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Jun 05 2008
Oh my gawd!
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.
Tags: Bones, House, Lost, Medium, meh, Rome, season finale, tellyRelated posts
May 23 2007
Expect Fox to cancel it after 3 episodes
I’m not sure what to make of this:
Via Damien Mulley
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?
Tags: Angel, BSG, Firefly, Heroes, House, Life On Mars, Lost, Medium, Rome, Summer Glau, telly, The Sopranos, The Terminator, Veronica Mars
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Apr 24 2007
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today… hang on that’s the wrong one. Becuase I’m here not to marry Frank the Goldfish, but to flush him.
Yes, Frank the fish is no more. He may never have been mentioned on the blog before, but he has sat on the mantlepiece for a while now. Well, when I say sat I do of course mean swam, and in his bowl. But no more. He stopped swimming and merely floated, so he has gone on to the great toilet bowl in the sky.
In other news scifi have just shown episode 11 of Heroes which means that I’m going to be seeing new episodes again. Yay. I think we’ve pretty much decided to watch Lost on Sky on a Sunday as otherwise it clashes and we can’t record SciFi. Or at least, if we can, we haven’t figured out how to do it yet. Possibly in the future we may bother to try, but at the moment it is all good. ‘Sides, Lost still sucks so we wouldn’t be missing much by missing it.
Tags: Frank, goldfish, Lost, pets, RIPRelated posts
Nov 22 2006
Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
I’m away tomorrow, so happy thanksgiving to all you Americans. I’ll be away Friday too.
May be back on Sunday. We’ll see.
Plans being the opposite of what I make, see 
I don’t have any other planned posts to keep you all occupied. Too busy flicking through over 60 stations repeating over and over again, there is nothing on. There is nothing on. there is nothing on… You get the point.
Oh, and I’ve discovered the problem with Lost. Its shite! But fx:wailing I keep right on watching.
Anyways, like I said I’m not here, so expect to see a bazillion[1] spam comments appear any minute now.
Linknotes:
Tags: Happy Thanksgiving, Lost, Lost is shite- slightly more than a brazillian but considerably less than a gazillion ↩
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Jul 25 2006
That’s not even a plot
Last episode of season 2 of Lost was on last night. And can I just say that this has to be the most pointless telly watching I have ever done. I don’t like the characters. Even Charlie is annoying at this stage. I despise Jack with his “leadership issues”. Kate is a moany cow who thinks she is tough but all she ever seems to do is stare out to sea mournfully. Okay, so Sawyer is interesting on the eyes, but, characterwise he aint going anywhere except round in circles.
None of the characters are.
Sure, we have flashback after flashback after flashback telling us backstory and revealing the trials and tribulations they all faced, along with cool, neat[1] appearances from other characters that they didn’t know back then.
But it is all so annoyingly pointless and irrelevant. There is no development of characters. None of them understand the others any better because while we may see the flashback there is no sense of them sharing their histories with each other. And showing Sun in the background while Jack moans at the airport? I mean it isn’t even really all that much of a coincidence, they were boarding the same plane afterall.
And I totally get that there is this one big arc that will be revealed when the entire show is completed, but you know what’d be nice, do you? Any fucking sort of resolution. To anything. but we never get that. Everything is so openended and open to interpretation that it is pointless to watch what happens, because none of it means anything.
So why am I still watching? Honestly? cause there is nothing else on at the same time. but I don’t think I care enough to tune in next season. I’m bored with their boring adventures. Even that Show Spoilers ▼
Because I just don’t care. Course it does provide me with moan-worthy posts, so maybe that’s all it needs to do?
The problem, I think, is that they are going in circles, and even when shit happens, it takes so long that it feels like nothing has happened. And, despite all the stuff that has happened, it hasn’t had an impact. Nothing has changed. And it is all so boring.
Linknotes:
Tags: Bored Now!, flashbacks, I hate Jack, leadership issues, Lost, Lost is shite, moany cow Kate, plotless, Pointless, sff- please note, this is sarcasm and should not be taken as anything approaching truth ↩
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Apr 26 2006
Why does my spell check think that im typing welsh
During the final ad break of last night’s BSG a promo for Sky’s 10 o’clock news came on. It had one headline. Do you know what that was?[1] The main news story was that Tom Cruise was going to…[2] shock horror, a film premiere. And not just any première, but one for Mission Impossible III, a film he starred in.
Now I can easily see that making the news, after all entertainment is news nowadays, but for it to be the headline event?
Was yesterday a slow news day? Couldn’t they have come up with anything better? A cat stuck up a tree’d make for a more interesting story if you ask me.
And, speaking of animal rescues[3] a new programme all about the various SPCAs started last night. And one of the people being investigated was this old fella living in the middle of Connemara. He was just a typical auld lad, turf fire, couple of dogs and cats, sheep farmer. These sorts of bachelor farmers were pretty much gone at this stage, but he was still there, “walking 5 mile upa mountain” every day. Yer wan from the Galway SPCA[ took two of his dogs off him. He wasn’t really abusing them or anything, just underfeeding them, one tin of dog food between two working sheep dogs and a puppy doesn’t go far. But she left him the puppy, on the understanding that it’d be fed properly.
Oh, and don’t get too used to the current theme, because I’m thinking of going red in support of Munster in the lead up to the final on May 20th. It may not happen, we’ll see.
And seeing as I mentioned BSG, I’m a bit undecided about this season. there is so much that’s really great about this show, but they have these annoying habits. First off there is the slightly over-done documentary style. They just seem to over use it a tad, and for no realy purpose. Then there is the flashbacks, again, over-used. And now they seem to be Show Spoilers ▼
but it seems like they find a way of doing something, a way that is sometimes excellent, and then over do it to death.
And while I’m talking about tv I may as well mention Lost. We had a good episode on Monday. I know. I’m shocked too. things happened. The story progressed. Yes there were flashbacks but not silly pointless ones. And Show Spoilers ▼
course they’ll probably ruin this by recapping and doing nothing for the next five weeks.
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Tags: BSG, Lost, Sky One