TV Slut Strikes Again

Comfortably numb from a glass of sauvaign blanc (Cupcake - yes that is the name of the wine) with a touch of St. Germain liguor. It makes the wine tast a bit flowery. Sort of like a Reisling with a touch of pinot grigo. Tastes of peach, citrus, light yellow flowers that you can eat which I can not remember the name of. Told one of my co-workers that whenever Friday arrives I feel like I've run a marathon. Co-worker's response - yes, and the kicker is it never ends. LOL! I like to work, so this is a good thing, I think. But I am too tired to do the social and/or gym thing afterwards.

On the fall tv front? ( laughing hard at Glee and HIMYM )

Heroes - to be fair I gave plenty of chances too - I watched S2-3, when it jumped the shark so many times that I lost track, also it got incredibly sexist and misogynist in places...while I admittedly have a high tolerance (you have to in order to adore noir), Heroes is not noir, it's just offensive and at times, illogical. They really should have killed Sylar and Nathan and Peter off in the first season, just saying.

Haven't seen Flashforward, SPN, Smallville, Castle, Mercy, Modern Family, Good Wife,
Forgotten, Mentalist, Project Runway, Vampire Diaries, Eastwick, Cougar Town or Accidentally on Purpose yet, but they are all on my DVR, along with the last ten episodes of MAD MEN, Warehouse 13, two episodes of Defying Gravity, Wallbender (Masterpiece Theater), and sigh, Eureka. I also have a DVD from netflix of S3 Dexter to watch. I have too many tv shows to watch. Plus Dollhouse tonight, Desperate Houswives, Georgia O'Keefe, and Brothers and Sisters. Ugh. Some of these shows really need to bite the bullet - will need to make some choices, I'm thinking Warehouse 13 may go, as well as Vampire Diaries, Mentalist, Accidentally on Purpose and Cougar Town.

Also Grey's Anatomy is very close to getting the ax - this week's funeral episode was belabored writing. Too much telling. And a bit too heavy handed. They could have said all of that in one episode - not two. Also it was beyond sentimental. Daytime soap operas are written better. I think they've finally lost the characters...it felt very paint-by-numbers to me. I'm not sure that Sandra Oh's Cristina and Kevin McKidd's Owen are enough to keep me tuned in. We shall see.

Syfy ain't helping me with the decision making - it has a Prisoner remake, yes they are remaking the PRisoner..I kid you not. ( Dollhouse, also, is in a way a remake - a critic online stated Dollhouse was in a way a remake of the Prisoner - this never occurred to me before, but yep, that works. In some respects more than the La Femme Nikita comparison. Dollhouse is sort of the Prisoner meets La Femme Nikita.) The Prisoner remake is going to star Caviele (an actor I have mixed feelings about) and Ian McKellan (an actor I'd watch read the phone book). It is based on, in case you have never heard of it - Patrick McGoohan's classic Prisoner series which ran for only 17 episodes and you can watch marathon style on IFC this weekend. I watched it marathon style one Thanksgiving way back in the 1990s, driving my family crazy in the process. If you are a BTVS fan - S4 of BTVS references the Prisoner quite a bit. The Initiative is in part based on that tv series.

Syfy also has Star Gate Universe - which may or may not rope me into the Gates. I didn't like Star Gate or Star Gate Atlantis because the script and actors bored me, not a Richard Dean Anderson fan - although the guy who plays Daniel is admittedly hot and I watched for a while just for him, also watched for Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who are actors I'd watch read the phone book as well. Yes, I went ga ga for Farscape, when I finally got the chance to see it. But Star Gate: Universe has actors that I would watch read the phone book - also it has a much more interesting premise. Yet, I have no time for all of this geek tv.

I watch too much tv. I know this. And I'm geeky about it - don't tend to like the mainstream stuff. aka Procedurals, sitch comedies, and reality shows. Actually I am a girl geek. I admit it. I am about as far from standard and mainstream as a person can get - as more than one person in my life has pointed out to me, repeatedly. The masses are on one wavelength, and I'm on another. Left of Center, off of the strip...as that old Suzanne Vega lyric goes. People either get me, or they really really don't.

Buffy Rewatch Wrap-up

Now that I've finished the great Buffy rewatch - which I began in April or May, can't remember, in order to cope with real life crap that I really don't want to bore you or me with, tis time to wrap it up in a somewhat meaningful or half-way meaniful fashion.

Yes, that's right - tis time to list my favorite episodes from each season and which seasons I liked the best. Also to give a general review of the rewatch.

I rewatched it, by the way, from a Doylian and a Watsonian perspective. And if you are anything like me, you are probably thinking right about now - WTF is Doylian and Watsonian?? No way you'd know, unless you are a Terry Prachett or Conan Doyle fan. I looked it up finally. And determined , yes, methinks, I am both - leaning toward Doylian due to educational training more than anything else.

Here is the definitions for people who are style woefully scratching their heads in confusion:
( Watsonian and Doylian defined )

Mostly, I rewatched from the perspective of whether the writers accomplished their objective -did they hit their thematic points, complete their characters emotional arcs and did the characters emotional journeys make logical sense? Yes, on all counts. No missteps. Not only that but the characters journey's echoed and supported each other as well as the thematic arc.
They propelled the plot and theme forward and were not lost or mere pawns of it.

I was impressed. May help that the showrunner/creator and I are more or less on the same wavelength and have had similar literary and filmography studies/backgrounds. Also are more or less the same age and generation. Whedon is about my age, 42, he studied Westerns, Noir, and Horror films, he has read and seen just about every Shakespeare play out there, and he studied 18th century lit as well as 17th and 16th centurary. One can tell a fellow Engligh/Cultural Anthropology/Cinema Studies Liberal Arts Major when one sees one. Plus, we both went the existentialist route for a bit. Where we differ? I'm female. Not an athesist. Not privileged. Not rich. Not from a wealthy family. And not a television writer - ew. I'd rather shovel manure. Okay maybe not manure. Anyhow the similarities explain, why I am a fan of Whedon's writing - I've more or less seen or read everything he's written to date that is available for public consumption. And it is very similar in tone, theme, emotional arc, and message - from Toy Story to Dollhouse.

But enuf. Now to the fun part, favorite episodes per season (I won't list the ones I didn't like because why be negative..life is too short):

( Buffy favorite episodes round-up, from off the top of my head after my rewatch )

Off to watch Dollhouse.