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Beautiful weekend, cool and pretty, even though I have the ac on - because otherwise it would be ninety degrees in my apartment, at the moment it is a nice 79/80.
( brief meta on BTVS S5 and The Gift )

Looking forward to two tv shows this coming week - Monday starts the five day "Torchwood:Children of Earth" minseries that people have been raving about online for the last four weeks. Or at least it has felt like four weeks - of attempting to avoid all spoilers. Thankfully the folks on my flist are kind enough to keep their enthusiasm beneath the lj-cut tag. I don't know if I'll like it as much as they do, we don't always agree on stuff like this and from what I've seen of the spoilerfree reviews the series is very political and scary. The other tv show is Moonshot - yet another flick about the first astronauts with James Marsters playing Buzz Alprin. I sort of enjoy these...although my favorites continue to be Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff ( I read the book, which was in some respects better and funnier).

Am currently watching S4, Disc 3 of Weeds, which I have mixed feelings about. I know this is supposed to be a comedy, but outside of the "Shiva" episode, it has not been funny. Mildly amusing maybe, but funny? Also a bit underwhelmed by Burn Notice and the Closer this year. Eureka, Leverage, and In Plain Sight however do not disappoint. Most of the tv shows I admittedly am just DVRing and not really watching. I've had Ugly Betty's Season Finale on my DVR for three months now and still have not watched it. Also The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Warehouse 13, Diamonds, Wallbender - from Masterpiece Theater, and Mental. This is ridiculous, I should just delete them. Watched last night's Dirty Sexy Money this morning - which would have made more sense and been more amusing if it had aired when it was supposed to as opposed to six or seven months after it's proposed air date. As a result, it made little sense and was beyond boring.

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Apparently Harry Potter is outdoing the competiton, with 80 Million in the bank to date, outdoing all the other films in their opening weekends. (Interesting bit of trivia - guess which film made the least money? Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. And the one that has made the most? Will be this one. I find this hilarious, considering the online fans seem to like the third film better than the current one. I haven't seen it yet. I am waiting until maybe August. I might see it with CW or with a meetup group at the IMAX for 16.50. Have not decided yet. I think it would be a cool film to see on IMAX, although tend to generally avoid IMAX for anything that isn't a nature film. The fact people saw the Dark Knight on IMAX - bewilders me. Why would you do that to your poor brain? Although I guess you could say the same thing about Potter, except I doubt it has quite the degree of torture that Dark Knight did.] At any rate, I think Harry Potter may be this year's Dark Knight, while Star Trek is this year's Iron Man. Not surprised by either's performance. It's not like they have much competition. The flicks out this summer have been unappealing to say the least. I'm renting Terminator Salvation Day. I skipped Transformers 2 - after being told it was not as entertaining as the first one. Considering that I almost walked out of the first film, bored, decided not to torture myself with the sequel. Apparently I wasn't the only one who made this decision. And the romcoms? Ick. The comedies? Ick. Whoever decided to wait until this summer to release Harry Potter, knew what they were doing.