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[Warning - much snark below, had a long tough day, back is killing me and slept horridly. This brings out snark. I had to kept deleting emails at work - because sending snarky email to engineer who is driving me bonkers could come back and bite me in the ass.]
Sort of watching this week's The Big Bang Theory in the background. It's interesting - half the time I'm torn between deleting the thing and never watching it again and laughing my ass off. "pre-evening" - LOL! It seems to veer alternately between offensive sexist male fantasy piece and an often side-splittingly hilarious comedy about a bunch of lovable yet annoying nerds. How it does that, I'm not sure. Actually all sitcoms tend to do this - one moment they offend and make me cringe and want to flip them off to never be seen again, the next, I'm laughing my ass off. Sigh. You know what I miss? The comedies about something other than sex - such as Cheers, Fraiser, Murphy Brown, MASH, News Radio (I loved News Radio), Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinatti (a true classic and amongst the best of the breed), and Cybil. Big Bang is at its funniest when it is focusing on Sheldon and Leonard, and Penny is nowhere to be seen or playing straight woman as opposed tosex objectLeonard's love interest.
Best thing about last night's LOST was...well, okay that would be a spoiler. Never mind. Just read the post below this one, which is more positive about the episode. This bit is after pondering it last night and is, a lot more negative and a lot snarkier in nature. So if you LOVED the finale, which is your choice - this is subjective well to a degree, after-all, you might want to skip the below - just saying.
I'm oddly ambivalent about it. I enjoyed it for what it was. And the plot is head-ache inducing, because it doesn't quite work. The BSG series finale made more sense, was a lot tighter and better written, and more or less said the same things without the heavy-handed cliches. So if you did not like the BSG finale, I'm guessing you'd hate the LOST finale. Actually, come to think of it, the Angel TELEVISION (not the comics) finale worked better. Considering the writers had decided two years ago to end the series on their terms and plotted out what the ending would be ahead of time - you'd think it would have been better than series, which are canceled without warning and the writers had no time to come up with a clear-cut ending, like you know, Angel the Series?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I couldn't figure out what was happening, I could and did - although friends have kindly posted commentary explaining it to me in the comments to the post below this one just in case I didn't. ( cut for spoilers )
So, at the moment, HOUSE is winning the season finale sweepstakes for me. With Vampire Diaries and Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural in a three-way tie for second place. And no, I don't watch Ashes to Ashes for the simple reason that I burned out on cop shows a while ago, that and Homicide Life on the Street sort of ruined me for the entire genre. Best cop show EVER! Everything else feels a bit like Starsky and Hutch with bad hair in comparison.
Okay, off to watch Glee - which I've been enjoying more than LOST lately. Actually enjoying The Good Wife and Glee more than LOST. Both have, gasp, strong and interesting female characters of various races, ages, and body types - who are, gasp, lead characters and protagonists. And talk about things that don't, wait for it, involve men or kids. Yes, shocking! Isn't it?
Sort of watching this week's The Big Bang Theory in the background. It's interesting - half the time I'm torn between deleting the thing and never watching it again and laughing my ass off. "pre-evening" - LOL! It seems to veer alternately between offensive sexist male fantasy piece and an often side-splittingly hilarious comedy about a bunch of lovable yet annoying nerds. How it does that, I'm not sure. Actually all sitcoms tend to do this - one moment they offend and make me cringe and want to flip them off to never be seen again, the next, I'm laughing my ass off. Sigh. You know what I miss? The comedies about something other than sex - such as Cheers, Fraiser, Murphy Brown, MASH, News Radio (I loved News Radio), Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinatti (a true classic and amongst the best of the breed), and Cybil. Big Bang is at its funniest when it is focusing on Sheldon and Leonard, and Penny is nowhere to be seen or playing straight woman as opposed to
Best thing about last night's LOST was...well, okay that would be a spoiler. Never mind. Just read the post below this one, which is more positive about the episode. This bit is after pondering it last night and is, a lot more negative and a lot snarkier in nature. So if you LOVED the finale, which is your choice - this is subjective well to a degree, after-all, you might want to skip the below - just saying.
I'm oddly ambivalent about it. I enjoyed it for what it was. And the plot is head-ache inducing, because it doesn't quite work. The BSG series finale made more sense, was a lot tighter and better written, and more or less said the same things without the heavy-handed cliches. So if you did not like the BSG finale, I'm guessing you'd hate the LOST finale. Actually, come to think of it, the Angel TELEVISION (not the comics) finale worked better. Considering the writers had decided two years ago to end the series on their terms and plotted out what the ending would be ahead of time - you'd think it would have been better than series, which are canceled without warning and the writers had no time to come up with a clear-cut ending, like you know, Angel the Series?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I couldn't figure out what was happening, I could and did - although friends have kindly posted commentary explaining it to me in the comments to the post below this one just in case I didn't. ( cut for spoilers )
So, at the moment, HOUSE is winning the season finale sweepstakes for me. With Vampire Diaries and Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural in a three-way tie for second place. And no, I don't watch Ashes to Ashes for the simple reason that I burned out on cop shows a while ago, that and Homicide Life on the Street sort of ruined me for the entire genre. Best cop show EVER! Everything else feels a bit like Starsky and Hutch with bad hair in comparison.
Okay, off to watch Glee - which I've been enjoying more than LOST lately. Actually enjoying The Good Wife and Glee more than LOST. Both have, gasp, strong and interesting female characters of various races, ages, and body types - who are, gasp, lead characters and protagonists. And talk about things that don't, wait for it, involve men or kids. Yes, shocking! Isn't it?
