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shadowkat1. When I logged onto Firefox -- there was article headline that stated: "Russia Considers Unplugging from the Internet".
This made me chuckle. Then I thought..."you couldn't have done that about five or six years ago?"
[I doubt it's true, but the headline was hilarious. My Uncle, who lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan (and yes there is such a place, believe it or not, the US has fun with place names, we also have Intercourse, Pennsylvania, but Sleepy Hollow doesn't exist -- that's Tarrytown). Anyhow said Uncle was going on a tear a while back on FB about misleading Headlines. He got upset about FREEP's headline on Lake Michigan freezing. I told him, it's a catchy headline -- and it made you look.
In a content saturated market -- it's all about the headlines. I restrained myself from telling him this. You can't lecture people on social media -- it's like swatting at a hornet's nest.]
2. Miracle Workers -- this is the new TBS series starring Daniel Radcliff, Geraldine Viswanathan and Steven Buscemi as God. It's basically the Good Place meets the Office, but not quite as good as either.
[As an aside? I'm sensing a pattern here? Is it just me or do all white aging television sitcom writers think heaven is basically "the Office" or "Dilbert" and if there is a God, he would be like them?
Sigh. The biggest flaw in human thinking regarding the Universe is that we all appear to all think it's run by someone like us, who is human or thinks like a human or is like us. All evidence to the contrary. I mean if it was run by someone like us, do you honestly think there would be a Universe and we'd exist?]
The set-up? Eliza who is currently working in the Dirt Department, is bored. So she decides to transfer to the Answered Prayers Dept only to discover how boring it is and wants to do something amazing. The Answered Prayers Department is run by one person, Greg, played by Daniel Radcliff (complete with thick British Accent). So Eliza decides to try to answer an impossible prayer when Greg isn't looking, because seriously finding people's keys and other misplaced items is getting old. So she brings a guy water for his crops, only to cause a monsoon somewhere else -- that was actually clever. Upset about all the death -- she goes upstairs to try to convince God to fix things. But God, who is bored and depressed with Earth, looks at Eliza and decides it's too messed up to bother fixing and wants to create a brand new enterprise for the company -- how about floating restaurant islands where you can grab food with claws as you float on by. So he decides to blow up earth and create the islands. His aide wonders where he'll create them with no Earth. Eliza bets him that if she can answer one impossible prayer, he will save earth. He finds this to be bet that isn't high enough in the stakes department -- so he says, okay, but if you lose, not only will I destroy earth but you'll also have to eat a live worm and enjoy it. And my suspension of disbelief not to mention my sense of humor jumped out the window and ran off in disgust. Honestly, grow television writers, we are not elementary school -- eating live worms isn't that bad. Gross yes, I wouldn't want to do it -- but it's not funny. It's just grating.
Anyhow...what works? Greg and Eliza and the Answered Prayers Department -- that's rather inspired. What doesn't? Everything else.
3. Roswell, New Mexico
This is getting really good. The pacing is good, the plot makes sense, and it keeps surprising me. Also they don't drag things out (like they did in the previous version, hence the reason I did not stick with it...well one of the many reasons.)
Quick moving plots are a thing of beauty and apparently something Julie Plec of Vamp Diaries excels at.
* Apparently my first guess on who killed Rosa, was the correct one. I thought it was Isabelle. It made sense that it was Isabel. Michael didn't make any sense, nor did Max. The hand imprint seemed small and neither Michael nor Max appeared to interacting with Rosa like Isabel was.
I also think Isabel and Rosa may have had a deeper relationship. I'm not unconvinced Isabel wasn't the one Rosa was sneaking out to see. That it wasn't just her father.
Isabel's become incredibly interesting and the actress is rather good in the role. (I really felt for her in this episode. She's so lost.)
* Rather liked the twist that Kyle's Dad was also Rosa's Dad. Explains the mother's disdain of the Ortega family -- which seemed personal. Also the relationship between Alex and Kyle being explored -- how they were like brothers up to a point.
Much like Vamp Diaries -- there's a heavy focus on family and sibling relationships that I really like. It's what I liked about Vamp Diaries -- that the writers focused as much if not more on the sibling relationships than they did the romantic ones.
* Liz and Max's relationship has gotten more interesting as well. Max finally found out two things -- 1) that the reason Liz left was because Izzy played with her head, she didn't intentionally abandon him for a life elsewhere. She did love him. 2) Izzy not Michael killed those kills. Max had believed that it was Michael. He didn't know who it was until Liz showed him the picture. Michael's hand was broken that night - and the fingers are too small. The actor does a great job of conveying his astonishment, yet also hiding it from Liz. She doesn't see the surprise, we do.
Also Max does admit that the secret he's kept from Liz is that someone he loved more than anything killed the girls. But it wasn't Izzy, it was Michael -- he thought it was Michael.
(Unless I read that wrong. Will have to wait until Feb 26 to find out.)
* Also why did Wyatt do what he did? As Max states...it makes no sense.Why did he kill the pod-cast guy, and why did he try to kill Liz and Max (although Max just got in the way).
I think there's someone else involved that we haven't met yet.
Lots happened in this episode -- and I think it's only fourth or fifth episode? I was sure we'd have at least seven episodes of angst and wandering about sleeping with each other. But this thing is moving quickly, lots of action, and all the while building characters and relationships. I'm impressed.
Right now, Roswell is surprisingly enough my favorite new series. I did not expect that.
