Do you know that I have watched no real telly so far this week. Okay, so I spent the long weekend watching nothing but House season one. But that was on dvd, so it doesn’t count. Apart from that I’ve watched the finale of this season’s Lost and the season finale of Bones and thats it.
And to be honest I was impressed by neither. Meh to both I say.
I did catch 5 seconds of Rome repeats on Discovery last night. I miss good telly
Even Medium is repeats now. I can tell, Alison has long long hair. le sigh Nothing to watch.
On one hand the first two Terminator films were great, the third was a bit pants, and too self-referential and mocking. On one hand it has Summer Glau in it, and who doesn’t love Summer?, but on the other, it has Fievel Mousekewitz in it, and can a mouse really take on The Machines?
And then there is the fact that the trailer doesn’t look all that great, that Fox are making it, and, that it is a spin off of a spin off of a spin off. Milking the cash cow dry anyone? And then there is the fact that it is a TV show, and there aren’t really all that many good shows left any more.
Example the first: Lost pants pants pants.
Heroes I do like. But I don’t love. It has some interesting storylines and characters but nothing that really grips me. I haven’t taken advantage of the fact that I can watch ahead on d’internet after all. Which says it all
Veronica Mars cancelled. And while I adored the first season, the second really didn’t grab me. And while I will watch season 3, and I do hope for the best, I’ll admit to feeling a little meh over it.
BSG I really do love. But it annoys me so. It could be so great, and I love most, if not all of the characters, but, as I’ve said before, the writers flinch away from the big issues. Which wouldn’t be a terrible thing if they didn’t set themselves up for them in the first place. If you are going to introduce “big” issues, then you are obliged[1] to deal with them properly. Brushing them under the carpet and solving them with one liners achieves nothing, well, apart from annoying me.[2] There is also the sense that they don’t really know where they are going. Part of this isn’t there fault, it is down to the possibility of cancellation and the fact that they don’t know how long they are going to last.
Rome. Okay, this is my exception. Great TV. But[3] there has only been one season. Where is season two BBC?
Life On Mars - I loved the first season. It was new and funny and interesting. But season 2? I dunno, it just wasn’t as good. Still better than a lot of stuff out there, but I was disappointed. And I disliked the finale. The Gene Genie was excellent, but there was very little character development or any forward movement at all.
House I dunno. I really liked it at first. But then it became a little cliched, and when it clashes with something else I tend to watch the something else.
Medium I like. I like a lot, but it isn’t great tv. It is highly watchable. And likeable. And while it does have some nice touches it is predictable and has never been must see tv.
The Sopranos I love when it is on. But when it isn’t I don’t think about it.
The solution to my telly woes? Give Joss a tv show, I loved Buffy, thought Angel was even better. And Firefly? Best of them all.
Or am I being too hard in my old age? Is there some great tv that I’m missing out on?
There are many little things running around my head. Like Black Books.[1] My dislike of labeling.[2] The sunny weather. The fact that I was stoopid enough to record the brand new Sharpe programme on ITV over the weekend, but then forgot about the second part. How Veronica Mars is all exciting. How Bones although light and fluffy[3] it is still quite dark.[4] How House is really good. Hmmm, most of these thoughts seem to revolve about TV. But there are others here. I swear. Books! and annoying students. And rugby. And taking time off. And, and and….
They are running too fast, I’ll have wait a while til they settle down a bit. At the moment, if you could see them, the thoughts would resemble rabid squirrels chasing each other round and round in circles. So fast they actually can’t be seen. So for all you know they aren’t really there :what: Yes, that makes sense. Of course it does.
Oh, which reminds me, must investimigate[5] getting my paws on some more Fred Vargas books.
Oh, and that show on Bosco set in the garden, with the dog called Flaherty[6] Remember him[7] “woof” said Flaherty. And there was a cat and a magic crow? Cornelius?
Today’s insanities were brought to you by the letter hyphen and the imaginary number
If Homer Simpson can stick extra ms in words I can too ↩
or maybe Faherty, theres a discussion on some blog… somewhere ↩
adressing Irish-types now, cause obviously furriners wouldn’t, seeing as Bosco is as Irish as …. I dunno a potato eating leprechaun. Although in reality that’d mean he wasn’t real and so not really Irish ↩
