they should live in the wide-open expanse of the land, and not be encumbered by massive cities and whatnot. They plan to move people to all corners of the Earth and populate the planet and breed prejudice against machines.
We catch up on some of the survivors. Tyrol is going to go to a cold, lonely island up north so he can be alone with himself. Helo (oh my God, he’s alive!) and Athena are walking (him with a cane) with Hera. Six and Baltar decide to go start a farm together.
We go down to the plains and see Adama and Roslin watching the wild life. Roslin looks like she’s going to die at any minute. I think Adama notices this too since he asks if she would like a closer look. He carries her into the Raptor and says goodbye to both Lee and Starbuck.
Starbuck then tells Lee that she will be leaving shortly too. He goes into some long rant about something or other and turns around and she’s disappeared (probably couldn’t take is babbling anymore). So, I’m still trying to figure out what she actually was. There are just too many possibilities. Of course, Ronald Moore said in an interview that he wasn’t sure either. I’m not sure if I should be pissed off about that or not.
In the Raptor, as they are flying over the wildlife, Roslin silently passes away. Adama pretty much loses it and slips his wedding ring onto her hand. At this point, myself and Seamus (some 300 miles away) both realize our respective living rooms are a tad dusty. Anyway, Adama finds a place to land and goes about to build the perfect log cabin that they had talked about on New Caprica.
We then close in on little Hera and the ground she is walking on. Then, we flash-forward 150,000 years and see writer/executive producer Ronald Moore reading a newspaper and here the news the a body of a girl was found in Africa and is about 150,000 years old, the oldest body ever found. Then the apparitions of Baltar and Six start to talk about how far mankind has come but yet look to be on the same path as previously (it’s all happened before, it’ll all happen again). They feel that man can still save itself, as they haven’t gone down the road yet. We close in on a TV screen in a store window that shows us all the great things being done with robots while we hear a more modern version of “All Along the Watchtower”. We then see them both walking together and blending into the crowd of people walking the streets. Fade to black.
I know that there are so many people who want to beat the crap out of this ending. In fact, if they had ended it with when they first landed on Earth and we found out it was our Earth, just thousands of years in the past; I would have been cool with that. The problem is the tacked on ending felt, well, tacked on.
It seemed like an unnecessary finish and wanted to tie the whole thing up in a neat little package. The best part of this show was the fact that it flew off in all directions and kept you guessing. The minute they saw Earth, I knew all was well and the journey had been about something. They had not only found home, but their second chance. A way to save humanity and not fall into the same trappings that destroyed them in the first place.
The very end with Baltar and Six was overkill as they shoved religion down our throats (but seriously, the show had religious overtones throughout). That said, I liked the fact that we saw just how mankind had evolved and that, while on the same road as others, we still have our freewill in all this. That, combined with a little luck, will mean we won’t befall the same fate as our “ancestors”.
One of the best moments in the whole series was when they found Earth. Moore suckered us all at the end of last season by giving us the barren wasteland of Earth. Shock and awe was pretty much my reaction. It all makes sense now. They were searching for their Earth and, in the end, found a new version of it. Sweet wrap-up to the series.
Seamus, while less than enthralled, enjoyed the finale. He thought the space battle was the best in the series. I will debate that it finishes second to the battle of Galactica and Pegasus against the Basestars above New Caprica in “Crossroads”. He thought the ending was crap and didn’t need to be there. Even invoked the finale of Star Trek Voyager to make his argument. The Duchess, on the other hand, felt the final moments were too preachy. Seriously, I can’t debate her on that.
Here’s the thing, the finale did what the show always did. He pushed the envelope, stayed true to itself, and caused a lot of people to start talking. That’s what the show was always about to me, and that’s why it was great. I think my major gripe was the fact that the show had to end and with such a thin plot point. You want to have a final Cylon/human showdown, I’m all for it, but it shouldn’t be over one little girl. So, I give it 4 out of 5 stars, and eagerly await Caprica and the TV movie The Plan.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Battlestar Galactica Finale Review - Part 1
Man, it’s been a long time, but I needed to find something to write about. When the series finale of one of the best sci-fi shows ever gets aired, that’s a recipe for an entry. For those of you who have been living in a cave with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears for the past few weeks, the finale of Battlestar Galactica aired last Friday and I’m going to run it down for you.