This made me chuckle. Then I thought..."you couldn't have done that about five or six years ago?"
[I doubt it's true, but the headline was hilarious. My Uncle, who lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan (and yes there is such a place, believe it or not, the US has fun with place names, we also have Intercourse, Pennsylvania, but Sleepy Hollow doesn't exist -- that's Tarrytown). Anyhow said Uncle was going on a tear a while back on FB about misleading Headlines. He got upset about FREEP's headline on Lake Michigan freezing. I told him, it's a catchy headline -- and it made you look.
In a content saturated market -- it's all about the headlines. I restrained myself from telling him this. You can't lecture people on social media -- it's like swatting at a hornet's nest.]
2. Miracle Workers -- this is the new TBS series starring Daniel Radcliff, Geraldine Viswanathan and Steven Buscemi as God. It's basically the Good Place meets the Office, but not quite as good as either.
[As an aside? I'm sensing a pattern here? Is it just me or do all white aging television sitcom writers think heaven is basically "the Office" or "Dilbert" and if there is a God, he would be like them?
Sigh. The biggest flaw in human thinking regarding the Universe is that we all appear to all think it's run by someone like us, who is human or thinks like a human or is like us. All evidence to the contrary. I mean if it was run by someone like us, do you honestly think there would be a Universe and we'd exist?]
The set-up? Eliza who is currently working in the Dirt Department, is bored. So she decides to transfer to the Answered Prayers Dept only to discover how boring it is and wants to do something amazing. The Answered Prayers Department is run by one person, Greg, played by Daniel Radcliff (complete with thick British Accent). So Eliza decides to try to answer an impossible prayer when Greg isn't looking, because seriously finding people's keys and other misplaced items is getting old. So she brings a guy water for his crops, only to cause a monsoon somewhere else -- that was actually clever. Upset about all the death -- she goes upstairs to try to convince God to fix things. But God, who is bored and depressed with Earth, looks at Eliza and decides it's too messed up to bother fixing and wants to create a brand new enterprise for the company -- how about floating restaurant islands where you can grab food with claws as you float on by. So he decides to blow up earth and create the islands. His aide wonders where he'll create them with no Earth. Eliza bets him that if she can answer one impossible prayer, he will save earth. He finds this to be bet that isn't high enough in the stakes department -- so he says, okay, but if you lose, not only will I destroy earth but you'll also have to eat a live worm and enjoy it. And my suspension of disbelief not to mention my sense of humor jumped out the window and ran off in disgust. Honestly, grow television writers, we are not elementary school -- eating live worms isn't that bad. Gross yes, I wouldn't want to do it -- but it's not funny. It's just grating.
Anyhow...what works? Greg and Eliza and the Answered Prayers Department -- that's rather inspired. What doesn't? Everything else.
3. Roswell, New Mexico
This is getting really good. The pacing is good, the plot makes sense, and it keeps surprising me. Also they don't drag things out (like they did in the previous version, hence the reason I did not stick with it...well one of the many reasons.)
Quick moving plots are a thing of beauty and apparently something Julie Plec of Vamp Diaries excels at.
* Apparently my first guess on who killed Rosa, was the correct one. I thought it was Isabelle. It made sense that it was Isabel. Michael didn't make any sense, nor did Max. The hand imprint seemed small and neither Michael nor Max appeared to interacting with Rosa like Isabel was.
I also think Isabel and Rosa may have had a deeper relationship. I'm not unconvinced Isabel wasn't the one Rosa was sneaking out to see. That it wasn't just her father.
Isabel's become incredibly interesting and the actress is rather good in the role. (I really felt for her in this episode. She's so lost.)
* Rather liked the twist that Kyle's Dad was also Rosa's Dad. Explains the mother's disdain of the Ortega family -- which seemed personal. Also the relationship between Alex and Kyle being explored -- how they were like brothers up to a point.
Much like Vamp Diaries -- there's a heavy focus on family and sibling relationships that I really like. It's what I liked about Vamp Diaries -- that the writers focused as much if not more on the sibling relationships than they did the romantic ones.
* Liz and Max's relationship has gotten more interesting as well. Max finally found out two things -- 1) that the reason Liz left was because Izzy played with her head, she didn't intentionally abandon him for a life elsewhere. She did love him. 2) Izzy not Michael killed those kills. Max had believed that it was Michael. He didn't know who it was until Liz showed him the picture. Michael's hand was broken that night - and the fingers are too small. The actor does a great job of conveying his astonishment, yet also hiding it from Liz. She doesn't see the surprise, we do.
Also Max does admit that the secret he's kept from Liz is that someone he loved more than anything killed the girls. But it wasn't Izzy, it was Michael -- he thought it was Michael.
(Unless I read that wrong. Will have to wait until Feb 26 to find out.)
* Also why did Wyatt do what he did? As Max states...it makes no sense.Why did he kill the pod-cast guy, and why did he try to kill Liz and Max (although Max just got in the way).
I think there's someone else involved that we haven't met yet.
Lots happened in this episode -- and I think it's only fourth or fifth episode? I was sure we'd have at least seven episodes of angst and wandering about sleeping with each other. But this thing is moving quickly, lots of action, and all the while building characters and relationships. I'm impressed.
Right now, Roswell is surprisingly enough my favorite new series. I did not expect that.
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Date: 2019-02-14 10:13 pm (UTC)