To start off, I wanted to see three things. I wanted to get an explanation as to why Baltar sees Six in his head, what the hell is up with Starbuck, and I wanted to see Daniel get unboxed by the Cylons and have it turn out to be Dirk Benedict. Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
So the show starts up where we left off, people picking sides on who is going to risk life and limb to rescue a little girl from a near impenetrable Cylon fortress. No offense, but are you seriously going to risk humanity for one Cylon/human hybrid? I guess the answer is yes since Adama promotes Hoshi to Admiral (seriously, Hoshi?!?!) and takes off. The plan is simple. Jump to the one spot that jumping is allowed and open fire. In order to survive past five minutes, Sam is going to use some weird Cylon trick to stop the guns from firing by confusing the hybrids or something. I was a little lost at that point.
So, the Galactica jumps in and all hell breaks loose. Point blank slugfest between the Galactica and the Cylon base. Raptors launch to the other side of the base to land and penetrate the base. After what seems like forever, Sam uses his mumbo-jumbo to silence the Cylon guns. Galactica launches its fighters and then rams the base, as yet another entry into the base to rescue Hera. This kid better shit gold or something for all the trouble they are going to.
Inside the Cylon base (I need a nickname for this thing, like Fortress Toaster or something), Boomer has finally snapped and has absconded with Hera, as a way to make up for kidnapping her, cracking her mom upside the head, banging her dad, nearly crippling Galactica, and handing Hera over for experimentation. Yeah, all is forgiven. Anyway, she finds the rescue team, hands the kid over, we get a cool flashback to Boomer’s early days as a pilot, and Athena riddles her with bullets.
Finally, the Cylons have had enough and start to storm the Galactica. Now, Baltar and Six are hunkered down in one of the corridors as some line defense against this eventuality, and we get to see the good doctor waving a gun around. While sitting there, we learn that Six also sees an apparition, except it’s of Baltar. Talk about freaky.
Anyway, the rescue crew brings Hera aboard and Helo immediately gets shot in the leg. He tells his wife to let him bleed out and protect their kid. Of course, she doesn’t listen and the kid just takes off. Once they figure out that Hera is gone, they fall back letting Helo to die, on the floor of the Galactica (or so we think).
Then, it what seems like destiny (since we’ve seen the Opera House dream enough times), Baltar and Six find the kid and take her to the CIC, while Athena and Roslin chase them down. This is the point that Cavil shows up and puts the gun to Hera’s head and wants to take her back.
The Final 5 (minus Sam who is catatonic in a pool of goo) make a deal. They get Hera back and they give the Cylons the secret to resurrection. In order to do this, Chief, Saul, Ellen, and Tory all need to dip their hands in the goo that Sam is in, since all five need to put the information together. Now here’s the thing, when doing this, you get to see into the mind of the other four.
Instead of getting some Cinemax After Dark by seeing the various misdeeds of Ellen, we get to see Tory killing the Chief’s wife. Oops. He doesn’t take it lightly and decides to strangle Tory. God bless him. However, this cuts off the download of resurrection to the Cylons and they get mildly annoyed.
Cavil does his best Admiral Ackbar impression by screaming “It’s a trap” and the gun fire starts up again in the CIC. It’s around this time that we remember the Raptor that got tagged earlier. Earlier, a raptor had been flying outside the Cylon base and had armed their nukes before something crashed through the windshield and killed them all. Well, gravity took hold and the pilots hand accidently hit the launch button and the nukes went streaking toward the base.
And just for fun, I’m ending this there. Why? Because I’m tired of typing and I don’t want this to be some massive entry. So tomorrow I’ll come back and fill you in on the end of the battle and what happens next. Plus, my own analysis, with guest quotes from Seamus and the Duchess. It’s fun for the whole family. Until tomorrow.
To start off, I wanted to see three things. I wanted to get an explanation as to why Baltar sees Six in his head, what the hell is up with Starbuck, and I wanted to see Daniel get unboxed by the Cylons and have it turn out to be Dirk Benedict. Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
So the show starts up where we left off, people picking sides on who is going to risk life and limb to rescue a little girl from a near impenetrable Cylon fortress. No offense, but are you seriously going to risk humanity for one Cylon/human hybrid? I guess the answer is yes since Adama promotes Hoshi to Admiral (seriously, Hoshi?!?!) and takes off. The plan is simple. Jump to the one spot that jumping is allowed and open fire. In order to survive past five minutes, Sam is going to use some weird Cylon trick to stop the guns from firing by confusing the hybrids or something. I was a little lost at that point.
So, the Galactica jumps in and all hell breaks loose. Point blank slugfest between the Galactica and the Cylon base. Raptors launch to the other side of the base to land and penetrate the base. After what seems like forever, Sam uses his mumbo-jumbo to silence the Cylon guns. Galactica launches its fighters and then rams the base, as yet another entry into the base to rescue Hera. This kid better shit gold or something for all the trouble they are going to.
Inside the Cylon base (I need a nickname for this thing, like Fortress Toaster or something), Boomer has finally snapped and has absconded with Hera, as a way to make up for kidnapping her, cracking her mom upside the head, banging her dad, nearly crippling Galactica, and handing Hera over for experimentation. Yeah, all is forgiven. Anyway, she finds the rescue team, hands the kid over, we get a cool flashback to Boomer’s early days as a pilot, and Athena riddles her with bullets.
Finally, the Cylons have had enough and start to storm the Galactica. Now, Baltar and Six are hunkered down in one of the corridors as some line defense against this eventuality, and we get to see the good doctor waving a gun around. While sitting there, we learn that Six also sees an apparition, except it’s of Baltar. Talk about freaky.
Anyway, the rescue crew brings Hera aboard and Helo immediately gets shot in the leg. He tells his wife to let him bleed out and protect their kid. Of course, she doesn’t listen and the kid just takes off. Once they figure out that Hera is gone, they fall back letting Helo to die, on the floor of the Galactica (or so we think).
Then, it what seems like destiny (since we’ve seen the Opera House dream enough times), Baltar and Six find the kid and take her to the CIC, while Athena and Roslin chase them down. This is the point that Cavil shows up and puts the gun to Hera’s head and wants to take her back.
The Final 5 (minus Sam who is catatonic in a pool of goo) make a deal. They get Hera back and they give the Cylons the secret to resurrection. In order to do this, Chief, Saul, Ellen, and Tory all need to dip their hands in the goo that Sam is in, since all five need to put the information together. Now here’s the thing, when doing this, you get to see into the mind of the other four.
Instead of getting some Cinemax After Dark by seeing the various misdeeds of Ellen, we get to see Tory killing the Chief’s wife. Oops. He doesn’t take it lightly and decides to strangle Tory. God bless him. However, this cuts off the download of resurrection to the Cylons and they get mildly annoyed.
Cavil does his best Admiral Ackbar impression by screaming “It’s a trap” and the gun fire starts up again in the CIC. It’s around this time that we remember the Raptor that got tagged earlier. Earlier, a raptor had been flying outside the Cylon base and had armed their nukes before something crashed through the windshield and killed them all. Well, gravity took hold and the pilots hand accidently hit the launch button and the nukes went streaking toward the base.
And just for fun, I’m ending this there. Why? Because I’m tired of typing and I don’t want this to be some massive entry. So tomorrow I’ll come back and fill you in on the end of the battle and what happens next. Plus, my own analysis, with guest quotes from Seamus and the Duchess. It’s fun for the whole family. Until tomorrow.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Random TV Thoughts
Here are some random TV thoughts I’ve had over the past week.
1) Does ABC’s Wednesday night line-up have a fascination with the 1970’s? I mean, you have Life on Mars on at 10, and now the gang from Lost has finally stopped hopping through time….in the 1970’s. Wouldn’t the clothes, Carter, and Watergate make us all want to pretend the 70’s never happened?
2) Speaking of ABC, I give up already!!! You’ve beaten me down with enough ads for Castle that I’m willing the check it out but only if you stop running the ads. I mean, that’s how you got me into Life on Mars (not too bad, as long as you lobotomize yourself so you forget the British version). How about you start showing me ads for Cupid, because I want to see that.
3) The Duchess was randomly flipping through the channels this weekend and she came across some The Soup rip-off called The Dish on some obscure cable channel I can’t remember. After about a second, I busted out with “Holy Crap, that’s Topanga Lawrence!” With Cory Matthews showing up in Chuck and Rider Strong popping up in an episode of Bones, it seems like the kids from Boy Meets World are finally taking the world by storm. All we need is that kid who played Minkus to pop up in an episode of NCIS and all will be right with the world.
4) Speaking of Duchess related channel surfing, she came across the show 17 Kids and Counting, about a family that doesn’t believe in birth control or naming a kid without the letter J. Anyway, one of the kids was getting married to some skirt and they said that they were “saving themselves for marriage”. You know what, I was glad. I think more kids should at least wait until a long lasting committed relationship before jumping into bed. Then they dropped the bomb.
You see, they aren’t only waiting until they get married for sex, but also to kiss. No, seriously. These two kids haven’t even kissed one another. They feel it will be more meaningful if they wait until they are married. Huh? So, I turned to the Duchess and asked her how she would have felt if I told her I didn’t want to kiss her until after we were married. Sketchy, strange, and a little off-putting would have been her thoughts (and who could blame her). I’m still flabbergasted by this. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
5) Reaper premiered this week, well ahead of when they actually announced it would premiere. It’s like the Head of Programming at the CW used to work for FOX. Anyway, at the end of the episode, when the Devil is waiting for Sam to leave his job, he’s sitting there on his Trans-Am and “You’re the Best” by Joe Esposito is blaring from the stereo.
For those of you not “in the know”, that is the song that is playing during the All-Valley Karate Tournament montage in “Karate Kid”. Also, it’s a quintessential 80’s song. I was starting to get pumped, and then I remembered the part when Daniel beat Dutch. There is no way Dutch loses to Daniel. That completely ruined the movie.
1) Does ABC’s Wednesday night line-up have a fascination with the 1970’s? I mean, you have Life on Mars on at 10, and now the gang from Lost has finally stopped hopping through time….in the 1970’s. Wouldn’t the clothes, Carter, and Watergate make us all want to pretend the 70’s never happened?
2) Speaking of ABC, I give up already!!! You’ve beaten me down with enough ads for Castle that I’m willing the check it out but only if you stop running the ads. I mean, that’s how you got me into Life on Mars (not too bad, as long as you lobotomize yourself so you forget the British version). How about you start showing me ads for Cupid, because I want to see that.
3) The Duchess was randomly flipping through the channels this weekend and she came across some The Soup rip-off called The Dish on some obscure cable channel I can’t remember. After about a second, I busted out with “Holy Crap, that’s Topanga Lawrence!” With Cory Matthews showing up in Chuck and Rider Strong popping up in an episode of Bones, it seems like the kids from Boy Meets World are finally taking the world by storm. All we need is that kid who played Minkus to pop up in an episode of NCIS and all will be right with the world.
4) Speaking of Duchess related channel surfing, she came across the show 17 Kids and Counting, about a family that doesn’t believe in birth control or naming a kid without the letter J. Anyway, one of the kids was getting married to some skirt and they said that they were “saving themselves for marriage”. You know what, I was glad. I think more kids should at least wait until a long lasting committed relationship before jumping into bed. Then they dropped the bomb.
You see, they aren’t only waiting until they get married for sex, but also to kiss. No, seriously. These two kids haven’t even kissed one another. They feel it will be more meaningful if they wait until they are married. Huh? So, I turned to the Duchess and asked her how she would have felt if I told her I didn’t want to kiss her until after we were married. Sketchy, strange, and a little off-putting would have been her thoughts (and who could blame her). I’m still flabbergasted by this. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
5) Reaper premiered this week, well ahead of when they actually announced it would premiere. It’s like the Head of Programming at the CW used to work for FOX. Anyway, at the end of the episode, when the Devil is waiting for Sam to leave his job, he’s sitting there on his Trans-Am and “You’re the Best” by Joe Esposito is blaring from the stereo.
For those of you not “in the know”, that is the song that is playing during the All-Valley Karate Tournament montage in “Karate Kid”. Also, it’s a quintessential 80’s song. I was starting to get pumped, and then I remembered the part when Daniel beat Dutch. There is no way Dutch loses to Daniel. That completely ruined the movie.
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